Winnie the Pooh

en-proper noun

Winnie the Pooh (plural Winnie the Poohs)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winny de Puh m (1980's book translation)

Winnie-the-Pooh

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


Tiff

A diminutive of the female given name Tiffany.


Fuxi

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

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

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

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


Fejeean

en-adj

Fejeean (comparative more Fejeean, superlative most Fejeean)

more Fejeean (comparative)
most Fejeean (superlative)


Fenella

From Scottish Gaelic Fionnaghal, from Fionnghuala.

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

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

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Gaya

The presumed language of the Gaya confederacy.


Jeju

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

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


Niggerville

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


Niggertown

/ˈnɪɡəɹtaʊn/

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

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Niggertown.


Ona

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


Bahasa Indonesia

Borrowed from Indonesian bahasa Indonesia.

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


Bamum

A series of six scripts created for the Bamum language.


High Dutch

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

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

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

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


Moll

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

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

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


Concordia

58 Concordia
Concordia
Concordia (mythology)


Eskayan

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


Elmira

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

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

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

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Durbanite

An inhabitant of Durban in South Africa.


r rotunda

en-noun

r rotunda (plural rs rotunda or rs rotundae)

rs rotunda (plural)
rs rotundae (plural)

/ˌɑː.ɹəʊˈtʌn.də/

/ˌɑɹ.ɹoʊˈtʌn.də/

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

Coordinate term: straight r

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Pemon

A Cariban language spoken by the Pemon people


Geechee

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

Gullah (South Carolina island language and culture)


Mwotlap

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

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


Richmonder

Richmond upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames

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


Laci

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

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

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


Belladonna

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

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


Puelche

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


Humpdashian

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

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

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

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

Then the Humpdashian split.

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

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


Hidatsa

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


Hidatsa

The traditional language of the Hidatsa people.


Hidatsa

en-adj

Hidatsa (comparative more Hidatsa, superlative most Hidatsa)

more Hidatsa (comparative)
most Hidatsa (superlative)

Of or pertaining to the Hidatsa language.


Emiri

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

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


Emiri

Emiri (comparative more Emiri, superlative most Emiri)

more Emiri (comparative)
most Emiri (superlative)

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


Carls

Shortening of Carly + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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


Idahonian

A native or inhabitant of the American state of Idaho.


nom de clavier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Marfa

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

Марфа Марфа#Russian

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


Chimpy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Palenquero

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

A Spanish-based creole spoken in northern Colombia.


North Atlanticist

en-noun

North Atlanticist (plural North Atlanticists)

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

1986, Worldwide Report: Arms control, page 19:

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

1986, Res publica - Volume 27, page 257:

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

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

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

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

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


Wayleen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Indianapolitan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Airspeak

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

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

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

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

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

air traffic controller
air traffic controller

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


Texian

(chiefly historical) An inhabitant of Texas.

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


Texian

en-adj

Texian (comparative more Texian, superlative most Texian)

more Texian (comparative)
most Texian (superlative)

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

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


appriser

(Scots law) One who carries out an apprising.


Alija

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


Caribbean English

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

caribisk-engelsk

broad term for sum of all Caribbean dialects of English


Sidetan

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


Sidetan

Synonym of Sidetic, the language of the Sidetans.


marsling

From Mars + -ling, modelled after earthling.

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

1953, Crow's Forest Products Digest - Volume 31

An inhabitant or being from Mars; a Martian.


Salzburgian

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

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

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

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

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

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


Mba

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

An Ubangian language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Ob-Ugric

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

Ugric

subgroup of languages in the Uralic family


Ob-Ugric

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


Spederline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Vaughniston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Speidi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Vinnifer

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

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

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

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

Brangelina monopolized the paparazzi. Vinnifer had the gossips geysering.

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


Bolon

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

translit

A Manding language spoken in Burkina Faso.


YouPube

Recent viewing: Doug Stanhope on YouPube

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Wymysorys

From Vilamovian wymysiöeryś; see Wilamowice.

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


Sikkimese

A Southern Tibetic language spoken in Sikkim.


Floridan

en-adj

Floridan (comparative more Floridan, superlative most Floridan)

more Floridan (comparative)
most Floridan (superlative)

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

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

United States of America
United States of America

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


proot

[He] taught me the true cry or masonic word of donkey-drivers, ‘Proot!’

1879 June, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, London: C. Kegan Paul & Company, →OCLC, page 18:

The window is handed in [to a wicker carriage]. Her feet are wound around with comforters against a draft... Her ample bag of knitting is safe aboard... Proot! The donkey starts.

1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins and Cheese to Come, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 38:

A command to a donkey or mule to move faster.


Maquiritari

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

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


C. of E.

Church of England
Church of England#English


Tryphosa

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


Isaurian

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


Chyna

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


Fotini

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

der

Φωτεινή Φωτεινή#Greek

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


Arawakan

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


Indyref

Abbreviation of independence referendum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Abcde

From the first five letters of the English alphabet.

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


Wusun

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

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烏孫／乌孙 (Wūsūn)

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


Yuezhi

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

der

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


Koyraboro Senni Songhai

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


Tamika

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


Mary Anne

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

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

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

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


Mary Ann

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

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

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

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


Kobon

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


Unami

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


Reenie

A diminutive of the female given name Doreen

A diminutive of the female given name Irene

A diminutive of the female given name Maureen


Slabber

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


Midgardian

en-adj

Midgardian (comparative more Midgardian, superlative most Midgardian)

more Midgardian (comparative)
most Midgardian (superlative)


Asgardian

(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Asgard


Asgardian

Asgardian (comparative more Asgardian, superlative most Asgardian)

more Asgardian (comparative)
most Asgardian (superlative)


Hattic

An extinct language once spoken in that region.


Arthuriana

From Arthurian + -ana or Arthur + -iana.

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

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

(Arthurian legend) Things relating to King Arthur.


Gelao

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


Varvara

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

Варва́ра Варвара#Russian

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


Bala

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

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


Schmucksville

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

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

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

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

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


Faeroe Islander

en-noun

Faeroe Islander (plural Faeroe Islanders)


Faroe Islander

an inhabitant of the Faroe Islands (Faroes)


what are you waiting for

(rhetorical question) What is the delay? Why are you not acting or proceeding?


East Central German

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


East Central German

of or pertaining to the East Central German dialects


West Central German

North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia

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

Hessian

Rhine Franconian (Rhine-Franconian), Rhenish-Franconian


West Central German

of or pertaining to the West Central German dialects


Elouise

Alternative form of Eloise, influenced by Louise.


Upper German

Calque of German Oberdeutsch / oberdeutsch.

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


Central German

Calque of German Mitteldeutsch/mitteldeutsch.

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


linking r

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


Lashawndra

A female given name of African-American usage.


Rafa

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

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


Decker

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Chaney

en-proper noun

Chaney (countable and uncountable, plural Chaneys)

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


Merritt

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

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


Barron

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


Sheppard

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


Sweet

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


Hardin

→ Crow: Chichúchi (calque)


Meadow

"Oh, shoot. This must be bad. You're drinking a cocktail in the middle of the day," Meadow said, leaning down to hug her sister.


Gilmore

Gilmore (countable and uncountable, plural Gilmores)

From Scottish Gaelic gille (“servant lad”) + Moire (“Mary mother of Jesus”).


Sanford

From the placename Sandford, ultimately from Old English Sandford (literally “sand ford”).

inh

“Sanford Finkelstein,” Danielle repeats. “Listen, isn't he the one that ostrich is based on, in your books?”
“Well, I suppose in a way.” Erica smiles. “It was the name mostly. Sanford seemed like a good name for an ostrich.”

1974, Alison Lurie, The War Between the Tates: A Novel, Open Road Media, published 2012, →ISBN:


Bowman

Reference: WO 373/97/207 Description: Name: Scott, Bowman; Rank: Temporary Major; Service No: 151430; Regiment: CSO's Staff, Air Formation Signals, Second Tactical Air Force; Theatre of Combat or Operation: The London Omnibus List for Gallant and Distinguished Services in the Field; Award: Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; Date of announcement in London Gazette: 19 December 1946.

1944–1945, “Catalogue description: Recommendation for Award for Scott, Bowman...”, in The National Archives' catalogue, Kew, London: The National Archives, retrieved 2024-03-31:


Greer

en-proper noun

Greer (countable and uncountable, plural Greers)

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


TimberBiel

But it also remains that a TimberBiel sighting (that one’s all yours, gossip columnists!) is something that a wide swath of news organizations would be bound to pick up.

2011 September 7, Scott Stinson, “eTalk and the celebrity gossip juggernaut”, in National Post:

Without being able to get verifiable evidence, every tell-all cyber blabber in the country began running with the rumor TimberBiel was a done deal.

2012, Jake Nichols, "Biel and Timberlake get 'N Sync 'N Jackson", JH Weekly, 22 August 2012 - 28 August 2012, page 8

Private security was tight everywhere the wedding party went, while a source told E! News that the guests were asked to sign nondisclosure agreements to ensure that the TimberBiel nuptials stayed private for as long as possible.

2012, "Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake Marry in Italy!", EDGE Davao, Volume 5, Issue 165, 21 October 2012 - 22 October 2012, page A3

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.


Gāndhārī

The Gāndhārī Dharmapada. We have the remains of two manuscripts of a Dharmapada in Gāndhārī, a Prakrit from Gandhāra (an area of what is now northwest India, Pakistan and a large part of Afghanistan).

2010, The Dhammapada, Penguin Classics, →ISBN:

The largest and most interesting of these fragments (no. 1), with four partial lines of text on each side, is written not in Gāndhārī or even in Sanskritized Gāndhārī like that of the Schøyen fragments, but in more or less standard Sanskrit.

2011, Kurt Behrendt, Pia Brancaccio, Gandharan Buddhism: Archaeology, Art, and Texts, →ISBN, page 143:

An Indo-Aryan language formerly spoken in what is now northern India and eastern Pakistan; a northwestern Prakrit in which Gandharan Buddhist texts were compiled.


Levy

* As a Jewish surname, a variant of the biblical name Levi. Compare Lowy.
* As a Czech surname, from the adjective levý (“left”).
* Also a shortening of Irish Mac Duinnshléibhe (“son of the chief on the mountain”), from mac (“son”) + donn (“noble”) + sliabh (“mountain”).


Lyman

en-proper noun

Lyman (countable and uncountable, plural Lymans)


Palawano

From Spanish palawano, from Palawan + -o.


Luann

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Zahir

Borrowed from Arabic ظَاهِر (ẓāhir), ظٰهِر (ẓāhir). The surname is mostly found in Afghanistan and Pakistan.


Blossom

The resulting craze is probably attributable to a Waialua Elementary guidance teacher, Blossom Galbiso, who introduced the game into O'ahu schoolyards in 1992.

1995, Robert C. Schmitt, Firsts and Almost Firsts in Hawaii, page 192:


Quinton

Quinton (countable and uncountable, plural Quintons)

Variant of Quentin, merged with an Old English place name meaning "queen's town".


Maithili

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal and northern India.

મૈથિલી

an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal and northern India


Mazahua

The Oto-Manguean language spoken by the Mazahuan people.


Obomber

This was definitely staged event intended
to show how caring Obomber is..

2013 October 25, seth...@aol.com, “Re: Phony business: Obama's fainting woman a hoax”, in independent-progressives (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, US politics) An epithet of Barack Obama.


Philomela

From Latin Philomela, from Ancient Greek Φιλομήλη (Philomḗlē), from φίλος (phílos, “love”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; fruit; sheep”), but folk-etymologized since at least Ovid's time as "lover of song".


Kinikinao

Mato Grosso do Sul
Mato Grosso do Sul#English

An Arawakan language spoken in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.


Guajajara

A Tupian language spoken by the Guajajara people.


Urubú-Kaapor

A Tupian language spoken in French Guyana and in Maranhão.


Nambikwara

The language spoken by the Nambikwara people.


Mandan

An ethnic Native American tribe in North Dakota.


Mandan

A city, the county seat of Morton County, North Dakota.


Keralite

A native or inhabitant of the Indian state of Kerala.


Kareem

A male given name from Arabic, variant of Karim.


Karim

From Arabic كَرِيم (karīm, “noble, generous”).


Dez

A diminutive of the male given name Desmond.


Esan

A people of South South Nigeria, whose homeland in Edo state is known as Esanland.


Raj

en-prop

Raj (countable and uncountable, plural Rajs or Rajes)

Proprialisation of raj (“(India) reign, rule”, noun), borrowed from Hindustani
राज / راج (rāj, “reign, rule; empire, kingdom; country, state; royalty”), from Sanskrit राज्य (rājyá, “empire, kingdom, realm; kingship, royalty, sovereignty; country”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right or straighten oneself; to govern, rule; just; right”). Doublet of Reich and riche.


Raj

A diminutive of the male given name Rajiv.


Tutchone

A threatened Athabaskan language spoken in the Yukon Territory in Canada.


Mexican Spanish

A set of variations of the Spanish language as spoken in Mexico and in some parts of the United States and Canada, where there are communities of Hispanic origin influenced by North American Spanish-speaking media.


Princess

It was funny to me that my name, Princess Kasune Zulu, became such a big deal on this trip. I participated in a number of media interviews where journalists fixated on my name. "Are you a real princess?" they asked time and time again. Their published articles all too often said, "Princess is only her name, not a title."

2009, Princess Kasune Zulu, Warrior Princess, IVP Books, →ISBN, page 202:

(rare) A female given name from English.


Channel Islander

en-noun

Channel Islander (plural Channel Islanders)

From Channel Islands + -er, after islander.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Channel Islander.

A native or inhabitant of the Channel Islands.


Lepel

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Lepel.


Arjun

/ˈɑːɹ.d͡ʒʊn/

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Arjun.


West Jerusalemite

West Jerusalemite (plural West Jerusalemites)

Sometimes Israelis were attacked by Arab infiltrators, and hardly a month went by without a West Jerusalemite either being killed or wounded.

1981, Terrence Prittie, Whose Jerusalem?, page 72:


Ole Miss

From a submission by Elma Meek of a name for the 1897 yearbook, either from ole Mississippi or ole missus.


Agarthan

(mythology) A native or inhabitant of Agartha.


Mutand

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Mutand.


Raetic

An extinct language once spoken in Rhaetia


Early Tripuri

An ancient form of the language Kokborok.


Garawa

A Garawan Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Borroloola in the Northern Territory.


Ashlynn

A female given name from Irish, Alternative form of Ashlyn


Theosophus

Anxiety is felt concerning the whereabouts of Theosophus Wensleydale, who disappeared from his home last week, in company with the contents of his father's safe.

1928 March 16, “News in brief”, in The Daily Mail, Hull, →ISSN, page 6:


Czechian

en-adj

Czechian (comparative more Czechian, superlative most Czechian)

more Czechian (comparative)
most Czechian (superlative)


Czechian

(archaic) The Slavic language of Czechia.


Boisean

Boisean (comparative more Boisean, superlative most Boisean)

more Boisean (comparative)
most Boisean (superlative)

Of or relating to Boise, Idaho, United States.


Boisean

A person from Boise, Idaho, United States.


Euphie

A diminutive of the female given name Euphemia


French-Provençal

/fɹɛnt͡ʃ pɹɒvɑːnˈsɑːl/

From the district so influenced by the Provençal, we pass by some intermediate grades, to that which is plainly French-Provençal, above all in the valleys of the southern Stura, of Oreo (Val SoanaL of the Dora Baltea (Val d'Aosta).

1912, Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, The Americana: a universal reference library, volume 11:

The Saône and the Rhône are considered the eastern limits of French, since beyond these rivers from Bescançon on the north to Grenoble on the south a mixed dialect called French-Provençal was used.

1917, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopædia, volume 9, page 245:

His best work in French-Provençal was written in the decade 1855-66: Marenda a Tsesalet, La bataille di vatse a Vertozan, Megnadzo de Monseur Abonde.

1987, Giuseppe Zoppelli, La poesia in Valle d'Aosta, Forli: ed. Forum/Quinta Generazione, page 07:

[A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians and Croatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.]

2006, J. M. Smits, Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, →ISBN, page 352:

(nonstandard, rare) Franco-Provençal, Arpitan.


Kashonda

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


Imogine

A female given name from the Celtic languages.


Humph

A diminutive of the male given name Humphrey.


Egerton

en-proper noun

Egerton (countable and uncountable, plural Egertons)

From the Old English personal name Ecgheard or Ecghere + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).


Launcelot

Launcelot (countable and uncountable, plural Launcelots)


Josephus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἰώσηπος (Iṓsēpos), Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph).


Boyce

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Anglistics

Modification of German Anglistik, from Anglist (“Anglist”) + -ik (“-ics”).

The history of our English department thus begins with one of the greatest names that Anglistics in America has to offer.

1927, Lawrence Counselman Wroth, editor, The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine: Published in the Interest of the University and the Alumni, volume 15, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, page 116:

Regularly on the Continent, and widely in America as well, that part of Anglistics devoted to the editing of texts is called English philology.

1930, Kemp Malone, “The Terminology of Anglistics.”, in The English Journal, volume 19, number 8, →JSTOR, page 643:

(humanities, rare) Synonym of English studies


Winslow

Winslow (countable and uncountable, plural Winslows)

From Middle English Wynselowe, from Old English Wineshlauu, from Wines (“Wine's”, personal name) + hlāw (“mound”).

compound

A male given name transferred from the surname


Kenton

en-proper noun

Kenton (countable and uncountable, plural Kentons)

From either the Old English personal name Cena or cyne- (“royal”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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


Edoid

Of or relating to a language family of southern Nigeria, including the Edo language.


Degema

A Nigerian Delta Edoid language spoken on Degema Island, Nigeria.


Uther

From Middle English Uther, from Middle Welsh Uthyr.

(Arthurian legend) The father of King Arthur.


New Persian

It is particularly in its vocabulary that New Persian departs from Middle Persian, in two different ways. First, New Persian contains many words which are originally foreign to Persian proper and are betrayed by their form as belonging to other, northern or eastern Iranian dialects: New Persian owes much to Parthian and to related dialects and it has also borrowed from Soghdian. Secondly, it has admitted a considerable proportion of Arabic words, a proportion which has increased with time [...]

1975, Gilbert Lazard, “The Rise of the New Persian Language,”, in Cambridge History of Iran, volume IV, page 597:

the earliest samples of New Persian consist of a handful of verses dating from the end of the 3rd/9th century, by which time the influx [from Arabic] had been going on for two centuries.

1986, Lawrence Paul Elwell-Sutton, “Arabic Language III”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, volume 2, page 234:

The form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is distinguished from its precursor Middle Persian by the use of the Arabic script and an extensive borrowing of vocabulary.


Trentonian

A native or inhabitant of Trenton, New Jersey, United States.


Great White Way

So called from its brilliant illumination at night.

But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America.

2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 28:

The Great White Way was full of […] theater mavens and gamblers, goons and drunks—and also crooks, crooks aplenty in service to the next big score.

2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 136:

Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.


Parnell

Matronymic from a medieval spoken form of Petronella.

They had called him Parnell to show how Irish he was. At school they called him Parny, so that was it. Anyway Katy and Shane Quinn could always explain it to anyone who mattered that his real name was Parnell, like the great leader. It was just as well nobody asked them too much about the great leader. They were somewhat hazy about what he was leading and when and why.

1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:


Abiah

From Hebrew אביה, name of minor biblical characters.


Nunc dimittis

Named after its incipit, Latin nunc dimittis (literally “now you dismiss”).

bor

(Christianity, music) A canticle from a text in the second chapter of Luke in the Bible, often used as the final song in a religious service.


Kachin

Some of the Yaw Yin people understand Kachin, but as would be natural, are more acquainted with Chinese, and will probably in time be reached through this language.

1896, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Annual Report (volume 82, page 92)


Morelian

However, dental restorations of any kind are relatively rare among local indigenes and suggests that this individual was, by Morelian standards, of somewhat higher than average socioeconomic status.

1994, Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.), Mexico: Waiting for Justice in Chiapas (page 126)

From or pertaining to Morelia, a city in Mexico.


Woz

Norton snapped his fingers. Monday's Warren's birthday. That's what I'll do. We'll get a couple of sheilas and I'll shout Woz out for dinner.

2016, Robert G. Barrett, The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya:


Woz

(informal) Nickname for a person with the surname Wozniak.

(informal) American inventor Steve Wozniak.


Turkman

en-noun

Turkman (plural Turkmans or (deprecated as plural of Turkman) Turkmen)

Turkmans (plural)
Turkmen (plural proscribed)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تركمان (Türkmân), from Persian ترکمان (torkamân). Doublet of Turcoman and Turkmen.
As singular of Turkmen, influenced by the English man, plural men.

bor+

Turkmans used to live beside other tribes in Central Asia, groups such as Kalmyks, Quirqiz, Uzbeks, Tatars and Mongols. Through three large-scale immigrations, which have taken place since the tenth century, Turkmans came to the Iranian plateau from Central Asia, where Buddhist, Manavist, Animist, Totemist, Shamanist, Mazdak and Zoroastrian beliefs were common (Azami Rad 2003, 15).

2015, Manijeh Maghsudi, “Healing rituals among female Turkmans of Iran”, in Pedram Khosronejad, editor, Women’s Rituals and Ceremonies in Shiite Iran and Muslim Communities: Methodological and theoretical challenges (Iranian Studies; volume 1), LIT Verlag, →ISBN, page 65:


Auntie Beeb

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, affectionate nickname) The BBC.


Shuar

A Jivaroan language spoken by the Shuar.


Bantoid

From Bantu + -oid; first used by Krause in 1895 for languages that showed resemblances in vocabulary to Bantu.

Of or relating to a putative branch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.


Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

en-noun

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells (plural Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells)

An invented pseudonym of the supposed writer of a letter to a local newspaper in the archetypal Middle England town of Tunbridge Wells. Possibly first coined 1944 in the BBC radio series Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh.

The Post Office bitterly resents the criticism that is constantly voiced in the British press, both by "Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells" and journalists.

1979, Adrian Hope, “Kept Incommunicado”, in New Scientist, page 1048:

It was refreshing that what raised the hackles of Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells had nothing to do with a colourful range of jumpers, nor a flighty Italian art director/photographer.

Of course 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' was never a Labour voter.

2003, Colin Leys, Market-driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, Verso, →ISBN, page 216:

The Sussex Weald is all small towns and villages, 99 per cent white, gravel-drived, car-owning, the sort of place Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells would move to if he found Tunbridge Wells a bit too bustling.

2007, Jeremy Paxman, The Political Animal, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

The inanity of the British attack is obvious from some of the words the early Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells complained about.

2011, Justin Webb, Notes on Them and Us: From the Mayflower to Obama – the British, the Americans and the special essential relationship., Short Books, →ISBN:

(UK, idiomatic) A stereotypical vocal conservative curmudgeon.


Imbriot

One of the inhabitants of the Turkish island of Imbros.


Hallstattian

From Hallstatt + -ian. Some of the earliest archaeological evidence for the Celts was found in Hallstatt.

Of or relating to the Hallstatt culture, often linked to Celtic, Proto-Celtic, and pre-Illyrian peoples in Early Iron Age Europe, c.800–450 BC.


Kaintuck

Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families.

1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, chapter 1, in The Gilded Age:

"There ain't no sech hunter as Jim ever came out of Virginny, no, nor out of Caroliny, neither. It was him that fust telled me of Kaintuck."

1921, John Buchan, chapter 12, in The Path of the King:


Hasaean

From al-Hasâ, the name of the northeastern part of the Saudi Arabian Eastern Province.

The South Semitic (or South West Semitic) group brings together the ancient dialects of South Arabia: Sabaean, Minaean, and Qatabanian; the PreIslamic Northern Arabian languages of Thamudic, Lihyanite, Safaitic, and Hasaean, which is associated with central easter parts of the Arabian penninsula; and the Ethiopian languages of Ge' ez, Amharic, Tigrina, and Tigre.

2013, Andrew Rippin, The Islamic World, →ISBN:

A Semitic language used in inscriptions found mainly in the great oasis of al-Hasâ, written in a variety of the South Arabian scripts.


Trinbagonian

A native or inhabitant of Trinidad and Tobago.


Frankian

Of or relating to Anne Frank (1929–1945), German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage.


Lorrainian

Holonym: Rhine Franconian

Only Lorrainian and Low Hessian, of all the Rhine Franconian area, remained unaffected by diphthongization.

1983, Anneliese Sartori Stein, Contrastive grammar and exercises English-German, page 48:

The Rhine Franconian (and hence West Central German, Central German, High German) dialect spoken in Lorraine; Lorraine Franconian.


Francian

Alternative spelling of Frankian (Franconian)


Francian

A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Francia.


Lothringian

From Lothringia, from German Lothringen. Compare Lorraine, Lorrainian.

A native or inhabitant of Lothringia (Lorraine).


Hymietown

From Hymie + town, in reference to the city's large Jewish population.

In campaign speeches, he has called on interest groups that seem to have nothing in common to find common ground. He has been guarded in talking to the press - no doubt remembering the grief that the Hymietown remark brought him during the 1984 campaign.

1988 March 11, Don Wycliff, “The Editorial Notebook; The New Jesse Jackson”, in New York Times, A, page 34:


Devonwall

"The Highlands and Islands" phenomenon is the Scottish equivalent of "Devonwall" and all efforts must be made to challenge the creation of any more "Highlands and Islands" institutions which bring together the Highlands and the Northern Isles.

2000, Celtic League, Carn, volumes 108-117, page 4:

A conference at Newquay in November 1987, called at the behest of the Duke of Cornwall, allowed the proponents of 'Devonwall' to come up with a proposal for a Devon and Cornwall Development Company.

2003, Bernard Deacon, Garry Tregidga, Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism:

A new power to cross previously sacrosanct English county boundaries will arouse deep controversy in some parts, most notably in the far south-west of England where a 'Devonwall' constituency will become a reality and disappoint electors in both Cornwall and Devon.

2013, Justin Fisher, Christopher Wlezien, The UK General Election of 2010: Explaining the Outcome, Routledge, →ISBN, page 173:

Part and parcel of its involvement in such issues as industrial development, a Cornish university and the amalgamation of Cornish and Devonian public bodies (what became known as 'Devonwall') was a more public profile for its leaders.

2014, Derek R. Williams, Following 'An Gof': Leonard Truran, Cornish Activist and Publisher, The Cornovia Press, →ISBN, page 14:

(chiefly derogatory) The merger of local government structures in Devon and Cornwall.


Bard

We have previously traced Shakespeare from his Birth-place to the Grammar School, and we shall now glance at his career as a lover, and in so doing propose a pleasant walk of a short mile to Shottery, a rural hamlet in the parish of Stratford, where Anne Hathaway resided, to whom the Bard became affianced at a very early period in his life.

1854, Edwin Lees, Stratford as connected with Shakespeare; and the bard's rural haunts, page 46:

It evidently needs no effort on the part of Mr. Booth to put himself en rapport with the ideal of the great Bard.

1866, The Albion, quoted in, Arthur W. Bloom, Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History, McFarland →ISBN, page 207

Nearly a dozen such enterprises now struggle each summer against the vagaries of rough weather and mosquito swarms to bring the Bard to the nation.

2002, Diana Brydon, Irene Rima Makaryk, Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 108:

I hope that the selection of stories is illuminating for those who have never thought about what happened after the death of the immortal Bard.

2009, Jack Lynch, Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 8:

“We are going to undertake an exploration of the Bard's poetic structure and language,” Mom went on.

2010, Erin Dionne, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Penguin, →ISBN:

(usually with "the") William Shakespeare.


stephening

(numismatics, historical, obsolete) Alternative form of steeping


Mizzou

Either derived from Missouri or from the university's initials, MSU.

(chiefly informal) The University of Missouri.


steping

(numismatics, historical) Obsolete form of steeping.


Gwendy

A diminutive of the female given name Gwendoline.


Echu

A male given name from Old Irish, borne by several figures in Irish mythology and history.


Hill Mari

A Uralic language spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El, Russia.

მთის მარიული

a Uralic language spoken in the Gornomariysky, Yurinsky and Kilemarsky districts of Mari El, Russia


Meadow Mari

A standardized dialect of the Mari language used mainly in the European part of the Russian Federation.

niittymari

a standardized dialect of the Mari language used mainly in the European part of the Russian Federation


en-proper noun

Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland

(historical) The British state when Great Britain and Ireland were a republic ruled by Oliver Cromwell.


Bridie

A Celtic diminutive of the female given name Bridget.


Et

(organic chemistry) Abbreviation of ethyl. (-C₂H₅)


Ywain

A knight of the Round Table and the son of King Urien in Arthurian legend.


Gia

* (name from Italian): Italian Gia
* (name from Greek): Clipping of Georgia.

A female given name
A female given name from Italian

A diminutive of the female given name Georgia, from Ancient Greek


Ph

(organic chemistry) Abbreviation of phenyl.


minority language

en-noun

minority language (plural minority languages)

(sociolinguistics) A language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory.


Sulu

From Spanish Sulu/Sulú, from Tausug Sulug (“Sulu”), an older form of Sūg (“Sulu”), possibly from Tausug sulug, an older form of sūg (“current”). Compare Maranao Solog, Malay Suluk, Hokkien 蘇祿／苏禄 (So͘-lo̍k).


Utican

Now all that remains is the building, some copies of the paper, and the memories of a few elderly Uticans.

1992, Ralph Frasca, The Rise and Fall of the Saturday Globe, page 166:


Onge

An Ongan language spoken by the Onge people.


Ninty

Ninty have missed the boat this Xmas in the 20 something bracket, Starfox Adventures is not going to convince people to buy a gamecube.

2002, SteveC, “Xbox PS2 or Gamecube”, in uk.games.video.xbox (Usenet):

With the Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance systems, 'Ninty' had lorded it over the competition […]

2009, India Today, volume 34, numbers 1-8, page 466:

Certainly, hearing that the 'Queues to get just 20 minutes with the shiny new Ninty handheld stretched for hours' reassure us that even games journalists at trade shows with copy deadlines are prepared to wait in line for their few minutes with the new device […]

2012, James Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, page 62:

(video games, slang) The video game company Nintendo.


Jarawa

Borrowed from Aka-Bea [Term?] (“foreigner”).

bor+

An Ongan language spoken by the Jarawa people of Andaman Islands.


TUSC

w:Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

(UK politics) Acronym of Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.


Etan

Rendering of the modern (Israeli) Hebrew אֵיתָן (Etán), equivalent to the English Ethan.


Vicentine

From Latin Vīcentīnus, by-form of Vīcētīnus.

A native or inhabitant of the city of Vicenza in northeastern Italy.


Kamtok

Cameroonian Pidgin English
Cameroonian Pidgin English


Jingulu

An Australian language spoken by the Jingili people in the Northern Territory.


Tonkawa

From Wichita tonkaweya (“those who stay together”), compare Tonkawa Tickanwa•tic (“(a) genuine people”).

cog

The extinct language once spoken by these people.

A city in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States.


Milifandom

Abby says the Milifandom, which started last week, is “a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed”.

2015 April 21, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Milifandom soars with Twitter backing for Labour leader Ed Miliband”, in The Guardian:

The student, who describes the 'Milifandom' as 'a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed', started the unlikely cult-following of Miliband in the run-up to the May election.

That, Ed Miliband told the Evening Standard, was his wife Justine's reaction to the news that her husband had a fandom. Milifandom.

2015, Iain Watson, Five Million Conversations: How Labour lost and election and rediscovered its roots:

So I jokingly suggested to an excolleague at BuzzFeed via Twitter that this could be her next piece, since she'd been the first to uncover the 'Milifandom' (the band of teenage girls who had developed swooning, semiironic crushes on Labour leader Ed Miliband during the 2015 eelection campaign).

2016, Robert Colvile, The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster:

A teenager has taken Milifandom to a whole new level by getting Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh.

2016 January 12, Dan Bloom, “Milifandom taken to whole new level as teen fan gets Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh”, in The Mirror:

And after Milifandom signally failed to shift votes in places like Nuneaton, the PM told last year’s post-election party conference ‘Britain and Twitter are not the same thing’.

2016 June 22, Paul Waugh, “How The ‘Ground War’, And Digital Targeting, Will Decide The EU Referendum Result”, in The Huffington Post:

(colloquial, UK politics) An Internet-based youth movement in support of Ed Miliband, then leader of the British Labour Party.


Jowan

A male given name from Cornish, a Cornish form of John.


Trang

Borrowed from Vietnamese Trang. Doublet of Zhuang.


Caillou

From French; see caillou. Nickname of the eponymous boy of the Canadian book and TV series Caillou.

I'm just a kid who's four.
Each day I grow some more.
I like exploring.

~1997 Theme song of the English version of Caillou


Neo-Hellenic

From neo- + Hellenic.
For the proper noun, translation of the endonym νεοελληνική f (neoellinikí, “neo-Hellenic”, adjective), by ellipsis of the noun γλώσσα f (glóssa, “language”) for Modern Greek, ellipsis of Modern Greek language.

see also: koine Neo-Hellenic (Standard Modern Greek)


Godoberi

A North Caucasian language spoken in southwestern Daghestan.


Tindi

A North Caucasian language spoken in the Tsumada region of Daghestan.


Karata

A North Caucasian language spoken in south-west Daghestan.


Texpat

Blend of Texas + expat; compare Mexpat, which reverses origin and residence.

But The Brooklyn Inn did not choose the beer out of nostalgia for Texas or to cater to a Texpat clientele.

2014 May 31, Adam Chandler, “Texas Beer Finds Home in the Heart of New York”, in New York Times:

A Texan (native or former resident of Texas), now living elsewhere.


Nyimang

The Nilo-Saharan language of these people.


Gretta

"Gretta tells me you're not going to take a cab back to Monkstown tonight, Gabriel," said Aunt Kate.
"No," said Gabriel, turning to his wife, "we had quite enough of that last year, hadn't we? Don't you remember, Aunt Kate, what a cold Gretta got out of it? Cab windows rattling all the way, and the east wind blowing in after we passed Merrion. Very jolly it was. Gretta caught a dreadful cold."

1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC:

Mrs Saunders referred to Aoife throughout this talk as 'Eva' and when Gretta corrected her, Mrs Saunders replied that didn't Gretta think it would be better 'for everyone' to use what she termed 'the proper spelling' of the name? If only to give Eva a better chance of learning to write it?

2013, Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave, Tinder Press, →ISBN, page 79:


Brexit

Blend of Britain + exit, formed by analogy with Grexit.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest attested use is on 15 May 2012 in a Euractiv blog post by Peter Wilding titled “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, formed by analogy with Grexit, coined on 6 February 2012.

Unless a clear view is pushed that Britain must lead in Europe at the very least to achieve the completion of the single market then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit.

2012 May 15, Peter Wilding, “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, in EurActiv, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The business community began to take the idea of Brexit seriously. Three major American banks, the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, revealed they were working on contingency plans to relocate from London to Dublin […]

2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 6:

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the early hours when results from Newcastle and Sunderland showed better than expected returns for the Brexit camp. A surprise victory for a Brexit in Swansea, which was expected to vote to Remain, did little to dampen concerns despite Scotland overwhelmingly backing staying in the Union.

2016 June 24, Kate McCann, “EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns after UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The pensions of British Eurocrats are shaping up to be one of the most politically poisonous points in the UK’s Brexit talks, as the EU and London prepare to clash over liabilities running to several billion euros.

2016 August 1, Alex Barker, Jim Brunsden, “Eurocrats’ pensions shape up to be flashpoint in Brexit talks”, in The Financial Times, London:

We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit.

2017 June 19, Michel Barnier, “Brexit Negotiations: David Davis says ‘Promising Start’ Made”, in BBC News:

[Donald] Tusk said: “Our agreement will not make trade between the UK and the EU frictionless or smoother. It will make it more complicated and costly than today, for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.”

2018 March 7, Daniel Boffey, Jennifer Rankin, “EU scorns UK’s ‘pick and mix’ approach to trade post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, London:

Meanwhile, The Sunday Times revealed that civil servants had warned of a “Doomsday Brexit” if no agreement is reached, creating shortages of medicine, fuel and food.

2018 June 5, “Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong”, in The Independent, London:

“It’s all incredibly unhelpful and what we need to do now is to get closer with our European partners and work out what a realistic, pragmatic Brexit is that works for both sides, the EU and ourselves.”

2018 June 23, “Brexit: Theresa May ‘not bluffing’ in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says”, in The Independent, London:

A further referendum is not just a way for voters to decide whether to incur the economic and social cost of a final Brexit deal.

2019 March 5, David Miliband, “As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one”, in The Guardian:

The EESC also considers that the €5.4 billion reserve will not be sufficient to mitigate the negative effects of Brexit and asks the co-legislators to increase the proposed ceiling.

2021 November, Christiaan van Lierop, European Parliamentary Research Service:

Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc’s asylum scheme.

2021 December 2, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling”, in Euronews, sourced from AFP:

Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:

Even the BBC, long prevaricating on the issue, has started properly reporting the Brexit catastrophe, particularly its impact on the cost of living, NHS staff shortages and projections of weak future economic growth.

2023 February 2, Andrew Adonis, “Sooner or later, re-entry to the customs union and single market is inevitable”, in Prospect:

Biden’s irritation with London’s inability to solve its “Irish question” after Brexit has also played a role.

2023 August 7, Jo Harper, “UK–US: What’s happened to their free trade deal?”, in Deutsche Welle:

The mayor of London has urged EU citizens to “choose London” over other European cities, promising to make the UK capital a better place to live and work despite Brexit.

2023 October 6, Heather Stewart, “‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The Brexit referendum seemingly heralded such a moment but other than the negative sentiment of leave, the more positive agenda of what to do with the UK’s newfound status has been found wanting.

2023 November 3, Tim Olivier, “Brexit: a critical juncture in the UK’s international relations?”, in UK in a Changing Europe:

The Brits have been uniquely incompetent in wallowing in narcissistic irrelevance ever since the Brexit vote. They’ve refused to admit that the only path forward for them is a crippling deal with the United States that will give them access to the NAFTA system but at the cost of any kind of economic sovereignty.

2023 November 23, Peter Zeihan, “Ireland Needs a New Game Plan || Peter Zeihan”, in Zeihan on Geopolitics, sourced from YouTube, 2:55–3:14:

Brussels has warned the UK that it must fully apply the existing Brexit deals on EU citizens and Northern Ireland before it will entertain a reset in the relationship with London.

2024 August 1, Lisa O'Carroll, “UK must apply existing Brexit deals before any reset in relations, says EU”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), sourced from The Guardian:

(UK politics) Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

بِرِكْزِت

withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU

イギリスの欧州連合離脱

イギリスのおうしゅうれんごうりだつ

خروج بریتانیا از اتحادیه اروپا

xoruj-e beritâniyâ az ettehâdiye-ye orupâ


Eastern Euro

Eastern European
Eastern European#English


Absurdistan

From absurd + -stan, originally to refer deprecatingly to countries in the former Eastern Bloc, alluding to names such as Turkmenistan, Afghanistan etc.

(informal, humorous, derogatory) Any country where absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government.


Britishman

Pope made tea rhyme with obey, as indeed many an Irishman and Britishman would now. We are liable to fall into the use of provincial expressions by reason of such discrepancies.

On seeing Gandhi ji, a Britishman got furious. He called the Railway officer, and both ordered him to get out of the train.

c. 2010-2016', Yoginder Gupta, Balagokulam Guide (page E-17)


Pamphylian

A little-attested and isolated dialect of Ancient Greek once spoken in Pamphylia.


Berean

From Berea + -an. Protestants adopted the name in reference to the Bible, Acts 17: "These [Berea] were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so."

(historical) A member of an 18th-century Scottish Protestant sect who derived all knowledge of God from the Bible.


Odessite

A native or inhabitant of Odessa, a city in Ukraine.


Judeo-Tat

An Iranian language, very closely related to Persian, spoken by the Mountain Jews


Shitler

(informal, vulgar, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Adolf Hitler


Tyan

TYAN: My name is Tyan, my lord. KNIGHT: How old are you? TYAN: Fourteen, my lord. KNIGHT: And is it true that you have been in league with the Devil? Tyan nods quietly and looks away.

1973, Lloyd J. Hubenka, Reloy Garcia, The Design of Drama: An Introduction, page 549:

Toward the end of the gathering they announced that they had found a suitable husband, Tyan. From another clan, his family was not rich in deer but had a moderate herd. Tyan himself was well known as a skilled hunter.

1998, Gail Fondahl, Gaining Ground?: Evenkis, Land and Reform in Southeastern Siberia, page 22:

Lord Meteroa, younger brother of the late King Tyan, once but no longer a prince, sat slumped in a chair in Queen Lystra's bedroom.

2010, Stephen Deas, The King of the Crags:


Tris

A diminutive of the male given name Tristram or Tristan.


Tris

“This is Tris Prior. Her brother, Caleb. And their friend Susan Black.” “Prior,” she says. “I know of several Priors, but none of them are named Tris. Beatrice, however..."

2012, Veronica Roth, Insurgent, eclub40, →ISBN:

I said, 'Are you Isabel or Tris?'

2009, Gregg Hurwitz, We Know, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

I'm Tris. Patricia.' She was back to her hair, eyes crammed to the side, snapping off dry split ends and flicking them to the floor.

A diminutive of the female given name Patricia or Beatrice.


Vlad

Common Romanian male given name, sometimes used as a short form of Vladimir, but more commonly a hypocorism of Vladislav. It is also found as Czech and Slovak surname.


Old Polish

A historical form of the Polish language, spoken between the 9th and 16th centuries.


Oaklander

A native or inhabitant of Oakland, California.


Raday

Borrowed from Bahnar Rađe or Eastern Mnong Rađê.


Bunuban

Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aboriginal

A small family of endangered Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia.


Rade

The Austronesian language of the Chamic branch spoken by the Rade people.


Worrorran

A family of closely-related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia


Kyrylo

From Ukrainian Кири́ло (Kyrýlo), from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos). Cognate with English Cyril.

Кири́ло Кирило#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Кири́ло (Kyrýlo).


Nyulnyulan

A family of non-Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal prefixing languages spoken in the north of Western Australia.


Nausicaa

/nɔːˈsɪkeɪə/

From Latin Nausicaa, from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

(rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek


Aasax

Another article on Afroasiatic deals with Southern Cushitic Aasax. It is by Jürgen Christoph Winter who is practically the only man who has been able to collect some significant data on this language which is most probably extinct now.

1981, Monographic Journals of the Near East: Afroasiatic linguistics:

For example, Aasax, a Southern Cushitic language, which used to be spoken by a hunter gatherer group who once lived in northern Tanzania (the last Aasax speaker died in 1967, according to Winter 1979) is now extinct […]

1996, Margaret Akinyi Obondo, From Trilinguals to Bilinguals?, page 27:

The language (often considered to be Southern Cushitic) formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania.


Butskellism

Blend of Butler + Gaitskell + -ism, after Rab Butler, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer 1951–55, and his Labour predecessor Hugh Gaitskell 1950–51.

The next few weeks will show whether the Opposition will seize this chance of golden silence; or whether, in a Brown fury, it is going to throw the opportunity for constructive Butskellism away.

And then there was a sort of sensation at the door and in came Margaret Thatcher. Rab’s shell crackled and contracted a little, as he tried to look flattered by the attention of his new leader: she whose whole purpose it was to cram Butskellism as harshly as possible into the WPB of history.

1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:

Camerairism reflects a structural change more profound than Butskellism ever did.

2005 October 20, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian:

(UK politics, now historical) A centrist economic policy obtaining in post-war Britain, upheld by both Conservative and Labour Chancellors.


WPB

Workers Party of Britain
w:Workers Party of Britain

(UK politics) Initialism of Workers Party of Britain.


eszett

From German Eszett, from the names of the letters S and Z which make up its blackletter form.

In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds.

1997, Matthew Piepenburg, Time and the Maiden, →ISBN, page 62:

The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.


Chaz

From Chas.; Originally an abbreviation of Charles.

A diminutive of the male given name Charles.

A diminutive of the female given name Charlotte.


Altairian

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Altair.


Hainanese

I needed an interpreter in only one interview, that with an elderly Hainanese from Kompong-Trach.

1970, William E. Willmott, The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia, Athlone Press, page v:

The inhabitants of the island of Hainan.


Hainanese

Mr. MELROSE, though engaged in the study of the Hainanese language, has found time to open and give daily supervision to a Boy's School.

1892, Report of the American Presbyterian Mission in Canton, China for the Year 1891, Canton, page 48:

It is not easy to decide from which dialect of Chinese some of the loanwords derive, and this may explain why Philip Leo does not list any as coming from Hainanese nor Tiociu.

1984, NUSA: Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, volume 19, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:

A group of Min Chinese dialects spoken on the island of Hainan.


Aymaran

en-adj

Aymaran (comparative more Aymaran, superlative most Aymaran)

more Aymaran (comparative)
most Aymaran (superlative)

Of or relating to the Aymara people or their language.


sharp s

A minor but convenient feature is the ability to include words with accent marks (Umlauts, sharp s’s) (ß) into the text. The accent entry utility provides a quick and useful way of adding diacritical marks or sharp s’s in German) (ß) into the text.

That there are sudden and unexplained changes of typeface (on p. 121) or that Greek betas appear in lieu of German sharp s’s could be construed as small oversights.

The beginning of each chapter has been silently regularized (e.g., “REligion” becomes “Religion”), as have words with tildes (e.g., “burthe^~” becomes “burthen” and “woma^~” becomes “woman”) and sharp s’s (e.g., “amißa” becomes “amissa”).

2004, ““Women, their mindes are crystall”: Christopher Newstead’s Arguments for the Superiority of Women”, in Susan Gushee O’Malley, editor, “Custome Is an Idiot”: Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women, Urbana, Ill., Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, pages 116–117:


Sand Papago

(historical) A group of Native Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwestern Mexico, who are today known as the Hia C-ed O'odham; closely related to the Tohono O'odham.


Welsh not

(historical) A piece of wood or similar object used to discourage the speaking of Welsh in schools. Any child overheard speaking Welsh was given the "not", and the child who had it at the end of the day would be punished.


Lagosian

A native or inhabitant of Lagos in Nigeria.


Torey

‘Her name was Diana. Did I tell you that? What's your name again?’
‘Torey.’
‘Oh yeah. I forgot. That's a weird name. Where'd you get a weird name like that at?’
‘It's from Victoria.’

1983, Torey Hayden, chapter 3, in Silent Boy, HarperCollins Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page 30:

A diminutive of the female given name Victoria.


Scargillian

Scargillian (comparative more Scargillian, superlative most Scargillian)

more Scargillian (comparative)
most Scargillian (superlative)

Of or relating to Arthur Scargill (born 1938), British politician and trade unionist.


Sinte Romani

The German-influenced Romani language spoken by about 300,000 Sinti and Roma in Germany, Austria, France and neighboring areas.


Khaleesi

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin. From the title of a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels; popularised by the later television adaptation Game of Thrones. Borrowed from Dothraki khaleesi (“queen”), feminine of khal (“king”).

bor+

Born just 16 minutes after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s baby was born, 26-year-old Julie Walsh, of Little Walsingham, gave birth to Khaleesi Grace Walsh, who weighed 7lb and 2oz.

2013 July 24, Andrew Papworth, “King’s Lynn mums-to-be kept up to date with Royal birth”, in Eastern Daily Press, archived from the original on 2024-07-29:

Clark was seen off by his wife, Vanessa, and their 20-month-old daughter, Khaleesi.

2014, Gary Cooper, "Sustainers will hit ground running in Kuwait, thanks to ADVON", The Gold Standard (Fort Knox, Kentucky), Volume 3, Number 11, 17 April 2014, page A12

The minivan erupted in flames with Lang and her 6-month-old daughter, Khaleesi Lang, inside.

2014 September 2, Cole Waterman, “Trial dates set for Midland mom accused of causing drunken crash with baby in vehicle”, in The Bay City Times, archived from the original on 2024-07-29:

But among the anger on social media, was speculation about how parents of the hundreds of Khaleesis and Danys were feeling now. The Daily Beast quoted one parent of a Khaleesi as saying she was “in shock”, while The Cut spoke to another who said “I don’t think she did anything wrong”.

2019 May 14, Kate Lyons, “Latest Game of Thrones episode sends curveball to children named Khaleesi”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2024-07-29:

A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage.

en:A Song of Ice and Fire
en:Game of Thrones


Kaitlynn

A female given name from Irish, one of the modern spelling variants of Caitlin.


Daenerys

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin. From the name of a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels; popularised by the later television adaptation Game of Thrones. Borrowed from High Valyrian Daenerys.

The New Yorker related how a couple at one of Martin's book signing asked the writer to pose for a photograph with their daughter Daenerys, named after the dragon maiden Daenerys Targaryen.

2013 March 22, Tom de Castella, “Game of Thrones: Why does it inspire such devotion among fans?”, in BBC News:

Daenerys Crosbie was being taken to her Montessori school by her mum Carole-Anne when her pram was hit by the truck in Waterford.

2014, Wayne O'Connor, "Mum 'inconsolable' as toddler (2) dies after truck strikes pram", The Herald (Ireland), 19 November 2014

She [Gina Glocksen] married bandmate Joe Ruzicka in 2008, and she now has a 1-year-old daughter, Daenerys.

2015 June 25, Elissa Chudwin, “'Idol' alum Glocksen rocks Tinley Park”, in The Tinley Junction, volume 8, number 13, page 20:

A female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage


Nandi

(uncountable) A subgroup of the Kalenjin ethnic group of East Africa, traditionally living in the highland areas of the Nandi Hills in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya.


Nandi

The Nilotic language spoken by this group.


Riverian

en-adj

Riverian (comparative more Riverian, superlative most Riverian)

more Riverian (comparative)
most Riverian (superlative)

Of or relating to Rivers State in Nigeria.


Riverian

For industry watchers, Kamatan needed no greater testimony than Sekibo's and Odili's for his administration of the council as Executive Chairman, knowing the great bond between these two Riverians.

2005, Business & Maritime West Africa, volume 3, number 2:

A native or inhabitant of Rivers State in Nigeria.


Khalil

Borrowed from Arabic خَلِيل (ḵalīl, “friend”).


Khalid

From Arabic خَالِد (ḵālid, “immortal; glorious; eternal”).


Ceutan

Someone from Ceuta or of Ceutan descent.


West African

A West African person; one who comes from or lives in West Africa.


Bissau-Guinean

A person from Guinea-Bissau or of Bissau-Guinean descent.


Melillan

Someone from Melilla or of Melillan descent.


Joaquin

A male given name from Spanish, an anglicized spelling of Spanish Joaquín.


Huberta

A rare feminine form of Hubert (via Latin, or in some cases borrowed from Dutch or German).

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Iaai

A Malayo-Polynesian language of Ouvéa Island in New Caledonia.


deadname

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From dead + name, because the old name is dead (“no longer used”). Attested since at least 2010 as a noun and 2013 as a verb by the OED.

And when people constantly refer to you as your deadname [a name that you previously went by], or use the incorrect pronouns, it really is like getting slapped with a wet fish.

2014, Natalia Moorin, “My Illness Is Not Your Inspiration”, in Damsel, University of Western Australia, page 21:

One of the articles in our last issue contained a major error: we referred to a transgender student by their deadname.

2018 February 27, Amy O'Kruk, “Apology to readers”, in Western Gazette, Western University, page 2:

“My deadname is everywhere because of my ID card, and not only do I have to look at it but lots of other people get to see. […]

2018, Alex McFadden, quoted in Noni Cole & Ruby Perryman, "The Unfair University ID Card", Farrago (University of Melbourne), Edition Three (2018), page 7

(neologism, especially LGBT) A previous name of a person (especially a transgender person) who has since changed their name.


Sudhakar

From Sanskrit सुधाकर (sudhākara, “the moon”).

A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Sudha

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Uthman

Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)


Saleh

From Iranian Persian صالح (sâleh), from Arabic صَالِح (ṣāliḥ); the prophet's name literally means "pious."


Abu Bakr

Transliteration of Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr, literally “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”).


Restoration

(history of UK) The events of 1660 when English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were restored under Charles II.

(history of UK) The era of Restoration (1660 to 1685) under Charles II, or to 1688 when James II was king.

(history of France) The restoring of the Bourbon Dynasty in 1814.

(history of Japan) The restoring of imperial rule in Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.


Santal

Borrowed from Bengali সাঁওতাল (śãōtal, “Santal”).

A member of an aboriginal ethnic group living in what is now the eastern states of India, and Bangladesh and Nepal. They are a Munda people speaking the Santali language.


Raghu

A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.


Coco

en-proper-noun

Coco (countable and uncountable, plural Cocos)

From the Italian Coco, a surname derived from Sicilian cocu (“cook”).


Annapurna

A female given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.


Ravi

Borrowed from Sanskrit रवि (ravi, “the sun or the sun-god.”).


Kye

Possibly a modern phonetic rendering of Kai, or a short form of Kyle and Kyler.

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Atleti

(informal, soccer) Atlético Madrid, a soccer team from Madrid


are you blind

rhetorical question
rhetorical question#English

(sarcastic) A rhetorical question to someone who has failed to see or notice something.


head

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(rhetorical question, colloquial, sarcastic) A comment used to indicate that a previous comment is irrelevant or unimportant.

what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?


smush name

When my friend Danielle (there's THAT name again) was pregnant with her oldest daughter we came across a book (of which I forget the title) which actually advocated smush names. One of the more...ahem...interesting names I remember is Shetom. It was a smush of Sheila and Thomas.

2010, Danielle Reed, Emily, Jacob and Boniqua: What NOT to Name Your Child, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 17:

She looked up at them, half-expecting paparazzi to leap from the very walls to take photos, to give the couple a smush name that would undoubtedly be the key in making the new media darlings.

2014, Grace McDermott, Mirrorfall, Wibbly Press (2014), unnumbered page

They yell, “Sup, Shage,” when we walk past; we're a smush name now.

2015, Ann Aguirre, The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things, Feiwei and Friends, →ISBN, page 243:

Brangelina and Snamione are smush names.

(informal) A portmanteau name created by blending two different names, especially one used to collectively describe a celebrity couple or fandom ship.


Genevieve

Borrowed from French Geneviève (patron saint of Paris), from Latin Genovefa, Genoveva, possibly either of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“kin, family”) + *wībą (“woman, wife”), or of Celtic origin, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *genos (“family, clan”).

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But I like it when Stella calls me Genevieve, because though I'm Jenny to everyone else, always have been since I was born, I was christened Genevieve. My dad called me after a vintage car in a film, if you can credit it, and to most people it's a bit embarrassing, but the way Stella says it it's got a pretty sound.

1995, Barbara Vine, The Brimstone Wedding, Thorndike Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 9:

Her name was Genevieve. A classy name and she was a classy woman or had been, not long ago;

2014, Joyce Carol Oates, Carthage, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 422:


Nǀuu

Hanna Koper and her two sisters are thought to be the last remaining speakers of the San language N|uu, rated as critically endangered by Unesco.

A dialect of the Nǁng language spoken in South Africa, sometimes also used for the language as a whole.


o caudata

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

lbor

For quotations using this term, see Citations:o caudata.

(rare) A form of the letter o modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ǫ⟩, used in Old Norse.


Fintan

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the father of Cethern.

A male given name from Irish mainly used in Ireland.


Flansy

(informal) American musician John Flansburgh.


Renuka

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Danu

The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.


Danu

Learned borrowing from Old Irish, from a reconstructed nominative form of the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand).
In particular, Danann is attested in the term Tuatha Dé Danann, which is typically translated "tribe of Danu" but used as the collective name for certain Irish gods (or, more prosaically, the people of a particular wave of immigration to Ireland, in the traditional history).
The etymology is controversial and has been debated since the 19th century. Some scholars identify Danu with the goddess Anu, perhaps as a contraction of día Anu ("goddess Anu").

This [battle] appears in Celtic history as that in which the Tuatha dè Danann, the tribes of the goddess Danu fought and conquered the Fir Bolg on Midsummer's Day.

1897, The Westminster Review, Volume 148: July-December 1897, page 17:

The old poets thought that the tribes of the goddess Danu were of a perfect beauty, and the creators of beautiful people and beautiful arts.

1897, W. B. Yeats, “The Tribes of Danu”, in The New Review, Volume 17: July-December 1897, William Heinemann, page 550:

1987, Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Ireland's Fairies, C. Smythe, page 52,
She may be the same as Danu, or she may be the same as the Morrigu.

(Irish mythology) A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.


Lata

A female given name commonly used in India.


Kosraean

A language spoken in the Pacific, in the island of Kosrae and the Caroline Islands. It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and belongs to the Micronesian group.


Vegetius

/vɪˈdʒɛtɪəs/

A male given name from Latin — famously held by:

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl. late 4th C.), Late Latin writer on military matters and veterinary medicine


Lavanya

From Sanskrit लावण्य (lāvaṇya, “beauty”).


Manglish

A mixture of the Maltese and English languages.


Jaelynn

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Themistius

/θɛˈmɪstɪəs/

/θɪˈmɪstɪəs/

From the Latin Themistius, from the Ancient Greek Θεμίστιος (Themístios).

A male given name from Ancient Greek — famously held by:

Themistius Euphrades (AD 317–388), Roman statesman, rhetorician, and philosopher


Kalpana

Borrowed from Sanskrit कल्पना (kalpanā).


Pretorian

en-adj

Pretorian (comparative more Pretorian, superlative most Pretorian)

more Pretorian (comparative)
most Pretorian (superlative)

Of, from, or pertaining to Pretoria, South Africa.


Cochimi

The extinct language spoken by these people.


Picardian

A native or inhabitant of Picardy in France.


Tetelcingo Nahuatl

A Nahuatl language spoken in Tetelcingo, Mexico.


novodamus

(Scots law, historical) In Scottish feudal land law, a fresh grant of lands to the grantee, usually to make some change in the incidents of tenure of land already granted, or to resolve doubts about the grant or its terms.