Chanel

en-proper noun

Chanel (countable and uncountable, plural Chanels)

From French Chanel. As a given name, principally after Coco Chanel.

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Madalynn

Variant of Madeleine, influenced by Lynn.


Kenna

* As a Scottish surname, shortened from McKenna.
* As a Manx and Irish surname, from Ó Cionaoith (“descendant of Cionaoth”), a name usually Anglicized as Kenneth.

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, masculine equivalent Kenneth.


Rayden

A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.


Tenley

From Tineley in Northumberland or Teenley in West Yorkshire.


Bronson

From Middle English Brun (“a man named Brown's”) + son.

inh

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Rohan

Habitational surname from Rohan in Morbihan, Brittany. Also a variant of Rowan and Ruane.


Rohan

Borrowed from Sanskrit रोहण (rohaṇa, “"ascending"; name of Adam's Peak”).

bor

A male given name from Sanskrit, of mainly Indian usage.


Kylan

Modern coinage; compare Kyle. Variant: Kylen.

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Alaia

Borrowed in the 21st century from Basque Alaia, from alai (“joyful”). For earlier use among English-speakers, compare Hebrew עֲלִיָּה ('alīyá, “ascent”), Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya, “high, exalted”).


Dulce

Dulces (plural)
Dulcé (alternative)
Dulcee (alternative)
Dulcée (alternative)

A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Dulcie.


Aviana

From the female given name Ava and the feminine Latinate suffix -ian(n)a, or possibly from a feminine elaboration of the adjective avian (“of birds”) through the suffix -a.


Kenley

* Shortened from McKenley, variant of McKinley
* Habitational from Old English Cena (“a man's name”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).

Kinley (alternative)
Kynlee (alternative)


Jagger

Occupational surname from Yorkshire, jagger (“peddler”). The modern given name use is partly after Mick Jagger.


Rowen

From Middle English rown (“rowan tree”).


Bria

She'd always refused to be called anything but Brianna. Yet when Mike had first called her Bria, they were making love for the first time, and the gentle way he spoke the name had sounded like poetry.

2012, Jackie Manning, Tough As Nails, Harlequin, →ISBN:


Brentley

Possibly an invented name. Compare Brent, Brantley.


Mekhi

African-American coinage, popularized by the actor Mekhi Phifer.

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


Ansley

en-proper noun

Ansley (countable and uncountable, plural Ansleys)

From Old English ānsetl (“hermitage”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

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


Tristen

A male or female given name of modern usage.


Kaylin

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


Anahi

A Spanish female given name from Spanish.


Miah

Modern usage, probably a variant of Mia.


Ivanna

Transliteration of Ukrainian Іва́нна (Ivánna). Doublet of Jane.

Іва́нна Іванна#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Іва́нна (Ivánna).


Everleigh

Everleigh (countable and uncountable, plural Everleighs)

Everleighs (plural)
Everley (alternative)
Everly (alternative)

From Old English eofor (“wild boar”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”). Compare the Dutch toponym Everlo.


Talon

The surname derives from Old French talon (“heel”) as a nickname for a deformity, or for a swift runner; also diminutive of Talbot and Talleyrand. The modern given name is associated with English talon.

'Very well, I shall call you Talon from now on. What does the name mean, in the tongue of the small folk?' 'It is a claw, like that found on a hawk,' Talon said.

2010, David Farland, The Wyrmling Horde: Book 7 of the Runelords, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

A male given name from English of modern usage.


Alia

Borrowed from Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya). The feminine form of Ali.

Aaliyah (alternative)
Aliya (alternative)
Aliyah (alternative)


Saylor

From Old French sailleor (“dancer, acrobat”).

A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.


Jaelyn

20th-century coinage, variant of Jaylynn.

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Emilee

Modern variant of Emily, influenced by Lee.


Lainey

“I'm looking for Lainey Whitman.” “Lainey . . . ?” “Whitman.” “I don't think I recognize the name. Which firm is she with? ... “Lane Whitman?” “Lainey. Elaine,” Tom corrected. It would be just like Lainey to go all formal on him.

2010, Joy Fielding, The Wild Zone: A gripping thriller about the deadly secrets between husband and wife, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

A diminutive of the female given name Elaine.


Coraline

An elaborate form of Coralie, itself derived from coral. Name of a character in Adolphe Adam's opera Le toréador.

'The mice tell me that all is good,' he said. 'They say that you are our saviour, Caroline.' 'It's Coraline, Mister Bobo,' said Coraline. 'Not Caroline. Coraline.' ' Coraline,' said Mr Bobo, repeating her name to himself with wonderment and respect.

2013, Neil Gaiman, Coraline, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 190:


Lilyana

Transliteration of Bulgarian Лиляна (Liljana), equivalent to English Lilian.

A female given name from the Slavic languages.


Uriel

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Οὐριήλ (Ouriḗl), from Hebrew אוּרִיאֵל (“God is my light”).


Maryam

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْيَم (maryam) and Persian مریم (maryam). Doublet of Mary and Miriam.


Braylee

Modern coinage, compare Brylee, Kaylee, Jaylee.


Liberty

Liberty (countable and uncountable, plural Libertys)

Then last came Liberty. What a name, Mason always thought. It was an invention of her mother's―a flighty woman who had run away from Porter with a hippie stereo salesman eight and a half years ago and discovered immediately afterward that she was two months pregnant.

1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, →ISBN, page 171:

A unisex given name.
A female given name from English.

A unisex given name.
A male given name from English.

A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky, United States.

A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi, United States.


Skyla

20th-century invention, shortened from Skyler.


Colten

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Jessa

20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.


Imani

Borrowed from Swahili, from imani (“faith, belief”), from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān).

der

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)


Kyson

Modern coinage; compare Kyle and Tyson, Bryson.

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Gannon

Derived from Irish Mag Fhionnáin "son of Finan".


Aarav

Transliteration of Hindi आरव (ārav, “sound; loud noise”).

translit

A male given name from Hindi, of Indian usage.


Leonidas

From Ancient Greek Λεωνίδᾱς (Leōnídās, “son of Leon / lion”).

der

(chiefly history) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Danna

As a surname from French D’Anna (“of Anna”). The given name is more probably a feminine form coined from Dan or Daniel.

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“Daniella...” “My friends call me Danna.” “Danna.” He tested it on his tongue.

2009, Victor J. Banis, Deadly Dreams, ManLove Romance Press, →ISBN, page 74:


Omari

Borrowed from Arabic عمري. The surname is predominantly found in Tanzania.


Bodhi

Modern English usage from bodhi; influenced by characters in films and comics.

"I grew up in San Diego. My mother died of cancer when I was ten years old. She was a good and loving woman from what I remember, and she encouraged me to read a lot since she was a history teacher. She also had a great interest in eastern philosophy such as Buddhism. When I was born she named me Bodhi from the Buddhist idea of the Bodhisattva – a wise and compassionate being who delays his entrance into buddahood for the benefit of enlightenment for all.” “ She must have seen something very special in you, Bodhi,” said Erica.

2014, Robert Beau Michaels, Elysian Fields, BookBaby, →ISBN:


Ryland

From Old English ryge (“rye”) + land (“land”).


Malakai

Borrowed from Fijian Malakai and Tongan Malakai, equivalent to English Malachi.


Ronin

From modern films and comics, perhaps literally "a ronin". Compare also Ronan.

He shook Chaz's hand. “Please call me Ronin.” Ronin. The sexy, mysterious name fit him perfectly.

2014, Lorelei James, Bound: The Mastered Series, Penguin, →ISBN:


Moises

en-proper noun

Moises (countable and uncountable, plural Moiseses)

Borrowed from Portuguese Moises and Spanish Moisés.


Amari

The surname is of multiple origins, including:
* A variant of Amaro, from Italian Amaro.
* A variant of Amar, from Arabic عَمَّار (ʕammār). See also Umari, Umar, Omar, and Amar.
* A Japanese surname ultimately deriving from Japanese 余り (amari, “remainder, surplus”).


Raylan

Modern coinage from Ray, compare Rylan, Braylon.


Brylee

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Aubrie

Modern altered spelling of Aubrey as a feminine name.


Raiden

Possible a modern variant of Rayden, or a coinage rhyming with Braiden, Jaiden, etc.


Braelyn

20th-century coinage, compare Braylen, Braylon. Variant: Braelynn.


Braelynn

20th-century coinage, compare Braylen, Braylon. Variant: Braelyn.


Cason

As an English surname, a corruption of the place name Cawston in Norfolk. Also borrowed from Italian Cason, from a Venetan form of casa (“house”).

Casen (alternative)
Cayson (alternative)
Kaison (alternative)
Kasen (alternative)
Kason (alternative)
Kaysen (alternative)
Kayson (alternative)

I named him Cason; it was my grandfather's middle name and the second that he was born, I could see that it suited him.

2016, Verna Lloyd, Within Sight, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:


Emmalyn

From Emma + Lyn or a variant of Emmeline.


Deacon

* English occupational surname for someone working in the household of a deacon.
* Also as an English surname, variant of Dicken.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Deocáin, "descendant of Deocán."

And like a mirror image in gestures if not in looks, Steward spit fresh Blue Boy while Deek lit a cigar. However disgusted both were, K.D. knew they would not negotiate a solution that would endanger him or the future of Morgan money. His grandfather had named his twins Deacon and Steward for a reason.

1997, Toni Morrison, Paradise, Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 55:


Lorelei

Borrowed from German Lorelei (“siren of Rhine”), not used as a given name in Germany.
The Lorelei (or Lorelei, Loreleï, Lore Lay, Lore-Ley, Lurley, Lurelei, Lurlei) is an infamous maritime disaster site because of the Rhine's current and the surrounding terrain. The ship wrecks have been subject to mythological explanation attempts since around 900 AD.


Aleah

Probably a fanciful spelling of Alia, Arabic عَالِيَة (ʕāliya).


Zuri

A female given name from Swahili of modern African American usage.

A male given name from Swahili of modern African American usage.


Maliyah

Probably a fanciful spelling of Malia, from Hawaiian Malia.


Juniper

A topographic surname from juniper. In some cases matronymic from an equivalent of Jennifer influenced by folk etymology.

A unisex given name from English.
A female given name from English.

A unisex given name from English.
A male given name from English.


Jayleen

20th-century coinage, variant of Jaylene.


Harlow

From Old English hær (“rock”) or here (“army”) + hlæw (“hill”).

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Jaxton

Modern American coinage from Jax, Jaxon, rhyming with Axton, Paxton, Daxton.


Jayson

Modern variant of Jason, perhaps influenced by Jay.


Brinley

Brinlee (alternative)
Brynlee (alternative)
Brynlie (alternative)


Baylee

Variant of Bailey, possibly influenced by Lee.


Finnegan

Borrowed from Irish Ó Fionnagáin descendant of "Fionnagán", meaning "little white one" and itself came from the Old Irish Finnacán, though the name may rarely be anglicised as Finnegan as well.

Finigan (alternative)
Finnigan (alternative)

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


Emersyn

A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.


Gracelynn

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Braylon

Modern American coinage. Variant: Braylen.


Kason

We named him Kason because he is Keane and Adrienne's son.

2015, Bronwyn Preece, In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:


Leland

Shortened from McLeland, McClellan, from Irish Mac Giolla Fhaoláin, "son of servant of (Saint) Faolán (=Little Wolf)".

The old man, busy with expanding his logging operations, took no special notice of the blessed event other than christening the boy Leland Stanford Stamper in what he considered a favor to his young wife; he stomped into her room in Wakonda, calk boots and all, trailing sawdust, mud, and the stink of machine oil, and announced, “Little honey, I intend to let you call that boy there after that school you're forever mooning about quittin'. How does that strike you?"

1960, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, Penguin, published 2006, →ISBN:

With a name like Leland, he was doomed. He looked like the kind of kid who'd been tormented by his schoolmates since the first day of school, too bright and too big to avoid the involuntary cruelties of other middle-class children.

1992, Sue Grafton, I is for Innocent, Pan Macmillan, published 2010, →ISBN:


Daxton

Modern American coinage, rhyming with Axton, Paxton, Jaxton.


Adaline

A female given name from the Germanic languages.


Blakely

en-proper noun

Blakely (countable and uncountable, plural Blakelys)


Atticus

From Latin Atticus (“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”), from Ancient Greek Ἀττῐκός (Attĭkós). Doublet of Attic.

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... yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

1960, Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, Random House, published 2014, →ISBN:


Ainsley

en-proper noun

Ainsley (countable and uncountable, plural Ainsleys)

Ainsleys (plural)
Ainslie (alternative)
Ansley (alternative)
Annesley (alternative)
Ansley (alternative)
Ainslee (alternative)
Ainslie (alternative)

Habitational surname for someone from Annesley, Nottinghamshire or Ansley, Warwickshire, both from Old English anne (“alone, solitary”) or ānsetl (“hermitage”) + lēah (“woodland, clearing”).


Colt

Colt (countable and uncountable, plural Colts)

From colt, as a nickname or occupational name for someone who looked after horses and asses. The given name may also be short for Colton. The revolver is named after American inventor Samuel Colt (1814–1862).


Adriel

Borrowed from Hebrew עדריאל (“flock of God”).

But it came to passe at the time when Merab Sauls daughter should haue beene giuen to Dauid, that shee was giuen vnto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 18:19:


Cesar

Anglicized spelling of Spanish César. Doublet of Caesar.

Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.

1989, Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 4:


Rhett

Name of a South Carolina family, anglicized from Dutch de Raedt, from Middle Dutch raet (“advice”).

“Oh, Scarlett, he has the most terrible reputation. His name is Rhett Butler and he's from Charleston and his folks are some of the nicest people there, but they won't even speak to him. Caro Rhett told me about him last summer.

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part I, page 99:


Journey

From journey at the end of the 20th century.

Mama named me Journey. Journey, as if somehow she wished her restlessness on me.

1991, Patricia MacLachlan, Journey, Delacorte Press, published 2007, →ISBN:


Jaiden

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


Jayceon

Fanciful variant of Jason, influenced by Jay and Jayce.


Paxton

en-proper noun

Paxton (countable and uncountable, plural Paxtons)

From Old English Pæcces + tūn (literally “settlement of (a person named) Pæcc”).


Alayna

A female given name from the Celtic languages.


Waylon

Variant of Wayland popularized by the American singer Waylon Jennings who was originally named Wayland.


Jax

Shortened from Jackson, Jaxon or fanciful spelling of the surname Jacks.

"Jacks is short for Jackson?"
"No, with an X." He makes a cross with his marvelously long index fingers. "Short for nothing. My mother was one of the best-known alcoholics in the French Quarter of New Orleans. I was named after a venerated brand of beer."
"You're named after Jax Beer?"
He nods morosely. "Somewhere in this world I have a sister named Hurricane. I'm telling you the God's honest truth."

1993, Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven, →ISBN, page 81:


Alivia

From 20th-century fiction, possibly influenced by Olivia.

Alivia, the very peculiar wilder who seemed to have no other name, strode off north, cloak flapping behind her, surrounded by the glow of the Power.

2000, Robert Jordan, Winter's Heart: Book Nine of 'The Wheel of Time', Tor Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 534:


Zayden

American 21st-century coinage, rhyming with Jayden, Brayden, Aidan, etc.


Everly

Everly (countable and uncountable, plural Everlys)

Habitational surname, from a variant of Everleigh.


Adalyn

Rare non-standard variant of Adeline. Can also be construed as Ada + Lyn.


Adalynn

Rare non-standard variant of Adeline. Can also be construed as Ada + Lynn.


Brantley

Anglicized from Alemannic German Brändle, Brändli, "firebrand."


Kinsley

Kinsley (countable and uncountable, plural Kinsleys)

From Old English Cyne (“Royal (a man's name)”) + -s (“'s”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”).


Greyson

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


Jaxson

Jaxsons (plural)
Jaxxon (alternative)
Jaxon (alternative)
Jackson (alternative)

A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Jackson.


Easton

From Old English ēast (“east”) + tūn (“settlement”). Doublet of Aston.


Natalya

Transliteration of Russian Ната́лья (Natálʹja). Doublet of Natalie.

Ната́лья Наталья#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Ната́лья (Natálʹja).


Ayan

Meaning Eon in Arabic. May be related to the greek word Aeon.


Samiyah

A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Sami.


Maddux

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Tamia

20th-century coinage popularized by the Canadian singer Tamia Hill.


Semaj

Another strange event now occurred at the moment when Uncle Tidmus was asked by the clergyman what name was to be given to the little boy. " James," said Uncle Tidmus. "Semaj !" said a voice near Uncle Waddilove. Looking round, he saw the pale lady in black close to the font. " I beg your pardon," said the clergyman, puzzled. "Did you say, 'Semaj James,' or 'James Semaj?' " Papa and mamma and Uncle Tidmus all hurriedly explained that his name was to be " James" alone.

1870, Arthur Lillie, The King of Topsy-turvy, page 13:

The father's name was James. She spelled the baby's name backwards. The baby's name is Semaj.

2006, Sherick A. Hughes, Black Hands in the Biscuits Not in the Classrooms: Unveiling Hope in a Struggle for Brown's Promise, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 113:

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Abrielle

Modern coinage possibly shortened from Gabrielle. Compare Brielle, Aubrielle.


Efrain

Anglicized spelling of Spanish Efraín. Doublet of Ephraim.


Jovanni

From Spanish Jovanni, from Italian Giovanni.


Gavyn

A male given name from the Celtic languages.


Janae

20th-century coinage from Jane, possibly influenced by Renée.


Macey

* As an English surname, variant of Massey.
* As a Slavic surname, Americanized from Slovak Macej, Carpathian Rusyn [script needed] (Mačej), Polish Maciej, all variants of Matthew.


Anniston

The city in Alabama, originally Woodstock, was renamed by town officials in 1873 (after realizing there was another village named Woodstock in central Alabama) in honor of Annie Eliza Scott Tyler (1838–1914), daughter-in-law of Daniel Tyler, one of the two organizers of the Woodstock Iron Company, which started the then planned community. Equivalent to Annie + -s- + -ton (“Annie’s town”).
The name of the city in Missouri was changed in 1894—a transfer from the city in Alabama.

(rare) A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.


Sherlyn

20th-century coinage from Sheryl / Sheri + Lyn.


Arnav

From Sanskrit अर्णव (arṇava, “ocean, sea”). Doublet of Arnab.


Avianna

From the female given name Ava and the feminine Latinate suffix -ian(n)a, or possibly from a feminine elaboration of the adjective avian (“of birds”) through the suffix -a.


Mckayla

Mckaylas (plural)
McKayla (alternative)
MyKayla (alternative)
MacKayla (alternative)
Mackayla (alternative)

Modern variant of Michaela, influenced by Mc-.

A female given name, variant of Michaela.


Danika

A spelling variant of Danica, a female given name of Slavic origin.

A female given name from the Slavic languages, variant of Danica.


Anabella

Rare spelling variant of Annabella, the Latinate form of Annabel.


Mckenzie

Rare spelling variant of the surname MacKenzie.


Jabez

Hebrew יַעְבֵּץ

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 4:9-10:


Isam

From Arabic عِصَام (ʕiṣām, “security, pledge”).


Dayse

Dayse F. Baker spent the first half to the 20th century educating the African-American community at the Douglas School in Farmington.

2014 September 9, “Sept. 9 Educator Dayse Baker”, in Daily Journal:

Tenants Mauricio Alves Lucas, Samantha Rodrigues Siqueira, and Dayse Duarte (left to right) say they are owed deposits back from Spencer Accommodation

2018 May 30, Jack Power, “Landlord criticised for witholding ^([sic]) deposits from 39 tenants”, in Irish Times:

Moments before she died, Dayse Ricarte, 28, spoke in distress to a friend on camera.

2018 July 17, Richard Hartley-Parkinson, “Drug mule records distressing video after cocaine capsule explodes inside her”, in Metro:


Hershel

Borrowed from Yiddish הירשעל (hirshel), a diminutive of הירש (hirsh, “deer, buck”).


Hardie

Scottish variant of Hardy. Also shortened from McHardie, Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic mac C(h)ardaidh (“son of the craftsman”), from ceardaí.


Christene

Rare non-standard spelling of Christine.


Halsey

Places in England, from Old English hals (“neck of land”) + Old English īeġ (“island”)


Cammie

Cammies (plural)
Cammi (alternative)
Cammy (alternative)
Cammey (alternative)

A diminutive of the female given name Camilla.

A diminutive of the male given name Cameron.


Calista

From Latin Callistus, from Ancient Greek Κάλλιστος (Kállistos, “most beautiful”), from καλός (kalós, “beautiful”). Compare Callisto.


Berdie

A diminutive of the female given name Bertha.


Ennis

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


Almyra

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Edie

“We have the name for our daughter. We can call her Edie Maureen. They're old fashioned names so if we have a son and a daughter, we need to find a name for our son. […]"

2006, Shirley Harrington-Moore, The Taylor Men: Finding Favor in Her Eyes and Loving Myles, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 324:

My full name is Edith Jasmine Snow, but the kids at school generally call me Edie-Snow-Peadie, and I don't want to tell him that.

2008, Annabel Lyon, All-Season Edie, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 18:

A diminutive of the female given name Edith, also used as a formal given name.


Cleo

Shortened from Cleopatra or a variant of Clio. The rare male name derives from names of Ancient Greek origin such as Cleon and Cleopas.

“You're shy...too shy. Of course, with “friends” like Ellie and a name like Cleo, what do you expect? Why couldn't your mother have named you something normal, like Ann or Beth or Melissa? Why did she have to be all into ancient Egyptian history and name you after Queen Cleopatra? Who does that to a baby? A normal name would've saved you a lot of teasing growing up.”

2016, Leanna Sain, Red Curtains, The Wild Rose Press Inc, →ISBN:


Budd

From Old English Budda, a nickname of uncertain meaning.


Ruthie

A diminutive of the female given name Ruth.


Rosalee

Herb and Greta poured through “name” books and the only name they could agree on was “Rosalie.” Greta told Herb that she didn't want her daughter's name to end in a “lie,” and so they named her Rosalee.

2015, Janice Dickson, Herbert Peppard: The Eternal Man, FriesenPress, →ISBN:

“Oh, ma' am, you should call me Rosalee, like everybody else.” “A lovely name. But then you must call me Meena.”

2016, Fenton Johnson, The Man Who Loved Birds: A Novel, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:


Babe

Use of the common noun babe as a (nick)name.

Ruth was called “Babe” because of his youth (and baby face) when he signed with the Boston Red Sox in 1914 at age nineteen. He was also called “Bambino”—Italian for baby.

2006, David C. King, Have Fun with American Heroes, Jossey-Bass, page 77:


Aurthur

A male given name, a rare form of Arthur.


Parthenia

From Ancient Greek Παρθενια (Parthenia, “virginity”), occurring in Greek mythology.


Omie

Craven's 1874 poem was reprinted several times, the last being in 1952. By the early to mid twentieth century, the folk song about Omie Wise was widely known. Variants have turned up in poetry, prose, and song in numerous sources. Tragedies sung about a girl named variously Naoma, Naomi, Omie, Oma, Omi, Ona, Oni, Loni, etc., have been collected throughout the South.

2015, Gerald Milnes, Play of a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 79:

A diminutive of the female given name Naomi.


Vernie

A diminutive of the male given name Vernon.

A diminutive of the female given names Laverne, Verna, or Veronica.


Margaretta

Rare Latinization of Margaret. Compare Margareta.


Lollie

A diminutive of the female given name Laura.


Rafe

A male given name from the Germanic languages.


Rafe

A diminutive of the male given name Raphael.

Rafa

equivalents of the diminutive for Raphael


Mitchel

A male given name from Hebrew transferred back from the surname.


Hassie

From Harriet, Hazel and rare similar sounding names such as Haseltine, Haroldson + diminutive suffix -y.

My little brother, he couldn't say Harriet. He called me 'Hassie'. 'Hassie' it's been ever since. I don't like it, but I giss nobody never had a name like it in the world.

1985, Arthur C. Inman, Daniel Aaron, The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 284:

... Grace and Robert Garner in Hickman, Nebraska, the movers, namely, Terry Reynolds and his wife, Hazel “Hassie” Reynolds, Tina Walker, and the Garners, ...

1990, Reports of Cases Decided Between ... in the Supreme Court of Nebraska:

A diminutive of the female given names Harriet or Hazel.


Jarrett

en-proper noun

Jarrett (countable and uncountable, plural Jarretts)

Jarretts (plural)
Jarratt (alternative)
Jarett (alternative)

Variant of Garrett, a medieval form of Gerard and Gerald.

A male given name from the Germanic languages, in modern use transferred back from the surname.


Hyman

Anglicisation of Hyam, from Hebrew חַיִּים (ḥayím, “life”).


Hillard

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Maks

Макс Макс#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name diminutive Макс (Maks)


Marni

A female given name spelling variant of Marnie


penguinese

The next thing, a penguin will walk in here, tip his top hat, and abase himself while he mutters obsequiously in penguinese.

(informal) The language supposedly used by penguins.


Ruthenic

(dated) The variety of Russian spoken in Little Russia.


Himalayish

Belonging or relating to a certain (variously defined) subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman languages.


Teck's Ass

From the genitive of the male given name Teck and ass. The term is ultimately an eye dialect spelling of Texass, which is itself a blend of Texas and ass.

But there ain't no such island as Thespia (unless it's
in some private cement pond in Teck's Ass)

1998 July 29, Aethe...worldnot.att.net, “Is Gabrielle a Lesbian?”, in alt.tv.xena-subtext.misc (Usenet):

I don't believe they fry people anymore down in Teck's ass, they use a poison IV perfusion, with a sterile needle to prevent infection

[2000 August 10, Aethelrede, “Renee O Connor VS Britney Spears!”, in alt.tv.xena (Usenet):

Although between the oil reservers in Alaska, the new-and-improved Middle East, the potential for the South Pacific and our own native home-grown sources in Teck's Ass, we certainly would reduce our oil dependency, thus allowing us to drive more gas-guzzling SUV's and full-sized Beastmobiles down the highway without paying quite such a stiff price for the privilege, one would think.

2002 September 23, Dave Laird, “Stirring the political kettle...”, in scruz.general (Usenet):

(humorous, derogatory, rare, vulgar) Texas (the US state).


Nias

The Austronesian language spoken by this group.


Erromangan

The primary language spoken on the island of Erromango in the Tafea region of Vanuatu.


Sye

I was gripping on to Sye's shirt so hard that my fingers had lost blood circulation and they cramped when I let go. I sat up and held on to Sye with an exploding mixture of emotions. I cried into his chest, and he embraced me ...

2011, Andrea Bruden, The Secret of Vehnna, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 143:

Many things came to Sye's mind that wanted to be said, but his tongue refused to push them into reality. Struggling for a moment, Sye finally settled to whisper in a strained voice,

2013, Andrew Suzanne, The Towers of Adrala: Book One - Part One: Saranoda, Andrew Suzanne, →ISBN:

Rae listened to Sye as she talked; the excitement was clearly read in Sye's face and felt in her words.

2015, Linda S. Grant, Out Of The Ice: Birth of a Shaman, FriesenPress, →ISBN:


Teck

Likely shortened from Tecumseh, a given name from the Native American leader of the Shawnee tribe.


Gongduk

An endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 2,000 people in a few inaccessible villages located near the Kuri Chhu river in the Gongdue gewog of Mongar District in eastern Bhutan.


Lakha

a Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 8,000 people in Wangdue Phodrang and Trongsa Districts in central Bhutan. Lakha is spoken by descendants of pastoral yak herding communities.


Brokkat

An endangered Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 300 people in the village of Dhur in Bumthang Valley of Bumthang District in central Bhutan. Brokkat is spoken by descendants of pastoral yak herding communities.


Chocangaca

A Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 20,000 people in the Kurichu Valley of Lhuntse and Mongar Districts in eastern Bhutan.


Welshie

(slang, sometimes derogatory) Alternative spelling of Welshy


Flick

A diminutive of the female given name Felicity.

Felicia Jane "Flick" Beatrix Drummond is a British Conservative Party politician.

A diminutive of the female given name Felicia.


Alcan

Nowadays the Alcan presents a true challenge to the traveler as the road surface is "variable" to say the least.

2004, Andrew Montgomery, On the Road, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

The trip had been my idea. Like a lot of travel obsessions, it began with a map and a hazy idea of what we might see and encounter. I wanted to explore parts of the 1,387-mile-long Alaska Highway, a.k.a. the Alcan, constructed in a hurry during World War II to connect the contiguous United States to Alaska.

2015 July 4, Rosemary McClure, “Wonder-filled trip of a lifetime along the Alaska Highway”, in Los Angeles Times:

(slang, US, Canada) The Alaska Highway, which connects British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska.


El Camino Real

Borrowed from Spanish El Camino Real, meaning "King's Highway".

A Spanish-built road connecting the missions of Alta California.


Savile Row

→? Japanese: 背広 (sebiro)

Burlington Estate
Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington

Originally named Savile Street, it was built between 1731 and 1735 as part of the development of the Burlington Estate and named after Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington (née Savile; 1699–1758).

a Savile Row suit

And, thus, this phenomenally successful company can just possibly get by without worrying about my taste, or whether I actually like it; or, quite probably, if they win the planning decision, what Savile Row thinks of them.

2012 March 11, Euan Ferguson, “Abercrombie & Fitch with its 'crappy clothes' threatens staid Savile Row”, in The Observer:

(metonymically, fashion) The tailoring companies located on Savile Row and neighbouring streets.


Dak

en-proper-noun

Dak (countable and uncountable, plural Daks)

(countable) A diminutive of the male given name Dakota.


Accalon

(Arthurian legend) The lover of Morgan le Fay.


Remoaner

I am an unapologetic Remoaner, who regards Brexit as an unparalleled disaster.

2018 January 4, David Millward, “Even I, a snowflake Remoaner, feel it's about time we honoured Nigel Farage”, in Daily Telegraph:

Today, the Sun launches Remoaner Watch – starting with leading figures from the world of politics and the media (plus the entire BBC) for whom a love of all things EU still burns bright.

2022 June 18, Grant Rollings, “The Sun’s Remoaner Watch is on the lookout for evidence of Remoanery”, in The Sun:

For others, it’s the Blob or the “remoaner elite”, made up of the civil service, the BBC, the universities, the unions: anyone who, along with desperate refugees in small boats, can be blamed for standing between Britain and the promised Brexit nirvana.

2023 May 19, Jonathan Freedland, “They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed”, in The Guardian:

2023 September 11, David Maddox, “Remoaner group who handed out EU flags at BBC Proms named and shamed after funding plea”, in Daily Express:

(UK politics, derogatory) A Remainer; one who complains about or rejects the outcome of the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.


Remainer

Remainers (plural)
remainer (alternative)

During the years following the EU referendum, Brexiters and Remainers both claimed him as their own.

2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 39:

(UK politics) Someone who supports the United Kingdom remaining within the European Union.


Pyotr

Transliteration of Russian Пётр (Pjotr). Doublet of Peter.

Пётр Пётр#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Пётр (Pjotr).


Mane Six

(fandom slang) A fan nickname for the six main characters in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Mane Five

My Little Pony: A New Generation or G5 main characters


Brianne

A feminine form of Brian, taken to regular use in the 1970s.

A female given name from the Celtic languages.


Lol

Laura listened, dumbfounded, as Christabel recounted her close shave inside the house. “Tell me you’re making this up,” she begged. / “It’s all true, Lol,” said Christabel.

2005, Susan Geason, All Fall Down, ReadHowYouWant, published 2008, →ISBN, page 81:

‘Gentleman for you, Aunt Lol,’ she called out. / Lol came to the door, wiping her hands on her apron.

2006, Valerie Wood, “1843” (chapter 16), in Nobody’s Child, Corgi Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 182:

‘Oh, Mum,’ said Laura, her pale face tinged with pink. / ‘It’s OK, Lol,’ said Isabel.

2012, Mary Hoffman, “Family Loyalty”, in Stravaganza: City of Swords, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 90:

“This is my friend Max, and my name is Laura, Lol to my friends,” answers Lol.

2012, Norman Couse, Two Moons of Earth Beyond Voreda, Rothersthorpe: Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 14:

He gently pushed Laura’s hand away. ‘Don’t, Lol,’ he said softly before turning to Tara with a hopeful expression.

2017, Dianne Maguire, Things We Cannot See, HarperImpulse, →ISBN:

‘Josie was calling. ‘Sounds like I’ll be in bother next,’ Lol said and laughed. ‘It’s the first time I’ve known our Josie jealous.’ / Laura appeared on the verandah the following day, after school.

2020, Pauline Kirk, Waters of Time, Stairwell Books, →ISBN, page 202:

A diminutive of the female given name Laura.

A diminutive of the male given names Laurence or Lawrence.


Pingelapese

A Micronesian language spoken on the Pingelap atoll.


Xitsonga

Borrowed from Tsonga Xitsonga (“Tsonga language”).


Berengar

A Germanic name, with the constituents ultimately going back to Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”) and *gaizaz (“spear”).


Billi

A female given name from the Germanic languages, derived from Williamina or Wilhelmina, or directly from the masculine Billy.


Blaire

Blair (alternative)
Blayre (alternative)

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Blair.


Javadd

Borrowed from Arabic جَوَاد (jawād, literally “generous”).

bor+

A male given name from Arabic in Arabic-speaking cultures


Maddie

Maddy (alternative)
Maddi (alternative)
Madi (alternative)
Mady (alternative)
Madie (alternative)

A diminutive of the female given name Madeleine.

A diminutive of the unisex given name Madison.


Devan

A unisex given name, alternative spelling of Devin


Drehu

An Austronesian language mostly spoken on Lifou Island, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.


hard Brexit

Without question now, Britain is not ready for the negotiations, having spent the past year largely avoiding a real debate on the topic, other than a vague argument over the merits of a “hard Brexit” (as a clean break from the European Union is known), versus a “soft Brexit,” which would require more compromise.

2017 June 9, Steven Erlanger, Katrin Benhold, Stephen Castle, “The British Election That Somehow Made Brexit Even Harder”, in The New York Times:

Büsingen was mentioned amid talk of Britain following the example of Switzerland: outside the EU but with access to its single market through bilateral agreements that accept, among other things, freedom of movement for EU citizens. That all ended abruptly when British prime minister Theresa May steered the UK towards a hard Brexit, promising to prune back EU ties to a minimum to ensure maximum domestic control over borders.

2017 June 23, Derek Scally, “What can the North learn from a small German-Swiss town?”, in The Irish Times:

The hard Brexit case that leaving the customs union need not harm British industry, agriculture, distribution and commerce has been overwhelmingly dismissed by all these areas of the economy.

2019 March 11, Simon Jenkins, “If May loses Tuesday’s Brexit vote, she must back a customs union or go”, in The Guardian:

(UK politics) The withdrawal of the United Kingdom both from the European Union and from European institutions (e.g. the European single market or the European Union Customs Union).


soft Brexit

The debate over the right terms and conditions for Britain’s departure from the European Union is often simplified into two clashing concepts: a soft Brexit and a hard one. The first tends to be favoured by those who voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, the second by those who voted Leave. Yet what is the real, practical difference between the two? And can bits of both be combined to some degree?

2018 June 25, J. P., “How a soft Brexit differs from a hard one”, in The Economist:

Labour's vision for a soft Brexit would have seen Britain remain closely aligned with the EU customs, tariff and regulatory regimes and the continent's single market. Such a relationship would have meant that Britain would continue to allow EU migrants to live and work in the United Kingdom, while withdrawing from the EU legislature.

2019 February 28, William Booth, Karla Adam, “UK Parliament votes down Labour's bid for a soft Brexit”, in New Zealand Herald:

(UK politics) The (hypothetical) withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union while generally remaining in European institutions (e.g. the European single market or customs union).


Manipuri

Of or relating to Meitei people, language, history and culture.


Manipuri

A Tibeto-Burman language, also known as Meeteilon.


Manju

From Sanskrit मञ्जु (mañju, “beautiful, lovely, charming, pleasant, sweet”).


Panamint

the Numic language (Uto-Aztecan) spoken by the Timbisha people around Death Valley, California. Related to Shoshone and Comanche.


Cris

Clipping of Christopher, Christian, Christine, and their variants.

clipping of

A unisex given name.
A female given name.


Sunny

A diminutive of the male given name Sunil.

A diminutive of the female given name Sunita.

A diminutive of the unisex given name Sundeep.


Wynne

A city, the county seat of Cross County, Arkansas, United States. Derived from the surname.


Bremainer

2016 August 2, Hayley Kirton, “Bremainer and Brexiteer team up to bolster British businesses”, in City A.M.:

The only question I am hearing wherever I go at the moment – apart from, ‘Have you been sacked from Top Gear yet for only getting nine million viewers a week?’ – is, are you a Brexiteer or a Bremainer? Are you in or out?

2016 June 11, Chris Evans, “BMW’s new mini monster is here. Get set for some... M-azing pace!”, in The Daily Mail:

(UK politics) Someone in favour of Britain remaining within the European Union.


Tristin

A male or female given name of modern usage.


Drumpf

From German Drumpf, an old form of the surname of the Trump family. Coined by British comedian John Oliver in his February 2016 segment "Donald Trump" of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The form has been confirmed by German officials.

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)


Yoron

A dialect cluster spoken on Yoron Island in southwestern Japan.


Chennaiite

For months together now, Chennaiites couldn’t stop talking about the wedding and speculating who’d get lucky and who’d be left out […]

2010 September 3, Srinivasa Ramanujam, P. Sangeetha, “Abhi-Ash bless Rajnikanth’s daughter at wedding”, in The Times of India:

A native or resident of Chennai in India.


Madrasi

Madrasis (plural)
Madrassi (alternative)

When the hardships of a Madrassi are complained of, we are told that a Panjabi is well off: that the taxation “on an average” is only so-and-so, Northern India being more lightly taxed than Southern.

1916, Annie Besant, chapter 2, in India a Nation: A Plea for Indian Self-Government, London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, page 40:

‘Oh, hell! I’d snivel psalms to oblige the padre, but I can’t stick the way these damned native Christians come shoving into our church. A pack of Madrassi servants and Karen school-teachers. […]’

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 2”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

The midwife, an old, thin, inscrutable Madrassi, came to the hall and sat on her haunches in a corner, smoking, silent, her eyes bright.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 6:

Moses Nagamootoo explores the creation of a landscape and a heritage in Guyana by the Madrassi in his novel Hendree’s Cure […]

2010 May 20, “Post-independence literature”, in Stabroek News:

Coming from a South Indian Tamil family that had settled in the western India, “Madrasi” was my family’s nickname in the neighbourhood and so was mine at school. The name in itself was obnoxious, not to mention the stereotyping it brought along with it. For North Indians, anyone from the South was a Madrasi, irrespective of where they came from.

2012 July 26, Xavier Bennet, “Discrimination is everywhere”, in The Times of India:

Hindi cinema has been guilty of stereotyping the “Madrasi” since the days of Mehmood. […] The “Madrasi” usage probably stems from the days of the British Raj when the Madras Province covered Tamil Nadu, parts of Kerala (excluding Travancore) and Andhra Pradesh and even Karnataka (excluding Mysore) and thus anyone from the South was automatically presumed to be from the Madras Presidency…a Madrasi.

2014 May 21, Sudhish Kamath, “The Mythical Madrasi”, in The Hindu:

(by extension) A native of South India; a person of South Indian extraction (exonym; often considered offensive).


Westminster bubble

Members of Parliament
Member of Parliament

(UK politics, derogatory) The collective group of Members of Parliament, civil servants, lobbyists, etc., seen as out of touch with the realities of life outside Parliament.


Westminster village

Westminster bubble
Westminster bubble#English

(UK politics, derogatory) Synonym of Westminster bubble


Rushawn

Apparently coined in 1944 in honour of the Russian people engaged in fighting World War II. Alteration of Russian, after Shawn.


Vyv

A diminutive of the female or male given name Vyvyan.


Siraya

Borrowed from Siraya sidaia (“person, human, man”).

The Formosan language of the Siraya people


Elymi

(historical) native tribe of Sicily that resided in western Sicily


Haratin

Haratin (plural)
Haratins (plural)
Haratine (alternative)
Harratin (alternative)

bor

Arabic حَرَاطِين (ḥarāṭīn)

A member of a group of dark-skinned African people in Maghreb and Western part of Sahara (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), who often form a distinct social class.

حَرَاطِين

a member of a certain North African people


Ivanov

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Ivanova


Revvy

Perhaps a diminutive of or related to Reva.

'Revvy' Carter [...] got his nickname from working in the rectory garden. 'Mrs Revvy would yell ... her temper caused by over-work, close-air, bad teeth, and under nourishment'. Every night Revvy would say 'Up over the timber hill into blanket field', to Ernie in his arms. They always slept with the windows closed; Revvy in bed with Ernie,

2003, Mary Abbott, Family Affairs: A History of the Family in 20th Century England, page 47:

"Revvy, I never would have thought that you would be the kind of man who would let your ego get in the way of your serving God."

2006 03, Dorinda Nusum, The Victory: The Sequel to Sins and Sacrifices, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 57:

Revvy pulled a hunting knife from his back pocket and sliced open the gullet.

2020 May 26, Patti Callahan Henry, Losing the Moon, Penguin, →ISBN, page 136:

— Revvy, Daughter 13 B[lack] F[emale] Sept 1894

1900, United States Census, 1900 - Henry County, Virgina, record concerning the Horse Pasture District, ED 46, Henry, Virginia, household 217, sheet 12B (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMJM-36W), entry for Frank J Read and Mary M Read

Lewis, Revvy Mary sister in law f[emale] neg[ro] 20 [years old]

1940, United States, Census, 1940 - Adams, Mississippi, record concerning Beat 1, Adams, Mississippi, United States (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VYLG-7P6), entry for Revvy Mary Lewis


Jahai

An aboriginal Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Jahai tribe of Perak, Malaya.


Mouse

The surname is sometimes an Americanized spelling of German Maus.

At Disney, on the other hand, there was only one landowner and one government; public and private were fused. […] Spawned by the Mouse's arrival, I-Drive (as it is known locally) runs parallel to I-4, lying partly in Orlando and partly[…]

2001 January 1, Richard E. Foglesong, Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 93:

They are cut off from their regular jobs to see how the Mouse operates. Eisner told the Harvard Business Review.
Synergy happens at Disney because it should. Our products scream out for synergy.

2005, Ralph E. Hanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World:

[…] take eventually eked up to $33 million worldwide, but not before Walt Disney Studios declared the whole experiment a disappointment. […] But when the Mouse cut bait, MAGI was forced to close its LA office and sell off Synthavision.

2013, Tom Sito, Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 165:

This has led to the public believing that every animated film is made by the Mouse or, at least, is family-friendly entertainment. (A similar situation: Many people refer to all 3D animated films as “Pixar” films.) The cause dates back to Walt Disney's early days as an animator.

2017 August 11, Whitney Grace, Lotte Reiniger: Pioneer of Film Animation, McFarland, →ISBN:

(US, metonymically, uncountable, with "the") The Walt Disney Company.


Achaeus

(Greek mythology) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Kezza

A diminutive of the female given name Kerry.


Chazza

A diminutive of the male given name Charles.

A diminutive of the female given name Charlotte.


Aleslav

Commercial exchanges between Angola and the Soviet Union in 1984 rose to a value of 200 million dollars, according to a statement made this weekend by Aleslav Ivan Stepanovk, chief of the trade delegation of the USSR.

1985 February 6, Sub-Saharan Africa Report, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, JPRS-SSA-85-010, page 6:

A male given name from the Slavic languages.


Betsygate

(informal, UK politics) A 2004 controversy around allegations that former United Kingdom Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith had put his wife Betsy on his payroll, without her doing any work.


Bigotgate

(informal, UK politics) A 2010 controversy that arose when British prime minister Gordon Brown was accidentally recorded calling a party supporter a bigot.


Donnygate

(informal, UK politics) A political scandal of the 1990s involving expenses fraud by councillors in Doncaster, United Kingdom.


Traingate

The train company did not breach data protection law for publishing the clip during the so-called traingate controversy.

2017 July 12, Katie Mansfield, “Virgin Trains cleared of rumbling Jeremy Corbyn with traingate CCTV clip”, in Daily Express:

(informal, UK politics) A 2016 controversy around a video of the politician Jeremy Corbyn sitting on the floor of a supposedly crowded train, which Corbyn used in support of his policy to reverse the 1990s privatization of British railways. Later, CCTV images were released that appeared to show Corbyn walking past available seats, leading to accusations that the incident had been staged for political gain.


Taxigate

(informal, UK politics) A 2005 scandal in which David McLetchie, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, was found to have claimed thousands of pounds in taxi expenses, some for party business rather than parliament business.


Nicomedian

(historical) An inhabitant of Nicomedia.


Suhail

From Arabic سُهَيْل (suhayl, “glorious”).


planetality

From planet + -ality from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”).

der

He shifted his record board into the crook of his arm as he came up and punched for a new entry. "Name?" he said. "Place of departure? Planetality?

1980, Gordon R. Dickson, In Iron Years, →ISBN, page 38:

By 'static' above in describing the Sun Signs I mean that from a mundane view point the interactions between are relatively fixed (in a temporal sense), as opposed to the planetality archtypes which are constantly moving and interacting in different ways.

1996 June 13, Nicholas Lee, “Inter-religion relations - TAO/GOD same/different”, in alt.astrology (Usenet):

He doubted if half a dozen Irwadians had mastered it, yet the Irwadi branch of Interstellar Transfer Service was made up of seventy-five hyper space pilots-of-divers planetalities.

(science fiction, rare) Membership of a particular planet or moon, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.


Rashid

Transliteration of two Arabic male given names: رَاشِد (rāšid) and رَشِيد (rašīd).

Rachid (alternative)
Rashed (alternative)
Rasheed (alternative)


Rachid

Borrowed from French Rachid, itself from Arabic رَاشِد (rāšid).

A male given name from French [in turn from Arabic], variant of Rashid.


Rasheed

A male given name from Arabic, variant of Rashid.


Hermia

From the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream.


Line Islander

A native or inhabitant of the Line Islands.


Cleon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κλέων (Kléōn), from κλέω (kléō, “to recount, celebrate”).


Leaver

(UK politics) Someone who supports Brexit, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.


Eamon

Borrowed from Irish Éamonn (“Edmund”). Doublet of Edmund.

The workman in charge was called Eamonn Breen. He said that there were two 'n's in Eamonn.
'I'm called after Eamon de Valera,' Eamon said. 'And he's the Taoiseach.'
'Yes, and he's wrong,' Eamonn Breen said.
'You're nor Fianna Fáil', he said. Eamonn Breen later told his father what had happened and they both laughed.

1992, Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing, Picador, published 1993, →ISBN, page 25:

A male given name from Irish Éamonn, Éamann [in turn from Old English Ēadmund (“prosperity protector”)], variant of Edmund; variant forms Eamonn, Eamann, Eaman.


Brexodus

2016 June 29, Bloomberg, “Vodafone mulls London HQ move in Brexodus”, in Irish TImes:

2016 July 2, Márton Hoványi, Ádám Sághy, “Brexit or Brexodus. The theological evaluation of the Brexit”, in Shekinah Research Institute for Theology - Kötőszó, archived from the original on 2021-01-31:

Brexodus fears: Banks may leave London after the vote, it was claimed

2016 October 11, Nicholas Cecil, Pippa Crerar, “Fears grow of bank Brexodus from the City as pound slumps”, in Evening Standard:

So the Brexodus will also include skilled locals, who know they too are better off working in an environment that provides them with opportunities rather than constraints.

2016 November 10, Timothy Devinney, “Brexodus: the world’s highly skilled have options other than the UK”, in TES:

2017 August 7, Lucy McNulty, “City of London urges government to stop Brexodus”, in Financial Times:

(UK politics) The departure of people or companies from the UK due to Brexit.


Bravanese

The dialect of Swahili (sometimes considered a separate language) spoken by these people.


checked tone

(Chinese phonetics) Synonym of entering tone


Kansai dialect

A group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan.


Maryssa

A female given name from Spanish, variant of Marissa.


Kohistani Shina

The Shina language variety of Kohistan in Pakistan.


Utopian

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language created by Thomas More and Peter Giles for the fictional island Utopia, from 1516 Thomas More’s book of the same name.


Boii

(historical) A Gallic tribe of the later Iron Age.


Tierney

Anglicized from Irish Gaelic Ó Tiarnaigh "descendant of Tiarnach", a diminutive of tiarna (“lord, master”).


surau

From Malay surau, possibly from Sanskrit सुरौकस् (suraukas, “abode of the gods”).

musalla

a room where Muslims pray, aside from a mosque

The men's surau can be found at the left of the clock store.

(Islam, Malaysia) A small room in any public place where Muslims pray.


Duckburg

Carl Barks
Duckburg
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

From duck + -burg. Coined by Carl Barks in 1944, for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #49.

Self-contempt follows megalomania fast on its heels: The Vorarlberg Rhine valley has the settlement structure of Los Angeles – a Duckburg-like reduced Los Angeles to be sure, in which almost only Mickey Mice live, scarcely a Donald Duck, surely no Uncle Scrooge Duck, not even a Gladstone Gander (but many who conduct themselves as such).

1999, Kathleen Sagmeister with Otto Kapfinger and Kunsthaus Bregenzaut, Architecture in Vorarlberg Since 1980: A Guide to 260 Noteworthy Buildings, Hatje, →ISBN:

And [Springfield is] east to Duckburg, Calistoa?^([sic])

1999 August 6, grosse, “Re: where is springfield?”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet), message-ID <1AEq3.97$l53.8405@typ12.nn.bcandid.com>:

The nation 'Nationwide', like the inhabitants of Duckburg, seems to be principally concerned with the process of consumption. Unlike Duckburg, though, we consume principally in families -- entering the Supersize competions (Monday nights 1975) together, and even enlarging our family size together ('Citizen '76' Monday nights 1976).

2005, Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley, The Nationwide Television Studies, →ISBN:

To this day, I am still confused about the fact that, in this town of anthropomorphic ducks (Duckburg, duh), there were non-anthropomorphic ducks that the anthropomorphic Ducks sometimes fed at the park, with absolutely no acknowledgment that they were one and the same species, or that the other ducks were technically naked by anthropomorphic Duck standards.

2012 October 5, Robyn Pennacchia, “Did Scrooge McDuck die in 1967?”, in Death and Taxes:

Now, of course, some would argue that even if someone were stuffing a large fraction of the money supply into a money bin sitting on a hill in Duckburg, Say’s Law could continue to hold.

2013 March 13, Louis Woodhill, “Sorry Paul Krugman, But We Still Need Say's Law”, in Forbes:

What if your counterparty is the airport of Duckburg? Where are you going to imply default probabilities from, let alone credit volatilities and credit-underlying "correlations”?

2013, Damiano Brigo, Massimo Morini, Andrea Pallavicini, Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding, →ISBN:

A fictional city, located in the fictional US state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck, his surrounding cast, and several other anthropomorphic animals.


IFS

At the IFS, they laboured in vain to bring the nation’s attention back to the real economic news, which wasn’t the budget so much as the tax and benefit changes set to kick in next month: […]

2017 March 13, Zoe Williams, “Cuts are a feminist issue. So what would a suffragette do?”, in The Guardian:

Institute for Fiscal Studies
w:Institute for Fiscal Studies

(UK politics, economics) Initialism of Institute for Fiscal Studies: an economic research institute based in London, United Kingdom, which specialises in UK taxation and public policy.


spirit house

About two metres high, the Spirit House is a small model temple that most Thais have in the garden.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 50:

(Southeast Asia) A small house- or temple-like structure mounted on a pillar at which offerings are made to a local deity or protective spirit.


Scotch verdict

From its use in the Scottish legal system.

(Scots law, criminal law, dated) A verdict of "not proven".

Scots law; criminal law; Scots law; criminal law


Sapphira

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σαπφειρη (Sappheirē).

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.


Shortening. See 621 for further etymology.

Some crazy shit went down on e6 this morning, some disgusting and tasteless pic of dead animals and other gore supporting ban on furry porn

Feel free to express your opinions, but when you say something like "Ah well, I found you and watched you through e6. So I will unfollow upon joining the DNP list" that's just being a whiny brat who hopes the artist will try and get you to stick around.

2015 October 2, Kaitii, “About E621 removing my artworks.[DONE]”, in FurAffinity:

I never thought this was a problem but I JUST remembered how much the "penis" tag outnumbered the "pussy" tag on e6 when I first started browsing furry art

it's so weird to see yiff of your mutual who you didn't expect to have yiff of their sona on e6

We can't attribute this to e6 honestly. They only did this because laws concerning digital child porn are getting passed in more and more countries, making the change unavoidable. e6 admins are pretty despicable, the users even moreso.

2024 September 6, u/StinkyFox621, “What's with the e6 rule change and bringing out the worst in people?”, in r/RealFurryHours, Reddit:

(furry fandom, informal) Clipping of e621.


Chipzilla

From chip + -zilla, attributed to Terry Shannon.


another place

(UK politics, In the House of Commons) the House of Lords.

House of Commons
House of Commons#English

(UK politics, In the House of Lords) the House of Commons.


Matter of Britain

The body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain, and sometimes Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.


Kellyanne

Kellyannes (plural)
Kelly-Anne (alternative)
Kelly Anne (alternative)


Lepontii

The Lepontii, an Alpine Celtic tribe, who dwelt in the valleys of the south side of the Alps, in roughly Switzerland.


Childeric

From French Childéric, from Frankish *Hildirīk via Latin Childericus. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Hildirīks.

(rare) A male given name of mainly historical use, borne by several kings of the Franks.


RosaLee

“I'm twenty-three years old.I can decide what— and when—I drink. And please stop calling me RosaLee. I'm RL,now. Everybody calls me RL.” “But, baby, RosaLee is so dignified. So significant. When we named you after Mrs.Parks, I never dreamed—” “It's old-fashioned. I hate it. It's burdensome. Like I have to live up to it. Ain't even any—”

2007, Evelyn Palfrey, Dangerous Dilemmas, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:


Genseric

m (plural)
Gaiseric (alternative)
Geiseric (alternative)

(rare) A male given name of mainly historical use, borne by a king of the Vandals.


Hilderic

From Latin Hildericus, from Vandalic Hildirix, from Proto-Germanic *Hildirīks.


Northern Sotho

One of the Sotho languages, an official language in South Africa.


Khosrow

Borrowed from Persian خسرو (xosrow); see it for more.

Khosro (alternative)
Khusrow (alternative)
Khusro (alternative)
Khosrau (alternative)
Khusrau (alternative)
Khusraw (alternative)
Husraw (alternative)
Chosroes (alternative)
Osroes (alternative)
Khosrov (alternative)
Xosrov (alternative)
Haosravangha (alternative)

A male given name from Persian, used as a transliteration of names of various rulers


Brexshit

Blend of Brexit + shit, perhaps in reference to bullshit (“statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener”).

My modest proposal is to construct a set of your own Brexshit bingo cards.

2016 June 16, AFP, “How to call bullshit on EU referendum campaign claims”, in New Statesman:

Demonstrators hold a banner reading "This is Brexshit" during a protest near Britain's embassy in Berlin on July 2, 2016.

2016 July 2, AFP, “Anti-Brexit protesters march in London”, in Express Tribune:

(UK politics, derogatory, vulgar) Brexit.


Nev

A diminutive of the male given name Neville.


silent h

Examples include the silent h in ghost (to match Dutch gheest, which later became geest), aghast, ghastly and gherkin.

2019, Carson Stewart, History of the English Language, page 178:

(orthography) A letter ⟨h⟩ that is written but not pronounced.


Cologner

A native, resident, or inhabitant of Cologne


Poundmaker

Capitalization of poundmaker; translated from synonyms terms in native languages of North America.

A male or female given name. An occupational given name found in Plains Amerindian cultures.


Konde

A Bantu people of Nyasaland and Tanganyika; the language of these people


kovil

kovils (plural)
koil (alternative)
koyil (alternative)

Transliteration of Tamil கோவில் (kōvil, “King's residence, temple”). See also Malay kuil.

translit

Aruna went to the Pittsburgh Perumal kovil yesterday.

Though Sri Lanka is predominantly a Buddhist country there are a number of churches, kovils and mosques dotting the towns and countryside.

2004, H. M. Mervyn Herath, Colonial Kollupitiya and Its Environs, page 94:

(Hinduism) A Hindu temple built in a distinct style of Dravidian architecture.


Domhnall

Borrowed from Irish Domhnall. Doublet of Donald.


Ethelwolf

From Old English Æþelwulf, equivalent to athel (“noble”) + wolf. Doublet of Adolf.


Stewpot

Fuck, that is brilliant! That is inspired! What sauce! Get in! It's the economy, Stewpot!

2009 December 12, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Roger Drew, Sean Gray, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche, Will Smith, The Thick of It, season 3, episode 8, spoken by Cal Richards (Tom Hollander), BBC Four:

(British, slang) A nickname for somebody called Stewart or Stuart (as a given name or a surname).


Earthboy

(usually science fiction) A young male inhabitant of Earth.


Mbum-Day

Belonging to a particular subgroup of the old Adamawa language family, provisionally now a branch of the Savanna languages, spoken in parts of Africa.


Gutian

From Guti + -an, from Sumerian 𒄖𒋾𒌝𒆠 (gu-ti-umᴷᴵ).


Bushitler

Blend of Bush + Hitler, in reference to Adolf Hitler.

(derogatory) A nickname for U.S. president George W. Bush, unfavorably likened to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.


Suggesting one of the truncated 8.3-style file and directory names sometimes encountered in Microsoft Windows as a result of its MS-DOS roots, e.g. PROGRA~1 for Program Files.

(computing, slang, humorous, derogatory) The computing company Microsoft.


Stell

(informal) A diminutive of the female given name Stella.


Bradleya

(very rare) A female given name, the female form of Bradley.


flyover country

Coordinate term: flyover state

(US, sometimes derogatory) The parts of the United States between the East and West Coasts.


Somnath

From Sanskrit सोमनाथ (somanātha) (सोम + नाथ).

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Vahag

Borrowed from Armenian Վահագ (Vahag), diminutive of Վահագն (Vahagn).

Վահագ Վահագ#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name diminutive Վահագ (Vahag).


Stockton

en-proper noun

Stockton (countable and uncountable, plural Stocktons)

From Old English stocc (“log; stump, tree trunk”) or stoc (“house, dwelling”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). By surface analysis, stock + -ton. Doublet of Stoughton.


Hurro-Urartian

an extinct language family of the Ancient Near East, comprising only two known languages: Hurrian and Urartian


Selby

en-proper noun

Selby (countable and uncountable, plural Selbys)

From Old Norse selja (“willow, sallow”) + býr (“settlement, farm”).

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Hieroglyphic Luwian

a variant of the Luwian language, recorded in official and royal seals and a small number of monumental inscriptions, written in a hieroglyphic script known as Anatolian hieroglyphs


Hieroglyphic Luwian

of or pertaining to the Hieroglyphic Luwian language


Broadmead

A street in central Bristol, England, now the name of the city-centre shopping district.

A small suburb of South Petherton, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4316).

Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island#English

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

A neighbourhood of Saanich, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.


Yu

Transliteration:
* (Mandarin): From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin (for: ㄩˊ, ㄩˇ, ㄩˋ, ㄧㄡˊ) (余, 于, 由 (yóu), 魚 /鱼 (yú) / 鱼 (yú), 漁, /渔, 渔 (yú), 楀 (yǔ), 俞, 喻, 兪, 於 /于, 遇 (yù), 虞 (yú), 郁 (yù), 尉, 禹 (yǔ), 游 (yóu), 尤 (yóu), 庾 (yǔ), 娛 /娱, 娱, 茹)
* (Korean): From Korean 유 (yu) or 류 (ryu) (柳, 劉, 兪, 庾)
* (Japanese): From Japanese ゆう or ユウ (優, 夕, 友, 有, 勇, 祐, 裕, 雄, 悠, 由宇, 侑)

gloss

優, 夕, 友, 有, 勇, 祐, 裕, 雄, 悠, 由宇, 侑

(優, 夕, 友, 有, 勇, 祐, 裕, 雄, 悠, 由宇, 侑)

Synonym of Yuu; A unisex given name from Japanese.


Digo

The Bantu language spoken by these people.


Dupaningan Agta

A language spoken by a Negrito people in northern Luzon, Philippines.


Chaslyn

From Chazmin, which is in turn a variant of Jasmine.


Twitler

Blend of Twitter + Hitler, in comparison with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and due to a tendency for Donald Trump to tweet on the social media platform Twitter during his presidency.

This rule is precisely why the 68% of America who would never have voted for Resident Trump must keep a viable vigil in the streets and in the courts. “Twitler” Trump was allowed to insult, embarrass and engorge every individual and institution he wanted to for an entire campaign cycle. We taught him well.

2017 February 10, Vincent Hall, “Quit Playin': To Allow is to Teach?”, in The Dallas Weekly:

A pleasure to see that two attorneys generals, from D.C. and Maryland, just slapped Dum Dum with another emoluments lawsuit. We can’t have enough of these actions jammed up Twitler’s tailpipe.

2017 June 15, Bruce Van Dyke, “Too true to be good”, in Reno News & Review:

How long will Hair Twitler reign – And will he get out what he Putin? So now the world waits – and worries, to see What he will get up to next, the new fuhrer – A malicious clown has the nuclear codes Yet can't even acquit himself on Twitter.

[...] with posters featuring caricatures of Trump as Hitler, but that is no easy swipe at Twitler.

2018 April 12, Jack Helbig, “Hate has a home here”, in Chicago Reader, volume 47, number 27:


on a first-name basis

We are not yet on a first-name basis.

(idiomatic) Having enough familiarity with another person to call them by their first name, as opposed to their surname.

關係已經親密到直呼其名了 /关系已经亲密到直呼其名了

having enough familiarity with another person to call them by their first name


Bree

We both knew Cypress had been around the block a few times. He had been a serious manwhore and only got his shit together when he found Bree.

2017, E. L. Todd, 400 First Kisses, New York, NY.: Hartwick Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:

A diminutive of the female given names Breanna or Breyon.


McKinley

Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Mac Fhionnlaoich, "son of Fionnlaoch (=Fair Warrior)".

A male given name transferred from the surname, briefly popular in the US when William McKinley was President (1897-1901).

A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.

An unorganized territory in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.


Edd

Alternative form of Ed (male name, short for Edward)


Jebediah

Apparently an alteration of Jedediah or Jedidiah, perhaps influenced by Obadiah. All early attestations are mistaken references to persons actually named Jedediah or Jedidiah.

See the interesting report of Jebediah Irish, Esq., on this subject, who has acquired more correct knowledge, by long experience and observation, having devoted more years of his life to the subject than perhaps any one of his cotemporaries.

1854, The Charter and By-laws of the Locust Gap Improvement Company, with Reports on Their Coal Land, Locust Gap Improvement Company, page 26:


Commiefornia

Best of all, it's Commiefornia legal, the Sniveling Wussbags not having found a way to define it as an "assault weapon," […]

2013, Michael Z. Williamson, Tour of Duty:

Remember that fear is the only thing holding you back. Fear that you might lose everything in your life. I am a testament to the fact that literally anyone can do this, and this terrifies the Jew. I’m a 19 year old nursing student from the depths of Commiefornia for fuck’s sake. I had my whole life ahead of me

2019 April 27, John T. Earnest, An open letter [so-called Earnest Manifesto], margin number 31:

"We didn't hear about that." "Yeah, the whole country is on edge," Wes replied somberly. "Is it as bad as they say it is on the news in Commiefornia?” "Probably,” Josh said."

2022, T. J. Barnes, Bear Flag Revolt: A Chronicle of the Second War Between the States:

Commiefornia and the rest of the left coast are FUBAR. Vegas is also down hard, but the further east you go, the less damage there is.

2023, Angus MacM. Hodgson, Site S, page 263:

(slang, derogatory) The US state of California, regarded as excessively socially liberal, extreme far left, or communist.


Tinsley

en-proper noun

Tinsley (countable and uncountable, plural Tinsleys)

From the Old English personal name Tynni + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

A female given name transferred from the surname.


Bornuese

Bornuese (plural)
Bornouese (alternative)


Edson

From Ed + -son; originally given to the son of a man named Ed.

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Essy

A female given name, short for Esther or Estelle.


Briannica

A feminine form of Brian, related to Brianna.


Merwin

Marwin (alternative)
Marvin (alternative)
Mervin (alternative)
Mervine (alternative)
Mervyn (alternative)
Merv (alternative)
Mirfin (alternative)


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 with punctuation—following North American practice.

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

Alternative form of Sinclair, a male given name.

A township in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.

Blue Earth County
Blue Earth County#English

A small city in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States.

Schuylkill County
Schuylkill County#English

A borough of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.


Gwladys

R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.

1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:

Alternative form of Gladys: a female given name.


Puluwat

Federated States of Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia

A language spoken on Poluwat, in the Federated States of Micronesia.


Ashland

From Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + land. Many places in the United States are named after Ashland, Henry Clay's estate.


Gepid

A standing army was unknown under the first and second race; more than half the kingdom was now in the hands of the Saracens: according to their respective situation, the Franks of Neustria and Austrasia were to conscious or too careless of the impending danger; and the voluntary aids of the Gepidæ and Germans were separated by a long interval from the standard of the Christian general.

1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V:

The Gepidae, seeing that the king's son was killed, through whom in great part the war had been set on foot, at once, in their discouragement, start to flee.

1906, Diaconus Paulus, translated by William Dudley Foulke, History of the Langobards, translation of original in Early Medieval Latin, page 42:

Two consecutive letters hi the Varioe are concerned with a "multitude" of Gepids whom Theodoric has taken under his wing and is sending across northern Italy to Gaul, where they will serve in some sort of military capacity.

1989, Walter Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 178:

(historical) A member of an East Germanic people related to the Goths.


Ancient Egyptian

the Afroasiatic language spoken and written in Ancient Egypt


Rouran

Borrowed from Mandarin 柔然 (Róurán), from Rouran.

Ruanruan (alternative)
Jou-jan (alternative)
Jujan (alternative)

(historical) The language of the Rouran khaganate.


Cyrenaican

Suppose he had taken on the character of a Cyrenaican or a Tripolitanian from some southern oasis.

(chiefly historical) A native or resident of Cyrenaica.


Dewitt

Dewitts (plural)
DeWitt (alternative)
De Witt (alternative)

From Dutch de Witt. The verb sense alludes to the 17th-century assassination by lynching of Dutch politicians Cornelis de Witt and Johan de Witt.


Kumar

Transliteration of Hindi कुमार (kumār), etc.


Larkin

Larkin (countable and uncountable, plural Larkins)


Fortescue

Fortescue (countable and uncountable, plural Fortescues)

From Anglo-Norman Fortescu, from Norman Fort-Escu, from Old French fort+escut. Literally, “strong shield”.

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


Benoit

Benoits (plural)
Benoist (alternative)
Benois (alternative)

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


Levin

en-prop

Levin (countable and uncountable, plural Levins)

Levins (plural)
Leven (alternative)
Levene (alternative)
Lewin (alternative)

From Russian Левин (Levin), from Леви (Levi) + -ин (-in, “forming possessives & adjectives”), ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (“Levi”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Levine.


Mims

A diminutive of the female given name Miriam.


Leary

A male given name from Irish Laoghaire, from Old Irish Lóegaire (literally “calf-herder”).

A male or female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.


Laws

en-proper noun

Laws (countable and uncountable, plural Lawses)

A diminutive of the male given name Lawrence.


Myer

* As an English surname of Norman/French origin, from the archaic noun mire (“physician”). Compare Mee, Mayer.
* As an English topographic surname, from mire (“marsh”), from Old Norse mýrr.
* As a German surname, Americanized from Meyer, Mayer, Maier.


Sujata

Transliteration of Hindi सुजाता (sujātā), etc.


Sujata

Transliteration of Sanskrit सुजात (sujāta).


Millard

en-proper noun

Millard (countable and uncountable, plural Millards)


Phelan

Phelan (countable and uncountable, plural Phelans)

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Faoláin (“descendant of Faolán”), a hypocoristic form of faol (“wolf”). Doublet of Whelan.


Tuck

A diminutive of the male given name Tucker.


Peace

en-prop

Peace (countable and uncountable, plural Peaces)


Lum

A diminutive of the male given name Columbus.


Lavender

en-proper noun

Lavender (countable and uncountable, plural Lavenders)

She wanted to give the child a unique, meaningful name; among those she and Linda liked, she said, were Laurel and Lavender. Or if it was a boy, perhaps Sage . “Why not Spinach or Cabbage?” Brian had scoffed.

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


Bosley

Bosley (countable and uncountable, plural Bosleys)


Yoruboid

Belonging or relating to a group of 14 related dialect/language clades, composed of the Igala and Edekiri groups. Its most widely spoken member is Yoruba.


Dionne

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


Farah

Borrowed from Arabic فَرَح (faraḥ, “joy”).


Kerrigan

Kerrigan (countable and uncountable, plural Kerrigans)

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ciaragáin (“grandson/descendant of Ciaragán”), a byname from a double diminutive of ciar (“black”).


Reza

From Iranian Persian رضا (rezâ), from Classical Persian رضا (rizā).


Mansour

Mansours (plural)
Mansouri (alternative)
Manzoor (alternative)
Mansur (alternative)

مَنْصُور منصور#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic male given name مَنْصُور (manṣūr)


Roa

en-proper noun

Roa (countable and uncountable, plural Roas)

رُؤَى رؤى#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic female given name رُؤَى (ruʔā).


Gorilla Sign Language

Blend of gorilla + American Sign Language. Coined by Francine "Penny" Patterson, president and research director at the Gorilla Foundation.

blend

American Sign Language
American Sign Language#English

A personally modified form of American Sign Language intended for communication with gorillas, especially some of those that are subjects of research at the Gorilla Foundation.


Messenger

(rare) A male given name of historical usage.


Pipkin

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Marlin

en-proper noun

Marlin (countable and uncountable, plural Marlins)


Saad

Saads (plural)
Sa'd (alternative)
Saʻd (alternative)


Blessing

A male given name of mainly African usage.


Wesson

A patronymic surname from Wes + -son, literally son of Wes, the latter a diminutive of the male given name Wesley.


Ivernic

From the assumption (by T. F. O'Rahilly) that this was the language of the Iverni. In the 9th century Sanas Cormaic it is called Iarnnbērlæ (modern Irish Iarmbélre), where the first element Iarnn- is taken to mean "iron" but may have originally been related to Iverni.

An extinct Celtic language mentioned in the Sanas Cormaic (as Iarnnbērlæ), assumed by some to have been spoken by the Iverni, and said by Cormac mac Cuilennáin to be the source of Old Irish ond (“stone”) and fern (“anything good”).


Ambika

From Sanskrit अम्बिका (ambikā, “mother, good woman”).


Forest

en-proper noun

Forest (countable and uncountable, plural Forests)

A male given name: Alternative form of Forrest.


Fulk

* As an English surname, variant of Foulk, itself related to the noun folk.
* As a German surname, variant of Volk (from the noun Volk (“people”)), Falk (from Falke (“falcon”)).


Blain

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Creed

From the Old English personal name Creoda.


Chesney

Chesneys (plural)
Chainey (alternative)
Chaney (alternative)
Cheeney (alternative)
Cheney (alternative)
Cheyne (alternative)
Cheyney (alternative)

From Norman place names meaning “oak grove” (cognate to French chênaie), from Picard quesne, from Vulgar Latin *cassanus, probably from Gaulish kassanos (“oak”).


Bethie

A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.


Khams Tibetan

A variety of the Tibetan language spoken by Kham Tibetans


Bargam

A Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea.


Josey

A female given name, short for Josephine.


Anasuya

From Sanskrit अनसूया (anasūyā, “freedom from spite”).

der

A female given name from Sanskrit, commonly used in India.


Valera

Валера Валера#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name Валера (Valera)


Hanners

A diminutive of the female given name Hannelore.


Youssef

Youssefs (plural)
Yousaf (alternative)
Yousef (alternative)
Yousuf (alternative)


Routh

en-proper noun

Routh (countable and uncountable, plural Rouths)

A unisex given name.
A female given name, variant of Ruth.


Comfort

Comfort (countable and uncountable, plural Comforts)


Amitabh

A male given name from India, of Indian usage.


Birdie

From birdie (“little bird”). Also used as a diminutive of Bertha.

“Don't call me Beatrice, Leam. I don't like Beatrice and I told you so before.” He acted contrite. “I'm sorry, Birdie.”

2011 October 27, Lori Lansens, Rush Home Road, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Meet Birdie Dunlop - Evers . Or Bridget Elspeth Veronica Dunlop - Evers , to give her her full name . Born in Gloucestershire in April 1964.

2020 June 2, Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs: A Novel, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 238:


Aruna

Aruna (countable and uncountable, plural Arunas)

A female given name commonly used in India.


Candian

In ſafety landed on the Candian Shore, / With generous Wines their Spirits they reſtore; / There Cymon with his Rhodian Friend reſides, / Both Court, and Wed at once the willing Brides.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 564:

Noble as he, and deck’d too with the plume
Of brave adventure in the Candian war;
Younger, and not less comely.

1787, Robert Jephson, Julia: or, the Italian Lover, London: Charles Dilly, act I, scene 7, page 18:

(historical) Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants.

There is a good road, and it is possible to walk if desired, although it is about as hot and uninteresting a walk as can well be imagined. It is easier and better to ride, although the Cretan drivers in general, and the Candian ones in particular, enjoy the reputation of being about the most rapacious in the civilized world.

1907, Philip Sanford Marden, chapter 2, in Greece and the Ægean Islands, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 29:

(historical) Of or relating to the Cretan city of Heraklion or its inhabitants.


Candian

(historical) An inhabitant of the Cretan city of Heraklion.


Candian

1810, Arthur Johnston, Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an expedition to Candy, in the Island of Ceylon, in the Year 1804, London: C. & R. Baldwin, p. 126,
The difficulty of procuring good guides is very great. There are, it is true, always men ready to undertake for hire the task of conducting our troops through the Candian country.

(historical) Of or relating to the Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka.


Candian

1700, S. L. (translator), A Relation of Two Several Voyages Made into the East-Indies by Christopher Fryke and Christopher Schewitzer, London: D. Brown et al., “Mr. Schewitzer’s Voyage,” Chapter 7, p. 321,
We retired towards Sittawack, and passed by a steep Rock; whence it is reported, That the late King of Sittawack’s Wife and Daughter flung themselves down headlong, having received the News that he had lost the Battle against the King of Candi. The Candians all the while came after us, but were not able to do us any great harm, because the ways were so narrow that they could not come up to us.

(historical) An inhabitant of the Kingdom of Kandy on the island now known as Sri Lanka.


Hakim

Borrowed from Arabic حَكِيم (ḥakīm, “wise”). This surname is mostly found in Indonesia.


Skagit

A river in Washington, United States, which flows into Puget Sound.


Ayoub

A male given name from Arabic [in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Job.


Rajputic

An Indian koine language conjectured by Ian Hancock to be the origin of the Romani language.


Cupeño

The American Indian people of Southern California who formerly lived at what is now Warner Springs, California.


Luiseño

Borrowed from Spanish luiseño, from the name of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia + -eño.

Any of an American Indian people of southern California, living in what is now Orange County and in neighboring areas of San Diego County and Los Angeles County.


Momin

Etymology tree
Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)
Arabic مُؤْمِن (muʔmin)bor.
Classical Persian مُؤْمِن (mu'min)bor.
Urdu مومِن (momin)bor.
English Momin
Borrowed from Urdu مومِن (momin), borrowed from Classical Persian مُؤْمِن (mu'min), borrowed from Arabic مُؤْمِن (muʔmin), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). Doublet of mu'min.


Sulejman

Сулејман Сулејман#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Сулејман (Sulejman), equivalent to Suleiman.


Win

A diminutive of the female given name Winifred.

Winston Piper didn't look right to her in what she thought of as Flaherty's office. […] “My friends call me Win,” he said. “No need for formality.” ¶ “Sure, Win.” He's hinting.

1994, Robert B. Parker, All Our Yesterdays, Dell Publishing, →ISBN, page 449:

A diminutive of the male given name Winston.


Coto

Alternative form of Cocto (“extinct Chibchan language”)


Krahn

(uncountable) A Kru language spoken by these people.


Miron

Міро́н Мірон#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Міро́н (Mirón)

Миро́н Мирон#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Миро́н (Mirón)


HuffPo

HuffPo is not made for people who like their news straight. As the situation in Iraq got boggy, the economy soured and the Bush Administration's popularity face-planted, folks wanted a place to vent.

2009, Time, volume 173, numbers 8-16, page 46:

(Internet slang) HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post), a politically liberal US news web site.


Ilan

From Hebrew אִילָן (Ilán, “tree, oak tree”).

Ilon (alternative)
Elan (alternative)
Elon (alternative)
Alan (alternative)
Alon (alternative)
Eilan (alternative)
Eilon (alternative)
Ailan (alternative)
Ailon (alternative)


Chehalis

From Lower Chehalis C̓x̣íl̕əš (“Westport, Washington”).

bor

A Native American people of Western Washington State.


Chehalis

Either of the two Tsamosan languages spoken by this people, Upper Chehalis and Lower Chehalis.

A city, the county seat of Lewis County, Washington, United States.

A river in Washington, United States, flowing into the Pacific Ocean.


Chehalis

From Halkomelem Stsʼaʼí:les (the name of a village, literally “beating heart”). Doublet of Sts'Ailes.

A Native American people of the Lower Mainland, British Columbia.


Chehalis

A small community in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia, Canada.

A river in British Columbia, Canada, flowing into the Harrison River.


Pasco

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Bushong

Bushongo (alternative)
Bushoong (alternative)
Busoong (alternative)
Shongo (alternative)

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

A Bantu language of the Kasai region of Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Tiernan

From Irish Tiarnán, from Tiarna (“lord”).


Prosdocimus

From Ancient Greek προσδόκιμος (prosdókimos, “awaited, expected”), from προσδοκίᾱ (prosdokíā, “expectation”), from προσδοκάω (prosdokáō, “to expect”).


Iron Lady

On the lawn of the White House, with the Iron Lady beside him, Reagan may have pledged that Britain and the USA would 'stand side by side' in defending freedom -- just so long as it was on US terms.

2003, David Powell, Tony Benn New Edition, →ISBN, page 159:

On 16 October 1998, twenty-five years after he left the presidential palace in Santiago to tell the world the story of the Chilean Revolution, Joan Garcés sent to the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón a petition asking for the urgent questioning of General Augusto Pinochet, who was preparing to leave London after a back operation and afternoon tea with his admirer, ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Over tea and scones, an older Pinochet told the Iron Lady that opinion polls predicted that Chile could have its first socialist president since 1973.

2013, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup Against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973, →ISBN, page 376:

Using the metaphor of metalurgy he had deployed in the epic parliamentary debate at the start of the war, he rose at Prime Minister's Questions on 17 June to remind the House how he had predicted that the Falklands crisis should determine what metal the Iron Lady was made of.

2013, Jonathan Aitken, Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality, →ISBN, page 372:

In March 1981, she was put to the test for the first time: Bobby Sands (1954-1981), an Irish republican prisoner, and his comrades began a hunger strike in order to obtain the status of political prisoners, thus showing their desire to receive better treatment. But the Iron Lady remained unmoved and ignored their request.

2017, Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady, →ISBN:

A nickname given to various female leaders, indicating that they are strong-willed and unyielding.


Row

Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang. First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship.

1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘We Frolic while ’Tis May’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 20:

Its mission is to protect and promote the art of bespoke tailoring on The Row.

2008, Mark Tungate, Branded Male: Marketing to Men, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 51:

(colloquial) Ellipsis of Savile Row, a street in London, England, known for its traditional bespoke tailoring.


Salman

In 2015, one person was killed in Copenhagen at a meeting meant to mark the 25th anniversary of an Iranian fatwa against British writer Salman Rushdie, which Vilks attended.

2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN:


Saliba

An indigenous language of Eastern Colombia and Venezuela.


Wilmer

From Old English willa (“mind, will, determination, purpose, desire, wish”) + mǣre (“famous”), from Proto-Germanic *Wiljamērijaz, from *wiljô + *mērijaz.


Grimshaw

en-proper noun

Grimshaw (countable and uncountable, plural Grimshaws)

From Old Norse Grímr and Old English sċeaga (“shaw”), equivalent of Grim + 's + shaw.


Raman

Рама́н Раман#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Рама́н (Ramán).


Bodin

* As an English and French surname of Norman origin, from Old French Bodin, a pet form of Bodo, borrowed from Germanic names containing the element *budô (“messenger”). Compare Beaudin.
* As a Swedish surname, from the noun bod (“small hut”), compare Bodeen, Boden.
* As a German surname, related to sense 1 above, and also from the place Boddin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.


Petrov

Borrowed from Bulgarian Петров (Petrov) or Russian Петро́в (Petróv).

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Petrova


Corsi

(historical) an ancient tribe (or people from the tribe) that lived in Corsica and Sardinia


Latif

A male given name from Arabic, feminine equivalent Latifa.


Caribbean Hindustani

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Caribbean, brought to the region from India.


Pen

"Listen, Pen. We are here for the duration. You have to let her in a bit."

2020, Stayce Whelden Richardson, Christmas Work, page 53:

A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.


Amissa

Of Hebrew origin, meaning "friend" or "companion".


Primus

From Latin Prīmus, from prīmus (“first”).


Suleiman

Suleimans (plural)
Sulaiman (alternative)
Suleman (alternative)
Soliman (alternative)
Sulayman (alternative)
Sulaymaan (alternative)
Sulyman (alternative)
Suleyman (alternative)
Sulaman (alternative)
Sulejman (alternative)
Sleiman (alternative)
Sliman (alternative)
Slimane (alternative)
Soleman (alternative)
Solyman (alternative)
Souleymane (alternative)
Seleman (alternative)

Borrowed from Arabic سُلَيْمَان (sulaymān). Doublet of Solomon.


Cadwallader

Cadwalladers (plural)
Cadwalladr (alternative)


Glad

A diminutive of the female given name Gladys.


Maheshwari

From Sanskrit महेश्वरी (maheśvarī); ultimately from महा (mahā, “great”) + ईश्वरी (īśvarī, “goddess”).

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Horry

A diminutive of the male given name Horace.


Mansur

Transliteration of Arabic مَنْصُور (manṣūr). Doublet of Mansour.

مَنْصُور منصور#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic male given name مَنْصُور (manṣūr)


Amar

From Sanskrit अमर (amara, “undying, immortal, imperishable.”).


Dawood

From Arabic دَاوُود (dāwūd). Doublet of David.


Shaul

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Saul.


Lambdin

Lambdin P. Milligan


Lauro

From the Italian surname, from a personal name derived from Latin laurus.


Gibby

A diminutive of the male given name Gibson.


Zauzou

From Zauzou zau⁵⁵zou³³, apparently cognate to Lolo (“Yi people”) (see Loloish).

A Loloish language spoken by the Nu people in Yunnan, China.


DeWitt

A male given name transferred from the surname.


Bilal

en-proper noun

Bilal (countable and uncountable, plural Bilals)

From Arabic بِلَال (bilāl), specially Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ.


Ary

A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, variant of Arieh.


Slavik

From Russian Славик (Slavik) and Ukrainian Славік (Slavik).


Toto

The Sino-Tibetan language of these people.


Rommel

From the Dutch surname, from rommelen (“to rumble”). Also a spelling variant of Rummel.

A male given name of chiefly Latin American and Philippine usage.


Abed

From Arabic عَابِد (ʕābid, “servant, worshipper”)


Gautam

Transliteration of Sanskrit गौतम (gautama)


Shakir

en-proper noun

Shakir (countable and uncountable, plural Shakirs)


Carinthian

/kəˈɹɪnθiən/


Carinthian

/kəˈɹɪnθiən/


Qiang

An ethnic group in China, living mainly in a mountainous region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.


Ludic

An endangered Finnic language spoken in Russia on the southwestern shores of the lake Onega.


Maybot

From May + -bot. Popularised by John Crace for political sketches published since November 8th 2016.

Whirr. Clunk. Clang. The Maybot’s eyes rotated into life.

2016 November 8, John Crace, “Theresa struggles to take back control – from her own Maybot”, in The Guardian:

Theresa Villiers, the former Northern Ireland Secretary, sacked in the Maybot takeover, sported a vacuous grin throughout the whole mechanical exercise, confirming perhaps that the election chip had been successfully inserted.

2017 May 8, Michael Settle, “Election sketch: the Maybot repeats herself - strong and stable leadership; me not him”, in The Herald Scotland:

Her campaign team seemed to have found a patch for the Maybot.

2017 June 3, Andrew Rawnsley, “The Maybot and Monsieur Zen. A drama that didn’t obey the script”, in The Guardian:

2018 November 21, Brian Smith, letter to the editor in "‘Queue-jumping’ comment reveals the Tories’ moral vacuum", The Guardian.
The perils of AI decision-making incorporating false assumptions is nicely illustrated by the Maybot’s latest output: EU citizens will no longer be able to “jump the queue ahead of ... software developers from Delhi”.

(UK politics, derogatory, humorous) A nickname for Theresa May.


Eastphalian

The Low German or Low Saxon dialect spoken in Eastphalia (having ge-/e- in the past participle and mek/meck/mik/mick and dek/deck/dik/dick for me and thee).


Fomalhautian

(science fiction) Of or relating to the star Fomalhaut.


Tadesse

Borrowed from the Amharic personal name ታደሠ (tadäśä).


Maury

A diminutive of the male given name Maurice.


Pasha

* As an Islamic surname (generally the Indian subcontinent), honorific title from Turkish paşa. This is also found in Albania, Turkey and Slavic countries. Compare Basha, Bey.
* As an English surname, variant of Pasher, itself Anglicized from French Perchard, a suffixed form of Old French perche (“pole”), from Latin pertica.

Па́ша Паша#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name diminutive Па́ша (Páša).


Stoney

From their supposed use of stone in making fires for cooking.

The Siouan language spoken by these people.


Mungo

The fever left his body, and he rose to stotter about the doors; but he was still in his torments, and the mercy-seat was far from him. At last in the back end of the year came Mungo Muirhead to Caulds to the autumn communion, and nothing would serve him but he must try his hand at the storm-tossed soul.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:


not proven

There was a time that the only verdicts a jury could return were proven or not proven. While the verdict of proven has long since been replaced, that of not proven has survived the test of time.

2014, Francis Pakes, Comparative Criminal Justice, page 12:

(Scots law) Having insufficient evidence to prove guilt or innocence under Scots law.