Cullane

Anglicized from the Irish Irish Coilean, from Irish coileán (“pup, youth, trickster”), Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”), possibly of non-Indo-European origin.


Piacentine

From Piacenza + -ine, after Italian piacentino.


The Kingfish

After George "Kingfish" Stevens, character from American radio sitcom Amos 'n' Andy

(US, historical) byname of Huey Pierce Long


Nemo

Audio (US)

The "clownfish" meaning comes from the film Finding Nemo, where Nemo is a clownfish.

A diminutive of the male given name Geronimo


Tapachultec

An extinct Mixe language of Chiapas, Mexico.


Tapachulteca

Alternative form of Tapachultec (“language”)


Aranama

(historical) A Native American people formerly living along the San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers of present-day Texas, near the Gulf Coast.


Aranama

The extinct language of these people, possibly a Coahuiltecan language.


Tepecano

An extinct Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico.


Anatolian Turkish

Whereas these various Turkish-speaking peoples use languages which closely resemble modern Anatolian Turkish, they have their own distinct historical tradition.

1942, John Parker, Charles Smith, Modern Turkey, page 16:

Turkmen is a southwestern Turkic language related to Osmanli and modern Anatolian Turkish (the Turkish of Turkey) and to Azerbaidzhani.

1956, Handbook of Central Asia, volume 1, page 302:

[...] with demonstrative elements distributed along a single dimension , may be exemplified by the system of deictic pronouns existing in modern Anatolian Turkish. Turkish makes a three-way distinction between bu, şu, and o.

1997, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, numbers 3–5, page 223:

Turkish ancient (14th-19th c.) and modern, Anatolian Turkish, Turkish of Turkey, Osmanli (Osm.), Ottoman at some authors

2007, László Rásonyi, Onomasticon Turcicum, part 1, page lxxxv:


Crantor

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κράντωρ (Krántōr), from κράντωρ (krántōr), agent noun of κραίνω (kraínō, “accomplish, fulfil”).

bor+

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Crantor of Soli.


Juul

A male given name from Danish or Norwegian.


Titanese

(science fiction) The language spoken on Titan.


Hyperborean

Alternative letter-case form of hyperborean


Muvian

"Naacal" and "Ra" are words from Muvian that mean "king" and "the sun".

The alleged language used by the inhabitants of Mu.


Polemon

Borrowed from Latin Polemōn, Polemō, from Ancient Greek Πολέμων (Polémōn), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war, battle”) + -ων (-ōn, possessive name suffix).

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by various ancient philosophers.


Djabugay

A group of Australian Aboriginal people in Far North Queensland

The language spoken by the Djabugay people


Marj

Alternative form of Marge, a diminutive of various female given names including Margaret and Marjorie.


Onika

Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, born 1982


Common Turkic

A taxon of the Turkic languages that includes all of them except the Oghuric languages.


Tabetha

A female given name, variant of Tabitha.


Irkutskian

Today's Irkutskians are rather better behaved, although mafia-related crime is on the increase. A city of over half a million, Irkutsk is still one of the largest suppliers of furs to the world markets, although engineering is now the main industry.

1994 April, Bryn Thomas, Trans-Siberian Handbook, 3rd edition, Hindhead: Trailblazer Publications, →ISBN, pages 162–163:

A native or inhabitant of Irkutsk, Russia.


Dezzy

A diminutive of the male given name Desmond.


Ramzan

Borrowed from Hindustani रमज़ान (ramzān) / رمضان (ramzān) / Bengali রমজান (romzan) and other South Asian languages, from Classical Persian رمضان (ramazān), from Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān).


Prudy

A diminutive of the female given name Prudence.


Rowenna

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Bishkeker

Issyk-Kul's health resorts now seem a dying breed, although they still fill up with Bishkekers and local tourists in the hot months. Of at least 115 shoreline sanatoria before 1991, only a handful (mostly around Cholpon-Ata) remain open; best known is the immense Issyk-Kul Sanatorium near Cholpon-Ata.

1996 June, John King, John Noble, Andrew Humphreys, “Kyrgyzstan: Laky Issyk-Kul & the Central Tian Shan”, in Central Asia: A Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit), Hawthorn, Victoria: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 377:

For many long-term Bishkekers, the claim of the ‘incomers’ (priezhie) to the city is a contested one. […] Many Bishkekers were angry that, for the second time in recent memory, state buildings had been ransacked or set on fire […] and that they would have to foot the bill.

2010 May 13, Madeleine Reeves, “The Latest Revolution”, in London Review of Books, volume 32, number 9:

As the Scythians mounted up, Kate spotted Patime Akhun in the crowd with a group of Women in Black who had been some of the first Bishkekers to join the protests. / “Patime,” Kate shouted, catching her attention. “Get in the truck.”

2017, Matthew Palmer, Enemy of the Good, New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 375:

Kumis is best sampled fresh in a yurt. Even modern Bishkekers come to kumis-drinking retreats in Song Köl Lake or Suusamyr Valley. Coincidently, the name of the Kyrgyz capital city probably derives from the word bishkek — the wooden barrel in which kumis is made.

2020 January 19, Karolina Wiercigroch, “Photo gallery: dining with nomads in Kyrgyzstan”, in National Geographic:

A native or inhabitant of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.


Geevarghese

Borrowed from Malayalam ഗീവർഗീസ് (gīvaṟgīsŭ), probably from Classical Syriac ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ (gēwargis).

The defendant's creditor was the partnership and not the deceased Geevarghese.

1927, The Travancore Law Journal, page 127:

'Come on, sing, you blighter,' coaxed Appan, looking tenderly at the silent Geevarghese. 'Don't be afraid. I'm not your father now, I'm your P.T. master.'

1992, Geeta Dharmarajan, Katha Prize Stories, Katha, →ISBN, page 139:

Like Milton's Satan, Jabbar has dwindled and dimished in stature and St. George, known among Kerala Christians as the Saint Geevarghese, slays a puny and pathetic dragon. However, this refusal of Jabbar to acknowledge Geevarghese is highly revealing.

2015 October 30, M.T. Ansari, Islam and Nationalism in India: South Indian contexts, Routledge, →ISBN:

A male given name from Malayalam, equivalent to English George


Annapolitan

A native or resident of Annapolis Royal.


Kaytetye

An Australian Aboriginal people who live around Barrow Creek and Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.


Humza

From Urdu حمزہ (hamza), from Arabic حمزة (hamza).


Oisin

A male given name from Irish, variant of Ossian.


Averianna

From Avery + Anna, akin to Marianna (interpreted as Mary + Anna).

A female given name originating as a coinage


Otuke

An extinct language of the Macro-Jê family, related to Bororo, formerly spoken in part of eastern Bolivia.


Bishkekian

The chief of the oblast UVD [administration of internal affairs]—People’s Deputy M. Abdyldayev—is a native Bishkekian, and several chiefs of oblast administrations come from Narynsk and Chu Oblasts, and so on.

1994 March 2, Zhumagul Saadanbekov, quotee, “Saadanbekov Details Political Views, Activities [SLOVO KYRGYZSTANA 25 Dec]”, in FBIS Report: Central Eurasia, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, FBIS-USR-94-019, pages 69–70:

In this article, I want to move beyond dissecting the nostalgic discourses of loss and deprivation among established Bishkekians (Bishkekchany) or simply juxtaposing these with the opposite claims of rural newcomers about their well-deserved belonging to this city.

2017, Philipp Schröder, “Avoidance and appropriation in Bishkek: dealing with time, space and urbanity in Kyrgyzstan's capital”, in Philipp Schröder, editor, Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page 75:


Tashkenter

One young Osh Uzbek man traveled to Tashkent in 2004 and met residents there who were eager to tell their stories of hardship to him, an outsider. A Tashkenter said he could not buy shoes or schoolbooks for his children, and another exclaimed, “At least you Oshliks [Osh residents] have Akaev, thank God, and economic freedom.”

2012, Morgan Y. Liu, “Conclusion: Central Asian Visions of Societal Renewal”, in Under Solomon's Throne: Uzbek Visions of Renewal in Osh, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 194:

A native or inhabitant of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.


Inuktun

A language spoken by some indigenous Inughuit people of northwestern Greenland.


Shawanda

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


Vishnupriya

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


Virgie

A diminutive of the female given name Virginia


Ksenia

Ксения Ксения#Bulgarian

A transliteration of the Bulgarian female given name Ксения (Ksenija).

Ксения Ксения#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Ксения (Ksenija).

A transliteration of the Serbo-Croatian female given name Ксенија.

Ксенія Ксенія#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Ксенія (Ksenija).


Omahan

A native or resident of Omaha in Nebraska.


Ohian

It was enjoyed by Institute members not Ohians and it was profitable to the Ohio members.

1920, G. A. Hunton, Iowa Homeopathic Journal, volumes 14-15, page 68:

For instance, New Englanders smile less than Ohians and Ohians less than people of similar backgrounds from Atlanta or Nashville.

1973, Doris Cook Sutterley, Gloria Ferraro Donnelly, Perspectives in Human Development, page 112:


Ohian

en-adj

Ohian (comparative more Ohian, superlative most Ohian)

more Ohian (comparative)
most Ohian (superlative)


homeworlder

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the homeworld.


Banaban

Perhaps most damaging is the impact the mining had on te bangabanga. Banabans have historically been able to survive droughts due to the natural ability of the caves to capture and store water.

2021 June 8, Joshua Mcdonald, “The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba”, in The Guardian:

A native or inhabitant of Banaba, Kiribati.


Rosalynn

A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosaline.


Rosy

A diminutive of the female given name Rose and other related names, variant of Rosie.


Rosey

A diminutive of the male given name Roosevelt.


Rowldemort

Big ups to Rick Riordan for being a good one. Disappointing that Rowldemort continues to not listen.

2020 June 6, Crow, in Autumn Clad(@unlimitedBLACK), Twitter:

People want to morally justify putting money in Rowldemort's pockets.

2022 December 29, @The_Terroirist, Twitter:

Like seriously, you're being silenced? Then why the fuck do I keep hearing from your ass, huh? Conjure me up an answer to that one, Rowldemort.

2023 April 14, Kilroy A. L. Mioruilt (@superiordriger), Twitter:

(slang, derogatory) J. K. Rowling viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.


Kirmancki

A dialect of Zazaki, spoken in Dersim, Erzincan and Erzurum.


Jarred

A male given name from Biblical or Hebrew, variant of Jared


Govian

Govian (comparative more Govian, superlative most Govian)

more Govian (comparative)
most Govian (superlative)

Polly Toynbee is spot on in her excoriation of Govian Gradgrindery. The inevitable marginalisation of the supposedly "soft" arts subjects in the state sector is a scandal.

2013 November 7, Ian Barge, “Children must learn to question, not simply obey”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics) Relating to British politician Michael Gove (1967–).


Elno

Humorous alteration of Elon, possibly to deter namesearching.

I fact checked Elno in a Birdwatch on his own $44 billion dollar site over his inability to understand GraphQL queries.

2022 November 11, Brianna Wu (@briannawu@mstdn.social), Mastodon:

I blocked Elno back in Nov and haven't seen a 🐦 from him since.

2023 February 14, SallyBlack (@toastygirl@mastodon.online), Mastodon:

Elno is driving regular people off of twitter.

2023 April 16, AudreyOnTheGo (@AudreyOnTheGo@mstdn.social), Mastodon:

(derogatory or humorous) A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.


She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Coined as an ironic reference to the nickname "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" used by characters who fear speaking Lord Voldemort's name within Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Depending on who you ask, JK Rowling is either a heroine of free speech or She Who Must Not Be Named.

2021 July 28, Charlotte Runcie, “JK Rowling is more than just a Twitter talking point”, in The Telegraph:

Witchcraft and wizardry have been the subject of fascination for centuries—just look at the success of a certain magical franchise written by She Who Must Not Be Named.

2022, Josie Anne Gaitens, “Witch Hunt”, in Reykjavík Grapevine, number 5, page 30:

I used to worship She Who Must Not Be Named of Harry Potter before she started using her platform to peddle a bunch of harmful garbage.

2022 December 20, Prerana Srikantappa, quoting Robbie Crouch, “Robbie Crouch”, in Vulkan, page 83:

(slang, derogatory) The author J. K. Rowling, when viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.

Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Lord Voldemort


Space Karen

Coined with reference to Musk's company SpaceX and the pejorative sense of Karen (“a person exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement”).

By the way, journalists shouldn't use Twitter DMs either. They're not safe. Especially with Space Karen in charge.

2022 November 11, Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@mastodon.social), Mastodon:

A stream of insults aimed at new Twitter boss Elon Musk has been projected onto the company’s San Francisco headquarters after workers were locked out of their offices. Insults included “supreme parasite”, “mediocre manchild”, “worthless billionaire” and “space karen”, according to footage posted online.

[2022 November 18, Anthony Cuthbertson, “Elon Musk ‘space karen’ insult projected onto deserted Twitter HQ”, in The Independent, London:

Watching Space Karen burn Twitter down is actually quite funny 😂

2022 December 16, MrMajestikness (@MrMajestikness@mastodon.social), Mastodon:

it’s one of the key reasons I left the night Space Karen took over.

2023 February 1, Jason Allen (@JAllen@mstdn.social), Mastodon:

WALLACE: Kara, your boy, Elon Musk, made a lot of news,
SWISHER: Not my boy.
WALLACE: Hit me with your best shot.
SWISHER: Well, I’m trying to think of something that. So that Space Karen doesn’t sue me. So, let me say he’s troubled.

2023 December 2, The Chris Wallace Show, spoken by Kara Swisher, via CNN:

Over on the ever-lovely PC Pro podcast […] we refer to him as “Space Karen”. But despite what you might think of Mr Musk, it’s clear that he has assembled teams of extremely capable engineers in the various companies that he runs.

[2024 June, Jon Honeyball, “Nailing down which device had gone rogue was the sort of wasted morning that consumes many coffee beans”, in PC Pro, page 113:

(derogatory) A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.


Phony Stark

Blend of phony (“fraudulent or fake”) + Tony Stark, referencing the fictional business magnate, inventor, and playboy from the Marvel franchise.

blend

so, yeah, five years on and people on Twitter just kinda endured the Nazis, but now Phony Stark might just tank the whole thing anyway.

2022 November 10, Muhammad (@muhammad@mastodon.social), Mastodon:

Phony Stark seems to want to drive Twitter off a cliff for whatever reason.

2023 February 6, Simon Zerafa (@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange), Mastodon:

I'm not mad at anything Phony Stark does to Twitter. I am mad (or at least dumbfounded) at respectable professionals still using that service, though.

2023 April 5, Leon Cowle (@leoncowle@hachyderm.io), Mastodon:

“As always,” Elon patronised, “please try to stay as close to the truth as possible, even for stuff you don’t like.” Likewise, Phony Stark. Likewise.

2023 October 10, Marina Hyde, “Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it”, in The Guardian:


Black Tulip

black+tulip. Calque of Russian Чёрный тюльпан (Čórnyj tjulʹpan). From the use of the aircraft as a means to repatriate corpses of fallen soldiers. From the use of black tulips and other flowers to border obituaries. Originating as a nickname used by Soviet aircrews of the repatriation transport missions during the Afghan War, and popularized by Alexander Rezenbaum in a popular Soviet song, before migrating into English.

calque

Чёрный тюльпан

(military, aviation) Synonym of Antonov An-12 (“Soviet-era turboprop cargoplane”)


birdsite

From bird + site, referencing Twitter's blue bird logo.

It's a bit more familiar for people moving from "the birdsite," as Mastodon users often call Twitter.

2022 November 14, Stephen Shankland, “I Want to Like Mastodon. The Decentralized Network Isn't Making That Easy”, in CNET:

“I am having a hard time letting go of the birdsite but I was raised by an alcoholic so I understand what a trauma bond is,” the political journalist Ana Marie Cox wrote on journa.host on Nov. 20.

2022 November 21, Joseph Bernstein, “Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative”, in The New York Times:

Always remember where you are when you're posting. It's easy to fall into bad habits, especially after spending years on the birdsite, also known as Twitter.

2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister, Mastodon for Dummies, page 75:

(Internet slang) The social networking and microblogging platform Twitter.


Tiny

A township in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

Dickenson County
Dickenson County#English

An unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States.


saucerman

To convince Sam Arkoff to put House of Usher — a film devoid of atomic mutants, bug-eyed saucermen, werewolves, vampires and other poster-friendly manifestations of the fifties' sci-fi boom — into production, Roger Corman had famously informed the joint head of American International that the house was the monster.

2003, Denis Meikle, Vincent Price: The Art of Fear, London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, →ISBN, page 76:

(science fiction) Someone who travels in a flying saucer.


Banlam

Borrowed from Hokkien 閩南／闽南 (Bân-lâm, “Hokkien”).

Synonym of Taiwanese (“variant of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan”).


Shakira

A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Shakir.


Bridgit

A female given name, variant of Bridget.


Destinee

A female given name, variant of Destiny.


Proto-Tagalic

(rare) A proposed common ancestor of Tagalog and its dialects.


Pharrell

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


Colbie

A female given name, feminine form of Colby.


Adamandia

A female given name from Greek, variant of Adamantia.


Mandia

A diminutive of the female given name Adamandia, from Greek.


Auric

en-proper noun

Auric (countable and uncountable, plural Aurics)


Notis

Transliteration of Greek Νότης (Nótis), diminutive of Παναγιώτης (Panagiótis) (see also Panagiotis).

“The mass movement of millions of people is not a solution,” said Greece’s migration minister, Notis Mitarachi, emphasising the need for emergency aid to be sent to Turkey and Syria “before this happens”.

2023 February 26, Helena Smith, “Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes”, in The Guardian:

Νότης Νότης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name diminutive Νότης (Nótis).


Scexit

Blend of Scotland + exit, by analogy with Brexit.

As Brexit becomes a settled fact of life, it will still be a cause of remainer grievance. But it could also fuel reluctance to go through the same trauma all over again as “Scexit”. […] The message that Scexit would be even worse than Brexit can still be delivered, just not by Johnson himself.

2021 February 9, Rafael Behr, “Sturgeon and Johnson have made Scottish independence seem inevitable. It isn't”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The (possible) act of Scotland becoming independent from the United Kingdom.


Guernseywoman

A woman from Guernsey; a female native or inhabitant of Guernsey.


Northern Cypriot

en-noun

Northern Cypriot (plural Northern Cypriots)


Yoyo

* (female given name): From the propensity of female Chinese given names to reduplicate a syllable, resulting in a reduplicated syllable in the coining of an English given name not originating as a Chinese name.

(Hong Kong, Singapore) A female given name


Ladasha

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


/tttt/

A reference to the purported over-representation of trans women among users of the board.

(Internet slang) The 4chan imageboard /lgbt/.


Ewenic

A language family of Northeast Asia, a branch of Tungusic.


Udegheic

A small language family spoken in far eastern Russia, a branch of Tungusic.


Sonsorolese

A Micronesian language of Palau, closely related to Tobian, originally spoken on the islands composing the state of Sonsorol, and spreading through migration elsewhere in the country.


Maurissa

Maurissa Tancharoen, b. 1975


Pardhan

A dialect of Gondi spoken by these people.


Cuitlatec

The extinct language isolate of these people.


Chelsy

A female given name transferred from the place name


Bukid

An Austronesian language spoken by indigenous peoples of Northern Mindanao in the southern Philippines.


Lunarite

From Lunar (“pertaining to Luna”) + -ite.

Although his achievements were not numerous, he was able to hammer out a successful trade agreement with the Moon. The Lunarites were certainly pleased that their rich mining resources, needed by the Earth, were traded practically straight across for the air and water which they so desperately needed.

1993, Linda Hall, The Josiah Files, Nashville, T.N.: Thomas Nelson Publishers, →ISBN, page 132:

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


Mayim

Popularized by U.S. actress Mayim Bialik, Bialik's name originated as a Contraction of Maryam (diminutive of Maryam), her grandmother's name. It has been reinterpreted as deriving from Hebrew מים (“water”).

A diminutive of the female given name Maryam

A female given name
A female given name from Hebrew


planetman

Compound of planet + man, modelled after countryman.

One does not disturb a dreamer. It would be dangerous for both your planetman and the dreamer herself.

1976, Andre Norton, “Get Out of My Dream”, in Perilous Dreams, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, Inc., page 130:

(science fiction, now rare) Someone from one's own planet.


Lunite

"Our situation," Lamar remarked, "is similar to that which a Lunite might have encountered had he visited New England in 1690. Any wretch who claimed ancestry among the people of the moon in those days, would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake without mercy."

1933 February, Julian Kendig, Jr., “The Eternal Mask”, in Amazing Stories, volume 7, number 11, page 1036, column 2:

(science fiction, now rare) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


Adelma

A female given name, feminine form of Adelmar


Fidelma

A Latinization of Middle Irish Fedelm, altered under the influence of Latin fidēs (“faith”).


Alandra

A female given name, variant of Alexandra


Loonie

"I used to hate Loonies. All Odans do. But in my opinion, only the Jupiters and generals and Committee members are truly awful. The rest of you are . . . tolerable. And you? Definitely more than tolerable."

2015, Karen Bao, Dove Arising, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 309:

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth's Moon.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) Relating to the Tau Ceti system or its people.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Tau Ceti system.


Tau Cetian

(science fiction) The fictional language spoken in the Tau Ceti system.


Q'eqchi'

One of the Mayan languages of the Quichean branch.


Lunix

Blend of Linux + lunatic or perhaps loon.

(informal, dysphemistic) Linux, an operating system originally patterned after Unix and which gave rise to Google's Android operating system.


Slowaris

Blend of slow + Solaris, suggesting slow performance.

Linux faithful mock Solaris with the adolescent nickname "Slowaris," but I challenge critics to find one instance among the innumerable huge-scale Solaris deployments where decision makers are considering a switch to Linux for speed's sake.

2006, InfoWorld, volume 28, number 38, page 24:

(informal, dysphemistic) Solaris, a Unix-based operating system earlier known as SunOS and now developed by Oracle Corporation.


Bipasha

Transliteration of Bengali বিপাশা (bipaśa).


Isnag

An Austronesian ethnic group native to Apayao Province in the Philippines' Cordillera Administrative Region.


Pilagá

A Guaicuruan language spoken in the Bermejo and Pilcomayo River valleys, western Formosa Province, in northeastern Argentina.


religion of peace

From the literal meaning of Islam in Arabic, which signifies peace.

All this from the religion of peace that the Left is so happy to defend. These thugs and murders have no respect for any kind of life.

2005 August 13, Curt, “Yet ANOTHER example from the religion of Peace.”, in or.politics (Usenet):

What became of the kidnapped US soldiers in Iraq? See for yourselves and behold the religion of peace.

2006 July 11, Z, “Al-Qaeda video of pfc Tucker & pfc Menchaca released”, in us.politics (Usenet):

Until the leader of the faith step up their efforts to make peace, the religion of peace is not peaceful.

2007 August 4, Jeff Strickland, “(OT:) Islam: The Religion of Peace”, in alt.autos.toyota (Usenet):

The religion of peace strikes again! Can we say that Afghanistan is a good example of sound muslim leadership and governance of a country?

2021 August 13, hermeneutika, “welcome to the religion of peace!”, in uk.religion.christian (Usenet):

(Internet slang, derogatory, ironic) Islam, seen as encouraging its followers to commit acts of violence and terrorism.


Amaziah

From Hebrew אֲמַצְיָהוּ.

der

Hebrew אֲמַצְיָהוּ

(biblical) A male given name from Hebrew


Gunchester

″You hear people firing off guns all the time,″ she said. ″That’s why they call it Gunchester. I just thought some poor bugger’s got it again, and went on sudsing my hair.″

1993 November 15, Shawn Pogatchnik, “‘Gunchester’: A Dead Son and Shooting in the Street With AM-Guns Invade Britain, Bjt”, in Associated Press:

The chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has said that the city has finally shrugged off its notorious Gunchester image thanks to their intensive efforts to combat gangs.

2011 April 11, Helen Carter, “Farewell to Gunchester”, in The Guardian:

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, gang violence increased, which earned the area [Moss Side] the nickname of "gunchester".

2018 August 13, Imran Rahman-Jones, “Moss Side: A history of the Manchester neighbourhood”, in BBC:

Manchester earned its name Gunchester in the 1980s and 1990s but violence came to a head when Benji Stanley, 14, was shot dead at a takeaway.

2021 March 21, Emily Retter, “Inside 'Gunchester': The brutal blowtorch-armed gangs running riot in Manchester”, in Daily Star:

(UK, informal, derogatory) The English city of Manchester, particularly Moss Side, referring to the city's historical high gun crime rate.


order paper

(Commonwealth) the daily agenda of a Westminster system legislature


Corporation

In one respect at least the Corporation acts as the superior body: it imposes on the House of Commons a figure called the remembrancer: an official lobbyist who sits behind the Speaker's chair and ensures that, whatever our elected representatives might think, the City's rights and privileges are protected.

2011 October 31, George Monbiot, “The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London is ripe for protest”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

City of London Corporation
City of London Corporation#English

(UK politics) Ellipsis of City of London Corporation.


Portillista

Yet despite that pedigree, he describes himself as "essentially a Portillista" – liberal on social affairs, centre-right on economics.

2001 October 3, Matthew Tempest, “New Labour's power-dressed future”, in The Guardian:

If Sunak is highly regarded by his colleagues, he does not have a dedicated group of supporters in Parliament: there is no Sunakian equivalent of the Portillistas, the Brownites, or the Friends of Dave.

2020, Michael Ashcroft, Going for Broke: The Rise of Rishi Sunak, London: Biteback Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:

(UK politics) A political supporter of Michael Portillo (born 1953), British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician.


Sunakian

en-adj

Sunakian (comparative more Sunakian, superlative most Sunakian)

more Sunakian (comparative)
most Sunakian (superlative)

With the markets duly placated by Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement, some senior Tories even began to worry that Sunakian stability and fiscal orthodoxy would be too boring a platform on which to face Labour at the next election.

2022 December 7, “The Guardian view on Sunak and the strikes: misreading the mood of the nation”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) Of or pertaining to Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.


Humpy

(sometimes derogatory, sometimes endearing) A nickname for someone with a deformity

A nickname
A nickname for someone with a deformity

(humorous) A nickname for someone who is very sexually active.


Illia

From Ukrainian Ілля́ (Illjá). Compare Russian Илья́ (Ilʹjá) and Belarusian Ілья́ (Ilʹjá).

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Ілля́ (Illjá)


autolinguonym

/ˌɔː.təʊˈlɪŋ.ɡwə.nɪm/

"Gaelg" is the autolinguonym of Manx.

A language name of endonymic (native) origin, created and used by native speakers as designations for their language.


planetsider

Todd knew billions of planetsiders were watching, most of Earth. What would they make of this? They had to take the threat seriously. Pat had to make them understand—as he hadn't made them imderstand the true significance of the alien messenger.

1981, Juanita Coulson, Tomorrow's Heritage, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, page 349:

Her chest was hurting already — no star-traveller had the stamina to outrun a planetsider—and she knew she could not keep up her pace for much longer.

1985, Melissa Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 307:

The passers-by were mostly planetsiders, some so recent you could see they had trouble handling low-G movement.

1989, Larry Niven, Man-Kzin Wars II, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 216:

"So youre not a planetsider." Raine laughed. "A dirtgrubber? Of course not. I'm from the Habitat. Gryphon torus."

2011, Garth Nix, A Confusion of Princes, London: HarperCollins Children's Books, →ISBN, page 209:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on a planet.


groundsider

Near the main airlock she foimd Tregare arguing loudly with persons she had never seen—groundsiders here, she thought.

1976, F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Rissa Kerguelen, Berkley Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 67:

Coming back groundside, you always felt the dissociation. They shouldn't have brought him all the way back here; they should have left him out at a Jupiter station, or somewhere his own kind were. These groundsiders were the real aliens. He couldn't make any connections with contemporary Earth—this wasn't the America he remembered.

1988, Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Outpassage, New York, N.Y.: Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 7:

Trinli paused a second, holding his place with one hand while his whole body quivered with the need for crampons and ropes, and pitons driven solid into the walls around him. Lord. It had been a long time since his groundsider orientation had come back this strongly. He moved forward. Forward. Not up.

1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 109:

The server was cute, and I wondered how she got here, because her physique was groundsider, even more than mine. She had a wedge do with blond highlights and was cheerful without being icky.

2016, Michael Z. Williamson, Angeleyes, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 118:

(science fiction) Someone who lives on the ground (as opposed to space).


landsider

What else but the quest for knowledge would tempt a sane person away from a comfortable home? What else would persuade a landsider to take to the ocean, except the chance of getting to meet more strangers in a shorter time?

1983, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 103:

He wanted to stop at Petra's bunk and tell her about his home, about what his birthdays were usually like, just tell her it was his birthday so she'd say something about it being a happy one. But nobody told birthdays. It was childish. It was what landsiders did.

1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, London: Century Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

We'll be going out with the tide, with an extra five knot of current running where the river is usually slowest. I just thought you might be in a hurry to move at this end, what with the way your friends are keeping out of sight down with the codfish smell. The way I hear tell, you landsider don't favor fish odor too much.

1987, Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues, New York, N.Y.: Roc Books, →ISBN, page 82:

Not a man I'd trust alone with her, you understand. Not a man I trust entirely on anything—too involved with the landsiders, the traders, the political people.

1988, Thomas T[hurston] Thomas, An Honorable Defense, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 108:

It is easy for the landsider to forget that seafarers came in many disguises. We tend to think of officers and ratings — deck sailors. We might, if pricked, think about the engine room crew — who with the onset of oil, then diesel, just kept on shrinking per ship.

1993, Tim Madge, Long Voyage Home: True Stories From Britain's Twilight Maritime Years, London […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 146:

(chiefly science fiction or fantasy) Someone who lives on land (as opposed to the sea or space).


Choying

Choying Drolma, b. 1972

छोइङ छोइङ#Tibetan

A transliteration of the Tibetan female given name छोइङ.


Panaetius

Borrowed from Latin Panaetius, from Ancient Greek Παναίτιος (Panaítios).

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Panaetius, an Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher of the Hellenistic period.


Demyan

(surname): Borrowed from Ukrainian Дем’ян (Demʺjan).

bor+

A transliteration of a Russian male given name.


Sassy

A diminutive of the female given name Saskia.


Daph

Daph (Shailene Woodley) is, in the words of the song, torn between two lovers. […] But at a party Daph meets two unfeasibly handsome guys who are best friends and totally into her: soulful intellectual Jack (Jamie Dornan) and moody bad boy Frank (Sebastian Stan).

2020 August 6, Peter Bradshaw, “Endings, Beginnings review – seriously middling”, in The Guardian:

A diminutive of the female given name Daphne.


Laith

A male given name transferred from the surname

A female given name transferred from the surname


Sacramentan

A native or inhabitant of Sacramento, California, United States.


Ainuic

A proposed language family spoken in Hokkaido (and historically Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands), consisting of the Ainu languages.


Shreveporter

A native or inhabitant of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States.


Rochesterian

A native or inhabitant of Rochester, New York, United States.


Twopenny Tube

(obsolete, informal) The London Underground


Taniya

A female given name from Russian, variant of Tanya or Tania


Brazzavillian

en-adj

Brazzavillian (comparative more Brazzavillian, superlative most Brazzavillian)

more Brazzavillian (comparative)
most Brazzavillian (superlative)

Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo

Of or relating to the city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo.


Abd al-Masih

Transliteration of Arabic عَبْد الْمَسِيح (ʕabd al-masīḥ, literally “servant of the Messiah”).

transliteration

عَبْد الْمَسِيح

عَبْد الْمَسِيح
عبد المسيح#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic male given name عَبْد الْمَسِيح (ʕabd al-masīḥ)


Chey

A diminutive of the female given name Cheyenne.


Cece

A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.


Abd-ol-Masih

Transliteration of Iranian Persian عبدالمسیح ('abd-ol-masih), from Classical Persian عبدالمسیح ('abd-ul-masīh), Arabic عَبْد الْمَسِيح (ʕabd al-masīḥ, literally “servant of the Messiah”).

der

عَبْد الْمَسِيح

عبدالمسیح عبدالمسیح#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name عبدالمسیح ('abd-ol-masih)


Camunic

An extinct language spoken in the 1st millennium BC in the Valcamonica and the Valtellina in Northern Italy, both in the Central Alps.


Guinea-Bissauan

Copious amounts of palm oil, tomatoes, chili, fish, and goat’s meat are considered traditional staples in Guinea-Bissauan cooking.

2009, Jamie Stokes, editor, Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, Facts On File, Inc., Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 270:

These events and the silences and taboos surrounding them helped create the conditions for the longevity of the ‘linha de Cabral’ or ‘Cabral’s programme’ as a key reference of the erstwhile liberation movement and Guinea-Bissauan politics in general until the late 1990s.

2012, Philip J. Havik, “Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth”, in Eric Morier-Genoud, editor, Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, Leiden, S.H., Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 52:

Cabral and Pereira looked to unify both nations until Cabral’s prime minister, the former commander of the Guinea-Bissauan armed forces, João Bernardo Vieira, led a military coup against Cabral in 1980 on the grounds that Cabral’s Cape Verdean origins (like his brother, Amílcar, he was born in Bissau to Cape Verdean mixed-race parents) compromised his dedication to the Guinea-Bissauan people.

2021, Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva, editors, Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 22:


Teflon Don

On June 23, 1992, Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the "Teflon Don" after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering.

2020 June 22, “Mafia boss John Gotti, aka "Teflon Don," sentenced to life”, in History.com:


nawmean

(informal, rhetorical question) Do you know what I mean?


Kimmie

A diminutive of the female given names Kimberly or Kimberley.


Shottingham

(UK, informal, derogatory) The city of Nottingham, England in reference to its historical high gun crime rate.


Hopey McChange

From hope + -y + Mc- + change, in reference to Obama's political campaigning; see Barack Obama "Hope" poster and compare hopeium.

Is that why Hopey McChange had a beer with Biden, that professor and that cop?

2010 November 11, theget, “o/t - Is George W Bush a Racist?”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet):

First it was "my father served in WWII", now an enormous error in mixing up the dead with the living Medal of Honor Recipients. How do you suppose the magic President Hopey McChange, with the mind of a computer can make all these errors?

2011 June 26, Sorbo, “AP Goes All Orwell in Covering Obama Apology for MOH Gaffe It Originally Ignored”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

But Hopey McChange just asked for more money to give to people who are below water.

2012 February 8, theget, “OT The Good Example”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory) A nickname for former US president Barack Obama.


Provoan

A native or resident of the city of Provo, Utah, United States.


Provoan

en-adj

Provoan (comparative more Provoan, superlative most Provoan)

more Provoan (comparative)
most Provoan (superlative)

Of or relating to the city of Provo, Utah, United States.


Ishkashimi

An Iranian language spoken predominantly in the Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan and in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan.


Arlesian

With few exceptions, such as the Roulin family, he was treated with suspicion. The Arlesians considered him to be a pervert, and children ridiculed him for his odd appearance and disconcerting habit of hanging around brothels in the evenings.

2004, Derek Fell, Van Gogh's Women: His Love Affair and His Journey into Madness, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN, page 123:

Someone who lives in or is from the city of Arles, France.


Djon

A male given name from the Indigenous Australian languages, equivalent to English John


Ngaree

A female given name from the Indigenous Australian languages


Auroran

(Philippines) An inhabitant from Aurora province.


Lucenahin

From Tagalog Lucenahin, from Lucena + -hin.

A native or inhabitant of Lucena, Quezon.


Infantahin

Borrowed from Tagalog Infantahin, from Infanta + -hin.

A native or inhabitant of Infanta, Quezon.


Aurorahin

From Tagalog Aurorahin, from Aurora + -hin.

(Philippines) A native or inhabitant of San Francisco, Quezon.


Aurorahin

(Philippines) Of, or pertaining to San Francisco, Quezon.


Sampalukin

From Tagalog Sampalukin, from Sampaloc + -in.

(Philippines) A native or inhabitant of Sampaloc, Quezon.


Cobra

Boris Johnson was accused on Saturday of being “missing in action” after failing to attend a Cobra meeting to discuss the national heatwave emergency following predictions that thousands could die in the coming days.

2022 July 16, Mark Townsend, James Tapper, “Johnson skips emergency Cobra meeting as experts warn thousands may die in UK heatwave”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

In the UK, a Cobra security meeting was called and in Estonia, which neighbours Russia, the prime minister, Kaja Kallas, said there was strengthened security on the border.

2023 June 24, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, “Putin accuses Wagner chief of treason and vows to ‘neutralise’ uprising”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of COBRA


Mogum

An Afroasiatic language spoken in south central Chad.


Gumuz

The Nilo-Saharan language of these people.


Duwayne

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


Matlatzinca

The Oto-Pamean language of these people.


Isinai

A Northern Luzon language primarily spoken in Nueva Vizcaya province in the northern Philippines.


Iraya

A language spoken by Mangyans in the province of Mindoro in the Philippines.


Cayubaba

A moribund language of the Bolivian Amazon.


does the Pope wear a funny hat

Rhetorical question
rhetorical question#English

(idiomatic, humorous) Obviously! Rhetorical question in response to a question where the answer is an emphatic yes.


Plebbit

quoted in 2020, John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Go look at plebbit [reddit], they're fucking hysterical. Screaming for forced vaccinations.


Gur

A language family, a subfamily of Niger-Congo, spoken in the Sahel and the African savanna


Orkxit

Blend of Orkney + exit. Modelled after Brexit, Grexit, Quexit, etc.

You've heard of Brexit, maybe even Scexit - now the UK might have to prepare for Orkxit. ¶ The Orkney Islands, which lie 20 miles north of the Scottish mainland, have voted to explore "alternative governance" which could include leaving the UK and returning to its Scandic roots with Norway.

2023 July 4, Gina Davidson, “Orkney votes to explore ways to leave UK”, in LBC:

This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.

2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist:

There’s a move in the islands to secede from Britain and join Norway or even Denmark — an Orkxit to follow Brexit.

2023 July 21, “Dinner Party Intel: Gray Lady blows the final whistle”, in Financial Mail:

(UK politics, neologism) The potential transfer of the Orkney Islands from the United Kingdom and Scotland to Norway, reversing its annexation by Scotland in 1472.


securonomics

From secure + -o- + -nomics, introduced in 2023 by British politician Rachel Reeves.

She [Rachel Reeves] told the FT her ‘securonomics’ had to be based on ‘the rock of fiscal responsibility’ and that Britain was at risk of being ‘sidelined’ unless it accepted that the rules of the global economy had changed.

2023 May 24, “Reeves makes case for UK version of ‘Bidenomics’”, in Financial Times, page 1:

It’s to be funded by taxing private schools, although whether Reeves’s “securonomics” has the capacity to respond to what teachers want more broadly, is another matter.

2023 July 7-13, Andrew Marr, “Politics: In an era of political fatalism, Labour must use its education plan to inspire hope”, in New Statesman, volume 152, page 14:

supply-side economics
supply-side economics

(UK politics, economics) A modern form of supply-side economics inspired by US president Joe Biden's economic policy, particularly his Inflation Reduction Act, and based on the belief that globalisation has failed to achieve its stated aims.


Sirayaic

A language family spoken in southwest Taiwan, a branch of East Formosan.


Joby

A diminutive of the male given name Joseph.


Dear Leader

Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s so-called Dear Leader, did not survive the year that opened with the Arab Spring.

2011 December 18, Evan Osnos, “Kim Jong-il is Dead”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-30:

North Korea has long been known for its love of titles for its leaders. Mr. Kim's grandfather, the nation's founder, was known as the Great Leader; his son, the Dear Leader. The country seems not yet to have decided on the same kind of moniker for Mr. Kim — settling for workaday titles like marshal of the military.

2013 October 25, Choe Sang-hun, “Following Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un Gets Title From University: Dr. Leader”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

"The teachers would say: 'Do you know where the milk came from? It came from the Dear Leader. Because of his love and consideration, we are drinking milk today,' " said Lee, looking every bit a South Korean with her dyed hair and trendy sweater.

2015 January 16, Anna Fifield, quoting Lee [pseudonym], “North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-25:

A title adopted by Kim Jong Il, the supreme leader of North Korea from 1994–2011.


Haylor

Though their relationship was brief, Haylor was all anyone who was chronically online during the era of One Direction could talk about for the four months these two were dating.

2023 July 8, Naydeline Mejia, “Taylor Swift And All Of Her Ex-Boyfriends' Body Language, Explained”, in Women's Health:

(slang) The couple consisting of English singer-songwriter Harry Styles and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, together briefly in 2012.


Konso

A Cushitic language of southwest Ethiopia.


Burji

A Cushitic language spoken in southern Ethiopia.


Omotik

An endangered Nilotic language of Kenya.


High Valyrian

Coined by American writer and television producer George R. R. Martin. First referenced in his 1996 fantasy novel A Game of Thrones. Developed into a usable conlang by David J. Peterson.

coin

The HBO series Games of Thrones, which premiered in 2011, has included the languages of Dothraki and High Valyrian, both created by David Peterson.

2015, Douglas Ball, “Constructed languages”, in Rodney H. Jones, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity, pages 148–149:

Though two language courses (High Valyrian and Klingon) are constructed languages from popular TV series (Game of Thrones and Star Trek, respectively), there are reportedly more than 100,000 learners doing the High Valyrian course.

2017, David M. Palfreyman, “Learner Autonomy and Groups”, in Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas, page 79:

The use of High Valyrian mirrors the use of Latin both in the medieval Christian church and as a common language used among the educated elite.

2019, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones, page 113:

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language developed for use in the television series Game of Thrones.

A Game of Thrones
David J. Peterson
Valyrian languages


Yami

Coined by Torii Ryūzō in 1897. Compare Japanese 闇(やみ) (yami).

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Tao people.


Charmin

A female given name, variant of Charmian.


Inji

A female given name from Arabic used in Egypt.


Chekhov

Borrowed from Russian Че́хов (Čéxov, literally “Czech”).

bor+

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Chekhova


Konstadina

Transliteration of Greek Κωνσταντίνα (Konstantína), a female given name used in Greece.

Κωνσταντίνα Κωνσταντίνα#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek female given name Κωνσταντίνα (Konstantína).


Konstantinos

Transliteration of Greek Κωνσταντίνος (Konstantínos), a male given name used in Greece. Doublet of Constantine.

bor

Κωνσταντίνος

Κωνσταντίνος Κωνσταντίνος#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Κωνσταντίνος (Konstantínos).


Heloise

From Medieval Latin Heloisa under influence from French Héloïse, probably from French Éloi + -se (“-ess: feminizing nouns”), from Medieval Latin Eligius, chiefly after Saint Eligius, from Latin ēligere (“to pick, to choose from”) + -ius (“-y: forming adjectives and names”). Sometimes alternatively derived from Proto-Germanic reconstructed as *Hailawidiz, from *hailagaz (“holy”) or *hailaz (“whole, healthful”) and *widuz (“wood, forest”). As an English name, chiefly after Peter Abelard's beloved nun Heloise. Doublet of Eloise.

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Heloise
Heloise (disambiguation)
Peter Abelard
Saint Eligius


Korku

A Munda language spoken in central India.


Nottaway

A member of an Iroquoian Native American tribe in Virginia.


Hatran

en-adj

Hatran (comparative more Hatran, superlative most Hatran)

more Hatran (comparative)
most Hatran (superlative)

Of or pertaining to the culture of Hatra, the capital of the small kingdom of Araba.


Hatran

a native or inhabitant of Hatra, the capital of the small kingdom of Araba.


Hatran

The extinct dialect of Middle Aramaic spoken in Hatra and Assur from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century CE..


Lelaina

For example, late in the movie, Michael and Troy end up on an empty street outside a club after offering Lelaina two conflicting futures: remain a struggling artist with Troy by her side, or sell her documentary to In Your Face with Michael.

2019 March 6, Soraya Roberts, “Reality Bites Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony”, in The Atlantic:


Laryssa

A female given name, variant of Larissa.


Kravis

Megan described Kravis’s vibe to Glamour, saying, “They’re magnetic. So nobody’s really interacting with them too much, because they’re just stuck. They’re stuck together like this.[…]”

2022 April 27, Mehera Bonner, “Megan Fox Explains Why She and MGK Don’t Have Many Double Dates With Kravis”, in Cosmopolitan:

(slang) The couple consisting of American musician Travis Barker and American media personality Kourtney Kardashian, married in 2022.


Lutos

A Central Sudanic language of Chad and the Central African Republic.


Turoyo

A Neo-Aramaic language of Mardin, Turkey and Al-Hasakah, Syria.


Gavak

A Papuan language of Madang, Papua New Guinea


Hajong

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh and in the Assam, Manipur, and Tripura states of India.


Hatrene

Hatrene (comparative more Hatrene, superlative most Hatrene)

more Hatrene (comparative)
most Hatrene (superlative)


Gold Coaster

An inhabitant or resident of the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

A steel rollercoaster at Dreamworld, Gold Coast.


Spanish Sign Language

A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas.


Young Englander

en-noun

Young Englander (plural Young Englanders)

In a related but more obviously nostalgic way the Young Englanders looked back to an earlier England: Disraeli lamented in his 1845 novel Sybil, or the Two Nations, that “there is no community in England” and proposed the medievalising of the aristocracy as a solution.

2015, David Matthews, Medievalism: A Critical History, →ISBN, page 56:

(historical, UK politics) A member of Young England, a group of neofeudalist 19th-century Tories.


corn law

(historical, UK politics) One of the tariffs and protectionist regulations on imported grain and other foodstuffs enforced in the United Kingdom from 1815 until their abolition in 1846.


Canandaiguan

en-adj

Canandaiguan (comparative more Canandaiguan, superlative most Canandaiguan)

more Canandaiguan (comparative)
most Canandaiguan (superlative)

Of or relating to Canandaigua, New York, United States.


Canandaiguan

Life was always getting better. But there were some things that Canandaiguans did not want changed. One of these—a source of pride among Canandaiguans—was the physical beauty of the village.

1990, William H. Siles, “Wilderness Investment: The New York Frontier During the Federal Period”, in Stephen L. Schechter, Wendell Tripp, editors, World of the Founders: New York Communities in the Federal Period, Albany, NY: New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, →ISBN, page 152:

A native or inhabitant of Canandaigua, New York, United States.


Paulohi

A nearly extinct Austronesian language spoken on Seram Island in eastern Indonesia.


Snap

Others pointed to messages on Snap, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with doctored clips of “news reports” saying that voting was rigged where they lived and said, Why even bother voting?

2020, Theresa Payton, Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

Do you have snap? That at least has voice messages we could trade without trading numbers..ya know, in case im a psycho

2021, David Sharpe, Gentlemen’s Guide to Flirting, →ISBN:

“What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.

2022, Lee Call, The Angel Room, J Emrys Press, →ISBN:

“What’s your Snap handle? We should become friends.”

2023, Isa Watson, Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life, BenBella Books, →ISBN:

That nutter Teo keeps sending me messages on Snap asking if you’re at ours??

2023, Jyoti Patel, The Things That We Lost, #Merky Books, →ISBN:


Snap

The Snapstreak increases when you and your friend send a Snap to each other within a 24-hour period for three consecutive days.

2019 August 6, Becky Pemberton, “Snapchat streaks: How to get back a lost streak and how to report a problem”, in The Sun:

(social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

“Can we exchange info or something? Maybe we can meet up tomorrow.” “Sure, my Snap is NoWaySims.” “That sounds like a fake account,” Ty said.

2022, Kasie West, Places We’ve Never Been, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 97:

“I’m in. I’m in. We’ll have a lot to coordinate here, so what’s your Snap?” Brady pulled out his phone and waited on my reply. “Yeah, I don’t have Snapchat. I’ll just give you my number.”

2023, Mike Thayer, The Talent Thief, Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN:

(social media, colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).


Snap

en-verb

Snap (third-person singular simple present Snaps, present participle Snapping, simple past and past participle Snapped)

Snaps (present singular third-person)
Snapping (participle present)
Snapped (participle past)
Snapped (past)

“Snap Clark again, Bea,” Madeline said. “Hopefully he’ll send another bathing suit pic.” / Bea smoothed her hair down and sat up straight on the diving board. She sucked in her cheeks, making her lips all pouty, and took a selfie. For someone who didn’t know how to use Snapchat half an hour ago, she was really getting into it. / Two seconds later she held up her phone. “He Snapped back.”

2020 October, Eileen Moskowitz-Palma, School Squad (The Popularity Pact; 2), New York, N.Y.: Running Press Kids, →ISBN:

I said I forgot what good taste he had in music and that I really liked House. He said he did too and ask^([sic]) me if I was on Snapchat? I said I used to be and that I could add it again. The instant I did he Snapped me and said he could really use a good back massage.

2022, Leo Neet, 1000 Secrets, a Million Lies: Confessions of a Sex Addict, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 45:

Damien wants to add me on Snapchat and write to me about all the ice cream he’s eaten this evening, which I should have taken as a sign we would never meet. We briefly discuss getting together but send each other dirty pics instead. […] One evening Damien gets excited and says, I’m going to send you a newd (a brand new one!), and then texts the same one he Snapped three weeks ago, a black-and-white artsy number with weed smoke trailing above his privates like ribbon dancers at a music festival.

2024, Suzanne Samples, Thirteen Tunnels, [Los Angeles, Calif.]: Running Wild Press, →ISBN:

(social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.


testamenti factio

From Latin testāmentī factiō (“right of participating in a will”).

bor

(Scots law) The legal capacity to make a will (under Scots law, anyone may be a beneficiary under a testator’s settlement).


Marprelate

(often attributive) A pseudonym used in the later 16th century by a satirist, or group of satirists, who attacked the Anglican episcopacy.


Fwe

A Bantu language spoken along the Okavango River in the Zambezi region of Namibia and in the Western Province in Zambia.


Gafat

The extinct South Ethiopic language of these people.


Chitimachan

en-adj

Chitimachan (comparative more Chitimachan, superlative most Chitimachan)

more Chitimachan (comparative)
most Chitimachan (superlative)


Trinidad and Tobagonian

The ambulatory effect of particular reception provisions has, however, been applied in the Trinidad and Tobagonian case of Mohamed v. Mohamed where the Court held that the applicable English rules were those “in force at the time the (Court) order was made.”

1984, Rudolph William James, Harold A. Lutchman, Law and the Political Environment in Guyana, Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana, page 16:

Yet, two prime features of the Trinidad and Tobagonian political system produce different outcomes in terms of governance and ethnic tensions.

2007, Hebe Verrest, Home-Based Economic Activities and Caribbean Urban Livelihoods: Vulnerability, Ambition and Impact in Paramaribo and Port of Spain, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

As discussed below, exit examination practice plays a major part of the Trinidad and Tobagonian educational system.

2013, Daniel Ness, Chia-Ling Lin, editors, International Education: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems, Routledge, published 2015, →ISBN:

Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago#English

Of, from or relating to Trinidad and Tobago.


Trinidad and Tobagonian

en-noun

Trinidad and Tobagonian (plural Trinidad and Tobagonians)

Of the estimated 648,615 English-speaking Caribbean immigrants living in the United States in 1990, 320,809 lived in New York state (Irish and Murphy n.d.). Of these an average of 8.5 percent were unemployed nationwide, and 8.7 percent were unemployed in New York. Barbadians were below these average figures, and Trinidad and Tobagonians were above them.

2001, Holger Henke, The West Indian Americans, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47:

Trinidad and Tobagonians have migrated mostly to the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.

2007, Hebe Verrest, Home-Based Economic Activities and Caribbean Urban Livelihoods: Vulnerability, Ambition and Impact in Paramaribo and Port of Spain, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 72:

Trinidad and Tobagonians in: / New York State [Children] 22.1% [Families] 13.1% / The U.S. [Children] 20.2% [Families] 12.7%

2013, Gladstone F. Greene, Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control: An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Economic Dependence, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 62:

Enhancing the Caribbean family’s resources and capacity to adjust to their adapted home is their Labor Force Participation Rate. For example, males from Jamaica have a Labor Force Participation Rate of 81.3% and females 85.7%, Guyanese males have a rate of 84.2% and females 71.3%, while the Trinidad and Tobagonians have an 82.3% male and 82.3% female rate (US Census Bureau, 2009).

2013, Annette Mahoney, Lear Matthews, “Caribbean Immigrant Families: Transnational Identity”, in Lear Matthews, editor, English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants: Transnational Identities, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 97:

Just steps away from where travelers will board their aircraft for the twenty-five-minute flight to Trinidad, the poster is located along one of the well-traveled circuits of potential Signature customers: wealthy, cosmopolitan, and country-proud Trinidad-and-Tobagonians.

2015, Rebecca Prentice, Thiefing a Chance: Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN:

David Rudder’s “Hosay” forces Trinidad and Tobagonians to accept the reality of gun violence that they have long denied: “now Trini know what is Uzi diplomacy.”

2017, Louis Regis, ““Who Going to Guard These Guards?” The Treatment of the Military in the Calypso”, in Shalini Puri, Lara Putnam, editors, Caribbean Military Encounters (New Caribbean Studies), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 322:

Afro-Trinidad and Tobagonians are descended from enslaved Africans brought to the country by various colonists, including the Spanish, French, and British.

2019, Charity Butcher, The Handbook of Cross-Border Ethnic and Religious Affinities, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 20:

A native or inhabitant of Trinidad and Tobago.


Pessi

All they need is one crumb of ammunition and they'll go for miles. Such is how the nickname "Pessi" was born. As fans on Twitter look for any possible way to reduce Messi's incredible career to a punchline, they've come up with a reductive way to pretend that he's not one of the best players to ever step on a football pitch.

[2022 December 19, Kyle Bonn, “Why Lionel Messi is called Pessi”, in The Sporting News:


Aushiri

An extinct Zaparoan language formerly spoken in Peru.


vicious intromission

vicious intromission (countable and uncountable, plural vicious intromissions)

(Scots law) The unauthorized assumption of ownership, or other interference with the rights of an estate.


Newfoundland and Labradorian

Newfoundland and Labradorian (plural Newfoundland and Labradorians)

Newfoundland and Labradorians stand to gain little from their increased taxes and higher drug costs in the light of the fact that the vast majority of research facilities are located in Québec and Ontario.

1987 May 28, Proceedings of the Special Committee of the Senate on the Subject-matter of Bill C-22, page 8 : 46:

“But not all Newfoundland and Labradorians are in favour of a large call.”

1999 March 29, Nicola Luksic, “Canadian seal slaughter unsustainable, warn scientists”, in The Varsity, volume 119, number 46, page 8, column 3:

We think of Newfoundland and Labradorians as people that are outdoors and enjoying the outdoors, and yet, when we look at our physical activity rates, we see that is no longer the case.

2001, Délibérations du Comité Sénatorial Permanent des Affaires Sociales, des Sciences et de la Technologie, numbers 40–43, pages 41-15:

Newfoundland and Labradorians by and large do not rate political activity highly.

2009, Lawrence Felt, “A Tale of Two Towns: Municipal Agency and Socio-economic Development in Akureyri, Iceland, and Corner Brook, Newfoundland”, in Godfrey Baldacchino, Rob Greenwood, Lawrence Felt, editors, Remote Control: Governance Lessons for and from Small, Insular, and Remote Regions, Institute of Social and Economic Research, →ISBN, part II (Reviewing Municipal Government in Small, Insular, and Remote Regions), page 163:

Workers in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador also experienced increases in real hourly wages of about 3 percent, but their average hourly wages of $17.35 and $17.46 respectively remained below the national average. Having said that, Newfoundland and Labradorians had the smallest rise in the cost of living (1.5 percent), resulting in an increase in their purchasing power (Statistics Canada 2009a)—a value undoubtedly reflected in their dropping child poverty rates.

2010, Patrizia Albanese, Child Poverty in Canada (Issues in Canada), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 69:

His character and courage over a long and interesting life have made Newfoundland and Labradorians proud to claim him as a native son.

2012, Helen Forsey, quoting Jack Harris, Eugene Forsey: Canada’s Maverick Sage, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn, →ISBN:

That’s me, feasting on cliché, cultivating ennui and a thirst so fine I make a beeline for the next boat’s lounge and drink my way to Ilfracombe and back with Dylan Thomas, to and fro to Staten Island drink for drink with Lowell on a bender – or, better – head for Port-aux-Basques or Blanc-Sablon with manic homebound Newfoundland-and-Labradorians, jigs and reels unscrolling like a casually opened vein.

2012, Don McKay, Paradoxides, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 64:

“He wasn’t afraid to go out and explore the world and bring it back to [Newfoundland and Labrador],” said Mr. Steele, adding that Mr. Stirling was also the first to introduce 24-hour television in North America. “He was a guy that instilled confidence in Newfoundland and Labradorians.”

2013 December 30, “Geoff Stirling brought the world to Newfoundland and Labrador”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 2017-01-02:

I lived in the tightly knit province of Newfoundland and Labrador 35 years but was still identified as a “come-from-away,” clearly recognized as being not from the province, most often because of my last name. Often, it was more curiosity than malice. For Newfoundland and Labradorians, the question “Who are you from?” is about establishing who your parents are and fitting you into your spot in the relatively small provincial firmament.

2022, Russell Wangersky, Same Ground: Chasing Family Down the California Gold Rush Trail, ECW Press, →ISBN:

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

(rare) A native or inhabitant of Newfoundland and Labrador.


Tooro

Of or pertaining to the Tooro Kingdom, the Tooro people, or their language.

-a Tooro

of or pertaining to the Tooro Kingdom or the Tooro people


Irakli

From Georgian ირაკლი (iraḳli), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês).

ირაკლი ირაკლი#Georgian

A transliteration of the Georgian male given name ირაკლი (iraḳli), equivalent to Heracles.


Joktan

en-proper noun

Joktan (countable and uncountable, plural Joktans)


Hagarene

From Middle English Agarene, from Medieval Latin Agarēnus. By surface analysis, Hagar + -ene. From the belief that Arabs are descendants of Hagar and Abraham.

(archaic or historical) Of or pertaining to (early) Arab Muslims.


Anastatia

A female given name, variant of Anastasia


Vancouver Islander

en-noun

Vancouver Islander (plural Vancouver Islanders)

There are, however, a few of their traditions, which appear to have been handed down to them from the same source as the story of Mango Capac amongst the Peruvians—the overflow of the great waters, to the Indians of Central America; the worship of Al, the great spirit, by the Vancouver islanders; and although these are mingled with many absurd rites to propitiate the demons, yet they appear to have some connection with revelation.

1862, Charles Ede, “The Disappointment”, in Warm Hearts in Cold Regions. A Tale of Arctic Life., London: T. Nelson and Sons, […], →OCLC, pages 94–95:

Those Vancouver Islanders from “up-Island” are conveniently linked only to Thetis Island via Chemainus and Salt Spring Island via Crofton.

2012, Theo Dombrowski, “Introduction”, in Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea: The Southern Gulf Islands, Vancouver, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 8:

At this time, New Westminster was the official capital of the colony of British Columbia, much to the concern and disbelief of Vancouver Islanders, who strongly believed Victoria should have retained the position.

2018, Andrew Hempstead, Moon British Columbia: Including the Alaska Highway, 11th edition, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:

Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island#English

A native or inhabitant of Vancouver Island.


Chaoba

From Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (chaauba). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (chaauba); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

translit

A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (chaauba).


Chaobi

From Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (chaaubee). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (chaaubee); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ#Manipuri

A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (chaaubee).


Thoiba

From Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba).


Khamba

A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯈꯝꯕ (khamba).


Thoibi

From Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ#Manipuri

A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee).


Tombi

From Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombee). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombee); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ#Manipuri

A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombee).


Modican

en-adj

Modican (comparative more Modican, superlative most Modican)

more Modican (comparative)
most Modican (superlative)


Lashonda

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


Shaznay

Oh, and you won't believe who Shaznay, that tall girl in Subscriptions, has been seen out with.


Vivek

A male given name from the South Asian languages [in turn from Sanskrit]


Shulamit

bor

Hebrew שולמית

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Shulamith, masculine equivalent Shlomo, equivalent to English Salome


Shulamis

Hebrew שולמית


Shulamith

Hebrew שולמית

A female given name from Hebrew, masculine equivalent Shlomo, equivalent to English Salome


Shula

Clipping of Shulamith, Shulamit, Shulamis.; diminutive of Hebrew שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית (shulamít).

der

שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית

Hebrew שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית

diminutive of

Hebrew <i class="Hebr mention" lang="he">שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית</i>

A diminutive of the female given name Shulamith, from Hebrew.


Graftonite

The community of Grafton is fortunate to be serviced by two conscientious local newspapers. The weekly Ozaukee Press covers five of the communities in Ozaukee County and is delivered to approximately 1,000 Graftonites.

2011, Erin Blum, Saving a Dam: And the Heart of a Community, Grafton, W.I.: The Grafton Difference, →ISBN, page 5:

When Graftonites sought help from New Hampshire Fish and Game officials, they received little more than reminders that killing bears without a license is illegal, and plenty of highly dubious victim-blaming to boot.

2020 October 13, Patrick Blanchfield, “The Town That Went Feral”, in The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-21:

A native or inhabitant of any of various places known as Grafton.


Orokolo

A Trans–New Guinea language spoken of Papua New Guinea.


Samuelina

And off she sprang with the agility of a forest doe, so very unlike the polished lady of the manor, full of grace and gentility, but yet so truly in character with Samuelina, the farmer’s daughter.

1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XVI, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume II, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 137:

At Grange, Burntisland, aged eight years, Samuelina Paterson, youngest daughter of the Rev. Robert Culbertson, Leith.

1819 June, “Register.—Deaths.”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany; a New Series of the Scots Magazine, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, page 587, column 2:

To Miss Mercy Elizabeth Samuelina Snagwallader

1860, James W[illia]m Bowles, The World’s Fifth Empire, and Other Poems, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., […], page viii:

Letter No. 1 was from her first-floor lodger, Miss Samuelina Johnson, and ran thus:—[…]

1878 June 13, “Breakfast Yarns”, in Thomas Hake, Arthur Compton-Rickett, The Life and Letters of Theodore Watts-Dunto, volume II, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Limited; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1916, page 295:

M‘Caughey, Samuelina Jane, elected 1907.

1908, Sessional Papers, volume 27, page 28:

Parker, Annie Samuelina.

1947, The London Gazette, volume 4, page 6309:

“My friends, I would like you to meet Miss Samuelina Adkinson.”

1984, Fayrene Preston, For the Love of Sami, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 171:

M 4 Aug 1951 Betsy Lyall Innes, b 5 Feb 1927, d of John Gilmour I. and Samuelina Wallace Craig.

1981, Donald Farquhar Macleod Macdonald, editor, Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, volume X (Ministers of the Church from 1 January 1955 to 31 December 1975), Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, →ISBN, page 200, column 1:

With the ACAP and INDEPTH teams in Accra, Ghana, left to right, are Mr. Pali Lehohla, Dr. Alioune Diagne, Mr. Timothy Cheney, Ms. Samuelina Arthur, Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Dr. Ayaga Bawah, Dr. Cheikh Mbacke, Dr. Martin Bangha, Dr. Philomena Nyarko, Mr. Somnath Sambhudas, Ms. Jeannette Quarcoopome, and Dr. Osman Sankoh, 2011.

2015, Tukufu Zuberi, African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xiii:


Lizeka

A female given name of South African usage.


Bakersfieldian

A native or resident of the city of Bakersfield, California.


Zabelle

Miss Flora Zabelle invests the gentle, lively "San Toy" with a beauty and charm that has added much to the past season's success of the Daly Company …

1901, “Miss Flora Zabelle”, in Book Notes: A Monthly Literary Magazine and Review of New Books, volume 7, Siegel-Cooper, page 796:

Oh, every little girl's dream at the wedding was, "when will I be old enough to get married and wear the beautiful long white dress as a bride." Certainly Zabelle was no exception.

1981, Zabelle Sahagian, The Amazing Journey of Zabelle, A. R. Graphics & Publishing, page 27:

A female given name from Armenian, equivalent to English Isabella.


Sarel

From Old English Sarlo, Sarle and Serle, from Anglo-Scandinavian or Norman Sarli and Sarle, ultimately from Old Norse.
The given name sense is derived from Afrikaans Sarel.

The Boers who had ridden into Germiston were under the command of Captain Sarel Eloff, President Krüger's grandson …

1899, George Griffith, Briton or Boer?: A Tale of the Fight for Africa, F. V. White & Company, page 143:

My name is Sarel Kandell. I am an attorney formerly with the migrant legal action program, and I just have one basic comment to make.

1967, Sarel Kandell, edited by Patsy T. Mink, Hearings, Reports, Public Laws, volume 12, United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labour, page 324:

His party grew along the way and was joined by that of Charl (Sarel) Celliers (or Cilliers) from the Colesberg District with 25 adult men.

2023, John Laband, The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom 1837–1840, Jonathan Ball, →ISBN, unnumbered page:


Romanian Sign Language

A sign language used by deaf people in Romania


Memorare

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin memorāre (“remember”, imperative), from the opening of the prayer in Latin, “Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria …”.

bor+

With this in mind, the second part of the Memorare is the prayer of one who is aware of his or her sin and unworthiness and humbly seeks the mother’s mercy, prayers, and intercession.

2002, María Ruiz Scaperlanda, The Seeker’s Guide to Mary, →ISBN, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) A prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, beginning in English, “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary …”


Safina

* (female Russian surname): From Russian Сафина (Safina), from Сафин (Safin). Analyzable as Safin + -a.


Harutyun

(countable) A male given name from Armenian.


Yegor

Егор Егор#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Егор (Jegor).


Troye

A female given name, feminine form of Troy.


Polingaysi

Polingaysi Qöyawayma, b. 1892


Kathrynne

A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Catherine.


Dierdre

A female given name, variant of Deirdre.


Oyub

Oyub Titiev, b. 1957

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Оюб (Ojub)


Tenisha

Tenisha Yancey, b. 1976


Lomayumtewa

Lomayumtewa Ishii, b. 1959/60


Zarah

A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Zara


Dommy

A diminutive of the male given name Dominic.


Dimitrija

Димитрија Димитрија#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Димитрија (Dimitrija)


Kaburi

A Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua.


Engred

(rare) A female given name from Swedish.


Ronya

A female given name from Swedish, variant of Ronia

A female given name from Russian, variant of Ronia


Ronia

A female given name
A female given name from Swedish

A female given name
A female given name from Russian


Kairouani

A person from, or an inhabitant of, Kairouan.

قَيْرَوَانِيّ

a person from, or an inhabitant of, Kairouan


Kabrina

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


Talasquaptewa

(historical) A male given name from Hopi.


Gauri

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


One Nation

(UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of one nation


palawa kani

(linguistics) A constructed language created as a composite of the now-extinct Tasmanian Indigenous languages.


Mical

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Wyndi

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Sorkhei

A Western Iraniab language, spoken in the village of Sorkheh, Iran.


Estee

A diminutive of the female given name Esther, variant of Esti


Botlikh

A Northeast Caucasian language, dpokin in southwestern Dagestan, Russia.


ENHG

Early New High German
Early New High German#English


skyfish

(ufology) Synonym of rod (“rod-shaped optical phenomenon”)


Tolly

A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew


Krymchak

A language that is part of the Turkic language family.


Samaire

Samaire Armstrong, b. 1980


Graveyard of the Atlantic

the Graveyard of the Atlantic (canonical)

A nickname for the treacherous waters and area of numerous shipwrecks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States.


Nimboran

A Papuan language of Nimboran District, Jayapura Regency, Indonesia.


Nooksack

A member of a Native American tribe near the Pacific Northwest Coast.


Yoel

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Joel


MSDNC

Blend of MSNBC + DNC (“Democratic National Committee”).

blend

“[…] MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus [sic]^([sic]) look as bad as possible,” President Trump tweeted on February 26, a sentiment he would repeat throughout the year.

2022, Donald Trump, quotee, edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Democracy Amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, and Persuasion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118:

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory, humorous) The news channel MSNBC, regarded as having a bias in favor of the Democratic Party, the major center-left political party in the United States.


Pewds

(slang) PewDiePie (born 1989), online video streamer.


Jaxxon

A male given name of modern usage, variant of Jackson.


Calyn

A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Kaylyn.


Briahna

A female given name of African-American usage.


Tay Tay

Reduplication of Tay, a clipping of Taylor.

As it turns out, I’m not the only dork in attendance tonight. It’s evident when I start Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off.” / “A little Tay Tay? I’ve so got this.” Camille stretches, like we’re in a boxing ring and she’s about to knock me out.

2019, Tracy Goodwin, Ice Hard (New York Nighthawks), New York, N.Y.: Loveswept, →ISBN:

I love that I can be in the shower and be like, “Alexa, play ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift,” and two seconds later I’m jamming out to Tay Tay.

2019, Rachel Hollis, Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Leadership, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

Mum, my last big concert was Taylor Swift. April knew how much I loved Tay Tay when I was little, so she surprised me with the tickets.

2021, Claire Thomas, The Performance, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 190:

(fandom slang) Nickname of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (born 1989).


Yorùbá

From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders.

2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 88:

Unlike in the past, the Yorùbá are showing they are ready to accept those who profess Awoist ideals and ideas – and are therefore proper Yorùbá – joining different political parties, an almost heretical practice until the last few years.

2014, Wale Adebanwi, Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ and Corporate Agency, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251:

The piano was supported by indigenous musical instruments like the ekwe (slab and stick of the Igbo people) and the gangan (of the Yorùbá people—the talking drum) (Modfestivals Marktoberdorf, 2016b and 2016c).

2022, Rhoda Abiolu, “Intercultural Relations in Church Music of Nigeria and South Africa”, in David G. Hebert, Jonathan McCollum, editors, Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy (The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings), Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, part 4 (African Insights), page 266:


Yorùbá

From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders. Yorùbá-speaking men and women, more than any other West African ethnic and linguistic group, were enslaved and exported to North America, Cuba, and Brazil in large numbers.

An analysis of the Lucumí subclassifications associated with Yorùbá-speaking kingdoms and places indicates that over 75 percent had Yorùbá names, compared to less than 25 percent from other non-Yorùbá-speaking ethnonyms. This analysis confirms how the largest concentrations of Yorùbá speakers left Ouidah and Lagos, while non-Yorùbá-speaking groups generally departed to the east and west of those two ports.

2018, Henry B. Lovejoy, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 103:

The use of the gangan, or “talking drum,” was particularly unique because it enunciated Igbo words. What makes this special is that the drum is poised to pronounce Yorùbá words with its various distinctive tones and inflections. […] The inculcation of the drum to pronounce Igbo words draws attention to an intercultural and linguistic dimension to the talking drum’s beats where there is the superimposition of indigenous Yorùbá rhythms on the Igbo language.


Dmitriy

Дми́трий Дмитрий#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij).


Drizzy

Toronto rapper Drake has publicly disowned the new concert film Drake's Homecoming: The Lost Footage – and Drizzy's disdain might be the most interesting thing about the movie.

2015 March 18, Nick Patch, “Five things we learn from the unofficial Drake documentary”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-25:

(endearing) Drake (Canadian rapper and singer born in 1986).


Luly

A diminutive of the female given names Louisa or Louise


Budukh

The Lezgic language spoken by these people.


Palermitan

Ultimately from Latin Panormitānus, with influence from Palermo.

A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of, Palermo on the island of Sicily in Italy.


Liberlander

Chased down by Croatian police, he and five other Liberlanders were forcibly removed to the local town of Beli Mansir and there confined on charges of exiting Croatia illegally, from other than an approved border station.

2018, Tom W. Bell, From the Nation State to Stateless Nations: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 226:

A person from Liberland or of Liberlandish descent.


Seefelder

en-noun

Seefelder (plural Seefelder or Seefelders)

(demonym) A native or inhabitant of Seefeld (Tyrol, Austria).

Seefelder

native or inhabitant of Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria


DAERA

[…]DAERA has a range of significant programmes under way to improve water quality … [and]^([sic]) the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) also undertakes extensive monitoring and inspection programmes as well as investigating all reported pollution incidents.

2023 August 23, Tommy Greene, “Lough Neagh ‘dying in plain sight’ due to vast algal blooms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

w:Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

(Northern Ireland) Initialism of Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.


Nikky

A female given name; Alternative spelling of Nicky


Waalubal

An Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Western Bundjalung living in northeast New South Wales.


Bundjalung

Most likely an autonym from Bandjalang [Term?].

A nearly extinct aboriginal language of New South Wales.


Ailon

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.


Jenipher

en-proper noun

Jenipher (countable and uncountable, plural Jeniphers)

A female given name from Cornish, an uncommon form of Jennifer.


Israeli Destruction Forces

In reference to the alleged destructive war crimes of the IDF.

Nah, they'r^([sic]) just lining up to convict your "Man of Peace " [Ariel] Sharon and his genocidal Israeli Destruction Forces

2002 April 22, Amir.M, “Amnesty International demands inquiry into Jenin 'war crimes'”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet):

Nope , the papers are reporting today that the overexessive use of flares by the Israeli Destruction Forces caused the fire

2002 May 2, Amir.M, “Filthy Israel, just like Talibans...”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

Yet again, Gaza is under siege. 'Israeli Destruction Forces' have their tanks, bulldozers, and troops in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya, Jabaliya Camp, Khan Younis, and Rafah.

2004 October 2, GabrilJb, “The Rape of Palestine”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):

Indeed, Dr. Ghannam is a colorful figure. In a publicly available video for the entire world to see (11:18 in length), Dr. Ghannam takes the podium at a Ralph Nader presidential rally where, among other things, he refers to the Israeli “Destruction” Forces (at 6:20), he calls the United States the “Empire” and recounts apologizing to a five-year old^([sic]) child for being from the “Empire” (at 6:55) (he said the five-year old^([sic]) child “understood” him), and he encourages the audience to “challenge the imperial wet dreams that George Bush and John Kerry have” (at 10:17).

2017, Dana J. Boente, “United States of America v. Mohamad Jamal Khweis”, in Case 1:16-cr-00143-LO (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia), page 6:

(slang, derogatory) The Israel Defense Forces.


Rangpuri

Equivalent to Rangpur + -i, either borrowed from Bengali রংপুরী (roṅpuri) or from Kamta রংপুরী.

bor

Kamta রংপুরী

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern Bangladesh and western Assam in India.


Khandeshi

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Khandesh region of India.


Halbi

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra states of India.


Sankethi

A Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka, India.


Desia

Either from Odia ଦେଶିଆ (deśiā) or from Desiya ଦେଶିଆ (deśia).

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states of India, considered to be a dialect of Odia.


Mewari

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Mewar region of India.


Zatsepin

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Zatsepina


Iñapari

An indigenous South American language spoken in Perú along the Las Piedras river near the mouth of the Sabaluyoq river.


Tswa

A Bantu language of southern Mozambique, related to Ronga and Tsonga.


Jessyca

A female given name, variant of Jessica.


Barn

* Clipping of Barney.
* Clipping of Barnett.
* Clipping of Barnabas.
* Clipping of Barnaby.
* Clipping of Barnard.

A diminutive of the male given names Barney, Barnabas, Barnaby, or Barnett

A unisex given name transferred from the surname diminutive of Barnard (“surname”)


Port Sandwich

An Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu.


Barne

* Clipping of Barney.
* Clipping of Barnett.

A diminutive of the male given names Barney or Barnett


Antigua and Barbudan

THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDAN POLITICAL SYSTEM: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS

1982, The Antigua and Barbuda Forum, page 13:

President Clinton shares a laugh with Antigua and Barbudan President Lester Bird, Jamaican President P.J. Patterson and Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur.

1995 May, Building a Partnership for Prosperity: White House Report on The Summit of the Americas, Miami, Florida - December 9-11, 1994, Washington, D.C.: The White House, page 41:

[…] the Antigua and Barbudan flag is so noted.

2000, The New Zealand Law Reports, page 58:

[…] an Antigua and Barbudan vision of the Caribbean.

2002, Lester Bryant Bird, translated by Ronald Sanders, Antigua Vision, Caribbean Reality: Perspectives of Prime Minister Lester Bryant Bird, Hansib, →ISBN:

Antigua and Barbudan president, Vere Cornwall Bird (right) with president of Saint Kitts Labour Union, Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw (left).

2008, Sara Louise Kras, Antigua and Barbuda (Cultures of the World), 2nd edition, Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, →ISBN, page 37:

Papaya paired with lime makes for a classic Antigua and Barbudan pie.

2014, Jeanne Jacob, Michael Ashkenazi, “[Antigua and Barbuda] Papaya Pie”, in The World Cookbook: The Greatest Recipes from around the Globe, revised edition, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, volume 1 (A–D), page 41:

There hasn’t been much interest in Antigua and Barbudan football over the past two decades, which might explain his nervousness.

2014, James [Piotr] Montague, Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 152:

Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda#English

Of, from or relating to Antigua and Barbuda.


Surjapuri

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in eastern India, as well as in Bangladesh and Nepal.


Hadauti

Borrowed from Hadothi हाड़ौती (hāṛautī).

A Rajasthani language spoken in southwestern Rajasthan, India.


Islamsterdam

(slang, derogatory, offensive) The city of Amsterdam, with regard to its population of Muslims and other immigrants.


K-Country

Kananaskis Country
Kananaskis Country#English

Abbreviation of Kananaskis Country.: A region of Alberta, Canada


Lamorne

Lamorne Morris, b. 1983


Sturgeonite

Forbes and her allies have already set up a backbench group in the Scottish Parliament to develop alternative policies; Yousaf and the Sturgeonites remain committed to her (superficially) progressive vision of the party and its controversial alliance with the Scottish Greens.

2023 October 6, Henry Hill, “Time to put devolution out of its misery”, in The Telegraph:

(UK politics) A political supporter of Nicola Sturgeon (born 1980), Scottish politician who served as First Minister from 2014 to 2023.


Wathaurong

A Kulinic Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Victoria, from Geelong north to Ballarat.


Arshag

Arshag Chobanian, b. 1872

Արշակ Արշակ#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Արշակ (Aršak)


Imphalite

Aye, aye! What sort of ceremony is that? Tell me, oh beautiful wife of an Imphalite.

1992, K. M. George, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Plays and prose:

The beginning receives some criticisms, but as the organisers are picking up more experience in the running of Imphal Evening – ‘the first night life in Imphal’, lifestyle of Imphalites is changing to a better direction.

2017, Imphal Times, ‘Imphal Evening’ is giving new lifestyle to Imphalites:

Imphalites and other living in the State had been witnessing the colourful annual festival as youngsters sprayed (coloured) water each others...

2016, Citizen Radio, Yaoshang festival concludes in Manipur:

Those were the days when Imphalites used to see the team led by Coach Ibomcha jogging every morning.

2009, Sobhapati Samom, REALISING A DREAM Oja Ibomcha, the unsung boxing guru:

Another very important source of fresh water which meets a large proportion of the daily requirement of Imphalites is ponds.

2003, Kanchan Ratna Chopra, C. H. Hanumantha Rao, Ramprasad Sengupta, Water Resources, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Eco-system Services:

Mid-day, June 19, 2020, we Imphalites got to see an unusually spectacle in the sky, a distinctly clear halo around the sun. It was a breathtaking sight to say the least. According to our elders, in our native language this is called Thabi Mahum Saba which literally translates as “cucumber’s nest.”

2020 July 11, NANDITA SANASAM, The Enchanting Meitei Myths Once Told to Explain the Spectacle of Halo Around the Sun:

It seems the Imphalite son-in-law of our house is planning to go back to Imphal and he has started a new scheme.


The Farm

A reference to Stanford University's establishment on the grounds of Leland Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm.

It's clear, then, that the return to The Farm has brought all five a healthy dose of joy.

2023 July 5, Alex Simon, “USWNT's former Stanford stars cherish return to The Farm for World Cup training”, in The Mercury News:


Chuckster

Whether you agree with the Chuckster or not, there's no denying just how entertaining a figure he has been, is and hopefully will be for many more years.

2014 February 20, Josh Martin, Bleacher Report:

(informal) Nickname of former NBA basketball player Charles Barkley.


Anucha

A transliteration of a Thai male given name


Korean Sign Language

A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on Korean words in South Korea. ISO 639-3 code: kvk.

(rare) A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on Korean words in North Korea.


Watsana

A transliteration of a Thai female given name


Tagakaolo

Synonym of Kalagan (“Austronesian language”)


Ancestral Puebloan

en-noun

Ancestral Puebloan (plural Ancestral Puebloans)

Any member of a Native American people who once lived in cliff-dwellings in Utah and Colorado.

Anasazi

member of a Native American people who once lived in Utah and Colorado


Dawnn

Dawnn Lewis, b. 1961


what does it matter

(colloquial, rhetorical question, impolite) A reply indicating uncaring.


PNoy

Abbreviation of President and Noynoy, also a pun on Pinoy and penoy.

(Philippine politics, slang) Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines


Zarel

It has been also reported to me by the Field Corporal Zarel Marais that the Bushmen were very active in his district, they had away all Marais' cattle, though fortunately retaken, with exception of 2 which they had stabbed to death, and the robbers fled.

1838, A. S. Robertson, “Report of Commandant Godlieb Roedolf Opperman.”, in Donald Moodie, editor, The Record Or, A Series of Official Papers Relative to the Condition and Treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa, page 42:

Notice is hereby applying for a ... [title deed] Zarel Francois Haasbroek, in respect of certain portion marked " B " named Inhoek, of the quitrent farm Blinkklip No. 113, District Wolmaransstad, measuring 1,294 morgen 150 square roods

1937, Government of South Africa, Government Gazette Extraordinary, volume 109, page 16:

Zarel C. Spears, an author and director and [manager] of the Ruth Wyeth Spears Newspaper Syndicate, died Wednesday at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco.

1967 May 5, “Zarel C. Spears, Author, 80, Dies; Managed Wife's Syndicated Newspaper Articles”, in The New York Times, page 38:


Quantonio

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


Dontavious

Blend of Donte + Octavius, the latter revised to accord with -ious.


one nationer

A Conservative party source said: “This would tear the party apart. Several cabinet ministers and the one nationers would not stand for it – the prime minister wouldn’t even get it through the Commons. Never mind that this wouldn’t placate the head-bangers on the right either.”

2023 November 19, Rajeev Syal, “Sunak could block Human Rights Act to force through Rwanda asylum plan”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

one-nation conservative
one-nation conservative#English

(UK politics) Synonym of one-nation conservative


Cleve

A male given name, found predominantly in the United States.


one nation

The next prime minister must redefine Brexit as a One Nation project. If they do not, the door will be wide open for Britain’s first-ever Marxist government and a likely decade of decline.

2019 May 18, George Freeman, Nicky Morgan, Bim Afolami, Chloe Smith, Nicholas Soames, “One Nation conservatism can make a success of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

one-nation conservatism
one-nation conservatism#English

(UK politics) Ellipsis of one-nation conservatism.


Clif

A diminutive of the male given name Clifford.

A diminutive of the male given name Clifton.


Lahu

The Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Lahu people.


Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, who was the Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533, and Tsar of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.


Swoonatra

Blend of swoon + Sinatra, in reference to his infatuated fandom.

(slang, dated) Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), American singer and actor.