Anna

From Late Latin Anna both directly and via numerous other languages, chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anne the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥanâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥanâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a city in Illinois, named for Anna Davie, wife of one of the initial settlers. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Ana, and Hannah.

Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad#English

A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Iran.


Shylock

Possibly derived from Hebrew שלח (Šélaḥ, the grandson of Shem), or Old Saxon [Term?] (“white-haired”), referring to goldsmiths and scriveners. It may also be derived from Michael Lok and an archaic meaning of shy (“untrustworthy”).

(fiction) A moneylender (Jewish stereotype) in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.


Prince

en-proper noun

Prince (countable and uncountable, plural Princes)

A township in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada.


Ye

(slang before 2021) Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.


Titian

Anglicized form of Italian Tiziano, from Latin Titiānus.


TS

en-noun

TS (countable and uncountable, plural TSs or TSes)

(pathology) Initialism of Turner syndrome.


Wall

Wall (disambiguation)#Places
Wall (surname)

en-proper noun

Wall (countable and uncountable, plural Walls)

Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner, stranger”), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, rampart”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą (“wall, rampart”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.

der

A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Allegheny County
Allegheny County#English

A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Pennington County
Pennington County#English

A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.

Tom Green County
Tom Green County#English

An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.


Xi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 習／习 (Xí).

Vice President Xi (pronounced “Shee”), expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president from early 2013, will inherit responsibility for his nation’s far-reaching and sometimes troublesome relationship with the United States.

2011 August 17, Jeff Mason, Chris Buckley, “China, U.S. seek to boost confidence as Biden visits”, in Brian Rhoads, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-29:

Across the water, which is 110 miles wide, is Fujian province, where Xi spent 17 years climbing the political ladder before making the leap to the national stage.

2022 November 5, Philip Sherwell, “We don’t think China will invade Taiwan. But if they do we’ll fight them”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-05:

Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Communist Party

Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–present).


Urban

en-proper noun

Urban (countable and uncountable, plural Urbans)

Latin Urbānus, name of eight early popes, from urbānus (“of the town or city, urbane”). Doublet of Orban.


Ruth

From Ruth the Moabite, Hebrew רות, of uncertain origin, possibly meaning "companion". Also associated with the English noun ruth (“compassion”) by Puritans.

census-designated place
census-designated place

White Pine County
White Pine County#English

A census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada, United States.


Hyperion

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(Greek mythology) A Titan, the son of Gaia and Uranus and the father of Helios, Selene and Eos.


Reaganomics

Blend of Reagan + economics, equivalent to Reagan + -nomics.

Many opponents of Reaganomics, in fact, don't contend that the program can't work over the long run. But they argue that the program can not work the way the President promised and that the resulting social cost isn't worth it.

1982 January 3, Jonathan Fuerbringer, “Reaganomics: The Report Card for 1981, and the Prospects”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

However, until the wheels came off the wagon in 2008, no doubt existed as to the efficacy of Bush's Reaganomics redux in feathering the nests of his wealthy “base.”

supply-side economics
supply-side economics

trickle-down hypothesis
trickle-down hypothesis

The neoliberal, free market economic ideas and policies of the American president Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his two administrations (1981–1989), with a focus on reduced government spending, taxation, and regulations (supply-side economics) and granting potential benefits and encouragement to wealthy people and businesses in particular to drive the rest of the economy (trickle-down hypothesis).


Noah

Abbreviation of Australian rhyming slang Noah's ark (“shark”).

I pulled the line in. There was a head on the end. That′s all – just the fish′s head, the body had been bitten off.
Then Team-man pulled in a head. So did the old man.
‘Noahs. That′s the end of that,’ said the old man. ‘Looks like we′re going anyway.’

1998, Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, unnumbered page:

2003, Kurt Blanksby, Fishing Guide to Western Australia, Revised and updated 2010, page 38,
Balloon fishing from the rock when the winds are correct can be a very productive way to target big mackerel and tuna, however the large number of sharks means that you will spend plenty of time battling unstoppable noahs between decent macks.

It looks like Jim and Rene are going ahead of us to chase away any big Noahs that might be lurking around.” Scott grinned to show that it was a joke and Jim waved to the group in acknowledgement.
“What do you mean ‘Noahs’?” asked a hefty millionaire from Minneapolis.
“Noah′s Arks,” one of the Australians answered for Scott. “Sharks.”

2006, Andrew Whitehead, Solomon Quest, page 91:

(Australia, rhyming slang) Clipping of Noah's ark; shark.


Mark

Mark (countable and uncountable, plural Marks)

Translingual: markmitchelli

From Middle English Mark, from the Latin praenomen (i.e. first name) Mārcus, derived from Mārs, the Roman god of war, originally Māvors, from Proto-Italic *Māwortis.

"And your name?" she said, "I suppose it's quite unremarkable?" "Very funny." "Mark. It could stand as a symbol of a man, for men as a category," she reflected, "but I don't suppose that's why your mother gave it to you?" "My mother's motives always were impenetrable to me. I was her only child, she wanted a simple life. So she gave me a simple name to go along with it. --- It wasn't a popular name until the nineteenth century. People were put off by King Mark in the Tristram and Iseult."

1988, Ann Oakley, Men's Room, pages 25–26:


Judas

From Middle English Iudas, from Latin Iudas, from Ancient Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (y'hudá). Doublet of Judah.

(biblical) One of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.

[…] you should as well reject those Deuterocanonici of the new testament as the epistle to the Hebrewes, Judas epistle and the Apocalyps […]

1615, John Ainsworth, The Trying Out of the Truth […] , page 122:

The Catholique (or General) Epistle of the Apostle JUDAS

1675, Francis Roberts, Clavis Bibliorum: The Key of the Bible […] , page 573:

St. Peter writes against those that had the doctrine of Balaam, 2 Pet. ii. 15, 16. St. Judas did the same, Jud. v. 11.

1778, John James Bachmair, The Revelation of St. John Historically Explained […] , page 11:

(biblical, archaic) Alternative form of Jude, the penultimate book of the Bible and its ascribed author, Jude the Apostle.


Judas

The door was slammed in his face, and the Judas clicked shut, leaving him alone in the draughty street, now smelling of night and approaching snow.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 706:

At the top of the stairs was a heavy door with a peephole. Flick banged on it and stood where her face could be seen through the judas.

2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 359:

Short for Judas-hole (“small hole for spying”).


John

→ Arabic: جُون (jōn)

→ Cebuano: John

→ French: John

→ Italian: John

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From Middle English John, Johan, Johannes, from Anglo-Norman Jehan, Johan, and also Old English Iohannes, both from Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān), perhaps contracted from a former יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān, “God is gracious”).
Doublet of Jack, Jon, Johan, Johann, Johannes, Jean, Sean, Shane, Shaun, Ian, Ivan, Evan, Juan, Giovanni, and Yahya.

doublet

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:6:

(biblical) Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).


W

Abbreviations of various words beginning with W.

(US politics, informal) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).


ER

en-noun

ER (countable and uncountable, plural ERs)

Coordinate term: EPR

Einstein-Rosen bridge
Einstein-Rosen bridge#English

(physics) Initialism of Einstein-Rosen bridge.


Q

head

Q (upper case, lower case q, plural Qs or Q's)

The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.


Q

en-noun

Q (countable and uncountable, plural Qs)

(electronics) Short for Q factor (“quality factor”).


Q

In comparing Q 10:10–11 and Mark 6:11, there is no reliable way to determine which exact form of the saying is more primitive, the third person account of Mark or the direct speech recorded in Q.

2006, Brian Han Gregg, The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 103:

(theology, Christianity) The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from German Quelle (“source”)); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels (not always considered a single document)

In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or just about to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside job connected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.

2017 December 19, Paris Martineau, “The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse”, in New York, archived from the original on 2018-12-26:

In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

At the end of her report, Coaston concluded, “Most people have never heard of QAnon, or Q — and that includes most of Donald Trump’s supporters.” That’s still the case, but the fact that this book is at the top of some of Amazon’s most prominent recommendation lists means that a far larger share of the population will — at a minimum — stumble across these ideas.

2019 March 6, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How a conspiracy theory about Democrats drinking children’s blood topped Amazon’s best-sellers list”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2019-03-07:

(US politics) Abbreviation of QAnon (“anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory”).


Christie

A diminutive of the female given name Christine and of its variant forms; fairly common as a formal female given name in the 20th century.


Abel

From Middle English Abel, from Old English Ābel, from Latin Abel, from Ancient Greek Ἅβελ (Hábel), from Biblical Hebrew הֶבֶל (Héḇel, “Abel”), possibly from the homonymous word הֶבֶל (heḇel, “breath, vapor; vanity”) or from Akkadian 𒌉𒍑 (ablu, “son”).

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:8:

(biblical) The son of Adam and Eve who was killed by his brother Cain.


Ishmael

From Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él (yišmāʿēl), “God hears, God will hear”).

der

And Hagar bare Abram a ſonne: and Abram called his ſonnes name, which Hagar bare, Iſhmael.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 16:15, column 1:

(Abrahamism, biblical) The eldest son of Abraham and his wife's handmaiden Hagar who were cast out after the birth of Isaac; traditionally the ancestor of the Arabs via the Ishmaelites.


SDI

The new sales pitch for S.D.I. runs smack up against the recommendations of Mr. Reagan's own Commission on Strategic Forces, the panel that so effectively closed the window of vulnerability back in 1983.

1987 August 31, Howard Ris, “Don't Buy the S.D.I. Soap”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative#English

Initialism of Strategic Defense Initiative.


Muhammad

Transliteration of Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad, “praised, commendable, laudable”), the passive participle of حَمَّدَ (ḥammada, “to praise, commend, laud, extol”). From the same triconsonantal root ح م د (ḥ-m-d) as, but distinct from, Mahmud.

translit

Mahomet was the predominant form until the late 1700s. Mohammed was the predominant form from then until the 1940s

which has been predominant ever since. Other forms which are now quite common are Mohammad

which all came into common use after the 1820s

Shias believe that Ali succeeded the prophet Muhammad as leader of the Ummah.

Baháʼí Baháʼí

(Islam, uncountable) The figure who introduced Islam, and the man to whom the Qur'an was revealed; considered a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís.

(Islam, uncountable) The 47th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

(countable) A male given name from Arabic very popular among Muslims.

Muhamed

fairly common historically but uncommon today:

Muħammad

derived from modern scholarly transliterations of Arabic:


Jovian

en-adj

Jovian (comparative more Jovian, superlative most Jovian)

more Jovian (comparative)
most Jovian (superlative)

From Latin Iovis, genitive of Iuppiter, analysable as Jove + -ian.

Near-synonym: Zeusian

He did not admit of equals. But as a patron he was superb. With his Jovian air, his colossal condescension, his amused smile, his general suggestion of the god descending to the mortal, he could be quite overpowering in his amiability.

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

(Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.


Aristotle

/ˈæɹɪˌstɒtəl/

[ˈæɹɪˌstɒtᵊɫ̩]

/ˈæɹɪˌstɑtəl/

[ˈæɹɪˌstɑɾɫ̩]

/ˈɛɹɪˌstɑtəl/

[ˈɛɹɪˌstɑɾɫ̩]

From Ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotélēs).

An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

أَرِسْطُوطَالِيس

ʔarisṭūṭālīs


Voltaire

en-proper noun

Voltaire (countable and uncountable, plural Voltaires)

Borrowed from French Voltaire. The surname is mostly found in Haiti.

A city in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States.


Gutenberg

/ˈɡutn̩ˌbɝɡ/

/ˈɡuːtn̩ˌbɜːɡ/

Project Gutenberg
w:en:Project Gutenberg

Ellipsis of Project Gutenberg., a digital library founded in 1971.


Disney

English surname of Norman origin, from Old French de (“of, from”) + Isigny (a place in Calvados). For the placename, see Isigny-sur-Mer. In modern use, it is also derived from the name of Walt Disney, whose surname has the aforementioned origin.

A town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Wesley E. Disney.


Tweedle-dee

The names "Tweedledum" and "Tweedledee" first appeared in print in one of John Byrom's epigrams, which satirised the disagreements between Handel and Bononcini. They were made popular by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dum and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.


Tweedle-dum

A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dee and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.


Caracalla

/ˌkærəˈkælə/

From Latin; Caracalla's agnomen was named after a Gaulish cloak he favored.

A Roman emperor who ruled from 211 to 217 C.E..


Fráech

From Middle Irish Fráech, from Old Irish Fróech, from fróech (“heather”), from Proto-Celtic *wroikos.

(Irish mythology) The Connacht hero in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology who wooed Findabair and Treblann, but was drowned in a river in a duel with Cúchulainn.


Coleridge

/ˈkoʊləɹɪd͡ʒ/

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English romantic poet.


Gilgamesh

/ˈɡɪl.ɡə.mɛʃ/

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Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒄑𒂆𒈦 (Gilgameš), from Sumerian 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌 (ᵈgilgameš₂ /Gilgameš/)

lbor

A semi-legendary king of Uruk, who is the hero of the Babylonian poem Epic of Gilgamesh.


Unabomber

From University and Airline Bomber, a name assigned by the FBI.

Based on the Unabomber’s manifesto, the smash movie of twenty thirty-four will be Barbarians in the Gates, the autobiographical return-to-nature philosophy of Bill Gates, Jr. Starring Oscar-winner, actor Cody Gifford.

2000 January 1, Roxanne Roberts, “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

The perpetrator of mail bomb attacks in America between 1978 and 1994, so named by the media.


Pericles

From Latin Periclēs, from Ancient Greek Περικλῆς (Periklês, “far-famed”), from περί (perí, “around”) + κλέος (kléos, “glory”).

der

(historical) An Ancient Greek politician.

A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.


Iamblichus

Borrowed from Latin Iamblichus, from Koine Greek Ἰάμβλιχος (Iámblikhos), from Aramaic ימלכו (Yamlīḵū), perhaps originally a causative form of the verb מלך (mlk, “to rule”).

Iamblichus (c. 245 – c. 325), a Syrian Neoplatonist philosopher.


Capulet

Surname of the heroine Juliet's family in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, from the Italian Capuleti.

It goes without saying that she knew nothing whatever of the bad relations subsisting between her father and her sweetheart. She did not know her Romeo was a Montague still less that to him she was a Capulet.

1913, Annabella Bruce Marchand, Dirk, a South African, page 198:

Still, despite Marshall's impression of a kind of Montague-Capulet feud, George Catlett did succeed in marrying Laura Emily, the daughter of Dr. Jonathan Bradford, and his sister, Margaret, married Laura's brother, Thomas.

1963, Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Education of a general, 1880-1939, page 8:

She playfully called herself a tragedienne, much like Juliet Capulet, and she thought of Timmy as her Romeo Montague.

2004, Scott Casper, Cardinal Sin: Tales of Alaska, War, and More, page 161:

That said, Capulet's skepticism has a sound rationale. She needs only one kind of thing, caloric fluid, to explain the movement and behavior of heat. Montague has posited two kinds of things, heat itself and heat radiation, each popping up to do the job it is good for and then conveniently metamorphosing into the other when that's what's needed instead.

2020, Michael Strevens, The Knowledge Machine:

Romeo and Juliet couple
Romeo and Juliet couple

(figuratively) A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.


Montague

en-proper noun

Montague (countable and uncountable, plural Montagues)


Bishop of Rome

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Christianity) The pope of the Roman Catholic Church.


Xerxes

From Ancient Greek Ξέρξης (Xérxēs), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎹𐎠𐎼𐏁𐎠 (x-š-y-a-r-š-a /Xšayāršā/, “ruler among kings”). Doublet of Ahasuerus.

der

A male given name from Old Persian mainly applied to historical and fictional characters.


/ˌeɪt͡ʃtuːˈoʊ/

Two H initials (Hishammuddin Hussein) represented by H₂ + O for Onn, chosen to humorously match the chemical formula for water.

(Malaysia, Internet slang, humorous, politics) Hishammuddin Hussein Onn, Malaysian politician and son of Hussein Onn, third prime minister of Malaysia.


Raleigh

From Old English rā, rāha (“roe deer”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”). Equivalent to roe + -ley (“lea”).

The capital city of North Carolina, United States and the county seat of Wake County; named for Sir Walter Raleigh.

Multiple smaller locales in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia; named for its county, which was named for Sir Walter Raleigh.


Freud

To assert that morality is self-evident and that one had never done a mean thing are strangely revealing statements to come from the lips of a person whose object of study was man, himself included. It reflects, I believe, Freud's unshakable determination to be a moralist in the guise of a scientist. In this endeavor, he succeeded only too well: as a cryptomoralist, Freud became the founder of a sort of secular religion which has had immense influence on popular contemporary thought and life. [...]

1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 9, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 153:

Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychotherapist, and founder of psychoanalysis.


IDS

(Unicode) Initialism of ideographic description sequence.

(linguistics) Initialism of infant-directed speech.

infectious disease specialist
infectious disease specialist#English

(medicine) Initialism of infectious disease specialist.


IDS

(UK politics) Initialism of Iain Duncan Smith.


Comcomly

(historical) A Native American leader of the Lower Chinook people (1765–1830).


Aeschylus

Borrowed from Latin Aeschylus, from Ancient Greek Αἰσχύλος (Aiskhúlos).

(historical) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Fleming

From Middle English flameng, from late Old English Flæmingi, from Old Norse Flǽmingr, Middle Dutch Vlaminc, Vleminc, from Old Frisian (unattested) (compare West Frisian Flaming), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current (water)”) and the patronymic suffix *-ingaz (“belonging to, descended from”). More at Flanders.

A number of places in the United States:

A tiny city in Ray County, Missouri; suburb of Kansas City.

A town and hamlet in Cayuga County, New York.


Cicero

en-proper noun

Cicero (usually uncountable, plural Ciceros or Cicerones)

Borrowed from Latin Cicerō, a cognomen in reference to warts (cicer (“chickpea”)). The Latinate form, based on the nominative, displaced Middle English Ciceroun, based on the oblique stem.

An extinct town in Defiance County, Ohio.

Outagamie County
Outagamie County#English

A town and unincorporated community in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.


Virgil

From Middle English Vyrgyle, from Latin Virgilius, from the Roman clan name Vergilius, from Etruscan and of unknown meaning.

A township and village therein, in Kane County, Illinois.

Greenwood County
Greenwood County#English

A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.

A town and census-designated place therein, in Cortland County, New York.

A small town in Beadle County, South Dakota.

An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.


Keynes

Alteration of Anglo-Norman Kahaignae, Chaiines (“Cahagnes, now a commune in Normandy”).


looking-glass

/ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlɑːs/

/ˈlʊkɪŋ ˌɡlæs/

* (way into a bizarre world): From the book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) by Lewis Carroll.

It has been quite a week in politics. […] I know that some Republicans feel as if they've fallen through the looking glass.

2016 July 29, Paul Krugman, “Who loves America?”, in The New York Times:


Nostradamus

Michel de Nostredame's surname is one that honors Saint Mary (Our Lady). More details (if desired) are available at Nostradamus § Childhood.

A French astrologer and author of prophecies who lived in the early 1500s.


bardolatry

en-noun

bardolatry (countable and uncountable, plural bardolatries)

From bard + -latry, coined by George Bernard Shaw in 1901.

(usually derogatory) excessive or religious worship of William Shakespeare

bardolâtrie

excessive worship of William Shakespeare


Reuben

en-proper noun

Reuben (countable and uncountable, plural Reubens)

* From Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (r'uvén), from רְאוּ (r'ú, “see [masculine plural imperative]”) + בֵּן (ben, “son”); its literal meaning is therefore roughly, "See, all: a son!"
* There are several unconfirmed etymologies for the name of the sandwich.

(biblical) First son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

A surname transferred from the given name

Reuben College, Oxford
w:Reuben College, Oxford

(Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Reuben College, Oxford.


Reuben

Thousand Island dressing
Thousand Island dressing

A grilled or toasted sandwich made with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and either Russian dressing or Thousand Island dressing.

(biblical) A member of one of the Israelite tribes, descended from Reuben.


Homer

Homer (countable and uncountable, plural Homers)

From Latin Homērus, from Ancient Greek Ὅμηρος (Hómēros).

A town, the county seat of Banks County, Georgia, United States.

Claiborne Parish
Claiborne Parish#English

A town, the parish seat of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States.

A number of townships in the United States, listed under Homer Township.


FDR

Coordinate term: GDR

Federal Democratic Republic
Federal Democratic Republic#English

Initialism of Federal Democratic Republic.

Abbreviation of West Germany. (Federal Republic of Germany)


Elvis

From the anglicisation of the Irish name of Saint Ailbe (Saint Elvis), also known as Saint Eilfyw or Eilfw. Ultimate origin is uncertain.


Priscilla

Feminine diminutive form of a Roman cognomen Priscus, from Latin prisca (“ancient”).

Letters written by Alden, and full of the name of Priscilla, / Full of the name and the fame of the Puritan maiden Priscilla!

1858, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish:

'Priscilla,' she said, --- 'The same name I've had for twenty years!' She smiled cynically. 'And, before you ask why, I was stoned when I chose it, so any thoughts of Cill were in my subconscious. I used to think it was classier than Louise or Daisy... probably because the Trevelyans were such snobs.'

2003, Minette Walters, Disordered Minds, Macmillan., →ISBN, page 354:

A female given name from Latin of biblical origin.

And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

An early Christian, mentioned in the Bible and also known as Prisca.


Clintonism

en-noun

Clintonism (countable and uncountable, plural Clintonisms)

(uncountable) The policies of U.S. president Bill Clinton.


Atatürk

A surname from Turkish, borne only by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey


Titania

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A style of Diana in Ovid, fem. of titanius, from Titan. As faeries were identified with Classical nymphs, the queen of the faeries was equated with Diana.

As it is impossible to believe that this huge mountain can produce such an effect, at the expiration of a few minutes we become dupes of illusion, and the most grave thinker is ready to swear that there is in those shades, under some fantastic thicket, a solitary— a supernatural being—a sort of fairy—a Titania, who amuses herself by delicately parodying the music of mortals, and throwing down the half of a mountain every time she hears the report of a gun.

1842 May 7, L'Etudiant, “The Rhine”, in The Mirror, volume 1, number 19, page 293:

For all this Magical Mansion were vain With all its dominions so fair; Its splendor and riches no happiness gain Without a Titania to share!

1859, “Fairy Knowe”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, page 428:

"Take breath," said Teresa, unable to help laughing. "Why, kitten, you're as good as a fairy-tale." "Inspired by Titania herself." said a gallant voice at her elbow; and Kate disappeared with a sly grimace, as Russell Wayne shook hands with Miss Amesford. "You never saw a dusky queen of the fairies, did you? A species of Brownie would be more like me, Mr. Wayne; you must wait until Alma comes home for a Titania."

1871 January, Daisy Ventnor, “Prince Charming Comes to Town”, in The Peterson magazine, volume 59, number 1, page 39:

But something is awry; the fairy-stories, the mythologies, are mixed up. Tom is less a masculine Pygmalion caressing his dream-statue into flesh than a feminine Galatea waking to see her lover's face blotting out the sun; less an Oberon than a Titania, falling in love with “the first person he had seen on waking from his drugged sleep”.

2009, Jan S. Cronin, Simone Drichel, Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame, page 30:

From Shakespeare's play A Midsummer-Night's Dream, the queen of the fairies.


Byron

Habitational surname from Old English byrum (“at the byre or cattleshed”).

inh

Contra Costa County
Contra Costa County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California.

A city in Peach County, Houston County and Crawford County, Georgia.


Lazarus

From Late Latin Lazarus, from Koine Greek Λᾱ́ζᾱρος (Lā́zāros), the given name of Biblical characters found in Luke 16 and John 12, from Biblical Hebrew אֶלְעָזָר ('El'azár), a given name shared by various figures in the Hebrew Bible and literally meaning "God has helped". Doublet of Eleazar.

(biblical) A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) believed to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany.

לַעְזָר (la'zár) (used in the Franz Delitzsch translation of the New Testament)


Julian

census-designated place
census-designated place

San Diego County
San Diego County#English

A census-designated place in San Diego County, California; named for early settler Mike Julian.


MLK

Our own research suggests that MLK’s “I have a dream” is indeed a “hope booster”.

2009, Anthony Scioli, Henry Biller, Hope in the Age of Anxiety, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

Martin Luther King Jr.
w:Martin Luther King Jr.


mimsy

en-adj

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

mimsier (comparative)
mimsiest (superlative)

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade^([sic – meaning wabe]); / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.

1871, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, “I. Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:

Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones

1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark […] , London: Macmillan, Fit the Seventh. The Banker's Fate:

(nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky


Boris

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019–2022)

2000 January, Frank McCourt (interviewee), Morning Edition, National Public Radio
It's not like a Russian novel, where you read nine hundred forty-three pages and then finally Boris the peasant decides to commit suicide, and you wish he’d done it on page four. It’s not like that at all.

A male given name from the Slavic languages.


Columbus

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From Latin columbus (“a dove”). Doublet of Colombo. The verb is a reference to the Italian explorer.

Any of various cities, towns and villages in the United States:

A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.

A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.

Burlington County
Burlington County#English

An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.


frabjous

frabjous (comparative more frabjous, superlative most frabjous)

more frabjous (comparative)
most frabjous (superlative)

/ˈfɹæbd͡ʒəs/

Audio (US)

Originally a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; probably a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous.

“[…] / O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” / He chortled in his joy.

[Owl, deluded his candidate was elected:] My dark horse!... Oh, frabjous day!

1960 November 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 198:

"Tomorrow there'll be so much to do," as the Dixie Chicks remind us, "so tonight I'll drift in a dream with you." I want her life to be frabjous, not weighed down with mimsy.

2012 March 15, “To Be a Fully Developed Person (and Leader), You Need to Dream”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Beginning in the final months leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and ending in 1953, “Barefoot Gen” takes us inside war from the civilians’ view with none of the propaganda and all of the flawed and frabjous potential of humanity.

2016 January 23, Kris Kosaka, “Barefoot Gen”, in The Japan Times:

It's the sugar rush that quickens the pulse. It's the headlong chocolate-dopamine surge that excites. It's the frabjous joy of tearing into a well-wrapped bar. It's love, love, love.

2017 January 31, Jim Myers, “Nashvill'es Best Candies for Valentine's Day”, in Tennesseean:

O frabjous day! We are all bored out of our minds with Brexit when a demented looking gnome is pulled out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the secret police of the deep state. Or “the met” as normal people call them.

2019 April 12, Suzanne Moore, “Wikileaks was the future once. Then it became Julian Assange”, in NewStatesman:


galumphing

From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; perhaps a blend of galloping + triumph.

(nonce word) Galloping in a heavy and inelegant manner.


Lydia

From Ancient Greek Λυδία (Ludía, “the region of Lydia”), from λυδία (ludía, “beautiful one, noble one”), a feminine form of Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)). The region of Lydia is said to be named for a king Λυδός (Ludós) (Lydus, from λυδός (ludós) (lydus)); the given name Lydia originally indicated ancestry or residence in the region of Lydia.

uder

An ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey.


Robin Hood

/ˌɹɒbɪn ˈhʊd/

From Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of Robert.

A legendary English outlaw famous for his skill in archery and his vow to defend the poor and the oppressed against established authority.

Baslow and Bubnell
Baslow and Bubnell#English

Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales#English

w:List of United Kingdom locations: Ri-Ror#Roa-Ror

A hamlet in Baslow and Bubnell parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2772).

A settlement in Wrightington parish, West Lancashire district, Lancashire (OS grif ref SD5211).

A village in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3227).

A locality near Drouin, Victoria, Australia.


Ephraim

From Hebrew אֶפְרַיִם (Efráyim, “Ephraim”, literally “fruitful”), via Latin.


Pavlova

Borrowed from Russian Па́влова (Pávlova), feminine form of Па́влов (Pávlov).

LADIES’ DOUBLES “PAVLOVAS.” […] The winners, who literally danced their way into the final, were dubbed the two Pavlovas.

1923 July 6, “Incomparable. Mlle. [Suzanne] Lenglen Wins Again. Miss [Kathleen] McKane’s Pluck. Ladies’ Doubles ‘Pavlovas.’ […]”, in The China Mail, number 18,922, Hong Kong, published 1923 July 7, page 1, column 2:

“Don’t you understand what an honour it is for you that the great Pavlova has her shoes made by you?” he asked. The old man thought awhile and then answered: “Yes, it’s a great honour that she is my client.” And reflecting further, he added: “Yes, but if I had two Pavlovas, I’d be done for.” Pavlova was often approached by shoemakers of all nationalities and in all parts of the world with an offer to supply her regularly, undertaking to provide her annually with any number for her own use free of charge, on condition that she would allow them to advertise that she had found their shoes to be the best.

1932, V[ictor] Dandré, “Theatrical Costumes and Shoes”, in Anna Pavlova in Art & Life, London; […]: Cassell and Company Limited, →OCLC, page 228:

Bad as they were, one perforce felt masculinely behooven to admire their courage . . . conversely, one could not refrain from meanly wondering just where and for how long they’d been secretly practicing . . . however, applause and many encores (from bilge to crow’s nest) greeted all antics from our two Pavlovas . . . and reflectively, their presentations were far less hurtful than having to listen to the amateur squeakings of scrawny, self-imagined sopranos and contraltos who habitually appeared at well-remembered ship’s concerts in bygone years.

1952 July 8, H. T. Matson, “Once a Week”, in The Daily Colonist, 94th year, number 175, Victoria, B.C., page 2, column 1:

Every detail entranced her: the leotards, the tutus, the entrechats and pas de deux, the names: Pavlova, Diaghilev, Fonteyn; […]

1978, Eric Malpass, chapter 11, in The Long Long Dances: More Hilarious Adventures of the Outrageous Pentecost Family, London: Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 115:

“Yes, a toast!” Gersh says, lifting his glass of Ukraine vodka. “To our two Pavlovas,” looking to Vera and Nina with his healthy eye, “and of course,” now toward Viktor, “our next Annabelle Bucar!” They laugh; it’s the name of the author of the big best-seller The Truth about American Diplomats. […] Viktor, putting on a mock expression of competition, says, “To dance!”

2010, Daphne Kalotay, chapter 7, in Russian Winter, London: Arrow Books, The Random House Group Limited, published 2012, →ISBN, book I, pages 199–200:

Па́влова Павлова#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian surname Па́влова (Pávlova), the feminine variant of Pavlov.


Virgin Mary

Blend of virgin + Bloody Mary, from non-alcoholic drinks being labelled "virgin".

A drink made with tomato juice and spices, resembling a Bloody Mary, but without alcohol.


Descartes

en-proper noun

Descartes (countable and uncountable, plural Descarteses)

René Descartes: A French philosopher and mathematician, who lived from 1596 to 1650.


Zebadiah

/ˌzɛbəˈdaɪə/

From Hebrew זְבַדְיָה (Zəḇaḏyâ, “gift of God, God has bestowed”), from זַבְדִּי (zab̲dî, “my gift”). Doublet of Zebedee.

bor

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Zebedee

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεβεδαῖος (Zebedaîos), from Hebrew זְבַדְיָה (Zəḇaḏyâ), from זַבְדִּי (zab̲dî, “my gift”). Doublet of Zebadiah.

der

Hebrew זְבַדְיָה (Zəḇaḏyâ)

And going from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 4:21:

(biblical) The father of the Apostles James and John in the Bible.

(rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Enos

From Hebrew אֱנוֹשׁ (enósh, “mortal man”).


Stentor

From Latin Stentōr, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr).

(astronomy) The Jovian asteroid 2146 Stentor.


Calvin

Latinization of Norman-Picard Cauvin, a nickname for a chauve (“bald”) person.

A surname from French or Spanish, notably borne by John Calvin, French Protestant theologian.

Marty McFly: Calvin? Wh… Why do you keep calling me Calvin?
Lorraine Baines: Well, that is your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear.

1985, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Back to the Future:

(chiefly US) A male given name transferred from the surname.


Houdini

Invented by Harry Houdini from the French magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin.

The magician and escape artist Harry Houdini.


Xenophon

Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 B.C.E. and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was a pupil of Socrates and became a general during the Persian wars.


Olympias

A female given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.


Titus

Borrowed from Latin Titus, a Roman and Sabine praenomen meaning either "honorable" or "strong; of the giants".

Titus Caesar Vespasianus, a Roman Emperor who succeeded Vespasian and preceded Domitian.


Bonaparte

Ultimately from Italian buona (“good”) and parte (“part, share, portion”).

A former name for the island of Réunion.


Nehemiah

From Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה (“consolation of Yahweh”).

Nehemiah stood firm by rejecting the imaginative and wicked spin the enemies put on reality and persisted in what God had called him to do. Then he prayed that, rather than his hands dropping from the work, God would strengthen them in...[…]

2014 June 1, James M. Hamilton, Jr., Exalting Jesus in Ezra-Nehemiah (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary), B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(biblical) A governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

The sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.


Stalin

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Borrowed from Russian Ста́лин (Stálin), from сталь (stalʹ, “steel”) + -ин (-in, possessive suffix), from German Stahl (“steel”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stahlą (“steel”).

suf

A surname from Russian; usually referring to the Russian [empire, republic] revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Joseph Stalin.


Monty

A diminutive of the male given names Montgomery and Montague.


Stratfordian

From Stratford + -ian. In the Shakespeare-controversy sense, due to Shakespeare's birth in Stratford-upon-Avon.

A person who, in the matter over who wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare, holds that it was William Shakespeare himself.


Stratfordian

Pertaining to the mainstream view that William Shakespeare is the author of the works attributed to him.


Emmanuel

Cade. What is thy name? / Clerk. Emmanuel. / Dick. They use to write it on the top of letters. 'Twill go hard with you.

Some call their sons Emmanuel : this is too bold. The name is proper to Christ, therefore not to be communicated to any creature.

1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed: The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 212:

A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.


Falstaff

From the name of a character invented by William Shakespeare for his Henry IV plays, and who also appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

John Falstaff
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare


Alexander the Great

From Middle English Alexander the grete, a calque of Latin Alexander Magnus.

(356–323 BCE) A king (basileus) of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and conqueror of much of Asia.


wonderland

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Where other trav'lers, fraught with terror, roam, Lo! Bruce in Wonder-land is quite at home.

1790 J. Wolcot Compl. Epist. to Bruce 332, in Wks. (1812) II. 368

It's a geological wonderland, with great exposures of colorful and varied sedimentary rocks.

2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:

An imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels.

بلاد العجائب

Imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels


Dinah

From Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, "judged, vindicated"); see דין.

Every child in the Square at once hurried and thrust and scrambled and pushed a way through the crowd, and in less than a minute Dinah and Dorinda were entirely surrounded by fifty or sixty boys and girls, all shouting […]

1944, Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon:

A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. Alternative form of Dina.


Nahum

Derived from Hebrew נַחוּם (nakhúm, “consolation”).

der+

(biblical) A book of the Tanakh / the Old Testament of the Bible.

(biblical) The minor prophet who wrote that book.

Nahum Tate's grandfather and father were both clergymen.

1853, Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph, The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, page 197:

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Obadiah

/ˌoʊbəˈdaɪə/

From Hebrew עובדיה (Ovadya, “servant of Yahweh”); comparable to Arabic عبد اللّٰه (ʕabd-allah, “servant of God”).

der

(biblical) A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh.

阿巴底亚书

Ŏ̤-bă-dī-ā-cṳ̆

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

A male given name from Hebrew, of biblical origin.


Akkub

(biblical) Any of several minor characters in the Hebrew Bible.

Acube

any of several minor characters in the Hebrew Bible


Habakkuk

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew חֲבַקּוּק (ḥăḇaqqūq). The name perhaps comes from חָבַק (ḥāḇaq, “embrace”), or perhaps from Akkadian 𒄩𒄠𒁀𒄣𒄣 (ḫambaqūqu [ḫa-am-ba-qu-qu], “garden herb”).

1988, Robert D. Haak, ""Poetry" in Habakkuk 1:1–2:4?". Journal of the American Oriental Society 108 (3): 437–444.
The present study concentrates on the various types of parallelism which may be observed within the prophetic text Habakkuk 1:1–2:4.

(biblical) A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.


Strategic Defense Initiative

the Strategic Defense Initiative (canonical)

(historical) A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.


Ezekiel

From Koine Greek Ἰεζεκιήλ (Iezekiḗl), from Biblical Hebrew יְחֶזְקֵאל (Y'ḥezqēl, “God strengthens”).

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. First used by 17th century Puritans; rare today.


jump on the bandwagon

en-verb

jump on the bandwagon (third-person singular simple present jumps on the bandwagon, present participle jumping on the bandwagon, simple past and past participle jumped on the bandwagon)

jumps on the bandwagon (present singular third-person)
jumping on the bandwagon (participle present)
jumped on the bandwagon (participle past)
jumped on the bandwagon (past)

US 1899. A bandwagon carried the musicians at the head of a parade or at a political rally, beckoning others to follow. When used to refer to politics, jumping on the bandwagon suggests following the crowd for the excitement of the event rather than any firm conviction in its direction or truthfulness. The phrase is first attested in a letter by Theodore Roosevelt in 1899:
: When I once became sure of one majority they rumbled over each other to get aboard the band wagon.

After the incredible success of Wonka's latest low-fat chocolate bar, Fickelgruber has jumped on the bandwagon, and released a low-fat version.

(idiomatic) To profit from a craze; to join a trend.


Amos

From Biblical Hebrew עמוס (Amos, “to carry; a burden”).

der

An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky.

An unincorporated community in Vernon County, Missouri.

An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, Nevada.


King Billy

(Ireland, Scotland, informal) King William III of England.


Brandon

From Middle English Brandon, Brampdon, Bramdun, Bremedon, Bromdun, from Old English brōmdūn, from brōm (“broom shrub”) + dūn (“hill, dune”). Doublet of English Branton.

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County#English

A census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida.

A charter township in Oakland County, Michigan.

A minor city and township in Douglas County, Minnesota.

A city, the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi.

A census-designated place in Madison County, Montana.

An unincorporated community in Perkins County, Nebraska.

An unincorporated community in Ashe County, North Carolina.

An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio.

Minnehaha County
Minnehaha County#English

A city and township in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.

An unincorporated community in Hill County, Texas.

A town and census-designated place therein, in Rutland County, Vermont.

Fond du Lac County
Fond du Lac County#English

A village in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.


Zola

A female given name created from Zoë or from the surname.


Trollope

Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, from Old Norse trǫll (“supernatural being, imp”) + Old English hop (“small, enclosed valley”).

A surname.
Anthony Trollope, English author.


Wordsworth

en-proper noun

Wordsworth (countable and uncountable, plural Wordsworths)

A habitational surname from Old English.


Locke

Sacramento County
Sacramento County#English

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community and historic district in Sacramento County, California.

A township and unincorporated community therein, in Elkhart County, Indiana.

A town in Cayuga County, New York, named after John Locke.


Bluetooth

From blue + tooth, calque of Old Norse Blátǫnn (modern Danish Blåtand).
* (networking): The networking standard is named after the king because the technology unites computers and mobile devices similarly to the way he united the Danish tribes.

personal area network
personal area network

(networking, trademark) An industrial specification for wireless personal area networks.


Stagirite

/ˈstæd͡ʒɪɹʌɪt/

/ˈstæɡɪɹʌɪt/

From the Latin Stagirites, from the Ancient Greek Σταγιριτης (Stagiritēs, “natives of Stagira”), from Σταγειρος (Stageiros, “Stagira”).


Stagirite

/ˈstæd͡ʒɪɹʌɪt/

/ˈstæɡɪɹʌɪt/

It was thus a sound insight into the thought framework of the great Stagirite that led the anti-Aristotelian writers of the Renaissance, and later preeminently Descartes and Spinoza, to attack the Platonic/Aristotelian conception of the embodiment of value in nature and the modern logical positivist opponents of metaphysics to attach the stigma of illegitimacy to all evaluative disciplines.

2000 June, Nicholas Rescher, “Optimalism and Axiological Metaphysics”, in The Review of Metaphysics, LIII, № 4, § ii, page 812:


Sophocles

From Latin Sophoclēs from Ancient Greek Σοφοκλῆς (Sophoklês).

Σοφοκλής Σοφοκλής#Greek

A male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to Ancient Greek Σοφοκλῆς (Sophoklês) or Greek Σοφοκλής (Sofoklís).


AOC

'I stopped for one night to see Ur and the Chaldees and for three days in Baghdad with the A.O.C., who happens to be an old friend of mine.'.

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 128:

Air Officer Commanding
Air Officer Commanding#English

(military, UK) Initialism of Air Officer Commanding, a title used to refer to RAF officers holding certain command appointments.


AOC

But I’m fine with candidates like AOC (can we start abbreviating?) proposing the jobs guarantee, for a couple of reasons.

2018 July 5, Paul Krugman, “More on a Job Guarantee (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times:

“Time to walk the walk,” AOC, as the New York politician is known to supporters, wrote in a Tuesday night tweet.

2018 December 5, Chantal Da Silva, “‘Time to Walk the Walk’: Ocasio-Cortez Praised for 'Transparency' on Congressional Budget and Intern Pay”, in Newsweek:

As speaker, Pelosi will face challenges from the party's robust wing of liberal newcomers, including 29-year-old New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has risen to such prominence she is already known around the Capitol – and on her prolific social media accounts – by the nickname “AOC.”

2019 January 3, Lisa Mascaro, “Nancy Pelosi elected speaker of the House, sees ‘new dawn’ for 116th Congress”, in Chicago Tribune, Associated Press:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
w:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

(US politics) Initialism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Admiral Overseas Corporation
w:AOC International

Initialism of Admiral Overseas Corporation (Taiwanese eletronics company)


AOC

From French AOC (“appellation d'origine contrôlée”, literally “controlled designation of origin”).

der

Tursan is one of South West France's lesser known AOCs, located in the southeast corner of the Landes administrative department.

2014 April 22, “Tursan Wine”, in Wine-Searcher, archived from the original on 2015-10-02:

A region for which such a certification is issued.


Nathan

en-proper noun

Nathan (countable and uncountable, plural Nathans)

From Hebrew נָתָן (natán, “gave”). Also short for Jonathan.

And Dauids anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liueth, the man that hath done this thing, shall surely die. And he shall restore the Lambe fourefold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pittie. And Nathan said to Dauid, Thou art the man: […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 12:5–7:

(biblical) An Old Testament prophet who advised King David.

the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 5:14:

The fourth son of King David and father of Mattatha

I used to envy my brother his name, and recall once accusing my mother of having favored him, else why did she name me Nathan and him Philip, tell me that, ma, tell me that. He had king Philip and if day-dreaming that association wasn't pleasure enough, there was the then movie star, Phillips Holmes. All I had was Nathan Hale. Admittedly, Nathan Hale would have been fine — except among our schoolyard ditties was the couplet: Nathan Hale, / Nathan Hale, / He shit in a pail, / Shit in a pail. Being a Nathan was sometimes trying.

1972, Nate Perlmutter, A Bias of Reflections: Confessions of an Incipient Old Jew, Arlington House, →ISBN, page 27:

He was so proud he'd had a son. He talked me into naming him Nathan saying he had always loved that name. I was surprised to see when I looked it up in a name book it meant gift from God. And yes that was a very appropriate name.

2007, Rose Lamatt, Lifeline Online, →ISBN, page 128:

A male given name from Hebrew, of Biblical origin.

Alternative form: Nation

An English surname originating as a patronymic.

An Ashkenazi surname from Hebrew [in turn originating as a patronymic], a variant of Natan.

A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; named for Matthew Nathan, 13th Governor of Queensland.


Nathan

From a 2014 meme which suggested that white people should replace the word nigga in rap songs with Nathan. The present meaning of the term dates from around 2017.

A Nathan is a stereotype who usually listens to white rappers like Eminem,logic and NF, and hates new rap

2019 November 25, u/Szillar, “Mumble rappers be like:”, in Reddit, r/dankmemes, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

Nathans are infinitely worse than mumble/trap fans

2022 February 28, u/uselessrart, “Mummble acceptance in dhh.”, in Reddit, r/IndianHipHopHeads, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

it would be nice if the new fans would go away or at least change who they are completely. i love seeing bladee & company win but these 100 gec ass nathans are like locusts going from one artist's chronically online fanbase to the next. sematary went down quick lol. once fantano reviewed rb3 it was over

2022 December 19, “Hiphop 10 years from now?”, in Reddit, r/hiphopheads, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

(slang, hip-hop, derogatory) A white hip-hop fan, especially one who listens to white rappers and looks down on mumble rap.


Levi

Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (Leví), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Lewi.

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22b-26:

(biblical) The third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 13:33:

(historical) One of the Biblical tribes of Israelites, supposedly descended from Levi, the tribe from which priests were selected.


Jefferson

Jefferson (countable and uncountable, plural Jeffersons)

/ˈd͡ʒɛfɚsən/

From Jeffrey + -son. The placenames in the United States are named for Thomas Jefferson.

An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.

Jefferson Parish
Jefferson Parish#English

A place in the United States:
Ellipsis of Jefferson Parish.

A place in the United States:
Ellipsis of Jefferson City.

A community of Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.


Salome

From Ancient Greek Σαλώμη (Salṓmē), from Hebrew שְׁלוֹמִית (sh'lomít) (belonging to the same root as שָׁלוֹם (shalóm, “peace”)).

en:Salome
en:Salome (disambiguation)
en:Salome (disciple)
en:Salome (given name)

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. named after Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt.


Pompey

(slang, soccer) Portsmouth Football Club.


Mother Teresa

Appellativisation of Mother Teresa, an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

A nun who worked among the poor for many decades in India.


Adlai

The father of one of King David's officials (mentioned in 1 Chronicles 27:29).

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Zachariah

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Zachary or Zechariah.


Bartholomew

/bɑːˈθɒləmjuː/

From Latin Bartholomaeus, from Ancient Greek Βαρθολομαῖος (Bartholomaîos), from Aramaic בר תלמי (bar tolmai, “son of Talmai; son of Ptolemy”), from בר (bar, “son”) and תלמי (tolmai, “Talmai; Ptolemy”). It has long been unclear whether the Apostle's father was named after the biblical Talmai, king of Geshur, or one of the Greek Ptolemies, as the two originally unrelated names were conflated in Jewish Aramaic.
The name's pronunciation was changed to match the spelling; contrast French Barthélemy from the same source.

der

Βαρθολομαῖος

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

An Apostle, identified with Nathanael. (biblical character)

A male given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.


Benedict Arnold

en-noun

Benedict Arnold (plural Benedict Arnolds)

From Benedict Arnold, famous for betraying the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

A Negro hotelkeeper in a free city of the North views with disdain a Benedict Arnold in the colored camp who crosses the lines to a "white" hotel.

1945, William Worthy, Jr., “Non-Fraternization: American Style”, in The Crisis, volume 52, number 11, page 323:

I am no longer an American; I am a traitor, a Judas, a Benedict Arnold.

2008, Nick De La Pena, The Contagion, page 299:

Within a group, Benedict Arnolds attempt to prevent the group from accomplishing its goals

2009, Charles Zastrow, The Practice of Social Work: A Comprehensive Worktext, page 204:

What if we are already under investigation from someone covertly talking with the cops? What if there is a Benedict Arnold in the group?

2012, Nicholas Campanella, Traglamoor's Journey:


vorpal

en-adj

vorpal (comparative more vorpal, superlative most vorpal)

more vorpal (comparative)
most vorpal (superlative)

Coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky to describe a sword, likely modeled after warp and vortex.


Elkanah

From Hebrew אֶלְקָנָה (ʾelqānā, “God has created”).

bor

(rare) A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.


Kangxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 康熙 (Kāngxī).

Wu on Friday said the museum has completed its investigations into the damage to the stem bowl as well as a yellow porcelain bowl made during the Kangsi era of the Qing Dynasty, which were found to have been broken when museum staff opened their boxes.

[2022 November 2, Shelley Shan, “NPP calls on museum to account for damaged items”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-02, Taiwan News, page 2:

A Chinese emperor (1654-1722) from the Qing Dynasty period.


Cangjie

/ˈtsɑŋˌt͡ʃjɛ/

zh-l

倉頡／仓颉 (Cāngjié)

An input method for entering Chinese characters into a computer, developed in 1976 and originally supporting only traditional Chinese. Characters are visually decomposed into parts; these parts are assigned keys on the keyboard.


Esau

From Ancient Greek Ἡσαῦ (Hēsaû), from Biblical Hebrew עֵשָׂו (ʿēśāw).


Abimelech

From Hebrew אֲבִימֶלֶךְ (avimelek, “Abimelech”).

bor

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 26:8:


Antiochus

From Latin Antiochus, from Ancient Greek Ἀντίοχος (Antíokhos).

A Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by the thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty.


Absalom

From Hebrew אַבְשָׁלוֹם (avshalóm, literally “father of peace”), from אָב (av, “father”) + שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”).


Edom

Via Late Latin Edōm from Koine Greek Ἐδώμ (Edṓm) from Biblical Hebrew אֱדוֹם (ʾĔḏōm).

(biblical) The name given to Esau in the Hebrew Bible.


Luther

(chiefly US) A male given name transferred from the surname, originally in honor of Martin Luther.

A surname from German of English speakers who descend from German immigrants.


Luther

From Middle English luthier (“lute player”).

(rare) A surname originating as an occupation.


SDR

One Sunday evening, after a long and discordant weekend, SDR wrote to “Dearest Franklin and dearest Eleanor” about her views regarding “noblesse oblige” and “honneur oblige.”

1993, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, volumes 1: The Early Years, 1884–1933, Penguin, →ISBN:

(uncommon) Initialism of Sara Delano Roosevelt.


Anaiah

From the Hebrew ענאיה (“God has answered”).

And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

One of the elders who stood with Ezra the Scribe. (biblical character)


Bellini

Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer


Madonna

From Italian madonna, from Old Italian ma (“my”) + donna (“lady”). The given name is derived from the English term, not used as a given name in Italy. Doublet of madam.

We feel bound to add, however, that it is not very likely, in the usual chances of events, that such names as Alaric Attila Watts should have met in matrimony with those of Zillah Madonna Wiffen; and an unkind world may suggest a mystification somewhere.

1835 June, Fraser's Magazine, volume XI, page 652:

But celebrities actually have a weak effect on baby names. As of 2000, the pop star Madonna had sold 130 million records worldwide but hadn't generated even the ten copycat namings―in California, no less―required to make the master index of four thousand names from which the sprawling list of girls' names on page 227 was drawn.

2005, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, Allen Lane, published 2005, →ISBN, page 184:

MADONNA(S) Yes. (They look at each other with surprise. The room goes silent.) MR. STEIN Two Madonnas? (Pause.) MR. STEIN Did either of you know God? EIGHTIES MADONNA I knew of Him. BIBLICAL MADONNA We had a Son together. MR. STEIN […] I’m going to have to ask you to leave. (The eighties Madonna gets up with a smile and then without uttering another word flounces out of the room loudly humming the tune ‘Like a Virgin’.)

2013 February, Alan Baggett, God’s Will, →ISBN, page 39:


TR

Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt
w:en:Theodore Roosevelt

(US politics) Initialism of Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt, 26th US president.

Abbreviation of Tripura, a state of India.


TR

thioredoxin reductase
w:thioredoxin reductase

(biochemistry) Initialism of thioredoxin reductase.


Cromwell

From Old English crump (“crooked, bent”) + wella (“spring”), equivalent to crump + well.

com

A former settlement in Lassen County, California, United States.

A small city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.


Thatcher

/ˈθat͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister.

A number of places in the United States:

Las Animas County
Las Animas County#English

An unincorporated community in Las Animas County, Colorado.

An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Idaho.

An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska.


Madison

en-proper noun

Madison (countable and uncountable, plural Madisons)

From Middle English Madde (“Maud”) + -son.

A locale in the United States; all named for James Madison unless otherwise indicated.

A census-designated place in Yolo County, California; named for Madison, Wisconsin.


Boaz

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin, in occasional use.


Linnaeus

From Swedish Linnæus, from New Latin Linnaeus, from Swedish lind (“linden tree, lime tree”), in reference to a giant linden tree that grew on the family homestead of Carl Linnaeus.

Carl (or the latinized Carolus) Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy."


Macbeth

Anglicization of Middle Irish Mac Bethad, equivalent to the modern mac (“son of”) bheatha (“life”).

A William Shakespeare play, about the Scottish royal family.

The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play.

麥克白

the main character of the Shakespeare play Macbeth


Caleb

From Late Latin Caleb, Calebus, from Koine Greek Χάλεβ (Kháleb), from Biblical Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kālēḇ), possibly related to כֶּלֶב (keleḇ, “dog”), referring to the unconditional devotion of dogs to their masters.

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

(biblical) Caleb the son of Jephunneh, an Israelite who entered Canaan with Joshua.

"My brother's name was Caleb Peck."
"What a fine old-fashioned name," said Mrs. Tabor.

1976, Anne Tyler, Searching for Caleb, Berkley Books,New York, published 1983, →ISBN, page 14:

A male given name from Hebrew first used by Puritans.


Herod

The name of any of a number of members of the Herodian dynasty who ruled in the Roman province of Judea, most notably Herod the Great, who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents, or Herod Antipas, his son, who met Jesus during his Passion.


VR

(British) Initialism of Victoria Regina. (on coins, letterboxes, etc.) The royal cypher for Queen Victoria, queen regnant of Great Britain

Victoria Regina

Victorian Railways
w:en:Victorian Railways

(Australia, rail transport, obsolete) Initialism of Victorian Railways.


VR

en-noun

VR (countable and uncountable, plural VRs)

Initialism of variant reading. (of a manuscript)

Initialism of Volunteer Reserve Services Medal.


Baldwin

en-proper noun

Baldwin (countable and uncountable, plural Baldwins)

From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”).

der

(countable) A surname originating as a patronymic.

Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister.

Baltimore County
Baltimore County#English

An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.

An unincorporated community in Burleigh County, North Dakota.


Shelley

From Old English, meaning "clearing on a bank".

A city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States.


Mozart

Borrowed from German Mozart. First recorded in the 14th century as Middle High German Mozahrt, from motzen (“to roll in filth”); originally used as a given name with the -hart suffix, as a name for dirty or sloppy people.

How do we know what we think we know about Mozart? And why is he still the most popular composer of the western classical tradition? He is one of the most written-about, dissected and mythologised composers in the history of western music.

2005 September 16, Nicholas Kenyon, “Myth, Muzak and Mozart”, in The Guardian:

Of course, this only raises once more the conundrum why the general public should value gothic cathedrals, Mozart's operas, and Kafka's stories so highly, but not the Method of Infinite Descent or Fourier analysis.

1999, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated by Tom Artin, Drawbridge Up: Mathematics—A Cultural Anathema, Natick, MA: A K Peters, page 25:

Individuals who are biologically “young” (whatever that means) have no monopoly on “young” or “fresh” ideas. Thus Mozart can write Eine Kleine Nachtmusik before he is dead at the age of 31, Thomas Jefferson can draft the Declaration of Independence at age 34 and Buchminster Fuller, after reaching the age of 70, can continue to get patents for his inventions.

1997, Larimer v. Dayton Hudson Corportation, Appeal no. 97-2127: Brief of the Defendants-Appellees, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, see footnote 6, page 11:

A surname from German; (music) used specifically of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.


Pythagoras

/paɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/

/pɪˈθæɡ.əɹ.əs/

/paɪˈθæɡ.ɚ.əs/

From Ancient Greek Πῡθαγόρᾱς (Pūthagórās).

Pitagora

Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

Serge Lang and Gene Murrow (1988) Geometry, →ISBN, page 203: “By Pythagoras, we find the length of the third side, |AB|² = (2a)² – a² = 4a² – a² = 3a²”

Pythagoras' theorem
Pythagoras' theorem#English

(mathematics, colloquial) Ellipsis of Pythagoras' theorem.


Bandersnatch

Coined by Lewis Carroll in 1863 (see quotation).

Beware the jabberwock, my son.
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch

1863, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There:

An obscure fictional creature mentioned in two of Lewis Carroll's poems.


Ophelia

/əʊˈfiː.lɪə/

Hamlet
Jacopo Sannazaro
William Shakespeare

Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleia, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the ill-fated love interest of Hamlet.

uder

I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum.

1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene i


tulgey

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, / Came whiffling through the tulgey wood

1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-glass, "Jabberwocky":

I battled for a while with Professor Aschloch's tulgey prose – only German poets have ever written lucid German prose – then closed my eyes, wondering bitterly which of my enemies the nice American worked for.

1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, page 69:

Thick, dense, dark (originally in reference to a wood).


Gladstone

Any of places of the same name.
A city in Clackamas County, Oregon.

Clackamas County
Clackamas County#English


Immanuel

From Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (ʿimánu ʾél, literally “God is with us”).

der

Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (ʿimanuʾél)

A male given name from Hebrew: alternative form of Emmanuel


Elisabeth

The spelling of Elizabeth used in the Authorized Version of the New Testament. Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐλισάβετ (Elisábet), a transliteration of Hebrew אֱלִישֶׁבַע (Elishéva, “my God is an oath”).

There was in the dayes of Herode the king of Iudea, a certaine Prieſt, named Zacharias, of the courſe of Abia, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:5, column 1:

The mother of John the Baptist according to the Christian and Islamic scriptures


Montgomery

From a Norman surname, from a place in Normandy (Old French for "Gomeric's hill"). Gumaric was a Germanic personal name composed of *gumô (“man”) and *rīks (“ruler”) (whence the modern French surnames Gomery, Gommery and Gumery or the Galician placename Gomariz).

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Trigg County, Kentucky.

A town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, named after Richard Montgomery.

A borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.


Beethoven

A surname from German, usually applying to Ludwig van Beethoven.


Abdon

en-proper noun

Abdon (countable and uncountable, plural Abdons)

The placename is from the Old English personal name Abba + tūn (“settlement”). The surname is habitational from the village in Shropshire, but it is also borrowed from Spanish Abdón. The surname is mostly found in the Philippines.

A village in Abdon and Heath parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO576863).


Goliath

Ultimately from Hebrew גָּלְיָת (golyāṯ).


Zippergate

From zipper + -gate, referring to the fastening on a man's trousers.

(chiefly US) The Monica Lewinsky scandal.


Abram

John S[tephen] Farmer
w:John Stephen Farmer

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Synonym of Abraham man


Ahab

From Middle English Achab, from Latin Achab, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαάβ (Akhaáb), from Hebrew אַחְאָב (ʼAḥʼāḇ, “uncle”); from אַח (ʼaḥ, “brother”) + אָב (ʼāḇ, “father”). Attested in Akkadian as 𒀀𒄩𒀊𒁍 (Aḫabbu).

A male given name from Hebrew, very rarely used.


Ahaz

From Hebrew אָחָז (acház, “owns”), a contraction of יְהוֹאָחָז (yeho'acház, “Jah has held”). Attested to in Akkadian as 𒅀𒌑𒄩𒍣 (Iaúḥazi).

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of LORD his God, like David his father.

(biblical) A king of Judah mentioned in the book of Kings.


Elgar

From Old English Ælfgār (from Proto-Germanic *Albigaizaz, equivalent to ælf (“elf”) + gār (“spear”)) and Old English Æþelgār (from Proto-Germanic *Aþalagaizaz, equivalent to æþele (“noble”) + gār (“spear”)).

(rare) A male given name from Old English.


Epicurus

/ˌɛpɪˈkjʊəɹəs/

/ˌɛpɪˈkjʊɹəs/

From Latin Epicūrus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπίκουρος (Epíkouros).

(historical) An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement known as Epicureanism.


Erasmus

From Medieval Latin Erasmus. The EU student exchange programme is named after Erasmus of Rotterdam, and also a backronym for “European [Community] Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.

A male given name from Ancient Greek, rare in English.


Oberon

Earlier Auberon, from Old French Alberon, partial loan translation from Middle High German Alberich, literally ‘elf king, fairy king’, from alp + -rich << Proto-Germanic *rīks.

A fictional character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the king of the fairies, appearing for example in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.


NPC

en-noun

NPC (countable and uncountable, plural NPCs)

Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.

[2018 October 16, Kevin Roose, “What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s New Favorite Insult?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

While watching the VOD later, xQc insinuated that Fortnite pro Bucke was an "NPC" who was only there to defend Tate and not give Piker a fair shot – and what resulted afterward has caused quite a stir in its own right.

2022 July 22, Alec Mullins, “NRG Bucke kicks off after xQc calls him an “NPC” for siding with Andrew Tate”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2022-09-25:

non-player character
non-player character#English

(roleplaying games, video games) Initialism of non-player character.

(Internet slang, figuratively) A person with no ability to think for themselves; a sheeple (originally referring to opponents of former US President Donald Trump).


NPC

Nationalist People's Coalition
w:Nationalist People's Coalition

(Philippine politics) Initialism of Nationalist People's Coalition.

National People's Congress
w:National People's Congress

(China) Initialism of National People's Congress.

Northern People's Congress
w:Northern People's Congress

(Nigeria) Initialism of Northern People's Congress.


Captain Swing

The imagined leader of the Swing riots in rural England in 1830.


Boyle

* As an Irish surname, Anglicised from Irish Ó Baoithghill, possibly a compound of baoth (“vain, foolish”) and geall (“pledge”).
* As a Scottish surname of Norman origin, from Biéville in Normandy, which could be from the Germanic personal name Boia + the common placename suffix -ville.

A place name:
A town in County Roscommon, Ireland.

Athabasca County
Athabasca County#English

A village in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada, named after John Robert Boyle.

Jefferson County
Jefferson County#English

An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas, United States.

A town in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States.


Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German writer


Manasses

Any of several figures mentioned in the Bible. (See Manasses.)


Pilate

The surname is from Latin Pīlātus (“a Roman cognomen”, literally “armed with javelins”), from pilum (“javelin, pestle”), of unknown ultimate origin.

bor

I was 'round when Jesus Christ / Had his moment of doubt and pain / Made damn sure that Pilate / Washed his hands and sealed his fate

1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger (lyrics and music), “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:

(biblical) Pontius Pilate, the man who, according to the Bible, ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.


Ammon

From Hebrew עַמּוֹן (ammon), from the root ע־מ־ם.

Bonneville County
Bonneville County#English

An unincorporated community in Bladen County, North Carolina.

An unincorporated community in Amelia County, Virginia.


Charlemagne

/ˈʃɑːɹləmeɪn/

/ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn/

/ˈʃɑːləˌmeɪn/

/ˈʃɑɹləˌmeɪn/

From Middle English Charlemagne (compare Charlemayn), from Middle French Charlemagne, from Old French Carles li magnes, from Latin Carolus Magnus (literally “Charles/Karl the Great”).

der

One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.


ent

J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
ent

Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent.
Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not survive through the Middle English period into Modern times.
Apparently survived in some German dialects as Enz (“giant”), also in composite forms. Compare ettin.

lbor

[…]and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).

2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, A Tolkien Compass:

But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.

2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180:

Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.

2003, Robert Dunn, Horse Latitudes, page 98:

Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.

2006, John Allran, Men of Their Word, page 37:

In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.

2017, Inga Simpson, Understory, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.


Samson

From Middle English Sampson, Sampsoun, Samson, from Latin Samson, from Ancient Greek Σαμψών (Sampsṓn), from Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן.

der

Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן

And Delilah ſaid to Samſon, Tel me, I pray thee, wherein thy great ſtrength lyeth, and wherewith thou mighteſt be bound, to afflict thee.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 16:6:

(biblical) An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress.

An English surname derived from the given name, or from Samuel + son.


Phryne

From Ancient Greek Φρύνη (Phrúnē), from φρύνη (phrúnē, “toad”), a nickname often given to prostitutes of the time.

The suffrages were recently divided between Mademoiselle Lange and Madame Tallien — the Helen and Phryne of the nation.

1797, "Anthony Pasquin" (John Williams), The Pin-Basket to the Children of Thespis: With Notes Historical, Critical and Biographical, page 91:

But in the first of these instances, an impediment may be supposed to be insurmountable, which Dryden has only surmounted by the substitution of matchless beauties of his own! He wins his cause, like Phryne pleading before the Areopagus.

1835, Selections from the Edinburgh Review, page 354:

The Roman-period stories that circulated about Phryne have to do with her beauty, her nudity, and her forwardness.[…]Alciphron also crafts a letter that Phryne writes to Praxiteles; in it, Phryne toys with the theological implications of Praxiteles' use of her as a model for Aphrodite, and her statuary appearance at a sanctuary to Eros at Thespiai.

2010, Laura Salah Nasrallah, Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire, page 261:

(historical) An Ancient Greek courtesan of the 4th century BC, reputedly the model for Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Cnidus and famously tried for the capital charge of impiety, during which trial she allegedly bared her breasts before the judges.


Saddam

Transliteration of Arabic صَدَّام (ṣaddām).

translit

A male given name from Arabic of Arabic usage.

Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi dictator (1979-2003).


Lafayette

en-proper noun

Lafayette (countable and uncountable, plural Lafayettes)

/ˌlɑːfiːˈɛt/

French surname from Occitan, "the little beech tree".

Contra Costa County
Contra Costa County#English

A number of places in the United States named for the Marquis de La Fayette:

A city in Contra Costa County, California.


Canaan

Canaan
Canaan (disambiguation)
Great Vowel Shift
Wycliffe's Bible

Taken (at least as early as Wycliffe's Bible, 1382-1395, which has Chanaan) from Ecclesiastical Latin Chanaān, from Ancient Greek Χαναάν (Khanaán), expanded from Χνᾶ (Khnâ), from Hebrew כְּנַעַן (k'ná'an). The first vowel shifted from /aː/ to /eɪ/ in the Great Vowel Shift; at least as early as Milton (1660s), the word could already be pronounced with two syllables, though at least as late as the 1880s it could also be pronounced with three, /ˈkeɪ.nə.æn/.

The name of multiple places in North America named after the historic region, including:

A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

Litchfield County
Litchfield County#English


Deborah

From Hebrew דְבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.

Rapier. Heigho! Deborah! it's an ugly name, a damnable name - the name I mean! - it sounds like Gomorrah! Deb! Debby! - worse still - sounded sharp now I rather like it! - Deborah! Deborah! Deborah!

1851, James Brayshay, The Protector of Houghall, Or the Lily and the Rose, Groombridge and Sons, act I:

He hadn't known, for example, that her middle name was Deborah. It was a name he liked: plucky, Midwestern and reliable-sounding. He was willing to bet that if you went through every women's prison in America, you wouldn't find a half-dozen Deborahs.

1995, Carl Hiaasen, Stormy Weather, Alfred A.Knopf,Inc., →ISBN, page 256:

Your name is Deborah, Deborah / It never suited ya

1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:

A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.


Clinton

Clinton
Clinton (disambiguation)
en:DeWitt Clinton
en:Glinton, Cambridgeshire
en:Glympton

* (English habitational surname): A habitational surname, derived from places named Glinton ("town on a hill") or Glympton ("settlement on the River Glyme"), from Old English [Term?] + tun (“enclosure, homestead, town”), equivalent to the modern -ton.
* (given name): Derived from the surnames.
* (DeWitt County): Named after DeWitt Clinton.

Hillary Clinton, 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.

census-designated place
census-designated place

Prince George's County
Prince George's County#English

Hunterdon County
Hunterdon County#English


Hitlerish

en-adj

Hitlerish (comparative more Hitlerish, superlative most Hitlerish)

more Hitlerish (comparative)
most Hitlerish (superlative)


Empedocles

From Ancient Greek Ἐμπεδοκλῆς (Empedoklês).

A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water.


Naomi

From Hebrew נָעֳמִי (no'omí, literally “my pleasantness”), from נועם / נֹעַם (nó'am, “pleasantness”) + ־ִי (-í, “my, of me”).

uder

Plaquemines Parish
Plaquemines Parish#English

An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.


Khrushchev

From Russian Хрущёв (Xruščóv), usually written Хрущев (Xruščev) (see note about Russian letter ё (jo)).

A built-in remedy for Khrushchev and Kennedy.

1974, Freddie Mercury, “Killer Queen”, in Sheer Heart Attack:

Хрущёв Хрущёв#Russian

English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв (Xruščóv); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.


Livingstone

A Scottish surname from Old English, variant of Livingston.

David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and African explorer; he discovered the Zambezi River (1851) and Victoria Falls (1855); Henry M. Stanley found him in Tanzania (1871), and together they attempted to find the source of the Nile.

A city in Southern Province, Zambia, named after David Livingstone.

The Shire of Livingstone, a local government area in central Queensland, Australia.


Beaufort

A town, the county seat of Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.


Carroll

A city, the county seat of Carroll County, Iowa.

Chautauqua County
Chautauqua County#English

Fairfield County
Fairfield County#English

An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.

A number of townships, in Illinois, Iowa (2), Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (3).

A village in Gunnedah Shire, northern New South Wales, Australia.


Rousseau

en-proper noun

Rousseau (countable and uncountable, plural Rousseaus)

From French Rousseau. Originally a French nickname for someone with red hair, from roux (“redhead”). Doublet of Russell. Compare russel.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss philosopher.


Thackeray

An English habitational surname from a place in Yorkshire, of Old Norse origin, from þak (“thatch, roof”) + rá (“nook”), therefore referring to a "place with thatching".

A community in western Saskatchewan, Canada.


Pliny

Ultimately from Latin Plīnius, an Italic name of obscure origin.

The two Plinys, Lucan, (though again under the disadvantage of verse) Petronius Arbiter, and Quintilian, but above all, the Senecas, (for a Spanish cross appears to improve the quality of the rhetorician) have left a body of rhetorical composition such as no modern nation has rivalled.

1828, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 24, number 147:

Of Q. Curtius, the Demosthenes (both), Eutropius, Horace (first with a date), Homer, Justin, Livy, the two Plinies, Quintilian, Martial, Tacitus, and Virgil, the first editions; but my friend must not be allowed to have a succession of nights of undisturbed repose till he possesses the first Horace, and the first Roman edition of Virgil.

1836, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Reminiscences of a Literary Life:

I will leave off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set about studying with such a rage, that when you come back next year, you may find the tongue I have now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist.

a. 1776, Joseph Baretti, “Dialogue the Fortieth”, in Easy Phraseology for the Use of Those Persons Who Intend to Learn the Colloquial Part of the Italian Language, 1835 edition, Turin: Joseph Bocca, page 236:

Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23–79 AD): an ancient Roman nobleman, scientist and historian, author of Naturalis Historia, "Pliny's Natural History".

Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (63–circa 113): an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer, a great-nephew of Pliny the Elder.


Southey

English place names, from Old English sūþ (“south”) + Middle English haye (“enclosure”), from Old English heġe and ġehæġ.

A council ward and former village in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England; the ward contains the suburb of Southey Green.


Franco

Francisco Franco, the long-ruling right-wing 20th century Spanish caudillo since the Spanish Civil War (1939–1975).


Churchill

/ˈt͡ʃɜːt͡ʃɪl/

/ˈt͡ʃɜːɹt͡ʃɪl/

Any of several placenames, derived from church and hill.

A community in the town of Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

Wellington County
Wellington County#English

A community in the town of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.

An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.

Liberty Township
Liberty Township#English

A census-designated place in Liberty Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States.

Allegheny County
Allegheny County#English

A borough of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.


Claudius

[H]e […] wrote a letter in this maner. Claudius Liſias vnto the moſt mighty ruelar Felix ſendeth gretyngꝭ.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xxiiij:[23–26], folio cxc, verso:

King Claudius is the Emperor Claudius, who "committed incest with Agrippina, married her and adopted her son Nero." The two Claudiuses have several traits in common (drunkenness, violent temper, love of gambling, e.g.).

1968, John W[illiam] Velz, Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, page 315, column 2:

Vespasian, a simple man, always laughed because so many Julii and Claudii were made divine after their deaths. On his deathbed he said, “Alas! I think I’m becoming a god.”

2001, Rose Williams, Duces Romanorum: Profiles in Roman Courage, teacher’s edition, London: WPC Classics, →ISBN, page 94:

Busy accepting the good wishes of all the other guests, Titus was able to pay only passing attention to Gnaeus. He worried that his friend might feel a bit out of place amid so many Claudii and Potitii, or, given his sensitivities, might experience a bit of envy, perhaps even resentment, at seeing the trappings of the patrician wedding he himself would never experience.

2007, Steven Saylor, “Coriolanus (510–491 bc)”, in Roma: The Epic Novel of Ancient Rome, London: Constable, →ISBN, page 143:

The two Claudii had put their heads on the block by their own volition.

2015, Harry Sidebottom, “Rome, The Caelian Hill, Five Days before the Ides of March, ad238”, in Blood & Steel (Throne of the Caesars; 2), London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 132:


Siegfried

(Germanic mythology) Hero of the Nibelungenlied who defeated the Icelandic queen Brunhild.


Barnabas

From Ancient Greek Βαρναβᾶς (Barnabâs), from Aramaic בַרְנֶבֻאָה (barneḇú’â, literally “prophet's son”), from בּר (bar, “son of”) and נְבִיָּא (nəḇiyyā, “prophet”).

der

A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.


Boswell

Scottish surname, from Norman, named after Beuzeville, from Beuze + -ville ("Bosi's farm"); first element from Old Norse Bosi, from Proto-Germanic *bausuz.

A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).

A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.

A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.

A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada.

A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia.


Leonardo

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Leonard.


Hume

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. Former name: Humes.

A village in Shiloh Township and Young America Township, Edgar County, Illinois.

Whiteside County
Whiteside County#English

A township in Whiteside County, Illinois.

An unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia.


Ovid

From Latin Ovidius, name of a Roman gens.

Bear Lake County
Bear Lake County#English

An unincorporated community in Bear Lake County, Idaho.

Shiawassee County
Shiawassee County#English

A small city in Clinton County and Shiawassee County, Michigan.


Balzac

A surname from French.
Honoré de Balzac, French writer


Raphael

en-proper noun

Raphael (countable and uncountable, plural Raphaels)

/ˈɹæf.eɪˌɛl/

/ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/

/ˌɹɑ.faɪˈɛl/

/ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-Raphael.wav

Latin Raphael. From Koine Greek Ῥᾱφᾱήλ (Rhāphāḗl), from Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl, literally “God cures/has healed”).

der

(countable) A male given name from Hebrew.

(countable) A surname originating as a patronymic.

(art) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian Renaissance painter (1483–1520).


Confucius

Borrowed from Latin Confucius, from Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ, “Master Kong”).

Theſe Books mention only three Sects to have been in vogue in the World ; for of other Sects there is not the leaſt mention made. The firſt is the Sect of the Learned : The ſecond is called Sciequia : And the third Lancu. The firſt of theſe three is followed by all the Chineſes, and the adjacent People, which uſe the Chineſe Characters, as the Iſlanders of Japan, Corea, and Couchinchina : this Sect, which is that of the Learned, is taught to, and followed by none, but only thoſe and the Chineſes themſelves, and is the Antienteſt of all the Sects that were ever heard of in China : Out of this, about which a very great number of Books are writ, generally are choſen perſons fit for the Government of the Empire ; and therefore it is honoured and eſteemed above all others. The Doctrine of this Sect is not taught all at once, but they ſuck it in by degrees when they learn to Read or Write. The firſt Founder of this Sect was Confutius, the Prince of Chineſe Philoſophers, who is to this day honoured by all the Learned, with the Title of the The moſt Wiſe.

1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, “Of ſeveral SECTS in CHINA : Concerning PHILOSOPHY, and IDOL WORSHIP.”, in John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 216:

The thirty eighth Year of the Cycle Confucius was preferr’d for his great Merit to be Prime Miniſter of the Kingdom of Lû, his native Country. Thro’ his wiſe Counſel the Face of Affairs was ſoon chang'd throughout the Land ; he reform’d the Abuſes that had crept into it, and reſtor’d Honeſty in dealing ; he taught young Men to reſpect the old, and honour their Parents, even after their Deceaſe ; he inſpir’d the fair Sex with Mildneſs and Chaſtity ; and caus’d Sincerity, Uprightneſs, and all other civil Virtues to prevail among the People.

1738, “Annals of the Chinese Monarchs”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. du Halde, →OCLC, page 167:

Applicants to higher schools had to pass entrance examinations reminiscent of those administered before 1966. This change, which came under attack in the fall of 1973 during the campaign to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, pleased middle school teachers in No. 6 Middle School in Tan-tung, Liaoning.

1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Mobilizing Urban Youth to Go to the Countryside”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

This is no longer a clue. It's a game. You may have just gotten checkmate, but we're playing Chinese checkers, and as my old friend Confucius say; the hunter has become the hunter-ed. The chaser has become the chosed. Dame Fortuna has had her franking privileges revoked. It seems the portrait has painted the artist, sketching the reverser, who has become the reverse-ed. But this time the suffixed will become the sufferer, and it appears the baby killer is about to kill a baby.

2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman):

An influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.; personal name Kong Qiu (孔丘).


Shakespearianism

en-noun

Shakespearianism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakespearianisms)

Alternative spelling of Shakespeareanism


Shakespeareanism

Shakespeareanism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakespeareanisms)

(uncountable, paleologism) The devotion to or the teaching of the works and terminology of William Shakespeare.

(countable) A term coined by Shakespeare, or otherwise derived from his works.


Hooke

A surname from Middle English derived from hook, as an occupational or topographical name or a nickname.


Melville

en-proper noun

Melville (countable and uncountable, plural Melvilles)

A census-designated place in Middletown and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, United States, named after Admiral George W. Melville.


Tacitus

A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor.