New Zealandress

en-noun

New Zealandress (plural New Zealandresses)

…her last despairing, supplicating look, as she was taken a few yards off, and killed, by that virago, Mrs. Haupapa—the fiendish New Zealandress.

1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History, →ISBN, page 54:

Being an easily enfranchised New Zealandress, I found myself lodged midway between the two camps…

1912 December 14, Mrs. Leopold Myers, “Pankhurst and Party.”, in New Zealand Herald, page 1:

Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania.

1928, Marc Chadourne, Vasco, →ISBN, page 87:

The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother…

1977, Nina and Jim Munro, A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures, →ISBN, page 92:

(rare, chiefly obsolete) A female New Zealander.


Denton

en-proper noun

Denton (countable and uncountable, plural Dentons)

From Old English denu (“valley, den”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

A male given name transferred from the place name.


Grigory

From Russian Григо́рий (Grigórij), from Byzantine Greek Γρηγόριος (Grēgórios). Doublet of Gregory.

Григо́рий Григорий#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Григо́рий (Grigórij), equivalent to Gregory.


Desiderius

/ˌdɛzɪˈdɪəɹɪəs/

Learned borrowing from Latin Desiderius (literally “the longed-for”).


Eusebius

From Latin Eusebius, from Ancient Greek Εὐσέβιος (Eusébios).

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek


Eugenius

Borrowed from Latin Eugenius, from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios). Doublet of Eugene and Yevgeny.

Most were built using screw-piles and 10 of them were designed by the great leader of his craft Eugenius Birch.

1982 February 4, Fred Pearce, “The end of the pier show”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1291, pages 298–299:

A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek]


Yevgeny

From Russian Евге́ний (Jevgénij). Doublet of Eugene and Eugenius.


Yelizaveta

From Russian Елизаве́та (Jelizavéta). Doublet of Elizabeth.

Елизаве́та Елизавета#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Елизаве́та (Jelizavéta), equivalent to Elizabeth.


Yelisei

From Russian Елисе́й (Jeliséj). Doublet of Elisha.


Yeremei

From Russian Ереме́й (Jereméj). Doublet of Jeremy.


Ignaty

A Russian male given name from Russian, equivalent to English Ignatius.


Zakhar

From Russian Заха́р (Zaxár). Doublet of Zachary.


Zeuxis

From Latin Zeuxis, from Ancient Greek Ζεῦξις (Zeûxis).


Ilya

From Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá). Doublet of Elijah.

Илья́ Илья#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Илья́ (Ilʹjá).


Yefrem

From Russian Ефре́м (Jefrém). Doublet of Ephraim.


Yazdegerd

From 𐭩𐭦𐭣𐭪𐭫𐭲𐭩 (yzdklty) / Middle Persian 𐭩𐭦𐭣𐭪𐭥𐭲𐭩 (Yazdegerd, Yazdgird, literally “made by God”), from 𐭩𐭦𐭣 (Yazd) + 𐭪𐭥𐭲𐭩 (-gird, -kirt).

uder

An Iranian male given name from Middle Persian, notably borne by several Sassanid kings


Bode

* As a Dutch and German surname, from bode (“messenger”).
* As a German and Danish surname, from the name Bodo, derived from Old Saxon bodo (“messenger”), related to above.
* As a Dutch and German surname, from Bude (“booth, small house”).


Ely

From Old English Ēlīg, of uncertain origin.


Arkie

United States of America
United States of America

(US, informal) A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.


Koichi

Borrowed from Japanese こういち (Kōichi), a male given name with many variant kanji spellings.


Mundari

Borrowed from Mundari मुंडारी (muṇḍārī).

A Munda language spoken by tribes in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal, and in northern Bangladesh.

An Eastern Nilotic language spoken by an ethnic group of South Sudan.


Nisenan

A member of the Southern or Valley Maidu, various Native American groups of central California.


Melanau

Their Northwest Malayo-Polynesian language.


Padaung

A member of a tribe of Burma's Kayan ethnic group, known for wearing copper neck rings.


Iolanthe

From Koine Greek ἰόλη (iólē, “violet”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”). Cognate with French Yolande, Spanish Yolanda.


PPC

en-noun

PPC (countable and uncountable, plural PPCs)

(UK politics) Initialism of prospective parliamentary candidate: a candidate selected for a future election before the election campaign has officially begun.


Powhatan

A member of a Native American confederation of tribes in Virginia.


Powhatan

An unincorporated community, the county seat of Powhatan County, Virginia, United States.


Europasian

en-adj

Europasian (comparative more Europasian, superlative most Europasian)

more Europasian (comparative)
most Europasian (superlative)


Arabish

The Arabic language when informally written in the Latin alphabet, typically on computers or cell phones that do not support the Arabic script.


Chavril

However one feels about the engagement of Canadian pop stars Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger, one thing is certain: When People magazine stunned the world with the news late Tuesday, the reaction was instantaneous. Twitter was afire with news of Canada’s answer to Brangelina. In Chavril, Canada had its own royal couple.

2012 August 23, Marsha Lederman, “Is Chavril our own Brangelina pairing?”, in The Globe and Mail:

Avril Lavigne is rumoured to have been married in her "favourite place to be."
The Here's To Never Growing Up hitmaker was set to tie the knot with Chad Kroeger in Cannes, France, on Monday.

2013, "Chavril hitched in France", The Province, 2 July 2013 (only used in title)

A three-album compilation by various adult artists, including Canuck crooners Sarah Harmer, The Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan and Canada's pre-Chavril sweethearts Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida.

2013 September 17, Lyranda Martin Evans, Fiona Stevenson, “Kids' CDs even parents will like”, in Metro, Edmonton, page 35:

(Canada, slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne, together from 2012 to 2015.


Aachener

Borrowed from German Aachener, equal to Aachen + -er.

Von Schwerin arrived in Aachen late on the night of the twelfth, his Army Volkswagen fighting its way through the panic-stricken Aacheners, fleeing from the city which was already burning from the first American shells.

1972, Charles Whiting, Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944–1945, London: Leo Cooper Ltd, →ISBN, page 24:

A native or inhabitant of Aachen, Germany.


Raf

The Nets players sometimes jokingly call Derrick Coleman, of all things, Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson? Coleman says it comes courtesy of forward Rafael Addison. […] "It's just something Raf started," Coleman said of the nickname.

1993 January 24, Mike Freeman, “Nets' Coleman: No Ordinary 'Joe'”, in The New York Times:

A diminutive of the male given name Rafael.


Shelbi

Fanciful 20th-century spelling of Shelby.

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Ronga

A southeastern Bantu language spoken just south of Maputo in Mozambique.


Judeo-Aramaic

A group of Hebrew-influenced Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic languages.


Neo-Aramaic

A group of modern Aramaic languages evolved from Middle Aramaic dialects around 1200 AD.


Alala

From Ancient Greek Ἀλαλά (Alalá), from Ancient Greek ἀλαλή (alalḗ, literally “loud cry, war cry”).


Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

The Upland Yuman language spoken by the Havasupai, Hualapai, and Yavapai peoples in central and northwest Arizona.


subsaharan

Ben Bella, the Arab, "won approval of subsaharans," the U.S. State Department noted dryly.

2004, Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, page 213:

[…] found them most closely linked to non-San modern subsaharans.

2005, Ian Tattersall, The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia), page 34:

I do not think this article says much about separation between subsaharans and the rest

1999, ypar, “Re: The egyptians were black”, in sci.anthropology (Usenet):


Old Iranian

Collective name for a number of extinct Iranian languages which are descended from Proto-Iranian.

հին իրանական

languages directly descended from Proto-Iranian


Middle Iranian

Collectively, a number of Indo-European Iranian languages spoken between the 4th century BC and the 9th century AD.

միջին իրանական

Iranian languages spoken between 4th century BC and 9th century AD


Dawna

The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn.

2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292:


Jos

[…] Mr. Jos had the honour of leading out the Countess of Schlusselback, an old lady with a hump back, but with sixteen good quarters of nobility and related to half the royal houses of Germany.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 63, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Joseph Rudge and his family had for some time been living in the new hut, about twenty miles from the head station. […] "Right, Jos," said Mat Clark, his mate; […]

1867, William Henry G. Kingston, editor, Taking tales for cottage homes, pages 9–10:

A diminutive of the male given name Joseph


Merina

A member of the a highlander Malagasy ethnic group in Madagascar whose core territory corresponds to the former Antananarivo Province in the centre of the island.


Tiele

zh-m

鐵勒／铁勒 (Tiělè)

A member of a confederation of Turkic peoples living to the north of China and in Central Asia, emerging after the disintegration of the Xiongnu confederacy.


Spokane

A number of etymologies of the name have been proposed, most frequently Sun children, children of the Sun, or muddy people. According to Barry Pritzker (2011), these interpretations are most probably popular etymologies derived from an actual self-designation of Spoqe'ind, meaning round head.

A Native American Plateau tribe who inhabited the eastern portion of Washington state and parts of northern Idaho.


Spokane

The language of the Spokane tribe, a member of the Salish (or Salishan) language family.

A large city, the county seat of Spokane County, Washington.

Any of various other places in the United States.


Rotterdammer

From Rotterdam + -er, probably modelled on Dutch Rotterdammer.


Dortmunder

Borrowed from German, or from Dortmund + -er.


Belgrader

a native or resident of Belgrade, Serbia


K Street

From the alphabetic naming of streets when the road grid of Washington was laid down.
* (politics): After K Street in Washington, D.C.

(US, politics, by restriction) The section of K Street, D.C., USA, where political lobbyists have their offices.


Darmstädter

This particular deficiency is betrayed, though, in quite another direction, by the course adopted by the Darmstädters in dealing with the question of naming their streets.

1887, W[illiam] Beatty-Kingston, Music and Manners: Personal Reminiscences and Sketches of Character, volume II (Manners), London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, page 341:

Many Darmstädters also comforted themselves with the thought that their town was such an attractive place that the Allied armies, now only 80 miles from the stretch of the Rhine nearest to them, would no doubt want to use it as an area headquarters when the fighting stopped.

1993, James Fyfe, The Great Ingratitude: Bomber Command in World War II, Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 186:

A police car stationed in front of the synagogue was less a reminder that this welcome might not be shared by all Darmstädters (which undoubtedly was the case, because Darmstadt like the entire Weinstrasse had been notoriously “brown”), than a reflection of typical anxieties of the German state and the Darmstadt community after the Holocaust.

2017, Michael Geyer, “Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History”, in Michael Meng, Adam R. Seipp, editors, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective, New York, N..Y: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, section IV (Family Histories), page 265:


Tuyuhun

zh-l

吐谷渾／吐谷浑 (tǔyùhún)

(historical) The language of the Tuyuhun kingdom.


Brandenburger

/ˈbɹændənbɜːɡə/

/ˈbɹændɚnbɝɡɚ/

Brandenburg an der Havel
Brandenburg an der Havel

A person from Brandenburg an der Havel (city of Germany).


Xianbei

鮮卑／鲜卑 (Xiānbēi)

(historical) An ancient Mongolic nomadic people who resided in what is now eastern Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and northeast China.


McDungheap's

Anyhow, it's obvious that you created this mesage^([sic]) out of pure fantasy since the patties at McDungheap's are almost always dry.

1997 September 22, Bosco!, “Re: disgusting, greasy burgers”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):

2012 January 16, Unifarva-2012 The Year of the Robby, “HEY ROBBY! i ate at McDungheap's Today!!”, in alt.food.mcdonalds (Usenet):

2013 May 10, J.R.R. Bob Dobbs EPV, “Get your McDungheap's Fix while you can.”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(slang, humorous, derogatory) McDonald's, viewed as a purveyor of low-quality food.


Tsolak

An Armenian male given name from Armenian


Titanean

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Titan (the Saturnian moon)


Esmeh

A female given name, Alternative form of Esmé


Macaoese

A person from Macao or of Macao descent.


Hong Konger

Hong Kongers are invited to apply for a new British National Overseas (BNO) visa that leads to citizenship.

2021 January 30, “Hong Kongers eye British citizenship but fear retaliation from China”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

A person from Hong Kong or of Hong Kong descent.


Mikasuki

The language spoken by the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.


outworlder

It is a thing no outworlder may know except those very few who have been involved.

1967, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

He speaks with the outworlder tongue!
What else were you expecting from a male, sister Dykstra?

1995, Among Friends And Enemies, Part 3: The Magical Mystery Tour (Gen13), volume 2, number 3 (comic), page 19:

Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources.

1998, Celia S. Friedman, This Alien Shore:

(science fiction, fantasy) One who comes from another planet, or from a society so culturally foreign as to be a different world.


Central Nahuatl

A group of Nahuatl lects spoken in central Mexico.


Ninoscka

A female given name of eastern European origin, from a diminutive of Nina; a variant of Ninotchka.


Ninotchka

From Russian Ни́ночка (Nínočka), a diminutive of Ни́на (Nína).


Ninoshka

From Russian Нино́шка (Ninóška), a diminutive of Ни́на (Nína).


Ethelthryth

Æðelþryð Æðelþryð

A female given name form of Etheldreda from Æðelþryð.


Diegueño

The Kumeyaay, a Native American people of Southern California and Baja California.


Kavalan

From Kavalan kebalan, meaning "people of the plains".


Hamad

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَد (ḥamad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “praise”).


Arkansasan

/ˈɑː(ɹ)kənˌsɔːn/


Arkansawyer

From Arkansaw (older spelling of Arkansas) + -yer.

suffix

older spelling of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Arkansas</i>

One opponent accused him of being "to the left of Hubert Humphrey," which was a hard thing to say about an Arkansawyer in 1970.

2003 March 9, Roy Reed, "Another Guy From Arkansas" (Book review of The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir by Dale Bumpers), New York Times (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

The words Arkansan, Arkansawyer and Arkie are in common use. Each term has its partisans and its detractors.

2007 Dec. 26, "Sizing up Arkansan vs. Arkansawyer," The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (reposted at Arkansas Online) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

(US) A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.


Wemale

Their Malayo-Polynesian language, divided into northern and southern forms.


Emmet

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Mofftiss

Rathbone was a perfect Holmes. Unfortunately, those films were ruined for me by Nigle Bruce's Watson, who started a tradition of 'stupid Watson' that made some people think the original character was like that. Thank Mofftiss they didn't go that way for Sherlock.

2012 January 12, Diane L., “Re: Wales Today Poll on Best Ever Sherlock Holmes”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):

Mofftiss created masterpiece reinvention of the classic Conan-Doyle sleuth Sherlock Holmes got twisted into the hideous 'Elementary,' […]

2013, Nick Carter, "Remade in America", 1624, Issue 1, Spring 2013, page 6

On Amazon, shoppers can already pre-order the complete third season on DVD — even though the episodes haven’t been screened yet and all that has been keeping Sherlock obsessives sane is a few snippets in a BBC teaser trailer. The site is also allowing customer reviews, so fans have piled in to give their fictitious accounts. So, er, fake spoiler alert!
[…]
Another reviewer agreed with that judgment — but for rather different reasons: “This should at least be an 18,” writes someone passing themselves off as David Tennant. “Mofftiss made Johnlock a reality, and almost every scene involved rampant gay sex. I loved it, but I’m not sure it’s suitable for the little ones.”

2013 September 9, Rosamund Urwin, “Cumberfiction: the Sherlock fans 'reviewing' the new series before they've seen it”, in London Evening Standard:

(fandom slang) The creative duo of screenwriters Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.


Moose Javian

During the last week in June each year a tradition known locally as "sidewalk days" brings this diverse population of Moose Javians together for three days of outdoor shopping on Main Street.

1987, Don McLean, Fifty Historical Vignettes: Views of the Common People, Gabriel Dumont Institute, →ISBN, page 198:

Key Wong, a born-and-raised Moose Javian, recalls his father arrived in Moose Jaw in 1905 as a thirteen-year-old.

2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 31:

I also lingered in the poetry section of the Moose Jaw Public Library where I discovered and delighted in Dante, Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Auden and Wallace Stevens. […] What was a muddle-headed sixteen-year-old Moose Javian to make of "The Idea of Order at Key West" or "The Wasteland"?

2008, Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 225:

A native or resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.


Jayoncé

There are power couples like Jayoncé, Russell and Kimora, Will and Jada.

2007 March, “V Mix: Searchin' For A Real Love”, in Vibe, page 139:

Throughout their six-year, PDA-shy run, Jayoncé refused to confirm (except in verse) what we all knew–the two are crazy in love.

2008 June, “V Mix: Diamond, Duets–And Denial”, in Vibe, page 53:

“Imagine how much Obama's approval rating would skyrocket if he and Michelle came out and reenacted Jayoncé's 'Drunk In Love' performance,” tweeted @jwoodham, […]

2014, Caitlin Looney, "State of the Union becomes #StateOfAwful", The Columbia Chronicle (Columbia College, Chicago), Volume 49, Issue 17, 3 February 2014, page 35

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities of Jay-Z and Beyoncé.


Meithei

A Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the southeastern Himalayan state of Manipur in India.


Knaanic

From Hebrew כְּנַעַן (k'na'án, “Slavic lands”, literally “Canaan”) + -ic.


Gujar

Borrowed from Hindi गूजर (gūjar), from Sanskrit गुर्जर (gurjara).


Ijaw

The group of languages spoken by these people.


Kikai

Those over 50 use Kikai at home among themselves but can understand and use Japanese.

2000, Barbara F. Grimes, Joseph Evans Grimes, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, volume 1, SIL International, page 539

[…], including the Ryûkyûan dialects (11 dialects: Southern, Amami-Oshima Northern, Kikai, Kunigami, Miyako, Okinawan Central, Oki-no-Erabu, Toku-no-Shima, Taeyama, Yonaguni, and Yoron) […]

2003, Robert B. Kaplan, Richard B. Baldauf Jr., Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 18:

[…], (iii) the Amami group (Kikai, Ōshima, Tokunoshima, Okierabu, Yoron), […]

2012, Nicolas Tranter, The Languages of Japan and Korea, Routledge, page 3:

A Ryukyuan language spoken on Kikai island.


Jet

en-proper noun

Jet (countable and uncountable, plural Jets)


Citeh

Respelling of a local pronunciation of (Manchester) city.

(soccer, informal) Manchester City Football Club


Roll

A diminutive of the male given name Roland.


Justice

Justice, the elder, was his only son and heir to the Great Place, and Nomafu was the regent's daughter.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 1995, →ISBN, page 21:

A male or female given name from English from the abstract noun justice.


East Jerusalemite

en-noun

East Jerusalemite (plural East Jerusalemites)

The Palestinians insisted on both outsiders and an East Jerusalemite on the delegation.

2005, Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace, →ISBN, page 62:


Kiliwa

The traditional language of these people.


Cocama

An indigenous language of western South America.


Ro

international auxiliary language
international auxiliary language

An a priori international auxiliary language created by Edward Powell Foster beginning in 1904.


Phuthi

A Nguni Bantu language spoken in southern Lesotho and parts of South Africa.


Anjaneyulu

A male given name from Sanskrit, used commonly in India.


Astrape

From Ancient Greek ἀστραπή (astrapḗ, literally “lightning”).


Keely

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Mohan

Transliteration of Hindi मोहन (mohan), etc.


e caudata

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ē caudāta (literally “tailed e”).

lbor

A form of the letter e modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ę⟩.

Used in Latin for a long ē that represents an etymological ⟨ae⟩ or ⟨oe⟩ diphthong, both of which diphthongs had phonologically merged into ⟨ē⟩ by the early Mediaeval period.


Sookie

A variant of the name Susan or Susannah, from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (“Shoshána”) meaning "rose" or "lily".


Chatino

Borrowed from Spanish chatino, from a Chatino language; cf. Zacatepec Chatino chaʔ tinyan (literally “speech”).


al-CIAda

You must be one of the last remaining people on the planet that doesn't know
that Al-CIAda was a CIA creation.

2005 March 14, Tylêr - Ðûrden» ~, “Re: The USA Deserved 911 - too bad more weren't killed.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

On Friday, the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and members of
more than 30 other nations meet in Istanbul, Turkey, and announced they
have granted al-CIAda and the so-called rebels in Libya full diplomatic
recognition.

2011 July 16, Möebius Pretzel, “Clinton Announces Al-CIAda As Legitimate Government Of Libya < < < GO NWO!!!”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Once again we see clear evidence of how the US al-CIAda front works in regard to its on/off relationship. The well planned and executed events of 9-11 meant that the ongoing relationship with al-CIAda that began in Afghanistan with the Reagan/Casey war against the USSR could now be set in the off position.

2014 September 22, Charles Knause, Loose Leaves & Palm Trees, Lulu.com, →ISBN, The US Al-CIAda Front in Syria, page 133:

(slang, derogatory) An epithet for al-Qaeda used by individuals who believe the CIA is behind the group.


USian

en-adj

USian (comparative more USian, superlative most USian)

more USian (comparative)
most USian (superlative)

Driving through the USian landscape is like walking through cobwebs in an attic. No one is dying of hunger, but no one seems to be doing anything either. The only illegal migration taking place is from the USA into Canada.

2003, Joseph Raphael, The Trial of Alois Barda: The Saga of Uncommon Man, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 6:

Before developing this idea of "counter-worlding" any further, I would also note that as a postcolonial-oriented comparativist of Canadian and Québécois literatures, I am inevitably drawn to considering such an approach vis-à-vis the United States – especially within the immediate context of greater pressures on Canada and Quebec to integrate within the USian imperial nexus in terms of national, continental, and international policies and values, […]

2007, David Leahy, “Counter-Worlding Alaméricanité”, in Winfried Siemerling, Sarah Phillips Casteel, editors, Canada & Its Americas: Transnational Navigations, McGill-Queen's University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 63:

I am a member of the Liberal Democrats, a British political party that are liberal in the British, rather than the American, sense – while for the most part the beliefs of the party as a whole (though not of every member) tend to overlap with the USian definition, […]

2011, Andrew Hickey, Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!, Lulu, →ISBN, page 55:

(informal) Of or pertaining to the United States.


USian

In Canada, it seems we are much more experienced with strategic voting than USians.

2005, Mike Carr, quoted in Mark D. Whitaker, Toward a Bioregional State: A Series of Letters about Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability, iUniverse (2005), page 21

The form chilli is probably closest to the Náhuatl original, and it is the preferred form among historically minded USians and in Australia.

2008, Justin Thyme, HOT! - Make Your Own Sauce!, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 12:

Or that Americans, Canadians, and Québécois are so alike as late-modernist or postmodernist peoples - our consumerist lifestyles so analogous – that cultural production from Canada or Quebec can barely be of interest to USians, that it is not exotic or troubling enough to warrant more attention.

2007, David Leahy, “Counter-Worlding Alaméricanité”, in Winfried Siemerling, Sarah Phillips Casteel, editors, Canada & Its Americas: Transnational Navigations, McGill-Queen's University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, pages 66–67:

(informal) A citizen or resident of the United States.


Kamayurá

A Tupian language spoken by the Kamayurá people.


Bryanna

A female given name from the Celtic languages, of American usage, variant of Brianna.


Johnna

A rare feminine form of John recorded since the 18th century.

I have been raised with my three brothers, Matthew, Mark and Luke. That is the reason my name is most unusual for a girl, you see. Mama wished to continue the names in sequence, so to speak, and saw fit to call me Johnna.

1980, ? Margaret Rau, The Hoyden Bride, Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 38–39:


Barrie

en-proper noun

Barrie (countable and uncountable, plural Barries)


Ryley

(rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.


Wawa

A Mambiloid language spoken in Cameroon.


Hays

Spelling variant of Hayes, which has multiple origins.


Komi-Permyak

A Permic language in the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family, smaller of the two main regional varieties (ISO 639-3 language code: koi) of the pluricentrical Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Zyrian. It's the standard language of Komi people in Komi-Permyak Okrug.

Komi-Yazva

dialect of Komi-Permyak or a language, depending on source


Komi-Zyrian

A Uralic language, the more common of the two main regional varieties of the pluricentric Komi language, the other variety being Komi-Permyak. It's the standard language of Komi people in Komi Republic and, along with Russian, an official language in the republic.


Duff

Duff (countable and uncountable, plural Duffs)

From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, from dubh (“dark”).


Neo

Recent coinage from the prefix neo- (“new”). Popularized by a character in the science-fiction film The Matrix (1999), where it is explained as an anagram of "(the) One".

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Neo

An international auxiliary language created by Arturo Alfandari in 1961, combining features of Esperanto, Ido, Novial, and Volapük.


daughter out

en-verb

daughter out (third-person singular simple present daughters out, present participle daughtering out, simple past and past participle daughtered out)

daughters out (present singular third-person)
daughtering out (participle present)
daughtered out (participle past)
daughtered out (past)

To expire due to having only females surviving the death of the last male in a line. (of a surname or of heritable property in a patrilineal naming or inheritance system)


Astur

Of Celtic, possibly Celtiberian origin. The name could ultimately be related to the Phoenician goddess Astarte.

A member of a tribe in northern Spain until the first century BC.


dirtsider

He really hadn't been in space before. You can always tell a dirtsider by the twinkle in their eyes at the idea of seeing their planet from above.

1998, Jerry Oltion, Where Sea Meets Sky, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 23:

So you tell me, Senyor Parrige, how many habitats would be willing to take on their maximum possible population load in the form of half-starved, uneducated, indigent, disease-ridden dirtsiders who know nothing of habitat life and have no skills that are of much use in space?

2001, Roger MacBride Allen, The Depths of Time, Random House, →ISBN, page 378:

As a dirtsider, the idea of dying in the cold of space terrified him, though he'd never admit it to his space-loving mate.

2010, Shayla Kersten, Angel Moon, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 52:

(science fiction, often derogatory) Someone who lives on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to in space.


Philippine English

The form of the English language used in the Philippines.


Kaede

A Japanese female given name from Japanese


Hazelton

Haslingden, Lancashire
Hazleton, Gloucestershire
Hesleden, County Durham

From multiple placenames in England: Hesleden, County Durham, Haselden, Sussex, Haslingden, Lancashire, Hazeldon, Wiltshire, and Hazleton, Gloucestershire. From Old English hæsl (“hazel”) + denu (“valley”).


Kanoé

language isolate
language isolate#English

A nearly extinct language isolate spoken in Rondônia, Brazil.


Elspie

"Elspeth, or mair commonly, Elspie Murray. A very gude name, doctor. The Murrays of Perth were—"
"No doubt—no doubt, Mrs. Elsappy."
"Elspie, sir. Ye maunna ca' me out o' my name, wi' your unceevil English tongue," added the pertinacious old dame.

A diminutive of the female given name Elspeth.


Atakapa

Borrowing from Choctaw hatak apa (literally “man eater”).


Dhegihan

Of or relating to a Siouan language family that includes Kansa–Osage, Omaha–Ponca, and Quapaw.


ball-and-stick model

en-noun

ball-and-stick model (plural ball-and-stick models)

(physical chemistry) A molecular model of a chemical substance, displaying the three-dimensional position of the atoms (as spheres) and the bonds between them (as connecting rods).


Putler

Borrowed from Russian Пу́тлер (Pútler), otherwise blend of Putin + Hitler. Compare English Xitler.

(derogatory, offensive) Vladimir Putin (president of Russia).


R'lyehian

From writings of the horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, named for the fictional city of R'lyeh, + -ian.

An artificial language created by H.P. Lovecraft.


Jenilyn

A female given name originating as a coinage: alternative form of Jennilyn


Bettie

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth


Nerissa

Coined by Shakespeare for The Merchant of Venice, apparently from Ancient Greek Νηρηΐς (Nērēḯs, “sea-nymph”).

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Well, while I live, I’ll fear no other thing
So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

When Nerissa saw the worm her immediate reaction was to kill, for she disliked its sliminess and crawlingness.

1958, The Literary Review, volume 2, page 188:


Jacintha

From Latin Hyacintha (possibly as a fanciful spelling of Spanish Jacinta), from Ancient Greek Ὑακίνθη (Huakínthē).

A rare female given name from Ancient Greek.


Hitomi

Borrowed from Japanese ひとみ (Hitomi), a given name with numerous possible original kanji.


Hosmer

At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel.

1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity:


West African Pidgin Portuguese

en-noun

West African Pidgin Portuguese (uncountable)

(creolistics) A hypothetical Portuguese-based pidgin spoken across the western coast of Africa between the 14ᵗʰ and 18ᵗʰ centuries, believed by some to be the proto-language of most or all modern creoles.


Maliseet

From Mi'kmaq Malesse'jik (“broken talkers”) — the Mi'kmaq perceived the Maliseet as speaking a broken version of Mi'kmaq.

Wabanaki Confederacy
Wabanaki Confederacy

A member of an Algonquian-speaking Native American people of the Wabanaki Confederacy, indigenous to the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, crossing the borders of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and Maine in the United States.


Maliseet

The Algonquian language of these people, a dialect of Malecite-Passamaquoddy.


Vanimo

A Skou language spoken in Papua New Guinea.


Nao

A female or male given name from Japanese


Gwoyeu Romatzyh

/ˌɡwəʊjuː rəʊˈmɑːtsə/

Borrowed from Chinese 國語羅馬字／国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì).

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With regard to romanization, several different systems are concurrently being used in Taiwan, including Wade-Giles, Tongyong Pinyin 通用拼音, Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音, and Gwoyeu Romatzyh.

2003, Julie Ju et al., editors, A Brief Introduction to Taiwan, Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:

A transliteration system for Mandarin Chinese, characterized by its tonal spelling without diacritic marks.


Swiss Standard German

For instance, while the Swiss German word Färnseer (television set) derives from Fernseher, Hutte (tub) and Beige (pile) are Swiss German words that are now used also in Swiss standard German.

1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics, page 213:

The independent position of Swiss Standard German has been strengthened by Swiss neutrality and the recent German past.

1995, Michael G. Clyne, The German Language in a Changing Europe, page 47:

The form of the German language used for publishing, broadcasting and writing in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as distinguished from the Swiss German language used in speech.


Principense

A Portuguese-based creole spoken in the island of Príncipe.


Taimyr Pidgin Russian

A Russian-based pidgin used by the Dolgans and Nganasans.


Malacca Creole Portuguese

A Portuguese-based creole spoken in Malacca and Singapore.


Majorite

(UK politics) A political supporter of John Major (born 1943), British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997.


Ersa

From Ancient Greek Ἕρσα (Hérsa, literally “Dew”).


Mungbam

A Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon.


Americaness

From American + -ness or America + -ness.

There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.

2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 125:

Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]

2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 47:

The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]

2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 8:


Angolar

São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe#English

A Portuguese-based creole spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe.


Rotokas

An East Papuan language spoken in Bougainville Island.


Agawam

First cultivated by the Agawam, broadleaf tobacco was soon planted by white settlers as a cash crop after they drove the Natives off the land.

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 86:

An Eastern Algonquian tribe, settlement, and language, native to northeastern Massachusetts (around Ipswich).

A city in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.

Former name of Westfield River in Hampden County, western Massachusetts.


Nez Perce

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

A Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States.


Manobo

An Australasian indigenous agriculturalist people of the Philippines.


Thao

An Austronesian language spoken by the Thao people.


Trev

A diminutive of the male given name Trevor.


Bebhionn

From Irish Bébinn, seemingly from bean (“woman”) + binn (“melodious”). More at Bébinn.

(Irish mythology) A goddess of birth in Irish mythology.


Perdita

Named after the daughter of Leontes and Hermione in William Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale; from Italian perdita (“loss”).


Cressida

en-proper noun

Cressida (countable and uncountable, plural Cressidas)

Used by Geoffrey Chaucer, also by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida (1602), from Italian Criseida (which Boccaccio mistakenly substituted for Briseida (“Briseis”)), from Ancient Greek Χρυσηΐς (Khrusēḯs), from Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”).

Of course, Cressida had looked up her name online.
Reporting to her parents, incensed: "'Cressida'―or 'Criseyde'―isn't nice at all. She's 'faithless'―that's how people thought of her in the Middle Ages .Chaucer wrote about her, and then Shakespeare. ( - - - )"
"Oh, honey, come on. We don't believe in 'fate' in the U.S. of A. in 1996―this ain't the Middle Ages."

2014, Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 38:

(countable) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Mab

"Good-bye, Mab," said Mr. Ford, stretching out his arm, and gathering her to his heart. "Good-bye, darling - you will think of the old man, eh?" Tears and kisses were Mab's only reply.

1864, Julia Kavanagh, Queen Mab, page 162:

“Consider,” Mab said, “that I have done something for her that you never could have.” “What's that, exactly?” “I have put her beyond the reach of the White Council and their Wardens,” Mab said, again […]

2012 November 27, Jim Butcher, Cold Days, Penguin, →ISBN:


Balachka

From regional Russian бала́чка (baláčka, “conversation, chat”), from the regional Russian verb бала́кать (balákatʹ, “to talk, to chat”) (compare Ukrainian Ukrainian бала́чка (baláčka), бала́кати (balákaty)).

bor

The dialects spoken by Cossacks living in Russia, heavily influenced by Ukrainian dialects but features akanye, like standard and central Russian.


Sentinelese

The language of these people, unknown but presumed to belong to one of the Andamanese language families.


Mishmi

A member of an ethnic group of Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh.


Mijikenda

Borrowed from Swahili miji kenda (“nine villages”).

The language or dialect continuum spoken by these people.


Pedi

The Northern Sotho language as spoken by these people.


Richmal

The English writer Richmal Crompton was born in 1890.


Marianan

en-adj

Marianan (comparative more Marianan, superlative most Marianan)

more Marianan (comparative)
most Marianan (superlative)

Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands

Of or relating to the Northern Mariana Islands.


Marianan

A native or inhabitant of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Ulithian

A language spoken on Ulithi and neighbouring islands.


Safana

Safana, the daughter of Hatim Tai, was among those captured.

1998, Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri, When the moon split, →ISBN:

[…] less than an hour later, their cell door was flung open and an unseen hand pushed Safana back among them. Although she lurched through the door on her own feet, she was not the same […]

2004, Jean Sasson, Mayada, Daughter of Iraq, →ISBN:

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Sofana.


Ishbel

Rendering of Scottish Gaelic Isbeal, short form of Iseabail (“Isabel”).

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Paro

A diminutive of the female given name Parvati.


Petersburgian

a native or inhabitant of Saint Petersburg


adoratory

A room in a temple for the adoration of idols.


Margaery

Attested since at least the 1770s as a variant of Margery, from Margaret. Popularized in the modern era by the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.


Brienne

2009, Brienne J. Meyer, Adirondack Mycorrhizal and Saprobic Macromycetes

"You will call me Brienne. Not wench."

2000, George R. R. Martin, Song of Ice and Fire, Bk. 3, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 16:

(rare) A female given name, in occasional modern use.


Arya

From Sanskrit आर्य (ā́rya, “reputable or reverend”) and its feminine form आर्या (ā́ryā).

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Arya Nielsen, a senior clinical faculty member at our Institute, has also demonstrated this in her excellent work on surface stimulation […]

1999, Mark Seem, Acupuncture Physical Medicine, →ISBN:


Narses

From Ancient Greek Ναρσῆς (Narsês), from Middle Persian 𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩 (Narseh) or Parthian 𐭍𐭓𐭉𐭎𐭇𐭅 (nryshw), both ultimately from Old Iranian *Naryasanga-, *Narēsanga-.

Narsai (disambiguation)
Narseh
Narses (disambiguation)
Nerses (disambiguation)


Tansy

From the name of the plant tansy at the end of the 19th century.

(I love romantic folksy English names like Tansy and Violet, Ralph likes Mitfordesque names like Pamela and Daphne)

2008, Rachel Johnson, Shire Hell, Penguin UK, →ISBN:


Triestine

A native or resident of the Italian city of Trieste.

Triestin

a native or resident of the Italian city of Trieste


Danvers

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French d'Anvers (“from Antwerp”).

A male given name transferred from the surname


Mohave

From a shortened form of the endonym, Mojave Hamakhaave (“beside the water”), spelled Mojave in Spanish.

A Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert.


Mohave

A Yuman language spoken by Mohave people of California and Arizona.


Aria

As a 21st century English name from TV and fantasy fiction, explained as "a musical aria". Similar sounding names exist in many languages, e.g. Ariah and Arie from Hebrew, Arya from Sanskrit, and Aria, Dutch short form of Adriana.

Aria Montgomery burrowed her face in her best friend Alison DiLaurentis's lawn.

2006, Sara Shepard, chapter 1, in Pretty Little Liars, Hachette Digital, →ISBN:

Aria is not surprised to hear there is an Ardat-Yakshi on the planet. There have been reports of bodies and minds drained in ways only the Ardat-Yakshi are capable of. Aria tells you that Morinth’s last victim was a young human woman who lived in the tenements near Afterlife.

2010, Catherine Browne, “Walkthrough”, in Mass Effect 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide (Science Fiction), Roseville, CA: Prima Games, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 190, column 1:


Belter

You noticed a habit of mine once. I never make gestures. All Belters have that trait. It's because on a small mining ship you could hit something waving your arms around.

1966 February, Larry Niven, “The Warriors”, in If, volume 16, number 2 (#99 overall), page 152:

Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot.

2015 December 22, Remembering the Cant (The Expanse), season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Holden (Steven Strait):

(science fiction) An inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between Mars and Jupiter.


Alek

A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, variant of Alec


Quebecistan

(derogatory) Quebec, viewed as a hostile separatist region


Nihali

A language isolate spoken in west-central India.


Italkian

From Hebrew אִיטַלְקִי (italkí, “Italian”) + -ian.


Judeo-Italian

A near-extinct Jewish Romance language or family of languages based on Italian and its dialects.


Malecite-Passamaquoddy

The Algonquian language spoken by the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy peoples in New England and Canada.


Tellurian

From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”) + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from, related to, or like’ (when forming an adjective), or ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’ (when forming a noun)).

suffix

If any distant world (which may be the case) are so far ahead of us Tellurians in optical resources as to see distinctly through their telescopes all that we do on earth, what is the grandest sight to which we ever treat them?

1847, Thomas de Quincey, “Joan of Arc”, in Miscellaneous Essays:

There is a mystery in Tellus which has not been solved. I cannot reconcile the disappearance of all its water and its race of men as well, with the legend preserved in our family that, not so very long ago, Tellurians visited us, staying beneath this very roof as guests. Why did the Earth-race die out so quickly?

1930 February, Edwards Gawain [pseudonym; George Edward Pendray], “A Rescue From Jupiter”, in Science Wonder Stories, volume 1, number 9, page 787:

But it's well that that bunch of tellurians are dead! Our diamond was the cause of that much good for the earth!" Nega slowed her orbital speed, oscillated a bit, and twinkled: "Are all tellurians like those we've met in the last year?"

1935 May, Joseph William Skidmore, “A Saga of Posi and Nega”, in T[homas] O’Conor Sloane, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 10, New York, N.Y.: Teck Publishing Corporation, →OCLC, page 107:

Mr. Bridges is more interested in correct usage of planetary names, rather than in mere derivations (a more useful and less frivolous involvement than mine, you see) and, for instance, advocates what he maintains to be correctly derived words such as Venustian and Hesperian for hypothetical inhabitants of Venus in place of the incorrect Venusian or Cytherean; and Tellus and Tellurian in place of Terra and Terran. He lists astronomers and classical scholars who support his views.

1965 December, Isaac Asimov, “Water, Water, Everywhere—”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 29, number 6 (number 175 overall), page 87:


Roddy

A diminutive of the male given name Roderick or Rodger.


Earthie

"Earthgirl?" the guard repeated. "She didn't look like an Earthie."

1947 October, Frederik Pohl, “Donovan Had a Dream”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 27:

The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago.

1963 May, John Jakes, “Underfollow”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 24, number 5 (#144 overall), page 66:

(science fiction, informal, often derogatory) An inhabitant of the Earth.


Ember

This conversation took place at an advertising agency between an American copywriter named Ember (E), and one of his Japanese co-workers named Nakada (N).

1993, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication:

In this section, a straightforward and attractive character named Ember, an academic colleague of Krug, is trying to distract his friend from brooding upon the death of his wife.

2014, Samuel Schuman, Nabokov's Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 48:

Brigdha had hoped that she would have a chance to speak with this red headed woman, named Ember, who now approached. She seemed to also be from somewhere else. Maybe you will help me, Ember? she wondered.

2016, Tom Watson, Ember of a New World, →ISBN, page 258:

A serene smile curved her mouth, and soft strands of her dark hair swayed around her, softening the sharp edges that had once been on her face. “She's named Ember because that's what she is,” Ashrynn said, “she's a single burning ember ...”

2016, Cressa Rose, Book 3: Night Ashes (a Night City Novel), →ISBN:


Terrestrial

From Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”).

It will be manifest that natural scenery must present many beautiful varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials, who know of no colours in scenery except those inherent in the objects themselves which form the landscape.

1873, Richard Anthony Proctor, The Expanse of Heaven, page 235:

The other was not a Terrestrial, but a visiting Martian.

1925, Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+, page 41:

There'd been Earthling girls; and not a few Khazaki women had been intrigued by the big Terrestrial.

1950 Fall, Poul Anderson, “Star Ship”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 8, page 74:


Earthgirl

You have given me an idea, Earthgirl, and it is one that I am afraid you will live to regret.

1939 February, Harold Kerton Wells, “Moon of Mad Atavism”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 13, number 1, page 35:

(usually science fiction) A young female inhabitant of Earth.


Terrestrian

This rocket squad was composed almost solely of Terrestrians, for they were used to the greater gravity of Earth, and could stand greater acceleration than could Venerians.

1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 516:

How would it look for the First Administrator to go limping around the galaxies explaining that he was behind schedule because his ship got wrecked on Sol III and the Terrestrians were incapable of matching his drives?

1950 November, Raymond Fisher Jones, “Tools of the Trade”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 46, number 3, page 55:


North Atlantic Terrorist Organization

A backronym of NATO, substituting the T word to affirm a negative point, implying that the organization is inherently belligerent.

Canada is a member of a megamurder club, a North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

1970 December 8, James Eayrs, “Morality and Violence: The Insane Strategy of Peace Through “Megamurder””, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, year 45, number 7, Kingston, Ont., page six:

They are the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

1999 March 29, Milutin Tamasijevic, “South Florida Serbs unite in fear, frustration, anger”, in The Miami Herald, 97th year, number 196, page 1B:

The arsonists left notes at two of the sites, one of which denounced the “North Atlantic Terrorist Organization” and asserted that “the fake Albanian refugee crisis was manufactured by the International Jewsmedia to justify the terrorizing, the bestial bombing of our Yugoslavia back into the dark ages.”

2000, Lawrence Grossman, David Singer, editors, American Jewish Year Book 2000, →ISBN, page 163:

(geopolitics, derogatory) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.


Earthperson

en-noun

Earthperson (plural Earthpersons or Earthpeople)

Earthpersons (plural)
Earthpeople (plural)

The Venusians, unlike other planetary races, were almost like Earthpeople. There was only one notable difference—they had feathers on their heads instead of hair.

1953 May, Eando Binder, “Interplanetary Tenements”, in Captain Marvel Adventures, volume 24, number 144, page (inside front cover):

And beyond that, the most important equipment of all: the manufacturing units that processed the Earthpeople's food.

1956, Philip Kindred Dick, The World Jones Made, page 198:

My last act as an earthperson, she says, was t' snatch off my landlawd's glasses and punch and punch 'im in the nose.

1974, Donald Newlove, The Drunks, page 140:

"That was an ingenious idea, Earthperson," it said slowly. "There is now a beneficent atmosphere surrounding my pressure envelope, which will enable me to repair the torn fabric and survive until Illensan assistance arrives. Thank you."

1983, James White, Sector General, page 24:

It was Tarna's first demonstration of Earthpersons—or rather Earth robots—in action, an the villagers were hugely impressed.

1986, Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth, page 81:

(usually science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Earth.


Zuricher

From Zurich + -er, or from German Züricher.

The officer in command of the Zurichers instantly marched to sustain the post.

1834, John Warner Barber, An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events:

In the eastern parts of the Confederation, where the Zurichers had traditionally exercised influence, […] there was little left after the Kappel War to show for their earlier efforts.

2002, Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation, page 135:

On March 6, the two Zurichers attended the Wednesday Psychological Society meeting in Vienna.

2008, George Makari, Revolution in Mind, page 205:


St Catz

(Cambridge University slang) Contraction of St Catharine's, referring to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

(Oxford University slang) Contraction of St Catherine's, referring to St Catherine's College, Oxford.


Bod

(Oxford University slang) The Bodleian Library.


P-Celtic

Any Celtic languages (such as Brythonic or Gaulish) which show /p/ as a reflex of Proto-Indo-European *kʷ.


Rhinelander

A city, the county seat of Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.


Arabicize

en-verb

Arabicize (third-person singular simple present Arabicizes, present participle Arabicizing, simple past and past participle Arabicized)

Arabicizes (present singular third-person)
Arabicizing (participle present)
Arabicized (participle past)
Arabicized (past)


Arthurianism

The use of Arthurian legend in literature, history, etc.

arturianismo

the use of Arthurian legend in literature


Spidey

Seven months later he reappeared in his own comic book, The Amazing Spider-Man. In the 16 years since, Spidey (as his fans call him) has become the country's most popular superhero, appearing in 300 daily newspapers.

1978, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 79, page 8:

In the closet Marvin found his sea shell collection, baseball cards, a stack of Spidey comic books, a jar of dead flies he had forgotten about, a paper bag filled with pine cones, and five cans of mud from Lake Washington.

1981 Oct, Ebony Jr., volume 9, number 4, page 25:

Only Spider-Man's spidey powers can get us out of this!

1983 Jan, Boys' Life, volume 73, number 1, page 21:

[H]e's also written a Spidey short story (“Arms and the Man” in 1997's Untold Tales of Spider-Man) and a Spidey novel (Down These Mean Streets in 2005).

2013, Gerry Conway, Leah Wilson, Webslinger: Unauthorized Essays On Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, page 32:

(slang) The fictional superhero Spider-Man.


Phaedra

Euripides
Hippolytus (play)
Jean Racine
Phaedra (Seneca)
Phaedra (mythology)
Phèdre
Seneca the Younger

From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā).
The myth has been retold several times, in plays (in classical times in Euripides's Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's Phaedra, later in Racine's Phèdre), and more recently in other media.

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.


Kangiryuarmiutun

A dialect of the Inuit language spoken in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada by the Kangiryuarmiut, a Copper Inuit people.


Queen E

(Canada, informal) The Queen Elizabeth Way, the QEW.


Harmony

Following this formula, Harmony Hammond chose an exhibition of her dark, potent, meaning-layered paintings to be complemented by the work of Haleh Niazmand.

2005 April 13, “SFR PICKS; ARTS AND CULTURE; Everything worth seeing, reading, hearing, eating & thinking about in Santa Fe”, in Santa Fe Reporter:

Growing up in a family that included 12 brothers and sisters, Harmony James needed to find something that set her apart from the crowd. And boy did she succeed in that one.

2009, Ana Vlastaras, "'Raw' talent of Harmony James", Daily Examiner (Grafton, New South Wales), 19 November 2009

For someone whose only acting experience was playing a Boy George lookalike in a high school production of the musical “The Wedding Singer,” Harmony Santana is having an incredible year. Ms. Santana is making her big-screen debut in Rashaad Ernesto Green’s coming-out drama “Gun Hill Road,” which had its premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival.

2011 July 28, Erik Piepenburg, “When They Play Women, It’s Not Just an Act”, in The New York Times:

In other transfer news, Betar Jerusalem added Eran Levy, Haim Megrelashvili and Nigerian Harmony Ikande to its squad on Tuesday.

2012 January 31, Allon Sinai, “Tamuz changes mind, remains with Reds”, in The Jerusalem Post:

Indie filmmaker Harmony Korine is no stranger to the weird. He's built an outsider-cool reputation thanks to his early script for the '90s drama "Kids" and his later increasingly bizarre films "Gummo" (about trailer park Americana), […]

2012 May 3, Romeo San Vincente, “Brittany S. Pierce meets Harmony Korine”, in Between the Lines:

Michelle worked with producer Harmony Samuels on most of the songs on the album.

2013 April 22, “Williams to release new solo album”, in Belfast Telegraph:


fanqie

/fɑːnˈt͡ʃjɛ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 反切 (fǎnqiè).

(Chinese phonetics) In traditional Chinese lexicography, a method of indicating the pronunciation of a character by using two other characters, each giving part of the pronunciation.

反切

method of indicating pronunciation of a character


Galahad

From Old French Galahad, of obscure origin and meaning. Suggestions include Old Welsh, or biblical Gilead.

(Arthurian legend) Sir Galahad, son of Sir Lancelot, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table famously known for his purity and who was one of the three achievers of the quest for the Holy Grail.

(rare) A male given name from the Celtic languages in occasional use since the 19th century.

Flagstaff County
Flagstaff County#English

A hamlet in Flagstaff County, in east-central Alberta.


Tolowa

From a Yurok term: either from tolowechek' (“I speak Tolowa”), or from the Yurok name of their principal town.


Chilula

From the Yurok designation of the tribe.

A tribe whose members inhabited the area on or near lower Redwood Creek, in Northern California, and have since been incorporated into the Hupa tribe.


Hupa

From the Yurok name of the valley in which they reside (Hoopa Valley).

A member of a tribe residing in the Hoopa Valley.


Hupa

The Athabaskan language which they speak.


Septimus

Borrowed from Latin Septimus, from septimus (“seventh”).

London has swallowed up many millions of young men called Smith ; thought nothing of fantastic Christian names like Septimus with which their parents have thought to distinguish them .

1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Collector's Library, published 2003, →ISBN, page 95:


Mattole

A group of Native Americans in California, whose traditional lands were along the Mattole and Bear Rivers near Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County.


Fomorian

Probably Old Irish fo- 'under' + mor, mur 'ocean'.

(Irish mythology) A member of the semi-divine race that were said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Fomorian

(Irish mythology) Of or relating to the race of semi-divine creatures said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Belgae

From Latin Belgae, an Iron-Age European group of tribes located between the rivers Seine and Rhine.

(historical) A group of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the west bank of the Rhine, from at least the 3rd century BC.


Kenyan English

The English language as written and spoken in Kenya, and among Kenyan expatriates in other countries.


Tavy

'Octavia? What the hell are you doing here?'
'Working,' said Tavy. 'I lost my job so Jago offered me another.'

2014, Sara Craven, Seduction Never Lies, page 118:

A diminutive of the female given name Octavia.


Elmyra

(rare) A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Saurashtra

Borrowed from Gujarati સૌરાષ્ટ્ર (saurāṣṭra, “Saurashtra”) or its etymon Sanskrit सौराष्ट्र (saurāṣṭra, “from Saurashtra”), vriddhi form of सुराष्ट्र (surāṣṭra, “Saurashtra”), from सु- (su-, “good”) + राष्ट्र (rāṣṭra, “realm, dominion”).

af

/saʊˈɹɑːstɹə/

/saʊˈɹɑːʃtɹə/

An Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Saurashtra people.


Saurashtra

Borrowed from Saurashtra ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢰ꣄ꢜ꣄ꢬ (saurāṣṭra), from Sanskrit सौराष्ट्र (saurāṣṭra, “from Saurashtra”).

bor+

/saʊˈɹɑːstɹə/

/saʊˈɹɑːʃtɹə/

An Indo-Aryan language spoken by these people.


Palmyrene

From Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνός (Palmurēnós).

The importance of the Palmyrenes was as merchants, and it is as merchants that they become known to us in our earliest Roman reference.

1995, Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome, University of Michigan Press, page 31:

For in the course of the campaign the Roman provincial capital of Bostra fell to the Palmyrenes – whether by accident or design - along with a Roman force.

2000, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 80:

There is no surviving contemporary account of the war between the Palmyrenes and the Emperor Aurelian.

2008, Pat Southern, Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen, Continuum Books, page 131:

(historical) A native or inhabitant of ancient Palmyra or Palmyrena.


Palmyrene

The first panel is a bilingual text in Greek and Palmyrene, the second entirely in Palmyrene, and the third and fourth entirely in Greek.

1989, Jean-Marie Dentzer, Winfried Orthmann, Archéologie et histoire de la Syrie, page 74:

In one such inscription, Odaenathus is referred to in Palmyrene simply as Ras Tadmor without any indicators of Roman rank.

2003, Gary K. Young, Rome's Eastern Trade, page 209:

The auxiliaries also occasionally left behind bilingual dedications in Palmyrene with Greek or Latin.

2017, Kyle H. Keimer, Gillan Davis, Registers and Modes of Communication in the Ancient Near East:


Winnie the Pooh

en-proper noun

Winnie the Pooh (plural Winnie the Poohs)

From a bear cub named Winnie, short for Winnipeg, and a swan named Pooh.

No amount of Winnie the Poohs on the wall could distract you from seeing the huge bloodstain on the carpet.

2004, John A. Miller, Jr, The Victorian Mansion Murders, Pima Books, →ISBN, page 40:

Even in Europe, where killer bees are not much a menace, we have developed a kind of Winnie-the-Pooh attitude to the bees: they are dangerous, they are unpredictable, and they are usually acting to thwart us.

2007, Bee Wilson, The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, Macmillan, page 221:

The Stop commander was one Colonel Zimin, a loud, round, cheerful Winnie the Pooh type, who was always in excellent spirits, always joking and liked to pat the soldiers affectionately on the cheek when talking to them.

2009, Arkady Babchenko, “The Diesel Stop”, in Jeff Parker, Mikhail Iossel, editors, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, Tin House Books, page 160:

Awake each day with excitement; there are pirates to fight, a yellow brick road to find, and new parts of Winnie the Pooh's forest to explore.

2011, Mark Grant, Out of the Box and onto Wall Street, John Wiley & Sons, page 375:

Winnie the Poohs can be a little smug and take great pride in the fact that while the rest of us are spinning like crazy tops, they're walking calmly through life.

2012, Kay Warren, Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough, Baker Books, page 44:

They had all, to a man and woman, been rumbled, like so many Winnie The Poohs with their hands in Rabbit's honey pot.

2013, Douglas Lindsay, The End Of Days, Blasted Heath Ltd, page 11:

Like the time Mum made the Winnie the Pooh chocolate lollies for the cake sale, before cakes got banned. And I COULDN’T WAIT for them to set and go hard, so I could have one. So I kept taking them out of the fridge and drinking a bit out of the mould. And then when Mum went to get them in the morning, none of the Winnie the Poohs had any legs, and Eeyore didn’t have a head.

2014, Pamela Butchart, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners, Nosy Crow, →ISBN:

Censored photos included one of Winnie the Pooh in a car (Internet users in China have long likened Mr. Xi to images of the pudgy bear) and another of the Obama family purportedly watching the parade on television.

2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “Trending on Chinese Social Media: Xi’s Salute, an Autocrat’s Son and Winnie the Pooh”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-31, World:

When I returned, I said, “My daughter’s doing the nursery in Winnie the Pooh.” “Pooh?” she said. “Yes,” I said. “Winnie the.” “Pooh,” she repeated. I sensed that she wasn’t happy with me for some reason or another. “Pooh,” I reiterated. She said (very patronizingly, I might add), “Sir, we have at least four different Winnie the Poohs in our collection. You have your classic Pooh, your Disney Pooh …”

2016, Gene Perret, New Tricks for Old Dogs: 28 Laughable Lessons for People Too Stiff to Change … or Bend … or Move, Familius LLC, →ISBN:

A talking bear from an English children's book series carrying the same name, noted for his sweet, simple nature, and his love of honey.

Joanica-Puff (Portugal, Terramar's book translation)

Winny de Puh m (1980's book translation)

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne used hyphens, the Disney version does not


Tiff

A diminutive of the female given name Tiffany.


Fuxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the modern Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 伏羲 (Fúxī), variously understood and treated as a solar god, protoplast, culture hero, legendary emperor, and protohistorical tribal chief or as an imperial or prehistoric dynasty (氏, shì) in China before the Xia. The two characters may be phonetic but have the meaning "concealed from", "submitting to", or "prostrate before" 羲 (xī), a character that also appears in the name of the early solar goddess 羲和 (“Xīhé”), q.v.

The Chineſe ſay that Fo-hi, the Founder of their Monarchy, fix’d his Court in this Province; and began his Reign about the Year 2952, according to ſome Authors, whoſe Opinion if true confirms the Chronology of the Septuagint.

[1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE VII. HO-NAN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, page 102:

(Chinese mythology) A legendary ancient Chinese ruler and culture hero, typically the brother of Nüwa.


Fejeean

en-adj

Fejeean (comparative more Fejeean, superlative most Fejeean)

more Fejeean (comparative)
most Fejeean (superlative)


Fenella

From Scottish Gaelic Fionnaghal, from Fionnghuala.

Upon this unfortunate, with the touch of romance which marked many of her proceedings, Lady Derby had conferred the name of Fenella, after some ancient princess of the island.

1822, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Peveril of the Peak. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 68:

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Gaya

The presumed language of the Gaya confederacy.


Jeju

Borrowed from Korean 제주(濟州) (Jeju). Doublet of Cheju.

An endangered language, sometimes considered a dialect of the Korean language, spoken on the island.


Niggerville

(US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by black people.


Niggertown

/ˈnɪɡəɹtaʊn/

Johnny runs out of the theatre and hitchhikes to Ossining niggertown.

1987 [1984], James Ellroy, Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 191:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Niggertown.


Ona

A language spoken by the Selk'nam people in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in southernmost South America.


Bahasa Indonesia

Borrowed from Indonesian bahasa Indonesia.

The official name of the official language of Indonesia, otherwise known as Indonesian.


Bamum

A series of six scripts created for the Bamum language.


High Dutch

The Emperor Charles V, made almoſt the ſame Obſervation, when he ſaid, That if he were to ſpeak to his Horſe, it ſhould be in High-Dutch.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Studious to Learn the Language, the Houyhnhnm His Master Assists in Teaching Him. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 188:

[H]is impatience increased, he swore in high Dutch, the noise of the wheels on his pavement saluted his ears, his vexation redoubled […].

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:


Moll

A diminutive lambdacism of Mary. Compare Sally from Sarah and Hal from Harry.

Theſe vvere they that gave me that Name of Moll Flanders: For it vvas no more of Affinity vvith my real Name, or vvith any of the Names I had ever gone by than black, is of Kin to vvhite, […]

1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 262:


Concordia

58 Concordia
Concordia
Concordia (mythology)


Eskayan

An artificial auxiliary language used by the Eskaya people, based on Boholano but with a substituted lexicon.


Elmira

Possibly a feminine equivalent of Elmer, from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”) + *mēraz (“famous”), as in Spanish Edelmira. Introduced through literature (Molière, Goethe).

"Well, Elmira certainly is a classy name," I said. "Where is she from, New Jersey or something?"
"What's that, your idea of humor? My God, you're funny," Emma said. "Elmira is very English and just happens to be Honourable."

1981, Tama Janowitz, American Dad, Putnam, →ISBN, page 230:


Durbanite

An inhabitant of Durban in South Africa.


r rotunda

en-noun

r rotunda (plural rs rotunda or rs rotundae)

rs rotunda (plural)
rs rotundae (plural)

/ˌɑː.ɹəʊˈtʌn.də/

/ˌɑɹ.ɹoʊˈtʌn.də/

From or representing Latin r rotunda (literally “round ‘r’”). The adjective rotunda is the feminine form of rotundus, inflected to agree with littera (“letter”), elliptically omitted (compare e caudata). The phrase is little attested in Latin, and might have been formed in English, or been borrowed from another language which formed it from those Latin roots.

Coordinate term: straight r

[…] completely informed about the decisions made and the reasons to make them, e.g. r rotunda does not figure in the transcription as the use of straight r and r rotunda is governed by the preceding character and thus completely predictable.

1989, Arend Quak, Florus (Floor) Rhee, Palaeogermanica et onomastica., Rodopi, page 3

And certain geminated consonants are represented by capitals : ɢ, ɴ, ʀ, ꜱ. Does a form like haʀ mean a long r, or is it a scribal habit on the level of the usage of r rotunda, not straight r, after round letters? The occurrence of forms with -rr […]

2000, Anna A. Grotans, Heinrich Beck, Anton Schwob, De consolatione philogiae: studies in honor of Evelyn S. Firchow, volume 2, page 624:

The distinction between r rotunda and straight r has not been kept in the transcription, as the usage of r rotunda is predictable from the preceding character: r rotunda is used after round letters.

2017, Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, editor, A Grammar of Möðruvallabók, BRILL, →ISBN, page 11:

(typography) A curved form of the letter r, found in some medieval and fraktur scripts: ⟨ ꝛ ⟩.


Pemon

A Cariban language spoken by the Pemon people


Geechee

Clipping of Ogeechee.
From the Ogeechee River, a river in South Carolina, where this West African derived community settled. From Ogeechee, from the Muskogee language term meaning "river of the Uchees", from Creek Uchee, the Muskogee Creek name for the Yuchi people (an exonym provided by the Creek).

Gullah (South Carolina island language and culture)


Mwotlap

Borrowed from Mwotlap M̄otlap (“Motalava island”), from Proto-Torres-Banks *Mʷotalaβa (“big Mota”). Cognate with Mota M̄ota Lava.

An Oceanic language spoken mainly on the island of Motalava in Vanuatu (Banks Islands).


Richmonder

Richmond upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames

(rare) A native or inhabitant of Richmond upon Thames, London.


Laci

A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey

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

A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.


Belladonna

Oliver summed up his observations by conceding that in the early nineteen twenties before he — or, for that matter, she herself was born — Belladonna Jones might have been devastating.

1951, John Brophy, Windfall: A Diversion, page 128:


Puelche

An extinct language formerly spoken by these people in the Pampas region of Argentina.


Humpdashian

With Humpdashian reportedly seeking but not receiving a $30,000 appearance fee from Life Time Fitness at the Grand Hotel to make stops there, it's assumed that Seven paid.

2011 July 5, C. J., “Humpdashian tardy to party. First, a little melon-drama?”, in Star Tribune:

Since the August wedding, Americans have had everything “Humpdashian” (Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian) shoved down their throats until they were brainwashed into idolizing the perfect couple.

2011, Lauren Gross, "Kim and Kris: Humpdashian No More", The Spotlight (Southern Lehigh High School, Center Valley, Pennsylvania), Volume 55, Issue 2, November 2011, page 13

Then the Humpdashian split.

2011 November 11, Paul Kockler, “Society is captivated by the Kardashians”, in The Northern Iowan, volume 108, number 22, University of Northern Iowa, page 15:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrity Kim Kardashian and basketball player Kris Humphries, together from 2010 to 2011.


Hidatsa

A member of a Siouan people, part of the Three Affiliated Tribes.


Hidatsa

The traditional language of the Hidatsa people.


Hidatsa

en-adj

Hidatsa (comparative more Hidatsa, superlative most Hidatsa)

more Hidatsa (comparative)
most Hidatsa (superlative)

Of or pertaining to the Hidatsa language.


Emiri

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

An Emirati; a person from United Arab Emirates or of Emirian descent.


Emiri

Emiri (comparative more Emiri, superlative most Emiri)

more Emiri (comparative)
most Emiri (superlative)

Of or relating to the United Arab Emirates or its people.


Carls

Shortening of Carly + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

A diminutive of the female given name Carly or several of its alternative forms.


Idahonian

A native or inhabitant of the American state of Idaho.


nom de clavier

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-nom de clavier.wav

Coined in English from French nom (“name”) + de (“of”) + clavier (“keyboard”), by analogy with nom de plume.

Then we have people who use a nom de clavier, but whose real names are known to many of us.

2002 September 18, Padraig Breathnach, “Re: Introducing myself”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

So is Whet Moser simply a nom de clavier? There seems to be a real Marooner by that name (different bio from Mo's).

2003 April 21, Michael Dix, “Re: Sox fans just bloodthirsty?”, in chi.general (Usenet):

In fact, Dejagoogle finds 27 hits with me posting under that nom de clavier between November 2001 and December 2002.

2004 February 20, Bob Cunningham, “Re: The business of America is Halliburton”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

(Internet, humorous) A pseudonym used in online communications; a handle.


Marfa

Transliteration of Russian Ма́рфа (Márfa). Doublet of Martha. The town is named after a character in Jules Verne's novel Michael Strogoff.

Марфа Марфа#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Марфа (Marfa).


Chimpy

From chimp + -y, comparing Bush's appearance or facial expressions to a chimpanzee's.

I wonder how all those testosterone-laden combat virgins feel now, after supporting a scumbag like Chimpy and then watching him cut funding for vets....

2003 June 17, Hoss Cartright, “Chimpy and Veterans”, in az.politics (Usenet):

The day that George W. Bush first slimed his way into the Oval Office must have been a happy one indeed for the radical Iranian handlers behind Chalabi's INC operation. They knew Chimpy was exactly the sort of sucker they needed: Intellctually lazy and stupendously vain.

2004 May 23, Doctoroe, “Re: How many Bushies does it take to change a lightbulb?”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Bush would've told Murkins they were traitors for not wanting his bailouts, CEO Bonuses, Wars, Cheney and Jebya's conflicts of interests and exposing spies who refused to lie for Chimpy.

2010 January 12, Palin On Beaver News, “Nobody Voted For it. Nobody Wants it. He campaigned AGAINST it.”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

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


Palenquero

From Spanish palenquero, from San Basilio de Palenque + -ero.

A Spanish-based creole spoken in northern Colombia.


North Atlanticist

en-noun

North Atlanticist (plural North Atlanticists)

What is it that has so upset the North Atlanticists who only recently applauded the decision by R. Lubbers' right-centrist cabinet to accept the new U.S. nuclear missiles on the Netherlands soil in 1988?

1986, Worldwide Report: Arms control, page 19:

A remarkable fact that this updated position came into being without the presence of CVP Minister of Foreign Affairs, L. Tindemans, a faithful North Atlanticist and a supporter of the placing of the missiles, at the party meeting in question.

1986, Res publica - Volume 27, page 257:

That Mrs Thatcher, friend of Ronald Reagan and North Atlanticist, has been replaced by John Major and a more committedly European cabinet, does not resolve the issue.

1991, Roberto Giorgio Rabel, Europe Without Walls, page 142:

Nor can the common vision of the North Atlanticists, who made up the second tier of officials within the Foreign Ministries of the three allies, be underestimated as well.

2003, Michael A. Hennessy, B. J. C. McKercher, War in the Twentieth Century: Reflections at Century's End, page 90:

One whose political views support the North Atlantic countries as a power base, especially a supporter of NATO.


Wayleen

Whether Wayleen were aware of the showers or not, remains to be seen, as they travelled under tight security in vehicles with blacked-out windows to the venue.

2008 June 12, Corinne Abrams, Adam Sherwin, “Rain puts a damper on Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin wedding”, in The Times:

Whilst all appears well for the Wayleen partnership, it appears Wayne's dad, who's also called Wayne isn't having such good fortune.

2009 November 23, “And baby Roo comes too - Wayne Rooney's son enjoys his first visit to Old Trafford”, in Daily Mail:

If her family and strong Catholic upbringing in Croxteth has helped her through the 'Wayleen' sagas, Coleen goes into 2011 in the knowledge that while she is one half of a famous footballing couple, she has developed a lucrative brand identity in her own right and, this week, she fronts three magazine covers

2010 December 10, Bairbre Power, “Coleen -- still smiling despite Wayne's away games. . .”, in Irish Independent:

(UK, slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Wayne Rooney and Coleen Rooney (née McLoughlin).


Indianapolitan

The Indianapolitans seem to be very civil and orderly people, a pattern of sobriety and good behavior, if we can infer anything on these points from the smallness of their police force, for this body, considered indispensable in most cities for the preservation of order, in this city numbers only eight, including a chief.

1857, J. B. B., “A City of the West”, in The New England Farmer, volume 9, page 387:

1885 October 17, “A Missing Indianapolitan”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, retrieved 2014-10-03:

If the Indianapolitans could declare and enforce an effective embargo upon all outsiders, it is evident that Indianapolis would languish and die.

1892 September 17, “Indianapolis, New-York, and Cholera”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2014-10-02:

The earliest sculpture by an Indianapolitan was the statue of Benjamin Franklin by John Mahoney, erected in 1874 above the front doorway of the Franklin Insurance Company building in the southeast segment of the Circle.

1954 June 20, Eva Draegert, “The Fine Arts in Indianapolis, 1875–1880”, in Indiana Magazine of History, volume 50, number 2, Trustees of Indiana University, page 105:


Airspeak

It is always, apparently, the UK, US and Australian aircrews who are criticised for going outside the codified bounds of 'airspeak'.

The advantage of a formalized language is rapid communication and the avoidance of ambiguity in applied settings tough, for instance, the use of "affirm" instead of "yes", and one request for "clearance to bypass your class" testifies to the inappropriateness of "Airspeak" as an acceptable mode of social communication!

1994, Gunilla Bradley, Human Factors in Organizational Design and Management-IV:

Even within a single language, terminology and phrasing need to be standardized, to avoid ambiguity, and great efforts have been made to develop such a system for English, widely called 'Airspeak'.

2012, David Crystal, English as a Global Language, page 109:

air traffic controller
air traffic controller

A controlled form of natural language based on English and designed to facilitate communication between aircraft pilots and air traffic controllers.


Texian

(chiefly historical) An inhabitant of Texas.

(especially) An English-speaking inhabitant of Texas while it was part of Mexico.


Texian

en-adj

Texian (comparative more Texian, superlative most Texian)

more Texian (comparative)
most Texian (superlative)

(rare) Of, from, or pertaining to Texas.

(especially) Of, from, or pertaining to Texas while it was part of Mexico.


appriser

(Scots law) One who carries out an apprising.


Alija

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Алија (Alija).


Caribbean English

The dialects of the English language spoken in the Caribbean islands, and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America, and South America, including Belize and Guyana.

caribisk-engelsk

broad term for sum of all Caribbean dialects of English


Sidetan

Of, from, or relating to Side, an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia (modern Turkey).


Sidetan

Synonym of Sidetic, the language of the Sidetans.


marsling

From Mars + -ling, modelled after earthling.

And that the first communication and transaction between earthlings and marslings — or venusites or mercurians — would be a lumber deal.

1953, Crow's Forest Products Digest - Volume 31

An inhabitant or being from Mars; a Martian.


Salzburgian

[…]one crosses over the Grand Place, on which stands the Cathedral, to the Mozart Place, so called from a statue of the celebrated composer, of whom the Salzburgians are so proud, and thence past the Government Palace to the Cajetan gate, and along the river to the new bridge.

1867, A Reminiscence of 1859, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 76, page 384:

Mozart often made merry over the Salzburgians; he called them stupid and envious.

2006, Friedrich Kerst, Mozart: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words, page 61:

Jackie and I strolled down the streets, each balancing a beverage and provoking many curious stares from passing Salzburgians.

2010, Nita Farrier, The Grande Tour, page 18:


Mba

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

An Ubangian language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Ob-Ugric

Of or pertaining to a subgroup of languages in the Uralic language family, including Khanty and Mansi.

Ugric

subgroup of languages in the Uralic family


Ob-Ugric

(linguistics) A subgroup of languages in the Uralic language family, including Khanty and Mansi.


Spederline

We're just confused at the moment because, for all the media hype surrounding the birth of your little progeny, all the continuing speculation about what the Spederline offspring will be christened (US Weekly's call of PMS Federline sounds pretty good), no one is entirely sure why you're still here.

2005 September 18, Amanda Andrade, “In defense of Britney”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan:

Between mandals with socks, Cheetos and Chaotic, you are so over Spederline.

2005 November, “International Cool Survey 2005”, in ELLEgirl, page 36:

However, last week the news of the Spederline Split provided a welcome respite from the endless gloating from the "Left" and the whining from the "Right."

2006 November 17, Mariel Blake, “What a difference a day makes: Britney Spears, Democrat victory”, in Virgin Islands Daily News:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, together from 2004 to 2006.


Vaughniston

Perhaps watching the antics of TomKat, Brangelina, Vaughniston and LaLohan is our way of reverting to the world of high school drama.

2005 October 27, Rebecca Silver, “Pardon the 'Vanity Fair'”, in The Daily Princetonian, Princeton University:

Now, Vaughniston gets their turn in this decidedly “unromantic“ comedy about the dissolution of a relationship -- who gets the apartment, the friends, etc.

2006 May 25, Jane Louise Boursaw, “The Great Popcorn Explosion”, in Northern Express:

Rumours are abuzz that 'Vaughniston' aka Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are back together once again.

2007 April 24, “Aniston and Vaughn back together again?”, in Hindustan Times:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, together from 2005 to 2006.


Speidi

[…] The Washington Post's intrepid journalist Steven Goff tracked down Speidi in hiding at a hotel in Costa Rica, and was an eyewitness to "The Hills'" couple confessing they were just tossing back a few glasses of red wine and using a few rolls of toilet paper before heading back to the show site.

2009 June 4, Lisa de Moraes, “TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on Speidi's Defection From 'I'm a Celebrity . . .'”, in The Washington Post:

In November 2009, Speidi released their book (yes, a book), called How to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture.

2013 November 29, Lydia Smith, “Heidi and Spencer's fifth anniversary - Speidi relationship as Heidi unveils her new body”, in The Mirror, UK:

Speidi might have faked a lot of drama on “The Hills,” but the reality couple said there was one line they wouldn’t cross.

2014 February 6, Kirthana Ramisetti, “Spencer Pratt claims ‘The Hills’ producers wanted him to ditch Heidi Montag on their wedding day”, in New York Daily News:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.


Vinnifer

Whether Vinnifer - or, as some wags are calling it, Jence - can conjure up the same degree of fascination as the ongoing public besotment with Brangelina remains unclear.

2005 October 23, “Jennifer's lusty lip-lock tells a rebound tale of post-Brad love”, in Irish Independent:

With TomKat, Brangelina and Vinnifer, the competition is steep, but this week's award goes to Jude Law and Sadie Frost, whom the Star says are comforting each other as their love lives crumble.

2005 October 26, “Is Katie Holmes sweet & naive, or just dumb?”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:

Brangelina monopolized the paparazzi. Vinnifer had the gossips geysering.

2007 January 19, Richard Corliss, “John Wayne: Still Tops”, in Time:


Bolon

(lake in Russia): Transliteration of Russian Болонь (Bolonʹ), probably from Nanai [Term?].

translit

A Manding language spoken in Burkina Faso.


YouPube

Recent viewing: Doug Stanhope on YouPube

2007 January 1, Hypodeemic Nerdle, “Festivities”, in uk.misc (Usenet):

just being looking around on youpube etc. jan hammer stuff and the Dx7...god i wanted one of those!!

2009 January 19, Jules, “dragon 32 + freecycle + stupid woman”, in uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s (Usenet):

Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming YouPube links on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people

2010 August 27, The Patrick Michael Sullivan UCM Repost Project, “Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming libel and drivel on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet):

erm you mean arrange your will to include whoever finds your remains to post said video on youpube?

2012 April 30, JimK, “White spirit won't burn?”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):

(derogatory, Internet slang) The video-sharing site YouTube.


Wymysorys

From Vilamovian wymysiöeryś; see Wilamowice.

A West Germanic language spoken in the Polish town of Wilamowice.


Sikkimese

A Southern Tibetic language spoken in Sikkim.


Floridan

en-adj

Floridan (comparative more Floridan, superlative most Floridan)

more Floridan (comparative)
most Floridan (superlative)

[...] then from December 17, as the season reached its height, there came into operation an 11.25 p.m. departure from Chicago for the west coast Floridan resorts, [...].

1942 May-June, “Notes and News: War and the American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 185:

(uncommon) Synonym of Floridian (of or relating to the state of Florida in the United States of America).


Maquiritari

From Spanish Maquiritare, said to be from an Arawakan language, with a meaning “people of the rivers, water people”.

Synonym of Ye'kwana (“A Cariban language of Venezuela and Brazil”).


C. of E.

Church of England
Church of England#English


Tryphosa

From Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “softness, delicacy”).


Isaurian

An extinct language spoken in the area of Isaura, Asia Minor.


Chyna

(rare) Alternative spelling of China (“female given name”).


Fotini

From Greek Φωτεινή (Foteiní), from Ancient Greek φωτεινός (phōteinós, “bright, shining”).

der

Φωτεινή Φωτεινή#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Φωτεινή (Foteiní).


Arawakan

(linguistics) Of or relating to a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America and migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas.


Indyref

Abbreviation of independence referendum.

In the first foreign policy initiative launched in Edinburgh since 1707, senior SNP figures have begun an intense round of behind-the-scenes meetings with foreign dignitaries as they prepare the ground for next year's indyref.

2013 October 23, David Leask, “SNP’s mission to woo the world”, in The Herald, Glasgow, archived from the original on 2017-05-17:

Experienced politicians were surprised by the astounding vitality that the indyref unleashed.

2014 September 23, Peter Jones, “Referendum shows the power of people”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 2017-05-17:

Coming exactly a year after the same “impossible” moment when the Yes vote hit 51 per cent before the indyref, this concerted and hysterical attack will have stirred memories and prompted sympathy among fellow Trident and austerity-opposing Yes voters.

2015 September 13, Lesley Riddoch, “Corbyn could play well with Scots”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 2016-03-24:

My only regrets are thatbrad T2 failed to get to grips with the new era of #indyref and Scottish national identity – for which Renton's famous "shite" speech helped plant a tiny seed in 1996 – and that the second film didn't give the women characters much to do, especially the excellent Kelly Macdonald and Shirley Henderson.

2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn’t disappoint”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-01-20:

(Scotland, informal) The Scottish independence referendum held on 18 September 2014.


Abcde

From the first five letters of the English alphabet.

(US, uncommon) A female given name originating as a coinage.


Wusun

From Mandarin 烏孫／乌孙 (Wūsūn) (lit. "Grandchildren/Descendants of the Crow/Raven").

zh-l

烏孫／乌孙 (Wūsūn)

An ancient nomadic steppe people who lived in western Gansu in northwest China, near the Yuezhi people, and were defeated by the Xiongnu circa 176 BCE.


Yuezhi

From Mandarin 月氏 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Clan”) or 月支 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Branch”).

der

An ancient Indo-European people who originally settled in the arid grasslands of the eastern Tarim Basin area, in what is today Xinjiang and western Gansu, in China, before migrating to Transoxiana, Bactria and then northern South Asia, where one branch of the Yuezhi founded the Kushan Empire.


Koyraboro Senni Songhai

The expression "koyra-boro senn-i" denotes "the language of the town dwellers" as opposed to nomads like the Tuareg people and other transhumant people.


Tamika

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


Mary Anne

"We've been making up the most glamorous names for you, Marguerite and Marlene and Madeleine―"
"And Melanie and Marianne and Marietta," put in Jane.
"And Mary Anne," said Matthew.
"Mary Anne's not glamorous," said Jane.

1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 185:

Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to correct them) have time for some questions?

2012, Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN:


Mary Ann

She doesn't like being called after Mother Hubbard, who is an old woman in a baby bonnet, even more than she doesn't like to be called Honoria. "That name practically ruined mah entire childhood," she said once. "Ah wanted to make darn sure Ah gave mah little girl a name nobody in creation could make fun of."
But she hasn't. 'Mary Ann, Mary Ann, washed her face in a frying pan,' they sang at her on the playground at recess. Soon as she grows up she is going to change it to another one, sort of like it, but nicer, more like books: Marian, or Marianne. Or maybe Miranda.

1979, Alison Lurie, Only Children, Random House, →ISBN, page 12:

The entire family fell in love with Mary Ann, holding her, playing peek-a-boo until she would laugh so loudly. The snow had been falling for several days, and it was blistering cold. Our family didn't own an automobile, but Daddy sat […]

2013 June 17, Victoria Rose, The Princess and the Devil, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:


Kobon

A language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in Madang Province and Western Highlands Province, north of Mount Hagen.


Unami

A Native American people, one of the three main divisions of the Lenape Nation.


Reenie

A diminutive of the female given name Doreen

A diminutive of the female given name Irene

A diminutive of the female given name Maureen


Slabber

(US, informal) An inhabitant of Slab City, a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California.


Midgardian

en-adj

Midgardian (comparative more Midgardian, superlative most Midgardian)

more Midgardian (comparative)
most Midgardian (superlative)


Asgardian

(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Asgard


Asgardian

Asgardian (comparative more Asgardian, superlative most Asgardian)

more Asgardian (comparative)
most Asgardian (superlative)


Hattic

An extinct language once spoken in that region.


Arthuriana

From Arthurian + -ana or Arthur + -iana.

This chapter deals with the most complex geographic site in Arthuriana because of the intricate array of possibilities offered by clues, some supporting a link between Glastonbury and Arthur […]

1996, Frank D. Reno, The Historic King Arthur, page 221:

(Arthurian legend) Things relating to King Arthur.


Gelao

The lect spoken by these people, which is a cluster of a large number of lects which are sometimes considered dialects and sometimes separate languages.


Varvara

Borrowed from Russian Варва́ра (Varvára). Doublet of Barbara.

Варва́ра Варвара#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Варва́ра (Varvára).


Bala

In Wales, from Welsh Bala, from bala (“effluent from a lake”).

An unincorporated community in Riley County, Kansas, United States, named after Bala in Wales.


Schmucksville

That maybe^([sic]) okay for some hick from Schmucksville, Tennessee. But not for you kid. You got talent.

2007, David Lee, Nothing Rhymes with Silver 2, page 222:

You finally graduated—and with honors—but unfortunately you went to Schmucks University somewhere in Schmucksville that no schmuck has ever heard of.

2009, Gregory Bergman, Jodi Miller, WTF? College, page 232:

(US, informal, derogatory) A dull and insignificant town.


Faeroe Islander

en-noun

Faeroe Islander (plural Faeroe Islanders)


Faroe Islander

an inhabitant of the Faroe Islands (Faroes)


East Central German

One of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, and until 1945 in large parts of what is now western and southern Poland; distinguished from West Central German by the shift of pre-Old High German initial *p- to pf- (now usually f-).


East Central German

of or pertaining to the East Central German dialects


West Central German

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia

one of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, and North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as Luxembourg, easternmost Belgium, and southeasternmost Limburg (Netherlands); characterized by the preservation of pre-Old High German initial *p-.

Hessian

Rhine Franconian (Rhine-Franconian), Rhenish-Franconian


West Central German

of or pertaining to the West Central German dialects


Elouise

Alternative form of Eloise, influenced by Louise.


Upper German

Calque of German Oberdeutsch / oberdeutsch.

One of two major dialect groups of the High German language; spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol; distinguished from Central German / Middle German (= Mitteldeutsch) by the shifts of Proto-Germanic *-pp-, *-mp- to -pf-, -mpf-.


Central German

Calque of German Mitteldeutsch/mitteldeutsch.

One of two major dialect groups of the High German language which is spoken primarily in central Germany, Luxembourg, easternmost Belgium, and southeastern Limburg (in the Netherlands); distinguished from Upper German by the preservation of Proto-Germanic *-pp- and *-mp-.


linking r

(phonetics) An "r" that is pronounced only because it is closely followed by another morpheme beginning with a vowel sound, as in water ice, in non-rhotic varieties of English.


Lashawndra

A female given name of African-American usage.


Rafa

A diminutive of the female given name Raphaela, variant of Raffa

A diminutive of the male given name Raphael, variant of Rafe


Decker

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Chaney

en-proper noun

Chaney (countable and uncountable, plural Chaneys)

(rare) A female given name transferred from the surname.


Merritt

A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th and 20th century usage.

A female given name from surname, of 1970s and later usage.


Barron

* As a Scottish surname, from Scots baron, sometimes found as McBarron; see Baron.
* As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), a personal name from bior (“spear”). See Barnes, Barrington.
* As a Spanish surname, augmentative of Barro.
* As a French and Spanish surname, variant of Baron.


Sheppard

From Middle English, from schepherde (“shepherd”).


Sweet

* As an English surname, from the adjective sweet.
* As a German and Jewish surname, translated from Suess, from süß (“sweet”).
* As a French surname, translated from Ledoux.


Hardin

→ Crow: Chichúchi (calque)