Newyorkian

en-adj

Newyorkian (comparative more Newyorkian, superlative most Newyorkian)

more Newyorkian (comparative)
most Newyorkian (superlative)

The editor of perhaps the most widely read magazine issuing from the metropolis was recently asked, “Is your magazine read much in New York city itself?” / “Oh, yes,” he answered, “but we are more popular in the United States.” The answer was indicative. New York is not American. It is merely Newyorkian. And the New Yorker is beginning to know it and to regret it.

1908 April 14, “A Few Lines on the “Big Burg””, in The Shreveport Journal: Official Journal of the City of Shreveport, Shreveport, La., page 4, column 2:

In bed, he dreamt of Caty, of her sweet and solid body nourished on all the Newyorkian essences, her aromatic Boricuan body of markedly horizontal tendencies.[…]In the livingroom decorated with posters of erotic content—Babylonian Newyorkian obsession—the guests move from one spot to another: pale youths with huge afros, girls in slacks, an occasional skirt.[…]Oh, a bien chévere couple, he will be ashamed of his father I will raise him by myself Newyorican son, hum, his grain of sand in the Newyorkian population hum, feeling the nostalgic notes of a guitar the rasping of a güiro on the floor below, Boricuan Christmas in the urban setting oh unbearable nostalgia, loneliness profoundly exhausted not only from the effects of the hard work under the Manolo-ian vigilance, an exhaustion from deep within.

1993, Tanya T. Fayen, transl., Hot Soles in Harlem (Discoveries), Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, translation of Harlem todos los días: Novela by Emilio Díaz Valcárcel, →ISBN, pages 131, 151, and 169:

Along this leg one usually can find hot-dogs, knishes and assorted Newyorkian nosh delicacies purchasable from pushcart stands.

1997, Cy A Adler, “Leg 2 — West 42nd Street to 125th Street”, in Walking the Hudson, Batt to Bear: From the Battery to Bear Mountain: […], Green Eagle Press, →ISBN, page 21:

With a little help from our Newyorkian friend, Jeremy Malvasia, in the vocal department and to be featured, in a slightly different version, on the forthcoming album Viva Riva.

2002, “Enrico Riva: The Night Is Young”, in The Night Is Young 3: Sunshine Moods, Tribal Grooves and Future Dubs, Life Enhancing Audio:

just then the world began to spin, or was it the room? it must have been the room... / the instructions must have gotten lost in all the mayhem / the manhattan project: a crisis of newyorkian proportions

2005, Micropixie, “earth: a kit”, in Alice in Stevie Wonderland, Utmosis:

Interestingly, the best-known of the Friedrichstraße entries today was one ignored by jury at the time: [Ludwig] Mies van der Rohe’s very “Newyorkian” steel and glass tower.

2017, Piotr Sadowski, The Semiotics of Light and Shadows: Modern Visual Arts and Weimar Cinema, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:


New-Yorkian

New-Yorkian (comparative more New-Yorkian, superlative most New-Yorkian)

more New-Yorkian (comparative)
most New-Yorkian (superlative)

Has any intimation been forwarded of the[…]of this “tall-talker” to New-Yorkian shores?

1878 January 18, “Reflections. (Personal and otherwise.)”, in The Bicycle Journal, volume 1 (new series), number 75, page 25, column 2:

The very month that this tribute of the leading English art review appeared, the readers of a New York journal were told that it would be pleasant to feel sure that American art as a whole was beginning to take on some sort of national complexion: “[…] The subjects they choose are rarely American; they take little pains to reproduce American landscapes or types of character; they pay little attention to American historical episodes. They are Parisian, rather than New-Yorkian.”

1888, George William Sheldon, chapter VIII, in Recent Ideals of American Art: […], New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, published 1890, pages 142–144:

Every smart New-Yorkian song begins anywhere, but surely ends with the Bowery.

1895, Rudyard Home, “Unprecedented Growth of New York”, in Columbian Sketches, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, page 40:

After his early Ohio experience, which finds a reflex mainly in his autobiography, the scenes of his fiction, initially Venetian, maturely Bostonian, autumnally New-Yorkian, dispersedly and interspersedly European and American, copy his migrations as precisely as if his imagination were a part of his luggage.

1924, Oscar W. Firkins, “Novel and Tale”, in William Dean Howells: A Study, New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell, Inc., published 1963, page 65:

The Doctor’s House. James Liddy. Salmon. 142 pp € 15 pb 21 cm 1-903392-39-x. After anecdotes and snippets from the poet’s Wexford childhood (he was born 1934) about his dispensary doctor father and New-Yorkian mother, the real show begins when he hits the big smoke for college days and apprenticeship among the McDaid’s mob.

Alexander Chervinsky makes his works by balancing on the intersection of New-Yorkian aestheticism and spiritual impulses inherent only to Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s characters.

2021, Lisa Plavinsky, “Introduction”, in Martin Dewhirst, Marina Dewhirst, Anastasia Samostra, transl., edited by Alexander Chervinsky, You Never Know, Dobro-books:


New Yorkian

Mr Hollis tells me that Bute has established a Jesuit in a school at Kensington and has sent two of his younger children to be educated by him, and had made Barron … send two of his. He thinks with me that the late Act of Parliament respecting New York most tyrannical and hopes the honest New Yorkians will not submit to it, but will draw their swords in defence of their Liberty.

1767 July 9, Sylas Neville, The Diary of Sylas Neville, 1767—1788, Oxford University Press, published 1950, page 17:

What pity it is that the New Yorkian of that honourable body should make them so blind to real interest as not to prefer the first city on the finest river in the most respectable state in America, to a parcel of buildings, confusedly situated on a pitiful island which has neither ice in winter to protect it, nor force in summer sufficient to prevent Congress and all their papers being carried off by pirates.

1788 October 4, “Site for Capitol”, in Pittsburgh Gazette; republished as “Extracts From The Pittsburgh Gazette: Site for Capitol”, in The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1923 January 27, page 6, column 5:

A minister of the Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Van Deusen, a native New Yorkian, has served with the Lutheran Council since 1944.

1965 December 2, “Council Topic: Church-State”, in The Greenville News, number 336, Greenville, S.C., page 41, column 5:

In fact, the Californian or Ohioan or New Yorkian who lands a No. 4 plate on her all-terrain minivan is much more likely to survive the transition with her insanely sped up driving habits than the one who actually has to brake for a cow every now and then in Ravalli County.

2016 May 19, Bill LaCroix, “Drive how we vote”, in Missoula Independent: Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture, volume 27, number 20, Missoula, Mont., page 4:


Rishabh

Transliteration of Hindi ऋषभ (ŕṣabh). Doublet of Rushabh and Rishabha.

A male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.


Meletius

From Latin Meletius, from Ancient Greek Μελέτιος (Melétios).


Japhug

A Gyalrong language spoken in Barkam County, Rngaba, Sichuan, China.


Wuhanian

Wuhanian (comparative more Wuhanian, superlative most Wuhanian)

more Wuhanian (comparative)
most Wuhanian (superlative)


Oldenburger

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


enyay

These accent letter codes and punctuation codes are represented by two characters. The first character (called a signal) more or less modifies the second character. For example, ˜n represents the Spanish enyay.

1988, Don Chapman, Alan K Melby, “MicroMATER”, in Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium, volume 14, number 1, page 67:

Please try to stay away from some of those special characters (umlauts, hachas, enyays, etc), because they are 8-bit and non-standard.

1994 June 7, Jeff Kopmanis, “LSM: New Release: 05JUN94”, in comp.os.linux.development (Usenet):

I suppose it's intended to be used by people who are used to the US layout, but who want to be able to put a few types of accents onto a few vowels. There's upside down punctuation, no C cedille, no enyay. I don't _think_ so anyway. It may be that ~N produces an enyay, in which case it would be just as annoying to use in the Unix world as one of the other national layouts.

2002 July 23, Silvan, “strange keyboard behavior”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake (Usenet):

Of course, Unicode supports the enyay—ñ—as a single encoded character, but there are many examples of language elements in, say, Vietnamese, for which there are no single encoded characters in Unicode.

2002, Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon, SQL: 1999, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 705:

"No, no, no," I said, trilling my double r's and transforming all the n's with tildes into enyays, "I did not ask you what it cost, I asked you what it was worth."

2008 November, Ben Guerrero, “Rockers”, in Home, Ridgefield: Hersam Acorn Newspapers, page 42:

The name of the Latin-script letter Ñ/ñ.


Shio

Transliteration of Old Georgian შიო (šio), an alternative form of შიოშ (šioš).


Wea

Clipping of Waiatanwa and other forms, derived from Miami waayaahtanwa, from waayaahtanonki (“place of the whirpool”).

An indigenous people of western Indiana, USA and surrounding regions .


Talaing

Borrowed from Burmese တလိုင်း (ta.luing:).


Talaing

The Talaings in Burma, who retain the use of their own language and keep up their separate nationality , are found chiefly in the Thaton and Amherst districts. In Siam they are found chiefly on the Menam and Meklawng rivers, living in separate villages and maintaining their own customs.

1917, Robert Halliday, The Talaings, →OCLC, page 2:

Today the Mon-speaking Talaing still occupy parts of southern Burma.

1977, Gordon T. Bowles, The People of Asia (Peoples of the World Series), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 191:

A mythological duck
To fully appreciate a trip to Bago 8, the visitor should first understand the history of the Talaing (Mon) people. Like the Pyu — predecessors of the Bamar — they originally came from the north. The Talaing, who arrived before the Pyu, ventured down the Thanlwin River rather than the Ayeyarwady. Theirs was the “Golden Land of Suvannabhumi”, which stretched from what is today Malaysia to. the Bay of Bengal. The Talaing built their capital, Thaton, on the east side of the Sittoung (Sittang) River.

2005, Francis Dorai, editor, Burma (Insight Guides), Updated edition, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 153:

One of the most important issues enmeshed in the historiography of early Burma is the notion of the “downtrodden Talaing.” This is the belief that King Alaungpaya in the eighteenth century had conducted a war of extermination of the Mon people, enslaved them, and had deliberately created a derogatory Burmese term (talaing) to be used thenceforth for the Mon people.

2017, Michael A. Aung-Thwin, The Mists of Rāmañña / The Legend That Was Lower Burma, page 261:


Talaing

en-adj

Talaing (comparative more Talaing, superlative most Talaing)

more Talaing (comparative)
most Talaing (superlative)

2017 [1894], Richard Carnac Temple, Notes On Antiquities in Ramannadesa (The Talaing Country of Burma.):

EINGSAUNG
In the folk beliefs of the Burman and Talaing people of Burma, these nats are benevolent house guardians that dwell in the south corner of the home in a post decorated with leaves. They are propitiated with offerings of coconuts.

1996, Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98:


Blayre

A unisex given name from Scottish Gaelic


max fac

(UK politics, historical) A rejected proposal to resolve the Irish border issue of Brexit by introducing technology and legislation that would streamline customs arrangements; ultimately the Northern Ireland Protocol was implemented instead.


Macarius

From Latin Macarius, from Ancient Greek Μακάριος (Makários).


Vegetable English

Pun on Tsai's name in Mandarin 蔡英文 (Cài Yīngwén), which is homophonous to 菜 (cài, “vegetable”) + 英文 (Yīngwén, “English”).

(Taiwan, humorous) Nickname for Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese politician.


Korea Fish

Pun on Han's name in Mandarin 韓國瑜／韩国瑜 (Hán Guóyú), which is homophonous to 韓國／韩国 (Hánguó, “Korea”) + 魚／鱼 (yú, “fish”).


Nikole

Borrowed from the French Nicole, from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”) + λαός (laós, “people”).

No one says anything for a while, and the only sound is Nikole sniffling.

Julie, the family social worker, explained Nikole's complicated living situation and risk factors to the judge at her most recent court date.

2014, esley T Church, II, David Springer, Albert R Roberts, Juvenile Justice Sourcebook, page 453:

So Margaret and Nikole left and were helped into the carriage for the trip to the palace.


gigachad

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

From giga- + Chad (“a very attractive man”). Although isolated uses exist earlier, the term was popularized by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who referred to Russian model Ernest Khalimov as "Gigachad". See Gigachad for more.

I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!

I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.

2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global, archived from the original on 2024-02-05:

As per his IGN interview, LMSH took 242 tries to beat Malenia on his own. After this, he just decided that no other player has to suffer the same fate he did. What an absolute GigaChad.

2022 April 18, RJ Pierce, “Legendary 'Elden Ring' Player 'Let Me Solo Her' Is Now Immortalized In A Mod”, in Tech Times, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation. In an RMR match against Ecstatic, HooXi scored an insane HLTV rating of 2.21.

2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

(by extension, Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.


Manchegan

Manchegan (comparative more Manchegan, superlative most Manchegan)

more Manchegan (comparative)
most Manchegan (superlative)


Chepang

The Sino-Tibetan language spoken by this ethnic group


Leylah

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Leila


Iraqian

Iraqian (comparative more Iraqian, superlative most Iraqian)

more Iraqian (comparative)
most Iraqian (superlative)


Karakhanid

From Persian قراخانیان (qarâkhân), of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qr¹a, “black; courageous”) (from Proto-Turkic *kara) + 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qǧn¹, “khan, ruler”) (corresponding to modern English khan).

der

An extinct Turkic language developed in the 11th century under the Kara-Khanid Khanate, noted as the first literary Islamic Turkic language. Though it is similar to Old Uyghur, it had several loanwords from Persian and Arabic. Chagatai is a descendant of this language.


Murderapolis

Blend of murder + Minneapolis, with reference to its crimewave of the 1990s, during which many homicides were recorded.

(US, slang, derogatory) The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.


Fordata

An Austronesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of the Moluccas, closely related to Kei.


Saint Louisan

en-adj

Saint Louisan (comparative more Saint Louisan, superlative most Saint Louisan)

more Saint Louisan (comparative)
most Saint Louisan (superlative)


New-Yorkeress

But—(as we learn from our European correspondent)—but—he^([sic]) authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugenie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops avaunt!—Down on your knees, femenine^([sic]) provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugenie! New-Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling shams

1857 March 5, “A War Whoop”, in The Carroll Free Press, volume 25, number 10 (whole 1,313), Carrollton, Ohio, column 2:

“I thought of going up to the English chapel outside the Popolo, to see a pretty New-Yorkeress,” said the latter;

1863, Henry P. Leland, Americans in Rome, New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Evans, page 34:

The lady was not pretty, and she was not, Isabel thought, dressed in the perfect taste of Boston; but she owned frankly to herself that the New-Yorkeress was stylish, undeniably effective.

1871, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXVIII, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 32, column 1:


Najibullah

From Arabic نجيبالله (literally “distinguished servant of the god Allah”), from نجيب (“Najib”)+الله (allāh, “Allah”).

bor

A male given name from Arabic, an Islamic name.


Gilly

A diminutive of the female given name Gillian.


Waikuri

An extinct language of southern Baja California spoken by the Waikuri or Guaycura people.


Arlingtonian

en-adj

Arlingtonian (comparative more Arlingtonian, superlative most Arlingtonian)

more Arlingtonian (comparative)
most Arlingtonian (superlative)

Of or relating to Arlington County, Virginia, United States.


Arlingtonian

A native or inhabitant of Arlington County, Virginia, United States.


Gerwyn

Gerwyn Capon
Gerwyn Edwards
Gerwyn Price
Gerwyn Williams


Logooli

A Bantu language of Kenya and Tanzania, spoken by the Maragoli.


Türkman

en-noun

Türkman (countable and uncountable, plural Türkmans or Türkmen)

The wild Kürd and Türkman, wandering predatory shepherds, pitch their tents there;

1842, Eli Smith, “Moral and Religious Condition of Western Asia”, in Missionary Sermons and Addresses, New York, N.Y.: Saxton & Miles, […], page 27:

The tekfur of Trebizond had such a bride, but that means descending from the freedom of the open pastures of the Türkmans through the dark valleys of the Pontos with its agach denizi (sea of trees), where armed men lurked, to the alien and enclosed world of the coastal Greeks: a world fraught with danger.

1983, Anthony Bryer, “Greeks and Turks”, in Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray, editors, Greece Old and New, The Macmillan Pres Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 103:

The most popular poet is, perhaps, Makhdūm-ḳuli (1733–ca. 1782), an educated Türkman, who cultivated the forms of folk poetry in secular love lyrics, and also wrote didactic works and religious songs.[…]Local languages were now elevated to independent literary status. The largest among these were Uzbek, Kazak, Türkman and Kirghiz.

1976, Eleazar Birnbaum, “Turkish literature through the ages”, in R. M. Savory, editor, Introduction to Islamic Civilisation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81, column 2:

Altan Gokalp has suggested that the terms Türkman and Yörük as used in these documents were not ethnic-linguistic labels but referred to different statuses for purposes of taxation; he believes that neither Yörük nor Türkman were necessarily turcophone (personal communication; cf. Gokalp 1989, 530–532).

1997, Martin van Bruinessen, ““Aslını inkar eden haramzadedir!” The Debate on the Ethnic Identity of the Kurdish Alevis”, in Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean, editors, Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: […], Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 10:


Türkman

Part of the Seljuk and Türkman success in breaking local economies and sense of Orthodox patrida in Anatolia comes from the way in which they extinguished these local shrines and their lands, for once a pilgrim town has been wrecked it is very difficult to revive.

1983, Anthony Bryer, “Greeks and Turks”, in Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray, editors, Greece Old and New, The Macmillan Pres Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 101:

The Salor tribe, who held the city, had not been in the habit of making marauding incursions into Persia for the purpose of plunder and capturing slaves; but they were charged by Abbāss Mirza with supplying arms to other Türkman tribes, and of receiving Persian prisoners in return, whom they either retained as slaves or sold in Khīva and Bokhāra.

1995, Charles Ellison Bates, John Moubray Trotter, Central Asia: A Contribution Towards the Better Knowledge of the Topography, Ethnology, Resources, & History of Persia, page 502:

Amir Khan was the leading amir of the Türkman tribe, which had come to regard Azerbaijan as its fief. The other Türkman amirs were incensed not only by his imprisonment, but also by his replacement with an Ustajlu.

2009, Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd:


Latoyah

A female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th-century African-American usage.


Ulsterite

A native or inhabitant of Ulster in Ireland.


Urbian

A conjectured Old European substrate language.


Chipaya

A South American language of the Uru–Chipaya language family.


Lowanna

en-proper-noun

Lowanna (countable and uncountable, plural Lowannas)


Lowana

Lowana (countable and uncountable, plural Lowanas)


Burma Road

From the name of a road in Burma which ran to the frontier with China, built in 1937–1938 by the British in order to circumvent the Japanese blockade of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) during World War II.

A “Burma Road” for Africa, or, in fact, a pair of “Burma Roads,” may develop from the current improvement of British and Free French roads across Central Africa.

1942 March 9, “New Allied Life Line Across Africa”, in Geographic School Bulletin, volume 21, number 3:

Between January 1, 1943, and June 1, 1945, an average of slightly more than 17 trains plied daily between the two termini of the railway. During all this period, it served as the super-Burma Road to Russia.

1947, Raj Narain Gupta, Iran: An Economic Study, page 145:

The Israelis were able to break the stranglehold by bypassing the normal route to Jerusalem through building a “Burma Road” to resupply the city.

2007, Michael Rydelnik, Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict: What the Headlines Haven’t Told You, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 102:

(figuratively) An important military supply route.

Second Sino-Japanese War
The Railway Magazine


Shizuokan

Of, from, or pertaining to Shizuoka, Japan or the people of Shizuoka.


Haldian

Alternative form of Khaldian (“language”)


Betsie

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth


Khaldian

From Khaldi (“the chief deity of Urartu”) + -an.


Pancana

An Austronesian language of Buton Island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia.


Kagoshiman

Of, from, or pertaining to Kagoshima, Japan or the people of Kagoshima.


Ahmaud

Apparently a variant of Ahmad, from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).

A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmad


regrexiteer

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


Hindish

A crossover of Hindi and English language.


Jadgali

An Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Jadgal, an ethnolinguistic group of Pakistan and Iran.


Geraldyn

A female given name, variant of Geraldine.


Jerrie

A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine or Geraldyn.


Jozy

A diminutive of the female given name Josephine


Iranun

A language spoken in Mindanao of the southern Philippines and western Sabah in Malaysia.


Siculo-Norman

But the finest example of the blending of the Saracenic and the Romanesque, with the rich ornamentation in mosaic carried out so effectively by the Siculo-Normans, is S. Maria dell'Ammiraglio,[…].

1869, Charles Isidore Hemans, A History of Mediaeval Christianity and Sacred Art in Italy: A.D. 900-1350, page 316:

It is an attractive hypothesis, which we accept, that these Muslim influences played on the art of Amalfi during the great age of the Republic and not merely (as some think) after the city was subdued by the Siculo-Normans.

1971, Kenneth John Conant, Henry M. Willard, “Early Examples of the Pointed Arch and Vault in Romanesque Architecture”, in Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Volume 2, University of California Press, page 205:

Thanks to the tolerant policy of both Rogers of Altavilla and both Williams, their successors, the many Muslims left on the Island could draw up their deeds in Arabic, the Greek-Byzantines in Greek, and the Siculo-Normans in Latin.

2017, Paolo Martino, “Playing with identities in the Multilingual Place-names of Medieval Sicily”, in Piera Molinelli, editor, Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings, Walter de Gruyter, page 224:

(historical) A Norman who settled in Sicily during or after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, or a descendant of one.


Nobiin

A Nubian language spoken in Egypt and Sudan


Apelanta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Tamangic

A Sino-Tibetan language family of the Himalayas.


Shipibo

A Panoan language spoken in Peru and Brazil.


Halyna

From Slavic (Ukrainian Галина (Halyna), etc), from Ancient Greek; Doublet of Halina, Galina, and Galyna.

gloss

Ukrainian <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="uk">Галина</i> (Halyna), etc


Turd Reich

GOEBBELS: ‘…Gone ist zer goose-step…in comes ze new Swingen Turd Reich - Under der Linden Plattz Von-step.’.

2012, Spike Milligan, ’Rommel?’’Gunner who?’: A Confrontation in the Desert:

…and his glorious Third Reich (or as our men called it, the ‘Turd Reich’).

2014, Sidney Litherland, The Junak King: Life as a British POW, 1941-45:

In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”

2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103:

(slang, derogatory, historical) The Third Reich; used to represent a stereotypical German pronunciation of the phrase, or to liken Nazis to excrement.


Sylheti Bengali

The variety of Bengali natively spoken in the eastern part of Bangladesh's Sylhet Division and the Barak Valley of the Indian state of Assam.


Chittagonian Bengali

चाटगामी बांग्ला

cāṭgāmī bāṅglā


Standard Bengali

The current standard and literary variety of Bengali used in writing and in formal speech since the 19th century.

Sadhu Bhasha, the standard and literary variety of Bengali formerly used in writing and in formal speech.


Charline

A female given name from French, equivalent to English Charlene


Chimpcago

But wait! It wasn’t Negro violence, it was “gun violence.” Yes, steel
objects must be banned!

2015 July 7, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Blacks Kill Blacks in Chimpcago”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

A 72 year old silverback spook sexually assaults a female paramedic in
a Chimpcago amberlamps.

2017 January 18, Rick Mathers, “Silverback attempts Muh-Dikking in da amberlamps!!”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet):

Black babies yet unborn will
scream for their share as soon as they can speak ,,, And I think we can
all imagine, the homicides in Chimpcago are not going to decrease even
with a city full of sudden democrat welfare millionaires.

2019 June 20, JeSSe, “Dems campaign on mass handouts to blacks”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

Since it's Chimpcago, this is to be expected. Truck drivers are also
not wanting to drive into most of these nigger-infested cities, so I
could imagine the availabilities of supplies of 'gibs me dat' will be
much lower now.

2020 August 13, KWills, “Janithor's flag”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

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


gender star

Current attempts to shorten the space devoted to accepted forms of differentiation have included the introduction of an uppercase "I" sandwiched in compound nouns addressing both males and females at once. An asterisk, known as the "gender star" has also been added to include citizens who do not consider themselves either

[2019 January 22, Jon Shelton, “City of Hanover overhauls gender language usage in official texts”, in Deutsche Welle:

For now, at least, they decided not to adopt more radical changes, such as the so-called gender star, which places an asterisk before the feminine word-ending to include females, males, and the non-binary: Schüler*innen, for example.

[2021 June 21, Nette Nöstlinger, “German news gets gender-neutral makeover”, in Politico:

An asterisk used to separate gendered inflections in the German language to make words gender-neutral.


Warrgamay

An extinct Pama-Nyungan language once spoken in northeast Queensland


Igala

An ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria.


Igala

A sub-Saharan language belonging to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family, which is closely related to Yoruba.

(historical) A precolonial West African state, founded by the Igala people and located at the eastern region of the confluence of River Niger and River Benue in the Middle Belt or North-central of Nigeria.


Battle Creeker

Someone from or residing in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.


Porteño

Coordinate term: (female) Porteña

A male inhabitant of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.


Andreeva

Borrowed from Russian Андре́ева (Andréjeva), feminine form of Андре́ев (Andréjev).

A female surname from Russian, masculine equivalent Andreev.


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Dhurga

An endangered Pama-Nyungan language spoken in New South Wales


Garbage State

Modeled after New Jersey's official nickname, Garden State, the implication being that the state is extremely unclean.

(informal, humorous, derogatory) New Jersey (U.S. state).


Proto-Salish

The reconstructed ancestor of the Salish languages.


Tidore

A West Papuan language spoken in Indonesia.


Québecker

Irreconcilable ethnocultural claims are perhaps posed most acutely by the confrontation in claims of francophone Québeckers and First Nations people within the province of Québec.

1995, Daiva Stasiulis, Radha Jhappan, “The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society: Canada”, in Daiva Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis, editors, Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class (Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations; volume 11), SAGE Publications, page 120:

Blais and Nadeau report that even as francophone Québeckers define themselves first as Québeckers, they feel some attachment to Canada.

1996, Ines C. Molinaro, “Democracy and the Reconstitution of Canada”, in Alan Ware, editor, Democracy and North America, London, Portland, Or.: Frank Cass, →ISBN, page 103:

It is no disrespect to non-Québeckers to deny them authority in a decision as to whether Québec forms an independent state. But it would be an injustice to Québeckers to give non-Québeckers authority in a decision as to Québec independence or to deny authority to Québeckers.

1997, David Copp, “Democracy and Communal Self-Determination”, in Robert McKim, Jeff McMahan, editors, The Morality of Nationalism, New York, N.Y., Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 296:


Québécer

Marc Renaud argues that the social changes that occurred during the “quiet revolution,” combined with the lack of managerial employment opportunities for Québécers in the Anglo-controlled private sector, led a “new middle class” to seek “social hegemony” in the provincial government.

1984, Victor G. Rodwin, The Health Planning Predicament: France, Québec, England, and the United States, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 143–144:

When Québécers are not at the cinema watching their films, they are most likely at home watching Québec’s most popular television series, Lance et Compte (He Shoots, He Scores), which follows the escapades of a professional hockey team.

1991, International Film Guide, 1990, →ISBN, page 106, column 2:

The Household Workers Association would like to remind Québécers that most domestic workers are excluded from coverage by the Minimum Wage Law.

1995, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, “Paid Work”, in Canadian Women’s Issues; Volume II: Bold Visions, Toronto, Ont.: James Lorimer & Company, Publishers, →ISBN, page 130:


Québecer

It should be noted however that their participation is less than that of the other groups: although they represent 80.7% of the total population, French-speaking Québecers form only 77.7% of the labor force.

1972, The Language of Work; the Position of French in Work and Consumer Activities of Québecers (Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Position of the French Language and on Language Rights in Québec), page 14:

Québecers have long had a reputation for gregariousness (Vallée, 1973). Foreign sociologists who have had the opportunity to systematically observe the social life of Québecers have been impressed by the density of their social relations.

1992, Simon Langlois, Jean-Paul Baillargeon, Gary Caldwell, Guy Fréchet, Madeleine Gauthier, Jean-Pierre Simard, “Sociability Networks”, in Recent Social Trends in Quebec, 1960-1990 (Comparative Charting of Social Change), Campus Verlag, McGill-Queen’s University Press, translation of La Société québécoise en tendances, page 89:

The 37 percent of Québecers who voted for the federal Liberal party in the 1993 federal elections surely have no doubt about their own identity as both Québecers and Canadians;

1998, Raymond M. Hébert, “Identity, Cultural Production and the Vitality of Francophone Communities Outside Québec”, in Leen d’Haenens, editor, Images of Canadianness: Visions on Canada’s Politics, Culture, Economics (International Canadian Studies Series), University of Ottawa Press, page 44:


Québécker

Gouanvic’s SF: Dix années de science-fiction québécoise (Montréal, 1988; “Autres mers, autres mondes” series) is a competent anthology of ten high-point strories. In the same year Gouanvic also published in the same series Dérives 5 (Montréal, 1988), another francophone anthology; of the five stories, which all seem to focus on the perversion of social power, those by two of the four Québéckers represented, Jean Pettigrew and Esther Rochon, are particularly fine.

1992, David Ketterer, “International Arrival of Canadian Science Fiction”, in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 140:

I ended up in Québec. And I did think I could help. I did think English Québéckers were getting a bum deal.

2006, Barry Callaghan, Raise You Five: Essays & Encounters 1964-2004, Toronto, Ont.: McArthur & Company, →ISBN, page 138:

Or as Ouali, 20 years old, who arrived in Canada from Algeria only 11 months before we began the workshops in Saint-Michel, describes: “Arabs, Haitians, Québéckers, and South Americans play together”.

2018, Willem Salet, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action, Routledge:


Johorean

A native or inhabitant of Johor in Malaysia.


Johorian

en-adj

Johorian (comparative more Johorian, superlative most Johorian)

more Johorian (comparative)
most Johorian (superlative)


Suma

A unisex given name from the South Asian languages


Peninah

Alternative form of Pnina (“female given name”)


Pnina

Both Ivana and Pnina's husband would know of the affair from the start , the husband going so far as to meet with Ivana in private to discuss how it was that she could tolerate it.

2000, John O'Meara, Defending Her Son, page 73:

The government made it hard for people like Pnina's family to practice their religion, and during a time of civil war and famine, they fled to a refugee camp in Sudan […]

2020, Elena Favilli, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls:


Dovid

A male given name from Yiddish, variant of David.


Bayleigh

A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Bailey


Aroostook

en-noun

Aroostook (plural Aroostooks or Aroostook)

From Malecite-Passamaquoddy Wool-ahs-took (“good river for everything”).

der

A member of a tribe of the Mi'kmaq Native American people of Aroostook County, Maine.


pre-Brexit

(European politics) Referring to the time before Brexit.


Herc

Clipping of Hercules.; A diminutive of the male given name Hercules


Middelfarter

(demonym) Someone from Middelfart, Denmark.


Belenite

(demonym) Someone from Belen, New Mexico.


Tim's

(Canada, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons


Tim Whoreton's

(Canada, vulgar, slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of Tim Hortons


Timmy Ho-Ho's

(Canada, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons.


God Emperor

God + Emperor. Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is from a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō), literally "heavenly sovereign/emperor", referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
For the second usage, from far-right Internet users depicting Donald Trump as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000. This tabletop game has become popular among far-right Internet groups for its satirical militarist themes.

A god-king; a sovereign worshiped as a god.

Here the God Emperor and his fanatic warlords were using this same Western civilization for one purpose and only one: to create one of the world's most powerful war machines.

1944, United States Office of War Information, The Battle of China:

(specific, historical) The Emperor of Japan.

The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN:

Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House, ...

2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in ...

2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

“Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble ...

2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:

Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190:

... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130:

Trump won. They'd made these Photoshopped pictures of Trump flying around on his victory horse, through the gates of heaven, with a crown on his head and his golden sword. They call him the God Emperor.” “That sounds awful.” “I know.

2019, Blake Nelson, The Red Pill: A Novel, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor.”1 Ten days after Trump's election, the National Policy Institute, the generically named but emphatically white-nationalist think tank led by professional racist Richard Spencer, ...

2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, US politics, humorous) Donald Trump, American politician and 45th president of the United States.


Kambera

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the eastern part of the island Sumba, Indonesia.


Yedukondalu

Borrowed from Telugu ఏడుకొండలు (ēḍukoṇḍalu, “seven hills (of Tirumala); alternative name for Venkateswara”).

bor

A male given name used among Telugu people.


Birminghamian

A native or resident of Birmingham, Alabama, United States.


Madawaskan

Someone from or residing in Madawaska, Maine.


Gloriana

Coined by English poet Edmund Spenser to represent Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590), from Latin gloria (“glory”).

After Mr. Smith’s decease, she m. for a 2d husband, and as his 2d wife, Dr. George Muirson of Setauket, L. I. (son of Rev. George Muirson of Hempstead, L. I., and Gloriana Smith, dau. of Col. William Smith).

1874, Benjamin W[oodbridge] Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., volume I, New York, N.Y.: John F. Trow & Son, […], page 1103:

The little stranger is named Gloriana Craig. She arrived on June 24, 1922.

1922, Union Electric Quarterly, page 20:

When I was the ripe age of 17, I met a girl named Gloriana at an out-of-state sports meet.

2002, Mary-Lou Galician, quoting Brent (name changed), Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis & Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals & Their Influence, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 127:

Through an acquaintance with his mother’s neighbor, Robert Bourassa, he met a woman named Gloriana LaPointe.

2009, Edith Reynolds, John Murray, Wicked Waterbury: Madmen & Mayhem in the Brass City, The History Press, →ISBN:


Yorick

Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:


Bahnar

A people in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

The Bahnaric language spoken by this people.


Bahnaric

A subfamily of Austroasiatic languages spoken in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos


bird app

Derived from the Twitter logo of a blue bird.

You're always on that damn bird app!

Another poll on the bird app has gone viral ... this time with the question being -- who's the baddest out of these 2 ladies???

2021 December 11, “SALMA HAYEK HOTTER THAN JENNIFER LOPEZ??? Twitter Says ... Absolutely”, in TMZ:

It’s easier to not open the bird app when I don’t want them instead of declaring a mass exodus.

2021 December 14, Ben Cost, quoting mh-Musings @entrespire, “Fans, haters are ‘deleting Twitter’ over ‘Spider-Man’ spoilers”, in New York Post:

(Internet slang, often derogatory) The social media application X, formerly Twitter.


Washoe

From English Wa She Shu, from Washo Wá꞉šiw ʔítlu (“Wašišiw”) Literally, “people from here”.


New Right

While clearly opposed to the political thrust of much 'Heritage' cinema (Sammy and Rosie, in particular, in programmatically anti-Tory: for example, the property developer who ousts the 'straggly kids' is one of Thatcher's MPs and her vision of a 'new Britain' is blatantly lampooned), Kureishi's films do not, however, endorse traditional kinds of Left oppositional politics as the best means by which to challenge the hegemony of the New Right.

2001, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Hanif Kureishi, page 89:

Various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries:

(UK politics, historical) A strand of conservatism influenced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, committed to economic liberalism as well as being socially conservative.


Beckie

Variant of Becky, diminutive of Rebecca.

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, variant of Becky


Old Punjabi

The age of Old Punjabi: up to 1600 A.D. […] It is said that evidence of Old Punjabi can be found in the Granth Sahib.

2000, Gopal Haldar, Languages of India, →ISBN, page 149:

As an independent language Punjabi has gone through the following three stages of development: Old Punjabi (10th to 16th century). Medieval Punjabi (16th to 19th century), and Modern Punjabi (19th century to Present).

2013, Tej Bhatia, Punjabi, →ISBN, page XXV, →ISBN:

The Adi Granth is written in Old Punjabi language.

2021, Zhanna Chalabayeva, Red Indian Sun, →ISBN:

An early New Indo-Aryan language, ancestor of modern Punjabi, spoken from c. 1000–1600 CE which is found in certain hymns of the Guru Granth Sahib and poems of Fariduddin Ganjshakar.


Reub

A diminutive of the male given name Reuben


Rabindranath

Transliteration of Bengali রবীন্দ্রনাথ (robindronath), from Sanskrit रवि (ravi) + इन्द्र (indra) + नाथ (nātha).


Old Malay

(linguistics) The oldest attested form of Malay language.

(linguistics) The ancestor of Malay language (all form and dialects), spoken in Sumatra from about 1,000 BCE.

(nonstandard, colloquial, proscribed) Archaic Malay speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" Malay.


Gipper

From Reagan's role as George "The Gipper" Gipp (1895-1920) in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American, which lead to him acquiring the nickname "the Gipper," later popularized by the media during his presidency.

It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever been out of it, he was now back.

1992, Michael Weiler, W. Barnett Pearce, Reagan and Public Discourse in America, page 137:

Over the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the Gipper asked Congress for $16.1 billion more in spending than it passed into law.

1999, Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, page 126:

[…] most of the Ford vote from 1976, which Bush had hoped to claim, went heavily for the Gipper.

2014, Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America, unnumbered page:

A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan.


Sirenik

Transliteration of Sirenik Сиӷы́ных (Siǧýnyh), from сиӷы́ных (siǧýnyh, “horn”), from Proto-Eskimo *ciʀunǝʀ.

transliteration

(linguistics) An extinct Eskimo-Aleut language.


Harv

A diminutive of the male given name Harvey


Keerthi

Keerthi was waiting inside to meet him. She had been waiting there for him since morning.

2017, Arun K Nair, Murderous Greed, Chennai: Notion Press, →ISBN, →ISBN:

Alternative form of Kirti (a female given name)


Kirti

Transliteration of Hindi कीर्ति (kīrti, “fame, renown, glory”).

translit

The left-handed girl sitting in front of him was Kirti and not Jennie.

2016, Juggi Bhasin, Bollywood Deception: When Death Bares a Mask of Glamour and Sleaze, Penguin, →ISBN, →ISBN:

Shreyas was worried. He had called his wife Kirti on her cell phone. There was no response. Kirti had told him after lunch that she would go out to buy fruits and vegetables at Abids market.

2019, R C Natarajan, Post Googlism and Other Short Stories, Manipal University Press, →ISBN, page 121, →ISBN:

Kirti had known the two of them as good friends because she saw them a couple of times talking to each other.

2021, Nagesh Sudhakar, Love Beyond Religion, Booksclinic Publishing, →ISBN, page 79, →ISBN:


DeSatan

2021 September 11, “Killing Florida Schooĺ Kids -- DeSatan's Goal”, in political-euwetopia (Usenet):

Joseph Kleinplatz, a protester who referred to the Florida governor as "DeSatan," told the New York Jewish Week that it's "wrong" to have him in the city. "The Jewish religion is not about hate," he said.

2022 June 12, Jacob Henry, “Ron DeSantis calls out 'woke gender ideology' in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan”, in NY Jewish Week, Jewish Telegraphic Agency:


Gettysburgian

en-adj

Gettysburgian (comparative more Gettysburgian, superlative most Gettysburgian)

more Gettysburgian (comparative)
most Gettysburgian (superlative)


Koushik

Transliteration of Bengali কৌশিক (kōuśik).


Afia

A female given name
A female given name from Arabic

A female given name
A female given name from Akan

Alternative form of Aafia; A female given name from Urdu


Aafia

From Urdu عافی ('āfī), from Arabic عَافِيَة (ʕāfiya).


Itonama

A moribund language isolate spoken by these people.


Ibanag

The Austronesian language of these people.


Partygate

2021 December 8, “'Partygate' strains trust in Boris Johnson's government”, in Financial Times:

2021 December 8, “Partygate: Tory anger as Boris Johnson told he 'should resign' if he misled Parliament”, in The Telegraph:

(UK politics) The controversy surrounding members of the government holding parties in 2020 and 2021 during COVID-19 lockdowns, when gatherings were banned.


Peckham Rye

An open space (Peckham Rye Common and Park), named thoroughfare and railway station in Peckham, borough of Southwark, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3475).


Wuggers

Jocular modification of Worcester + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

(Oxford University slang, archaic) Worcester College, Oxford.


Maggers

Jocular modification of Magdalen + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

(Oxford University slang, archaic) Magdalen College, Oxford.


Shura

From Russian Шура (Šura), short for Александр (Alexander) or Александра (Alexandra).


Inner

Capitalization of inner, from Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the inner planets of the Solar System


Vilela

An endangered Lule-Vilela language, indigenous to northwestern Argentina.


Invasion Day

From the fact that Australia Day, which commemorated the beginning British colonization, also marks the invasion and oppression against Aboriginals.

(derogatory, typically in Aboriginal use) Australia Day.


Toriel

(Oxford University slang, derogatory, UK politics) Oriel College, Oxford.


Rad Cam

(Oxford University slang) Contraction of the Radcliffe Camera.


Noakhailla

A transliteration of Bengali নোয়াখাইল্লা (noakhailla), a dialectal variant of নোয়াখালীয়া (nōẇakhaliẏa), from নোয়াখালী (nōẇakhali) + -ইয়া (-iẏa).

der

নোয়াখাইল্লা

com

নোয়াখালী (nōẇakhali) + -ইয়া (-iẏa)

A dialect of Bengali (or an independent language akin to it) spoken in the Greater Noakhali region of south-eastern Bangladesh and some parts of the Indian state of Tripura.


Urinal of the Planets

In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.

A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.) Ireland is perhaps the only[…]

2008, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Facts on File:

'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.

2015 April 18, Graham Sutherland, Conspiracy of Fate, Knowle Villa Books, →ISBN:

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, derogatory, rare) Ireland.


Greenlandman

In the year 1779, Ten guineas, being the Premium offered for an account of taking Whales by the Gun Harpoon, was adjudged to Captain Humphrey Foord of the Mancheſter Greenlandman[.]

1784, Joseph Mace et al., “A summary account of rewards bestowed by the Society, from the year MDCCLXXV to the year MDCCLXXXII, inclusive”, in Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volume 2, page 214:

(historical) A whaling ship, normally operating in the North Atlantic.


Weasel Boy

From a humorous reference to a scene in which Dana Scully warns Spender not to "weasel" (i.e. trick) her in the 1998 episode "Triangle".

At least Weasel Boy makes no bones about his hatred for Mulder, though.

1998 November 12, StarGzrMC, “Re: *Getting rid DIANA FOWLEY - Survey*”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Skinner berates her in front of Weasel Boy and CSM.

1998 November 24, rmun...@yahoo.com, “The chaser? ”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I hardly think the solution is to pair Scully up with a dead Weasel Boy.

2000 July 16, Sandy Waddell, “Spender will be Scully's new partner,”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) The fictional character Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files.


Trudope

Trudope spews all the right cliche progressy talking points, such as aboriginal consultation, then he flips the aboriginals the bird […]

2017 April 11, Chom Noamsky, “‘We are very disappointed’: Loss of Northern Gateway devastating for many First Nations, chiefs say”, in can.politics (Usenet):

We spend millions processing illegal immigrants each year after Trudope told them to come here […]

2019 February 4, Greg Carr, “Law Enforcement In Canada Overwhelmed By Online Child Porn.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

March against Trudope and his tyranny. This march is your march. Make your voice heard.

2019 October 15, Covfefe (quoting a Million Canadian March press release), “[Breitbart Sedition] City police call B.S. on Breitbart report of massive pro-Trump Ottawa Parliament Hill rally”, in can.politics (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.


Welshy

(informal, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of Walian: a Welshman or Welshwoman, a Welsh person.


Turdeau

This stupid experiment in social engineering began under Turdeau back in the late sixties with the francoization of both radio and TV English stations and channels.

1995 December 5, Cerise Lopez, “French TV in English Canada a Shocking Waste of Taxpayers' Money”, in ont.general (Usenet):

Chretien is yesterday's man. He failed Canada along with Turdeau back in the 1960s and '70s and he is failing us again.

1996 November 10, George Skorpios, “Re: Conrad Black supports Reform Party”, in ont.general (Usenet):

This does not mean, however, that the Liberals in Ottawa under Jean Chretien have reformed from the wasteful, irrational spending of the Turdeau era.

1997 October 8, Erik Trammel, “Auditor-General Assails Ottawa Grits' Crazy Spending”, in ont.general (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

Turdeau...not ready, not smart, likes carbon tax.

2015 August 23, Roy, “Re: Mulcair's NDP making inroads in Alberta . . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):

Turdeau has already broken his promise to run a modest 10 billion dollar deficit it only remains to be seen how huge a hole he will dig.

2016 February 23, Greg Carr, “Re: Liberals Shuckin' & Jivin' Over Deficit.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

The tail doesn't wag the dog. The Americans allowed this. Turdeau has ZERO influence.

2019 May 17, Liberals are VERMIN!, “Re: Another major coup for our Trudeau government . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):


Johnetta

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Scots law

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


katakanization

The writing of a non-Japanese word in katakana


Shehri

Modern South Arabian
Modern South Arabian

A Modern South Arabian language spoken in southern Oman


Kuliak

A language family, a subfamily of Nilo-Saharan, spoken in northeast Uganda.


Sidamic

A language family, a subfamily of Cushitic, spoken in Ethiopia


Hadramitic

An extinct Old South Arabian language once spoken in Hadhramaut


Agaw

A language family, a subfamily of Cushitic, spoken by the Agaw people.


agé

en-verb

agé (third-person singular simple present agés, present participle agéing, simple past and past participle agéed)

agés (present singular third-person)
agéing (participle present)
agéed (participle past)
agéed (past)

Probably from Latin age, imperative of Latin agere.

(Scots law) To act for another (as a law agent or solicitor).


Dice-K

A diminutive of the male given name Daisuke


Jacki

Jacki set about making the tea—bacon grills with chips and bread and butter.

2018, Ray Wyre, Tim Tate, The Murder of Childhood, page 126:

A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline or Jacquelyn.


Veneti

(historical) A seafaring Gallic tribe in Armorica, in the northern part of modern Brittany, during the Iron Age and under Roman rule.

(historical) A Venetic-speaking tribe in northeastern Italy and Slovenia under Roman rule.


Quaggers

(Oxford University slang, archaic) The Queen's College, Oxford.


Trevonta

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Deontae

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Deonte.


Chuny

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage


Rectina

A female given name of historical usage.


Ramusi

A member of an Indian people of the Maratha region.


Clothilda

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Clotilda.


Shoshana

Borrowed from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (shoshána).

bor+

Soshana Zuboff, b. 1951


Brucey

A diminutive of the male given name Bruce.


Nolly

1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Nolly, dear?” murmured Nancy in a gentle voice; “Nolly?”

(archaic) A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.


Sukumar

Borrowed from Sanskrit सुकुमार (sukumāra) (cf. Bengali সুকুমার (śukumar)).


Gerbert

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Gerbert of Aurillac


Dipankar

Transliteration of Bengali দীপঙ্কর (dipoṅkor).


Ive

“'e should've bin back by now from 'is 'ouse call. And what's she doin' up? I wants me supper and I wants it in peace.” “she's just goin up,” carroty kate replied quickly. “Ain't yer, Ive?” Ivy looked from one person to another.

A diminutive of the female given name Ivy


Dipannita

Transliteration of Bengali দীপান্বিতা (dipannita).


Latinxua

From the Latinxua romanization Latinxua of Mandarin 拉丁化 (lādīnghuà, literally “Latinization”), the first part of 拉丁化新文字 (lādīnghuà xīn wénzì, literally “Latinized New Script”).

zh-m

A group of methods of Chinese romanization that uses a set of 28 characters and does not include tone markers.


GPEW

Green Party of England and Wales
w:Green Party of England and Wales

(UK politics) Initialism of Green Party of England and Wales.


Biljan

From Macedonian Билјан (Biljan), from билје (bilje).

Билјан Билјан#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Билјан (Biljan)


Goca

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Гоца (Goca)


Ubavka

From Macedonian Убавка (Ubavka), from убав (ubav).

Убавка Убавка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Убавка (Ubavka)


Ognen

From Macedonian Огнен (Ognen), from огнен (ognen).

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Огнен (Ognen)


Goce

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Гоце (Goce)


Liljana

From Macedonian Лилјана (Liljana), from лилјан (liljan).

Лилјана Лилјана#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Лилјана (Liljana), equivalent to Lilian


Biljana

From Macedonian Билјана (Biljana), from билје (bilje).

Билјана Билјана#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Билјана (Biljana)


alien space bats

Coined in the Usenet newsgroup soc.history.what-if.

(fandom slang) An implausible point of divergence from reality, used as a plot device in alternate history.


Comical Ali

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
w:Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf


Jurchenic

A subfamily of Tungusic languages, a branch of Southern Tungusic


National Romanization

A loose calque from Chinese 國語羅馬字／国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì, literally “romanization of the national language”).


Madhav

A male given name from Hindi of Indian usage.


De'Marion

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Jesusland

From Jesus + -land, implying that Republican states are historically and traditionally religious.

(slang, derogatory, humorous) A collective term describing the numerous US states who typically vote for Republican candidates in US elections.

red state

referring to states that overwhelmingly support Republican politicians


Pichinglis

An Atlantic English-lexicon creole language spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea; an offshoot of the Krio language of Sierra Leone.


Crom

From a typo of Crows that appeared on the live broadcast of an AFL game.

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football, slang, humorous) The Adelaide Crows, an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide.


Latanya

A female given name of African-American usage


Tsouic

A small language family, a subfamily of Austronesian, spoken in central Taiwan


Kunigami

A Ryukyuan language spoken in northern Okinawa


Pootin

the notion that anything pootin says is worth listening to...
is a form of self-delusion...

2017 April 8, abelard, “pootin will tell any lie with a flat face”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

‘Tsar Pootin’ was pissed that America wasn’t […] treating Russia as an equal partner.

2017, The Republic: Traitor, R.R. Quaggiato:

Windopws^([sic]) is full of swiss cheese. And Pootin's government workers are rebelling over the threat to their grannies because they love Linux more than grannies, but grannies are more important than Pootin. Novachooking Pootin and anyone who mentions Windopws^([sic]) is one option being considered by rebels in St. Pootersberg.

2018 October 20, 7, “Linux threatens to destabilize Pootin's government over Novachooking grannies”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

St. Petersberg is to be cleared of all Linux users unless they
want their knobs novachooked and the city is to be renamed St. Pootiberg
demands Pootin who is distant relative of Raspootin.

2018 November 10, I, “Pootin kills Muscovites accusing them of being Linux users, threatens St. Petersberg users with Novachook”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

Pootin is always threatening the planet with nuclear annihilation, but
it may not come in the form of rockets but rather typical Russian stupidity.

2022 August 5, JeSSe, “ANOTHER nuclear power plant ready to cook thanks to Pootin and his Orcs”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(politics, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Vladimir Putin.


pals battalion

From pals + battalion, from the sense that one's pals would fight along with them.

(UK, military, historical) A group of men who were friends before being enlisted, all of whom were placed into a single battalion in order to incentivize enlistment in the British Army during World War I.


Madrilene

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

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

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

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

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

2014, Laura Cassidy, Madrilene's Granddaughter:


Eurostan

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

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

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

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

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

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

true, since it becoming Islamic Republic of Eurostan

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

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

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

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


Obiden

Obiden super fans, we've got amazing news for you. If, like us, you were a bit scared distance would put a damper on President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden's epic bromance, it's time to cast those fears aside. The iconic duo is still the best of friends, even if they aren't working together anymore.

2017 May 18, Andrea González-Ramírez, “Obama & Biden Are Still The Best Of Friends”, in Refinery29:

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The political union of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The continuation of the policies of Barack Obama under the administration of Joe Biden.


Mensun

Mensun Bound, b. 1953


Dusunic

A language family, a subfamily of Sabahan


Sujit

Transliteration of Bengali সুজিত (śujito).


Alon

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Hebrew אַלּוֹן (alon, “oak tree”).
* Borrowed from Tagalog Alon; this surname is predominantly found in Bangsamoro region.

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.


FaCIAbook

Blend of Facebook + CIA, suggesting that the site has an ulterior motive of spying on its users, or is a tool of the US government.

All teh Important People have moved-on to FaciaBook...

2016 March 22, ah, “Friday, June 25 2015”, in demon.local (Usenet):

Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook [FaCIAbook] documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

2018 December 3, jgsh...@aol.com, “You Saw This? Re: NY AG agrees to submit evidence of unprosecuted 9/11 federal crimes relating to destruction of WTCs to Special Criminal Grand Jury”, in peopleofCA12 (Google Groups):

Facebook takes down Trump campaign ads for 'violating our policy against organized hate' Facebook [FaCIAbook] on Thursday said it had take action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the Trump campaign described as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an upside-down triangle... The ads targeted the far left group Antifa, calling on Trump supporters to back the President's calls to designate the group a terrorist organization. Responding to criticism of the ad earlier Thursday, the Trump campaign said the red triangle was "a symbol widely used by Antifa."

2020 July 19, Lori Price, “Protest in Albany as NY State Bar Association Walks Back COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Recommendation”, in I Hate Trump Fan Club (Google Groups):

(Internet slang, derogatory, rare) The social networking site Facebook.


Oxana

‘Now,’ said Wardle, and Detective Sergeant Ekwensi clicked out the nib of her pen and prepared to write, ‘does the name Oxana Voloshina mean anything to either of you?’

2015, Robert Galbraith [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Career of Evil, Sphere, →ISBN:

‘Go and explore the city. And start thinking about your cover name. Oxana Vorontsova’s dead.’

2017, Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle, John Murray, →ISBN:

It has a picture of a woman that I know isn’t me but looks exactly like me with the name ‘Oxana Deseroyova’ on it.

2020, Nick Tyrone, Politics is Murder, Accent, →ISBN:

Окса́на Оксана#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Окса́на (Oksána).


Clackamas

from ɬak'amas, the Chinookan name for the people of the Clackamas River region, "g-i-ɬá-q'imaš" or "g-it-ɬá-q'imaš"

An extinct Chinookan language spoken by the Clackamas.


Abigor

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Abigor.

A male given name, of a demon of war in Christian mythology, and of various (often fictional) figures named after him.


Omagua

A Tupí-Guaraní language closely related to Cocama.


Armaud

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Higaonon

(linguistics) A Manobo language spoken on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.


Äiwoo

An Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands.


Tulsi

From Hindi तुलसी (tulsī, “holy basil”), from Sanskrit तुलसी (tulasī).


Pooty

(slang, derogatory) Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Pooty-Poot

(slang, sometimes derogatory) Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Rocketman

Coined by Donald Trump in September 19, 2017 for a United Nations speech, in reference to Kim's launch of military rockets.

coined

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.

Little Rocketman has totally misrepresented denuke plan we offered. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Fat kid blew it and will be sorry. Sad!
[…]
Rocketman's sister IS NOT North Korea's IVANKA. Ivanka is 6 feet tall. She's got the best body. Rocketman's sister is flat as a board!

2018 August 7, Dr Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

It wouldn't surprise me. I thought Trump was using Bolton as the "bad cop" in
North Korea, and would use him to annoy Rocketman, then fire him and be the
"good cop".

2019 October 2, Rick Sabian, “THE WHISTLE BLOWER IS”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Today in North Korea we see the lasting Karma of those events where the Japanese mutilated millions for the sheer lust of it. And North Korea's Rocketman wins the fearful adoration of his peoples in consequence.

2019 October 23, RANCE DEWITT, AMAZON COVENANT 2020 TRUMP and BOLSONARO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(slang, humorous, derogatory, neologism) North Korean politician Kim Jong-un.


Hip

A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.


Mescal

en-proper noun

Mescal (countable and uncountable, plural Mescals)

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Meiscill (“descendant of Meisceall”), a personal name perhaps related to meisce (“drunkeness, intoxication”).


Sarikoli

Iranian languages are at present spoken across a wide belt of territory stretching from eastern Turkey (Kurdish) to the Sinkiang province of China (Sarikoli) and the shores of the Arabian Sea in western Pakistan (Beludzh).

1981, Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158:

An Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks of China.


Balkaner

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


Khmer Krom

Khmer Krom, ethnic Khmers of South Vietnam (Kampuchea Krom)


Shateasha

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Suleika

Suleika Jaouad, b. 1988


Eyleen

A female given name from Irish, variant of Eileen


Thakali

The Sino-Tibetan language of these people.


McDick's

We called it Mickey's or McDick's or Mickey D's—a frequent stop on our aimless nocturnal rambles.[…]Mostly, there was talk of parties. You went to McDick's when you wanted to find out whose parents were out of town.

2007 December 18, Rich Cohen, Lake Effect, Vintage, →ISBN, page 36:

McDick's is a little busier than the rest of town.

2012 October 1, Craig Marriner, Stonedogs, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:

I mean I doubt I would make more working at a McDick's or sweeping floors or something.

2021 October 23, Conor Kerr, Avenue of Champions, Harbour Publishing, →ISBN:

(Canada, derogatory, slang) McDonald's (the fast food restaurant chain).


Kubachi

A language spoken in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.


Barty

A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.


Uneapa

Borrowed from Uneapa Uniapa with contamination from Muduapa Unea, from earlier *Uneap or *Uniap.

An Oceanic language spoken on the island of Bali, Papua New Guinea.


Randon

A variant of Rand or borrowed from French Randon.


Aiki

A Maban language that originates from Chad, theorized to be derived from Nilo-Saharan.


Wogland

(Australia, New Zealand, offensive, ethnic slur) The Mediterranean Region.


Siamak

Siamak Pourzand, b. 1931


Warekena

An Arawakan language of Brazil and of Maroa Municipality in Venezuela, spoken near the Guainia River.


Adjuvilo

international auxiliary language
international auxiliary language

An international auxiliary language created by Claudius Colas in 1910, from a mix of Esperanto and Ido.


ROILA

Robot Interaction Language
w:Robot Interaction Language

Abbreviation of Robot Interaction Language (“a spoken artificial language designed to allow talking to robots efficiently”).


San Franfreako

Blend of San Francisco + freako, in reference to a perception of the people that live there.

(slang, derogatory, sometimes humorous) San Francisco.


Javonte

African-American coinage from the second half of the 20th century. Compare Javon, Javion.

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


San Fransicko

right after hitting his Bong he bought in downtown San Fransicko crack row
stores.

2007 October 18, Al Goreon's Great Global Warming Scam, “BREAKING -- Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) tells it like it is”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):

All you have to do is look closely at the deranged
view of the San Fransicko Board of Supervisors.
They hate the military and make no bones about it.

2007 October 30, Jan Orme, “OT ~ And Then The Room Was Silent”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):

Considering the Shit hole cesspool that San fransicko has become after being
represented by DemoncRATS Pelosi and Frankenstein , it should be named
Pelosi Sewage plant .

2008 April 3, is the Real Man@election2008 Another McCain Voting Democrat, “Coming soon: ‘George W. Bush Sewage Plant.'”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Naturally, the sexually disoriented in San Fransicko
were ecstatic, no doubt squealing with delight and celebrating with all manner
of unspeakable vice.

2011 July 4, Chauncey Chilton, “California Supreme Court Creates a Supreme Disaster in Supporting Gay Marriage”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, sometimes humorous) San Francisco, viewed in terms of its population afflicted with mental illness.


Kelsea

Variant of Kelsey, presumably influenced by Chelsea.


Chang'an Avenue

Partial calque from Mandarin 長安街／长安街 (Cháng'ān Jiē).

zh-l

長安街／长安街 (Cháng'ān Jiē)

The wall poster, put up on Changan Street in Peiping on March, declared that the Chinese Communist regime should actively promote democracy, especially the democratic system formulated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

[1979 April 1, “Wallposter call”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 12, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

I was a Communist Party member, and I was leading about 40 students from my college out of Tiananmen Square early on the morning of June 4. The crackdown was pretty much over.
Several girls were with us, and one was really scared. I told her not to worry, that I'd stay with her. But when we turned onto Changan Avenue, the army began shooting tear gas at us.

[2001 February 4, Craig S. Smith, “Tiananmen's Shadow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, Section 6, page 52:

After the crackdown, an unarmed man briefly stopped a line of tanks on Chang’an Avenue. The scene, captured by foreign journalists, has become one the most powerful symbols of dissent in China. The man remains unidentified.

2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “China’s Military Parade Celebrates World War II Victory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-02, World:

The SK Tower transaction is particularly significant, given the 35-storey office building’s prime location in the heart of Beijing’s central business district, right next to the Chang’an Avenue thoroughfare.

2021 June 9, “Chinese insurer Hexie snaps up US$1.4 billion Beijing tower from SK Group in largest office deal since onset of coronavirus pandemic”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-06-09:

Fu Yangen, a Beijing resident, gave a resounding "Yes!" when asked if she would like the party to stay in power for another 100 years.
"It has enabled us ordinary people to achieve happiness in our lives," said Fu, 27, as she posed for photos in front of large anniversary-themed flower arrangements along Changan Avenue, the city's main thoroughfare.

[2021 June 30, “China's Communist Party to celebrate 100th birthday in show of pomp and power”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-06-30:

A street in Beijing, China that runs past the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and other important locations.


Plaid Cymru

A Welsh political party, committed to Welsh independence from the UK


Carwyn

Means "blessed love" in Welsh. From Welsh caru (“love”) and Welsh gwyn (“blessed”).


Xitler

Calque from Chinese 習特勒／习特勒 (Xítèlè). Blend of Xi + Hitler. Compare English Putler (“Vladimir Putin”). Introduced into English by reports of a 2016 incident where a man was arrested for wearing a "Xitler" T-shirt.

zh-m

習特勒／习特勒 (Xítèlè)

(derogatory) Xi Jinping (Chinese leader)


Ubi

An Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad.


Old Czech

A historical form of the Czech language, spoken between the 12th and 15th centuries.


Jameshia

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Ananya

Transliteration of Bengali অনন্যা (ônônna), Hindi अनन्या (ananyā), etc.


Cobus

Shortened form of Jacobus, Latin form of Jacob.


multiglobal

en-adj

multiglobal (comparative more multiglobal, superlative most multiglobal)

more multiglobal (comparative)
most multiglobal (superlative)

your CHERISHED MULTIGLOBAL EMPIRE

2011 November 11, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck:

“Be careful what you say, Ms. Modane. VectorCorp does not respond well to baseless accusations. We are a multiglobal company.

2014 December 18, Joseph R. Lallo, Artificial Evolution: Big Sigma #3, Joseph R. Lallo, →ISBN:

“[…] A multiglobal harmony of thought and reason.”

2017 December 5, Gareth L. Powell, Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy, Solaris, →ISBN:

[…] let us consider the story of “Bonk Business,” the imaginary corporation made up by Finnish artist Alvar Gullichsen: Bonk Business Inc. is a multiglobal industrial conglomerate employing 13,000 in 52 countries.

2020 August 12, Pekka Aula, Saku Mantere, Strategic Reputation Management: Towards A Company of Good, Routledge, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Spanning multiple globes.


USAmerican

USAmerican (comparative more USAmerican, superlative most USAmerican)

more USAmerican (comparative)
most USAmerican (superlative)

(rare) Alternative form of U.S. American


Stojan

Стојан Стојан#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Стојан (Stojan)


Jakov

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јаков (Jakov), equivalent to Jacob


Trajko

From Macedonian Трајко (Trajko), from трај (traj, “to last (to endure, continue over time)”) + -ко (-ko).

Трајко Трајко#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Трајко (Trajko)


Trajka

From Macedonian Трајка (Trajka), from трај (traj, “to last (to endure, continue over time)”) + -ка (-ka).

Трајка Трајка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Трајка (Trajka)


Zlatka

From Macedonian Златка (Zlatka), from злато (zlato, “gold”) + -ка (-ka).

Златка Златка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Златка (Zlatka)


Trajanka

From Macedonian Трајанка (Trajanka), from трај (traj, “to last (to endure, continue over time)”); Трајан (Trajan) + -ка (-ka).

Трајанка Трајанка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Трајанка (Trajanka)


Srna

From Macedonian Срна (Srna), from срна (srna, “roe deer”).

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Срна (Srna)


Abruzzese

Abruzzese (comparative more Abruzzese, superlative most Abruzzese)

more Abruzzese (comparative)
most Abruzzese (superlative)

Of, from or relating to the region of Abruzzo in Italy.


Essence

A female given name of African-American usage.


Amit

Transliteration of Hindi अमित (amit), Marathi अमित (amit), Gujarati અમિત (amit), Bengali অমিত (omito), etc.

A diminutive of the male given name Amitabh, from Sanskrit.


Amit

Transliteration of Hebrew עָמִית ('amít).


Amity

The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:


Cedars

(rugby league) The Lebanon national rugby league team.


Knackerville

Travelling Community
Travelling Community

(Ireland, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by members of the Travelling Community/Gypsies.


Elham

Borrowed from Persian الهام (elhâm), itself borrowed from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām, “inspiration”). Related to Ilham.

A unisex given name from Persian or Arabic.


purple shirt of sex

The play's promotional art features Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock (wearing the character's purple shirt of sex, as fans have called it) in front of a red-and-white heart-shaped bull's eye-style target.

2014, Lynnette Porter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Transition Completed: Films, Fame, Fans, unnumbered page:

She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”

2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art, page 109:

Little did they know, there would soon be legions of fans armed with evidence to the contrary like the button-down that was labeled the “Purple Shirt of Sex,” because, well, it was both fairly low cut and stirred all kinds of feelings.

2020, Esther Zuckerman, A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes from A to Z, unnumbered page:

(Sherlock fandom slang) A tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.


Sayantan

Transliteration of Bengali সায়ন্তন (śaẏonton).


Gaagudju

An Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.


Evander

From Latin Evander, from Ancient Greek Εὔανδρος (Eúandros, literally “good man”).


Binod

Transliteration of Bengali বিনোদ (binōd), Nepali विनोद (vinod), Odia ବିନୋଦ (binoda), etc.


Vinod

Transliteration of Hindi विनोद (vinod), Gujarati વિનોદ (vinod), etc.


Pokeyman

Yeah, but can they name all of the Pokeymans?

2000 August 9, Carlos May, “I scream for ice cream!”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

251 "pokeymen", as you naive Webtvers would say.

2000 August 10, Areku: I'm a jedi without a light saber., “Worlds biggest on-line RPG (and funnest)”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

Pokeyman XP (GC) - I got to the bit where you have to put the pokeymans in the big Pokeymag washing machine to clean them from evilness and then I couldn't really work out what I was supposed to do and started overdosing on cheap cider and clarkey cat until I puked up my pelvic bone. What a fucking disgrace.

2005 November 14, rich a, “Play, Want, Bin, and all that jazz”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

They put new pokeymen in it! Well, new old pokeymen. I caught a lot of them.

2017 February 21, deKay, “Punctuality Would Be Effective (PWBE 20 Feb 2017)”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:


Dreama

Dreama pulled the plaid Burberry knock-off bag onto her lap and fished around inside it.

2005, C. M. Miller, Dead Broke: An Audrey Wilson Mystery, page 6:

“He'd give the store away if Sissy and I let him,” said Dreama.

2013, Lee Martin, Southern Psalms, page 70:


Bugis

From Malay Bugis, from Makasar ᨅᨘᨁᨗᨔᨗ (Bugisi'), probably from Proto-South Sulawesi **Bugis or Buginese ᨓᨘᨁᨗ (Wugi'), ᨕᨘᨁᨗ (Ugi'), ᨕᨚᨁᨗ (Ogi') (a self-designation).

The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.


Kyran

A male given name, variant of Kiran or Kieran


Charvi

Transliteration of Hindi चार्वी (cārvī), from Sanskrit चार्वी (cārvī), feminine of चारु (cāru).


Fuckbook

Facebook is turning into a mean horrible thing. I got more real friends in these news groups than I do on fuckbook.

2012 October 25, BuZZard, “FUCKBOOK”, in alt.countrystuff (Usenet):

For so long she's stayed away from everybody's Fuckbook pages, but now she types in Facebook. She stares at the login screen and tries to remember her username, her password.

2013, Andre Dubus, Dirty Love, page 221:

Twit and Fuckbook emerge and before long they are infected with the human race's weirdos.

(vulgar, derogatory, humorous, chiefly Internet) Facebook.


colpindach

(Scots law, obsolete) A two-year-old heifer.


Coahuiltecan

(linguistics, historical) Belonging to a proposed Native American language family associated with these people.


Comecrudo

From Spanish come (“to eat”) + crudo (“raw”).


Taega

A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Arlando

A male given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.


Procopius

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

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

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Saint Procopius, an early Christian martyr of the 3rd century C.E.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius, a Roman imperial usurper of the 4th century C.E.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius of Caesarea, a Byzantine Greek historian of the 6th century C.E.


Prokopios

Direct transliteration of Ancient Greek Προκόπῐος (Prokópios); less common than traditional English variant form derived via Latin Procopius.

translit

A male given name from Koine Greek Προκόπιος (Prokópios), of rare usage, variant of Procopius, feminine equivalent Prokopia.


GayStation

But what I really want is an Ultra 64. I’m waiting to buy one when it’s released. Never mind the ‘Seega Shaturn’, or Sony’s ‘GayStation’, Nintendo will come through.

1996 June, Sasha Nixon, “[Mailbag] Creepy Crawlies”, in Nintendo Magazine System, number 39, Melbourne, Vic.: Catalyst Publishing, →OCLC, page 58:

(humorous, derogatory, offensive) PlayStation.


Bhupendra

Transliteration of Hindi भूपेंद्र (bhūpendra), Bengali ভূপেন্দ্র (bhupendro), etc.


Tailltiu

(Irish mythology) Alternative form of Tailtiu


Amartya

Transliteration of Bengali অমর্ত্য (ômôrtô).


Pinyinise

en-verb

Pinyinise (third-person singular simple present Pinyinises, present participle Pinyinising, simple past and past participle Pinyinised)

Pinyinises (present singular third-person)
Pinyinising (participle present)
Pinyinised (participle past)
Pinyinised (past)

(transitive) Alternative spelling of Pinyinize.


pinyinise

pinyinise (third-person singular simple present pinyinises, present participle pinyinising, simple past and past participle pinyinised)

pinyinises (present singular third-person)
pinyinising (participle present)
pinyinised (participle past)
pinyinised (past)

(transitive) Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinise.


pinyinize

pinyinize (third-person singular simple present pinyinizes, present participle pinyinizing, simple past and past participle pinyinized)

pinyinizes (present singular third-person)
pinyinizing (participle present)
pinyinized (participle past)
pinyinized (past)

(transitive) Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinize.


Pinyinisation

en-noun

Pinyinisation (countable and uncountable, plural Pinyinisations)

From Pinyin + -isation or Pinyinise + -ation.


Alaster

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Alistair.


Algy

A diminutive of the male given name Algernon


Allentiac

A Warpean language, originally native to Cuyo in Argentina but later displaced to Chile.


pinyinization

pinyinization (countable and uncountable, plural pinyinizations)

Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinization


pinyinisation

pinyinisation (countable and uncountable, plural pinyinisations)

Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinisation


Pinyinize

en-verb

Pinyinize (third-person singular simple present Pinyinizes, present participle Pinyinizing, simple past and past participle Pinyinized)

Pinyinizes (present singular third-person)
Pinyinizing (participle present)
Pinyinized (participle past)
Pinyinized (past)

The move to Pinyinise Chinese names in schools meant technically switching to a different system of spelling for names to which people were unaccustomed to.

1983, Ministry of Culture, The Mirror, numbers 19-20:

I'm not Chinese, but I can tell you that Mao Zedong's Chinese name, 毛泽东, would be officially Pinyinized as "Mao2 Ze2 Dong1", Deng Xiaoping's name, 邓小平, is "Deng4 Xiao3 Ping2" and Beijing's kanji, 北京, is "Bei3 Jing1".

2000 August 10, Your Name Here:, “MAO SAYDONG???”, in alt.tv.game-shows (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

A quick Google on "French Revolution" "too soon" turns up scads of references to this famous and highly quotable remark, attributed variously to Chou and Mao; some of them even pinyinise the names to Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong.

2002 January 20, Phil Edwards, “Mao (or Chou) and the French Revolution”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

To understand why many Singaporeans remained unimpressed with the state's call to Pinyinize personal names, particularly their family names, we need first to appreciate that the more successfully implemented SMC measures were successful precisely because Singaporeans were convinced of their pragmatic and communitarian rationales.

2011, Lionel Wee, Language Without Rights, page 119:

At the height of the movement to pinyinise place names in Singapore, Bukit Panjang, now a Housing and Development Board New Town, was known as Zhenghua, along with Yisbun for Nee Soon, and Zhujiao market for tek kha market in Kandang Kerbau.

2013, Victor R Savage, Brenda Yeoh, Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics, page 55:

However, this distinctive dialect market is slowly being eroded as new parents choose to englishize and pinyinize their children's names.

2015, Jessieca Leo, Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking, page 181:

(transitive) To romanize Standard Mandarin using the Pinyin system.


Pinyinization

en-noun

Pinyinization (countable and uncountable, plural Pinyinizations)

In Chinese, the speakability-readability problem is capable of various solutions depending on the audience for which the Pinyinized material is intended. A dilemma exists in the fact that the work of Pinyinization must be undertaken by people who are already literate—which means literate in characters—and Chinese literati, even of the newer generation, have displayed even less capacity than their Western counterparts to write in a style capable of ready comprehension by ordinary people.

1986, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, page 198:

There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that official pinyinization only applies to PRC placenames. This lets out Taipei and, until recently, Hong Kong and Kowloon.

2000 June 18, Mike Wright, “一、台北市路牌；二、漢語拼音”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

Chinese doesn't have any capitals, so it really doesn't matter :-)
If you're talking Pinyinization, I guess the only capitals would be Ni and Zhongwen.

2000 November 13, Dalai Lama, “Election Results...”, in alt.roundtable (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

His rationale was that pinyinization was necessary to reduce dialect-based identity and to unite the Chinese community.

2003, Roxy Harris, Ben Rampton, The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader, page 184:

No it's our good friend Juli Zhang who promotes pinyinisation of Chinese.

2005 July 23, Dylan Sung, “accoustic^([sic]) evidence for uninterruption of speech”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

Two other interventions in bilingual education should be noted here: (1) the introduction of a few other Indian languages as mother tongues for Indian learners; and (2) the not too successful attempt at Hanyu Pinyinization of Chinese pupils' names.

2011, Andrew W. Conrad, Alma Rubal-Lopez, Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, page 451:

(uncountable) The Romanization of Standard Mandarin using the Pinyin system.

There are several erroneous pinyinizations (Guang wu/Guangwu, Chang sha/Changsha, Guang zhou/Guangzhou, Shui-hu-ti/Shuihudi, Hupei/Hubei, jhiu/jiu, You Yingshi/Yu Yingshi, kao/xiao [...]

2004, Society for the Study of Chinese Religions, Journal of Chinese Religions, numbers 32-33:

Note that many Chinese characters have more than one possible Pinyin representation. For instance, there are actually 16 different Chinese pinyinizations of the Chinese transliteration of Ashburton, according to the tables our system uses to map a Chinese character to its Pinyin.

2012, Thierry Poibeau, Horacio Saggion, Jakub Piskorski, Roman Yangarber, Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization, page 59:

Though these orthographies used the Roman alphabet (with a handful of special characters) it is best thought of not so much as a romanization as a 'Pinyinisation'; that is, it followed not the global standards for romanising Turkic languages, but rather the idiosyncratic assignments of letters to sounds employed in Hanyu pinyin, the PRC romanisation of Chinese.

2021, James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, Revised and Updated:


Yankism

I had thought that 'coon' was a Yankism for raccoon, having learned that it isn't, I am pleased that I didn't use the word inadvertently to insult people that I met in Yankland.

1996 October 16, Peter H.M. Brooks, “Racist horseshit”, in uk.legal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

The word is 'lose' not 'loose' - please, no yankisms in here.

2002 November 29, Guig, “OT Ebberdeen to loose manager”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.celtic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

> While there may be SOME native born Americans who speak spanish or polish as their primary language, I can't believe there are very many.
By hell that Yankism grates BADLY on the ear. It is one that display GROSS stupidity, as it is apparently a NEED for you to define the fact that people are indeed "born" as opposed to assembled from cadavers to some kind of a bitsa or whatever else might lurk in those dark corners of your mind!

2003 August 24, Seppo Renfors, “The KRS Hoax - Part 1”, in soc.history.medieval (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

I think "rosebud" may be a Yankism. To me it means a torch with a head on it about as big as your fist, which throws a gigantic amount of heat.

2004 January 7, Grant Erwin, “Oxy/Acet torch question”, in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

(often derogatory) A word or phrase originating from or specific to American English.


Poushali

Transliteration of Bengali পৌষালী (pōuśali).


Arpita

Transliteration of Bengali অর্পিতা (orpita), Hindi अर्पिता (arpitā), etc.


married name

The name a person (especially, in many cultures, a woman) takes upon marriage


Charontian

en-adj

Charontian (comparative more Charontian, superlative most Charontian)

more Charontian (comparative)
most Charontian (superlative)

/kəˈɹɒntɪən/

The Charontian imagery is more subtle [...] the lameness of one of the horses makes the hearse toss and roll like a boat.

1979, Gerald Wade, Sylvia Bowman, Studies in Honor of Gerald E. Wade, page 126: