anther

From French anthère, from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρός (anthērós, “flowery, blooming”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).

der

(botany) The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.


hairdresser

A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

haarkapper

professional for haircutting or hairstyling

berber

a hairdresser who styles or cuts men's hair

kuaför

a hairdresser who styles or cuts women's hair


xiphoid

From Ancient Greek ξιφοειδής (xiphoeidḗs, “sword-shaped”).

(anatomy) Of or relating to the xiphoid process (also called xiphisternum).


xiphoid

In Asian pangolins the xiphoids are shorter[…]

2000, Kurt Schwenk, Feeding: Form, Function and Evolution in Tetrapod Vertebrates, page 466:


shlong

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hysterectomy

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she even contemplated having her womb taken out to eliminate periods altogether, which would surely be her greatest possible career move, a tactical hysterectomy for ambitious women with menstruation problems

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 140:

(surgery) The surgical procedure to remove all of or part of the uterus.

histerectomia

surgical removal of the uterus or part thereof


kielbasa

en-noun

kielbasa (countable and uncountable, plural kielbasas or kielbasy)

Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, Saskatchewan

Borrowed from Polish kiełbasa (“sausage”), from Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, which may derive from Proto-Turkic for "grilled cutlet," literally "pressed on ashes," from *kül (“ash”) + *bas (“to press”) (modern Turkish basmak). See the Ukrainian cognate ковбаса́ (kovbasá, “sausage”), whence kubasa, for more information.

bor+

Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]

1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:

A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.


orthodontic

Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.


fringe

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Eclipsed native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.

der

Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.

1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “Chapter LXXXVIII”, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.

1981, Hilda Doolittle, HERmione, page 155:

Ingeborg knew she wasn′t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she′d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn′t either.
“No.” Astrid′s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

2007, Lauraine Snelling, Sophie's Dilemma, page 16:

Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, page 231:

(UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.


chyme

en-noun

chyme (usually uncountable, plural chymes)

From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

كَيْمُوس

partly digested food passed from the stomach to the duodenum


stoma

From New Latin stoma, from Ancient Greek στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).

(botany) One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.

estoma

botany: tiny pore in the epidermis of a leaf


melanoma

melanoma (plural melanomas or melanomata)

(oncology, pathology) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.

black cancer

see A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary citation from 1880

Melanome

see The Washington Post citation from 1904


crypt

From Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.

der

Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.

2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 25:

(anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.


cranium

From Medieval Latin crānium (“skull”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”).

uder

The Skull is divided into two parts, the Cranium and the Face. The Cranium is composed of eight bones; […]

1858, Henry Gray, “The Skull”, in Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, page 19:

‘I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,’ he said.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:

The cranium of the fowl is composed of the same elements as are present in the mammalian cranium, save that there is no interparietal.

1908, J. McFadyean, “Part I: Osteology and Arthrology”, in The Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals, page 165:

The cranial bones, or cranium (kra′ne-um), enclose and protect the fragile brain and furnish attachment sites for head and neck muscles.

2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, “Chapter 7 "The Skeleton"”, in Human Anatomy and Physiology, 8th edition, page 200:

(anatomy) That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.


epidermis

en-noun

epidermis (plural epidermides or epidermises)

epidermides (plural)
epidermises (plural)

Borrowed from Latin epidermis, from Ancient Greek ἐπιδερμίς (epidermís), ἐπί (epí, “on top of”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Equivalent to epi- + dermis.

The outer, protective layer of the skin of vertebrates, covering the dermis


calyx

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.

der

Meronym: sepal

(botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

(zoology, anatomy) Any of various cup-like structures.

A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.

The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.

A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.

A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.


cojones

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From Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”), from Late Latin cōleonēs, from Latin cōleus (“sack, scrotum”). Doublet of cullion and culeus.

Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains.
I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones.

2005, Total Overdose, spoken by Ramiro “Ram” Cruz (Simon Prescott as Cesar Morales and Daniel E. Mora), Square Enix Europe; Eidos Interactive, via Deadline Games and Square Enix:

(slang, usually vulgar) Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).


bris

en-noun

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

brises (plural)
brisses (plural)
britot (plural)

Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, page 129:

Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155:

However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 109:


hypodermic

A hypodermic syringe, needle or injection.


yoni

Stroke your partner's thighs and caress her breasts as you make love to her yoni with your mouth and tongue.

2004, Johanna Wikoff, Deborah Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra, Alpha Books, published 2004, page 242:

In Hinduism [...] and Tantrism [...], the yoni is the generative organ of the Goddess.

2001, David Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Oxford, page 205:

The goddess blesses him by placing his liṅgam in her yoni.

1997, David R Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, University of California, published 1997, page 235:

The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.


downcast

en-adj

downcast (comparative more downcast, superlative most downcast)

more downcast (comparative)
most downcast (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Middle English doun-casten, *adoun-casten (“(adjective) cast down, dejected; (verb) to break down (something); to overcome (someone); to overturn (something)”), from down (“in a downward direction; (figurative) to destruction”), adoun (“downward”) + casten (“to throw (something), fling, hurl; to overcome (someone), defeat, overpower; [etc.]”) (from Old Norse kasta (“to cast, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *kastōną (“to throw”), from *kas- (“to throw, toss; to bring up”); further etymology uncertain), modelled similarly to other constructions in Middle English such as adoun-throwen (“to throw down”) and adoun-werpen (“to throw down”)). The English word is analysable as down- (prefix meaning ‘lower direction or position’) + cast (“that has been thrown”, adjective).
The noun is derived from the adjective.

prefix

Of a person or thing: defeated, overthrown; also, destroyed, ruined.


isthmus

Borrowing from Latin isthmus (“a strip of land between two seas”), from Ancient Greek ῐ̓σθμός (ĭsthmós, “neck, narrow passage”), possibly from εἶμῐ (eîmĭ, “to go”). Cognate to Old Norse eið (“isthmus”).

bor

(anatomy) Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.

峽 /峡

part connecting two anatomical structures


pharynx

Borrowing from New Latin pharynx, from Ancient Greek φᾰ́ρῠγξ (phắrŭnx, “throat”).

der

Meronyms: nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx, velopharynx, glossopharynx

(anatomy) The part of the alimentary canal and respiratory tract that extends from the back of the mouth and nasal cavity to the larynx and esophagus.


cubit

From Middle English cubite, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, cubit”). Doublet of cubitus.

(anatomy, archaic) Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.


ad-

Borrowed from Latin ad-. Doublet of at-.

adapical, adfluvial, adgerminal

Towards in direction or movement. (anatomy) Towards the midline of the body.


alveolar

(anatomy, relational) Relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.

(anatomy, relational) Relating to the jaw ridge containing the tooth sockets.

(anatomy, relational) Relating to the glands with secretory cells about a central space.


musk

en-noun

musk (countable and uncountable, plural musks)

→ Irish: musc

→ Welsh: mwsg

From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /mušk/) whence Persian مشک (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of मूष् (mūṣ, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.

der

Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.

1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:

A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.

A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.

A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.

A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.


pickle

en-noun

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

→ Dutch: pickles

→ French: pickles

→ Irish: picil

→ Korean: 피클 (pikeul)

→ Portuguese: picles

→ Spanish: pickles, picle

→ Welsh: picil

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

optical landing system
optical landing system

In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.


pickle

Perhaps from Scottish pickle, apparently from pick + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Scots pickil.

(Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)


girn

en-verb

girn (third-person singular simple present girns, present participle girning, simple past and past participle girned)

girns (present singular third-person)
girning (participle present)
girned (participle past)
girned (past)

At seventy-five or eighty I will be like a child myself, frail and cantankerous, a girning, burdensome old devil.

1999, Jessica Stirling, The Wind from the Hills, St Martin's Press:


MV

(anatomy, medicine) Initialism of mitral valve.


stigma

From Latin stigma, from Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma, “brand”), from στίζω (stízō, “I mark”). Distantly related to stick.

Now you see just how the stamen gets its lusty dust onto the stigma / And why this frenzied chlorophyllous orgy starts in spring is no enigma!

1982, Dennis Linde (lyrics and music), “Reproduction”, in Grease 2:

(botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.


pupil

From Middle English pupille, from Old French pupille, from Latin pūpilla (“pupil; little girl, doll”), named because of the small reflected image seen when looking into someone's eye.

der

There are sharks with round pupils, sharks with slitlike pupils, and some with pupils that expand and contract with the amount of light available. As unimpressive as this might sound to people who are used to having their pupils dilate and contract regularly, realize that no bony fish has this modification of the eye.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 29:

(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

pupil

the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye

das Schwarze im Auge

colloquial; sometimes including the iris


wigger

Blend of white + nigger. First use appears c. 1988. See cite below.

I have often heard the word "wigger" used to describe a white person who supposedly acts and talks "black," while the same type of taunting is put upon a black person who supposedly acts "white."

1988 April 20, “How race-conscious are high school students today?”, in The Washington Post, number ?, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, column ?:

To some extent wiggers are simply the most visible examples of a very American brand of teenage rebellion.

1999, Leonard Steinhorn et al., By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, page 178:

And I just do not got the patience
To deal with these cocky Caucasians
Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black...

cultural appropriator
cultural appropriator

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person, typically young and male, considered to be overly infatuated with African-American or (UK) Afro-Caribbean culture, a cultural appropriator.


perimysium

en-noun

perimysium (plural perimysiums or perimysia)

(anatomy) A layer of connective tissue which surrounds several muscle fibers into bundles


pinkeye

pinkeye (usually uncountable, plural pinkeyes)

A highly contagious form of conjunctivitis.


arterio-

(anatomy, medicine) Alternative form of arteri-


minge

From Angloromani mintš, from Romani minʒ (“female genitals”), probably from Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior; the middle part of the body; loins, reins; waist; belly, abdomen; back”). Doublet of medius.
Alternate etymology: from the Latin mingere (“to urinate”), synecdochically used to describe the organ through an associated function (possibly ironically or euphemistically).

der

Last week, she ended up on a binge / She got off her tits and showed the bouncers her minge

2005, “Your Missus Is A Nutter”, performed by Goldie Lookin Chain:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and vulva.


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

Holonym: monocle

Comeronyms: ring, lens

adjusting the distance between the bottom gallery and the top gallery

A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.


cytosol

(cytology) The aqueous solution of a cell's cytoplasm, consisting of water, organic molecules and inorganic ions.


fetlock

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From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, equivalent to foot + lock (“tuft of hair”). Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).

The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.


white blood cell

en-noun

white blood cell (plural white blood cells)

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(hematology, cytology, immunology) A type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response, or part of the immune system.

witbloedselle

cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response


vesicle

From Middle French vesicule, from Latin vēsīcula.

(cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.

Coordinate term: acinus

en:small bladder-like structure
en:compartment within fruit

A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:

(botany) A small sac filled with juice, one of many constituting the pulp of a fruit such as an orange, lemon, or grapefruit.

(biology, medicine) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.

Coordinate term: bulla

en:small bladder-like structure
en:small blister
en:small blister less than 5 mm

(biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is less than 5 mm in diameter.

Coordinate term: germ

(anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.


glycoprotein

(biochemistry) A protein with covalently bonded carbohydrates.


connective tissue

connective tissue (countable and uncountable, plural connective tissues)

extracellular matrix
extracellular matrix#English

(anatomy) A type of tissue found in animals whose main function is binding other tissue systems (such as muscle to skin) or organs and consists of the following three elements: cells, fibers and a ground substance (or extracellular matrix).

bindweefsel

type of tissue that binds other tissue systems


aortal

Constance leans over him [...] and he has that drop kick in the aortal region as blood rushes to a hard-on.

2016, Jenni Fagan, The Sunlight Pilgrims, William Heinemann, page 180:


post

Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .

inh+

(dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.


blood vessel

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

(anatomy) A component of the circulatory system, such as an artery, capillary, or vein, that carries blood.

ケモリッ

component of the circulatory system that carries blood

หลอดเลือด

lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat


spoof

Origin unknown; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare splooge, spoo (US slang), spooge, spaff.

unknown

Origin unknown


eggnog

en-noun

eggnog (countable and uncountable, plural eggnogs)

American English c. 1775 (although drinks like it are attested far earlier, e.g. posset, of which a monastic Christmas recipe used eggs), from egg + nog.
The second element is uncertain and long-debated; prominent claims include Norfolk dialect nog (“strong ale”), or a clipping of noggin (“small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol”) (q.v.). Other hypotheses include a variant of grog (“rum-and-water cocktail”), and descent from Old Norse (compare wassail).

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.


auricle

/ˈɔː.ɹɪk.əl/

From Latin auricula (“the external ear”), diminutive of auris (“the ear”). Doublet of auricula.

(biology) Any appendage in the shape of an ear or earlobe.

(anatomy) An anterior ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the human heart.

сърдечно ухо

an ear-shaped appendage of the left or right atrium of the heart


haemo-

From Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-), akin to αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).


watersports

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(informal, euphemistic) Any sexual activity involving urine or urination; pissplay.


cartilage

cartilage (countable and uncountable, plural cartilages)

Borrowed from French cartilage, from Latin cartilāgō. Partially displaced native gristle, from Old English gristel.

(anatomy, uncountable) A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates.

(anatomy, countable) A particular structure made of cartilage.


eyed

From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.

The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg.

1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland, Calif.: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 24:

The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.

1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6:

That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin […]

1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Oliver Twist:

Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592

Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.

1960, Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway, Night, New York: Bantam, published 1986, page 61:

(in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.


exoskeleton

exoskeleton (plural exoskeletons or exoskeleta)

exoskeletons (plural)
exoskeleta (plural)

This is the case not only with all forms provided with exoskeleta and endoskeleta, into the composition of which lime largely enters, but also with those which exercise the precipitating effect on the calcium salts they absorb from sea water, the precipitation rarely going so far as to form a distinct deposit in the cells or tissues of the organism.

1903 January 17, A[rchibald] B[yron] Macallum, “The Palæochemistry of the Ocean in Relation to Animal and Vegetable Protoplasm”, in Transactions of the Canadian Institute, volume VII, Toronto, Ont.: […] for the Canadian Institute by Murray Printing Company, published 1904, section IV (The Composition of the Primeval Ocean), page 551:

Ordinarily, allergy to animals is due to either their fine dander which becomes aerosolized or to the exoskeleta, pupae, or feces of their ectoparasites.

1982, R. V. Lynch, Jr., R. Burrell, “Primate Dander Allergy of Lesser Bushbaby (Galago): A Case Report”, in D[uane] E. Haines, editor, The Lesser Bushbaby (Galago) as an Animal Model: Selected Topics, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 304:

After separation, the next generation of daughters resumes the photosynthetic fixation (reduction) of carbon, the sequestration of phosphorus, nitrogen, and mineral nutrients (up to a score), and the synthesis of the proteins that will contribute to the generational doubling of biomass. Structures such as flagella, scales, and exoskeleta also have to be reallocated or copied.

2009, Klement Tockner, Gene E[lden] Likens, editors, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Academic Press, →ISBN:

Drawings supplied with NR's council application show a bridge with an exoskeleton that repeats some of the angles of Hitachi's '800' series trains which LNER and TransPennine Express run through the station.

2024 February 21, Philip Haigh, “Network News: New platforms and bridge to transform Darlington”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 12:

(anatomy) A hard outer structure that provides both structure and protection to creatures such as insects and Crustacea.


lactate

en-verb

lactate (third-person singular simple present lactates, present participle lactating, simple past and past participle lactated)

lactates (present singular third-person)
lactating (participle present)
lactated (participle past)
lactated (past)

Borrowed from Latin lactātus, perfect passive participle of lactō (“to suckle, give suck, contain milk”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lac (“milk”), cognate to Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).

(intransitive) To secrete or produce milk.


lactate

From lactic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

(chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid.


lactic

From Latin lactis (“of milk”), genitive form of lac (“milk”), with the suffix -ic.

lactic fermentation

In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […]

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

(biochemistry) Relating to, or producing, lactic acid.


suture

From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns).

af

(anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.

lebeční šev

type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull

(anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.


foramen ovale

The second point, as urged by Dr. Norman Chevere, "That a closed foramen ovale is not a proof in jurisprudence that a child has lived;" for in this case the occlusion must have existed long before birth.

1846, London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, volume 38, page 1077:

If the blood entering the right atrium from the great veins contains more emboli, some of these may pass into the left atrium by way of the incompletely closed channel at the foramen ovale.

1953, Sylvester Emanuel Gould, Pathology of the Heart, page 267:

Thus in those conditions associated with obstruction to the right side of the heart, such as tricuspid atresia or pulmonary atresia with intactventricular^([sic]) septum, the foramen ovale is necessary to provide systemic blood flow.

2009, Abraham Rudolph, Congenital Diseases of the Heart: Clinical-Physiological Considerations, Third Edition, 2013, page 282:

(medicine, anatomy, embryology) An opening in the septum between the right and left atria of the fetal heart that normally closes after birth.


apple of the eye

en-noun

apple of the eye (plural apples of the eye)

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From Middle English appel of the eyȝe, appel of þe ye, perhaps dissimilated from Middle English ij appel (literally “eye-apple”). More at eye-apple.

der

The pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball.


boy in the boat

Go in with your finger at the top parting of your genital lips and find that tiny penis, that nub, that "boy in the boat," and feel gently around it.

1992, Ruth K. Westheimer, Dr. Ruth's Guide for Married Lovers, Random House, published 1992, →ISBN, page 113:

"It's all right here, sweetie," Gretchen said, nodding down toward her open legs as she smilingly pulled the lips of her pussy apart, exposing her boy in the boat.

1997, Playthell Benjamin, “All the Things You Are”, in Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings, page 220:

2001, "Archive Poster" , "[SEXSTORY4FREE SITE] - (Group, Swingers, M+/F+) "Jack Off First"", alt.sex.stories.hetero, <3a7f98c9@news.metrolink.net.au>
"Shoot it here on my clitty," she ordered. I dropped to my knees and took aim on her girl-dick. She kept the tip of one finger against it so that I could find it, but it was so erect that it made an easy target. The pink core glistened like a little pearl at the tip. I moved closer until the head of my cock was no more than two or three inches from the boy in the boat.


cloaca

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Borrowed from Latin cloāca (“sewer”), from cluō (“cleanse; purge”).

In birds the rectum, at the termination of its canal, forms an oval or elongated pouch […] and then expands into a cavity, which has been named cloaca.

1822, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, volume I, page 7:

(anatomy, zoology) The opening in reptiles, amphibians and birds, as well as elasmobranchians, lobe-finned fishes and monotreme mammals, which serves as the common outlet for the urogenital ducts and rectum.

клоа́ка

anatomical feature of birds, reptiles, etc.

総排出腔

そうはいしゅつこう, sōhaishutsukō, そうはいしゅつくう, sōhaishutsukū

排出腔

はいしゅつこう, haishutsukō, はいしゅつくう, haishutsukū

Across this shell [sc. of bone] small holes are eaten, by which the matter escapes, and which are called cloacae (Weidmann).

1846, Joseph François Malgaigne, translated by Frederick Brittan, Manual of Operative Surgery, page 172:

(anatomy) A duct through which gangrenous material escapes a body.

(embryology) Structure in the embryo during the development of the reproductive and urinary systems.


slough

en-noun

slough (countable and uncountable, plural sloughs)

From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).

cog

This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.


slough

en-verb

slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

sloughs (present singular third-person)
sloughing (participle present)
sloughed (participle past)
sloughed (past)

This skin is being sloughed.

Snakes slough their skin periodically.

When Harper came back into the infirmary of the Hyperion, Alec was laboriously trying to pull on his pants. His burned skin had healed over the intervening day, the damaged layer sloughed off and quickly replaced thanks to SAM’s efforts, but the buildup of waste products in Alec’s body from the accelerated healing had left him with sore muscles and achy joints.

2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 16, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 293:

(transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.

A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.

The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]

2013, Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl:

1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books
The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.

An avalanche sloughing off a Utah mountainside killed a state Department of Transportation avalanche forecaster while he was surveying snow levels near a popular winter recreation area, authorities reported.

2013 April 13, Michael Mello, “Avalanche forecaster killed in Utah avalanche”, in Los Angeles Times:

(intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.


plonker

“You kept the hat! You bloody plonker!” “Fuck me.” “And now look at you, bouncing off the cars like a bouncing idiot.” “Fucking hell!” “Is he gonna be alright?”

2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (: from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory) A fool.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A penis.

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, dated) A man who sanctions sexual relationships between his girlfriend and his male friends.


diastema

en-noun

diastema (plural diastemas or diastemata)

From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek διάστημα (diástēma, “interval, space between”). Compare diastasis.

der

(zoology, anatomy) A gap between teeth of different types, e.g. incisors and molars, which is a feature of some rodents and ungulates.


heteroauxin

en-noun

heteroauxin (countable and uncountable, plural heteroauxins)

A growth-promoting hormone, 3-indoleacetic acid, occurring in some plants.


pud

Alternative form of pood (“Russian weight”)


bald-headed

en-adj

bald-headed (comparative more bald-headed, superlative most bald-headed)

more bald-headed (comparative)
most bald-headed (superlative)


intrinsic

intrinsic (comparative more intrinsic, superlative most intrinsic)

more intrinsic (comparative)
most intrinsic (superlative)

From Middle French intrinsèque, from Latin intrīnsecus (“on the inside, inwardly”), from *intrim, an assumed adverbial form of inter (“within”) + secus (“by, on the side”).

der

(anatomy, of a body part) Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.


crank

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).

John is a crank because he talks to himself.

Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.

The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest. They think that raw food is the manna of heaven.

1901 July 19, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 318:

But do you know what isn't in the school books? That old Rossum was mad. Seriously, Miss Glory, you must keep this to yourself. The old crank wanted to actually make people.

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:

(informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.


alimentary canal

en-noun

alimentary canal (plural alimentary canals)

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The mouth, oesophagus, stomach, and intestines are part of the human alimentary canal.

(anatomy) The organs of a human or other animal through which food passes; the digestive tract.


frizzy

en-adj

frizzy (comparative frizzier, superlative frizziest)

frizzier (comparative)
frizziest (superlative)

The wet weather made her hair frizzy and untidy.

Formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls; unruly or extending in all directions.

къдрав

formed of a mass of small, tight, wiry curls


prat

Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).

"She's a far better piece
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."

1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124

...they would kidnap a girl and take her back to their camp where they would pull down her knickers, hoping to find hairs on her prat.

1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39

"My prat was sore from the unfamiliar activities of the night before, but my virgin bleeding had ceased, and we rode most of the day in that unworldly haze that comes with lack of sleep."

2005, Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse, page 135:


orthodontics

From ortho- (“correct, straight”) + -odont + -ics.

affix

(medicine) A specialty of dentistry concerned with correcting misalignment of teeth.

dentistry

hypernymous from most cognitive viewpoints albeit sometimes framed as coordinate when the notion of general dentistry is implied


dentifrice

en-noun

dentifrice (countable and uncountable, plural dentifrices)

From Middle English dentifricie, from Latin dentifricium (“powder for rubbing the teeth”), from dens (“tooth”) + fricāre (“to rub”). Compare French dentifrice.

der

Toothpaste or any other substance, such as powder, for cleaning the teeth.


mesial

Irregular derivation from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos).

His pale Galilean eyes were upon her mesial groove. Venus Kallipyge. O, the thunder of those loins!

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(anatomy) Pertaining to the midline of the body.

(dentistry) Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw.


fuzz

en-noun

fuzz (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzes)

Uncertain. Some dictionaries suggest a Germanic source; compare Low German fussig (“loose; spongy”), Dutch voos (“unsound; rotten”). Others, such as Webster's New College Dictionary, suggest a back-formation from fuzzy. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests, “Perhaps imitative of the action of blowing away light particles.”

onomatopoeic

imitative

His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.

1895, Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, page 352:

Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans.

1962 July 2, Richard Petrow, “Last chance to save the Bald Eagle”, in Popular Science, volume 181, number 1, →ISSN, page 192:

"Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.

2008, Asoke Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, Boca Raton: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 94:

(computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.


fuzz

en-verb

fuzz (third-person singular simple present fuzzes, present participle fuzzing, simple past and past participle fuzzed)

fuzzes (present singular third-person)
fuzzing (participle present)
fuzzed (participle past)
fuzzed (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

(intransitive, dated) To fly off in minute particles with a fizzing sound, like water from hot metal.


-aemia

From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

(British spelling, medicine) Blood; presence in blood (of a substance denoted by an affixed combining form); state or condition of the blood.

-uria

urine; presence in urine; state or condition of urine


buccal

buccal surface of the molars

buccal branch of the facial nerve

Obtained buccal epithelium and newly drawn, uncentrifuged blood collected in an EDTA tube were used for analysis of gene expression: a control GAPDH gene and Osteocalcin gene.

2015 August 19, Mansur Rahnama et al., “Analysis of the Influence of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Osteocalcin Gene Expression in Postmenopausal Women”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:

(anatomy, dentistry, relational) Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.


asteriscus

(anatomy) One of the otoliths found in the lagena of many nonmammalian vertebrates.


furry

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An animal character with human-like characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.

獸 /兽

Someone who identifies with or as a furry character.

(informal, slang) Someone who is sexually attracted to anthropomorphic animal characters.


occlusal

(dentistry) On the side of a tooth which mates with the opposing tooth.

(dentistry) Of or relating to occlusion.


frizz

en-verb

frizz (third-person singular simple present frizzes, present participle frizzing, simple past and past participle frizzed)

frizzes (present singular third-person)
frizzing (participle present)
frizzed (participle past)
frizzed (past)

From Middle English frysen, from Old French friser, frizer (“to frizzle, crisp, curl, ruffle, braid, touch lightly, graze, scratch”), of Proto-Germanic origin, perhaps via Old Frankish *fris (“curl”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“frizzy, curly”). Cognate with Old Frisian frisle, frēsle ("the hair of the head, lock of hair, curl, ringlet"; > North Frisian friessle, fressle (“hair, horse's tail”), West Frisian frisseljen (“braid of hair, braid”)), Old English frīs (“crisped, curled”).

gloss

(intransitive) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.

with her hair frized short up to her ears

1660 December 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 22nd, 1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:

In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.

There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […]

1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.

nukkaantua

to form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth


frizz

en-noun

frizz (countable and uncountable, plural frizzes)

From Middle English fryse, from the verb. See above.

A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.


bad hair day

Audrey Hepburn
Laurence Olivier
The Daily Telegraph

Said to have been coined by British trichologist Philip Kingsley (1930–2016).

Okay, girls, here's the plan. I'll call Jerry and tell him we need to get to Tahiti A.S.A.P. Clover, you free the Bees and restore their memories. Alex, you figure out how to put an end to this very, very, very bad hair day.

2002 March 23, Michelle and Robert Lamoreaux, “The Black Widows”, in Totally Spies!, season 1, episode 16, spoken by Samantha “Sam” (Jennifer Hale), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:

(literally) A day when one's hair seems unmanageable.


dentistry

dentistry (usually uncountable, plural dentistries)

Some provision should be made for the truly suffering poor, and also for our present students of dentistry to learn something about dental surgery before commencing a profession which has almost become a science.

1905, Australian journal of dentistry, volume 9, Australian Dental Association, page 184:

A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.

1957, West's Wisconsin statutes annotated, West Publishing Company:

He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.

1997, P.B. Waite, The Lives of Dalhousie University, volume II: 1925-198, page 24:

Wig-workers were not the only tradesmen who practiced dentistry on the side, or "assumed the role" of dentist, as the arrival of a thespian dentist from London attests in this ad from Boston's Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser

2000, James Wynbrandt, The excruciating history of dentistry, page 81:

(uncountable) The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.

သွားဘက်ဆိုင်ရာပညာ

the field of medicine which studies and treats conditions of the teeth

POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services.

2009, Siobhain Ryan, “Poor access leads to DIY dentistry: dental checks”, in The Australian, sourced from Dow Jones Newswires:

This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry. He had holding pattern type dentistry done to get him by.

2011, Gregory J. Tarantola, Clinical Cases in Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry, →ISBN:

(uncountable) Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.

Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished.

1908, in the report of the Second International Congress on School Hygiene, volume 2, page 516

I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term.

2004, Gene Witiak, True Confessions of a Veterinarian: An Unconditional Love Story, page 83:

(countable) A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.

They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected.

1867, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 16, page 464:

The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries.

1918, Edward Bernard Benjamin, The larger liberalism, page 172:

As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003.

2003, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: First Review, →ISBN:

(countable) A place where dental operations are performed. (Not as common as "dentist's office". Compare surgery.)


piddle

Unknown, although possibly originally paw + -le (suffix forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement). In later use, a euphemistic diminutive of piss. The noun derives from the verb.

The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.

(British, Australia, euphemistic slang) Piss: urine.


toothpaste

toothpaste (countable and uncountable, plural toothpastes)

From tooth + paste. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskepasta (“toothpaste”), West Frisian toskpoetserguod (“toothpaste”), Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”), German Zahnpasta, Zahnpaste (“toothpaste”), Danish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Swedish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Icelandic tannkrem (“toothpaste”).

cog

A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.

you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube


pisser

From Middle English pissere; equivalent to piss + -er (agent noun). The sense referring to a urinal formed from piss + -er (patient suffix).


oxygenase

From German Oxygenase, corresponding to oxygen + -ase.

(biochemistry) An enzyme which catalyses biochemical reactions with oxygen.


orthognathous

en-adj

orthognathous (comparative more orthognathous, superlative most orthognathous)

more orthognathous (comparative)
most orthognathous (superlative)


apophysis

From Ancient Greek ἀπόφυσις (apóphusis, “offshoot”), from ἀπό (apó) + φύω (phúō, “to bring forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to exist, to grow”). Equivalent to apo- + -physis.

der

Every bone in the real duck had its representative in the automaton, and its wings were anatomically exact. Every cavity, apophysis, and curvature was imitated, and each bone executed its proper movements.

1836, E. A. Poe, Maelzel's Chess-Player:

In the male each palpal tibia shows a long narrow apophysis on the outerside.

1913, A. Randell Jackson, “On the British Spiders of the Genus Microneta”, in Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, page 128:

(anatomy) A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; a protuberance on a bone.


oxytocin

en-noun

oxytocin (countable and uncountable, plural oxytocins)

From oxytocic, from Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “swift”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”, from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”)).

af

from <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">τίκτω</i> (tíktō, “I give birth”)

Some women describe episodes of intense pleasure akin to orgasm during nursing. It would be interesting to know whether the release of oxytocin during suckling plays a role in this subjective feeling, as it may do in actual orgasm.

1994, Simon LeVay, The Sexual Brain, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 67:

MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy, greatly increases feelings of empathy (and perhaps the actual capacity to perceive the emotions of others); one of the mechanisms (oxytocin release) is now becoming understood, […]

2011, Mark A.R. Kleiman et al., Drugs and Drug Policy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

When human beings bond—by hugging, kissing, touching, having sex, eating together, giving massages, or even when singing together or speaking reassuring words—oxytocin brings us “in from the cold,” warming us—quite literally—as it redirects blood flow into hands, feet, chests and cheeks.

2012, Giles Slade, “World without oxytocin”, in Big Disconnect, Prometheus Books, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) A hormone that stimulates contractions during labor, and then the production of milk; also plays a role in social bonding.


-ad

From Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)): a suffix forming feminine nouns.

tibiad; ulnad


sagittal

Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin sagittālis, from sagitta (“an arrow, shaft, bolt”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

(anatomy) Relating to or denoting the suture on top of the skull which runs between the parietal bones in a front to back direction.

(anatomy) Of or in a plane parallel to the median plane, especially that dividing the body into left and right halves.


rutter

(now chiefly Scotland) A tool used in peat cutting or for marking off ground.


squint

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).

Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.


knob

From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob; knot in wood”), probably via Old Saxon from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knudaną (“to knead”).
Cognate with Dutch knob, knobbel (“knob”), German Knubbe, Knubbel (“knob”). See also knop. For the sense of a rounded hill, see nab and knab.

բռնակ

rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch

A hot and strong sexual odour emanated from her fanny. I extended my head and pressed my nose between her lips. I pushed my tongue into her crack and lapped up the juices. [...] Then I moved up and grasped her long clitoris in my lips and began to suck and play with it with my tongue. She thrashed around, sometimes grasping my head with her thighs, sometimes opening her legs as wide as she could, pushing my away while gripping my head in her hands and urging me on. Through it all I kept my grip on her knob until her orgasm began to subside.

2009 July, Angela Meadows, The Education of Victoria, Headline, →ISBN:

He was seriously talented, and his fingers were now sliding back and forth over her wet knob, and she was losing her mind. Almost gasping for air from the pleasure, she felt the undeniable need for her release. […] Then his fingers quickened their strokes against her swollen rose bud, […]

2011 April, Angelica Rose, Labyrinth of Passions, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 133:


cavity

Mid 16th century borrowing from Middle French cavité or Late Latin cavitās, from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”) + -tās (“-ity”, nominal suffix).

af

A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.

(anatomy) A hollow area within the body.

Jim got two cavities filled at the dentist's office yesterday.

(dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

кариес

hole and soft area in tooth caused by caries


canine

From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, dog-like”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.

In many respects she made me an admirable wife. Her affection for me was canine—positively.

1891, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands,”, in Noughts & Crosses:

I look for reflections, in your face
Canine devotion, time can't erase
Out on the corner, locked in your room
I never believe them and I never assume

2000, Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri (lyrics and music), “The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret”, in Rated R, performed by Queens of the Stone Age:

Then his upper lip may be seen to be raised, especially at the corners, so that his huge canine teeth are exhibited.

1872, Charles Darwin, chapter 10, in Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals:

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.

(medicine, obsolete) Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.


canine

Whatever the case, the pair’s adventure certainly became famous in 2016, when a large dating program of fossils and artefacts from Chauvet Cave, which included the smear of charcoal discarded by the child, confirmed that the tracks constitute the oldest unequivocal evidence of a relationship between humans and canines.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 187:

Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.

You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.

2005, Dennis Purdy, The Illustrated Guide to Texas Hold'em, page 270:

(poker slang) A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.


petal

From Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”), whence Latin pandō and Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”) (English fathom).

der

(botany) One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.

kroonblaar

one of the component parts of the corolla of a flower


grey matter

(neuroanatomy) A collection of cell bodies and (usually) dendritic connections, in contrast to white matter.


ventral

From French ventral, from Latin ventrālis, from venter (“belly, abdomen”).

ventraalinen

(anatomy) on or relating to the bottom portion of either foot and/or hand

(anatomy) On the front side of the human body, or the corresponding surface of an animal, usually the lower surface.

ventral

(anatomy) on the front side of the human body or the according surface of an animal

(anatomy) On or relating to the sole of the foot or the palmar surface of the hand.

(neuroanatomy) On the lower side of the brain.


seminiferous

en-adj

seminiferous (comparative more seminiferous, superlative most seminiferous)

more seminiferous (comparative)
most seminiferous (superlative)

From (the stem of) Latin sēmen (“semen”) + -iferous.

(anatomy) conveying, containing, bearing, or producing semen or seminal fluid


tea-bag

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The old lady had a pile of tea-bags, quarter pounds of butter, cheese, in a bag under the bed.

1990, Iain Crichton Smith, “The Old Woman, the Baby and Terry”, in Selected Stories, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 144:

There was a table in the corner with an urn of hot water on it, and a bowl of tea-bags.

1991, Frank Ronan, A Picnic in Eden, London: Sceptre, published 1992, →ISBN, book 2, pages 114–115:

She put a tea-bag into a mug and poured on boiling water. He slid off her suit jacket and she stirred her tea-bag gently and then threw it in the bin.

1999, Susan Sallis, chapter 7, in The Keys to the Garden, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 105:


tea-bag

en-verb

tea-bag (third-person singular simple present tea-bags, present participle tea-bagging, simple past and past participle tea-bagged)

tea-bags (present singular third-person)
tea-bagging (participle present)
tea-bagged (participle past)
tea-bagged (past)

(chiefly water sports) To dunk into the sea or another body of water


condyle

From French condyle, from Latin condylus, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”).

der

“It's the upper condyle of a human femur,” said I.

1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, Norton, published 2005, page 1717:

(anatomy) A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.


John Thomas

* 17th century. From the forenames John and Thomas.
* (penis): Compare dick, peter, willy and johnson.

We are disposed to think servants an ill-used class. Not only the parlor, not only querulous masters and mistresses, but the press, is against them, and finds its account in ringing the changes on flunkeys, menials, servant-girls, and John Thomases, confident in a sure topic, and safe from reprisal.

(slang, archaic) A flunkey; a male servant.


cakehole

Shut your cakehole! We've heard enough!

He shoved another sandwich down his cakehole.


pavilion

From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

(anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.

(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.


infratentorial

(anatomy) Below the tentorium cerebelli.


ricin

It had to be one of three things: A hoax. Or anthrax, which meant I’d have to go on Cipro for a month. Or if it was ricin, I was dead, so bye-bye.

2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(biochemistry, toxicology) An extremely toxic lectin extracted from the castor bean.


actinidin

en-noun

actinidin (countable and uncountable, plural actinidins)

(biochemistry) A protein-digesting enzyme present in kiwi fruit. It is also an allergen.


ogle

17th century. Probably from Low German ögeln (“to ogle, to flirt with one's eyes”), from Middle Low German ö̂gelen, frequentative of Middle Low German ö̂gen, from Old Saxon ōgian, from Proto-West Germanic *augijan (“to show”). Alternatively from an equivalent Dutch *ogelen, but this seems unattested (only the simplex ogen). In both cases equivalent to English eye + -le.

der

Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.

1997, James Gardiner, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 137:

Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law.

2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:


toothbrush

From tooth + brush. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskebäärsel (“toothbrush”), West Frisian toskboarstel (“toothbrush”), Dutch tandenborstel (“toothbrush”), German Zahnbürste (“toothbrush”), Danish tandbørste (“toothbrush”), Swedish tandborste (“toothbrush”), Icelandic tannbursti (“toothbrush”).

cog

A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.


partial

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

der

(dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth


gill

From Middle English gille, gylle (“gill”), of North Germanic origin, akin to Danish gælle, Swedish gäl, Norwegian gjelle, and further to Old Norse gjǫlnar (“lips”), which also may have had the meaning of "gills" (based on Old Danish fiskegæln (“gills”)). The Old Norse word has been suggested as deriving from Proto-Germanic *gelunō (“jaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-, which would make it root-cognate to Ancient Greek χελύνη (khelúnē, “lip, jaw”), χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”).
Displaced native Old English ċīe.

cog

(animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.


out of joint

I fell over and put my shoulder out of joint.

Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.

c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 50:


ramrod

(firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.


meta-

From Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-), from μετά (metá), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀲 (me-ta), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂ (“in the middle”).


ovule

Borrowed from French ovule (“ovum”), from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of ovolo.

(botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.

ডিম্বক

botany: structure that develops into a seed


grin

en-verb

grin (third-person singular simple present grins, present participle grinning, simple past and past participle grinned)

grins (present singular third-person)
grinning (participle present)
grinned (participle past)
grinned (past)

Before 1000 CE - From Middle English grinnen, from Old English grennian, of Germanic origin and probably related to groan. Compare to Old High German grennan (“to mutter”) and Danish grine (“to show one's teeth, to laugh”)

cog

He grinned a broad smile when I told him the result.

He grinned a cruel sneer when I begged him to stop.

(transitive) To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.


ovary

From New Latin ovarium, from Medieval Latin ovaria (“bird ovary”), from Latin ovum (“egg”). Doublet of ovarium.

The male testicles are homologous to the female ovaries.

(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.


ligament

From Middle English ligament, from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”).

It so chanced that at this juncture the decayed ligaments of the skeleton gave way, and the dry bones fell together in a heap, thus causing the dusty wreath of cypress to drop upon the table.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Christmas Banquet”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

(anatomy) A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.

ligament

band of strong tissue that holds the bones of an animal in position


ocular

Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).

The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument, i.e., the optical element closest to the eye.


tassel

From Middle English tassel, from Old French tassel, from Latin taxillus (“small cube”), from tālus (“ankle”).

(botany) The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.


protraction

en-noun

protraction (countable and uncountable, plural protractions)

(anatomy) An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb.


toponym

Back-formation from toponymy. By surface analysis, topo + -nym.

(anatomy) The technical designation of any region of an animal.


yearning

yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)

PIE word
 *ḱóm
From earlier yerning, from Middle English yernyng, erning, renning. From Old English rynning and gerunnen, geurnen (“run together, coagulated, curdled”), past participles of gerinnan, geirnan, respectively. Influenced by Middle English yern (“to (cause to) coagulate or curdle”), Old English iernan (“to run, flow”), metathesized forms derived from the same origin. From verbal prefix ge- + rinnan (“to run”). First element is from Proto-West Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Germanic *ga-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“with, by”); second element is from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥-néw-ti, from *h₃er- (“to move”). Doublet of rennet, run.

m+

(Scotland, archaic) rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).


evil eye

/ˌiːvl̩‿ˈaɪ/

From Middle English ivel eie (“evil eye; envy”), from Old English eage yfel, a calque of Latin oculus malus, from oculus (“eye”) + malus (“bad, evil, wicked; destructive, hurtful, injurious; unfavourable, unlucky”).

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Edited with Introduction and Glossary from the Royal MS. 7 C iv. in the British Museum by E. W. Rhodes, M.A. Langton Fellow of the Owens College, Victoria University, Manchester

Each of the young men, in saluting the new-comer, made mechanically, and with care to conceal it from him, a slight gesture or sign with their fingers; for Arbaces, the Egyptian, was supposed to possess the fatal gift of the evil eye.

1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Blind Flower-girl, and the Beauty of Fashion.—The Athenian’s Confession.—The Reader’s Introduction to Arbaces of Egypt.”, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book I, page 25:

The ὀφθαλμὸς βάσκανος, or evil eye, is frequently mentioned by ancient writers. […] Various amulets were used to avert the influence of the evil eye. The most common of these appears to have been the phallus, called by the Romans fascinum, which was hung round the necks of children (turpicula res).

1842, Charles Anthon, “FA′SCINUM”, in edited by William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities […], 3rd American edition, New York, N.Y., Cincinnati, Oh.: American Book Company, published 1843, →OCLC, pages 431–432, column 1:

A common dread was the evil eye, and the chief charm against it was in the form of a knotted cord woven by a "wise woman".

1936, Rollo Ahmed, “The Ancient Magic of the East”, in The Black Art, London: Senate, Studio Editions, published 1994, →ISBN, page 26:

A wicked look conveying dislike or envy that in many cultures is believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; also, the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look, supposed to be possessed by some people.

syri i keq

wicked look conveying dislike or envy believed to be able to cause bad luck or injury; the ability to cause bad luck or injury through such a look

Isma laughed, but Hira drew her shoulders in tighter, reached out to touch the evil eye that hung on her wall and which Isma had always assumed to be merely decorative.

2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 11:

The charm used to ward off the evil eye; a nazar.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 7:21–23, column 1:

[A] Noble Venetian, vvho is ſtill a Merchant, told me, they vvill ſpeedily find out ſome Method to redreſs it; probably by making a free Port, for they look vvith an Evil Eye upon Leghorne, that dravvs to it moſt of the Veſſels bound for Italy.

1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Venice”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 84:

If you tell me, "Good morning" / I'm gonna tell you, "That's a lie" / If you say I'm old, baby / I'm gonna give you the evil eye

1964 February 18, Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather (lyrics and music), “Evil Gal Blues”, in Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington, performed by Aretha Franklin, New York, N.Y.: Columbia Records, →OCLC:

(often humorous) A look conveying disapproval, envy, hostility, etc.


volar

(anatomy) Pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.


maidenhead

en-noun

maidenhead (countable and uncountable, plural maidenheads)

Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:


crown jewels

The whole crowd cringed as he got kicked in his crown jewels.


profunda

(anatomy) A deep-seated artery, as of the arm, neck, or leg.


sanguinary

en-adj

sanguinary (comparative more sanguinary, superlative most sanguinary)

more sanguinary (comparative)
most sanguinary (superlative)

/ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/

/ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/

From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.

We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.

1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview)

"[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."

1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XIII, in Allan Quatermain:

It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country. China had substantial grievances against the peninsula kingdom. In the year A.D. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.

1933, “The Korean War and the Closing Years A.D. 645-50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty, Cambridge University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:


blink

en-verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

blinks (present singular third-person)
blinking (participle present)
blinked (participle past)
blinked (past)

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English blincan (suggested by causative verb blenċan (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkaną, a variant of *blīkaną (“to gleam, shine”).
Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

blikat

to flash on and off at regular intervals

One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame.

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.

To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.


blink

en-noun

blink (countable and uncountable, plural blinks)

(video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances


gliadin

gliadin (countable and uncountable, plural gliadins)

Coordinate term: glutenin

Most of the gluten proteins, the gliadins and the glutenins, are around a thousand amino acids long. The gliadin chains fold onto themselves in a compact mass, and bond weakly with each other and with the glutenin proteins.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

A minor protein (along with gluten and glutelin) in wheat; it may cause a toxic reaction in some people.


glutelin

A minor protein (along with gluten and gliadin) in wheat.


maltase

maltase (countable and uncountable, plural maltases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose; often associated with amylase.

maltáza

an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of maltose to glucose


haired

en-adj

haired (comparative more haired, superlative most haired)

more haired (comparative)
most haired (superlative)

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.

1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:

He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.

1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205:

Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.

2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:

Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.


agog

agog (comparative more agog, superlative most agog)

more agog (comparative)
most agog (superlative)

From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).

Cotton Mather came galloping down
All the way to Newbury town,
With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,
And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;

1860, John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury”, in Home Ballads:

. . . and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.

1894, Ford Madox Ford, The queen who flew: a fairy tale, page 41:

People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement . . .

1940, Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress, page 9:

Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens.

1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, page 190:


nads

Do you really have the ’nads to go through with this?


crusty

From Middle English, equivalent to crust + -y.

Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.

1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation,, →ISBN, page 155:

Jesus, how could I bear the sight of him—sleep crusties lodged in the corners of his rheumy eyes, a puff of chest hair cresting like meringue over the top of his V-neck sweater, khakis jacked up to his breastbone—when I was used to looking at the singularly lovely Isabella?

2003, Mary O'Connell, “Saint Anne”, in Living with Saints, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 209:

I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room.

2005, Jeffrey Dinsmore, I, an Actress: The Autobiography of Karen Jamey, Contemporary Press, page 51


uvula

en-noun

uvula (plural uvulae or uvulas or (obsolete) uvulæ)

uvulae (plural)
uvulas (plural)
uvulæ (obsolete plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin ūvula, diminutive of ūva (“grape”).

(anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine uvula.: the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing

palatine uvula

(anatomy) the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate


amylase

amylase (countable and uncountable, plural amylases)

egg yolk amylase

Egg yolks contain a starch-digesting enzyme, amylase, that is remarkably resistant to heat. Unless a starch-egg mix is brought to a full boil, the yolk amylase will survive, digest the starch, and turn the stiff cream into a pourable one.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 2, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) Any of a class of digestive enzymes, present in saliva and also contributed to the gut by the exocrine pancreas, that break down complex carbohydrates such as starch into simpler sugars such as glucose.

amilasa

enzyme, present in saliva, that breaks down carbohydrates such as starch


bollock

From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.

inh

You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.

(British, Ireland, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.


dead end

Cut the ends of the hair once a month certain — no matter if you do cut but just the tips of a fourth of an inch, cut it. Cut off the dead ends every month as regularly as the new moon comes round.

1890, The Young Lady's Private Counselor, page 208:


jizz

(vulgar slang) Male ejaculate; sperm, semen.


spunk

en-noun

spunk (usually uncountable, plural spunks)

→ Irish: sponc

1530, blend of spark + funk (obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia (“sponge”).
Funk (“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke (“spark”), from Old English *funca (“spark”), from Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô (“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng- (“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke (“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke (“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko (“spark”), German Funke (“spark”).

der

We are welcomed by 20 year old spunks, as we make a last valiant attempt with our bodies - gasp, gasp - and try to get back in shape.

2005, Sue Austin, Women′s Aggressive Fantasies: A Post-Jungian Exploration of Self-Hatred, Love and Agency, UK: Routledge, page 166:

(countable, UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attractive person (normally male).


albumin

en-noun

albumin (countable and uncountable, plural albumins)

Borrowed from French albumine, from Latin albumen. Compare albumen.

(biochemistry) Any of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.


periderm

(botany) The outer layer of plant tissue comprising the phellem, phellogen and the phelloderm.


bile

bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)

Mid 16th century, via Middle French, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).

A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.

1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott:

He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.

1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft:

Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.


bile

Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


bile

en-verb

bile (third-person singular simple present biles, present participle biling or bileing, simple past and past participle biled)

biles (present singular third-person)
biling (participle present)
bileing (participle present)
biled (participle past)
biled (past)

We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]

1912, Stella George Stern Perry, Melindy, page 130:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


dipstick

dipstick (third-person singular simple present dipsticks, present participle dipsticking, simple past and past participle dipsticked)

dipsticks (present singular third-person)
dipsticking (participle present)
dipsticked (participle past)
dipsticked (past)

If one of the fuel gauges is inoperative (flight is not permitted if both have failed), the tanks have to be dipsticked before and after each fueling to confirm the aircraft's fuel status.

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering) To measure the level of a fluid using a dipstick.


red blood cell

(hematology, cytology) A type of cell in the blood of vertebrates that contains hemoglobin and transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues; an erythrocyte.

كُرَيَّةُ دَمٍ حَمْرَاء

haemoglobin-carrying blood cell in vertebrates


buildup

en-noun

buildup (countable and uncountable, plural buildups)

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Blocking undercuts out with bonded flowable composite is an option, but the time involved doing a buildup, plus the additional complication to provisionalize, make this option less desirable (Figure 6.19e).

2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry, page 103:

(dentistry) The construction of a composite core to repair a damaged tooth.


urn

From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.

(botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.


bell-end

(UK, Ireland, slang, vulgar) The glans penis.

I don't care who he is: he's acting like a bell-end.

is that onion badgies, you meant. or perhaps you are referring to that infamous collection of bellends, known as w.b.a. (win bugger all). it seems they are doing quite well, although they are playing against part-timers. quit

1992 September 28, A. Dowson, “Re: West Bromwich Albion”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet), retrieved 2017-08-03, message-ID <92272.160610ADOWSON@ESTEC.BITNET>:

(UK, Ireland, slang, offensive, vulgar) A stupid or contemptible person.


vestibule

Early 17th century, borrowed from French vestibule (“entrance court”), from Latin vestibulum (“forecourt, entrance court; entrance”), from vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) + -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix). Doublet of vestibulum.

նախասրահ

small entrance hall before main hall or lobby

(anatomy) Any of a number of body cavities or channels, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.

The central cavity of the bony labyrinth of the inner ear or the parts (such as the saccule and utricle) of the membranous labyrinth that it contains.

The part of the left ventricle below the aortic orifice.

The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-defined vestibule.

2001, René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Treatment, page 79:

The part of the mouth outside the teeth and gums.

She spread her labia further, both sets of lips protecting the vestibule, the delicate area between them.

2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 318:

vulval vestibule
vulval vestibule#English

Clipping of vulval vestibule: the space in the vulva between the labia minora and into which both the urethra and vagina open.

vulval vestibule

The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.

1838, Joseph Garland, “Formation of the Ear”, in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 17, page 333:

The Vestibule (vestibulum nasi). — The paired vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa.

1920, Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, Paranasal Sinuses, Nasolacrimal Passageways, and Olfactory Organ in Man: A Genetic, Developmental, and Anatomico-physiological Consideration, page 73:


butterface

Ellipsis of various forms of everything looks good but her face, great body but her face, etc., under the influence of butter (perhaps also with connotation of “plainness”, grease, etc.) and buttface, which see. Compare summerteeth.

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

I can’t even look at her, she’s such a butterface.

Her face wasn't quite as pretty as he had hoped — Earl, the other mechanic back at his father's place called this kind of girl a Butterface...

2010, Laura Lippman, I'd Know You Anywhere, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 76:

(slang, derogatory) A person who has an attractive body but a less attractive face.

背影殺手 /背影杀手

attractive person with unattractive face


toponymy

en-noun

toponymy (countable and uncountable, plural toponymies)

(anatomy) The nomenclature of anatomical regions.


womanhood

womanhood (countable and uncountable, plural womanhoods)

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From Middle English womanhoode, wommanhod, whomanhode, variants of wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -hood.

же́нственост

qualities considered typical for a woman

Easing down to her panties slowly as if investigating a carrier of a dangerous plague, both hands were quivering like it was contagious while feeling extraordinarily alarmed, he commenced to inspect her womanhood.

2007, Mark A. Cherpak, Circle of Fear: Uncharted Worlds, page 264:

(euphemistic) The female genitalia, especially the vulva.


ridge

From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).

inh

He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid[…]

1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, pages 237–238:

(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.


stretcher

The jointed stretcher is used in place of the sectional bottom board, with two sideboards, one each side of stretcher. The boat set up this way only weights 20 pounds, and makes a very convenient boat for trout-fishing, duck-hunting, or exploring in ponds or streams where the paddle will do as well as the oars.

1884, J. W. Collins, Bulletin of the United States National Museum: Great International Fisheries Exhibition, page 703:

Directly the oar has been disengaged from the water, all pressure on the stretcher ceases, and the strain of the recovery of the body is eased by a slight pull with the feet on the straps of the stretcher.

1900, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Young Sportsman, page 479:

Betwean each beam of the boat is also fastened a piece of timber called a stretcher or footspur, against which they place their feet when rowing, to enable them to have a more complete command of their oar.

1909, Samuel McSkimin, The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, from the Earliest Records Till 1839, page 362:

Each rower's feet are set in shoes which are secured in the boat in a stretcher (or foot board) set into a fixed position to suit the length of the rower's legs.

2003, J. Alswang, The South African Dictionary of Sport, page 203:

[…] these seem to indicate a thwart, foot-timber (stretcher), thole-pin combination for rowing.

2014, Sean Mcgrail, Ancient Boats in North-West Europe, page 80:

(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.

jalkatuki

nautical: board against which a rower places his feet


dandruff

en-noun

dandruff (usually uncountable, plural dandruffs)

The word is first attested in 1545; the first element is obscure, but compare Yorkshire dialect, dander (skin scurf). The second element derives from a Northumbrian or East Anglian term huff or hruff, hurf (“scab”), from Old Norse hrufa. Compare Dutch roof, Luxembourgish Roff. Related with Proto-Germanic *hreubaz, *hreufaz (“rough, scabby”), source of Old English hrēofla (“leprosy, leper”). More at reef (etymology 3).

Dandruff is on my collar again.

scaly white dead skin flakes from the human scalp; Pityriasis capitis


hard-on

Look at this place! I'm in hell! I may never get a hard-on again!

1997, Face/Off, spoken by Castor Troy (John Travolta):

(slang, vulgar) An erection of the penis.


vulva

vulva (plural vulvas or vulvae or vulvæ)

vulvas (plural)
vulvae (plural)
vulvæ (plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, earlier volva (“womb, female sexual organ”), probably from volvō (“to turn, wrap around”). Akin to Sanskrit उल्ब (úlba, “womb”).

labioscrotal swelling - embryological precursors

The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:

Many of the less-sophisticated works are sexual in nature. Among the most common images are stylised vulvas, whole flocks of which appear on some cave walls.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 216:

(anatomy) The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening.

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collectively the external female sexual organs


rictus

His face was a rictus of sheer delight.

Amid a thick, bristling beard, a nose like an owl's beak and a mouth whose corners were drawn by a wild-beast-like rictus were just discernible.

1899, Victor Hugo, translated by Paul Maurice, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo:

A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.

1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

Sword and shield, bone and steel / Rictus grin / Deaf forever to the battle's din

1986, “Deaf Forever”, performed by Motörhead:

Valves plugs pumps to erase/ rictus from my face.

1990, “Nothingface”, performed by Voivod:

The absolute incarnation of evil, Adolf Hitler, lies at your feet in a pool of his own blood. His wrinkled, crimson-splattered visage still strains, a jagged-toothed rictus trying to cry out. Insane even in death. Your lips pinched in bitter victory, you kick his head off his remains and spit on his corpse.

1993, Wolfenstein 3D, scene: after defeating Hitler (episode 3), level/area: 9:

It squinted at her through the hated light, its brow a rictus of pain and fear.

2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 56:

The apprentice watched his Master, pain twisting his features into a rictus.

2008, Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, page 81:


flip

en-verb

flip (third-person singular simple present flips, present participle flipping, simple past and past participle flipped)

flips (present singular third-person)
flipping (participle present)
flipped (participle past)
flipped (past)

Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”).

inh

The mafioso flipped on his superiors to get a lighter sentence.

(intransitive, US) To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.

The district attorney was able to strengthen his case against the bank robber by flipping the getaway driver.

(transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.


tawny

en-noun

tawny (countable and uncountable, plural tawnies or tawnys)

From Middle English tauni, tawne (“brownish-orange colour; cloth of this colour; sweet beverage of this colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“tan colour; cloth of this colour”), from tané (verb): see further at etymology 1.
Sense 2.1 (“Eurasian bullfinch”) is due to the brown colour of the female.

kellanruskea

something of a light brown or brownish orange colour


vas deferens

From New Latin vās dēferēns, itself from vās (“vessel, duct”) + dēferēns (“carrying off”, present active participle of dēferō (“to carry off”)).

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(anatomy) The duct in the testicle that carries semen from the epididymis to the ejaculatory duct.


ventral tegmentum

ventral tegmentum (canonical)
ventral tegmental area (canonical)

(neuroanatomy) A part of the midbrain, close to the substantia nigra and the red nucleus, that contains dopamine and serotonin.

(neuroanatomy) The part of the mesencephalon that projects to the nucleus accumbens via the mesolimbic pathway and to the cortex via the mesocortical pathway


nook

From Middle English noke, nok (“nook, corner, angle”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English hnoc, hnocc (“hook, angle”), from Proto-Germanic *hnukkaz, *hnukkô (“a bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *knewg- (“to turn, press”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“to pinch, press, bend”).
If so, then also related to Scots nok (“small hook”), Norwegian dialectal nok, nokke (“hook, angle, bent object”), Danish nok (“hook”), Swedish nock (“ridge”), Faroese nokki (“crook”), Icelandic hnokki (“hook”), Dutch nok (“ridge”) or Dutch hoek (“corner”), Low German Nocke (“tip”), Old Norse hnúka (“to bend, crouch”), Old English ġehnycned (“drawn, pinched, wrinkled”). Also cognate with Scots neuk, nuk (“corner, angle of a square, angular object”).

cog

i NEEEEEEEED A NICE BIG HIGH8LOODED 8ULGE UP MY NOOK THIS SECOND!

2012 April 29, lucretiasgf (@furiosasgf), Twitter:

Vriska is too trashy to shave her nook.

2012 December 22, Harveh (@TemporalHipster), Twitter:

the vriska i roleplay specifically just has a nook because i like drawin vaginas.

(Homestuck fandom slang, vulgar) The vagina-like genitalia of a troll, featured in Homestuck fanworks but not in canon.


widow's peak

en-noun

widow's peak (plural widow's peaks or widows' peaks)

widow's peaks (plural)
widows' peaks (plural)

“I like your hair,” Grace said, gently pulling at the clump standing armed sentinel over my widow's peak. “It's honest.”

2010, Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story, Random House, →ISBN, page 154:

A descending V-shaped point in the hairline in the middle of the forehead.


beer belly

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A protruding belly caused by excess fat stored in the abdomen and colloquially attributed to the consumption of beer.