divorce bill

In part, this is because it is impossible to know what the UK’s divorce bill will be until the EU knows what the relationship looks likes after 2019: if the UK seeks to stay as a paying member within some programmes, for example, that would reduce the bill.

2017 June 20, Daniel Boffey, “Brexit divorce bill: what is it and how does it affect talks?”, in The Guardian:

Theresa May has told MPs the UK could withhold payment of its £39bn Brexit "divorce bill" if a deal is not reached with Brussels.

2018 September 13, Alec McGuinness, “Theresa May says UK might not pay Brexit 'divorce bill' in 'no-deal' scenario”, in Sky News:

The Brexit party revealed plans today to slash the foreign aid budget and withhold the £39billion so-called 'divorce bill' from the EU if it takes power.

2019 November 1, David Wilcock, “Cut the foreign aid budget and don't give Brussels a penny of the £39billion 'divorce bill' - the Brexit Party reveals its general election manifesto”, in The Daily Mail:

The UK's Brexit divorce bill could soar to £42.5 billion after the Treasury increased its estimate of the payments owed to the European Union by more than £5 billion.

2022 July 21, Sam Blewett, “Brexit Divorce Bill Could Soar to £42.5 Billion as Treasury Boosts Estimate”, in Bloomberg:

(UK politics) The payment to be given to the EU on the UK's exit of the European Union, estimated at around £39bn.


Baalbeki

en-adjective

Baalbeki (comparative more Baalbeki, superlative most Baalbeki)

more Baalbeki (comparative)
most Baalbeki (superlative)


Baalbeki

بَعْلَبَكِّيّ

a person from, or an inhabitant of, Baalbek


Micaella

A female given name of rare usage, variant of Michaela.


Staggers

Jocular modification of Stephen + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

(Oxford University slang, archaic) St Stephen's House, Oxford.


Laboya

From Laboya Laboya, from the de-prenasalization of earlier Lamboya.

Moro in Laboya language means "Owner, master". The "Master of the feast" is a translation of the Indonesian "Tuan Pesta", a term which West Sumbanese use when they speak Indonesian. When speaking Laboya, different terms are used, according to the type of feast which is given.

1987, Danielle Geirnaert, “Hunt Wild Pig and Grow Rice: On Food Exchanges and Values in Laboya, West Sumba (Eastern Indonesia)”, in Rob de Ridder, Jan A. J. Karremans, editors, The Leiden Tradition in Structural Anthropology: Essays in Honour of P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 121:

For example, in the Laboya language, which is spoken by a community who are neighbors of the Kodi in western Sumba, nyale is the word for "seaworms" while nare refers to an inedible kind of seaworm that Laboya people say causes an itchy reaction if eaten.

2017, Cynthia T. Fowler, chapter 3, in Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia, London: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 48:

An Austronesian language spoken in the Sumba island in eastern Indonesia.


Naufal

From Arabic نَوْفَل (nawfal), meaning "extremely generous". It can also mean "handsome young man" or "sea" or "ocean".


post-Brexit

In a step that may stoke concerns in Britain that Brexit could hasten the fragmentation of the UK, diplomats are planning to ask leaders of the EU’s 27 post-Brexit member countries to endorse the idea in a summit on Saturday.

2017 April 28, Alex Barker, Arthur Beesley, Vincent Boland, “EU prepares for post-Brexit membership for united Ireland”, in The Financial Times:

Senior EU figures have attacked Theresa May’s post-Brexit immigration plan with the president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, signalling that he expects a row with the British prime minister at an upcoming “moment of truth” summit.

2018 October 2, Daniel Boffey, “EU anger over May's post-Brexit immigration plan”, in The Guardian:

Tens of thousands of low-skilled migrants could come to the UK to work for up to a year under proposed new post-Brexit immigration rules. The measure, which would last until 2025, is intended to protect parts of the economy reliant on overseas labour.

2018 December 19, “Immigration: White Paper sets out post-Brexit rules for migrants”, in the BBC:

Theresa May's government consistently rejected proposals and amendments to the 2018 Withdrawal Act to maintain current rights and protections post-Brexit. She appeared content to see the back of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, a huge loss which would mean less power to protect rights for women, and also to do away with the 2006 and 2010 Equalities Acts.

2019 November 25, Mary Honeyball, “Boris Johnson's Brexit day would be a dark day for women”, in The New European, archived from the original on 2019-11-27:

Member states, MEPs and the new EU commission are all gearing up to launch a discussion on the future of post-Brexit Europe early next year.

2019 November 26, Eszter Zalan, “EU gears up for post-Brexit renovation”, in The EU Observer:

‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit [title]

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

(European politics) Referring to the time after the UK leaves the EU.


Jaidyn

A unisex given name originating as a coinage, variant of Jayden.


Soham

Transliteration of Hindi सोहम (soham) or Bengali সোহম (śōhom).


Isfahani

A person from, or an inhabitant of, Isfahan.


Clitus

From Ancient Greek κλειτός (kleitós), from κλέω (kléō, “to celebrate”) + -τος (-tos, verbal adjective suffix).


Arch

A diminutive of the male given names Archibald or Archie.


Kait

A diminutive of the female given name Kaitlyn.


Xbone

Abbreviation of Xbox One for quicker use on Twitter.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Xbone.wav

(video games, slang) Abbreviation of Xbox One.


Xbone

Blend of Xbox + bone, variously from the idea that Microsoft was "boning" their customers with their planned digital rights management and game licensing policies for the Xbox One, or from the idea that Microsoft was "throwing a bone to" gamers by changing their controversial digital rights management and game licensing policies for the Xbox One. May also have been coined from Microsoft's press conference during E3 2013, during which Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft Studios at the time, partially obscures the Xbox One wordmark placed behind him.

(slang, video games, derogatory) Synonym of Xbox One


angelic salutation

en-noun

angelic salutation (plural angelic salutations)


Irminones

From Ancient Greek Ἑρμίονες (Hermíones).

Herminones (alternative)
Hermiones (alternative)

(historical) A large group of early Germanic tribes who settled in the Elbe watershed and by the 1st century AD had expanded into Bavaria, Swabia and Bohemia.


Cumbric

From Cumbria + -ic under influence from Welsh Cymraeg (“Welsh (language)”). Doublet of Cymric.

A Brythonic-Celtic language (code xcb) closely related to Welsh that was spoken in Northern England and Southern Scotland but went extinct in perhaps the 13th century.


APNI

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

(UK politics) Abbreviation of Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.


Myrt

A diminutive of the female given name Myrtle.


African American Vernacular English

Alternative form of African-American Vernacular English


Berytian

Berytians (plural)
Berytan (alternative)
Berytean (alternative)

From Berytus + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from, related to, or like’; or ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’). Berytus is derived from Latin Bērȳtus, from Ancient Greek Βηρῡτός (Bērūtós), from a Semitic source.

suffix

So that whether the Hermippus, whom he ſo frequently quotes, was the Smyrnean or the Berytian, is not always certain, and for the moſt part, can only be collected from Circumſtances and Conjecture.

1736, [Charles Hayes], A Vindication of the History of the Septuagint from the Misrepresentations of the Learned Scaliger, Dupin, Dr. Hody, Dr. Prideaux, and Other Modern Criticks, London: […] T. Woodward, […], →OCLC, page 42:

Nonnus, the poet of Panopolis in Egypt, records this claim of the Berytians in verses [...]

1846, John Dudley, “On Cave Temples”, in Naology: Or, A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, and Symbolical Import of the Sacred Structures of the Most Eminent Nations and Ages of the World, London: F[rancis] and J[ohn] Rivington, […]; Leicester, Leicestershire: J. S. Crossley, →OCLC, page 289:

It is scarcely possible to attribute to it any other use but that of a basilica, a large public hall, where the Phœnician merchants were in the habit of congregating, probably for commercial transactions. It may have been the Exchange of the Berytans.

1854, F[élicien] de Saulcy, chapter I, in Edward de Warren, editor, Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands; […], new (2nd) edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13:

Sanchuniathon also, a Sidonian according to some, according to others a Syrian, and to others a Berytean, is said to have lived before or during the time of the Trojan war.

1877, Max[imilian Wolfgang] Duncker, “The Religious Rites of the Canaanites”, in Evelyn Abbott, transl., The History of Antiquity. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], →OCLC, page 352:

In the commercial, social and religious activities of Delos, the Berytians occupied a position second only to that of the Italians.

1951, Philip K[huri] Hitti, “Trade and Industry”, in History of Syria: Including Lebanon and Palestine, London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part III (The Greco-Roman Period), page 274:

If we widen the search for evidence to take in the undated, but Hellenistic, inscriptions recording the presence of Berytians, the picture is less restricted geographically, but equally instructive commercially.

1991, John D. Grainger, Hellenistic Phoenicia, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 209:

At the time of the Messiah Jesus, Tyre had such a large number of Syrians (Arameans), Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Berytians, Aradians, Tripolitanians, Egyptians and Sareptians that there is no evidence, even according to the archaeological finds, that inhabitants had Tyrian/Phoenician blood.

2004, Martiniano Pelligrino Roncaglia, In the Footsteps of Jesus, the Messiah, in Phoenicia/Lebanon: […], Beirut: Arab Institute for East and West Studies, →OCLC, page 68:

(historical) A native or inhabitant of Berytus (“the ancient city of Beirut”).


Barbadan

en-adj

Barbadan (comparative more Barbadan, superlative most Barbadan)

more Barbadan (comparative)
most Barbadan (superlative)


Photius

From Latin Photius, from Ancient Greek Φώτιος (Phṓtios).

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Photios I of Constantinople.


Heads of the Valleys Road

The A465 trunk road in Wales, so-called for at least part of its length as it crosses the tops of the South Wales Valleys.


Tamsyn

Alternative spelling of Tamsin. A female given name.


Dallasite

From Dallas + -ite (“native or resident of a specified place”).


Fenchurch Street

Fenchurch Street
Fenchurch Street railway station

(rail transport) A relatively small railway terminus near the above street, which has train services to southern Essex.


Guinevieve

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Guinevieve.


Algiz

Learned borrowing from Proto-Germanic *algiz (“elk”). Doublet of alce.

lbor

Algiz is a solid, stable, and very firm rune. It makes a good fence or wall, and functions nicely to guard one's Wyrd and one's property.

2009, Galina Krasskova, Runes: Theory & Practice, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 95:

Algiz, one of the oldest runes, associated with sedge grass, and Thor, and Heimdall, and a number of other things depending on who you asked and which runic alphabet you used. Algiz had a universal meaning: protection.

2011, Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays, Penguin, →ISBN, page 73:

Hold up the stone and trace the Algiz rune in the air before you. Visualize it as glowing with white, purifying light. As you do so, growl the word Algiz.

2020, Denny Sargent, Werewolf Magick: Authentic Practical Lycanthropy, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

The 15th rune in the Elder Futhark, the 7th rune in Hagal's Aett, ⟨ᛉ⟩.


Plum Book

From the color of its cover, and perhaps a pun on plum (“cushy position, sinecure”).

(US, informal) United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, a publication listing presidentially appointed positions within the federal government.


Hienadz

Гена́дзь Генадзь#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Гена́дзь (Hjenádzʹ).


Henadz

Гена́дзь Генадзь#Belarusian


Yahor

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Яго́р (Jahór).


Ihar

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name І́гар (Íhar).


Mikalai

Мікала́й Мікалай#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Мікала́й (Mikaláj).


Ihnat

Ігна́т Ігнат#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Ігна́т (Ihnát).


Piatro

Пятро́ Пятро#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Пятро́ (Pjatró).


Leanid

Леані́д Леанід#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Леані́д (Ljeaníd).


Aliaksandr

Aliaksandrs (plural)
Alyaksandr (alternative)

Алякса́ндр Аляксандр#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Алякса́ндр (Aljaksándr).


Alyaksandr

Alyaksandrs (plural)
Aliaksandr (alternative)

Алякса́ндр Аляксандр#Belarusian


Bahdan

Багда́н Багдан#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Багда́н (Bahdán).


Aleh

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Але́г (Aljéh), equivalent to Oleg.


Artsiom

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Арцём (Arcjóm).


Arkadziy

Arkadziys (plural)
Arkadzii (alternative)

ZHURAUSKI Arkadziy, b. 5 Aug 1924, Yanova, Byelorussia. Philologist; Scientific Worker.

1993–1994, Dictionary of International Biography, 22nd edition, Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, →ISBN, page 751:

SCIENTISTS OF BELARUS¶ Arkadziy Iosifovich Zhurausky (To the 85th anniversary)

2009, Vjesci Nacyjanalʹnaj akademii navuk Bjelarusi: Sjeryja humanitarnyx navuk (overall work in Belarusian), Minsk: Bjelaruskaja navuka, →OCLC, table of contents, page 3:

Арка́дзій Аркадзій#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Арка́дзій (Arkádzij).


Arkadzii

Arkadziis (plural)
Arkadziy (alternative)

Zhurauski (Zhuravskii), Arkadzii losifovich, he received his first degree in philology in 1965 or earlier. His writings include Гісторыя беларускай літаратурнай мовы (1967), and he edited Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы (1982). lc

2004, Wolfgang Behn, Concise biographical companion to Index Islamicus, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 694:

Note, in particular, that the complete Metrika encompassed more than 550 volumes, with materials from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, most of which before 1600 were written in Old Belarusian. Cf. A. I. Zhuravskii (Arkadzii Iosifavich Zhuravski, b. 1924), “Деловая письменность в системе старобеларусского литературного языка," Восточнославянское и общее языкознание (Moscow: Nauka, 1978), 185-91.

2007, Lawrence N. Langer, Peter B. Brown, editors, Festschrift for Richard Hellie (Russian History/Histoire Russe; 34), part 1, →OCLC, page 92:

Arkadzii Yushyn, Belarusian-American composer and guitarist, was playing life throughout the play. In the climax of Ulad’s story, Arkadzii was playing the Belarusian tune Kupalinka, a song about night, loss and tears.

2012 October 10, “Trash Cuisine by the Belarusian Free Theater premiere in Amsterdam”, in Civil Initiative We Remember, archived from the original on 2016-07-12:

Bulyka, Aliaksandr Mikalaevich, Arkadzii Iosifavich Zhuraŭski & Ivan Ihnatavich Kramko. 1979. Histarychnaia marfalohiia belaruskai movy [Historical morphology of the Belarusian language]. Minsk: Navuka i tekhnika.

2022, Christina Y. Bethin, “Stress, gender, and declension class in Belarusian”, in Linguistics, volume 60, number 1, De Gruyter Mouton, →ISSN:

Арка́дзій Аркадзій#Belarusian


Aliaksei

Aliakseis (plural)
Alyaksei (alternative)
Alyaksey (alternative)

Аляксе́й Аляксей#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Аляксе́й (Aljaksjéj).


Alyaksey

Alyakseys (plural)
Aliaksei (alternative)
Alyaksei (alternative)

Аляксе́й Аляксей#Belarusian


Bahuslau

Багусла́ў Багуслаў#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Багусла́ў (Bahusláŭ).


Hauryla

Гаўры́ла Гаўрыла#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Гаўры́ла (Haŭrýla).


Radzivon

Радзіво́н Радзівон#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Радзіво́н (Radzivón).


Ryhor

Рыго́р Рыгор#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Рыго́р (Ryhór).


Yakau

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Я́каў (Jákaŭ).


Yakiv

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Я́ків (Jákiv).


Mykyta

Мики́та Микита#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Мики́та (Mykýta).


Branislau

Бранісла́ў Браніслаў#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Бранісла́ў (Branisláŭ).


Viktar

Ві́ктар Віктар#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Ві́ктар (Víktar).


Vadzim

Вадзі́м Вадзім#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Вадзі́м (Vadzím).


Uladzislau

Уладзісла́ў Уладзіслаў#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Уладзісла́ў (Uladzisláŭ).


Uladzimir

Уладзі́мір Уладзімір#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Уладзі́мір (Uladzímir).


Siamion

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Сямён (Sjamjón).


Semen

en-proper noun

Semen (countable and uncountable, plural Semens)

Семе́н Семен#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Семе́н (Semén).


Siarhei

-s (plural)
Syarhei (alternative)
Syarhey (alternative)

Сярге́й Сяргей#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Сярге́й (Sjarhjéj).


Syarhei

-s (plural)
Siarhei (alternative)
Syarhey (alternative)

Сярге́й Сяргей#Belarusian


Syarhey

-s (plural)
Siarhei (alternative)
Syarhei (alternative)

Сярге́й Сяргей#Belarusian


Alyaksei

Alyakseis (plural)
Aliaksei (alternative)
Alyaksey (alternative)

Аляксе́й Аляксей#Belarusian


Fiodar

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Фёдар (Fjódar).


Fedir

Фе́дір Федір#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Фе́дір (Fédir).


Stanislau

Станісла́ў Станіслаў#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Станісла́ў (Stanisláŭ).


Viachaslau

Viachaslaus (plural)
Vyachaslau (alternative)

Вячасла́ў Вячаслаў#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Вячасла́ў (Vjačasláŭ).


Vyachaslau

Vyachaslaus (plural)
Viachaslau (alternative)

Вячасла́ў Вячаслаў#Belarusian


Vasyl

Васи́ль Василь#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Васи́ль (Vasýlʹ), equivalent to Basil.


Dzianis

Дзяні́с Дзяніс#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Дзяні́с (Dzjanís).


Dzyanis

Дзяні́с Дзяніс#Belarusian


Kanstantsin

Канстанці́н Канстанцін#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Канстанці́н (Kanstancín).


Kostyantyn

Kostyantyns (plural)
Kostiantyn (alternative)

Костянти́н Костянтин#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Костянти́н (Kostjantýn).


Kostiantyn

Kostiantyns (plural)
Kostyantyn (alternative)

Костянти́н Костянтин#Ukrainian


Kiryl

Кіры́л Кірыл#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Кіры́л (Kirýl).


Tsikhan

Ці́хан Ціхан#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Ці́хан (Cíxan).


Iuryi

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Ю́рый (Júryj).


Hierasim

Гера́сім Герасім#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Гера́сім (Hjerásim).


Dzmitry

Dzmitryi (alternative)
Dzmitryy (alternative)

Дзмі́трый Дзмітрый#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Дзмі́трый (Dzmítryj)


Dzmitryy

Dzmitry (alternative)
Dzmitryi (alternative)

Дзмі́трый Дзмітрый#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Дзмі́трый (Dzmítryj).


Dzmitryi

Dzmitry (alternative)
Dzmitryy (alternative)

Дзмі́трый Дзмітрый#Belarusian


Yaraslau

Ярасла́ў Яраслаў#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Ярасла́ў (Jarasláŭ).


Rastsislau

Расцісла́ў Расціслаў#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Расцісла́ў (Rascisláŭ).


Matsvei

Мацве́й Мацвей#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Мацве́й (Macvjéj).


Matsvey

Мацве́й Мацвей#Belarusian


Heorhii

Гео́ргій Георгій#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Гео́ргій (Heórhij).


Heorhiy

Гео́ргій Георгій#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian or Ukrainian male given name Гео́ргій (Hjeórhij), equivalent to George.


Hryhoriy

Григо́рій Григорій#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Григо́рій (Hryhórij), equivalent to Gregory.


Hryhorii

Григо́рій Григорій#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Григо́рій (Hryhórij).


Yehor

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Єго́р (Jehór).


Ihor

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name І́гор (Íhor).


Kandrat

Кандра́т Кандрат#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Кандра́т (Kandrát).


Stsiapan

Stsiapans (plural)
Stsyapan (alternative)

Сцяпа́н Сцяпан#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Сцяпа́н (Scjapán).


Stsyapan

Stsyapans (plural)
Stsiapan (alternative)

Сцяпа́н Сцяпан#Belarusian


Mykola

Мико́ла Микола#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Мико́ла (Mykóla), equivalent to Nicholas.


Yevhen

Kira’s father, Yevhen Obedinsky, a former captain of Ukraine’s national water polo team, was killed on March 17 as Russian forces shelled the city.

2022 April 28, Sandi Sidhu, Roman Tymotsko and Oleksandra Titorova, “After epic journey, orphaned Ukrainian girl is reunited with grandfather”, in CNN:

Євге́н Євген#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Євге́н (Jevhén).


Yauhen

Яўге́н Яўген#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Яўге́н (Jaŭhjén).


Yauheni

Yauhenis (plural)
Yauhenii (alternative)
Yauheniy (alternative)

Яўге́ній Яўгеній#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Яўге́ній (Jaŭhjénij).


Pyatro

Пятро́ Пятро#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Пятро́ (Pjatró).


Yawhen

Яўге́н Яўген#Belarusian


Yauhenii

Yauheniis (plural)
Yauheni (alternative)
Yauheniy (alternative)

Яўге́ній Яўгеній#Belarusian


Yauheniy

Yauheniys (plural)
Yauheni (alternative)
Yauhenii (alternative)

Яўге́ній Яўгеній#Belarusian


Wusi

An Austronesian language spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu.


UFO nest

(ufology) A crop circle, regarded as a landing site for UFOs.


Judyth

A female given name from Hebrew; variant of Judith.


Noeline

A female given name from French, a 20th-century variant of Noelle.


ufonaut

(ufology) A pilot or passenger of a UFO.


Arny

A diminutive of the male given name Arnold, from the Germanic languages.


Yarden

From Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan”). Doublet of Jordan.


Johnsonite

The diffuse nature of the uprising has had some advantages. Johnsonites haven’t been able to plausibly portray them as disgruntled remainers when the regicides include such staunch enthusiasts for Brexit as Steve Baker and David Davis.

2022 June 12, Andrew Rawnsley, “Boris Johnson’s spineless cabinet of mediocrities are too feeble to wield the dagger”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) A political supporter of Boris Johnson (born 1964), British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022.


Mozambiquan

en-adj

Mozambiquan (comparative more Mozambiquan, superlative most Mozambiquan)

more Mozambiquan (comparative)
most Mozambiquan (superlative)
Mosambiquan (alternative)
Mozambiquean (alternative)
Mosambiquean (alternative)

From Mozambique + -an (suffix forming adjectives).


Mozambiquan

Mozambiquans (plural)
Mosambiquan (alternative)
Mozambiquean (alternative)
Mosambiquean (alternative)

“The Mozambiquans,” quips Mai disparagingly.

2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 299:


Ginnie

Ginnies (plural)
Ginny (alternative)
Ginni (alternative)
Ginney (alternative)

A diminutive of the female given names Virginia or Ginevra.


Old South Arabian

related to the Old South Arabian languages.

related to the Ancient South Arabian script.

sud-arabique

related to homonymous script or language


Old South Arabian

A subfamily of extinct West Semitic languages formerly spoken in southern Arabia.

Ancient South Arabian
Ancient South Arabian#English


dullahan

dullahans (plural)
Dullahan (alternative)
dullaghan (alternative)
Dullaghan (alternative)

From Irish dulachán, from dubh (“black”) + another word (compare lucharachán (“elf, dwarf”)), possibly originally a term for a dark or sullen person (compare the surname Dullahan) and only subsequently applied to the spirit.

The dullahans always came in a mist. But Devin wasn't afraid of dullahans. If he saw one, he would club it over the head. But then Devin remembered that dullahans didn't have heads. He grasped his stick a little tighter in his hand, […]

1990, Elona Malterre, The Last Wolf of Ireland, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 3:

“A dullahan,” both Phelan and Coriel whispered. Coriel looked her square in the eye, “You did remember the gold, right?” ML blushed, “No, I didn't. I was so scared I just started running.” “Then how did you escape?” “My pocket tore on a bush. […] “You're lucky you're not dead anyway. The dullahan could have stopped or spoken your name, or both.”

2008, Jessica Borchardt, A Fairy Yarn, →ISBN, page 53:

There is no way to bar the road against a dullahan. All locks and gates open on their own when it approaches. Dullahans do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so […]

2014, Tony Locke, Mayo Folk Tales, The History Press, →ISBN:

But the values of a fairy manifested into physical form in this city—a dullahan.” Celty Sturluson was not a human being. Celty was a type of fairy known as a dullahan that appeared to those close to death, signaling their impending demise.

2015, Ryohgo Narita, Durarara, volume 1, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

Because she is a dullahan, her head is not connected to her body—it's held in place by her gear.

2017, Kugane Maruyama, Satoshi Oshio, Overlord, volume 4, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:

(fantasy, Irish mythology) A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)


NHI

(ufology, astrobiology) Initialism of non-human intelligence.


St Clair

An abbreviation of Saint Clair, variant of Saint Clare under influence from French Claire, a calque of Latin Sancta Clara (“holy Clara”), chiefly in reference to Italian Chiara Offreduccio, St. Clare of Assisi. The placenames listed below are typically spelt St Clair—abbreviated without punctuation—following Commonwealth practice.

St. Clair (alternative)
Saint Clair (alternative)
Saint-Clair (alternative)
St-Clair (alternative)
St.-Clair (alternative)

Alternative form of Sinclair, a male given name.


Leptines

A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Λεπτίνης (Leptínēs).


Ione

A city in Amador County, California, United States.


Mestizx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.

-a-o-x

(neologism) Mestizo or Mestiza (and of any gender).


Mestizx

(neologism) A Mestizo or Mestiza (of any gender).


Lindu

The Austronesian language of these people.


Proxer

(science fiction) Inhabitant of the Proxima Centauri system.


Bow Street

The street was named in 1638 for its shape, it is slightly curved.

w:List of United Kingdom locations: Bou-Boz#Bow

A hamlet in Great Ellingham parish, Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TM0198).


Bucharester

a native or resident of Bucharest, Romania


Increase

(historical, used by Puritans) A male given name.


Appalonia

Another daughter, Appalonia, may have died between 1821, when she was named as a distributee, and the actual transfer in 1824, […]

"My mother and Appalonia were stepsisters. Appalonia's mother died when she was twelve, and my grandfather remarried a much younger woman. Appalonia was sixteen and almost ready to leave the house when my mother was born,[…]"

1993, Holly S. McClure, Island Magic, Thomas Bouregy & Company, →ISBN:

Sister Appalonia was the Mother Superior. She was maybe five foot two but she was sturdy and strong.

2016, Joe A. Creath, Sister Mildred Hit Harder, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:


Alizé

[…] mother who can really pass for Alizé's older sister, that Alizé is extremely hyper and has a problem keeping quiet in class. […] "I realized that talking to Alizé's mother would get me nowhere, […] [Alizé's grandmother] went into great detail about how young she was when she had Brandy, Alizé's mother, […]"

2008, Nikita Lynette Nichols, A Man's Worth, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 223:

And then she rushed inside to find the office suite of Ms. Alizé Stone. Alizé was already in the lobby when Alle arrived. “Could you be Ms. Alle Rednic?” Alizé asked as she reached out to shake her hand. “I am,” Alle replied ...

2016, Margie Woods, Alle Rednic, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Alizé Mack


Alize

Alice

which many occurrences of Alize are typos of

Alize Lily Mounter

I rarely had birthday parties, so I leached onto other people's parties, especially Alize's. Alize's birthday is perfect because it is at the beginning of June. We were still in school, but it was close enough to summer that you could have a good party […]

2019, Chloelia Salome, While I'm Young, →ISBN, page 155:

Paris didn't flinch as Alize moved within an inch of her mouth and began caressing the side of her face. "You just don't know how good I could make you feel." The feel of Alize's hand on her breast shocked Paris out of her standoff.

2006, Christal Jordan-Mims, Under the Cherry Moon, page 143:

Alize Johnson

[…] the deaths of two black men whose bodies were found dismembered […] The bodies of Alize Smith and Jarron Moreland, both 21, were found […]

2018 May 7, Remains of 2 men found dismembered, chained to cinder blocks in pond, CBS News


Anguish

The given name, most famously borne by the character of King Anguish of Ireland, is thought to be a variant of Aengus/Angus, from Irish. The surname is probably also a variant of Angus.

[…] been ready and willing to take one of the children by her husband, not being the eldest, to live with her; and that she did afterwards fix upon one of such children, named Anguish, and did request her husband to permit the said child to reside and live with her, […] and the defendant futher pleaded, that the said Anguish, the said child in the said declaration mentioned was not born at the time of the sealing and delivering of the said indenture, but long afterwards.

1819, “Durant v Titley”, in Francis Joseph Troubat, George Price, editors, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer, published 1835, page 231:


Dazza

A nickname of the given name Darren or Darryl.


Ammani

From Amman + -i (“denotes people of a particular place or region”).


Nizhegorodian

a native or resident of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia


Blagoje

bor

<i class="Cyrl mention" lang="sh">Благоје</i>


San Antonian

a native or resident of San Antonio, Texas


Kyivite

From Kyiv + -ite, from Ukrainian Ки́їв (Kýjiv).

Someone living in or originating from Kyiv.


Rwanda-Rundi

Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, considered as dialects of the same language


Grenadinese

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

a person from or the people of the Grenadine Islands or Grenadine Parish of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (in contrast with the people of Saint Vincent)


Wee Free

(UK politics, historical) A small group in the 1918 Liberal Party who on principle did not want to go into coalition with the Conservative Party.


Ponsonby Rule

Named after British politician and legislator Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede.

named-after

(UK politics) A constitutional convention (which acquired legal force in 2010) dictating that most international treaties had to be laid before Parliament 21 days before ratification.


Elymaean

en-adj

Elymaean (comparative more Elymaean, superlative most Elymaean)

more Elymaean (comparative)
most Elymaean (superlative)

Elymaean Aramaic


Black Act

(UK, historical) An act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids by two groups of poachers, known as the Blacks. It greatly strengthened the criminal code and specified over 200 capital crimes.


Sebastion

From Latin Sebastianus, from Greek Sebastianos.


Luba

From Slavic
* (English-language female given name found in Canada): From Ukrainian Люба (Ljuba)

sense

(Canada) A female given name from Ukrainian [in turn from Slavic].


Luba

en:Luba
en:Luba people
en:kingdom of Luba

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

A member of any of various groups of agricultural and hunting people inhabiting the southeastern part of Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A Bantu language spoken by the Luba people of central Africa; one of the two Bantu languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Rozwi

From Kalanga rozvi (“destroyer, plunderer”).

a person from or the people of the historical Rozwi Empire in present-day Zimbabwe


Yayan

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 雅言 (Yǎyán), literally, "elegant speech".

A standard form of spoken Chinese, and lingua franca, of ancient China.


Bicolana

Bicolanas (plural)
Bikolana (alternative)

From Spanish bicolana, from Bicol + -ana.

Coordinate term: (male) Bicolano

A female native or inhabitant of the Bicol Region, Philippines.


Bicolana

Of or pertaining to female native or inhabitant of the Bicol Region, Philippines.


McDo

→ Tagalog: McDo

(Philippines, colloquial, informal) McDonald's


Leana

Leanas (plural)
Lina (alternative)
Line (alternative)
Lena (alternative)
Leane (alternative)
Leanna (alternative)
Leanne (alternative)
Liana (alternative)
Liane (alternative)
Lianna (alternative)
Lianne (alternative)
Linna (alternative)
Linne (alternative)


Pancras

Inherited from Middle English Pancrace, borrowed from Latin Pancratius, from Ancient Greek Παγκράτιος (Pankrátios), a name derived from παγκρατής (pankratḗs, “all-powerful, almighty”).

A male given name from Latin, of rare usage.


official language

en-noun

official language (plural official languages)

A language afforded an elevated status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction, typically for government use.


Vanna

From Slavic Vanna, from Ivana (Ѝвана) and Ivanna (Ива́нна), ultimately from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, and Sinead.

doublet

A female given name from the Slavic languages.


Vidya

From Sanskrit विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge”).


Closing Opposition

The team in a British Parliamentary Style debate which gets the sixth and eighth (last) speech.


Dorotheus

en-proper noun

Dorotheus (plural Dorotheuses or Dorothei)

Borrowed from Latin Dorotheus, from Ancient Greek Δωρόθεος (Dōrótheos), from δῶρον (dôron, “gift”) + θεός (theós, “God”).


Rona

"Rona! Corona Mitchell! Corona Margarita! Cuckoo! Where've you gone to?" "Coo—ee!" came in reply from the distance, and presently Rona appeared beckoning vigorously.

1915, Angela Brazil, For the Sake of the School, reprint, published 2018, →ISBN, page 71:

I feel that I should like if possible to contribute that I am enclosing the usual cheque with the request that you will pass on the usual fiver to Rona [Corona Watson] with my best love.

1952, letter from Netherton William Langford Watson to Diane Curtis [Watson], quoted in 2019, Peter J F Coutts, Alan Watson, The Watsons of Kilconnor, County Carlow, 1650 – present, Paragon Publishing, page 431

“Scott—Corona Scott.” She stretched to shake his hand across the narrow aisle. “But my friends call me Rona—Corona sounds a bit uppish, so I've been told.” “Gordon C. McCormick—Gordy,” he introduced himself, giving her another grin.

2011, M. R. Tighe, Judgment on Tartarus, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN, page 3:


Catanian

A native or inhabitant of Catania, Italy.


Hugonian

A native or resident of one of several places in the United States called Hugo, of which the most populous is Hugo, Minnesota.


Makedon

Borrowed from Macedonian Ма́кедон (Mákedon).

bor+

Македон Македон#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Македон (Makedon)


Oroch

The moribund Tungusic language spoken by the Oroch.


Zialo

The language spoken by the Zialo people of Guinea.


Siculo-Arabic

A variety of Arabic that was spoken in the Emirate of Sicily.


Evvie

A diminutive of the female given names Eva, Eve, Evelyn, or Evangeline.


Arla

Downstairs my slippers make scuff-scuffing sounds on the hardwood floor that I'm sure announce my arrival before I enter the kitchen, but Arla doesn't look up; she's too interested in whatever she's reading on her cell phone and too busy eating her breakfast.

2014, Michael Griffo, Starfall (The Darkborn Legacy), New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 24:


No 10

Coordinate term: No 11

As it is, there was something almost surreal about a No 10 press conference that saw journalists asking when we might be allowed out again while the death toll was climbing towards 1,000 a day.

2020 April 9, Gaby Hinsliff, “We used to moan about normal life, now our fear is we'll never get it back”, in The Guardian:

Government sources, however, continued to brief that No 10 and No 11 were considering bringing the date forward.

2022 October 4, “Truss government in chaos amid budget confusion and coup accusations”, in The Guardian:

10 Downing Street
10 Downing Street#English

(UK politics) Synonym of 10 Downing Street.


Borisian

Driverless Tube trains may sound like a dystopian Borisian fantasy, but even if the London mayor may wish to reduce the workforce, much of the actual driving was eliminated from some Underground drivers' jobs as early as 1967 when the Victoria line opened.

2014 August 13, Gwyn Topham, “Open data and driverless buses: how London transport heads to the future”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) Of or pertaining to Boris Johnson (born 1964), English politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022.


Hema

Borrowed from Sanskrit हेमा (hemā, “gold”).

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Gayatri

Borrowed from Sanskrit गायत्री (gāyatrī).


Mallika

Borrowed from Sanskrit मल्लिका (mallikā).


Cardi

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


Hong Kong English

While many students furnished their own lexical items, I also provided a list of localized lexis, based on my own Hong Kong English citation database, from which they could select items if they were having trouble finding one themselves.

2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:

The form of the English language used in Hong Kong.


Roopa

Borrowed from Sanskrit रूप (rūpa, “any outward appearance or phenomenon or colour, form, shape, figure”).


Sadhu

From Sanskrit साधु (sādhú, “good; good man, holy man”).


Satyanarayana

From Sanskrit सत्यनारायण (satyanārāyaṇa); from सत्य (satya) + नारायण (nārāyaṇa).

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Suryanarayana

From Sanskrit सूर्यनारायण (sūryanārāyaṇa); सूर्य (sūrya) + नारायण (nārāyaṇa).


Srinivas

Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रीनिवास (śrīnivāsa, “abode of Shri”) from श्री (śrī) + निवास (nivāsa).


Mariela

Mariel (alternative)
Mariele (alternative)
Mariella (alternative)
Marielle (alternative)
Mariell (alternative)


Ranganath

From Sanskrit रङ्गनाथ (raṅganātha); ultimately from रङ्ग (raṅga, “color, hue, theater”) + नाथ (nātha, “otector, patron, possessor, owner, ward, guardian, lord”).


Lenca

A nearly extinct language once spoken by these people.


Tiwi

A Tiwian Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Bathurst and Melville Island, in the Northern Territory.


Phani

From Sanskrit फणिन् (phaṇin, ‘hooded’, a serpent).


Sasikala

From Sanskrit शशिकला (śaśikalā, “a digit or sickle of the moon”); ultimately शशि (śaśi) + कला (kalā).


Venkatayya

From Sanskrit वेङ्कट (veṅkaṭa) + అయ్య (ayya).


Narendra

Borrowed from Sanskrit नरेन्द्र (narendra), from Sanskrit नर (nara, “man”) + इन्द्र (indra, “ruler, chief; Indra”), meaning "ruler of men".

bor+

India is opening up the designs of its first indigenously developed drones to domestic private companies, seeking to spur further technological advances and encourage manufacturing as Prime Minister Narendra Modi modernizes the military.

2015 September 24, N.C. Bipindra, “India revealing secrets of its predator-like Rustom drone to boost military”, in mint:


Toryshire

From Tory + -shire, as if the name of a county.

(UK politics, informal) Those parts of the United Kingdom whose residents overwhelmingly vote for the Conservative Party.


Kishore

Borrowed from Sanskrit किशोर (kiśora, “a colt; a youth, lad”).


Damodar

Transliteration of Hindi दामोदर (dāmodar), Nepali दामोदर (dāmodar), etc.


Vidyasagar

Borrowed from Sanskrit विद्यासागर (vidyāsāgara, “ocean of knowledge”), a compound of विद्या (vidyā, “knowledge”) + सागर (sāgara, “ocean”).


Barlaam

Unknown. The immediate source is Medieval Latin Barlaam, borrowed from Byzantine Greek Βαρλαάμ (Barlaám) in the Byzantine Life of Barlaam and Josaphat (probably 11th c.), itself likely borrowed from Georgian ბალაჰვარ (balahvar). First attested c. 8th century as Arabic بِلَوْهَر (bilawhar), perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit भगवान् (bhagavān, “God”) or from Sanskrit पुरोहित (purohita, “priest”) via an unattested Middle Persian form.


Sunil

From Sanskrit सुनील (sunīla, “very black or blue, dark”); ultimately from सु (su) + नील (nīla).


Gangadhar

From Sanskrit गङ्गाधर (gaṅgādhara, “‘Ganges-receiver’, the ocean; ‘Ganges-supporter’, Name of Siva.”); ultimately from the river Ganges + धर (dhara).


Mahendra

From Sanskrit महेन्द्र (mahendra, “the great Indra.”); ultimately from महा (mahā) + इन्द्र (indra).


FemShep

Playing as FemShep hints that the game world's claims to gender equality may be overstated.

2017, Lynda Clark, “Commander Shepard”, in Jaime Banks, Robert Mejia, Aubrie Adams, editors, 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, page 44:

Interestingly, this seems the reason why FemShep is considered to be one of the most popular heroines in gaming history (Cobbett 2012: online), or even one of gaming's first true feminist and feminine protagonists (Hillier 2011).

2018, Silvia Pettinni, “Gender in Game Localization: The Case of Mass Effect 3's FemShep”, in Irene Ranzato, Serenella Zanotti, editors, Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation, unnumbered page:

A reveal trailer for Mass Effect Legendary Edition went live several hours ago, and fans have been watching it over and over. As has Jennifer Hale, the voice actor who played the female version of Commander Shepard across all three games, or "FemShep" as the character was dubbed.
Though her performance made FemShep more popular with hardcore fans, the marketing for the original games tended to focus on the default "BroShep", voiced by Mark Meer. Until now. This trailer shows a montage of scenes from across the series, and while BroShep is there—that's him macking on Miranda—there's more screen-time devoted to FemShep.

2021 February 2, Jody Macgregor, “FemShep finally gets her due in Mass Effect Legendary Edition trailer, Jennifer Hale extremely stoked”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 2021-02-03:

(fandom slang, video games) The female version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.


BroShep

The fact that advertising for Mass Effect 3 included “FemShep” as well as “BroShep” was significant for many fans.

2012, Jillian Scharr, "From 'Epic' to 'Epic Win': Play and performance as open-database storytelling in pre- and postliterate media", paper submitted to Vassar College, page 83

While BroShep displays obliviousness to issues of "reproductive rights and control over the female body," FemShep expresses solidarity with the female Krogan, Eve, indicating there are some galactic power struggles only FemShep can truly understand.

There is little deviation between the FemShep and BroShep scripts for the romance with Liara, which positions Commander Shepard as an experienced soldier (and lover) pursuing the naïve, reticent academic.

2020, Amanda Phillips, Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture, page 148:

(fandom slang, video games) The male version of the Commander Shepard player character in the Mass Effect series.


Neddy

A diminutive of the male given name Edward.


Mahavir

From Sanskrit महावीर (mahāvīra, “a great hero”).


Brexocalypse

2016 July 4, Alex Proud, “10 reasons to be cheerful (during the Brexocalypse)”, in The Daily Telegraph:

In Britain, stockpiling for the Brexocalypse has taken over from Black Friday shopping as the consumer event of the year, with reports of everything from wine to tins of chilli con carne being hoarded in the name of #takingbackcontrol – but should we be doing the same?

2018 December 18, Jennifer O'Connell, ““Brexit stockpile: Favourite foods you might not know are British”, in The Irish Times:

How should we, on our small island in Spain be preparing for an inevitable and impending Brexocalypse?

2019 March, “Galley Goddess”, in The Islander Magazine, page 116:

(UK politics) The negative economic and political impact of Brexit.


Purushottam

From Sanskrit पुरुषोत्तम (puruṣottama, “the best of men”).


UAP

UAP (plural)
UAPs (plural)
UAP's (plural)

During World War II (and probably before), high flying pilots were reported to have observed unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), often now called transient luminous events (TLE’s), particularly in the vicinity of thunderstorms.

2012 September 17, Don Lipman, “Red sprites, blue jets, and elves What are these mysterious, elusive phenomena?”, in The Washington Post:

“You know, there’s a new name,” Mrs. Clinton said in the March appearance. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said. “U.A.P. That’s the latest nomenclature.”

2016 May 10, Amy Chozick, “Hillary Clinton Gives U.F.O. Buffs Hope She Will Open the X-Files”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The founders say they believe “there is sufficient credible evidence of UAP [unidentified aerial phenomenon] that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human experience.”

2017 December 16, Bryan Bender, “The Pentagon’s Secret Search for UFOs”, in Politico Magazine, →ISSN:

This is an effort that I believe is rare and timely given current events, such as the apparent increase in UAP incidents through official military channels.

2019 October 23, M J Banias, “This Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast”, in Vice Magazine, →ISSN:

The spokesman at the time said UAP was preferred over UFO because of the stigma surrounding the latter term.

2020, Jordan Culver, Adrianna Rodriguez, “Pentagon declassifies 3 leaked US Navy UFO videos”, in USA Today:

Pentagon officially released three videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

2020, “To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science Acknowledges the Pentagon's Official Release of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Video Footage”, in Baker City Herald:

The US military is worried some of the UAPs spotted by military pilots in the past may represent technologies of strategic rivals unknown to US scientists.

2023 January 12, “US government logs more than 500 UFO reports with hundreds unexplained”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

unidentified aerial phenomenon
unidentified aerial phenomenon#English

(ufology) Initialism of unidentified aerial phenomenon; synonym of UFO (“unidentified flying object”)


Thorley

en-proper noun

Thorley (countable and uncountable, plural Thorleys)

From Old English þorn (“thornbush”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). Equivalent to thorn + -ley (“lea”).

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Gab

A diminutive of the male given name Gabriel.


Padmini

Borrowed from Sanskrit पद्मिनी (padminī, “a lotus, a multitude of lotuses or a lotus-pond”).


Glyndwr

From Welsh Glyndŵr, from glyn (“valley”) + dŵr (“water”).


Vaidyanatha

From Sanskrit वैद्यनाथ (vaidyanātha, “lord of physicians”).


ball and stick

The handwriting sense derives from the resemblance of the circular and linear elements of the letters to a ball and a stick.

(education) A style of handwriting in which the letters are not joined and feature straight lines and circular arcs; block letters.


Lokesh

From Sanskrit लोकेश (lokeśa, “lord of the world”).


Harikrishna

Transliteration of Sanskrit हरिकृष्ण (harikṛṣṇa).

translit

A male given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.


Gelasius

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Pope Gelasius I and Pope Gelasius II.


Hartfordian

en-adj

Hartfordian (comparative more Hartfordian, superlative most Hartfordian)

more Hartfordian (comparative)
most Hartfordian (superlative)

Of or relating to Hartford, Connecticut, United States.


Hartfordian

A native or inhabitant of Hartford, Connecticut, United States.


Priyadarshini

From Sanskrit प्रियदर्शिन् (priyadarśin, “looking with kindness upon everything”).

uder

प्रियदर्शिन्


US-American

U.S. American (alternative)
US American (alternative)
USAmerican (alternative)


Early Modern Latin

From early modern (time period) and Latin.

The Latin language, as developed from Renaissance Latin in the early 16th century, which served as the lingua franca of science, education, and to some degree diplomacy in Europe and was mostly displaced with national languages by the late 18th century.


moon-man

(science fiction) A native alien of the Moon.


Holyokian

It was clear to us that among real Holyokians the word Transcript and the word newspaper are used synonymously.

A person who was born in or who lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts.


Rohit

Transliteration of Hindi रोहित (rohit), Bengali রোহিত (rōhito), etc.


Charla

A female given name, modern feminine form of Charles.


Kassie

A diminutive of the female given name Kassandra.


Demeraran

Our little coasting-steamer — she is commanded by the same cheery, semi- Indian captain who last week had our river-craft in charge — will in a day more cast anchor by the Demeraran shore, off the busy wharfs of Georgetown; and Surinam ...

1876, William Gifford Palgrave, Dutch Guiana, London: Macmillan, page 260:

Another point in which the Demeraran form seems to differ from the other forms described is that the colour of the antennae is black. This point is not specially mentioned in the descriptions of the other American Peripati.

1883, The Shipley collection of scientific papers, page 196:

The colour of the Demeraran Peripatus is a dark brick-red above and pinkish below with a dark suffused median line on the dorsal surface, such as Ernst (25) described in his specimens. The antennae are very much darker than the rest […]

1887, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:

It is also not the less important that the rights of the Demeraran sugar manufacturers should be established even if only on a fresh basis consonant with the incidence of modern methods of manufacture, and that they should know exactly how ...

It has also been proved that Demeraran cane is better able to resist damage by storms, so that taking it all in all it would appear that the newer varieties are quite likely to displace the older kinds.

1917, George Morrison Rolph, Something about Sugar: Its History, Growth, Manufacture and Distribution, page 178:


Wuhanite

On Chinese social media, holed-up Wuhanites showed how they were coping in videos that quickly went viral. Neighbors exchanged meat for vegetables out of their high-rise windows. Aunties sat around a mah-jongg table placing bets with their prized protective face masks instead of cash.

2020 January 28, “Concern — and boredom — mount for those trapped at the center of the coronavirus outbreak”, in The Washington Post:


Cable Street

Cable Street started as a straight path along which hemp ropes were twisted into ships’ cables (i.e., ropes).

Unlike Spain, Cable Street was a success and proved the turning point in the defeat of Fascism in Britain in that period.

1986, AEU, Amalgamated Engineering Union, page 30:

Third, Cable Street was a clear victory for the working-class against fascism, although its success was ensured by the united working-class campaign for better housing, which began with Paragon Mansions.

1998, Jewish Culture and History, volume I, number 1, Frank Cass in conjunction with the Parkes Centre, University of Southampton, page 96:

Cable Street happened, and thousands of ordinary folk did actually stop a fascist march from taking place in an unprecedented manner: the East End was never the same again.

1999 June 28, Harold Rosen, Are you still circumcised?: East End memories, Five Leaves, →ISBN, page 114:

(history, metonymically) The Battle of Cable Street.


Nabil

From Arabic نَبِيل (nabīl), meaning "noble".

There were harsher comments from Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas: "The negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's intransigence and America's backpedalling is that there is no hope of negotiations on the horizon."

2009 November 2, Ian Black, “Arab anger as Hillary Clinton backs Israel on settlements”, in The Guardian:


Lazlo

Borrowed from Hungarian László. Doublet of Vladislav.


Lunan

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.

2012, A. Lee Martinez, Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain:

Despite the war games, the Jovans considered themselves invincible, and the Lunans were their only worthy opponent in the solar system. Having their own ships blown up in orbit by unknown forces, the Lunans were no longer transgressors.

2014, William Tedford, Battlefields of Silence:

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


Cordobes

This was the second American-born Spanish subject who had risen to the rank of Governor in these colonies. Hernando Arias, a Cordobes, was the first. Vertiz was a Mexican.

1919, Thomas Murray, The Story of the Irish in Argentina, New York, NY: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, page xxvi:


Makemakean

a theoretical inhabitant of the dwarf planet Makemake


Lugbara

The Central Sudanic language of these people.


Sprousehart

We also feel the need to put our noses just slightly inside the bounds of your private business and let you know that we wholeheartedly support the Sprousehart relationship (or Bughead on-screen).

2018 March 13, Logan Potter, Shannon Brennan, “An Open Letter To Dylan And Cole Sprouse”, in The Arbiter, Boise State University, page 15:

We're pretty sure bonds like this don't easily break, and whether or not Sprousehart remain a couple, the friendship will stay strong.

2020, C. H. Mitford, Cast of Riverdale: Issue #3, page 60:

It's a sad day for Sprousehart' fans. Everyone's favorite Riverdale couple reportedly broke up last month after about three years together and now we may know why the pair decided to end things.

2020 May 26, Carolyn Twersky, “Why Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse Really Broke Up And Why It Prob Won’t Last Too Long”, in Seventeen:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart.


Zecharia

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Zechariah


Sharona

der

Hebrew שָׁרוֹנָה


Shakur

Borrowed from Arabic شَكُور (šakūr, “thankful, grateful”). This surname is predominantly found in India.


Greendaler

Someone from any place called Greendale.


Caucasian Albanian

en-noun

Caucasian Albanian (countable and uncountable, plural Caucasian Albanians)

The extinct Northeast Caucasian language once spoken by these people, and from which Udi is descended.


Anishinaabemowin

From Ojibwe anishinaabemowin/ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ. Doublet of Nishnaabemwin and Neshnabémwen

doublet

Nishnaabemwin (alternative)
Neshnabémwen (alternative)

the macrolanguage/language(s) spoken by the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquins, Odawa, and Potawatomi)


Louey

Alternative form of Louie (“short form of various names”)


Ruslana

A transliteration of the female given name - Russian and Ukrainian Русла́на (Ruslána)

noncog

A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, masculine equivalent Ruslan.


Joebama

Blend of Joe + Obama, from the given name of Joe Biden and the surname of Barack Obama.

JoeBama (alternative)
Jobama (alternative)

From your socialist perspective that's probably true.
Keep rampant socialism in CanaDuh and don't vote for Joebama!

2008 August 24, dxAce, “Re: (OT) : Are You One of . . . Smiley's People ?”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet):

“This is a great way to support the hypothetical of Joe Biden for President in 2020 with his running mate — either Michelle Obama or Barack Obama. Joebama for President!” advises JuntoTees, an Indiana company which has offered this motto on assorted items since 2018.

2020 March 3, Jennifer Harper, “Among the Biden prospects: 'JOEBAMA 2020'”, in The Washington Times:

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The political union of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, and Joe Biden, the 47th vice president of the United States, having served between 2009 and 2017.


Siberian Tatar

The Turkic language spoken in Western Siberia region of Russia.


Robur

Used in the science fiction novel Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne.
Probably a semantic blend of robur, Robert and Roger (but it has to be checked).


Yamba

A Grassfields language of the northwest region of southern Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Eastern Nigeria.


rime dictionary

en-noun

rime dictionary (plural rime dictionaries)

rhyme dictionary
rhyme dictionary#English

Alternative spelling of rhyme dictionary.


Proto-Hlai

The reconstructed ancestor of the Hlai languages.


Pre-Hlai

The reconstructed language that is the predecessor of Proto-Hlai, and is ancestral to Hlai.


Black Wall Street

en-proper noun

Black Wall Street or the Black Wall Street

Black Wall Street (canonical)
the Black Wall Street (canonical)

The areas were prominent concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States during the early 20th century, and as such the nickname compares them to Wall Street in Manhattan.

(historical, US) The freedom colony of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


Haurani

A person from, or an inhabitant of, the Hauran.


Maggie's den

An allusion to prime minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.

(bingo) A traditional call for the number ten.


Marlo

Marlo (countable and uncountable, plural Marlos)


Proto-Tocharian

(linguistics) The reconstructed ancestor of the Tocharian languages.


Gaetan

/ɡɑːeɪˈtɑːn/

From French Gaëtan and Gaétan, from Italian Gaetano, from Latin Caiētānus.

A male given name from French, equivalent to English Cajetan.


Sherrilynn

Sherrilynns (plural)
Sherilynn (alternative)
Sherrilyn (alternative)
Sherilyn (alternative)
Sheri Lyn (alternative)
Sherri Lyn (alternative)
Sheri Lynn (alternative)
Sherri Lynn (alternative)
Sheri-Lyn (alternative)
Sherri-Lyn (alternative)
Sheri-Lynn (alternative)
Sherri-Lynn (alternative)


Proto-Nuristani

The reconstructed ancestor of the Nuristani languages.


Bush 41

(US) George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States, distinguished from his son the 43rd president.


Bush 43

(US) George Walker Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, distinguished from his father the 41st president.


Ndzundza

A tribe of the Ndebele people, native to the Transvaal.


BNO

Hong Kongers are invited to apply for a new British National Overseas (BNO) visa that leads to citizenship.

2021 January 30, “Hong Kongers eye British citizenship but fear retaliation from China”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

British National (Overseas)
w:British National (Overseas)

Initialism of British National (Overseas), a legal status granted by the British government to certain residents of Hong Kong.


Graun

That the Graun's effort is part of a coordinated new offensive in that department is pretty conclusively illustrated by […]

2017, Martin Gitlin, When Is Free Speech Hate Speech?, page 134:

(newspapers, humorous) Clipping of Grauniad (“The Guardian newspaper”).


Hnat

From the East Slavic given name, Ukrainian Гнат (Hnat) or Belarusian Ігнат (Ihnat).

A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Гнат (Hnat).


Judayah

Respelling of Judea, from Latin Iudaea, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία (Ioudaía), from Biblical Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá).

A female given name from Latin, variant of Judea.


Twa

Any of several pygmy tribes of sub-Saharan Africa, or a member of one of those tribes.


Epaphroditus

From Latin Epaphrodītus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπαφρόδιτος (Epaphróditos), from ἐπι- (epi-) + Ἀφρόδιτος (Aphróditos).

der

Yet I supposed it necessary to send you to Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellowsoldiar, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

1611, The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha, Robert Carroll, Stephen Prickett, eds., Oxford, 1997

A male given name from Latin or Ancient Greek.


Stonie

diminutive of Stone
A male given name (a nickname)


Ruslan

Русла́н Руслан#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Русла́н (Ruslán)


Planetos

planet + -os, a suffix used in the series in the names of continents, e.g. Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos.

However, the comet’s presence is not limited to the sky over Drogo’s pyre, and winter is coming to all of Planetos; […]

2016, Patrice A. Loar, "'On the Cusp of Half-Remembered Prophecies': Interpreting Prophecy in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire", thesis submitted to the University of New Orleans, page 4

We aim to solve this problem by calculating the mass of Drogon from his size, and then estimating the lift that his wings would be able to generate, assuming that gravity on Planetos is the same as on Earth.

2017, J. Edwards, J. Hancock, S. Nayak, “Do We Have Liftoff?”, in Journal of Physics Special Topics:

[…] and Oberyn continues having sexual tension with every human on Planetos.

2019, Kim Renfro, The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones, page 116:

(fandom slang) The unnamed fictional planet which serves as the setting for the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.


Winter of Discontent

An allusion to the opening line of William Shakespeare's play Richard III ("Now is the winter of our discontent").

Nor is the government facing a strike by tanker drivers, as was the case in early 1979 during the winter of discontent.

2021 September 23, Larry Elliott, “Petrol disruption will fuel fears of new winter of discontent”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics, historical) A period during 1978–79 in the United Kingdom, when the Labour Party's efforts to control inflation led to widespread strikes by public-sector trade unions demanding larger pay rises.


Shaq

A diminutive of the male given name Shaquille.


Romy

A female given name.
Alternative form of Romi


Kandyan

en-adj

Kandyan (comparative more Kandyan, superlative most Kandyan)

more Kandyan (comparative)
most Kandyan (superlative)

It is the ambition of each and every nooser to capture the first elephant; for he to whom falls this honor is considered the hero of the day, and in recognition of his skill and bravery is rewarded by His Excellency the Governor with an elephant book of Kandyan lacquer with brass and silver overlay.

1931, The Literary Digest, volume 108, Funk & Wagnalls, page 37:

Of or relating to the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka.


Kandyan

A native or inhabitant of the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka.


Ostyak

From Russian остя́к (ostják, “Easterner”), from Eastern Khanty Ас ях (As jah, “people of the river Ob”).

der

The Ostiacks blister their skin by a fungus found on Birch-trees; and use the Agaricus officin. for Soap.

1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 36:

(now rare) A member of any of several indigenous peoples in Siberia, Russia, including the Khanty people and the Ket people.


Ostyak

(now rare) Any of various languages of these peoples.


Macro-Altaic

A proposed language family that would extend Altaic to include Korean, Jeju, Japanese, and the Ryukyuan languages.


Micro-Altaic

The Altaic language family, as distinguished from Macro-Altaic.


St Kildan

en-adj

St Kildan (comparative more St Kildan, superlative most St Kildan)

more St Kildan (comparative)
most St Kildan (superlative)

Of or relating to the Scottish archipelago of St Kilda.


Neith

(rare) A female given name from Egyptian.


Artemii

(very rare) A male given name from Russian, equivalent to English Artemius.


Maryanne

Maryannes (plural)
Mary-Anne (alternative)
Mary Anne (alternative)


Dahalo

From Aweer [Term?] (“stupid, worthless”).


Dahalo

Their endangered Cushitic language, notable for featuring all four airstream mechanisms found in human language.


Hailie

Hailies (plural)
Hayley (alternative)
Haylee (alternative)
Hayleigh (alternative)
Haylie (alternative)
Hayle (alternative)
Haley (alternative)
Hailey (alternative)


Basic English

Coordinate term: plain English

A simplified controlled language based on English and intended for international communication and TESL.


law agent

(Scots law) A solicitor, certified by the Law Society of Scotland.


Breonna

A female given name of African-American usage.


Hiddleswift

With those earnings, it's nothing but the best for “Hiddleswift” as they canoodle around the world in a private plane.

2016 July 12, Maria Puente, “For Taylor Swift, it's a cash advance”, in Lawrence Journal-World, page 7B:

Due to work commitments the honeymoon period finally came to an end and Hiddleswift were forced to spend time apart.

2017, Naimi Corsani, Tom Hiddleston - The Biography:

Could this be referring to Hiddleswift's short-lived romance?

2017 November 29, Falin Hakeem, “Taylor Swift cements her bad girl status in 'Reputation'”, in The Oakland Post, Oakland University, page 15:

(slang) The romantic relationship between English actor Tom Hiddleston and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (together briefly in 2016).


Angelena

Coordinate term: Angeleno

On long flights, I like to guess who is going home and who is traveling for play or work. This woman is definitely an Angelena. We are approaching our destination and fly over LA for half an hour before landing.

2018, Josefina Beatriz Longoria, Uproot, page 161:

A female native or resident of Los Angeles.


Marcion

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃən/

/ˈmɑː(ɹ)ʃʌ̈ʊ̯n/

From Late Latin Mārciōn (from Koine Greek Μᾱρκῑ́ων (Mārkī́ōn, diminutive of Ancient Greek Μᾶρκος (Mârkos, from Mārcus (from Mārs + -cus)))), from Old Latin Māvors and Proto-Indo-European *-kos.

der

A diminutive of the male given name Marcus, from Latin or Ancient Greek, variant of Marc or Mark, equivalent to Koine Greek Μᾱρκίων (Mārkíōn) or Latin Mārciōn.


Beirutian

A native or inhabitant of Beirut, Lebanon; a Beiruti.


Cagliaritan

From Italian cagliaritano. Equivalent to Cagliari + -an.

A native or inhabitant of Cagliari, Italy.


Cagliarian

Of or pertaining to Cagliari, Italy; Cagliaritan.


Cagliarian

A native or inhabitant of Cagliari, Italy; a Cagliaritan.


North American English

Commonwealth English

the variety of English used outside of USA and Canada

United States of America
United States of America

The variety of the English language used in the United States of America and Canada.


Scottishman

“I am much obliged to you, Mr. Thomas,” added Buchanan; “but neither Frenchman nor Spanishman shall dress my wounds when a Scottishman is to be found, for love or money.”

1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 247:

It seems almost unnatural for Scottishmen and English to meet and part without a buffet.


Siamese Twins

the Siamese Twins (canonical)
Siamese Twin Galaxies (alternative)
Siamese Twins Galaxies (alternative)
Siamese Twin Galaxy (alternative)
Siamese Twins Galaxy (alternative)

From being a pair of galaxies that are similar in appearance and appearing conjoined, analogous to a pair of Siamese twins.

(astronomy) A galaxy pair in Virgo, Virgo Cluster


Antwan

Anglicization of French Antoine. Compare Antoine, Antwon.

(US) A male given name from French, equivalent to English Anthony.


Antjuan

Anglicization of French Antoine, influenced by Spanish Juan. Compare Antoine, Antwon.


Peninsular Spanish

Coordinate term: Latin-American Spanish

The standard form of Spanish spoken in the Iberian peninsula.


Trumpolini

Blend of Trump + Mussolini. Referring to Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), Italian politician and the founder of fascism.

“[…] I don't know if you know about Mike Judge's movie Idiocracy, but Idiocracy is the movie Devo should've made—and I think we would've made it better. […] And now with the world the way it is, and this ridiculous unqualified Trumpolini guy, who is anathema to democracy, what we have is beyond Idiocracy.”

2018, Garin Pirnia, Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll, Bloomington, IN: Red Lightning Books, →ISBN, page unknown:

(US politics, informal, derogatory, offensive) Donald Trump (born 1946), the 45th and 47th president of the United States, regarded as a fascist.


Sayhadic

Coined by A.F.L. Beeston from Arabic صَيْهَد (ṣayhad, “Sayhad”) + -ic.

Old South Arabian, a subfamily within Semitic.


Singapore-on-Thames

An allusion to various English towns called (name)-on-Thames, and the economic success of Singapore after its separation from Malaysia. London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is situated on the River Thames.

Singapore-on-the-Thames (alternative)
Singapore-upon-Thames (alternative)

The idea that London might have a post-Brexit future as a kind of deregulated “Singapore-on-Thames” is one of the more curious notions to have emerged in the three and a half years since the UK’s citizens voted narrowly to leave the EU in the fateful June 2016 referendum.

2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics, economics) A proposed model for the United Kingdom after Brexit, involving laissez-faire free trade unencumbered by regulation.

en:River Thames
en:Singapore
en:Singapore-on-Thames


Uwa

A Chibchan language spoken by these people.


CofE

Church of England
Church of England#English

Abbreviation of Church of England; also C of E.


Palmyran

en-adj

Palmyran (comparative more Palmyran, superlative most Palmyran)

more Palmyran (comparative)
most Palmyran (superlative)


Late Modern English

Topics discussed in the papers that follow include many that will be familiar to scholars interested in eighteenth and nineteenth-century English, but the reader will find here increasing scope and refinement – a sign, we hope, of a maturing discipline. In this introduction we will sketch the early developments of work on Late Modern English and then preview the fifteen papers included in this volume, highlighting their main results and setting them against the earlier context. / It is probably accurate to say that work on Late Modern English (LModE) only took off in any serious way during the 1990s. There were of course prior studies of eighteenth and nineteenth-century English, but these were relatively thin on the ground compared with the great amounts of work done on the Old, Middle and Early Modern periods.

2009, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Wim van der Wurff, “Papers from 3LModE: an introduction”, in Maurizio Gotti, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Wim van der Wurff, editors, Current Issues in Late Modern English, Germany: Peter Lang, →ISBN, 1. The study of Late Modern English: an overview, pages 9, 11:

This book is meant for readers who want to discover how people in the Georgian, Regency and Victorian periods spoke and wrote. Late Modern English (LModE, 1700–1900) is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention.

2009, Ingried Tieken-Boon van Ostade, An Introduction to Late Modern English, →ISBN, page ix:

At the end of the twentieth century, the Late Modern period still had to be described as ‘the Cinderella of English historical linguistic study’ (Jones 1989: 279). Fortunately, this scenario has changed over the last fifteen years or so. Among other things, the change of emphasis within historical linguistics to socio-historical and corpus-based approaches led to a surge of interest in Late Modern English (roughly the period between 1700 and 1900). In August 2001, the University of Edinburgh hosted the first international conference on Late Modern English (LModE).

2014, Marianne Hundt, “1. Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context”, in Marianne Hundt, editor, Late Modern English Syntax, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, 1. Late Modern English syntax: setting the scene, page 1:

It is this strong connection between Late Modern attitudes and contemporary ones which makes the former so relevant for state-of-the-art investigation. […] Indeed, the turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed a tremendous increase in the scholarly attention paid to Late Modern English (or LModE), especially as far as its codification is concerned: over the last twenty years several volumes, articles and book chapters have appeared on this topic […] Interestingly, the two decades in which studies in Late Modern English have expanded have also been the same in which the World Wide Web, invented 25 years ago, has become an ordinary tool for investigation and research.

2015, “Introduction”, in Marina Dossena, editor, Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, 1. Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English, pages 3–4:

The form of the English language written and spoken in the 18th and 19th centuries.


Lyonese

From French lyonnais. By surface analysis, Lyon + -ese.


Muscati

Of or pertaining to Muscat, Oman; Muscatian.


Muscati

A native or inhabitant of Muscat, Oman; a Muscatian.


Californese

(rare) The dialect of American English spoken in California.


Apamean

Of or pertaining to Apamea in Syria or its region.

apaméen

of or pertaining to Apamea in Syria or its region


Apamean

Apameans (plural)
Apameian (alternative)

(historical) A person from, or an inhabitant of, Apamea in Syria or its region.

Apaméen

a person from, or an inhabitant of, Apamea in Syria or its region


Uda

A Lower Cross River language of Nigeria.


Anse

A male given name, diminutive of various names.


Demon

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state”).

uder

Demon writes that Taurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat as he was sailing out for Athens.

1952, Plutarch, “Theseus”, in Dryden, et. al, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Great Books of the Western World; 14):


Adit

A diminutive of the male given name Aditya, from Sanskrit.


Chrisso

A diminutive of the male given names Christopher or Chris.


Paulistano

Paulistanos are infamous workaholics; other Brazilians joke about their obsession with meetings and office politics and all the trappings of business.

2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 212:


McChurch

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-McChurch.wav

From Mc- + church. Usage dates back to at least the early 1990s.

(slang, derogatory, specifically) A megachurch.


Loz

A diminutive of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence.


Brabanditti

(historical, derogatory) The soldiers of General Edward Brabant, British military commander in colonial South Africa.


Provincetowner

Someone from or residing in Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States.


East Turkistani

en-noun

East Turkistani (plural East Turkistanis)

The East Turkistan Government in Exile and the overwhelming majority of East Turkistanis across our global diaspora commemorated the 30th Anniversary of the Baren Revolution, also known as the Baren Uprising, or the Baren Massacre, which erupted on April 5, 1990 in East Turkistan's Akto County.

2020 April 5, “30th Anniversary of the Baren Revolution”, in The Voice of East Turkistan, volume 1, number 3, page 17:

A native or inhabitant of East Turkistan


East Turkistani

en-adj

East Turkistani (comparative more East Turkistani, superlative most East Turkistani)

more East Turkistani (comparative)
most East Turkistani (superlative)

A history of the Naqshbandiyya in East Turkistan cannot claim to encompass all of East Turkistani social and religious practices; Papas cannot say much about popular Sufi dhikr or ziyārat mazār pilgrimages.

2007 November 25, Nathan Light, “30th Anniversary of the Baren Revolution”, in The Journal of Asian Studies, volume 66, number 4, page 1154:

In 1944, the East Turkistan Republic was again established by Kazakh and Uighur forces. They controlled the north-western Ghulja region from 1944 to 1949. However, the Republic was surrendered to the CCP in September 1949, when one of its political leaders, Burhan, pledged his allegiance to the CCP (Dillon 2010: 377). Shortly after, eight East Turkistani political leaders were to travel to Beijing to negotiate and finalize details over the territory’s position in China.

2012, Anna Hayes, Cultures in Refuge: Seeking Sanctuary in Modern Australia, →ISBN, page https://books.google.com/books?id=WhQpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT201&lpg=PT201:

Of or pertaining to East Turkistan, its people and culture


asteronym

From Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + -onym.

In this work Mr. Quérard treats of all persons who have written in French, in all parts of Europe, and have disguised themselves under anagrams, asteronyms, cryptonyms, initials, literary names, pseudonyms, facetious or strange, etc.

1871 June, “Anonymous and Pseudonymous Authors and Works”, in The National Quarterly Review, volume 23, number 45, New York: Edward I. Sears, page 48:

(typography, rare) An asterism (⁂) or similar symbol which replaces the name of the author in a literary work.

astéronyme

asterism or similar symbol which replaces the name of the author in a literary work


Katerina

/ˌkætəˈɹiːnə/

Катери́на Катерина#Bulgarian

A transliteration of the Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Russian female given name Катери́на (Katerína)


Anconan

A native or inhabitant of Ancona in Italy.


Geraint

From Welsh Geraint, from Latin Gerontius, Latinized Greek for "old man," from Ancient Greek γέρων (gérōn, “old man”).


Fort Worthian

A native or inhabitant of Fort Worth, Texas.


Quebecian

Quebecian (comparative more Quebecian, superlative most Quebecian)

more Quebecian (comparative)
most Quebecian (superlative)
Québecian (alternative)
Quebeckian (alternative)

But let the humble “subjects” of the rotten, tottering trans-Atlantic monarchies, the humble Quebecian “subjects” of Victoria of England included, once for all learn and not forget that America is not Africa; and that American freemen will not submit to be treated like African savages.

1891, John Gmeiner, The Church and Foreignism, St. Paul, Minnesota: Brown, Treacy & Co., page 6:

In his effort his Quebecian title had been pre-occupied for another formation; in Cary substitute another title had already been a valid name for the till itself.

1938, The Pan-American Geologist, page 56:

The Quebecian grammarian Jean-Marcel Léard has identified five morphological features which differentiate what he calls the Quebecian variety of French from the hexagonal variety (Léard 1995, based on the Estric corpus for Quebecian facts):[…]Most of these changes are not completely unknown in European French:[…]What then could be said to be Quebecian here?

2011, Grammar & Corpora 2009: Third International Conference, →ISBN, pages 97, 98:


Quebecian

Quebecians (plural)
Québecian (alternative)
Quebeckian (alternative)

When the Quebecians wish to get out, the Ontarians try to persuade them to stay in.

“Oh, yes.” I said, again. “Oh, yes.” Nearly choking. Who is this man? I kept thinking. This Quebecian.

Domestic responses to national database projects have been highly variable. Britons, Estonians, Quebecians, and Swedes have paid minimal attention to developments in their own contexts, whereas in Iceland there was extensive public debate for over two years.

2007, Gísli Pálsson, Anthropology and the New Genetics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 144:


Old Lady of Threadneedle Street

the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (canonical)


Hamawi

A person from, or an inhabitant of, Hama.

Hamiote

a person from, or an inhabitant of, Hama


Appie

(informal) A member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, an outdoor group in the United States.


Jie

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 羯 (Jié), from Middle Chinese 羯 (kɨɐt̚), itself borrowed from Jie.

(historical) An ancient tribe of northern China, who were regarded as one of the Five Barbarians by the Han people.


Jie

(historical) The language spoken by the Jie people, attested only in a fragment in the Book of Jin.


Fine Gaeler

A member or supporter of the Fine Gael political party.


EverCrack

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-EverCrack.wav

An allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

(video games, slang, humorous) The massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest.


Warcrack

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Warcrack.wav

Blend of warcraft + crack, in allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

(video games, slang, humorous) The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


Reubs

A diminutive of the male given name Reuben.


Damin

A ceremonial register of the Australian Aboriginal Lardil language; the only language outside of Africa to use click consonants in its phonology.


Artin

From Armenian Արթին (Artʻin), a dialectal form of Հարություն (Harutʻyun).

Արթին Արթին#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Արթին (Artʻin).


Denni

A diminutive of the female given name Denise.


Aghwan

Caucasian Albanian
Caucasian Albanian#English


Aghwan

en-noun

Aghwan (countable and uncountable, plural Aghwans)


Wilmingtonian

A native or inhabitant of Wilmington, Delaware.


BANZSL

Sign languages that have foreign vocabulary based on alphabetic fingerspelled elements include American Sign Language (ASL) […] and the British Sign Language (BSL) family, BANZSL[…]

2008, Kearsy Cormier, Adam Schembri, Martha E. Tyron, “One Hand or Two? Nativisation of Fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL”, in Sign Language & Linguistics, volume 11, number 1, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 3–44:

But when BANZSL and ASL were compared, 44% cognate and 31% identical signs have been observed.

2016 January 5, Genie Gertz, Patrick Boudreault, The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 234:

w:British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Language

Acronym of British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Language.


Bulletmore

Blend of bullet + Baltimore, in reference to the high murder rate.

Even if I'm honest about my ignorance of the best show on TV, folks are thirsty to know if Bulletmore is really as criminally minded as it's portrayed on television.

2007, Felicia Pride, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs, page 192:

Bulletmore's success rate of solving crime is only about 17%. This is a city where the National Guard could be used as target practice by the local B.G.F.

(slang, derogatory) The city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.


Shakey

Greene: Master Shakey Poet, a word if you please? / Will: Shakespeare, Master Greene, my name is Shakespeare.

2016, Ben Elton, “Star Crossed Lovers”, in Upstart Crow, season 1, episode 1 (television production):

(humorous, modern nickname) William Shakespeare


straight r

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

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

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

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

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

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

(typography) The usual form of the letter r (which is r), as contrasted with r rotunda (ꝛ).


Zsa Zsa

From Hungarian Zsazsa, popularized by Hungarian–American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.


Sleepy Joe

/ˈsliːpi ˈd͡ʒəʊ̯/

Coined by American current president Donald Trump in 2019, likely in reference to a series of videos where Biden appears to occasionally fall asleep during important meetings and television interviews.

coinage

Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe.

2019 April 25, @realDonaldTrump, Twitter, archived from the original on 2019-04-25:

His new dystopian vision, with militant and extreme language not typical in American politics, marks a sharp departure from Trump’s previous effort to cast Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” an establishment politician with deteriorating mental abilities.

2020 July 18, Michael Scherer, “From ‘Sleepy Joe’ to a destroyer of the ‘American way of life,’ Trump’s attacks on Biden make a dystopian shift”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2020-12-13:

Many mocked the president, while hashtags included "Sleepy Joe" – the name former President Donald Trump had referred to Biden as during the 2020 campaign.

[2021 November 1, Peter Suciu, “‘Sleepy Joe’ Trended After Biden Appeared To Nod Off During Climate Conference”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 2021-11-27:


rhyme dictionary

en-noun

rhyme dictionary (plural rhyme dictionaries)

rhyme dictionaries (plural)
rime dictionary (alternative)

(historical) A Chinese lexicon arranged by tones and rhyme rather than radical, frequently without definitions.


rhyme book

rhyme books (plural)
rime book (alternative)


Siliconite

From silicon + -ite, after Silicon Valley.

R.U. Sirius, whose journalistic rounds put him in constant contact with Siliconites of all descriptions, says, "In my experience, the most creative people in computers experiment with drugs. It's a very bizarre culture, where the freaks are the elite. […]"

1992 June 29, Vijay Joglekar, “Valley of the Nerds - 3”, in austin.general (Usenet):

Are you kidding? $60,000 is what Siliconites pay the illegal Guatemalan gardener who has to go all the way to Gilroy before he can find a place he can afford to rent. (As long as he, the wife and kids share the place with his brother and his family.)

1996 October 7, frlpwr@flash.net, “Re: Organic/Unsafe”, in talk.politics.animals (Usenet):

The supposed main difference was that the Siliconites consist of Jewish managers and South Asian engineers/managers. Bangalorites are just South Asian. Which ever way you look at it south Asians dominate IT. R&D is also a strong point.

2004 March 6, Roy Chang, “Re: Bangalore: Silicon Valley or Coolie Valley?”, in alt.computer.consultants (Usenet):

(rare) A person who lives or works in Silicon Valley.


Euric

From Latin Eurichus or Spanish Eurico, both ultimately from Gothic *𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (*aiwareiks). Possible doublet of Eric and Erik.


Sidama

A Cushitic language spoken in the region.


condensed formula

condensed formula (plural condensed formulae or condensed formulas)

condensed formulae (plural)
condensed formulas (plural)

(physical chemistry) A simplified structural formula that does not show the individual atoms' relative position in space


Murican

Eye dialect spelling of a non-standard aphetic pronunciation of American.

'Murican (alternative)
'murican (alternative)


Shantanu

Transliteration of Hindi शांतनु (śāntnu) or Sanskrit शांतनु (śāṃtanu).

translit

A male given name from Hindi or Sanskrit.


Northern Kurdish

The Kurdish language with the largest number of speakers, spoken in Turkey, Syria, northernmost Iraq, and parts of Iran and Central Asia.


Southern Kurdish

The Kurdish language spoken in western Iran, and to a small extent in Iraq. Kalhuri (Kermashani), Feili (Ilami) and Laki are divided into the southern dialect subgroup.


Central Asiatic

en-adj

Central Asiatic (comparative more Central Asiatic, superlative most Central Asiatic)

more Central Asiatic (comparative)
most Central Asiatic (superlative)

The Central Asiatic race, the Mongol, the Tartar, when pure, revelled in tents and arms; plunder and the pomp of war was their whole aim.

1850, Robert Knox, “Appendix”, in The Races of Men: A Fragment, Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, “Section I.—Origin, Civilization, Extinction of the Dark Races of Men”, page 302:

The principal sets of Central Asiatic manufactures are Bokhara, Karshi, Yenghi Ürgendj, Khokand, and Namengan.

1865, Arminius Vámbéry, “Chapter XXII.”, in Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863., New York: Harper & Brothers, page 472:

Ṭāq-i Bustān lies just east of Kirmānshāh, a town in western Irān on the so-called High Road that led from Mesopotamia through the central Zagros Mountains to Khurāsān, the crucially important Central Asiatic frontier of Arab conquest.

2004, Garth Fowden, Quṣayr ʿAmra: Art and the Unmayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 109, 300:


Central Asiatic

en-noun

Central Asiatic (plural Central Asiatics)

Will the Central Asiatics avail themselves of the communications opened for them in Europe? Will they accept, through the agency of Russia, the products of civilization, which we have neglected to convey to them, by the Indus and their own streams?

1840 August, Adolphus Slade, “Slade’s Travels in Germany and Russia”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume XIV, London: William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son, pages 130–131:

My friend was obliged positively to force me to enter a booth, and, after the precious shivin (a kind of tea) was poured out, wishing to profit by the ecstatic feeling in which he found me, he asked me, chucklingly, “Now, then, what do you say to Bokhara Sherif (the noble)?” “It pleases me much,” I replied; and the Central Asiatic, although from Khokand, and an alien enemy, as his nation was at that moment at war with Bokhara, was nevertheless delighted to find that the capital of Turkestan had made such a conquest of me, and gave me his word that he would show me its finest features in the course of the following days.

1865, Arminius Vámbéry, “Chapter X.”, in Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863., New York: Harper & Brothers, page 210:

By describing him as a “Scythian shepherd,” Marlowe seizes the idea of the near contemporary Mongolians in the relatively unracialized image of the classical Scythians (who were neither Central Asiatics nor “shepherds,” though they were nomads).

2006, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, editors, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 42:


Geoffie

A diminutive of the male given name Geoffrey.


Adders

Jocular modification of Addison + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

(Oxford University slang, archaic) Addison's Walk, Magdalen College, Oxford.


Jaggers

Variant of Jagger with post-medieval excrescent -s.


Mashallah

From Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah).

bor

مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه

Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah)

At this early stage of the narrative, this manner of describing Mashallah's state of mind foreshadows a more radical loss of self, i.e., a journey that transforms him from an ordinary and insignificant bank guard to a visitor to the court of Harun...

2015, Nasrin Rahimieh, Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 19:

Mashallah, the cook, housekeeper and moral guardian of the family, had a different relationship with each of us. For Achim he felt deep respect, with some distance; he was jealous of Marianne, fearing for his sovereignty in the domestic sphere;...

2006, Irene Gill, Oma, Mu and Me, APS Publishing:

مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه
ما شاء الله#Arabic

(Islam) A male given name from Arabic مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّه (mā šāʔa l-lah, “God willed it”).


Bismillah

/ˌbɪsmɪˈlɑː/

From Arabic بِاسْمِ اللّٰه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”)

بِاسْمِ اللّٰه

It was only at the age of six years when Bismillah was sent to Varanasi to stay with his maternal uncle, Ali Baksh, who himself was a great musician and played shehnai in the premises of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.

2020, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Prabhat Prakashan, →ISBN:

بِاسْمِ اللَّه
باسم الله#Arabic

(Islam) A male given name from Arabic بِاسْمِ اللَّه (bismi llāh, “in the name of God”).


Normie

A diminutive of the male given name Norman.


Tomba

From Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕ (tomba). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕ (tomba); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

translit

A male given name from Manipuri; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯇꯣꯝꯕ (tomba)


Myf

A diminutive of the female given name Myfanwy.


Faragism

From Farage + -ism. From Nigel Farage, a British politician.

(British politics, informal) The ideology, practice, philosophy and politics espoused by British nationalist autonomist sovereigntist politician Nigel Farage, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and, Reform UK.


Loujain

Loujain al-Hathloul, b. 1989


Harshit

Via Hindi हर्षित (harṣit), ultimately a borrowing from Sanskrit हर्षित (harṣita).

A male given name from Sanskrit, common in India


cakeist

en-adj

cakeist (comparative more cakeist, superlative most cakeist)

more cakeist (comparative)
most cakeist (superlative)

Some said the proposed Brexit deal was cakeist.

May's cakeist approach to Brexit (as in, having it and eating it) is beginning to find its limits.

2017 September 22, Anne Perkins, “Theresa May's Florence speech – our writers' verdicts”, in The Guardian:

As a leadership candidate, Mr Johnson has run a strongly cakeist campaign.

2019 July 15, Gideon Rachman, “Boris Johnson, ‘cakeism’ and the Blitz spirit”, in the Financial Times:

Harry and Meghan are easy to sympathize with. Who isn’t in favor of having cake and eating it, too? In politics, after all, everyone is a cakeist: No one wants to pay more tax, but everyone wants better services.

2020 January 10, Tom McTague, “The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision”, in The Atlantic:

I want you to see that this is a cakeist treaty.

2020 December 30, “Post-Brexit trade: UK having its cake and eating it, says Boris Johnson”, in BBC News:

In the cakeist view, Britain could retain the benefits of EU membership without any obligation to European law.

2021 December 22, Rafael Behr, “The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry”, in The Guardian:

having one's cake and eating it
having one's cake and eating it

(UK politics) Of or pertaining to having one's cake and eating it.


Ladakhi

A Tibetic language primarily spoken in Ladakh, India.


Rejeanne

(Canada, Louisiana) A female given name from French; feminine of Rejean


Rejean

(Canada, Louisiana) A male given name from French; masculine of Rejeanne


Butskellian

Butskellian (comparative more Butskellian, superlative most Butskellian)

more Butskellian (comparative)
most Butskellian (superlative)

(UK politics, now historical) Of or relating to Butskellism.


Queen Bess

Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland.


Gjergji

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Ѓерѓи (Ǵerǵi)


Barngarla

Pangkala (alternative)
Parnkalla (alternative)


pantifa

From mid-2017, a blend of panty + Antifa. See quotations and also the expression get one's panties in a bunch.

2017 August, reader comment on Black Bloc warning urges more violence against Canadian journalists
I call then ‘Pantifa’ because they cover their faces with their Mom's Old Underwear!

You are a pantifa? Panty Fascist

2017 September 8, reader comment on Eric Bolling Out at Fox News

Most people who support pantifa have never worked a day in their life

Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent.

2021 January 12, online discussion, quotee, “FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence”, in Washington Post:

(Internet slang, derogatory) Antifa, specifically the North American movement that arose in the late 2010s.


Istanbullu

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish İstanbullu.

ubor

Ekrem İmamoğlu, elected in 2019 as Istanbul’s opposition party mayor despite fierce resistance from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development party, told the Guardian that Istanbullus had been reassured that the huge Melen dam system would supply the city’s water needs without issue until 2070.

2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian: