wiz

One notorious trick in less reputable corners of the MUD universe is to talk somebody into going into a dark corner of a MUD for some tinysex — dirty talking via computer screen, within character for the MUD, along with explicit posing — a dark corner where some invisible wizzes are hiding.

2000, Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, revised edition, page 154:

The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.

2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11:

(Internet, informal) A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.


wiz

en-verb

wiz (third-person singular simple present wizzes, present participle wizzing, simple past and past participle wizzed)

wizzes (present singular third-person)
wizzing (participle present)
wizzed (participle past)
wizzed (past)

I lost interest and stopped playing soon after I wizzed.

(Internet, informal, intransitive) To be promoted to wizard (administrator) status in a multi-user dungeon, by completing the game quest.


wiz

Onomatopoeic for the sound made by urination.

I have to take a wiz.

(vulgar, slang) Alternative spelling of whiz: an act of urination.


wiz

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(slang, especially represents slurred or drunken speech) Pronunciation spelling of with.


chemokine

(biochemistry, immunology) Any of various chemotactic cytokines, produced during inflammation, that organize the leukocytes.


cytokine

/ˈsa͜ɪˌɾəˌka͜ɪn/

From cyto- + Ancient Greek κίνησις (kínēsis, “movement”).

der

Thus, in the case of viral infection, mechanisms of resistance would be threefold, namely, interferon production, the immune response, including both antibody and lymphokine production, and the generation of lymphokine-like substances by the infected cells themselves. These latter substances have been defined as cytokines.

1975 July, Bigazzi PE, Yoshida T, Ward PA, Cohen S., “Production of Lymphokine-Like Factors (Cytokines) by Simian Virus 40-Infected and Simian Virus 40-Transformed Cell”, in The American Journal of Pathology, volume 80, number 1, page 69:

A fundamental feature expressed by the vast majority of cytokines is a profound immunomodulatory activity.
Many cytokines, presently available in pure recombinant form, modify bone cell metabolism.

1991, Maxine Gowen, Cytokines and Bone Metabolism, page 26:

The cytokines are generally considered to be a group of peptides secreted by cells of the immune system such as macrophages, lymphocytes and T cells, although the same peptides may also be secreted by non-immune cells such as neurological tissues and adipocytes.

2012, Victor R. Preedy, Ross Hunter, editors, Preface: Cytokines, page v:

The cytokines provide a classic example of products of the immune system which alter brain and endocrine activities. A variety of cytokines, including interleukin 1, interleukin 2, interleukin 6, and tumor necrosis factor α, have been traditionally associated with peripheral control of the immune system, inflammation, and acute phase response.

2013, Errol B. De Souza, editor, Preface: Neurobiology of Cytokines: Methods in Neurosciences, volume 16, page xiii:

Surprisingly, mTOR inhibitors displayed little inhibitory efficacy regarding receptor modulation and cytokine production which may be clinically relevant in terms of the risk of underimmunosuppression with this class of drugs.

2015 July 6, “NK Cells of Kidney Transplant Recipients Display an Activated Phenotype that Is Influenced by Immunosuppression and Pathological Staging”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(biochemistry, immunology) Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system.

細胞因子 /细胞因子

any of various small regulatory proteins


fur burger

Oh you haven't lived till you've had a nibble on a fur burger!

2001 August 16, John Duffey, reply in "She will be mine...", alt.babylon5.uk http://groups.google.com/group/alt.babylon5.uk/browse_thread/thread/6e8822e3fbfe55d9/afd6b1ea25897fe9?lnk=st&q=%22fur-burger%22&rnum=120#afd6b1ea25897fe9

Tonight I want to eat your fur-burger and I do not care about getting glazed

2002, Elvis F. Mitchell, The Voices of the Oppressed, iUniverse, page 85

Now, slowly and not to obviously, you cross your legs and give them a quick glance at your little fur-burger.

2007, Karl Rockwood, The Very Private Secretary, Blackmask Online, page 95

(slang, usually in the context of cunnilingus): An unshaven, hairy vulva.


poontang

en-noun

poontang (countable and uncountable, plural poontangs)

Origin uncertain. Likely from French putain (“prostitute”). Compare Jamaican Creole punani (“female genitalia”); also Tagalog putang ina (“contemptible person”, literally “prostitute-mother”) from Spanish puta (“prostitute”).

cog

(US, colloquial, vulgar) Female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.


bicuspid

Having two points or prominences; ending in two points; said of teeth, leaves, fruit, etc.


bicuspid

A tooth with two cusps; a premolar tooth.


bearded

From Middle English berded, from Old English ġebearded, ġebeardede, ġebierd, ġebierde (“bearded”), from Proto-Germanic *bardōdaz (“bearded”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂tos (“bearded”), equivalent to beard + -ed. Cognate with Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).

The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer.

2017, Barbara W. Ellis, “Iris: Irises”, in Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants: Proven Perennials, Annuals, Flowering Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Every Garden, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 181:

(informal, botany, horticulture) A bearded iris.


bloodshot

en-adj

bloodshot (comparative more bloodshot, superlative most bloodshot)

more bloodshot (comparative)
most bloodshot (superlative)

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She said she was perfectly fine but I could tell she was tired; her eyes were all bloodshot.

(of the eyes) Reddened and inflamed because of congested blood vessels.


œstrogen

(biochemistry, steroids) Alternative spelling of estrogen


estrogen

en-noun

estrogen (countable and uncountable, plural estrogens)

/ˈɛstɹəd͡ʒən/

/ˈiːstɹəd͡ʒən/

From estro- (estrus) + -gen (“a producer of”).

af

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">estrus</i>

secondly, in many hormone-target organ interactions including the effect of estrogen on rat uterus, growth hormone and hydrocortisone on rat liver and thyroid hormone on toadpole liver, newly formed microsomes have been isolated which have increased protein synthesizing ability (Tata, 1968).

1970, Harvey W. Mohrenweiser, Role of Hormones in Controlling Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis During Lactogenesis, Michigan State University. Departments of Biochemistry and Dairy, page 36:

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:

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.


volumizer

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(bodybuilding) A dietary supplement that increases water uptake in muscle cells, causing the muscles to temporarily swell.


eye shadow

en-noun

eye shadow (countable and uncountable, plural eye shadows)

Makeup that is applied to the eyelids and below the eyes to give a darker complexion there.


eyeliner

eyeliner (countable and uncountable, plural eyeliners)

Do you need to wear eyeliner? As with any makeup step, eyeliner is completely optional. From an artistic perspective, if you are wearing eyeshadow, I almost always recommend wearing eyeliner, unless your eyelids and eyelashes are obscured by the eyebrow area. Eyeliner is a basic part of an eye-makeup design because it shapes and defines the eyes and makes the eyelashes look thicker.

2004, Paula Begoun, The Complete Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 419:

Makeup used to outline the eye, generally applied along or close to the lashline.


gamma globulin

A class of proteins in the blood, identified by their position after serum protein electrophoresis. The most significant gamma globulins are antibodies.

A fraction of blood serum containing the most antibodies.


deltoid

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From Latin deltoideus, which was in turn from Ancient Greek adjective δελτοειδής (deltoeidḗs). See also: δέλτα (délta), the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

(anatomy) The deltoid muscle, a triangular muscle on the human shoulder.


lamina

lamina (plural laminae or (archaic) laminæ or laminas)

laminae (plural)
laminæ (archaic plural)
laminas (plural)

Borrowed from Latin lāmina (“a thin piece of metal, wood, marble; a plate, leaf, layer”). Doublet of lame.

bor

A thin layer, plate, or scale of material.

(anatomy) Either of two broad, flat plates of bone of a vertebra that is fused with and extends from the pedicle to the median line of the neural arch to form the base of the spinous process and that along with the pedicle forms the posterior part of the vertebral foramen.


hairpiece

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A false substitute for a person's hair; a toupee or wig.


ding dong

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Ding dong bell, pussy's in the well! / Who put her in? Little Johnny Thin. / Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout. (Traditional English nursery rhyme)

(onomatopoeia, colloquial, often childish) The sound made by a bell; especially, that made by a doorbell.

丁冬

onomatopoeia for the sound of a doorbell


ding dong

My girlfriend's math teacher is a ding dong.

(colloquial, derogatory) Alternative form of ding-dong; an idiot.

(colloquial, often humorous, euphemistic) Alternative form of ding-dong; a penis.


syrup of figs

en-noun

syrup of figs (countable and uncountable, plural syrups of figs)

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang, countable) A wig.


BCG

birth control glasses
birth control glasses#English

(US, military slang) Initialism of birth control glasses.


CBD

CBD (countable and uncountable, plural CBDs or CBD's)

(hairdressing) Initialism of cut and blow-dry.


vaginal

/vəˈd͡ʒʌɪ.nəl/

Borrowing from New Latin vāgīnālis, from vāgīna (“a covering, sheath; the vagina”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to vagina + -al.

af

(anatomy, relational) Of or relating to a theca.


Maryland bridge

en-noun

Maryland bridge (plural Maryland bridges)

A dental prosthetic replacing a missing tooth by a bridging piece which is glued to the backs of the adjacent teeth (as opposed to an ordinary dental bridge, which is attached by grinding down the adjacent teeth and covering them).


four-eyes

As soon as he saw me he hailed me as “Four eyes,” in reference to my spectacles, and said, “Four eyes is going to treat.” I joined in the laugh and got behind the stove and sat down, thinking to escape notice.

1913, Theodore Roosevelt, “In Cowboy Land”, in An Autobiography, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 136:

(idiomatic, derogatory) A person who wears spectacles/eyeglasses.

betaurrekodun

(derogatory) person who wears spectacles


cardiac muscle

cardiac muscle (countable and uncountable, plural cardiac muscles)

(anatomy, cardiology) The striated and involuntary muscle of the vertebrate heart.


skeletal muscle

skeletal muscle (countable and uncountable, plural skeletal muscles)

(anatomy) The voluntary muscle of vertebrates, which is striated and anchored by tendons to bone and is used to effect skeletal movement such as locomotion.


smooth muscle

smooth muscle (countable and uncountable, plural smooth muscles)

(anatomy) Involuntary muscle which is found within the intestines, throat, uterus, and blood vessel walls.


voluntary muscle

voluntary muscle (plural voluntary muscles)

(anatomy) Muscle that is normally controlled by individual volition; skeletal muscle.


involuntary muscle

involuntary muscle (countable and uncountable, plural involuntary muscles)

(anatomy) A muscle that is not controlled by individual volition, e.g., cardiac muscle and smooth muscle.


precarious

/pɹɪˈkɛə.ɹɪ.əs/

(dentistry) Relating to incipient caries.


balls

Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.

2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6

He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.

He's the guy with the big balls in that group.

Balls is all that it takes to succeed.

Balls is all it takes to handle these people

1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Where the Air is Clear, page 80:

“Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"

2006, Leonardo Padura, Havana Blue, page 137:

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

дупе

slang for masculinity, inclusive of strength, courage, and force of will

That's a load of balls.

(uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.

Don't make a balls of it!

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.


balls

en-verb

balls (third-person singular simple present ballses, present participle ballsing, simple past and past participle ballsed)

ballses (present singular third-person)
ballsing (participle present)
ballsed (participle past)
ballsed (past)

(vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse.


tragus

Borrowed from Late Latin tragus, from Ancient Greek τράγος (trágos, “he-goat; part of the ear”); with reference to a tuft of hair, likened to a goat’s beard, that may grow on the tragus, especially in older men.

bor

(anatomy) The small piece of thick cartilage on the inner side of the external ear that is immediately in front of and partly closing the ear canal.


hematoma

en-noun

hematoma (plural hematomas or hematomata)

From hemato- + -oma. Among the many words derived from -oma that are in current common use, this word is one of only a few that do not denote a neoplasm; another is granuloma.

The so-called Danlos or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome consists of three symptoms: (1) pronounced fragility of the skin and its blood vessels, with breaking, splitting and the formation of hematomas and pseudotumors subsequent to the slightest trauma (dermatorrhexis-fragilitas cutis), (2) a more or less pronounced hyperlaxity and hyperelasticity of the skin (dermatochalasis-laxitas cutis) and (3) more or less pronounced hyperlaxity or hyperflexibility of the joints (arthrochalasis-laxitas articularis).

1936 June, F Ronchese, “Dermatorrhexis with dermatochalasis and arthrochalasis (the so-called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome)”, in American Journal of Diseases of Children, volume 51, number 6, page 1403:

In 30 years as an expert witness, I have seen total plexus paralysis in three patients after needle angiography with intraaxillary hematoma not followed by surgical repair.

2012, E. Zeitler, Radiology of Peripheral Vascular Diseases, page 191:

(pathology) A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.


rocks

You seem a bit out of it lately, have you been smoking rocks again?


coiffure

en-verb

coiffure (third-person singular simple present coiffures, present participle coiffuring, simple past and past participle coiffured)

coiffures (present singular third-person)
coiffuring (participle present)
coiffured (participle past)
coiffured (past)

Perfectly coiffured and seemingly imperturbable, Setsuko approaches madness as her psychological and sexual insecurities are dredged up by confrontations with her past and mind games with the suspected murderer.

1996 August 23, Ted Shen, “Angel Dust”, in Chicago Reader:

Her eyes seldom left for long the other end of the table, where Stephanie, at Dominey's left hand, with her crown of exquisitely coiffured red-gold hair, her marvellous jewellery, her languorous grace of manner, seemed more like one of the beauties of an ancient Venetian Court than a modern Hungarian Princess gowned in the Rue de la Paix.

1920, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation:

Her hair was far less elaborately coiffured and her toilette less magnificent than the toilettes of the women by whom she was surrounded.

1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo:

Her attire is rich, she wears costly jewels, and her hair is tastefully coiffured.

1842, Edgcumbe Staley, The Tragedies of the Medici:


cuspid

From Latin cuspid-, stem of cuspis (“point, apex”). Doublet of cusp and cuspis.

A tooth with a single cusp; a canine tooth.


premolar

He opened and let out a hogo of medicinal rum and beer. The bad tooth was a premolar.

A tooth situated in front of the molar teeth; especially a tooth in humans with two cusps which is between the canines and the molars (Latin: singular dens premolaris, plural dentes premolares)


provisional

/pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/

From Middle French provisionnal (compare French provisionnel).

If this was not possible, then alternatives including provisionalizing with a complete denture or a tooth-supported fixed provisional and a staged treatment protocol should have been considered.

2015, Stuart J. Froum, Dental Implant Complications, page 518:


blowout

Feathers were deeply ruffled when it became known that the BHC had been in town and taken me out for a meal without hosting a big blowout for all the local Brits. I didn't frequent the hotel bar, and by then, accepted few invitations to parties ...

2015, Trish Nicholson, Inside the Crocodile: The Papua New Guinea Journals, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN:

Chloe's lips formed a thin line, and she guided her sister a few feet away from Aubrey and Erik, her hooker heels sinking into the shells a little as they went. "C'mon, Jane. Erik's cousin is a Barnie and is hosting a blowout tonight. The party is in Salem"

2016, Blayne Cooper, Blind Side of the Moon, Bella Books, →ISBN:

(slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.

An act of defecation in which an incontinent person, usually an infant or toddler, produces a large amount of excrement that causes their diaper to overflow and leak.

An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.

Get a blowout! Your hair is one of the first things a guy will notice because, hello, it's right at eye level. So take the time to do it right. No ponytails. No frizzy disasters. Wear your hair down.

2007, Janis Spindel, How to Date Men: Dating Secrets from America's Top Matchmaker, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55:

I mean, how did the African sista' who was getting her hair braided in the first movie get a blowout? And the slave trader's shirt wasn't even right! And the look on the African woman's face when she was watching the white ladies pet her "friend" ...

2011, Donna Kakonge, PhD Student, The Politics of Black Hair Online Coursebook, →ISBN:

A couple of weeks later, I contacted Melissa to get a blowout for my hair because I was going to New York for an interview but I had to be in the city early in the morning. Melissa said I could come to her condo the night before the event.

2017, Anysia Marcell Kiel, Discovering the Healer Within: Use Chakras & Intuition to Clear Negativity & Release Pain, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

Go to your local salon and get a blowout. Or put a blue streak in your hair. Or if you're commitment-phobic, get a temporary blue extension braided into your hair.

2019, Susan Hyatt, Bare: A 7-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Get More Energy, Feel Amazing, and Become the Bravest, Most Unstoppable Version of You, BenBella Books, →ISBN:

An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.


digestive system

en-noun

digestive system (plural digestive systems)

All the food that you eat goes through your digestive system and is digested.

(anatomy) A system of organs for the purpose of digesting food.


peeper

Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!

1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get them peepers?
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?

The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36:

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) The eye.


kisser

Not a pretty kisser,
but so mobile those
drawn-on brows, bulging
peepers green as dill,
cock-eyed grin,
the It Girls lost it
beside her.

1999, Karen Shenfeld, “Fanny Brice 1891-1951,”, in The Law of Return, Guernica, →ISBN, page 18:


progesterone

/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛstəɹəʊn/

/pɹoʊˈd͡ʒɛstəˌɹoʊn/

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From pro- (“supporting”) + Latin gestāre (“to bear, to carry”) + -one (“a ketone”).

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Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">gestāre</i>

(biochemistry, steroids, uncountable) A steroid hormone, secreted by the ovaries, whose function is to prepare the uterus for the implantation of a fertilized ovum and to maintain pregnancy.

(biochemistry, steroids, countable) A synthetic version of the compound, used in contraceptive pills and other pharmaceutical products.


fauxhawk

An imitation of the Mohawk hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.


diddly

"My child is going to be taught all about sex as soon as he can understand. Mother-in-law is always clucking to him about his diddly. No, no, I say, you must call it penis."

1968, Monica Dickens, The Landlord's Daughter, Doubleday & Company, page 268:


pigtail

[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.

2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12:

(now especially) Either of a pair of braids or tails worn on the sides of the head.


pecker

From Middle English pekker, equivalent to peck (“to pick at something in the manner of a bird”) + -er (“forming agent nouns”).

Rice mills, called pecker, cog, and water mills... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker.

1802, J. Drayton, A view of South Carolina, as respects her natural and civil concerns, page 121:

After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘pecker’.

1949, S. C. Murray, This Our Land: the Story of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, page 41:

Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:

(uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:

(US regional, historical) Clipping of pecker mill, a rice mill.


operculum

(dentistry) A gum flap covering (part of) a partially erupted tooth, usually a wisdom tooth.


adrenergic

en-adj

adrenergic (comparative more adrenergic, superlative most adrenergic)

more adrenergic (comparative)
most adrenergic (superlative)


noradrenergic

noradrenergic (comparative more noradrenergic, superlative most noradrenergic)

more noradrenergic (comparative)
most noradrenergic (superlative)


norepinephrine

en-noun

norepinephrine (countable and uncountable, plural norepinephrines)

/ˌnɔːɹɛpɪˈnɛfɹɪn/

For quotations using this term, see Citations:norepinephrine.

(biochemistry) A neurotransmitter found in the locus coeruleus which is synthesized from dopamine.


noradrenaline

noradrenaline (countable and uncountable, plural noradrenalines)

/nɔːɹəˈdɹɛnəlɪn/

Ranicide in rats was found to be reduced by injection of noradrenaline into the hypothalamus, as was muricide behaviour (Bandler, 1970).[…]Other sites in the unspecified ‘ventral midbrain’ were also found (Bandler, 1971) at which noradrenaline administration in crystalline form served to facilitate predatory aggression (ranicide and muricide).

1984, Stephen T. Mason, “Catecholamines and vegetative behaviour”, in Catecholamines and Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section “Aggression”, page 333:

(biochemistry, chiefly UK) Synonym of norepinephrine.

noradrenalina

the compound norepinephrine — see also norepinephrine


choad

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Apocopic form of choda. Doublet of choda and chudai.

What a find...a giant choad!

1968, Robert Crumb, Zap Comix, volume 3, unnumbered page:

1970±, S. Clay Wilson, as quoted by Blair Haworth, “Meaning of Choad? (and a Peter Jackson question)” (1993 August 11), alt.tasteless, Usenet
Your choad veins are pulsing love songs

We all wank, sonny wiggles his willy, daddy plays with the meat in an orderly and rational way, and granddad's choad also delivers on a regular basis.

1993 December 14, Steven Snedker, “Wanking 101 [long]”, alt.sex.masturbation, Usenet, as quoted by Richard J. McCunney (December 26)

(vulgar, slang) A penis, especially one that is short and thick.


effusion

effusion (countable and uncountable, plural effusions)

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Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin effūsiō (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English āgotennes.

Coordinate term: edema

pleural effusion

(medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.


topknot

A small European flounder (Phrynorhombus regius, syn. Rhombus punctatus).


chonmage

That the actors portraying samurai wear headpieces in the traditional “chonmage” style, in which a ponytail is folded back over the top of the head, creates a sense of androgynous uniformity. (Mitsuteru Okuyama did the wigs.)

2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times:

A traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men, traditionally associated with samurai and more recently with sumo wrestlers.


Bluey

He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.

1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never, page 228:

Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age.

2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24:

A smile spread slowly across Bluey′s red-whiskered face as the boy went to find his hoe, the one Dad had given him to start a garden in the bush.

2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page:

(Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.


bloodnut

He was a pugnacious bloodnut with a droll wit and a rollup fag on his lip.

“Red” his mates called him: a wild bloodnut like his father, and like his late uncles before Tobruk sands claimed them.

2006, Bill Collopy, House of Given, page 13:

He looked younger, thinner, was pale and unshaven, the image of a man on a bender, complete with a red-haired partner in crime.
‘I say, Howard, your chief chemist would look ree-mahr-kable on a polo pony, don′t think?’ said the bloodnut, who reeked of alcohol and stale tobacco.

2011, Christopher Kremmer, The Chase, unnumbered page:

(Australia, informal) A person with red hair, a redhead.


oichomage

From Japanese 大銀杏髷 (oo-ichō-mage, literally “gingko topknot”).

bor

(sumo) The elaborate hairstyle, resembling a gingko leaf, worn by sekitori during bouts and on ceremonial occasions.


shit-eating grin

en-noun

shit-eating grin (plural shit-eating grins)

Possibly from a contraction of "grinning like a ’possum eating shit" (compare also happy as a pig in shit); later detached from meaning and persisting due to its vividness (cf. "there are many ways to skin a cat" or "happy as a clam").

Near-synonym: smirk

He was at the wheel of his brand-new 1965 GTO, top down, wearing a super-sized shit-eating grin on his face. ￼

2006, Ted Bell, Spy: A Thriller, →ISBN, page 29:

(idiomatic, vulgar) A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.


meristem

From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) + στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891).

af

Coordinate term: cambium

By looking back at a past populated by beings of grotesque difference, humans could place themselves at the apical meristem—the growing tip—of the future.

2020, Janet Chernela, quotee, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

(botany) The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.


shifty

en-adj

shifty (comparative shiftier, superlative shiftiest)

shiftier (comparative)
shiftiest (superlative)

Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Two Years Ago, volume 1, Cambridge: Macmillan, page 34:

Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.


silver bullet

(literally, folklore) A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.

There is no silver bullet for this problem. It will take hard work and long hours to fix.

Colin H. Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, acknowledged last week that “no one capability is a silver bullet,” but said the cluster munitions would allow Ukraine “to sustain the artillery fight for the foreseeable future.”

2023 July 14, Eric Schmitt, quoting Colin H. Kahl, “U.S. Cluster Munitions Arrive in Ukraine, but Impact on Battlefield Remains Unclear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(figurative) Any straightforward solution perceived to have great effectiveness or bring miraculous results.

solució miraculosa

The Martini is nicknamed “the silver bullet” because of its supposedly lethal properties.

[2003, Lowell Edmunds, Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 64:

For a classic silver bullet martini, you simply need to choose your poison—gin or vodka—and add dry vermouth and olives. For the more complex concoctions, you'll want to stock up on flavored vodkas, juices, garnishes, and liqueurs.

2007, Sally Ann Berk, Martini Book: 201 Ways to Mix the Perfect American Cocktail, Hachette, →ISBN:

(colloquial) A classic dry martini cocktail.

[…] "the silver bullet"—a rectal thermometer, to ensure that their body core isn't dangerously overheated from the run.

1998, Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps, page 166:

Of course, there is the infamous “Silver Bullet,” which is a rectal thermometer that measures the body's core temperature in the event of a heat case. No one wanted to get it up the butt with the Silver Bullet, […]

2006, Cpl. Matthew D. Wojtecki, Every Other Four, page 140:

A Corpsman was yanking my pants down in order to administer a “silver bullet” (rectal thermometer). I squirmed away and shoved the Corpsman off me before he could insert it.

2017, Jason Delgado, Chris Martin, Bounty Hunter 4/3: From the Bronx to Marine Scout Sniper, page 109:

(military slang) A thermometer, especially one used for rectal temperature readings.


mousse

en-noun

mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)

→ Irish: mús

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.

der

An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.

He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.

Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b).

1987, D.F. Boesch, N.N. Rabalais, Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development, →ISBN:

A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse). For example, the presence of natural surfactants in the wax, resin, and asphaltene fractions of oils has been positively correlated with the tendency to form mousse.

1993, John R. Clayton, James R. Payne, John S. Farlow, Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests, →ISBN, page 21:

When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.

1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50:

However, the sticky mousse clogged all of the skimmers, even the Vaydaghubsky. If all these skimmers had been on-site during the first three days of calm weather, before the oil was churned into mousse, they could have made a real difference

2009, Elspeth Leacock, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 37:

A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.


mousse

en-verb

mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)

mousses (present singular third-person)
moussing (participle present)
moussed (participle past)
moussed (past)

He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.


cavernous

en-adj

cavernous (comparative more cavernous, superlative most cavernous)

more cavernous (comparative)
most cavernous (superlative)

Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.

af

Having many caverns.
(dentistry) Having cavities.


crew cut

A closely-cropped haircut in which the hairs stick upward, like the short bristles of a brush.


glassy

From Middle English glasy, equivalent to glass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian glääsich (“glassy”), Dutch glazig (“glassy”), German Low German glasig (“glassy”), German glasig (“glassy”).


black eye

"You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.


bouffant

From French bouffant, from Middle French; present participle of bouffer (“to puff”). Doublet of buffont.

Mother went a little pale. “Preposterous!” she said. “I don’t know what’s got into you!” She fiddled with her bouffant, almost as if she was nervous.

2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.

2023 November 30, Matt Phillips, “Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.


canthus

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“the tire of a wheel”).

bor+

the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus

I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.

2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:

A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

corner of the eye
corner of the eye#Noun

(anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.


chyle

en-noun

chyle (countable and uncountable, plural chyles)

From French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).

der

1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524,
It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was ashore sitting beneath a hemlock eating his dinner of venison - and as the tidings were told him, after the first start he kept on eating, but slowly and deliberately, chewing the wild news with the wild meat, as if both together, turned to chyle, together should sinew him to his intent.

And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.

A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.


body part

Eighteen of the Alzheimer elderly were able to identify at least ten body-parts.

1985, Experimental aging research, Volume 11

1997, Gerald Thorn, Phil Embleton, Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding
HEAVY DUTY The low-set, high-intensity system (1 to 3 sets per bodypart) was popularized by Dr. Arthur Jones, inventor of the Nautilus equipment.

Bodybuilders love to talk about their routines for this body part or that bodypart

2005, Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove, The new rules of lifting, page 27

The detached body part should be quickly irrigated to remove contaminants.

2010, Buck Tilton, Wilderness First Responder, page 107

(anatomy) Any part of an animal organism, such as an organ, limb or extremity.


dingaling

[ˈdɪ.ŋə.lɪŋ]


crinal

Their hair belonged to some middle crinal zone between aseptic nord and latitudinarian jetwalled lousehouse.

1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:


bespectacled

en-adj

bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

more bespectacled (comparative)
most bespectacled (superlative)

The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.

1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329:

Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:

The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:


widgie

The bodgies and widgies represented a new teenage culture, with an emphasis on fashion (long hair styles for the boys, gabardine skirts for the girls), street presence, dancing, and rock and roll music. From 1950 to 1959, the phenomenon of the bodgies and widgies captured the imagination of the media.

2006, Rob White, “11: Youth Gang Research in Australia”, in James F. Short, Jr., Lorine A. Hughes, editors, Studying Youth Gangs, page 163:

In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.

2010, William Stokes, Westbrook, page 183:

Nevertheless there was a distinctly gendered dimension - one which demonised the bodgie as delinquent and widgie as sexually immoral.
Stratton (1992) attributes the emergence of bodgies and widgies as Australia′s first post-war working class youth culture to a number of historical changes in the Australian economy.

2010, Kerry Carrington, Margaret Pereira, Offending Youth: Sex, Crime and Justice, page 82:


occlusion

en-noun

occlusion (countable and uncountable, plural occlusions)

Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).

der

(medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.


foramen

Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).

af

The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.

That is better! There is - as I have explained - a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.

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

(anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.

ثُقْبَة

an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone


gleet

(obsolete, except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance.


toothed

The sperm whale is a toothed whale.


lanugo

en-noun

lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

/ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/

From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.

1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man:

[…] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]

Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.


medulla

medulla (plural medullas or medullae or medullæ)

medullas (plural)
medullae (plural)
medullæ (plural)

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Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).

The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.

(anatomy) The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.

髓质

the inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones

(anatomy, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.

(botany) The internal tissue of a plant.


mentula

mentula (plural mentulas or mentulae or mentulæ)

mentulas (plural)
mentulae (plural)
mentulæ (plural)

He, watchman of gardens, keeps evil away with his mentula up, warding off blight and thieves, garlanded with figs and grapes.


gold top

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From the gold-coloured aluminium top of the bottle in which this type of milk is sold.


gold-top milk

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Channel Island milk

Channel Island milk (usually uncountable, plural Channel Island milks)

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A type of creamy, light-beige-coloured milk originally from the Jersey and Guernsey breeds of cattle native to the Channel Islands.


hooded

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slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.

(biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.

kalteva pinta

biology: sloping surface in a culture medium

(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.


clipped

After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him, […]

1999, Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures, Feral House, published 1999, →ISBN, page 102:


Jacobs

Former name of Port Providence, Pennsylvania.


excretion

en-noun

excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)

Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.

[…] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32:

Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.


smirk

From Middle English smirken, from Old English smearcian (“to smile”), corresponding to smerian + -cian (English -k), the former element from Proto-Germanic *smarōną (“to mock, scoff at”), and the latter from Proto-Germanic *-kōną. Compare Middle High German smielen/smieren (“to smile”) ( > obsolete, rare German schmieren).

inh

An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.

إِهْلَاس

smile that is insolent, offensively self-satisfied or scornful


circumcise

en-verb

circumcise (third-person singular simple present circumcises, present participle circumcising, simple past and past participle circumcised)

circumcises (present singular third-person)
circumcising (participle present)
circumcised (participle past)
circumcised (past)

From Old French circoncisier, from Latin circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).

To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.

(sometimes proscribed) To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.

(military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.


coronal

en-adj

coronal (comparative more coronal, superlative most coronal)

more coronal (comparative)
most coronal (superlative)

From Middle English coronal, from Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis (“related to a crown”), from corōna (“crown”).

(dentistry) Relating to the external (supragingival) portion of the tooth.


frenulum

Borrowed from New Latin frēnulum, diminutive of frēnum (“a bridle, curb, bit”).

Humans have three oral frenulums: beneath the tongue, between the upper lip and gum, and between the lower lip and gum.

(anatomy) A small fold or ridge of tissue that supports or restrains the motion of the part to which it is attached, in particular a fold of skin beneath the tongue, or between the lip and the gum.


frenum

Borrowed from Latin frēnum (“bridle, curb, bit”).


myologic

From Greek myo- "muscle" and -logy "study (of)".

(medicine) Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.


welt

Circa 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.

When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XX, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume II, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:

[…] I am sure of one thing,—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They criss-cross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.

1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter VII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, pages 64–65:

She was nearly four feet long, with a large welt on her shell, which was encrusted with ancient-looking barnacles.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 7, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.


hairline

It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.

Using a Danish technique, doctors can now insert plugs of just one or two hairs in front of an implanted area to simulate a natural hairline.

1984 May 28, Claudia Wallis, “Gone Today, but Hair Tomorrow”, in Time:

The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.

hiusraja

the line along one's forehead where hair starts growing

A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.

While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.

Yup, you got a crack in it [the cylinder head] all right. Just a hairline, but that damn thing is gonna cause a big headache later.

2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 102:


horsefeathers

The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse + feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.

The exterior of the court is entirely of sheathing and wood shingles applied over "horsefeathers."

1940, New York lumber trade journal, volumes 108-9, page 26:

In summary, the record establishes that to produce horsefeathers one starts by sawing a log (longitudinally) into boards or planks, which are then likewise center resawn (longitudinally); that the original boards, as well as the center resawn boards, have at least two approximately parallel longitudinal sawed surfaces; that the resawn boards are simply resawn again longitudinally at an angle or bevel to produce horsefeathers; and that the only other sawing required is the crosscutting of the boards to length.

1968 United States Customs Court, First Division, A. N. DERINGER, INC. v. UNITED STATES 287 F.Supp. 1016 (1968) August 8, 1968

Feathering strips, called horsefeathers, can be used to level cedar-shingle roof before reroofing with asphalt shingles

1978 April, Joseph R. Provey, “How to reroof your house like a pro”, in Popular Mechanics, page 160:

To install shakes or shingles over beveled siding, fill in the low points of the existing wall with lumber or plywood strips (called horse feathers).

2005, Daniel Benn Atcheson, Roofing Construction and Estimating, Craftsman Book Company, page 192:


birdie

(electronics) An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.

(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.

(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.


ponytail

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.

cola de caballo f rabo capilar / capital / piloso / caballuno / caballar


concha

en-noun

concha (plural conchae or (archaic) conchæ)

conchae (plural)
conchæ (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin concha (“a mussel shell”). Doublet of conch.

(anatomy) Alternative form of nasal concha.

Any shell-shaped structure:
Alternative form of nasal concha.


tyrosinase

tyrosinase (countable and uncountable, plural tyrosinases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, similar to catechol oxidase, that catalyzes the production of phenolic pigments such as melanin.


fascicle

From Latin fasciculus, a diminutive of fascis (“bundle”); see also fasces. Doublet of fasciculus.

(botany) A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.


temporize

en-verb

temporize (third-person singular simple present temporizes, present participle temporizing, simple past and past participle temporized)

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

temporizes (present singular third-person)
temporizing (participle present)
temporized (participle past)
temporized (past)
temporize (infinitive)

From Middle French temporiser (“to wait one's time, temporize”) + English -ize (suffix forming verbs). Temporiser is derived from Medieval Latin temporizāre, from Latin temporāre (“to delay, put off”) + -izāre (suffix forming the present active infinitive of verbs). Temporāre is derived from tempor-, the inflected stem of tempus (“age, time, period; season of the year; due, opportune, or proper time”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temp-, *ten- (“to extend, stretch (in the sense of a stretch of time)”), or *temh₁- (“to cut (in the sense of a section of time)”)) + -āre.

der

This is especially true when we're faced with temporizing a patient who will ultimately receive veneer restorations.

2005, Dental Economics, volume 95, Tulsa, Okla.: PennWell Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66:

(transitive, dentistry) To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.


vitamer

Any of a combination of substances that, together, function as a vitamin.

provitamine

combination of substances that function as a vitamin


bruxism

en-noun

bruxism (usually uncountable, plural bruxisms)

From Ancient Greek βρυχή (brukhḗ, “grinding of teeth”) + English -ism (suffix forming nouns indicating a tendency of action, behaviour, condition, or state). The word βρυχή is derived from Ancient Greek βρύκω (brúkō, “bite, chew; devour, gobble; grind one's teeth, gnash”).

der

Bruxism is defined as occlusal stress during sleep.

[1932, Bertrand S. Frohman, Jerome M. Schweitzer, “Occlusal Neuroses: The Application of Psychotherapy to Dental Problems”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 19, number 3, New York, N.Y.: William A[lanson] White, M.D., and Smith Ely Jelliffe, M.D., →OCLC, page 297; quoted in “Occlusal Habit Neuroses. Gritting, or Grinding of the Teeth (Bruxism, Bruxomania).”, in Oral Rehabilitation: Complete Occlusal Reconstruction Treatment of Dental Deformities and Related Subjects: The Closed Bite, St. Louis, Mo.: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1951, →OCLC, page 612:

Employment of autosuggestion in the treatment of "bruxism" may not be so well known.

1940 November, Paul J. Boyens, “Value of Autosuggestion in the Therapy of ‘Bruxism’ and Other Biting Habits”, in The Journal of the American Dental Association, volume 27, number 11, Chicago, Ill.: American Dental Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1773, column 1:

At the conclusion of the second International Conference on Endodontics in 1958 there was listed in the final summation the following very conservative statement: "There is a possibility that in rare cases bruxism may cause the death of the pulp."

1960 November, John I. Ingle, “Alveolar Osteoporosis and Pulpal Death Associated with Compulsive Bruxism”, in Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology, volume 13, number 11, St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby-Year Book, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 1371:

Disturbances of the Masticatory System gives a comprehensive outline of factors involved with a broad perspective as to the etiology of bruxisms, traumatic occlusion and functional disturbances of the temporomandibular joints and muscles.

1966, Walter Buchmann, “[book review]”, in Illinois Dental Journal, volume 35, Oakland Park, Ill.: Illinois State Dental Society, →OCLC, page 743, column 2:

[B. Z.] Rabinowitch feels that internal resorption may be caused by traumatic occlusion. He cites a case of internal resorption where there was no history or evidence other than continued bruxism as the etiology.

1972 January, William Myers, David Whitaker, “Endodontic Considerations in Occlusal Adjustment”, in Benjamin R. Baker, editor, The Journal of the North Carolina Dental Society, volume 55, number 1, Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Dental Society, →OCLC, →PMID, pages 16–17:

Abnormal function [of the temporomandibular joint], in turn, may be the result of a structural problem such as dental malocclusion or a functional problem such as bruxism (clenching and grinding of the teeth).

2011, Bernard Liebgott, “The Head by Regions”, in John Dolan, editor, The Anatomical Basis of Dentistry, 3rd edition, Maryland Heights, Mo.: Mosby, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 276, column 1:

Caffeine intake in high quantity is linked with an increased risk of sleep bruxisms in 1.5 times through mechanisms currently unknown. Heavy drinking and frequent alcohol intake during the day have also been associated with sleep bruxism.

2015, Nicolás Patricio Skármeta, Paula Espinoza-Mellado, Pedro Chana, “Orofacial Dystonia and Other Oromandibular Movement Disorders”, in Tamer Mohamed Gaber Rizk, editor, Dystonia: Different Prospects, London: IntechOpen, →DOI, →ISBN, section 4.5 (Sleep Bruxism Etiology), page 34:

(dentistry) The habit or practice of grinding the teeth, as while sleeping, or due to stress or certain drugs.


secretion

en-noun

secretion (countable and uncountable, plural secretions)

(1646) From French sécrétion, from Latin sēcrētiō, sēcrētiōnem.

(countable) any substance that is secreted by an organism

分泌物

ぶんぴぶつ, bunpitsubutsu, ぶんぴつぶつ, bunpibutsu


glassy-eyed

en-adj

glassy-eyed (comparative more glassy-eyed, superlative most glassy-eyed)

more glassy-eyed (comparative)
most glassy-eyed (superlative)

Having a fixed stare and a wide-eyed appearance, due to boredom, preoccupation, or lack of emotion, attention, or interest.


bangs

en-noun

bangs pl (normally plural, singular bang)

From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).

(chiefly US, Philippines) Hair hanging over the forehead.


Buffyverse

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense that something is about to end in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense that something is going to change in the Buffyverse.

2009, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Annette Holba, Media and the Apocalypse, page 77:

2009, Kevin K. Durand, It's All about Power, in Kevin K. Durand (editor), Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, Part I: Power and the Buffy Canon, page 46,
In the Buffyverse, we encounter a true representation of shared power, of partnered power. Further, the “bad guys” are not the only paradigms of patriarchy in the Buffyverse that are overcome.

We can hardly be surprised when Buffy and Satsu find what warmth they can, as Willow does with her demon lover, in an intercut sex scene of the kind which typically precedes an apocalypse in the Buffyverse (#15, p. 26). Scenes like this confirm Em McAvan's point that the Buffyverse associates bisexuality with kink (paragraph 15).

2010, Lewis Call, “Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics”, in Erin B. Waggoner, editor, Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays, page 115:

(fandom slang) The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


circumcised

(of a woman) Having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.


immunoglobulin

The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody.

1969, Robert P. Orange, K. Frank Austen, “Slow Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis”, in Advances in Immunology - Volume 10, page 144:

(biochemistry, immunology) Any of the glycoproteins in blood serum that respond to invasion by foreign antigens and that protect the host by removing pathogens; an antibody.


mickey

* (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.

Five Fingers rapped around my mickey, being /ke/[??]
Smokin on this dickey in the Fifty /se/[??], and shift

2004, “Take a Toast”, in The Love Never Dies, performed by Paperboy et al.:

(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina.

(Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia.

(rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild.


insulin

insulin (countable and uncountable, plural insulins)

From Latin īnsula (“island”) (named for the islets of Langerhans, where insulin is produced) + -in.

Coordinate term: glucagon

Ask a dozen persons to tell you what they know about insulin and you will get some surprising and contradictory an- swers. The truth is this: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but it is helping to prolong and gladden lives.

Nationally the average insulin price nearly tripled from 2002 through 2013, and prices have risen 10% or more a year since then, forcing many diabetics to ration their insulin.

2019, Associated Press, “Colorado law caps cost of insulin at $100 a month,” The Washington Times

en:endogenous hormone for glucose catabolism

A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).


xiphoid process

xiphoid process (plural xiphoid processes)

/ˈzɪˌfɔɪd ˈpɹɑˌsɛs/

The adult sternum is comprised of three main parts—the manubrium, sternal body, and xiphoid process. The manubrium (fig. 7.2a) is the thickest, most superior part of the sternum, while the xiphoid process is variable in appearance and forms the inferior terminus of the sternum.

2005, Brenda J. Baker, Tosha L. Dupras, Matthew W. Tocheri, The Osteology of Infants and Children, Texas A&M University Press, page 96:

2005, Kenneth L. Franco, Joe Billy Putnam, Advanced Therapy in Thoracic Surgery, B.C. Decker Inc., 2nd Edition, page 152,
In chondrosternal prominence where there is angulation at the sternoxiphoidal junction, the xiphoid process is detached and a 2 to 3 cm length of the lower sternum is resected.

This is a constellation of symptoms, including severe intermittent anterior chest wall pain in the region of the xiphoid process, made worse with overeating, stooping, and bending (Figures 103-2 and 103-3)

2016, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Pain Management Injection Techniques, 4th edition, Elsevier, page 360:

(anatomy, medicine) The small cartilaginous extension to the lower part of the sternum, usually ossified in the adult human.

xipho-

and thus see: Category:English terms prefixed with xipho-


blood bank

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(medicine) the range of such blood products stored


cardia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart and possibly of core.

lbor

In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia.

2004, William H. Marquardt, Biology of Disease Vectors, page 300:

The first one is stripping from up to down for tumours in the cardias, the other one is stripping from down to up for cervical esophageal cancer.

2012, Kin-ichi Nabeya, editor, Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus:

After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.

2012, Werner Peters, Peritrophic Membranes:

(anatomy) The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.

càrdies

section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach


xanthine oxidase

en-noun

xanthine oxidase (plural xanthine oxidases)

(biochemistry) A crystallizable flavoprotein enzyme containing iron and molybdenum that promotes the oxidation especially of hypoxanthine and xanthine to uric acid and of many aldehydes to carboxylic acids and that is obtained usually from milk or liver.


gorgonin

(biochemistry) A complex protein frequently containing appreciable quantities of iodine and bromine that makes up the horny skeleton of typical gorgonians.

gorgonina

protein that makes up the skeleton of gorgonians


bikini wax

The use of hot wax to remove pubic hair so that it may be easier to wear a bikini.


endodermis

endodermis (plural endodermises or endodermides)

endodermises (plural)
endodermides (plural)

From endo- (“within”) + dermis (“skin”).


guyliner

I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]

2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 29:

Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

(informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.


stopping

an amalgam stopping

curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth

1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 23:

Then one day a big stopping came out of one of my back teeth.

1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, New York: Thomas Nelson, page 125:

(dentistry, dated) Material for filling a cavity in a tooth.


gripper

/ˈɡɹɪ.pə(ɹ)/

(rail transport, slang) A ticket collector.


curly

en-adj

curly (comparative curlier, superlative curliest)

curlier (comparative)
curliest (superlative)


scrimshaw

en-verb

scrimshaw (third-person singular simple present scrimshaws, present participle scrimshawing, simple past and past participle scrimshawed)

scrimshaws (present singular third-person)
scrimshawing (participle present)
scrimshawed (participle past)
scrimshawed (past)

The origin of the verb is unknown, but it has possibly been influenced by the surname Scrimshaw. Various etymologies have been proposed (for example, that it derives from scrimshank (“(Britain, military slang) to be idle, to shirk duty”)), but the Oxford English Dictionary does not consider any of them convincing.
The noun is probably derived from the verb.

ref

From the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

To create (a small ornamental handicraft also called a scrimshaw) by carving or engraving on bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials.

To carve or engrave (bone, ivory, or other materials) with ornamental designs.

To carve or engrave (ornamental designs) on bone, ivory, or other materials.


scrimshaw

en-noun

scrimshaw (countable and uncountable, plural scrimshaws)

term-label

(originally US, nautical, also attributively)

Rooney got his skull exposed, doggone it
Soon he's gonna get scrimshaw carved on it

2008, Neil Cicierega (lyrics and music), “Modify”, in View-Monster, performed by Lemon Demon:

(countable) A small ornamental handicraft created by carving or engraving bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials, formerly produced by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.

(uncountable) The manufacture of small ornamental handicrafts by carving or engraving bone, ivory, or other materials, formerly by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.


thrombin

en-noun

thrombin (countable and uncountable, plural thrombins)

(biochemistry) An enzyme in blood that facilitates blood clotting by converting fibrinogen to fibrin (by means of ionized calcium).


gimlet-eyed

en-adj

gimlet-eyed (comparative more gimlet-eyed, superlative most gimlet-eyed)

more gimlet-eyed (comparative)
most gimlet-eyed (superlative)


parenchyma

en-noun

parenchyma (countable and uncountable, plural parenchymas or parenchymata)

parenchymas (plural)
parenchymata (plural)

/pəˈɹɛŋ.kɪm.ə/

From Ancient Greek παρέγχῠμα (parénkhŭma, “anything poured in beside”), from πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) + ἔγχῠμα (énkhŭma, “instillation, content of a vessel”), given by the Greek anatomist Erasistratus to the peculiar substance of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen, as if formed separately by the veins that run into them.

af

(botany) The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.


hotdog

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Mama’s Fried Chicken […] serves good fried birds, but better yet is their crawfish étouffée, served by the bowl, or ladled into a hotdog bun and dubbed a ‘crawdog.’

2003 February, Tom Downs, John T Edge, “Cajun Country”, in “Excursions”, in New Orleans, 3rd edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 178, column 2:

I dress him for the occasion; however, it is like putting a cocktail wiener into a hotdog bun.

2006 May, Latisha Bridges, chapter 3, in When a Woman’s Fed Up, Morrow, Ga.: BlueRaine Entertainment, →ISBN, page 64:

But the cars & trucks held cartons of roast chickens, slabs of cheeses, loaves of bread, racks of hotdogs, case upon case of soft drinks, cases of bottled sparkling water, pies, cakes, roast beefs & baked hams.

2008, Red Jordan Arobateau, Leader of the Pack, page 136:

If you happen to know about the legs or hotdogs meme, Evil Kermit, or what a Milkshake Duck or VSCO girl is, you are poised to do well in this version of the game [Trivial Pursuit Decades: 2010–2020].

2023 January 16, Saleema Nawaz, “Suddenly, teens are winning pieces of Trivial Pursuit’s pie”, in Montreal Gazette:


snip

en-verb

snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)

snips (present singular third-person)
snipping (participle present)
snipped (participle past)
snipped (past)

From Dutch snippen (“to snip; shred”) or Low German snippen (“to snip; shred”), of imitative origin. Compare snap.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped.

2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd, published 2001, →ISBN, page 72:

His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.

2008, Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish, Adams Media, published 2008, →ISBN, page 150:

By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped, but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.

2012, Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Square Peg, published 2012, →ISBN, page 144:


goolies

en-noun

goolies pl (normally plural, singular gooly)

Probably from Hindi गोली (golī, “ball; pill; bullet”) or a cognate in other Indian languages.

"My oath," he said, "here's a man got his goolie chit. And I left mine behind. How fat can you get?"
"I've got mine," said Ward quietly, tapping his pocket."
"It's not your goolies I'm worried about," said Curnow.

Marcus: Sorry, your "gooly"?
Stylax: Yeah.
Marcus: You can't have one "gooly". It's just your "goolies".
Stylax: No, no, no, no. The whole thing is your goolies, all three of them, but if you're talking about one in particular, you say "gooly".

2013 April 8, “The Herpes Cat”, in Plebs:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar slang, usually in the plural) The testicles.


shearer

A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.


tearing

tearing (usually uncountable, plural tearings)

Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.

2003, David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics, page 303:

(computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.

yāihyāih

sound produce when ripping clothes or flat sheets


hairbrush

A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair


va-jay-jay

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Jocular alteration of vagina, popularised by a 2006 use in “Grey’s Anatomy”. Compare vajay.

“My va-jay-jay itches”, yeasts my friend Anna scratchily into her cell phone.

2005 March 3, Billy Manes, “RETURN TO PARIS”, in Orlando Weekly:

will have progress pics soon…unless two babies decide to raid mah va-jay-jay, in which case, I guess I’ll have to wait.

2006 March 1, (anonymous), “Still here….on the couch”, Melanoma Uberalis, at www.msmelanie.prettyposies.com https://web.archive.org/web/20060616020810/http://www.msmelanie.prettyposies.com/?p=290

crouching on all fours about to push an 8-pound baby out of her va-jay-jay.

2006 March 29, Fara Kearnes, “Culture Clash Over Nude Britney Spears Sculpture”, in StarBlogs.net:

Clarice: So you’re bisexual.
Jamie: But I’m scared of other people’s va-jay-jays.

2009, Daniele Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots:


blow-dryer

(US, Philippines) An electrical device used for drying hair.


arytenoid

/ˌæɹ.əˈtiˌnɔɪd/

/əˈɹɪt.n̩ˌɔɪd/

Borrowed from New Latin arytaenoīdēs (“ladle-shaped”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής (ărŭtainoeidḗs), from ᾰ̓ρύ̆ταινᾰ (ărú̆taină, “a ladle or cup”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).

bor

ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής

af

(anatomy) Relating to or being an arytenoid muscle.


arytenoid

/ˌæɹ.əˈtiˌnɔɪd/

/əˈɹɪt.n̩ˌɔɪd/

bor

ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής

arytenoid muscle
arytenoid muscle#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of arytenoid muscle..


sanies

en-noun

sanies (countable and uncountable, plural sanies)

(medicine) a thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor


scruff

scruff (countable and uncountable, plural scruffs)


adrenalin

adrenalin (usually uncountable, plural adrenalins)


crutch

From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.

der

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.

I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.


gristle

en-noun

gristle (countable and uncountable, plural gristles)

From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel (“gristle, cartilage”), Proto-West Germanic *gristl, of obscure origin; possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language. Seemingly equivalent to a diminutive of Old English grist (“a grinding”), equivalent to modern English grist + -le; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”). Cognate with Old Frisian gristel, gerstel (“gristle, cartilage”), Middle Low German gristel (“gristle”).

inh

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best[…]

1979, Monty Python (lyrics and music), “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”:

But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak […]

2011, Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, New York: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 35:

Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.


lectin

From Latin lēctus (“chosen”) + -in. Coined by W.C. Boyd in 1954.

The result proved less about the safety of genetic engineering than it did about the safety of lectins – known animal poisons.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 252:

Soybeans are another excellent source of plant proteins but they are also on the list of high lectin foods. They are very important to vegans and vegetarians as they make it easy for them to get adequate proteins in their diet.

2018, Stanley Adamson, Lectin Free Handbook: The Essential Guide To The Lectin Diet Plus A 7-Day Lectin Avoidance Meal Plan And Recipes, PublishDrive:

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins that bind specific carbohydrates.


weeny

en-adj

weeny (comparative weenier, superlative weeniest)

weenier (comparative)
weeniest (superlative)

Possibly imitative from teeny weeny, or from wee + -y


endo

en-noun

endo (countable and uncountable, plural endos)

Clippings, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “inner; internal”). Compare the prefix endo-.

der

I question dentists about the services they actually provide in their offices. Do you do crown and bridge and restorative dentistry? “Of course.” Do you do endodontics? “No, I never really liked endo.”

2022 August 19, Louis Malcmacher, “Learn something new: Incorporating Botox and dermal fillers into your practice”, in Dental Economics:

(countable, dentistry, informal) Clipping of endodontics.

Supraeruption happens. Gingival inflammation happens. Pulpal inflammation happens. Traditionally, we can “work through” these problems. We can grind crowns into place. We anesthetize and use hemostatics on the gingiva. We do endos. But we shouldn’t have to do those things, especially with digital dentistry.

2021 October 25, Joshua Austin, “Pearls for Your Practice: 3-Day Polished Zirconia Crowns by 38 Smiles Dental Lab”, in Dental Economics:

(countable, dentistry, informal) Clipping of endodontic treatment.


lacteal

These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 65:

(physiology, chiefly in the plural) Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.


dental caries

A disease of the teeth resulting in damage to tooth structure.


betanin

en-noun

betanin (countable and uncountable, plural betanins)

(organic chemistry) A glycoside obtained from beetroot.

betanin

the glycoside also known as beetroot red


overbite

(dentistry) A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.


brinded

en-adj

brinded (comparative more brinded, superlative most brinded)

more brinded (comparative)
most brinded (superlative)

From Middle English brended (“burnt, branded”), from bren (“burned, branded”), from the past participle of brennen (“to burn”), from Old English bærnan (“to burn”). Also compare Old Norse brǫndóttr, Icelandic bröndóttr (“brindled”).

inh

Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

It is well known that the only wool susceptible of acquiring delicate and brilliant colours by the process of dyeing, is white wool: for this reason the Cachemirians separate all those lambs which are black or brinded.

1804, Alexander le. Goux de Flaix, “Memoir on the Wool and Sheep of Cachemire and Boutam”, in Philosophical Magazine, page 240:

Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]

1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 30, lines 1–3:

(archaic, dialect) Especially of the fur or skin of animals: having a patchy or streaky pattern, usually brown or grey in colour; brindled.


glans penis

en-noun

glans penis (plural glans penises or glandes penis or glandes penium or (misconstruction) glans penes or (misconstruction) glandes penes)

glans penises (plural)
glandes penis (plural)
glandes penium (plural)
glans penes (misconstruction plural)
glandes penes (misconstruction plural)

From New Latin glāns pēnis (“glans of the penis”), pēnis being a genitive.

der

Holonym: penis

Meronym: corona glandis penis

Comeronyms: corpus cavernosum penis, praeputium penis

Coordinate term: glans clitoridis

(anatomy) A conical vascularized body forming the extremity of the penis.


protamine

(biochemistry) Any of various strongly basic proteins of relatively low molecular weight that are rich in arginine and are found associated especially with DNA in place of histone in the sperm cells of various animals (such as fish).


thiamine

en-noun

thiamine (usually uncountable, plural thiamines)

(biochemistry) One of the constituents of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast and bran, that is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates.


melatonin

melatonin (usually uncountable, plural melatonins)

How exactly melatonin relates to sleep is still not understood.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 310:

A hormone, related to serotonin, that is secreted by the pineal gland, and stimulates colour change in the skin of reptiles, and is involved in the sleep/wake and reproductive cycles in mammals.

Any material similar in its chemistry and effect to the natural hormone.


aldosterone

/ælˈdɒstəɹəʊn/

From aldo- (“related to aldehydes”) + -sterone, modelled on German Aldosteron; coined in the 1950s.

af

(biochemistry, steroids) A mineralocorticoid hormone, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that regulates the balance of sodium and potassium in the body.


corticosteroid

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in a large range of physiological systems.


androsterone

en-noun

androsterone (countable and uncountable, plural androsterones)

(biochemistry, steroids) An androgenic hormone, excreted in the urine, somewhat less active than testosterone.


corticosterone

corticosterone (countable and uncountable, plural corticosterones)

“The brain doesn’t get the rest it needs, resulting in a drop in executive function and accompanied by an increase in corticosterone levels.”

2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 206:

(biochemistry, steroids) A corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.


cortisone

cortisone (countable and uncountable, plural cortisones)

(biochemistry, steroids, pharmacology) A corticosteroid hormone, closely related to corticosterone, produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and antiallergy agent. 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, with formula C₂₁H₂₈O₅.


deoxycorticosterone

deoxycorticosterone (countable and uncountable, plural deoxycorticosterones)

deoxycorticosterones (plural)
DOC (abbreviation)

(biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone, produced in the adrenal cortex; sometimes manufactured synthetically for use in cases of adrenal insufficiency.


estrone

estrone (countable and uncountable, plural estrones)

(American spelling, biochemistry, steroids, pharmacology) A natural estrogenic hormone that is a ketone C₁₈H₂₂O₂ found in the body chiefly as a metabolite of and less potent than estradiol, that is also secreted especially by the ovaries, and that is used to treat various conditions (such as ovarian failure and menopausal symptoms) relating to estrogen deficiency.


theelin

The isolation of the crystalline hormone seems to justify the selection of a new name which should be reserved for the crystalline material and which in reality becomes the name of a new and probably hitherto unknown chemical substance. Accordingly, we suggest the term “theelin.“ This word is derived from the Greek word “theelus” used both adjectively and nominally to signify “female.”

1930 June, CD Veler, “The preparation of the crystalline follicular ovarian hormone: Theelin”, in Journal of Biological Chemistry, page 357:

(biochemistry, steroids) The steroid hormone estrone.


cortisol

cortisol (countable and uncountable, plural cortisols)

(biochemistry, steroids) A glucocorticoid steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that mediates various metabolic processes (such as gluconeogenesis), has anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties, and whose levels in the blood may become elevated in response to physical or psychological stress. When used medicinally it is known as hydrocortisone.


glucocorticoid

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, produced by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in metabolism and have anti-inflammatory properties.


ribonuclease

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid.

ribonucléase

enzyme catalyzing the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid


acetylcholine

acetylcholine (countable and uncountable, plural acetylcholines)

Acetylcholine build-up in the body can be toxic.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 11:

(biochemistry) A neurotransmitter in humans and other animals. It is an ester of acetic acid and choline with chemical formula CH₃COOCH₂CH₂N⁺(CH₃)₃.


acetylcholinesterase

acetylcholinesterase (countable and uncountable, plural acetylcholinesterases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid.


vaj

See Citations:vaj


towhead

You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.

1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:

Then he noticed that the scar ran back into her hair, and Lower Appalachian towhead is the nearest thing in nature you will get to platinum blond, barring albinos.

1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:

2010, Joseph A. West, Richard Compton (byline), Death of a Hangman, New American Library (Signet), page 103,
“Hell, I never did cotton to an uppity whore anyhow," the towhead said.

2012, Ann M. Paulson, Stepping Stones for the Heart, Hay House (Balboa Press), page 88,
The courtyard was lit with bright sunlight and Asenath and the two towheads were there amusing themselves.

A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.


-enchyma

From Ancient Greek ἔγχυμα (énkhuma, “infusion”).


trichology

/tɹʌɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

From tricho- + -logy, from Ancient Greek.

The remaining chapters cover diseases of the hairy skin and summarize recent developments in laboratory and experimental trichology.

They had spread themselves beneath the oaks and chestnuts and planted the green banks with tussocks of crocuses; it was more like some exercise in trichology than horticulture.


bloodshed

en-noun

bloodshed (usually uncountable, plural bloodsheds)

From attested early forms of such phrases as "there was much blood shed"; equivalent to blood + shed, past participle of shed.

A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.

(obsolete) The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.

bloedoffer

(obsolete) A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.


hoo-ha

Perhaps from Yiddish הו־האַ (hu-ha, “a hullabaloo”).
The second sense is likely expressive; compare such similar terms in other languages as Spanish juju.

onomatopoeic

expressive

Did that make her a good judge of character, or a fool who was letting her hoo-ha do her thinking for her?

She didn't want to lose their childish battle of wills, but neither did she want some parasite swimming up her hoo-ha.

2009, Lexi Ryan, Stilettos, Inc., page 163:

His mother later expressed disappointment that she'd been wrong, but by then, Belinda had a butterfly on her hoo-ha.

2010, Dee Tenorio, All Or Nothing, page 54:

Tara Davis-Woodhall, an American who placed sixth in the long jump at the Tokyo Games and took silver at last year’s world championships, reacted with equal parts humor and horror, commenting: “Wait my hoo haa is gonna be out.”

2024 April 13, Tara Davis-Woodhall, quotee, “‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


manhole

throw nickels around like manhole covers

The king had scarce ceased to writhe,
When hate gave a terrible laugh,
Like a manhole opened to Hell.

1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:

A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations.

մտոց

a hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations

(LGBTQ) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.


tocopherol

From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”) + φέρειν (phérein, “to bear or carry”) + -ol.

compound

(biochemistry) Any of several isomers of the principal component of vitamin E, each containing a chromanol ring and an isoprene side-chain.

E308 and E309 when used as an antioxidant


tuz

And then thou kemb'st the Tuzzes on thy cheek.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:


water pick

(dentistry) A device that is used to clear away food debris from the mouth, mostly used by people with braces or periodontal problems.


hydrolase

→ Polish: hydrolaza

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a substrate.


bloodmobile

A vehicle outfitted to collect blood from donors.


copperhead

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.

A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.


pyridoxine

en-noun

pyridoxine (countable and uncountable, plural pyridoxines)

/ˌpɪɹɪˈdɒksɪn/

(biochemistry) A derivative of pyridine, 4,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpyridin-3-ol, found in fish, liver, cereals and yeast, and essential for the metabolism of amino acids and starch.


pintle

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From Middle English pyntel, from Old English pintel (“penis”), from Proto-West Germanic *pint(i), from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protrusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to pin + -le. Cognate with North Frisian pint (“male member, penis”), West Frisian pyt (“male member, penis”), Dutch piet (“penis”), German Low German Pint (“penis”), German Pint (“penis”), West Flemish pint, piet (“tip, spike, penis”), Danish pint, pintel (“penis”), Norwegian dialectal pintol (“penis”), dialectal Swedish pitt (“penis”). More at pin, pen.


female circumcision

en-noun

female circumcision (countable and uncountable, plural female circumcisions)

Phimosis of the prepuce of the clitoris: indication for female circumcision by D G McLintock in J R Soc Med. 1985 March; 78(3): 257–258

The removal of the clitoral hood, the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent.

sometimes included under female genital mutilation


homogenized milk

homogenized milk (countable and uncountable, plural homogenized milks)

Milk which has been treated so that the liquid remains creamy throughout, instead of forming a separate layer of cream at the top.


colostrum

colostrum (usually uncountable, plural colostra)

Borrowed from Latin colostrum, of uncertain origin.

The researchers isolated the antibodies from the cow's colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which has very high antibody concentrations. They gave these antibodies, extracted from the colostrum, to 10 volunteers and gave another 10 volunteers extracts from colostrum of cows that were not immunized against the traveler's diarrhea bacteria.

1988 May 17, Gina Kolata, “For Travelers, Milk From Immunized Cows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

This valuable fluid—colostrum—plays a number of important biological roles, including helping improve an infant's immune system. Nevertheless, many humans intuitively perceive colostrum as “sour milk,” which should not be given to infants. Other species do not make this serious mistake.

2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 16, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

(medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.


monoamine oxidase

monoamine oxidase (plural monoamine oxidases)

monoamine oxidases (plural)
as MAO (abbreviation)

(biochemistry) Either of two enzymes, found in the outer membrane of mitochondria, that degrade biogenic amines and are thus responsible for the destruction of transmitter substances at neuronal synapses.

monoaminooxidasa

biochemistry: enzyme that degrades biogenic amines


oxidase

From oxide + -ase introduced by Gabriel Bertrand.

The effects of hemoglobin in anemia and chlorosis, and even in tuberculosis, are due to its triple action; it acts opotherapeutically, through the blood oxydases, which it contains when properly prepared.

1915, “Hemoglobin in Anemia”, in American Medicine, volume 21, page 22:

(biochemistry) Any of many enzymes which catalyze oxidation reactions, especially ones using molecular oxygen.


dental calculus

A hard crust of calcium salts and food particles on the teeth, developing from plaque.


collarbone

From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.

The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.


beauty salon

A shop that provides hairdressing and beauticians' work.


vag

Out the cab flash the vag / Set the women's movement back

2012, “Ke$ha Die Young PARODY! Key of Awesome #65”, The Key of Awesome (lyrics), Ke$ha (music):

My vag squirt aloe vera / Yo' vag look like Tony Danza

(US slang, chiefly vulgar) Vagina (or, by extension, vulva).


bite stick

(dentistry) A small wooden stick used in orthodontistry, which the patient bites on when the bands of the braces are fitted.


grizzly

en-adj

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

grizzlier (comparative)
grizzliest (superlative)


amniotic fluid

en-noun

amniotic fluid (countable and uncountable, plural amniotic fluids)

(zoology) In placental mammals, a fluid contained within the amnion membrane that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus.

سُخْد

fluid that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus


aqueous humour

(ophthalmology) The clear, watery fluid that fills the front of the eye between the cornea and the crystalline lens.

humor aquós

the fluid that fills the front of the eye


barefaced

en-adj

barefaced (comparative more barefaced, superlative most barefaced)

more barefaced (comparative)
most barefaced (superlative)

Perhaps an alteration of barefast (compare shamefast); or from bare + faced

Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude.

Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair).

Unmasked (not wearing a mask) or not wearing a face covering.


nicotinamide

en-noun

nicotinamide (countable and uncountable, plural nicotinamides)

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) The amide of nicotinic acid (or niacin).

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate


NAD

(biochemistry) Initialism of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.


NADP

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.


nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (uncountable)

The treatment in mice involved boosting their levels of Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) – a natural protein that already controls DNA repair in our body.

2017 March 24, Tom Bawden, Not getting any older may be possibility after key discovery, in the i, № 1,975, page 15/5:

(biochemistry) An organic coenzyme involved in biological oxidation and reduction reactions.


nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide

nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide (uncountable)


TPN

triphosphopyridine nucleotide
triphosphopyridine nucleotide#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of triphosphopyridine nucleotide.


DPN

DPN (countable and uncountable, plural DPNs)

diphosphopyridine nucleotide
diphosphopyridine nucleotide#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of diphosphopyridine nucleotide.


diphosphopyridine nucleotide

diphosphopyridine nucleotide (plural diphosphopyridine nucleotides)

diphosphopyridine nucleotides (plural)
as DPN (abbreviation)

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

(biochemistry) nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide


triphosphopyridine nucleotide

triphosphopyridine nucleotide (plural triphosphopyridine nucleotides)

triphosphopyridine nucleotides (plural)
as TPN (abbreviation)

nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide

(biochemistry) nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide


cuticula

From Latin cutīcula (“skin, cuticle”). Doublet of cuticle.

(zoology, botany) A tough protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants; cuticle.


spina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”). Doublet of spine.


T-zone

From T + zone, from the shape of the region.

The forehead and nose considered together as a region of the face that can, in some people, produce excess sebum compared to other parts of the face.


ta-ta

→ Portuguese: tatá


condensed milk

en-noun

condensed milk (countable and uncountable, plural condensed milks)

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She holds the condensed milk tin over the first mug and watches the pale yellow milk stream down in a thin, viscous line.

2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 86:

Milk that has been reduced and sweetened to the consistency of syrup.