sic

Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

sic pro

used to note the error and supply the supposed intended phrasing

sic passim

used to indicate that the preceding word, phrase, or term is used in the same manner (or form) throughout the remainder of a text

sic transit gloria mundi

so passes the glory of the world; fame is temporary; lit.

sic semper tyrannis

thus always to tyrants; and shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln

In the past few months, we in Upstate N.Y. have been subjected to fire bombings, firings, verbal and physical harassment, etc. The list goes on and on. These (sic) Christians are calling for a million marchers and may very well get that many.

1979 December 29, Vern Hall-Smith, “Fundamentalists March”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 5:

(by extension) Used in the manner of scare quotes


stay

From Middle English steyen, staien, from Old French estayer, estaier (“to fix, prop up, support, stay”), from estaye, estaie (“a prop, stay”), from Middle Dutch staeye (“a prop, stay”), a contracted form of staede, stade (“a prop, stay, help, aid”) (compare Middle Dutch staeyen, staeden (“to make firm, stay, support, hold still, stabilise”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stadi (“a site, place, location, standing”), from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“a standing, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing”). Influenced by Old English stæġ ("a stay, rope"; see below). Cognate with Old English stede, stæde (“a place, spot, locality, fixed position, station, site, standing, status, position of a moving body, stopping, standing still, stability, fixity, firmness, steadfastness”), Swedish stödja (“to prop, support, brace, hold up, bolster”), Icelandic stöðug (“continuous, stable”). More at stead, steady.
Sense of "remain, continue" may be due to later influence from Old French ester, esteir (“to stand, be, continue, remain”), from Latin stāre (“stand”), from the same Proto-Indo-European root above; however, derivation from this root is untenable based on linguistic and historical grounds.
An alternative etymology derives Old French estaye, estaie, from Frankish *stakā, *stakō (“stake, post”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake, bar, stick, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“rod, pole, stick”), making it cognate with Old English staca (“pin, stake”), Old English stician (“to stick, be placed, lie, remain fixed”). Cognate with Albanian shtagë (“a long stick, a pole”). More at stake, stick.

cog

I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii.

Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.


stay

en-adv

stay (comparative stayer or more stay, superlative stayest or most stay)

stayer (comparative)
more stay (comparative)
stayest (superlative)
most stay (superlative)

From Middle English *steȝe, from Old English *stǣġe, an apocopated variant of stǣġel (“steep, abrupt”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigil (“steep”), see sty.


sit

The increasing scope of the disaster was relayed in short, terse sentences whose brevity does not conceal the unfolding nightmare. […] In mid-afternoon at 1600: “Sit is getting worse; need help badly,” “have considerable number of wounded that are unable to evacuate.”

2012, Gail Shisler, For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith:


giddyup

(directed at a horse) Move on!, go faster!


haw

en-verb

haw (third-person singular simple present haws, present participle hawing, simple past and past participle hawed)

haws (present singular third-person)
hawing (participle present)
hawed (participle past)
hawed (past)

From Middle English ha (interjection). Compare Old Norse há (interjection), Middle Low German ha, hā (interjection), Old High German aha, hei (interjection).

To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation.


haw

Assumed to be interjectory, but compare Old English hawian (“to observe, look”)

onomatopoeic

interjectory

Coordinate term: gee

An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left.

嗬

an instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver


haw

en-noun

haw (countable and uncountable, plural haws)

Late Middle English (denoting a discharge from the eye), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Etymology 2 above, describing a berry.

nictitating membrane
nictitating membrane

(countable, anatomy) The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane.

(uncountable) A disease of the nictitating membrane.


gee

You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.

1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “Act I”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:


hike

From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”). More at hick.

cog

Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.


mush

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

der

Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.

"Hey, Mush!" Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street.

2018, Brenda Spalding, Bottle Alley, Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 1:

(British, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.


shoo

From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).

cog

(informal, demeaning) Go away! Clear off!


whoa

Whoa (c. 1843) is a variant of woa (c. 1840), itself a variant of wo (c. 1787), from who (c. 1450), ultimately from Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare German ho, Old French ho ! (“hold!, halt!”).

der

Whoa, are you serious?

Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?

1985, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Back to the Future, spoken by Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox):

Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
Jen: It means "personal assistant".
Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.

2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, season 2, episode 6:


whisht

From Middle English qwyst, whisht, whist, imitative, though perhaps influenced by other verbs in wh- used in the imperative or by hust (adjective).

“You must have loved him very much,” she said.
“Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […]”

1952, Neville Shute, chapter 9, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann:

(Ireland; British, especially Scotland, Northumbria) Shush, silence, be quiet!


tchick

(UK)

(UK)

The driver mounted his box, put his long whip into a hole in the box, and, buttoning his coat, called, " Tchick, tchick, tchick." Away the horses set off, and went so willingly and briskly, till he saw a passenger waiting to get into the coach.

1855, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Harriet L. Brown, Anne Wales Abbot, Child's Friend and Family Magazine, page 140:

"Weel! weel!" ejaculated the carter, "that comes o' your education ; G — d be thank'd, I never could write ; get on Bess, tchick, tchick," and giving the horse a lusty thwack, he made off as fast as possible.

1861, John Heiton, The castes of Edinburgh, page 337:

Do come back! Come along, old fellow! — tchick, tchick, tchick, tchicky."

1877, Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff, Stories of Whitminster, page 41:

I called him — "tchick-tchick-tchick" — and started making noises toward him, holding up the acorn.

1984, Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj, Georg Feuerstein, The transmission of doubt:

A click sound such as a palatal, lateral, or dental click.

used to urge on a horse or other animal.


play dead

en-verb

play dead (third-person singular simple present plays dead, present participle playing dead, simple past and past participle played dead)

plays dead (present singular third-person)
playing dead (participle present)
played dead (participle past)
played dead (past)

To act as though defeated while awaiting a chance to attack.


gee up

gee up (third-person singular simple present gees up, present participle geeing up, simple past and past participle geed up)

gees up (present singular third-person)
geeing up (participle present)
geed up (participle past)
geed up (past)

"US fund manager Eric Knight has a fearful reputation as a shareholder activist, geeing up underperforming managements at Royal Dutch Shell and Suez." – HSBC: activist pounces, The Week, 15 September 2007, 631, 43.

(slang) To excite in order to try to achieve a desired result.


roll over

roll over (third-person singular simple present rolls over, present participle rolling over, simple past and past participle rolled over)

rolls over (present singular third-person)
rolling over (participle present)
rolled over (participle past)
rolled over (past)

To reinvest funds from a maturing financial security in the same or similar investment.


come by

come by (third-person singular simple present comes by, present participle coming by, simple past came by, past participle come by)

comes by (present singular third-person)
coming by (participle present)
came by (past)
come by (participle past)

Your beau came by while you were shopping.

(intransitive) To come near to; to pass; to visit.

зайти́ pf (zajtí) (+ к (k) + dative case)

загляну́ть pf (zagljanútʹ) (+ к (k) + dative case)


sooey

Sooey, sooey! Come here, piggy!

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sooey.


rynt

rynt (no third-person singular simple present, no present participle, no simple past or past participle)

Likely from a corruption of "rowan tree", a phrase which would have been chanted in order to drive off witches, since the tree was believed to be a ward against evil.

Rynt thee.

(archaic, reflexive) stand off; move away (said by milkmaids to their cows after milking them)


git along

Pronunciation spelling of get along (“move along”).

Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
It's your misfortune, and none of my own.
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along little dogies,
For you know Wyoming will be your new home.

1910, John Avery Lomax, Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads, page 87:

(US, cowboy slang, often said to cattle) Move; keep going.


proot

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

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

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

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

A command to a donkey or mule to move faster.


whoa back

Called when riding an animal to warn anybody following behind that one is about to come to a stop.


hooshta

As a rule the temper of a camel is very good; the driver guiding it by ropes fixed by string to a stud, very similar in every way to a collar stud, which is put through the nostril of the beast, and a tug at this, with an accompanying word of command, such as "Hooshta," when it is wanted to lie down, is generally sufficient inducement to make it do what it is told.

1895 July 6, The West Australian, Perth, page 6, column 8:

Some day a solitary prospector will say "Hooshtah" to his camel, and, on the intelligent beast kneeling down, will dismount, and prepare to camp.

1903 November 28, The World's News, Sydney, page 14, column 3:

A call made to a camel to direct it to stand, sit, go, etc.


geddup

Alternative form of giddyup (command for a horse to move faster)


gedup

Cora whisked her hat down to cut off communion with him, and slid in among the trees. She lurked there till she heard him say, "Gedup," in a voice thick with rage, and horse and cart click-clacked off along the road, and left it free for her to follow.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171: