evaporated milk

evaporated milk (usually uncountable, plural evaporated milks)

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Milk that has been concentrated by evaporation, often sold canned.

llet concentrada

milk that has been concentrated by evaporation


milk powder

en-noun

milk powder (countable and uncountable, plural milk powders)

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Pulverized milk solids, produced by evaporating all liquid from milk.


pussy lips

pussy lips pl (normally plural, singular pussy lip)


cariogenic

en-adj

cariogenic (comparative more cariogenic, superlative most cariogenic)

more cariogenic (comparative)
most cariogenic (superlative)


spongin

A horny, sulfur-containing protein, related to keratin, that forms the skeletal structure of certain classes of sponges. A proteinaceous compound of which the spicules in Demospongiae are composed.


isoenzyme

Near-synonym: allozyme

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but have structures that are (minorly or substantially) different and have physical, biochemical, and immunological properties that are (minorly or substantially) different.


rugburn

en-noun

rugburn (countable and uncountable, plural rugburns)

The ombudsman found that youth living at El Pueblo remained under the care and supervision of staff who had been accused of abusing them. In one case, a youth was reportedly dragged across the carpet by two staff members, resulting in rugburns on his face.

2019 August 13, “A Pueblo center for troubled kids had 243 abuse allegations in the year before it closed”, in The Colorado Sun:

The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.

2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:

(countable) A painful burn or redness of skin, especially on knees, elbows, and hands, from repetitive friction against a rug or similar surface.

Like, seriously, thanks for the music. It's meant a lot. […] Your lead's hotter than rugburn.

His writing about the shattering nature of syphilis is both devastating and a bit sly. "You could joke with the word 'pox,'" he wrote. "You can’t joke with the word 'syphilis.'" Reading Lawrence’s writing about sex, in general, leaves you suspecting that he walked around with perpetual rugburn.

2019 November 8, Dwight Garner, “From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction”, in New York Times:


metalloenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that contains a metal atom which is essential for its biological activity


longhair

dismissed as just another band of longhairs at the height of longhair bands

A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie.

A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.


longhair

I would rather see a musical, but my wife, who loves longhair music, is dragging me to the symphony again.

(derogatory, music) Concerning or characteristic of classical music.


family jewels

The whole crowd cringed as he got hit right in the family jewels.

But what do three testicles mean? A mystical trinity illuminating some absurd need to procreate? A symbol suggesting a metaphysic of pawnbroking? Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, "the family jewels."

1971 July 5, R. Z. Sheppard, “Three's a Crowd”, in Time:


blondie

A sweet, chewy, generally vanilla-flavoured and chocolate-free baked good: a blond-colored brownie.


pepsin

pepsin (countable and uncountable, plural pepsins)

From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.

der

(biochemistry) A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.


wide-eyed

en-adj

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

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

She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.


naptural

naptural (comparative more naptural, superlative most naptural)

more naptural (comparative)
most naptural (superlative)

Going naptural does not mean that you have to cut all of the chemicals out of your hair immediately.

2003, Ayana Hardin, Nappy Hair 101, Llumina Press, →ISBN, page 21:

Some with naptural hair elect not to use a comb or brush, but for those who want to detangle without only using their hands, a wide tooth comb and brush need to also be a part of your list.

2009 March 23, Laquita Thomas-Banks, “Basic Tools For Natural Hair”, in Clutch:

2012, Rod Hagwood, "Meetup for women with curly, kinky or 'naptural' hair", Sun-Sentinel, 14 August 2012 (used in title only)

(informal, of Afro-textured hair) Left in its natural state, i.e. not chemically altered (relaxed, permed, etc).


bleary-eyed

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

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

Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued

Bleary-eyed walkers prepared their kit for the final mountain, while the onboard crew fed and watered them, boosting people's energy levels for the last challenge.

2024 August 7, Paul Bigland, “'3 Peaks by Rail': ain't no mountain high enough”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 51:

Tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes.

γλαμυρός

tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes


oxidoreductase

From its morphology, oxido- + reductase.

It remains to be seen whether oxidoreductase deficiency is a significant cause of non-syndromic ambiguous genitalia in newborn females and undermasculinized males of unknown diagnosis as assessed by urinary steroid analyses.

2011, Charles G. D. Brook, Peter Clayton, Rosalind Brown, Brook's Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology, page 196:

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction.


third leg

Suggesting a penis as long as one's leg.

(humorous, slang) A penis; specifically a long one.


suction

en-noun

suction (usually uncountable, plural suctions)

From Latin sūctiō, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“to suck”). Attested in English since the early 17th century.

(dentistry) A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.


PAH

phenylalanine hydroxylase
phenylalanine hydroxylase#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of phenylalanine hydroxylase.


dinitrogenase

(biochemistry) Either of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.


dinitrogenase reductase

(biochemistry) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.


dinitrogen reductase

dinitrogenase reductase
dinitrogenase reductase


coin slot

Sometimes when she is on the floor with her legs spread open the men sitting at the edge of the stage try to roll quarters into her "coin slot."

2003, David A. Scott, Behind the G-String:


nitrous

From Middle French nitreux, and its source, Latin nitrōsus (“nitrose”). Doublet of nitroso. By surface analysis, nitro- + -ous.

(dentistry, automotive, informal) Nitrous oxide.


dioxygenase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dioxygenation reactions


weenie

Weenies and beer had not been a part of ASN/29's stores.

“The fucking weenie gets hard and I fucking lose this brain and this happened,” he said.

2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic:

(slang) Alternative form of wienie (“penis”)

Over and over again you'll dump a horde of weenies, and if you're^([sic]) opponent's^([sic]) too slow, he'll die right off the bat.

1996 February 20, ChrisMims [username], “White Hordes Part I: Extensive Pontifications”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

He was playing a monoblack weenie deck with 30+ creatures in it.

1997 February 10, Jesse Chounard, “Report: Pro Tour Paris PTQ”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Most of the opponents^([sic]) quick creature removal will be taken out by the early flood of weenies.

1997 March 19, Craig Sivils, “Mono-Green, I don't get it.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(collectible card games, slang) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures.


anabolic steroid

anabolic steroid (plural anabolic steroids)

(biochemistry, steroids) A class of steroid hormones that promote growth of tissue.

“anabole Steroide”)

anaboles Steroid n (often referred to in plural

anabol steroid

often referred to in plural: “anabola steroider”


fluoridate

en-verb

fluoridate (third-person singular simple present fluoridates, present participle fluoridating, simple past and past participle fluoridated)

fluoridates (present singular third-person)
fluoridating (participle present)
fluoridated (participle past)
fluoridated (past)

(chemistry, dentistry, transitive) To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.


en-noun

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (uncountable)

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

(biochemistry) The phosphate of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; a coenzyme important in fatty acid synthesis.


loc

Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.

2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:

Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.

2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.


loc

en-verb

loc (third-person singular simple present locs, present participle locing, simple past and past participle loced)

locs (present singular third-person)
locing (participle present)
loced (participle past)
loced (past)

Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.

(informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.


loc

en-noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)


loc

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.


loc

en-adj

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

more loc (comparative)
most loc (superlative)


phosphatase

These results are in accordance with the observations of Pirani et al., who found that in normal pregnancy there was no correlation between serum heat-stable alkaline phosphatase activity and crude baby weight or placental weight.

2018, A.S. Curry, Biochemistry of Women Methods, page 241:

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.

磷酸酶

an enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphate esters


phospholipase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze the phosphate ester bonds of phospholipids.


auxin

en-noun

auxin (countable and uncountable, plural auxins)

From Ancient Greek αὐξάνειν (auxánein, “to grow”).

der

In Arabidopsis roots, cold stress may reduce shootward auxin transport and alter the intracellular auxin gradient.

2015 July 2, Yang Y-W, Chen H-C, Jen W-F, Liu L-Y, Chang M-C, “Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Shoots and Roots of TNG67 and TCN1 Rice Seedlings under Cold Stress and Following Subsequent Recovery: Insights into Metabolic Pathways, Phytohormones, and Transcription Factors”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:

SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.

2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:

(botany, biochemistry) A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.


cowlick

From cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.

We would touch strangers discreetly, feathering down their cowlicks.

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

An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.


perioscope

(medicine, dentistry) A form of endoscope used to explore and visualize the periodontal pocket, producing an image of a diseased tooth's root.


eye patch

An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.


baldy

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead!"

(informal, often derogatory) Someone who is bald.


baldie

(informal, often derogatory) Somebody who is bald.

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. Plus the bird is endangered. So, yeah, I'd probably have a problem with sitting down to a plate of baldie for dinner.

1999 August 15, Staca Hiatt, “Re: Anyone ever tried emu?”, in alt.support.diet.low-fat (Usenet):

They are almost always accompanied by immature bald eagles that, although about the same size as a mature baldie, have a darkened head and mottled feathers.

2010, Bruce Squiers, “Winter's Majesty”, in Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, Mikkel Becker Shannon, editors, The Ultimate Bird Lover: Stories and Advice on Our Feathered Friends at Home and in the Wild, Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:

Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Haliaeetus leucocephalus#Translingual

(birdwatching, slang) A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).

"Baldies. Baldchin gropers. Tastiest fish I've caught this week," I replied.

(slang) The baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens).


hairbow

/ˈhɛə(ɹ)bəʊ/


TR

thioredoxin reductase
w:thioredoxin reductase

(biochemistry) Initialism of thioredoxin reductase.


powder room

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In reference to lavatories, an indirection developed under the influence of powder one's nose (“euphemism for use a toilet”). Compare boudoir.

(euphemistic) Synonym of half bath: a small room with a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.


papain

en-noun

papain (countable and uncountable, plural papains)

Attested since the late 1800s. From papaya + -in.

(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme in papaya fruit which can be used to tenderize meat.


inlay

en-verb

inlay (third-person singular simple present inlays, present participle inlaying, simple past and past participle inlaid)

inlays (present singular third-person)
inlaying (participle present)
inlaid (participle past)
inlaid (past)

Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively.

1895, Benjamin Holliday Catching, Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry - Volume 5, page 159:

It is not strange that this principle of inlaying should occur to those men years ago, for it was one of the most ancient of arts and it had been brought well-nigh to perfection. The thought of restoring broken surface in teeth, as was being done in gold and wood was ever present with them.

1907, The Pacific Dental Gazette - Volume 15, page 759:

It is hard to tell whether it was the solid block inlay idea of itself, or else something to help cement to be retained in a cavity, that has brought about inlaying of cavities;

1913, The Practical Manual of Dental Casting, Being the Recorded Experiences of Many Able and Eminent Men in the Dental Profession:

They felt with a prophetic instinct that sometime and somewhere these obstacles would be removed, that difficulties apparently unsurmountable would be overcome, and that the principle of inlaying teeth would become recognized as good practice in restoring broken-down tooth tissues.

1926, The Dental Craftsman - Volume 1, page 12:

(dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth.


inlay

(dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.


greybeard

From grey + beard; men of advanced age would be expected to have a grey beard.

A powerful wave in the vicinity of Cape Horn.


periwig

Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.

O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]

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

Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.

1607, Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger’s Tragedy:

[T]he sun
Grown stale, is to so low a value run,
That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires
Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres
In lovers' sonnets […]

1633, John Donne, To the Countess of Salisbury, ll 4-7:

The floods in icie fetters bound.
Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig
Wears his snowie Periwig,
And every bough his snowy beard.

1657, Josua Poole, The English Parnassus, vide "Frost"

From her own Head, Megwra takes
A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
Like Toupets of this upper World […]

1730, Jonathan Swift, “Death And Daphne,”, in Some Verse Pieces:

[O]ur impetuous youth hearing himself reviled with the appellation of scoundrel, pulled off his antagonist's periwig, and flung it in his face.

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

(now historical) A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.


peachfuzz

(rare, nonstandard) The fuzz found on the skin of a peach.


huckle

huckle (third-person singular simple present huckles, present participle huckling, simple past and past participle huckled)

huckles (present singular third-person)
huckling (participle present)
huckled (participle past)
huckled (past)

From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.

He was awakened by a couple of burly police officers and huckled out to a waiting van.

2013, Michael Munro, The Crack: The Best of Glasgow Humour:

Then one day when I was at school, police with motorbike helmets came to the door with a big red battering ram and dragged Dad out of his bed while he was sleeping off a massive booze binge and huckled him downtown to read him his rights, throw the damn book at him and charge him for 'aggravated armed robbery'.

2014, Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites:

I could huckle your right now for what you've got in that top drawer.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 282:


blonde moment

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From common jokes about supposedly dumb blondes.

(humorous) A momentary lapse in concentration, resulting in an embarrassing situation.


bushy

en-adj

bushy (comparative bushier, superlative bushiest)

bushier (comparative)
bushiest (superlative)

the bushy tail of a squirrel

Like a bush in having many branches that spread out densely in all directions.


rhomboid

Any of several muscles that control the shoulders


rhomboid

resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid


GHB

(organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology) Initialism of gamma-hydroxybutyrate, often used as a date rape drug.


hairdryer

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(chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.


symphysis

(anatomy) The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.

(anatomy) A place where two bones are closely joined in the median plane of the body, either forming an immovable joint (as between the pubic bones in the center of the pelvis) or completely fused (as at the midline of the lower jaw).

(medicine) A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.

(anatomy) The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, without a synovial membrane.


mustachio

Borrowed from the Italian dialectal mustaccio (from Neapolitan) or mustacchio, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

A mustache, especially a large or lush one.


sweating

sweating (comparative more sweating, superlative most sweating)

more sweating (comparative)
most sweating (superlative)

From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).

A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.


tonsure

From Middle English tonsure, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

The hairstyle and characteristic bald patch resulting from being tonsured.


vitamin A

(biochemistry) Any of several closely related fat-soluble vitamins that are essential for normal vision; retinol.

فِيتَامِين أَلِف

any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision


vitamin A acid

(organic chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry) Synonym of retinoic acid


vitamin B

(biochemistry) Any member of the vitamin B complex.


retinol

en-noun

retinol (countable and uncountable, plural retinols)

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) A fat-soluble carotenoid vitamin (vitamin A), present in fish oils and green vegetables, essential to normal vision and to bone development.


vitamin B3

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) niacin


vitamin B6

Synonym of pyridoxine (or pyridoxal, or pyridoxamine)


vitamin B12

(biochemistry) The compound cobalamin or cyanocobalamin.


biotin

biotin (countable and uncountable, plural biotins)

Borrowed from German Biotin, from Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos, “life”) + the suffix -in.

(biochemistry) A sulfur-containing member of the vitamin B complex, 5-[(3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-4-yl]pentanoic acid, found in liver, egg yolk, milk, and yeast, essential to the activity of multiple enzyme systems.


cyanocobalamin

cyanocobalamin (usually uncountable, plural cyanocobalamins)

The cyanocobalamin molecule contains the element cobalt (Co). Cattle and sheep grazing areas deficient in this element develop vitamin B12 deficiency, as the rumen microorganisms are then unable to manufacture the vitamin.

2013, David Frape, Equine Nutrition and Feeding, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) A synthetic form of vitamin B₁₂ (cobalamin).


haslet

Inherited from Middle English hastelet, from Anglo-Norman hastilet (“roast meat”), diminutive of haste (“spear, spit, roast meat”), from Latin hasta (“spear”).

The internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig.

Shortly before serving lay the haslet on a warm dish, melt 1 ounce butter in a small saucepan […]

1914, Gesine Lemcke, European and American cuisine, page 309:


beestings

From Old English bȳsting, derived from bēost, from Proto-West Germanic *beust.

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He took a jug of ‘beestings’ milk from the press, the milk of a cow that has recently calved, and drank it down in six big gulps.

2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 54:

The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.


vitamin D

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From vitamin + D (“4th letter”). From being the fourth vitamin discovered. Coined in 1922 by Elmer McCollum, who discovered the vitamin.

(biochemistry) Any of a number of fat-soluble vitamins, required for normal bone development and that prevents rickets; can be manufactured in the skin on exposure to sunlight.


vitamin D1

(biochemistry) Ergocalciferol and lumisterol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin D2

(biochemistry) Ergocalciferol or calciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin D3

(biochemistry) Cholecalciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin D4

(biochemistry) Dihydroergocalciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin D5

(biochemistry) Sitocalciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin E

1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Put Vitamin E oil on scars, move wounded skin from side to side one minute per day to loosen scar tissue from muscle. Begin exercises to build pectorals again.

Any of several fat-soluble vitamins, found in plants, that act as antioxidants and are essential for reproduction; the tocopherols.


vitamin F

essential fatty acid
essential fatty acid

維生素F /维生素F

An early name for the essential fatty acids


vitamin K

Named similarly to the other vitamins, that are named after their order of discovery. This one was assigned its "K" from Danish koagulation by the Danish researcher Henrik Dam.

Any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting.


vitamin P

(slang, euphemistic) Prozac, an antidepressant.


vitaminize

en-verb

vitaminize (third-person singular simple present vitaminizes, present participle vitaminizing, simple past and past participle vitaminized)

vitaminizes (present singular third-person)
vitaminizing (participle present)
vitaminized (participle past)
vitaminized (past)

To add vitamins to a food product as a dietary supplement.


laccase

Higushi (54) reported on mushroom phenol oxidase prepared by the method of Freudenberg and its use for oxidation of coniferyl alcohol and related compounds and demonstrated that the enzyme product was a mixture of tyrosinase and laccase.

1962, Forest Products Journal, volume 12, page 142:

(biochemistry) Any of several copper-containing oxidase enzymes found in plants and microorganisms.


bandeau

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Borrowed from French bandeau, from Old French bandel, diminutive form of bande. Doublet of bendel.

1998, AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
The frontal bandeau is then elevated en bloc. A Bi on BC1 (Midas Rex) bit is used to create the osteotomies circumferentially.

The supraorbital bandeau is fixed to the nasal structure by a titanium [...]
This bandeau is fixed by microplates. The median bone strip is fixed to the [...]

1999, Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws:


nub

Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.

cog

“ — and then rub her nub with the bridge of your nose, right where the nerve will drive her straight to the ceiling!”

2007, Melissa MacNeal, Hot for It, →ISBN, page 198:

When he used his fingers to rub her nub, he didn't have to wait anymore. She exploded for the second time that morning,...

2008, Arianna Hart, A Man for Marley, →ISBN, page 82:

He stroked her, using her movements to increase the pressure on her nub, catching her between his fingers.

2010, Beverly Rae, Wild Cat, →ISBN, page 81:

(computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.


protease

/ˈpɹəʊtɪeɪz/

As a matter of fact the casein protease digests boiled and coagulated serum far more easily than unboiled serum, as set forth by the following experiments.

1903 November 2, S. G. Hedin, “On the presence of a proteolytic enzyme in the normal serum of the ox”, in The Journal of Physiology, volume 30, number 2, page 195:

All were tested for their ability to clot milk and to hydrolyze denatured hemoglobin, egg albumin, protamine (salmon), histone (calf thymus), and benzoyl-l-arginineamide. In no case was any trace of protease activity detected.

1948 September 20, Margaret R. McDonald, “A method for the preparation of "protease-free" crystalline ribonuclease”, in Journal of General Physiology, volume 32, number 1, page 39:

For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier.

2015, Raja Sivamani, Jared R. Jagdeo, Peter Elsner, Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics:

(biochemistry) An enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins.

蛋白質分解酵素

たんぱくしつぶんかいこうそ


soul patch

A narrow beard descending from the lower lip, above the chin.


scalene muscle

Meronyms: anterior scalene muscle, middle scalene muscle, posterior scalene muscle

(anatomy) Any of usually three deeply situated muscles on each side of the neck of which each extends from the transverse processes of two or more cervical vertebrae to the first or second rib.


silver top

en-noun

silver top (countable and uncountable, plural silver tops)

(UK) Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.

Still I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the senility of the present Board of Overseers, […] as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals, that your Mr. Evarts 'was too old for a senator' and that he 'was too old to change his mind.' […] I contend that these charges are libellous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the Overseers. Still there are younger Alumni and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some of us silver-tops and insert some younger graduates. Remember, however, that 'striving to do better, oft we mar what's well.'

1885, Henry Lee, “[Speech to Harvard Club of New York]”, in John T. Morse, Jr., editor, Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, pages 135–136:

Just ask yourselves this question, you older men, you silver-tops here—What was done with toxic thyroid disease before men like Charles Mayo, the elder Kocher, Crile, Miles F. Porter and other men established the surgery of toxic thyroid upon a fairly rational basis?

1922 December, W. D. Gatch, J. R. Eastman (commentator), “Surgical Aspects of Endocrinology”, in Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, volume 15, number 12, Fort Wayne: The Association, →ISSN, page 429:

As we all become "Silver tops" as seniors are referred to, we all may have problems around our sexuality, not the least of being, can we get it and keep it up.

1997 June 12, Raj Secura, “Ann Lander bashes men (again)!”, in soc.men (Usenet):

Biden is old enough to be Obama's daddy. In fact, I'm betting he and the white silver tops in the Democratic leadership were rooting for him because they're expecting to "own our boy" when he's in the WH.

2008 August 30, Joe Orthodox, “The Palin Pick”, in alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox (Usenet):

Peter's Aunt May also gets a lot more screen time in this installment, and she's always giving heartfelt advice. It's good to see a superhero movie finally giving some consideration to us "silver tops"!

2011, Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 260:

"It takes four years to get educated — we don't have four years. You know, us 'silver tops' are leaving the profession or retiring. I'm 60 and I'm still working," she said, adding she is delaying her retirement due to the challenges facing healthcare workers.

2022 October 13, Charlie Carey, quoting Kath-Ann Terrett, “B.C. nurses rally outside VCH, as Hospital Employees' Union ratifies new agreement”, in CityNews, Vancouver, archived from the original on 2023-01-10:


green top

green top (countable and uncountable, plural green tops)

(British, uncountable) Unpasteurized full-cream milk, having a green top to the bottle.


spats

→ Japanese: スパッツ (supattsu)

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Long hair on front of lower legs of heavier horses (over the hooves), especially draft horses, notably the Clydesdale breed.

form-fitting shorts covering the waist to mid- or lower thigh usually worn for athletic situations, compression shorts


restriction enzyme

restriction enzyme (plural restriction enzymes)

We now know of 400 different kinds of restriction enzymes, each of which recognises a different sequence of DNA letters and cuts there, like a pair of scissors that cuts the paper only where it finds the word ‘restriction’.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 244:

(genetics) An endonuclease that catalyzes double-strand cleavage of DNA containing a specific sequence.


splint

From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

der

(dentistry) A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.


furnishing

With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.

1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

(chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.


netting

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan.
Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.

unk

unclear

cog

Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe.


beardless

en-adj

beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

more beardless (comparative)
most beardless (superlative)

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

cog

shall a beardless boy,
Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?

1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:

(by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.


strapless

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From strap + -less. The noun sense is by analogy of strap-on.

Without a strap or straps; usually describing women's clothing without shoulder straps.


pompadour

/ˈpɑːmpədɔːɹ/

From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.

(UK, military, slang, historical) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.


moue

Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Doublet of mow ("grimace").

der

[S]he looked at her face and made a moue in the glass; and never stopped for Laura’s answer to the questions which she had put.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

She glanced aside to the rim of the looking-glass where his photograph was wedged, shuddered, and made a moue of distaste.

1913, Jack London, chapter VI, in The Valley of the Moon, Book I:

She made what I believe, though I wouldn't swear to it, is called a moue. Putting the lips together and shoving them out, if you know what I mean. The impression I got was that she was disappointed in Bertram, having expected better things […].

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

Why do you wear European clothes?" fumed Oscar de la Renta with a moue of disapproval and stamp of his bejewelled foot (probably).

2011 February 2, Hadley Freeman, “Should Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton be patriotic about designers?”, in The Guardian:

A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.


cockeyed

en-adj

cockeyed (comparative more cockeyed, superlative most cockeyed)

more cockeyed (comparative)
most cockeyed (superlative)

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I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.

As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.

2021 May 24, Jason Zinoman, “Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.


jamoke

en-noun

jamoke (countable and uncountable, plural jamokes)

Appeared at the end of the 19th century as a term for coffee, a blend of java + mocha.
By the 1920s or 1940s jamoke was also attested in the sense of "fool, idiot", perhaps suggesting they lacked mental abilities beyond that of a cup of coffee, or perhaps an unrelated word; the first syllable is reminiscent of jaboney, jiboney, and the second syllable is reminiscent of moke. Also spelled jamook, giamoke, and giamope, the term as used for an idiot has also been suggested to derive from a dialectal Italian (Neapolitan or Sicilian) word giamope. This dialect has produced other words with elided final vowels in American and Australian diaspora speech, such as gabagool.
In the 1960s it also began to be used as slang for male genitalia.
This term may be the origin of cup of joe and joe; see those entries for more.

You and I both know that this is not enough money for the President and it's too damn much for some jamoke in the Bronx.

2004, Dan Johnson, The Molotov Box, Xlibris, page 24:

“You ever see the movie Spotlight?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an upper-crust guy. [Boston accent] Not like some jamoke standing around Kelly's Tavern in, uh, Revere Beach, you know what I mean?” “Very good, John Slattery.” “[regular accent] Not bad, right? But I was talking to him.”

2023 August 10, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “Urgent Care” (12:00 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 6, spoken by John Slattery (John Slattery):

(countable, slang) A stupid person, fool.


ball sack

An objectionable person (especially a man).


sulphatase

(biochemistry) Alternative spelling of sulfatase


sulfatase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes, in animals and bacteria, which catalyze the hydrolysis of organic sulfates


little man in the boat

I'm sorry, Mayor, but I couldn't find the little man in the boat.

1998 June 24, “Summer Sucks”, in South Park, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Officer Barbrady:

“You shitheads know how to eat pussy?” He sprayed the nearest among us with spittle.[…]“What you do,” continued Kennington in high bellow, “what you do is get down there and find the little man in the boat. That's who you gotta find. The little man in the boat.”

2011, P. G. Sturges, Shortcut Man, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 63:


skin flute

play the skin flute

to perform fellatio, or (of a man) to masturbate


milker

From Middle English milkere, equivalent to milk + -er.

(poker) A conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand.


neuticles

If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).

2007, Susan M. Ewing, Poodles for Dummies, Wiley publishing, Inc., page 206:

So plastic neuticles were invented to take their place. The vet is supposed to install them — they come in pairs, you understand — when the originals are removed.

2007, Sam Venable, Some Day I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, The University of Texas Press, page 194:

Her husband refused to have the dog neutered unless neuticles were implanted, and the wife complied.

2008, Bonnie Berry, The Power of Looks: Social Stratification of Physical Appearance, Ashgate Publishing, page 104:

If you feel bad for neutering your pet, you can purchase neuticles--fake implants to restore what was lost.

2009 October 15, Jenna Goudreau, “The Pet Culture”, in Forbes, Forbes.com LLC:

Because there's a whole lot more on the table when it comes to building better pets via the business end of a scalpel. Consider the neuticles (testicular implants) some owners clamor for.

2010 July 29, Patty Khuly, “Vet's view: I'll nip/tuck your pet, but only for the right reasons”, in USA Today, Gannett Co. Inc.:

Owners invest in pet face lifts, tummy tucks, nose jobs, breast reductions, and the newest craze, “neuticles”—testicular implants designed to give neutered dogs a more “masculine” look.

2012, Karen A. Cerulo, Janet M. Ruane, Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom, Sage Publications, Inc., page 88:


impaction

impaction (countable and uncountable, plural impactions)

From Latin impingere (“to dash against, impinge”).

der

(dentistry) Failure of a tooth to erupt into the dental arch, because of adjacent teeth, dense overlying bone, excessive soft tissue, or other factor.


exoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme, generated by a cell, that functions outside of that cell.


endoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that functions within the cell in which it was generated.


exonuclease

(biochemistry, genetics) Any of a group of enzymes which cleave single nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide (DNA or RNA) chain.


exopeptidase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes which catalyze the removal of a single amino acid from the end of a polypeptide chain


endopeptidase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes, such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin and elastase, which catalyze the splitting of polypeptide chains away from the ends


exophthalmos

en-noun

exophthalmos (usually uncountable, plural exophthalmoses)

(pathology) An abnormal protrusion of the eyeball from its socket.


head of hair

All the hair that covers the scalp of a person (excludes the beard and moustache)


sloe-eyed

Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.

1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance:

Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.

1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 19, in The Sheriff's Son:

[S]warthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.

1918, Zane Grey, chapter 35, in The U. P. Trail:

First you're another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone's mother, then you're camp.

1971, Stephen Sondheim, I'm Still Here (Follies song):


hair gel

hair gel (countable and uncountable, plural hair gels)

A hairstyling product in gel form that hardens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.


hair spray

hair spray (countable and uncountable, plural hair sprays)

A usually scented hairstyling product in aerosol form that stiffens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.

定型水

hairstyling product that stiffens the hair


hair spray

en-verb

hair spray (third-person singular simple present hair sprays, present participle hair spraying, simple past and past participle hair sprayed)

hair sprays (present singular third-person)
hair spraying (participle present)
hair sprayed (participle past)
hair sprayed (past)

(transitive) To spray with this product.


periodontics

periodontal ligament
periodontal ligament

(dentistry) The study of supporting structures of teeth, including the gums, alveolar bone, cementum, and the periodontal ligament, and the diseases and conditions that affect them.


endodontics

From endo- (“within”) + odont- (“tooth”) + -ics.

affix

The branch of dentistry dealing with the dental pulp and root.


endonuclease

(biochemistry) Any enzyme which catalyzes the cleavage of nucleic acids so as to produce variously sized fragments.


bruxomania

Derived from Ancient Greek βρυγμός (brugmós, “grinding [teeth]”) + -o- + -mania.

uder

(medicine, dentistry) Compulsive grinding of the teeth.


somatostatin

en-noun

somatostatin (countable and uncountable, plural somatostatins)

From Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma) + statin.

(biochemistry) A cyclopeptide hormone, secreted by the pancreas, that inhibits the production of certain other hormones


photoaging

The damaging effect of prolonged exposure to sunlight on the skin, especially wrinkling, discoloration and susceptibility to cancer


interocular

/ˌɪntəɹˈɒkjələɹ/

interocular distance


cathair

Several cathairs which we have examined are not circular in plan, but appear to have been formed to suit the contour of the eminence upon which they stand; and others are of an oval form.

1848, William F[rederick] Wakeman, “Raths or Duns”, in Archæologia Hibernica. A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian: Especially of Such as Are Easy of Access from the Irish Metropolis., Dublin: James MᶜGlashan, […]. William S. Orr & Co. […] London, part I (Pagan Antiquities), page 47:

There were probably other cathairs and duns on the Aran Islands which were not as sturdily built or not as well preserved as those that survived.

1977, “The Dúns of Aran”, in A World of Stone: Life, Folklore and Legends of the Aran Islands, O’Brien Educational, published 1980, →ISBN, page 28:

‘On this island there are three cyclopean cathairs but their stones have been nearly all removed to build the modern little houses which are nearly in as rude a style as the Cahirs ever were.[…]’

1992, Theresa McDonald, Achill: 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.: Archaeology, History, Folklore, →ISBN, page 128:

An ancient Irish fortification of stone or earthwork.


maypole

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The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 212:

(ornithology) A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.


photolyase

photolyase (countable and uncountable, plural photolyases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that repairs DNA that has been damaged by light.

fótaláis

an enzyme that repairs DNA that has been damaged by light


Brutus

(historical) A hairstyle brushed back from the forehead, popular at the time of the French Revolution, when it was an affectation to admire the Ancient Romans.


photophosphorylase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that is involved in the photosynthetic phosphorylation of ATP.


thrapple

The noun is derived from Late Middle English thropul, þropul (“trachea, windpipe”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly a variant of throte-bolle (“laryngeal prominence, Adam’s apple; larynx; epiglottis; animal’s esophagus or neck; flesh covering throat of a deer”) [and other forms] (whence English throat-boll (obsolete)), from Old English þrotbolla [and other forms], from þrote (“throat”) + bolla (“bowl”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow; to swell up”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

throtbel, throt-bell (possibly transmission errors), throtebol, throtebole, throte-bole, throte-boll, throtpul, (Early Middle English) þrot-bolle, þrote-boll, þrotebolla, þrote-bolle

(Late Old English) þrote-bolla, (Old English) þrot-bolla, ðrot-bolla, (Early Old English) throt-bolla

der

A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, [...] and beastes also, as namely sheepe, [...] as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like bulles.

[1600, Al-Hassan ibn-Mohammed al-Wezaz al-Fasi [i.e., Leo Africanus], “A Briefe Relation Concerning the Dominions, Reuenues, Forces, and Maner of Gouernment of Sundry the Greatest Princes either Inhabiting within the Bounds of Africa, or at least Possessing Some Parts thereof, Translated, for the Most Part, out of Italian”, in John Pory, transl., edited by Robert Brown, The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein Contained, […] (Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society; no. XCIV), volume III, London: […] Hakluyt Society, […], published 1896, →OCLC, page 982:

A broad piece of leather is then to be put round his neck; and the ends made faſt, by platting it, or ſome other way, at the withers, or before the wind-pipe, about two handfuls below the thrapple, betwixt the leather and his neck; [...]

1759, Thomas Wallis, “COLT”, in The Farrier’s and Horseman’s Complete Dictionary: […], London: […] W. Owen, […]; and E. Baker, […], →OCLC, column 1:

I hif a gude mind to ſwallow you, gin I kent your back widna ſtick in my thrapple.

1781, [Helenus Scott], “The Little Woman in Great-Queen Street”, in The Adventures of a Rupee. […], London: […] J[ohn] Murray, […], published 1782, page 254:

Sara sent twice for the measure of George's Neck—he wondered, Sara should be such a fool, she might have measured William's or Coleridge's, as all poets' Thropples were of one Size.

1800 December, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Kathleen Coburn, The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volumes I (1794–1804: Text), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2002, →ISBN, page 873:

Luok, leyke mad bulls they bang about, / Wi' shouts their thropples rivan, / Wheyle whup for smack the rabble rout, / Are yen owr tother drivan; [...]

[1807, John Stagg, “Rosley Fair”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Some of which are in the Cumberland and Scottish Dialects, Wigton, Cumberland: […] R. Hetherton, →OCLC, page 141:

Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow?

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 254:

The morse [i.e., walrus] is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...] Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in his animal; [...]

1829, [Robert Pearse Gillies], “The Voyage. (Continued.)”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. […] (Second Series), volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:

In the sentiment of the following lines on "A pipe of Tobacco" by John Usher, all lovers of the plant will heartily join: "Let the toper regale in his tankard of ale, / Or with alcohol moisten his thropple, / Only give me I pray, a good pipe of soft clay, / Nicely tapered, and thin in the stopple; / And I shall puff, puff, let who will say enough, / No luxury else I'm in lack o', / No malice I hoard, 'gainst Queen, Prince, Duke or Lord, / While I pull at my pipe of Tobacco. [..."]

1875, E. R. Billings, “Pipes and Smokers. (Continued.)”, in Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 178:

The Master—the deil's in their thrapples that should call him sae! it's Mr. Henry should be master now!

1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Summary of Events (’’continued’’)”, in The Master of Ballantrae. […], London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 22:

"God, my lads," he cried, "if I had just my fingers on your thrapples, I'd thraw them fine and send your gutsy sauls to the deil that begat them."

1899, John Buchan, “Crabbed Age and Youth”, in A Lost Lady of Old Years: A Romance, London, New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, →OCLC, book II, page 228:

There is one type of neck which so constantly results in roaring that it is known in Yorkshire as a "roarer's neck," and sooner or later the horse which is so shaped is almost certain to fall a victim to the complaint. The neck in question is a strong thick one, with the head carried high, but there is a peculiar outward curve in front, somewhat resembling that of a fallow deer, with an unusually thick thropple, the formation of which, no doubt, sustains a constant strain on the nerve, which eventually fails in consequence.

1911, R[ichard] F[rederick] Meysey-Thompson, “Simple Ailments”, in The Horse: Its Origin and Development Combined with Stable Practice, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 289:

'He'll do nowt o' the sort,' I answered; 'and he wi' a hoast in his thropple like a badly cow. I sudn't be surprised if he were dead by Chrissamas.'

a. 1919, F[rederic] W[illiam] Moorman, “Tales of a Grandmother: I. The Tree of Knowledge”, in More Tales of the Ridings, London: Elkin Mathews, […], published 1920, →OCLC; republished as More Tales of the Ridings (EBook #18260), [United States]: Project Gutenberg, 2006 May 4, archived from the original on 2016-11-04:

And she said it, she felt like a hen with a stone in its thrapple, [...]

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Ploughing”, in Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), Edinburgh: Canongate Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 32:

[T]he old man raised the axe and split the head of John Joel Glanton to the thrapple.

1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

When the bishop came out, the women shouted 'get the thrapple out of him' or cut his windpipe; he barely escaped with his life.

2014, Peter Ackroyd, “Sudden Flashings”, in The History of England: Volume III: Civil War, London: Pan Books, published 2015, →ISBN, page 173:

(chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.


thrapple

en-verb

thrapple (third-person singular simple present thrapples, present participle thrappling, simple past and past participle thrappled)

thrapples (present singular third-person)
thrappling (participle present)
thrappled (participle past)
thrappled (past)

Then Mr. Weft began his tale, how he had been collared and well nigh thrappled in his ain shop; [...]

1827 September, “The Monkey. [From Blackwood’s Magazine.]”, in Oliver Oldschool [pseudonym; John Elihu Hall], editor, The Port Folio, volume II (volume XXII overall), number 293, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Harrison Hall, →OCLC, page 239:

A Scotch writer of the time [Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne and Kinnaird] has handed down, for the admiration of successive ages, "the renowned Christian valyancie of those godly women," regretting only that the bishop of Edinburgh escaped being "sticked" or "thrappled‡," by their pious hands, which unfortunately "were not as active as their minds were willing." [Footnote ‡: Strangled.]

1835, “Chapter V. 1637.”, in Dionysius Lardner, editor, The Cabinet Cyclopædia. … History. England. […], volume V, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and John Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 177:

We'll now have plinty o' time for the throopers, though I swore like a Trojan through thick an' thin (an' nearly got myself thrappled (throttled) for my pains be that powerful villain Fergus), that the fun ud be spilet, af the attack wasn't to-night.

1862, M[atthew] Archdeacon, chapter XVI, in The Priest Hunter: An Irish Tale of the Penal Times, Dublin, London: James Duffy, […], →OCLC, page 168:

Forbye thrappling her, he had bit until the jugular; and she had lost sae meikle bluid, that you hae eaten her the noo roasted, instead o' her made intil soup.

1862, “Literary and Domestic Life. 1832–37.”, in [Mary Wilson] Gordon, compiler, ‘Christopher North’: A Memoir of John Wilson […], volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 225:

"They throppled t' ane t' other;" took each other by the throat.

1868, J[ohn] C[hristopher] Atkinson, “Thropple”, in A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 531:

Wad ye believe't, I had the greatest ado ance to keep him frae thrappling a puir cat?

1872, William Freeland, “A Visit”, in Love and Treason. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 23:

And oft we fratched and fret about, and throppled udder sair, / Upon the whol' the fell hes meade mischief for ivver mair, [...]

1875 December 9, Miss Powley, “Art. XXXI.—Past and Present among the Northern Fells. No. II.”, in Richard S[aul] Ferguson, editor, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archæological Society, volume II, Kendal, Westmorland: […] T. Wilson, published 1876, →OCLC, page 370:

(transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To strangle, to throttle.


MMO

methane monooxygenase
methane monooxygenase#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of methane monooxygenase. See Methane monooxygenase.


ginch

She probably up there getting her ginch plowed right this minute by some drummer out of Richmond.

(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar) vagina, pussy.


pork sword

'Yes,' screamed the patient hysterically, 'I mean penis, prick, pork sword, knob, the lot. What's it matter...

I wanted to make it very clear I wasn't 'interested in only one thing', i.e., 'burying my pork sword'. Basically, I didn't want to be judged/attacked for wanting sex.

1997, Daniel DuBois, “South Bay beware! Weirdo alert! (Was :Re: Sex, marriage, conflict...)”, in soc.singles (Usenet):

...is that really you partaking of the pork sword?? if it is never go near my car as I wouldn't want the chrome sucked off the bumper...

1998, Judy Hodgson, alt.fan.suzanne-sutherland in alt.fan.jerry-springer http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jerry-springer/browse_frm/thread/e95df5ba1ad4aef4/ef43232a3e722435?lnk=st&q=%22pork+sword%22&rnum=14&hl=en#ef43232a3e722435

...John's manhood is more cocktail stick than pork sword

1999, Mark Simpson, It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture, page 81:

He stood there with a big silly grin on his face and let Price's dirty mind take the bait. 'Lets just say it gets dreadfully boring in quarantine.' he smiled. 'You dirty bugger, she saves you from a samurai sword and you thank her with the pork sword!' laughed Price.

2004, Peter J Krebs, Operation Sleeping Dragon, page 270:


one-eyed

From Middle English ooneyed, on-eied, on-eiȝed, from Old English ānēġed (“one-eyed”), from Proto-Germanic *ainaugidaz, equivalent to one + eyed. Compare Old English ānīeġe (“one-eyed”), Scots ane-eit, aan eet (“one-eyed”), Saterland Frisian eenooged (“one-eyed”), West Frisian ieneagich (“one-eyed”), Dutch eenogig (“one-eyed”), German einäugig (“one-eyed”), Danish enøjet (“one-eyed”), Swedish enögd (“one-eyed”), Icelandic ein-eygður, ein-eygur (“one-eyed”).

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king


lactometer

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A device that estimates the cream content of milk by measuring its specific gravity.


uncircumcised

From Middle English uncircumcised, equivalent to un- + circumcised. Subsidiary definitions are much influenced by traditions of the Abrahamic religions.

A child who is born to an uncircumcised girl is not allowed to live; as one old woman said, 'only women, not children can have children'

1986, Henrietta L. Moore, Space, Text and Gender, →ISBN:

In my tradition, an uncircumcised male cannot be heir to his father's wealth, cannot marry or officiate in tribal rituals.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 30:

Importantly, the NHSLS demonstrated no differences between uncircumcised and circumcised men in the risk of ever having had gonorrhea, syphilis, urethral infection with microorganisms other than gonorrhea, or genital herpes.

2000, Lawrence Balter, Parenthood in America: An Encyclopedia - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 129:

Surprisingly, few physicians know how to care for uncircumcised boys.

2010, Gary R. Fleisher, Stephen Ludwig, Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, →ISBN, page 32:


epiphysis

(anatomy) The rounded end of any long bone.


barrette

Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) + -ette, literally “small bar”.


nuclease

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes capable of cleaving the phosphodiester bonds between the nucleotide subunits of nucleic acids.

核酸酶

any of several enzymes capable of cleaving the phosphodiester


tonsorial

(now sometimes humorous) Relating to barbering, shaving, or hairdressing.


pendrin

en-noun

pendrin (countable and uncountable, plural pendrins)

(biochemistry) A protein involved in the exchange of chloride and iodide ions across biological membranes.


leptin

leptin (countable and uncountable, plural leptins)

Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin”) + -in

If we could control leptin, then presumably we could help people to control their weight.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 171:

That is because sleep affects two appetite-controlling hormones, leptin and ghrelin.

2022 February 26, Ruth Alexander, “The surprising links between what you eat and how well you sleep”, in BBC News, BBC, retrieved 2022-02-27:

(biochemistry) A protein hormone produced in adipose tissue; it plays a role in regulating appetite and metabolism.


styled

en-adj

styled (comparative more styled, superlative most styled)

more styled (comparative)
most styled (superlative)

His styled hair was not as attractive as he thought.


lactational

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mineralocorticoid

Severely undervirilized males may have normal mineralocorticoid activity; fully masculinized males may display salt loss.

2011, Christine A. Gleason, Sandra E. Juul, Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, page 1301:

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, characterised by their similarity to aldosterone and their influence on salt and water metabolism.

電解質コルチコイド

でんかいしつコルチコイド


progestagen

(biochemistry, steroids) The steroid hormone progesterone.

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a class of synthetic hormones which produce effects similar to progesterone (the only natural progestagen) and have antiestrogenic and antigonadotropic properties.


ergosterol

en-noun

ergosterol (countable and uncountable, plural ergosterols)

Terbinafine has a unique mechanism of action among the antifugal agents (Petranyi et al, 1984; Balfour and Faulds, 1992), inhibiting the synthesis of ergosterol, a key sterol component in the plasma membrane of the fungal cell.

2003, Peter G. Pappas, “Terbinafine”, in William E. Dismukes, Peter G. Pappas, Jack D. Sobel, editors, Clinical Mycology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 104:

(biochemistry, steroids, mycology) The steroid precursor of vitamin D₂. It is found in cell membranes of fungi, and is their functional equivalent of cholesterol. It is also found in the membranes of some protists.


coagulase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that induces coagulation

(biochemistry) Specifically, the enzyme produced by various Staphylococcus species that converts fibrinogen to fibrin


eyewash

eyewash (usually uncountable, plural eyewashes)

an eyewash station on every floor of the building

a bottle of eyewash

(countable, uncountable) The washing out of the eyes with copious solution (usually water alone) to quickly remove an irritant, as for example in laboratories and industrial plants; the washing solution itself.

(countable, uncountable) A soothing medicated lotion for the eyes.

Talking of being eaten by dogs, there's a dachshund at Brinkley who when you first meet him will give you the impression that he plans to convert you into a light snack between his regular meals. Pay no attention. It's all eyewash. […] He wouldn't hurt a fly, but he has to put up a front because his name's Poppet. One can readily appreciate that when a dog hears himself addressed day in and day out as Poppet, he feels he must throw his weight about. His self-respect demands it.

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing:

(uncountable, slang, figurative) Camouflage; disguise; false front; pretense; nonsense.


eyewash

en-verb

eyewash (third-person singular simple present eyewashes, present participle eyewashing, simple past and past participle eyewashed)

eyewashes (present singular third-person)
eyewashing (participle present)
eyewashed (participle past)
eyewashed (past)

But others said that eyewashing was a standard security practice that had been in existence for decades.

2016 January 31, “‘Eyewash’: How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations”, in The New York Times:

(intelligence) To keep information secret by sending false information to many people in one's own organization, and correct information to a select few.


lactoflavin

en-noun

lactoflavin (usually uncountable, plural lactoflavins)


ergocalciferol

ergocalciferol (countable and uncountable, plural ergocalciferols)

From ergo- + calciferol. The calciferous ergosterol.

Constituent of vitamin D₁ and vitamin D₂.


calciferol

Coined in 1931 as a blend of calciferous + sterol (see quote below).

Owing to the exceptional difficulty of purification in the sterol group, we cannot yet be certain that this substance is a single compound, but we think the provisional adoption of a new name is justified, for the sake of convenience, and suggest “Calciferol” in view of the high antirachitic activity of the substance.

1931 June 1, T. C. Angus, F. A. Askew, R. B. Bourdillon, Hilda M. Bruce, Robert Kenneth Callow, Catherine Fischmann, J. St L. Philpot, T. A. Webster, “A crystalline antirachitic substance”, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, volume 108, number 757, →DOI, page 340:


cholecalciferol

cholecalciferol (countable and uncountable, plural cholecalciferols)

From chole- + calciferol. The calciferous cholesterol.


sitocalciferol

From sito- + calciferol. The calciferous sitosterol.


vaginally

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It would have been advisable to examine Conchita vaginally to see how far she was in labour.

2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 286:

route of administration
route of administration

Via the vagina, as (usually, more specifically) by the vaginal route of administration.


vascular tissue

vascular tissue (countable and uncountable, plural vascular tissues)

(zoology, anatomy) The arteries, veins, capillaries, and associated tissues in an animal.


Iroquois

/ˈɪɹ.ə.kwɔɪ/

/ˈɪɹ.ə.kwɑː/

Attested in American English since the 1660s, from French Iroquois, Hiroquois (attested since the early 1600s). The ultimate origin is uncertain.
theories
Missionary Charles Arnaud derived it from Montagnais irno-kué (“terrible people”). Linguist Gordon Day notes that though no form irno "person" is attested, one is plausible (given iriniou and ilnu), but application to a non-Montagnais is unlikely, and kué is too short: the root is kwet-. Day finds support for a longer form kwedɛč ("an Iroquois", lit. "terrible, frightening person") in Pacifique's Micmac grammar, in "goetètjg", and sees "fairly good indications that the name [i.e. kwedɛč] was an ancient one for Iroquoian peoples generally", but then "irno kwedɛč" would awkwardly mean "a person, an Iroquois", which could not have been a usual term. Day theorizes the awkward phrase may nonetheless have been uttered by some interpreter and used thereafter by the unaware French, or alternatively the Montagnais may have borrowed an Iroquoian autonym whereafter Montagnais folk-etymologizers adapted it to resemble those words; for example, Mohawk i-ih rongwe (“man”) would have entered Montagnais as /iːrohkwe/. (Some earlier scholars proposed that an Iroquoian term like the Mohawk term was the direct etymon of the French.)
Linguist Peter Bakker alternatively proposes that the etymon is a Basque pidgin word (h)ilokoa "killers" (mirroring Algonquian names for the Iroquois), from hil (“to kill”) and a suffix -koa (“those of”) which may be the source of some other tribal names ending in -quois. Hilokoa, as Brad Loewen notes, is ungrammatical in standard Basque (Loewen suggests irikoa (“those of the walled town”) as an alternative etymon).

A member of a confederacy of (originally) five Native American (Indian) tribes: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas. Also known as the Iroquois League.


impacted

en-adj

impacted (comparative more impacted, superlative most impacted)

more impacted (comparative)
most impacted (superlative)

Being the last teeth to erupt in the oral cavity, many wisdom teeth are impacted.

(dentistry) Of a tooth, subject to dental impaction.


lactase

en-noun

lactase (countable and uncountable, plural lactases)

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(biochemistry, organic chemistry) A β-galactosidase enzyme that is involved in the hydrolysis of the disaccharide lactose into constituent galactose and glucose monomers.


wash-and-wear

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(of a hairstyle) Not requiring styling or special tools; able to be washed and naturally air-dried.


telomerase

(biochemistry, genetics) An enzyme in eukaryotic cells that adds a specific sequence of DNA to the telomeres of chromosomes after they divide; gives the chromosomes stability over time.


mutase

(biochemistry) An isomerase that catalyzes the shifting of a functional group from one position to another within the same molecule


rebase

en-verb

rebase (third-person singular simple present rebases, present participle rebasing, simple past and past participle rebased)

rebases (present singular third-person)
rebasing (participle present)
rebased (participle past)
rebased (past)

(dentistry) To replace the base of a denture.


diddle

en-noun

diddle (countable and uncountable, plural diddles)

From dialectal duddle (“to trick”) (16th century), and diddle, duddle (“to totter”) (17th century), perhaps dissimilated from dialectal didder, dither (“to shake, tremble”), from Middle English dideren (“to shake, quiver, tremble”) and Middle English bididren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to trick, deceive”). Compare also Saterland Frisian diedelje (“to play or sing without a melody”), Dutch bedodden, bedotten (“to trick, fool, diddle”), German Low German Diedeldentjes (“pranks, pranking”). Possibly influenced or reinforced by the name (which itself was probably chosen as an allusion to duddle) of the swindling character Jeremy Diddler in Kenney's Raising the Wind (1803).
Meaning "to have sex with" is from the 19th century; "to masturbate" is from the 1950s. Compare dildo.

cog

(music, countable) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.

[…] a long, wooden porch good for listening to coyotes and owls, with a glass of diddle at hand.

2008, William Least Heat-Moon, Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey:


diddle

en-verb

diddle (third-person singular simple present diddles, present participle diddling, simple past and past participle diddled)

diddles (present singular third-person)
diddling (participle present)
diddled (participle past)
diddled (past)

→ Kashubian: dydlowac (United States)

Coordinate term: twiddle

(transitive, computing, slang) To manipulate a value at the level of individual bits (binary digits).


diddle

What's that tune that goes "diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum, diddle di-dum-dum"?

A meaningless word used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.


tresses

a head of hair, particularly when the hair is of length


chignon

Borrowed from French chignon circa 1780, when the hairstyle was in fashion.

The chignon cannot be confounded with other artificialities which ladies put on and off.

1867, “Chignonology”, in Living Age, volume 92, page 761:

Madame du Barry could not merely be credited with inventing the chignons which bear her name.

1914 [1878], Madame Du Barry, London: J. Long, translation of La du Barry by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, page 88:

If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

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 roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.


root canal

(dentistry) A surgical operation on a root canal, typically filling it with gutta-percha.


close shave

He used a new razor blade for a good close shave.

A shave that is very short or near the skin.


It is a tryptamine with a hydroxyl group attached to the carbon atom that is numbered as 5.


chymotrypsin

en-noun

chymotrypsin (countable and uncountable, plural chymotrypsins)

(biochemistry) An endopeptidase enzyme that cleaves peptides at the carboxyl side of tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine amino acids.


elastase

elastase (countable and uncountable, plural elastases)

An endopeptidase enzyme involved in the breakdown of elastin.


elastin

elastin (countable and uncountable, plural elastins)

Our stomachs produce an enzyme specifically designed to break down elastin, a type of protein found in meat and nowhere else.

2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 289:

(biochemistry) A protein, similar to collagen, found in connective tissue, that has elastic properties.

élastine

protein with elastic properties, similar to collagen


pomatum

pomatum (countable and uncountable, plural pomatums)

From Medieval Latin pomatum (“cider, ointment”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”) + -ātum (“-ate: forming nouns”). Doublet of pomate, pomade, and pomace.

bor

There is likewise made an ointment with the pulpe of Apples and Swines grease and Rose water, which is vsed to beautifie the face... called in shops Pomatum, of the Apples whereof it is made.

1597, John Gerard, The Herball..., volume III, page 1276:

Pomatum, which is of much use to soften and supple the roughnesse of the skin.

1657, William Coles, Adam in Eden..., page 258:

(uncommon, historical) Synonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.

[W]hen we were to assemble in the morning at breakfast, down came my wife and daughters, drest out in all their former splendour: their hair plaistered up with pomatum, their faces patched to taste, their trains bundled up into an heap behind, and rustling at every motion.

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding[…]; to these were added a cracked pomatum-pot containing ink, and a scrap of paper, […]

1829, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter V, in Devereux. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

(uncommon) Synonym of pomade, a kind of thick waxy hair product used as a styling gel.

pomade

(uncommon, obsolete) Synonym of cider, a soft or hard drink made from apples.


pomatum

en-verb

pomatum (third-person singular simple present pomatums, present participle pomatuming, simple past and past participle pomatumed)

pomatums (present singular third-person)
pomatuming (participle present)
pomatumed (participle past)
pomatumed (past)

(transitive, uncommon) Synonym of pomade: to apply pomade.


catalase

en-noun

catalase (countable and uncountable, plural catalases)

An enzyme found in the liver that catalyses the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen.

過氧化氫酶 /过氧化氢酶 (guòyǎnghuàqīng méi, literally “hydrogen peroxide enzyme”)


lipase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes which catalyses the hydrolysis of lipids.


road rash

Coordinate term: rink rash

(colloquial) skin and bone injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces


reductase

disulfide reduction by glutathione is a three-step process, the last of which is catalyzed by glutathione reductase

2008, Louis J. Casarett, Curtis D. Klaassen, Casarett and Doull's toxicology: the basic science of poisons, McGraw-Hill Professional, page 187:

(biochemistry) An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate.


catechol oxidase

(biochemistry) An enzyme, similar to tyrosinase, that catalyses the oxidation of phenols such as catechol.


peroxidase

Furthermore, wedelolactone also increased the activities of superoxidase dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and decreased the level of the lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde (MDA) in the liver, therefore decreasing the activity of alanine aminotransferase (ALT).

2015 July 14, “Wedelolactone Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Improves Hepatic Steatosis Partly by AMPK Activation and Up-Regulation of Expression of PPARα/LPL and LDLR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that act on substrates such as hydrogen peroxide and organic hydroperoxides such as lipid peroxides.


kinase

From Ancient Greek κινεῖν (kineîn, “to move”) + -ase, a suffix forming enzyme names.

uder

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that transfer phosphate groups from high-energy donor molecules, such as ATP, to specific target molecules (substrates), in a process termed phosphorylation.


diastase

From Ancient Greek διάστασις (diástasis, “separation”).

(biochemistry) Any one of a group of enzymes which catalyse the breakdown of starch into maltose; mostly amylases (α-amylase and β-amylase).

diastaasi

enzyme which catalyses the breakdown of starch into maltose


proteid

When strong nitric acid is added to an aqueous solution of any of the proteids, a white precipitate forms, which turns yellow on heating the liquid.

1907, R. Douglas Bailey, The Brewer's Analyst, page 89:

1914, Eugene Christian, Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Digital Edition, unnumbered page,
The proteid substances in the body must be formed from proteids taken in the form of food, because only proteid foods contain the element nitrogen. All proteids contain nitrogen, but all nitrogen does not contain protein. All proteids, therefore, are nitrogenous compounds.

1996, Arnold Eiloart (translator and editor), M. Bircher-Benner, Food Science for All and a New Sunlight Theory of Nutrition, page 12,
It was in the forties of the last century that the great chemist, Justus Liebig, brought the chemistry of food up to this point. As he believed moreover that proteids provide not only the building-material of living substance, but also muscular power, he regarded it as a nourishing principle.


goldilocks

From goldy + locks. Goldilocks is a traditional children's story and its protagonist.

A person with golden hair, especially a girl with long hair.


ecchymosis

en-noun

ecchymosis (countable and uncountable, plural ecchymoses)

From New Latin ecchymōsis, from Ancient Greek ἐκχύμωσις (ekkhúmōsis), from ἐκχέω (ekkhéō, “I pour out”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + χέω (khéō, “I pour”).

A diseased condition of the skin has often been mistaken for stigmatic marks. Such, for instance, is ecchymosis, a discoloration of the skin due to the extravasation of subcutaneous blood.

1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 273:

A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin, especially one that is remote from a site of trauma or caused by a nontraumatic process (such as neoplasia).

синина

leaking of blood into the tissues of the body as a result of a bruise


sunburn

en-verb

sunburn (third-person singular simple present sunburns, present participle sunburning, simple past and past participle sunburned or (mostly Commonwealth) sunburnt)

sunburns (present singular third-person)
sunburning (participle present)
sunburned (participle past)
sunburned (past)
sunburnt (Commonwealth participle past)
sunburnt (Commonwealth past)

From Middle English *sunne burnen, *sonne brennen, *sunne brennen (suggested by derivatives sonne brennynge, sunne brennynge (“sunburn”, literally “sun-burning”) and sunne brente (“sunburnt”), equivalent to sun + burn. Compare West Frisian sinnebrân (“sunburn”), Dutch zonnebrand (“sunburn”), German Sonnenbrand (“sunburn”), Swedish solbränna (“sunburn”), and Icelandic sólbruni (“sunburn”), as well as Old English sunbryne (“sunburn”).

My Aunt charg’d me not to pull off my Glove for fear of Sun-burning my hand.

1668, John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, London: H. Herringman, act II, page 11:

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert […]

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:

“Oh shoot, I’ve sunburned the top half of my boobs,” she said, frowning down her chest.

1989, Barbara Kingsolver, chapter 7, in The Bean Trees, New York: Harper and Row, page 95:

If you are serious about protecting your eyes, look into wearing goggles or alpine glasses that protect the sides of the eyes as well as the direct path of light into them. I once hiked up Mary’s Glacier wearing only a hat. That night after the hike I couldn’t sleep. I had sunburnt my eyes. It felt like hot pokers were being stuffed into my head. I could not open my eyes for four days.

1998, Kevin Ryan, The Illustrated Guide to Snowboarding, Masters Press, The McGraw-Hill Companies, →ISBN, page 106:

(transitive) To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.


sudoriferous

From the Latin sūdōrifer (“bearing sweat”). The term originally came from the Latin sūdor (“sweat”) from the Latin verb sūdō (“I sweat”) + -i- + -fer (“-fer, that which carries”) from the Latin verb ferō (“I bring”) + -ous (forming -ferous).


wienie

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“With all his education, mind you. Selling weenies out on the street in the broad daylight.”

1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:

(Canada, US, informal) A wiener sausage.


wiglet

TV personality Shari Lewis, proud skipperess of a new Owens cruiser. demonstrates a bit of legerdemain with wiglets — small hairpieces that, properly twined, will solve nautical grooming problems.

1964 July, Motorboating, volume 114, number 1, page 68:


MOD

(dentistry) Initialism of mesio-occlusal-distal.


mamelon

(dentistry) A protrusion on a newly erupted tooth.


wild-eyed

en-adj

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

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

A better study it seems to me could be about why some heteros are so wild-eyed obsessed with us, their hate, the kind of leaders they choose to follow in their greed and prejudice, and their need for someone to persecute.

1989 December 10, Zane Gilstrap, “Speculations About Why We're Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:

In the mirror a wild-eyed, peroxided stranger who had clearly gone insane stared back at me.

Having a glaring expression suggesting madness or terror.


hypertrichosis

en-noun

hypertrichosis (countable and uncountable, plural hypertrichoses)

A medical condition of excessive body hair, either affecting most of the torso and limbs, or localized to an area of skin. It may be mild or severe.


five o'clock shadow

five o'clock shadow (countable and uncountable, plural five o'clock shadows)

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First use appears c. 1942, US, advertising copy written by Jules B. Singer of the Federal Advertising Agency for the Gem brand of safety razors, made by the American Safety Razor Company.

Men Wanted Without 5 O’Clock Shadow! To get on her wanted list, you must put your best face forward. Avoid “5 o’clock shadow” — that messy afternoon beard-growth. Stay face-neat all day long by shaving with a genuine Gem Blade.

(informal) A beard growth that is visible late in the day on the face of a man who was clean-shaven in the morning.

American Safety Razor Company
five o'clock shadow


wrinkly

en-adj

wrinkly (comparative wrinklier, superlative wrinkliest)

wrinklier (comparative)
wrinkliest (superlative)


raven-haired

raven-haired (comparative more raven-haired, superlative most raven-haired)

more raven-haired (comparative)
most raven-haired (superlative)

`Attractive, raven-haired, about twenty-three and with a figure like Diana Dors.'

1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 101:

Having hair that is very black and lustrous.

黒髪の

having hair that is very black and lustrous


mouche

They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.

The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.

1921, Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren, Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C., page 9:

In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.

2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 203:

LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip. His brown hair is shoulder length. Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance.

2014, Jack B. Rochester, Madrone, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN:

A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.

Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.


twisty

twisty (comparative twistier, superlative twistiest)

twistier (comparative)
twistiest (superlative)

lost in a twisty labyrinth

"When he had religion he used to be always hammerin' up seats and summer-houses and things out of bits of twisty wood. Mad over that, he was."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 136:

Characterised by a twist or twists; twisting.


twisty

I was introduced to the panorama of twisties, barrettes, hair and scalp conditioner (basically hair grease), brushes for every occasion and narrow- and wide-tooth combs.

2007 March 22, Randal C. Archibold, “I Have Taken on My Daughter’s Hair and Won”, in New York Times:

A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion

The document is divided up into a number of sections controlled by twisties.

1998, Steve Oliver, Pete Wood, Lotus Domino Web Site Development, page 96:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A collapsible element having a marker such as a small triangle that rotates between horizontal and vertical positions to indicate whether the content is currently hidden or expanded.


dentin

en-noun

dentin (usually uncountable, plural dentins)

From French dentine, from Latin dens (“tooth”) + English chemical suffix -in / -ine.

The hard, dense calcareous material that makes up the bulk of a tooth.


ding-a-ling

Near-synonym: ding-dong

The ding-a-ling from the fire truck somehow filled him with more dread than its horn blasts could: for whom does that bell toll?

The sound of a small bell; the sound of a fire engine bell.

Pay no heed to what she hollers — she's a ding-a-ling!

(slang) An eccentric, crazy, or stupid person.

They explained patiently but firmly that he wasn't to play with his ding-a-ling nor try to show it to anyone.


barbershop

barbershop (countable and uncountable, plural barbershops)

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Coordinate term: beauty parlor

(countable) The place of business of a barber; a store where a person (usually a male) can go to get a haircut.


globulin

globulin (countable and uncountable, plural globulins)

The most effective approach to delaying and preventing recurrent HBV infection has been high dose immune globulin (anti-HBsIg) perioperatively and postoperatively (table 4).

1993 November 27, Teresa L. Wright, Johnson Y. N. Lau, “Clinical aspects of hepatitis B virus infection”, in The Lancet, volume 342, number 8883, →PMID, page 1342:

On the good news front, the guide reports that a new hepatitis A vaccine, which is now licensed in Europe, should be available in the United States sometime this year. It provides longer protection than the current recommended vaccine -- immune globulin (IG) -- against the hepatitis A virus, which means it does not have to be administered as frequently.

1994 March 20, James Yenckel, “Health in the Tropics”, in The Washington Post:

Even for the unprotected, those who are exposed can expect 90 percent effectiveness with a course of postexposure prophylaxis that includes hepatitis B immune globulin and initiation of hepatitis B vaccine.

2000, Kimbra Cutlip, “Preventing needlestick injuries in healthcare settings”, in Hospital Topics, volume 78, →PMID:

(biochemistry) Any of a group of simple proteins, soluble in water only in the presence of salts, that are coagulated by heat


thatched

a thatched cottage


cremaster

From Ancient Greek κρεμαστήρ (kremastḗr, “suspender”).

uder

(zoology) In the pupae of certain species of butterfly, a hook-shaped protuberance from the rear of the chrysalis casing, by which the caterpillar fixes itself to the pad of silk it has cemented to the underside of a perch.


circulatory system

en-noun

circulatory system (plural circulatory systems)

(technology) The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid.


iliopsoas

iliopsoas (plural iliopsoases or iliopsoai)

Look at those iliopsoases working!

5. Muscle tightness: Inflexibility of the hamstrings, the iliotibial tracts, and iliopsoai tends to aggravate lower backache.

1998, Richard Irvin, Duane Iversen, Steven Roy, Sports Medicine: Prevention, Assessment, Management, and Rehabilitation of Athletic Injuries, 2nd edition, Boston: Allyn & Bacon, →ISBN, page 317:

(anatomy) A compound muscle composed of the iliac and psoas muscles.


salivary

/ˈsælɪˌvɛɹi/


salivary

/ˈsælɪˌvɛɹi/

The most striking peculiarity, however, is the presence of a pair of glands (possibly aborted salivaries) apparently issuing from the posterior of the pharynx, and looking like the two ends of a clergyman's bands or cravat.

1914, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 130:


ubiquitin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of small protein, or polypeptide, present in the cells of all eukaryotes, that play a part in modifying and degrading proteins.


bezoar

From Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.

der

A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.


enterolith

/ˈɛntəɹəˌlɪθ/

/ɛnˈtɛɹəˌlɪθ/

Coined based on Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, entero- + -lith.


retouch

en-verb

retouch (third-person singular simple present retouches, present participle retouching, simple past and past participle retouched)

retouches (present singular third-person)
retouching (participle present)
retouched (participle past)
retouched (past)

For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand;
Retouch your figures with his ripening hand;
Mellow your colors, and imbrown the teint;
Add every grace, which time alone can grant;
To future ages ſhall your fame convey,
And give more beauties than he takes away.

a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “Epistle the Fourteenth. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter to His Majesty.”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 201:

(transitive) To improve something (especially a photograph), by adding or correcting details, or by removing flaws.

ретуширам

to improve something, especially a photograph


thyrocalcitonin

en-noun

thyrocalcitonin (countable and uncountable, plural thyrocalcitonins)

(biochemistry) Alternative form of calcitonin.


calcitonin

calcitonin (countable and uncountable, plural calcitonins)

Intriguingly, the rat C1b isoform of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) (see Section VI-B) has very little interaction with the thyroidally derived form of calcitonin.

1997, Louis V. Avioli, Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders, page 98:

(biochemistry) A polypeptide hormone secreted by the thyroid gland that has the effect of lowering blood calcium.


thyroxine

thyroxine (countable and uncountable, plural thyroxines)

From thyr- (“thyroid”) + ox- (“oxygen”) + -ine.

af

(biochemistry) A hormone (an iodine derivative of tyrosine), produced by the thyroid gland, that regulates cell metabolism and growth.


rhomboid protease

en-noun

rhomboid protease (plural rhomboid proteases)

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that cleave proteins within biological membranes allowing release of effector domains from the membrane


falsie

(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A false eyelash, used as a cosmetic enhancement.


slap-headed

(British, slang) Having a bald or shaven head


-cula

Denoting things associated with, or compared to, Dracula: Count Chocula, Bunnicula etc.


hemagglutinin

hemagglutinin (countable and uncountable, plural hemagglutinins)

(biochemistry) An antigenic glycoprotein that causes agglutination of red blood cells


homo milk

homo milk (usually uncountable, plural homo milks)


phosphoprotein

(biochemistry) any protein containing bound phosphate or complexed with a phospholipid


maidenhair

maidenhair (countable and uncountable, plural maidenhairs)

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He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's into the bowl

His fingers tore at her maidenhair. Gasping, she recoiled for long enough to allow him entry.

1979, Georgianna Bell, Passionate Jade, page 326:

Some said they'd seen her over by Death's-Door, with bloodstains on her dress, which was so white and transparent they were seized with shame and fear at the faint beauty of her breasts and the eternal modesty of her maidenhair.

1987, Pierre Clitandre, Cathedral of the August Heat, page 152:

She grabbed at her maidenhair as the garment eluded her frantic grasp and formed a puddle of cloth at her feet.

1989, Robert Solotaroff, Bernard Malamud: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 116:

She turns and her small breasts are firm in the fading light, the flower of her navel, the darkening delta of her maidenhair and her thighs rising out of the water, the water tiny golden gifts against her skin;

2013, John F. Deane, Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill: New and Selected Poems:

(uncountable, poetic) A woman's pubic hair.


acrosin

(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme, found in the acrosome of spermatozoa, that enables penetration of the egg.


hat hair

But winter can also be judged by the prominence of another scourge, one that is especially irksome in a city that places a premium on being well-groomed and immaculately coiffed: hat hair.

2003 February 17, Elissa Gootman, “A Chill Most Bitter: Learning to Accept Hat Hair”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-03-13:

Beanie hair: Officially the worst hat hair to have: flat, fuzzy and drab.

2012 December 7, Zara, "The Measure: what's hot and what's not," Guardian (UK) (retrieved 13 March 2018)

(idiomatic) An accidental messy hairdo resulting from the wearing of a hat.