bush

From Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque.
Cognate with West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos (“forest”), German Busch (“bush”), Danish and Norwegian busk (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic.

inh

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

As he ſtood on one ſide for a minute or ſo, unbuttoning his waſte-coat, and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greaſy landſkip lay fairly open to my view: a wide open-mouth’d gap, overſhaded with a grizzly buſh, ſeemed held out like a beggar’s wallet for its’ proviſion.

1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 65:

I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.

1941, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 27:

But no, the little pool of semen was there, proof positive, with droplets caught hanging in her bush.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 787:

I push my seed in her bush for life / It's gonna work because I'm pushing it right

2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, in Phrenology, performed by The Roots:

(slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.


pomace

en-noun

pomace (countable and uncountable, plural pomaces)

[Alt: Red grape flesh and seeds]
From Late Middle English pomis, pomys (“cider; pulp of plants pressed to extract their juice or oil”), probably from Medieval Latin pōmācium, pōmātium (“cider”), possibly a variant of pomaceum (although first attested later), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to take”), in the sense of something taken off a tree) + -āceum (neuter form of -āceus (suffix meaning ‘belonging to; having the nature of’, forming adjectives)). Doublet of pomade, pomate, and pomatum.
Sense 1.1 (“crushed apples”) and sense 1.2 (“residue from grapes”) were possibly influenced by Middle French pommage (“(cidermaking) apple harvest; apple orchards”) and French poma, pomas, pomat (“residue from apples”) (Northern France).

bërsi

Sovv, as yet, Pomace of Cider-preſſings to raiſe Nurſeries; and ſet all ſorts of Kernels, Stones, &c.

1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], “Kalendarium Hortense: Or, The Gard’ners Almanac; […] [December.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 80:

Next to the VVhite is the Black Thorne and the Crab, vvhich make a very good Fence, and is raiſed as the VVhite Thorne, only if you ſovv the Pummace vvith them, they vvill come up the firſt Year.

1708, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Of Inclosing of Land”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:

The pulp or pulplike matter remaining from a substance pressed to extract its juice or oil.

(historical) Such residue (especially castor bean cake or fish scrap) used as fertilizer.


GC

en-noun

GC (countable and uncountable, plural GCs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of glucocorticoid.

guanylate cyclase
guanylate cyclase#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of guanylate cyclase.


porky

Fucked if I know, I never even clapped my little porkies on him before.

2015, Jeremy Cameron, Brown Bred in Wengen:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural) An eye.


cookie

→ Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)

→ Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk¹ kei⁴)

→ Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)

→ Catalan: cookie

→ Cebuano: kokis

→ French: cookie

→ Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)

→ German: Cookie

→ Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)

→ Hindi: कुकी (kukī)

→ Italian: cookie

→ Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)

→ Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)

→ Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)

→ Malay: kuki

→ Polish: cookie

→ Portuguese: cookie

→ Russian: куки (kuki)

→ Spanish: cookie

→ Swedish: cookie

→ Tagalog: kuki

→ Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)

→ Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

koekie

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit

(Canada, US, Philippines) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.

(UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.

koekie

sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) which has chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. baked into it

(slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.


supercilium

Borrowed from Latin supercilium (“eyebrow; brow, ridge; pride, arrogance”).

bor

(anatomy, rare) The eyebrow (arch of hair above each eye).

(anatomy) The overhanging margin of a bony cavity (as of the acetabulum).


phallic

Opposing the war in El Salvador and opposing the phallic aggression everywhere.

1990 April 14, Jeremy Grainger, Read Weaver, “You Don't Gotta!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

Relating to or exhibiting masculine or patriarchal traits, seen metaphorically as seated in the male genitalia.


waxing

en-noun

waxing (countable and uncountable, plural waxings)

(countable) A cosmetic procedure in which hair is removed from the body by the application and removal of wax.


todger

A variant of tadger, perhaps related to dialectal todge (“anything of a thick consistency”), todgey (“short and fat”).

2005, Alexis James, Into the Woods: Erotic Fairytales and Other Stories, Lulu, US, page 150,
A virgin you are and a virgin you will remain until your 18th birthday, whereupon you shall crave your first cock, taste your first todger, knuzzle your first knob and this shall be your undoing.

2008, Ashley Hames, Sin Cities: Adventures of a Sex Reporter, Tonto Books, UK, page 66,
I′ve even been in bed with a girl who, on clapping her eyes on my todger, looked up at me. ‘Your willy′s not very big is it?’ she said.

2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, AuthorHouse, UK, page 8,
As stated previously, boys think with their todgers and I had become a decent looking young girl, so I naturally understood my vagina had magnetic charms to a penis.

I showed him my todger, softened by Elizabeth Arden.

2023, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Spare, Penguin Random House, →ISBN:

(UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, colloquial) A penis.


quim

Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.

1879, anonymous author, “The Wanton Lass”, in The Pearl, number 1:

Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 938:

As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.

1970, Stephen Longstreet, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 145:

When she's done he licks the last few drops from his lips. More cling, golden clear, to the glossy hairs of her quim.

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 2: Une Perm au Casino Hermann Goering, page 235:

Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.

2005, Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights, →ISBN, page 131:

(vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.


dopamine

dopamine (countable and uncountable, plural dopamines)

Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.

1988, Lubert Stryer, Biochemistry, 3rd edition, page 1025:

“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem.”

2017 December 12, Amy B Wang, “Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’”, in The Washington Post:

(biochemistry, pharmacology) A monoamine C₈H₁₁NO₂ that is a decarboxylated form of dopa, present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including adrenalin.


shampoo

shampoo (countable and uncountable, plural shampoos)

→ Basque: xanpu

→ Catalan: xampú

⇒ Chinese: 香波 (xiāngbō)

→ Danish: shampoo

desctree

→ Dutch: shampoo
→ Acehnese: sampô
→ Indonesian: sampo

→ Estonian: šampoon

→ Faroese: sjampo

→ Finnish: shampoo, sampoo, šampoo

→ French: shampooing, shampoing, champoing
→ Bulgarian: шампоан (šampoan)
→ Greek: σαμπουάν (sampouán)
→ Russian: шампунь (šampunʹ)
→ Armenian: շամպուն (šampun)
→ Azerbaijani: şampun
→ Georgian: შამპუნი (šamṗuni)
→ Lithuanian: šampūnas
→ Romanian: șampon
→ Turkish: şampuan

→ Galician: xampú

→ German: Shampoo
→ Czech: šampón
→ Hungarian: sampon
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: ша̀мпо̄н
Latin script: šàmpōn
→ Slovak: šampón

desc

→ Hebrew: שַׁמְפּוּ (shampú), שַׁמְפּוֹ (shampó)

→ Hindi: शैंपू (śaimpū)

→ Icelandic: sjampó

→ Irish: seampú

→ Italian: shampoo, sciampo

→ Japanese: シャンプー (shanpū)

→ Korean: 샴푸 (syampu)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: sjampo

Nynorsk: sjampo

→ Portuguese: champô, xampu (Brazil), (unadapted form) shampoo

→ Hunsrik: Schampu

→ Spanish: champú, shampoo, yampú

→ Swedish: schampo

→ Thai: แชมพู (chɛɛm-puu)

→ Yiddish: שאַמפּו (shampu)

→ Zulu: ishampu

From Hindi चाँपो (cā̃po) / चांपो (cāmpo), imperative form of चाँपना (cā̃pnā) / चांपना (cāmpnā, “to press, knead”), mid 18th c.


dentist

It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 119:

Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

2014 July 31, Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 25:

A medical doctor who specializes in teeth.


carpal

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(anatomy) Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).


metacarpal

en-noun

metacarpal (plural metacarpals or metacarpalia)

metacarpals (plural)
metacarpalia (plural)

From metacarpus + -al or metacarp- + -al.


humerus

From Late Latin humerus, from umerus. Cognate with Spanish hombro (“shoulder”).

Jojo was fine, however—well, she had a fractured humerus and needed to stay overnight, but it could’ve been a lot worse.

2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 76:


clavicle

Borrowed from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).

Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.

2022 June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, 0:47 from the start, in Secret Service officials: Agents willing to dispute Trump SUV incident under oath, CNN:

And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.

2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

(anatomy) The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.


permanent

en-adj

permanent (comparative more permanent, superlative most permanent)

more permanent (comparative)
most permanent (superlative)

From Middle English permanent, permanente, from Middle French permanent, from Latin permanēns, from permaneō (“I stay through”). First attested in the 15th century.

Nothing in this world is truly permanent.


permanent

She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.

1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 8:

A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.

(collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.


permanent

en-verb

permanent (third-person singular simple present permanents, present participle permanenting, simple past and past participle permanented)

permanents (present singular third-person)
permanenting (participle present)
permanented (participle past)
permanented (past)


keratin

en-noun

keratin (countable and uncountable, plural keratins)

Borrowed from German Keratin, from Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -in.

(biochemistry) The protein of which hair and nails are composed.


wiener

Clipping of wienerwurst, from German Wienerwurst (“Vienna sausage”), from Wiener (“of Vienna, Viennese”) + Wurst (“sausage”), because sausages were originally made in Vienna, Austria.
In Germany today this sausage is known as Wiener Würstchen (“small sausage from Vienna”), but in Vienna and the Netherlands it is called a Frankfurter or Frankfurter Würstchen (“small sausage from Frankfurt”).


breast milk

en-noun

breast milk (countable and uncountable, plural breast milks)

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langer

Uncertain. Suggestions include:
* from langur monkeys, via the Munster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India
* from languor
* from lang, variant of long
* from "on the lang", supposed variant of on the lam
* from leangaire, a word in Cnósach Focal ó Bhaile Bhúirne, a dictionary of the Muskerry Gaeltacht. It means an unusually long slender salmon.

(slang, Ireland, derogatory) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).


mullet

Wikispecies
From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes), especially the genus Mullus (red mullets or goatfish).

moll

fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)

(especially US) A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes) (grey mullets).

بُورِيّ

fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)

(US) Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family (especially in the genus Moxostoma, redhorses)


mullet

1994 US. Coined and popularized by hip hop group the Beastie Boys in their song "Mullet Head".

business in the front, party in the back

Coordinate term: bilevel

– Mullet head, don't touch the back
– Cut the sides, don't touch the back

– Maybe it's a curly fro.
– Maybe every day is bad hair day!
– Maybe it's a mullet!

2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls With Slingshots 406:

A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.


mullet

From Middle English molet, from Old French molette (“rowel”).

Grogan, Creation of 1859, or Moyvore, Westmeath. [...] Arms,—Barry of sex or and sable, on a chief engrailed azure a lion passant of the first. Crest,—A lion's head erased sable, charged with a mullet or.

1871, Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, page 215:

(heraldry) A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.


MGM

MGM (countable and uncountable, plural MGMs)

Coordinate term: FGM

They brandished statistics of deaths from adult circumcision each year. They called it MGM, an acronym quickly acquiring the notoriety of FGM.

2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Love Made in Manchester”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), page 286:

male genital mutilation
male genital mutilation#English


wang

Uncertain. Perhaps short for whangdoodle (“gadget, doodad”), or from whang (“stour, thick slice", also "thong”), from thwang (“thong”). See thong. Compare wong.

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.

1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, pages 168–169:


shave

From Middle English shave, from Old English sceafa, from Proto-Germanic *skabô.

"[…] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.

1919, Edward Frederic Benson, Across the Stream:

(informal) A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.


vitamin

1920, originally vitamine (1912), from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines. The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for natural substances of undefined composition. Drummond also introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) at this same time.

a food rich in vitamins

Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.

vitaminë

organic compound essential to human health


hood

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz (cognate with Saterland Frisian Houd, West Frisian/Dutch hoed, German Low German Hood, German Hut). Cognate with Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (compare Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /xaudā/)), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). More at hat.

kapuç

covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak

(ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).

huppu

expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra and Indian cobra

Platysma myoides […] which sends attenuated fibres and slips to the gular region of the hood and is lost dorsad in the fascia covering the trapezius but acquires thickness over the sternum and cervix. Thyromandibularis […] Two distinct muscles may bear this name, an externus and an internus. The latter rises by two slips from about the middle of the inner surface of the mandible and is inserted into the middle of the inner side of the thyrohyal. The greatly elongated thyrobyal passes between the two layers of integument constituting the hood, at its middle fold, and so forms a “yard” to which the lower half of the hood is bent. This inner division of the Thyromandibularis being an adductor of the bone, is the chief agent in lowering the hood and bracing its lower moiety to the side of the neck—it is antagonised by the greater part of the outer division which rises fleshy immediately behind the inner one, but nearly on the lower edge of the jaw, the origin of the mylohyoideus being between them. It immediately divides into two superposed fascicles, the deeper one being inserted into the lower surface of the thyrohyal, a little behind the insertion of the inner division—the other sub division is inserted posteriorly to the former one into the outer side of the bone for the rest of its length and acting thus advantageously is an efficient erector of the lower part of the hood.

1883, Charles W. De Vis, “Myology of Chlamydosaurus kingii”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 8, pages 301–302:

(colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

huppu

In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)

(colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.


permease

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that transport membrane proteins.

permeaasi

enzyme that transports membrane proteins


flask

en-verb

flask (third-person singular simple present flasks, present participle flasking, simple past and past participle flasked)

flasks (present singular third-person)
flasking (participle present)
flasked (participle past)
flasked (past)

From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; whence also Dutch fles; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”) (whence also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”) (whence also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of fiasco, flacon, and flagon.
The sense “laborator glassware” is from Italian fiasco, and the sense “container for holding a casting mold” is from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.

der

(dentistry) To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.


quiff

His woolly brown hair shaped into a drooping quiff, he's been sitting poolside all morning, snatching sucks on cigarettes before the waiters can tell him no, and thinking about reworking some incidental music for the band's gig tomorrow.

2012 September 2, Tom Lamont, The Observer:

(UK) A hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward, often associated with the styles of the 1950s.


forelock

From Middle English *forelock, *forelok, from Old English forelocc, equivalent to fore- + lock.

His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 300-303:

1734, The Koran: Commonly Called the Alkoran of Mohammed, translated by George Sale, Sura 96, Congealed Blood, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7440/pg7440-images.html
Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.

Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;

1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, section XXXVIII:

This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut […]

1978, Edmund White, chapter VIII, in Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 135:

The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.


callow

en-adj

callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)

callower (comparative)
more callow (comparative)
callowest (superlative)
most callow (superlative)

From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“bare, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel(H)wo- (“bare, naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German Low German kahl (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Swedish kal and kalka (“bald”), and Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”).
Compare the phonetically and semantically similar Latin calvus (“bald”), Finnish kalju (“bald”), Persian کل (kal), and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá), which, despite their close resemblance to the Germanic and Slavic terms, are likely false cognates as shown by Grimm's law.

cog

Then there was a little Chinese in full azure costume, with long gesticulating arms, and large callow head, who pertinaciously threw in his squeaky plea for Confucius in the most unsyntactical French.

1878, Alfred Egmont Hake, Paris Originals: With Twenty Etchings, page 25:

In fact many of our fresh water fish are somewhat Chinese in their tastes, for I have frequently used, with great success, the callow and hairless young of field-mice as bait for mascalonge, pike, pickerel, bass and sheep'shead, […]

1883, William Charles Harris, The American Angler, volume 3, page 20:

[…] while its congener of the land (A. agrestis) breeds in myriads over the adjoining meadows, hollowing out its nest just enough under the sward for its hairless callow young to be clear of the dangerous scythe-blade.

1890, Mayne Reid, The Naturalist in Siluria, page 5:

There was a sense abroad as he spoke that the world was rocking together to great music, and this callow-headed professor by the table had caught a note of it.

1916, The Living Age, volume 290, page 24:

This time it held a callow-headed baby in a pink frock.

These hands were marked of hard work and yet soft enough to tenderly hold the baby's little callow head.

2011, Altea, Happiness Was a Red Cadillac, page 17:


shiner

From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).


wink

en-verb

wink (third-person singular simple present winks, present participle winking, simple past and past participle winked)

winks (present singular third-person)
winking (participle present)
winked (participle past)
winked (past)

From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”).

cog

Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

But man doth know / The ſpring, whence all things flow: / And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks, and lets his humours reigne: / They make his life a conſtant blot, / And all the bloud of God to run in vain.

1638, George Herbert, “Miserie”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, 5th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] T[homas] Buck, and R[oger] Daniel, printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, →OCLC, page 94:

Therefore the scripture represents wicked men as without understanding […] they are not blind; but they wink; […] though they know God, yet they do not glorify him as God […]

1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], 8th edition, London: […] T. Goodwin, B[enjamin] Tooke, and J. Pemberton, […]; J. Round […], and J[acob] Tonson] […], published 1720, →OCLC:

But whenever obstinacy, which is an open defiance, appears, that cannot be winked at, or neglected, but must, in the first instance, be subdued and mastered; only care must be had, that we mistake not ; and we must be sure it is obstinacy, and nothing else.

1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education, § 79:

For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:

(intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.


wink

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat

I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 25”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

Couldn't sleep a wink last night / Oh how I'd love to hold you tight

1973, Bryan Ferry (lyrics and music), “Pyjamarama”, performed by Roxy Music:

A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.

silmällinen

brief period of sleep — see also forty winks


tease

en-verb

tease (third-person singular simple present teases, present participle teasing, simple past and past participle teased)

teases (present singular third-person)
teasing (participle present)
teased (participle past)
teased (past)

From Middle English tesen, from Old English tǣsan (“to tease”), from Proto-West Germanic *taisijan (“to separate, tug, shred”).


androgen

It is known as Hatschek's pit and has been found to react positively to antibodies against substance P, met-enkephalin, cholecystokinin (CCK), mammalian luteinizing hormone (LH), and the enzyme aromatase (P450ₐᵣₒ), which converts certain androgens into estrogens (see Chapter 3).

2013, David O. Norris, Vertebrate Endocrinology, page 151:

However, high levels of the nonaromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone and of sex-hormone binding globulin that inhibit fat accumulation in the abdomen might also contribute to reducing the waist.

2015 August 17, Ricardo Mondragón-Ceballos et al., “Waist-to-Hip Ratio, but Not Body Mass Index, Is Associated with Testosterone and Estradiol Concentrations in Young Women”, in International Journal of Endocrinology, volume 2015, →DOI:

(biochemistry, steroids) Any natural or synthetic compound, usually a steroid hormone, that stimulates or controls the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics in vertebrates. A male sex hormone such as testosterone or anabolic steroids.


salami

en-noun

salami (countable and uncountable, plural salamis)

From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.


mush

From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”).

der

(British, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.


sideburns

en-noun

sideburns pl (normally plural, singular sideburn)

Reformed from burnside, named after American Army general Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), noted for his unusual facial hair.

named-after

Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

bakkebaarde

facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin


skim

From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum.


poppy

en-noun

poppy (countable and uncountable, plural poppies)

→ Japanese: ポピー (popī)

Beckwithshaw
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae
Moina Michael

PIE word
 *péh₂wr̥
The noun is derived from Late Middle English poppy, Middle English popy, popi, popie (“plant of the genus Papaver; poppy seeds used as a spice”) [and other forms], from Old English popiġ (“poppy”), Early Old English popeġ, popaeġ, popæġ, popei [and other forms], perhaps from Late Latin *papavum, popauer, from Latin papāver (“poppy”), which may be from a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“bonfire”). Doublet of papaver.
Sense 3 (“artificial poppy flower to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts”) reflects the efforts of American professor and humanitarian Moina Michael (1869–1944) to popularize the wearing of artificial poppies in remembrance of those who fought and died in World War I; she was inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915) by the Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae (1872–1918): see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

nb...

pape, papie, papy, papye, popẹ̄, poppei, popye, (Early Middle English) papig, popi, popig

blue poppy

Meconopsis, especially Meconopsis betonicifolia

In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; […] / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields.

1915 May 3 (date composed), John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, published 8 December 1915, →OCLC; republished in In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], 1919, →OCLC, page 3:

We cherish, too, the poppy red / That grows on fields where valor led; / It seems to signal to the skies / That blood of heroes never dies, / […] / And now the torch and poppy red / We wear in honor of our dead. / Fear not that ye have died for naught; / We've learned the lesson that ye taught / In Flanders fields.

1918 November 9, Moina Michael, We Shall Keep the Faith; quoted in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the First Session of the Sixty-ninth Congress of the United States of America (United States House of Representatives), volume LXVII, part 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1926 February 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3717, column 2:

Papaver rhoeas
Papaver rhoeas#Translingual

Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.

губгъуэӏущхьэ

gʷubğʷɛʼwuśḥɛ

Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England under 21 5 Iceland under 21 0: Match report”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-11-11:

(chiefly Australia, British, Canada) A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.


poppy

en-adj

poppy (comparative poppier or more poppy, superlative poppiest or most poppy)

poppier (comparative)
more poppy (comparative)
poppiest (superlative)
most poppy (superlative)

From pop (“loud, sharp sound; fizzy drink; to make or burst with a loud, sharp sound; to stand out”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).


poppy

From pop(ular) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).


poppy

From pop (“affectionate form of father”) + -y (suffix forming terms of endearment).

suf

(father):

(grandfather):

(endearing) One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.


hickey

But Louis Vuitton bras all over your breasts / Got me wanting to put hickeys all over your chest

2003, “Stand Up”, in Chicken-n-Beer, performed by Ludacris ft. Shawnna:

When it comes to hickeys, the best I can tell you is that a lot of girls cover them with makeup or a turtleneck shirt. But let me close with a final thought. Never be ashamed of your hickeys. Show them off proudly as badges of love.

2005, William Cane, The Art of Kissing, 2nd edition, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 128:

(originally US, slang) A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.

(slang; literally, "strawberry") 草莓 (cǎoméi)

Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.

take a hickey

Farmer Jones took a hickey on his soybean crop when the flood washed the seeds away.

(US, slang, business, finance) An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.


pony

→ Belarusian: по́ні (póni)

→ Danish: pony

→ Dutch: pony
→ Indonesian: poni

→ Finnish: poni

→ French: poney
→ Romanian: ponei

→ Georgian: პონი (ṗoni)

→ German: Pony
→ Estonian: poni

→ Hungarian: póni

→ Irish: pónaí

→ Italian: pony

→ Japanese: ポニー (ponī)

→ Lithuanian: ponis

→ Maltese: poni

→ Norwegian: ponni

desc

→ Portuguese: pónei, pônei (Brazil), poney

→ Russian: пони (poni)

→ Spanish: poni

→ Swedish: ponny

→ Ukrainian: по́ні (póni)

1659 from Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus (cognate to English foal). Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

uder

His hair is a semilong dull red and pulled back in a sloppy pony at the base of his neck, and his face is riddled with small freckles and grease, but out here I can see personal hygiene isn't exactly at the top of the priority list.

2012, Amlynn Smith, Lost and Found, page 18:

He suggested a Rose Ballet in which he would use the G. V. Follies chorus girls, chiefly the ponies and mediums.

1941, Thoda Cocroft, Great Names and how They are Made, page 140:

(slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.


love bite

[…] with first a scarlet slash of tongue to cheek, he seized her hand between his teeth and dented the soft skin with a love bite that did not hurt.

1917 April, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

Easy girls and late nights / Cigarettes and love bites / Why do you have to be so cruel?

1983, “Bad Boys”, in Fantastic, performed by Wham!:

A swelling on the skin caused by someone (or something) sucking the skin.


post

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.


brunette

Borrowed from French brunette, the feminine form of brunet, from brun (“brown”). Doublet of burnet.

And M. [Henri-François-Alphonse] Esquiros, in describing the Dutch generally, speaks of beauties both blondes and brunettes, ‘for black hair is not uncommon in the Netherlands.’ These words seem to imply that black hair does not preponderate; and, if not, there must be a marked difference between the Dutch and the English. Here again is confirmation of the opinion that the modern English are somewhat more dark-haired than the ancient Saxons.

1866, Luke Owen Pike, “The Evidence of Physical Characteristics”, in The English and Their Origin. A Prologue to Authentic English History., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 145–146:

The housekeeper, a very decorative brunette of thirty-five with a pseudo-English accent, greeted him with a mixture of grateful effusion and condescending patronage.

1946, William Hatfield, Buffalo Jim, Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege, page 70:

Brownheads or brunettes use a darker red than blondes and redheads.

A person, especially female, with brown hair.

سَمْرَاء

a person, especially female, with brown hair


poll

From Middle English pol, polle ("scalp, pate"), from or cognate with Middle Dutch pol, pōle, polle (“top, summit; head”), from Proto-West Germanic *poll, from Proto-Germanic *pullaz (“round object, head, top”), from Proto-Indo-European *bolno-, *bōwl- (“orb, round object, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”).
Akin to Scots pow (“head, crown, scalp, skull”), Saterland Frisian pol (“round, full, brimming”, adj), German Low German Polle, Poll (“round object, ball”), German Low German Poller (“head, tree-top, bulb”), Danish puld (“crown of a hat”), Swedish dialectal pull (“head”).
Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1625, from the notion of "counting heads".

cog

The polls close at 8 p.m.

A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)

[…]the doctor, as if to hear better, had taken off his powdered wig, and sat there, looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

And you might perceive the president and general manager, Mr. R. G. Atterbury, with his priceless polished poll, busy in the main office room dictating letters..

The main plate is formed in two halves, the upper plate having small sideplates, ear guards, an escutcheon plate (blank), and a brass plume-holder, as well as a hinged poll plate.

2005, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. LaRocca, Dirk H. Breiding, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480-1620, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 53:

(now rare outside veterinary contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.


thingy

And as soon as that temperature returns to normal, let’s talk about the thingies that go through your headie at night.

1996, Antonio Skármeta, translated by Jonathan Tittler, Love-Fifteen, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Latin American Literary Review Press, →ISBN, page 115:

What I should really do, of course, is use a Personal Digital Assistant; one of those tiny hand-held computerette thingies […]

The incorporated technology is based on absolutely serious alt-fact science—that old familiar Einsteiny, time dilation thingy only in reverse— which also forms the basis of much of LaLa Valley's tech AI prowess.

2023, Steve G Romaniuk, Tales from the Alternate Universe: Vol. 1:

(informal) A thing (used to refer to something vaguely or when one cannot recall or does not wish to mention its name).


crow's feet

Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.

potes de gall

wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye


trotter

From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:

In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer.


tusk

From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūx, tūsc (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.

inh

Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.

One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.


tusk

en-verb

tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)

tusks (present singular third-person)
tusking (participle present)
tusked (participle past)
tusked (past)


flipper

From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).

cog

Dr. Woo attempts to distinguish Blakeslee by pointing out that “one can fondle a breast without having anything to do with dentistry, but one cannot take molds, fabricate and insert flippers into another person's mouth without practicing dentistry."

2005, Washington Appellate Reports: Volume 128:

(dentistry) A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.


notch

Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an + otch, which noun stems from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).

If this Coin pass, no Man that lives,
Shall dun for Past Debauches;
Zounds, Landlords, send but in your Wifes,
We’ll scow’r off all their Notches.

c. 1720, “The Turnep Ground [A broadside song with music]”, in John S. Farmer, editor, Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year A. D. 1800 (National Ballad and Song), volume 1, published 1897, page 224:

He forced his prick between her reluctant lips, all slimy and soiled as it was from the previous enculade, then producing an enormous dildoe, nearly twelve inches long, and big in proportion, he put a little cold cream on it, and presented the head to her notch, trying to force it in.
“Ah! No! no! that's so awfully large!” she almost screamed, but the head was partly in, and despite her sobs: and moans of pains, he soon succeeded in passing at least ten inches of it into her distended vagina.

1880, “Lady Pokingham, or They All Do It”, in The Pearl, volume 12:

It was some time ere I recovered myself, and then it was through the teasings and ticklings of my lovely tormentors. I had a pallet made on the floor of the cabin from the beds in the staterooms, and putting the lights out, we lay down. I was in the arms of Isabel and soon well repaid her for the pleasure she had given just before.
Thrice did I spend into the most secret recesses of her notch the warm and generous fluid which acts so powerfully on women, and then composed myself for sleep.

1880, “La Rose D'Amour”, in The Pearl, volume 16:

(slang) The female primary sex organ, vulva.


johnson

Compare the use of other men’s names as slang terms for the penis, e.g. peter and others listed in that entry.

Fuck your sympathy! I don't need your sympathy, man, I need my fucking Johnson!

1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges):


dermis

From New Latin dermis, from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin, hide”), from δέρω (dérō, “to skin, to flay”).

der

(anatomy) The tissue of the skin underlying the epidermis.


frontal

Borrowed from New Latin frontālis, from frons (“the forehead, brow, front”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to front + -al; cognate of French frontal. Doublet of frontalis.


braces

Susy has to go to the dentist to see if she needs braces.

(orthodontics) A device worn on the teeth to straighten them.


sucker

From Middle English souker, sokere, sukkere, soukere, equivalent to suck (verb) + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Suuger, West Frisian sûker (“sucker”), Dutch zuiger (“sucker”), German Sauger (“dummy; vacuum”).

An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.


ear lobe

The color of the female's ear lobe will tell you if she will lay a white or colored egg.

2010, Tara Kindschi, 4-H Guide to Raising Chickens, page 13:

The fleshy patch of skin below the ear tuft of a chicken.


whisker

Middle English wisker, whisk (verb) + -er

One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

snor

long projecting hair at the sides of the mouth of a cat

(nautical) Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.

(statistics) A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.

Whisker

a graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot

One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

(metallurgy) A small tendril that forms on metal.


hairy eyeball

He was giving me the hairy eyeball.

(slang) A look askance at someone; a look of disdain or skepticism.


landing strip

Palm Springs International Airport
landing strip

(idiomatic) A cultivated pubic hair pattern in which much of the pubic hair is removed, leaving only a central vertical line or rectangle.


schlong

Borrowed from Yiddish שלאַנג (shlang, “snake”; by extension, “a penis”) or German Schlange.

bor

(vulgar, slang) A penis, especially a long one.


shank

From Middle English schanke, from Old English sċanca (“leg”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankō, from Proto-Germanic *skankô (compare West Frisian skonk, Low German Schanke, German Schenkel (“shank, leg”), Danish skank, Norwegian skank, Swedish skänkel), from *skankaz (compare Old Norse skakkr (“wry, crooked”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keng- (compare Middle Irish scingim (“I spring”), Ancient Greek σκάζω (skázō, “to limp”).

The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.

the shank of the morning

AMANDA: Going now? You're joking! Why, it's only the shank of the evening, Mr. O’Connor!

1945, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, page 92:

The main part or beginning of a period of time.


crimper

From crimp + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the climbing hold, + -er (patient suffix).

A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.

A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.

A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.


proximal

en-adj

proximal (comparative more proximal, superlative most proximal)

more proximal (comparative)
most proximal (superlative)

antonym(s) of “closer to the point of attachment

From Latin proximus, superlative form of prope (“near, nigh”).

(dentistry) Facing toward another tooth. The proximal surfaces of a tooth are those that touch or are close to neighboring teeth.


pixie

Uncertain; 17thC, originally in the folklore of southwest England; perhaps diminutive of Swedish pysk (“fairy”); perhaps Puck + -sy; see Wikipedia.

Then a pixie appears in the visitor window, round face, big brown eyes framed in thick liner, a tiny turned-up nose, red lips, inch-long blue-black hair so popular with the avant-garde.

2006, Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace, page 186:

Petite and narrow-waisted, with a pixie flip of hair the exact color of coffee beans, Abigail could easily pass for sixteen in a pair of ripped jeans and an Abercrombie T-shirt.

2009, Nicole Baart, The Moment Between, page 1:

Petite in the extreme, not even reaching five feet tall, Winchester at her most robust had approached one hundred pounds. No longer the bright-eyed, sophisticated pixie that Isaiah Taber had photographed so many years earlier, Winchester showed a different picture altogether as she lay dying, her fingers and toes knotted and knurled from years of destruction by the painful arthritis.

2010, Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune, page 196:

Like magic, Carla transformed from the dainty pixie into a hardcore, no-nonsense businesswoman right before his eyes.

2011, L. E. Newell, Durty South Grind, page 138:

(slang) A cute, petite woman with short hair.

(astronomy, meteorology) An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a short-lasting pinpoint of light on the surface of convective domes that produces a gnome.

“Have you thought about a haircut? A pixie or a bob?”

2016, Susan Wiggs, Starlight on Willow Lake, page 114:

In a picture posted to Instagram on June 28, the stylish star [Lizzo] showed off her new, lighter brows and a blonde pixie that we suspect comes courtesy of a wig but can't be sure.

2021 June 29, Elizabeth Logan, “Lizzo Just Got a Blonde Pixie and Bleached Her Eyebrows”, in Glamour:


fringe

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Eclipsed native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.

der

Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.

1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “Chapter LXXXVIII”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.

1981, Hilda Doolittle, HERmione, page 155:

Ingeborg knew she wasn′t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she′d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn′t either.
“No.” Astrid′s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

2007, Lauraine Snelling, Sophie's Dilemma, page 16:

Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, page 231:

(UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.


facial hair

From facial + hair. First use appears c. 1830, in the Morning Herald.

ཞལ་རྒྱན (zhal rgyan, literally “mouth-ornament”)

Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.

1995 October 26, “Accent on Women's Art Latinas at two...”, in The Denver Post:

The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".

2000, Daniel McNeill, The Face: A Natural History, page 198:

Some tribes also practiced nose piercing, and men typically removed their eyelashes, eyebrows and facial hair through plucking.

2004, Mark Busby, The Southwest, page 152:

Because women naturally do not have a great deal of hair on their faces, it is considered a sign of femininity to have as little facial hair (except for eyebrows and eyelashes) as possible

2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 134:

Hair on the face of a human, such as the eyebrows of a man or woman or the androgenic hair (beard or moustache) of a man.


pupil

From Middle English pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla (“pupil; little girl, doll”), named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.

There are sharks with round pupils, sharks with slitlike pupils, and some with pupils that expand and contract with the amount of light available. As unimpressive as this might sound to people who are used to having their pupils dilate and contract regularly, realize that no bony fish has this modification of the eye.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 29:

(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

pupil

the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye

das Schwarze im Auge

colloquial; sometimes including the iris


retina

en-noun

retina (plural retinas or retinae or (archaic) retinæ)

retinas (plural)
retinae (plural)
retinæ (archaic plural)

From Middle English rethina, borrowing from Medieval Latin rētīna (“retina”, feminine noun), ellipsis of tunica rētīna (“net-like tunic”), used to describe the blood vessel system at the back of the eye. The phrase is attested in the 12th century in Guillelmus the abbot and Gerard of Cremona—the latter may have created this phrase as a translation for Arabic طَبَقَة شَبَكِيَّة (ṭabaqa šabakiyya) "net-like layer", which translates Ancient Greek ἀμφιβληστροειδής χῐτών (amphiblēstroeidḗs khĭtṓn, “retina”), which is attested in the ancient medical writer Galen.

m+

طَبَقَة شَبَكِيَّة

ἀμφιβληστροειδής χῐτών

(ophthalmology) The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball that contains rods and cones sensitive to light, which trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain, where a visual image is formed.


scrotal

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Learned borrowing from New Latin scrōtālis. Equivalent to scrotum + -al.

lbor

Male maturity is evident from descent of the testes; adult males are scrotal year-round, whereas subadult males are partially or nonscrotal.

2008, Melissa A. Hillegass et al., “The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology, volume 19, number 5, →DOI, pages 1006–1011:


scrotum

The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.

(anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.

qese e herdheve

the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles

labioscrotal swelling - embryological precursor


teabag

en-verb

teabag (third-person singular simple present teabags, present participle teabagging, simple past and past participle teabagged)

teabags (present singular third-person)
teabagging (participle present)
teabagged (participle past)
teabagged (past)

(of a kite) To have enough lift to repeatedly lift the kite-flyer slightly off the ground, then back down, then back up, etc., in the manner of dunking a teabag into water.


dander

en-noun

dander (usually uncountable, plural danders)

Hair follicles and dead skin shed from mammals.


pizzle

From Dutch Low Saxon pesel or West Flemish pezel, diminutive of Middle Dutch pese (“a sinew, tendon, string, pizzle”), from Old Dutch *pisa (“sinew, string, fibre”), possibly ultimately related to vezel (“fiber”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas-il-, from Proto-Indo-European *pē̆s- (“to blow”) (see Old High German faso (“fiber”)); in which case this alternation *pes- / *fes- may indicate a repeated borrowing from a (non-Indo-European?) substrate language.
Cognate with Dutch pees, Middle Low German pese (“tendon, bowstring”), Dutch pees (“sinew, tendon”), German Low German Peserick, Pesel (“pizzle”), dialectal German Pisel (“penis”).

cog

A baton made from the penis of an ox, once used to beat men and animals.


synapse

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”), from συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to clasp”). Introduced by neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington.

lbor

The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass.


sextant

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(dentistry) One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth. The front sextants go from canine to canine, and there are sextants on the right and left of these. See Periodontal examination.


hairdresser

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

haarkapper

professional for haircutting or hairstyling

berber

a hairdresser who styles or cuts men's hair

kuaför

a hairdresser who styles or cuts women's hair


downcast

en-adj

downcast (comparative more downcast, superlative most downcast)

more downcast (comparative)
most downcast (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“(adjective) cast down, dejected; (verb) to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”) (from Old Norse kasta (“to cast, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw”), from *kas- (“to throw, toss; to bring up”); further etymology uncertain), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English such as adoun-throwen (“to throw down”) and adoun-werpen (“to throw down”)). The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“that has been thrown”, adjective).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

prefix

Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.


pickle

en-noun

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

→ Dutch: pickles

→ French: pickles

→ Irish: picil

→ Korean: 피클 (pikeul)

→ Portuguese: picles

→ Spanish: pickles, picle

→ Welsh: picil

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

optical landing system
optical landing system

In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.


pickle

Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.

(Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)


kielbasa

en-noun

kielbasa (countable and uncountable, plural kielbasas or kielbasy)

Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, Saskatchewan

Borrowed from Polish kiełbasa (“sausage”), from Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, which may derive from Proto-Turkic for "grilled cutlet," literally "pressed on ashes," from *kül (“ash”) + *bas (“to press”) (modern Turkish basmak). See the Ukrainian cognate ковбаса́ (kovbasá, “sausage”), whence kubasa, for more information.

bor+

Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:

Heritage Foods now offers linguiça from the sausage maker the Mayor, in Richmond, Va. The signature Portuguese sausage harbors the paprika spice of chorizo but with the fire dampened, and a finer texture, but it brings on the garlic like kielbasa.

2022 April 18, Florence Fabricant, “Just in Time for Grilling Season”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.


bris

en-noun

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

brises (plural)
brisses (plural)
britot (plural)

Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, page 129:

Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155:

However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 109:


shlong

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epidermis

epidermis (plural epidermides or epidermises)

epidermides (plural)
epidermises (plural)

Borrowed from Latin epidermis, from Ancient Greek ἐπιδερμίς (epidermís), ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Equivalent to epi- + dermis.

The outer, protective layer of the skin of vertebrates, covering the dermis


hysterectomy

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she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 140:

(surgery) The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.

histerectomia

surgical removal of the uterus or part thereof


chyme

chyme (usually uncountable, plural chymes)

From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

كَيْمُوس

partly digested food passed from the stomach to the duodenum


cranium

From Medieval Latin crānium (“skull”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”).

uder

The Skull is divided into two parts, the Cranium and the Face. The Cranium is composed of eight bones; […]

1858, Henry Gray, “The Skull”, in Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, page 19:

‘I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,’ he said.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:

The cranium of the fowl is composed of the same elements as are present in the mammalian cranium, save that there is no interparietal.

1908, J. McFadyean, “Part I: Osteology and Arthrology”, in The Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals, page 165:

The cranial bones, or cranium (kra′ne-um), enclose and protect the fragile brain and furnish attachment sites for head and neck muscles.

2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, “Chapter 7 "The Skeleton"”, in Human Anatomy and Physiology, 8th edition, page 200:

(anatomy) That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.


melanoma

en-noun

melanoma (plural melanomas or melanomata)

(oncology, pathology) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.

black cancer

see A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary citation from 1880

Melanome

see The Washington Post citation from 1904


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

Holonym: monocle

Comeronyms: ring, lens

adjusting the distance between the bottom gallery and the top gallery

A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.


orthodontic

From orthodontics, equivalent to ortho- + -odont + -ic.

Many parents can’t afford that “great smile,” though, which is why a thriving cottage industry of homemade orthodontic remedies has surfaced to provide the perfect smile to those who can’t afford licensed orthodontic work.

2015 August 20, Julie Gunlock, “Your Child Might Not Need Those Costly Braces”, in Time:

Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.


musk

musk (countable and uncountable, plural musks)

→ Irish: musc

→ Welsh: mwsg

From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) whence Persian مشک (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of मूष् (mūṣ, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.

der

Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.

1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:

A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.

A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.

A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.

A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.


yoni

Stroke your partner's thighs and caress her breasts as you make love to her yoni with your mouth and tongue.

2004, Johanna Wikoff, Deborah Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra, Alpha Books, published 2004, page 242:

In Hinduism [...] and Tantrism [...], the yoni is the generative organ of the Goddess.

2001, David Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Oxford, page 205:

The goddess blesses him by placing his liṅgam in her yoni.

1997, David R Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, University of California, published 1997, page 235:

The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.


cojones

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From Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”), from Late Latin cōleonēs, from Latin cōleus (“sack, scrotum”). Doublet of cullion and culeus.

Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains.
I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones.

2005, Total Overdose, spoken by Ramiro “Ram” Cruz (Simon Prescott as Cesar Morales and Daniel E. Mora), Square Enix Europe; Eidos Interactive, via Deadline Games and Square Enix:

(slang, usually vulgar) Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).


girn

en-verb

girn (third-person singular simple present girns, present participle girning, simple past and past participle girned)

girns (present singular third-person)
girning (participle present)
girned (participle past)
girned (past)

At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.

1999, Jessica Stirling, The Wind from the Hills, St Martin's Press:


wigger

Blend of white + nigger. First use appears c. 1988. See cite below.

I have often heard the word "wigger" used to describe a white person who supposedly acts and talks "black," while the same type of taunting is put upon a black person who supposedly acts "white."

1988 April 20, “How race-conscious are high school students today?”, in The Washington Post, number ?, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, column ?:

To some extent wiggers are simply the most visible examples of a very American brand of teenage rebellion.

1999, Leonard Steinhorn et al., By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, page 178:

And I just do not got the patience
To deal with these cocky Caucasians
Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black...

cultural appropriator
cultural appropriator

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person, typically young and male, considered to be overly infatuated with African-American or (UK) Afro-Caribbean culture, a cultural appropriator.


minge

From Angloromani mintš, from Romani minʒ (“female genitals”), probably from Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior; the middle part of the body; loins, reins; waist; belly, abdomen; back”). Doublet of medius.
Alternate etymology: from the Latin mingere (“to urinate”), synecdochically used to describe the organ through an associated function (possibly ironically or euphemistically).

der

Last week, she ended up on a binge / She got off her tits and showed the bouncers her minge

2005, “Your Missus Is A Nutter”, performed by Goldie Lookin Chain:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and vulva.


spoof

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.

unknown

Origin unknown


crank

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).

John is a crank because he talks to himself.

Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.

The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest. They think that raw food is the manna of heaven.

1901 July 19, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 318:

But do you know what isn't in the school books? That old Rossum was mad. Seriously, Miss Glory, you must keep this to yourself. The old crank wanted to actually make people.

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:

(informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.


fetlock

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From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, equivalent to foot + lock (“tuft of hair”). Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).

The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.


pinkeye

en-noun

pinkeye (usually uncountable, plural pinkeyes)

A highly contagious form of conjunctivitis.


cartilage

cartilage (countable and uncountable, plural cartilages)

Borrowed from French cartilage, from Latin cartilāgō. Partially displaced native gristle, from Old English gristel.

(anatomy, uncountable) A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates.

(anatomy, countable) A particular structure made of cartilage.


cytosol

(cytology) The aqueous solution of a cell's cytoplasm, consisting of water, organic molecules and inorganic ions.


white blood cell

white blood cell (plural white blood cells)

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(hematology, cytology, immunology) A type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response, or part of the immune system.

witbloedselle

cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response


blood vessel

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

(anatomy) A component of the circulatory system, such as an artery, capillary, or vein, that carries blood.

ケモリッ

component of the circulatory system that carries blood

หลอดเลือด

lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat


connective tissue

connective tissue (countable and uncountable, plural connective tissues)

extracellular matrix
extracellular matrix#English

(anatomy) A type of tissue found in animals whose main function is binding other tissue systems (such as muscle to skin) or organs and consists of the following three elements: cells, fibers and a ground substance (or extracellular matrix).

bindweefsel

type of tissue that binds other tissue systems


glycoprotein

(biochemistry) A protein with covalently bonded carbohydrates.


slough

slough (countable and uncountable, plural sloughs)

From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).

cog

This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.


slough

en-verb

slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

sloughs (present singular third-person)
sloughing (participle present)
sloughed (participle past)
sloughed (past)

This skin is being sloughed.

Snakes slough their skin periodically.

When Harper came back into the infirmary of the Hyperion, Alec was laboriously trying to pull on his pants. His burned skin had healed over the intervening day, the damaged layer sloughed off and quickly replaced thanks to SAM’s efforts, but the buildup of waste products in Alec’s body from the accelerated healing had left him with sore muscles and achy joints.

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 16, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 293:

(transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.

A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.

The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]

2013, Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl:

1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books
The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.

An avalanche sloughing off a Utah mountainside killed a state Department of Transportation avalanche forecaster while he was surveying snow levels near a popular winter recreation area, authorities reported.

2013 April 13, Michael Mello, “Avalanche forecaster killed in Utah avalanche”, in Los Angeles Times:

(intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.


auricle

/ˈɔː.ɹɪk.əl/

From Latin auricula (“the external ear”), diminutive of auris (“the ear”). Doublet of auricula.

(anatomy) An anterior ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the human heart.

сърдечно ухо

an ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart


cloaca

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Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), from cluō (“cleanse; purge”).

In birds the rectum, at the termination of its canal, forms an oval or elongated pouch […] and then expands into a cavity, which has been named cloaca.

1822, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, volume I, page 7:

(anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.

клоа́ка

anatomical feature of birds, reptiles, etc.

総排出腔

そうはいしゅつこう, sōhaishutsukō, そうはいしゅつくう, sōhaishutsukū

排出腔

はいしゅつこう, haishutsukō, はいしゅつくう, haishutsukū

Across this shell [sc. of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacae (Weidmann).

1846, Joseph François Malgaigne, translated by Frederick Brittan, Manual of Operative Surgery, page 172:

(anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.

(embryology) Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.


eggnog

en-noun

eggnog (countable and uncountable, plural eggnogs)

American English c. 1775 (although drinks like it are attested far earlier, e.g. posset, of which a monastic Christmas recipe used eggs), from egg + nog.
The second element is uncertain and long-debated; prominent claims include Norfolk dialect nog (“strong ale”), or a clipping of noggin (“small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol”) (q.v.). Other hypotheses include a variant of grog (“rum-and-water cocktail”), and descent from Old Norse (compare wassail).

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.


eyed

From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.

The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg.

1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland, Calif.: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 24:

The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.

1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6:

That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin […]

1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Oliver Twist:

Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592

Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.

1960, Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway, Night, New York: Bantam, published 1986, page 61:

(in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.


haemo-

From Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-), akin to αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).


watersports

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(informal, euphemistic) Any sexual activity involving urine or urination; pissplay.


lactate

en-verb

lactate (third-person singular simple present lactates, present participle lactating, simple past and past participle lactated)

lactates (present singular third-person)
lactating (participle present)
lactated (participle past)
lactated (past)

Borrowed from Latin lactātus, perfect passive participle of lactō (“to suckle, give suck, contain milk”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lac (“milk”), cognate to Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).

(intransitive) To secrete or produce milk.


lactate

From lactic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid.


lactic

From Latin lactis (“of milk”), genitive form of lac (“milk”), with the suffix -ic.

lactic fermentation

In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […]

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

(biochemistry) Relating to, or producing, lactic acid.


apple of the eye

en-noun

apple of the eye (plural apples of the eye)

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From Middle English appel of the eyȝe, appel of þe ye, perhaps dissimilated from Middle English ij appel (literally “eye-apple”). More at eye-apple.

der

The pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball.


boy in the boat

Go in with your finger at the top parting of your genital lips and find that tiny penis, that nub, that "boy in the boat," and feel gently around it.

1992, Ruth K. Westheimer, Dr. Ruth's Guide for Married Lovers, Random House, published 1992, →ISBN, page 113:

"It's all right here, sweetie," Gretchen said, nodding down toward her open legs as she smilingly pulled the lips of her pussy apart, exposing her boy in the boat.

1997, Playthell Benjamin, “All the Things You Are”, in Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings, page 220:

2001, "Archive Poster" , "[SEXSTORY4FREE SITE] - (Group, Swingers, M+/F+) "Jack Off First"", alt.sex.stories.hetero, <3a7f98c9@news.metrolink.net.au>
"Shoot it here on my clitty," she ordered. I dropped to my knees and took aim on her girl-dick. She kept the tip of one finger against it so that I could find it, but it was so erect that it made an easy target. The pink core glistened like a little pearl at the tip. I moved closer until the head of my cock was no more than two or three inches from the boy in the boat.


bucktooth

(dentistry, somewhat derogatory) An upper tooth that protrudes further than the bottom teeth.


plonker

“You kept the hat! You bloody plonker!” “Fuck me.” “And now look at you, bouncing off the cars like a bouncing idiot.” “Fucking hell!” “Is he gonna be alright?”

2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (: from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory) A fool.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A penis.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, dated) A man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends.


prat

Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).

"She's a far better piece
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."

1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124

...they would kidnap a girl and take her back to their camp where they would pull down her knickers, hoping to find hairs on her prat.

1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39

"My prat was sore from the unfamiliar activities of the night before, but my virgin bleeding had ceased, and we rode most of the day in that unworldly haze that comes with lack of sleep."

2005, Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse, page 135:


pud

Alternative form of pood (“Russian weight”)


furry

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An animal character with human-like characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.

獸 /兽

Someone who identifies with or as a furry character.

(informal, slang) Someone who is sexually attracted to anthropomorphic animal characters.


heteroauxin

en-noun

heteroauxin (countable and uncountable, plural heteroauxins)

A growth-promoting hormone, 3-indoleacetic acid, occurring in some plants.


squint

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.


bald-headed

en-adj

bald-headed (comparative more bald-headed, superlative most bald-headed)

more bald-headed (comparative)
most bald-headed (superlative)


fuzz

en-noun

fuzz (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzes)

Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.”

onomatopoeic

imitative

His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.

1895, Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, page 352:

Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans.

1962 July, Richard Petrow, “Last chance to save the Bald Eagle”, in Popular Science, volume 181, number 1, →ISSN, page 192:

"Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.

2008, Asoke Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, Boca Raton: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 94:

(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.


fuzz

en-verb

fuzz (third-person singular simple present fuzzes, present participle fuzzing, simple past and past participle fuzzed)

fuzzes (present singular third-person)
fuzzing (participle present)
fuzzed (participle past)
fuzzed (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

(intransitive, dated) To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.


frizz

en-verb

frizz (third-person singular simple present frizzes, present participle frizzing, simple past and past participle frizzed)

frizzes (present singular third-person)
frizzing (participle present)
frizzed (participle past)
frizzed (past)

From Middle English frysen, from Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of Proto-Germanic origin, perhaps via Old Frankish *fris (“curl”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, frēsle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), Old English frīs (“crisped, curled”).

gloss

(intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.

with her hair frized short up to her ears

1660 December 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 22nd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:

In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.

There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […]

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

nukkaantua

to form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth


frizz

en-noun

frizz (countable and uncountable, plural frizzes)

From Middle English fryse, from the verb. See above.

A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.


frizzy

en-adj

frizzy (comparative frizzier, superlative frizziest)

frizzier (comparative)
frizziest (superlative)

The wet weather made her hair frizzy and untidy.

Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls; unruly or extending in all directions.

къдрав

formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls


mesial

Irregular derivation from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos).

(dentistry) Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw.


buccal

buccal surface of the molars

buccal branch of the facial nerve

Obtained buccal epithelium and newly drawn, uncentrifuged blood collected in an EDTA tube were used for analysis of gene expression: a control GAPDH gene and Osteocalcin gene.

2015 August 19, Mansur Rahnama et al., “Analysis of the Influence of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Osteocalcin Gene Expression in Postmenopausal Women”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:

(anatomy, dentistry, relational) Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.


occlusal

(dentistry) On the side of a tooth which mates with the opposing tooth.

(dentistry) Of or relating to occlusion.


dentistry

en-noun

dentistry (usually uncountable, plural dentistries)

Some provision should be made for the truly suffering poor, and also for our present students of dentistry to learn something about dental surgery before commencing a profession which has almost become a science.

1905, Australian journal of dentistry, volume 9, Australian Dental Association, page 184:

A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.

1957, West's Wisconsin statutes annotated, West Publishing Company:

He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.

1997, P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University, volume II: 1925-198, page 24:

Wig-workers were not the only tradesmen who practiced dentistry on the side, or "assumed the role" of dentist, as the arrival of a thespian dentist from London attests in this ad from Boston's Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser

2000, James Wynbrandt, The excruciating history of dentistry, page 81:

(uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.

သွားဘက်ဆိုင်ရာပညာ

the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth

POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services.

2009, Siobhain Ryan, “Poor access leads to DIY dentistry: dental checks”, in The Australian, sourced from Dow Jones Newswires:

This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry. He had holding pattern type dentistry done to get him by.

2011, Gregory J. Tarantola, Clinical Cases in Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry, →ISBN:

(uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.

Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished.

1908, in the report of the Second International Congress on School Hygiene, volume 2, page 516

I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term.

2004, Gene Witiak, True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story, page 83:

(countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.

They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected.

1867, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 16, page 464:

The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries.

1918, Edward Bernard Benjamin, The larger liberalism, page 172:

As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003.

2003, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review, →ISBN:

(countable) A place where dental operations are performed. (Not as common as "dentist's office". Compare surgery.)


orthodontics

From ortho- (“correct, straight”) + -odont + -ics.

affix

(medicine) A specialty of dentistry concerned with correcting misalignment of teeth.

dentistry

hypernymous from most cognitive viewpoints albeit sometimes framed as coordinate when the notion of general dentistry is implied


dentifrice

en-noun

dentifrice (countable and uncountable, plural dentifrices)

From Middle English dentifricie, from Latin dentifricium (“powder for rubbing the teeth”), from dens (“tooth”) + fricāre (“to rub”). Compare French dentifrice.

der

Toothpaste or any other substance, such as powder, for cleaning the teeth.


toothpaste

en-noun

toothpaste (countable and uncountable, plural toothpastes)

From tooth + paste. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskepasta (“toothpaste”), West Frisian toskpoetserguod (“toothpaste”), Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”), German Zahnpasta, Zahnpaste (“toothpaste”), Danish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Swedish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Icelandic tannkrem (“toothpaste”).

cog

A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.

you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube


toothbrush

From tooth + brush. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskebäärsel (“toothbrush”), West Frisian toskboarstel (“toothbrush”), Dutch tandenborstel (“toothbrush”), German Zahnbürste (“toothbrush”), Danish tandbørste (“toothbrush”), Swedish tandborste (“toothbrush”), Icelandic tannbursti (“toothbrush”).

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.


pisser

From Middle English pissere; equivalent to piss + -er (agent noun). The sense referring to a urinal formed from piss + -er (patient suffix).


piddle

Unknown, although possibly originally paw + -le (suffix forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement). In later use, a euphemistic diminutive of piss. The noun derives from the verb.

The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.

(British, Australia, euphemistic slang) Piss: urine.


-aemia

From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

(British spelling, medicine) Blood; presence in blood (of a substance denoted by an affixed combining form); state or condition of the blood.

-uria

urine; presence in urine; state or condition of urine