Québecer

It should be noted however that their participation is less than that of the other groups: although they represent 80.7% of the total population, French-speaking Québecers form only 77.7% of the labor force.

1972, The Language of Work; the Position of French in Work and Consumer Activities of Québecers (Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the Position of the French Language and on Language Rights in Québec), page 14:

Québecers have long had a reputation for gregariousness (Vallée, 1973). Foreign sociologists who have had the opportunity to systematically observe the social life of Québecers have been impressed by the density of their social relations.

1992, Simon Langlois, Jean-Paul Baillargeon, Gary Caldwell, Guy Fréchet, Madeleine Gauthier, Jean-Pierre Simard, “Sociability Networks”, in Recent Social Trends in Quebec, 1960-1990 (Comparative Charting of Social Change), Campus Verlag, McGill-Queen’s University Press, translation of La Société québécoise en tendances, page 89:

The 37 percent of Québecers who voted for the federal Liberal party in the 1993 federal elections surely have no doubt about their own identity as both Québecers and Canadians;

1998, Raymond M. Hébert, “Identity, Cultural Production and the Vitality of Francophone Communities Outside Québec”, in Leen d’Haenens, editor, Images of Canadianness: Visions on Canada’s Politics, Culture, Economics (International Canadian Studies Series), University of Ottawa Press, page 44:


Québécer

From Québec + -er (with a second é to fit French norms; cf. Québécois).

Marc Renaud argues that the social changes that occurred during the “quiet revolution,” combined with the lack of managerial employment opportunities for Québécers in the Anglo-controlled private sector, led a “new middle class” to seek “social hegemony” in the provincial government.

1984, Victor G. Rodwin, The Health Planning Predicament: France, Québec, England, and the United States, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 143–144:

When Québécers are not at the cinema watching their films, they are most likely at home watching Québec’s most popular television series, Lance et Compte (He Shoots, He Scores), which follows the escapades of a professional hockey team.

1991, International Film Guide, 1990, →ISBN, page 106, column 2:

The Household Workers Association would like to remind Québécers that most domestic workers are excluded from coverage by the Minimum Wage Law.

1995, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, “Paid Work”, in Canadian Women’s Issues; Volume II: Bold Visions, Toronto, Ont.: James Lorimer & Company, Publishers, →ISBN, page 130:


Dragon Book

The textbooks were published with a dragon on their cover art.

(computer science, slang) Any one of several textbooks about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, especially Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986).


Green Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a green dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) Principles of Compiler Design (1977), a notable textbook about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman.


Blue Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a blue dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) The first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986), a notable textbook about compiler construction.


Purple Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a purple dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) The second edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2006), a notable textbook about compiler construction.


God's own county

God's own country
God's own country#English

Synonym of God's own country (“Yorkshire”)


Wizard Book

The textbook was published with an image of a wizard as the cover art.

computer programming
computer programming

(computer science, slang) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1985), a notable computer science textbook that teaches fundamental principles of computer programming, including recursion, abstraction, modularity, and programming language design and implementation.


Suma

A unisex given name from the South Asian languages.


Johorean

Johoreans (plural)
Johorian (alternative)

A native or inhabitant of Johor in Malaysia.


Johorian

en-adj

Johorian (comparative more Johorian, superlative most Johorian)

more Johorian (comparative)
most Johorian (superlative)


Helltown

An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States.


Pnina

Both Ivana and Pnina's husband would know of the affair from the start , the husband going so far as to meet with Ivana in private to discuss how it was that she could tolerate it.

2000, John O'Meara, Defending Her Son, page 73:

The government made it hard for people like Pnina's family to practice their religion, and during a time of civil war and famine, they fled to a refugee camp in Sudan […]

2020, Elena Favilli, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls:


Peninah

Alternative form of Pnina (“female given name”)


Dovid

A male given name from Yiddish, variant of David.


Bayleigh

A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Bailey.


Aroostook

en-noun

Aroostook (plural Aroostooks or Aroostook)

From Malecite-Passamaquoddy Wool-ahs-took (“good river for everything”).

der

A member of a tribe of the Mi'kmaq Native American people of Aroostook County, Maine.


pre-Brexit

(European politics) Referring to the time before Brexit.


Herc

Clipping of Hercules.; A diminutive of the male given name Hercules.


Middelfarter

(demonym) Someone from Middelfart, Denmark.


Belenite

(demonym) Someone from Belen, New Mexico.


Horny Tim's

(Canada, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons


Timmy Ho-Ho's

(Canada, informal) Synonym of Tim Hortons.


Tim Whoreton's

(Canada, vulgar, slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of Tim Hortons


God Emperor

the God Emperor (canonical)
God-Emperor (alternative)

God + Emperor. Its use in reference to the Emperor of Japan is a calque of Japanese 天皇 (tennō, literally “heavenly sovereign/emperor”), referring to the emperor's descent from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
In reference to Donald Trump, from Trump-supporting Internet users humorously depicting him as the God-Emperor of Mankind, a character from the British science fiction tabletop game Warhammer 40,000.

cal

The meme was from Trump's cameo at WrestleMania 23 a decade prior, and in it he tackled WWE owner Vince McMahon before pummeling him on ... Several of his fellow users were congratulating him for getting “the God Emperor's” attention.

2017, Jared Yates Sexton, The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, Catapult, →ISBN:

Just days after his election, Trump reaffirmed his campaign commitments to shut down Muslim immigration by signing an ... and with the election over and the man the AltRight called “the god emperor” on his way to the White House, ...

2017, George Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

To the 4chan boys Trump was a hero, the social failure in chief, a clown prince. They called him the God Emperor, a swaggering fat Daddy, who, as one commentator put it, would put a car in every white man's drive and an Aryan woman in ...

2018, Javaad Alipoor, The Believers are But Brothers, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

“Trump is willing to say what most Americans think: It's time to deport these people,” Anglin declared, ... and avid campaign volunteers, referring to Trump with extravagant nicknames such as “Our Great God Emperor,” “the Nimble ...

2018, Arnold Dashefsky, Ira M. Sheskin, American Jewish Year Book 2017: The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:

Pepe had already been frequently portrayed as a Trump supporter on social media sites. ... a quick browse through the rabid Trump sub-Reddit the_donald will notice many of its members exalting the politician with the title “God Emperor."

2019, Grant Kien, Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 190:

... Donald J. Trump'.46 This 380,000-strong group refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' and 'the God Emperor',and gains its identity by standing against liberalism, feminism, intellectualism, and much more besides ...

2019, Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 130:

Trump won. They'd made these Photoshopped pictures of Trump flying around on his victory horse, through the gates of heaven, with a crown on his head and his golden sword. They call him the God Emperor.” “That sounds awful.” “I know.

2019, Blake Nelson, The Red Pill: A Novel, Bombardier Books, →ISBN:

Our Glorious Leader has ascended to God Emperor.”1 Ten days after Trump's election, the National Policy Institute, the generically named but emphatically white-nationalist think tank led by professional racist Richard Spencer, ...

2020, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, US politics, humorous) Donald Trump, American politician, 45th president and 47th president of the United States.


Kambera

A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the eastern part of the island Sumba, Indonesia.


Yedukondalu

Borrowed from Telugu ఏడుకొండలు (ēḍukoṇḍalu, “seven hills (of Tirumala); alternative name for Venkateswara”).

bor

A male given name used among Telugu people.


Birminghamian

A native or resident of Birmingham, Alabama, United States.


Madawaskan

Someone from or residing in Madawaska, Maine.


Gloriana

Coined by English poet Edmund Spenser to represent Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene (1590), from Latin gloria (“glory”).

After Mr. Smith’s decease, she m. for a 2d husband, and as his 2d wife, Dr. George Muirson of Setauket, L. I. (son of Rev. George Muirson of Hempstead, L. I., and Gloriana Smith, dau. of Col. William Smith).

1874, Benjamin W[oodbridge] Dwight, The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., volume I, New York, N.Y.: John F. Trow & Son, […], page 1103:

The little stranger is named Gloriana Craig. She arrived on June 24, 1922.

1922, Union Electric Quarterly, page 20:

When I was the ripe age of 17, I met a girl named Gloriana at an out-of-state sports meet.

2002, Mary-Lou Galician, quoting Brent (name changed), Sex, Love, & Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis & Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals & Their Influence, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 127:

Through an acquaintance with his mother’s neighbor, Robert Bourassa, he met a woman named Gloriana LaPointe.

2009, Edith Reynolds, John Murray, Wicked Waterbury: Madmen & Mayhem in the Brass City, The History Press, →ISBN:


Yorick

Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; […]

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:


bird app

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

Derived from the Twitter logo of a blue bird.

You're always on that damn bird app!

Another poll on the bird app has gone viral ... this time with the question being -- who's the baddest out of these 2 ladies???

2021 December 11, “SALMA HAYEK HOTTER THAN JENNIFER LOPEZ??? Twitter Says ... Absolutely”, in TMZ:

It’s easier to not open the bird app when I don’t want them instead of declaring a mass exodus.

2021 December 14, Ben Cost, quoting mh-Musings @entrespire, “Fans, haters are ‘deleting Twitter’ over ‘Spider-Man’ spoilers”, in New York Post:

(Internet slang, often derogatory) The social media application X, formerly Twitter.


Bahnaric

A subfamily of Austroasiatic languages spoken in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos


Bahnar

The Bahnaric language spoken by this people.


Washoe

From English Wa She Shu, from Washo Wá꞉šiw ʔítlu (“Wašišiw”) Literally, “people from here”.


New Right

While clearly opposed to the political thrust of much 'Heritage' cinema (Sammy and Rosie, in particular, in programmatically anti-Tory: for example, the property developer who ousts the 'straggly kids' is one of Thatcher's MPs and her vision of a 'new Britain' is blatantly lampooned), Kureishi's films do not, however, endorse traditional kinds of Left oppositional politics as the best means by which to challenge the hegemony of the New Right.

2001, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Hanif Kureishi, page 89:

Various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries:

(UK politics, historical) A strand of conservatism influenced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, committed to economic liberalism as well as being socially conservative.


Beckie

Variant of Becky, diminutive of Rebecca.

A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, variant of Becky.


Old Punjabi

The age of Old Punjabi: up to 1600 A.D. […] It is said that evidence of Old Punjabi can be found in the Granth Sahib.

2000, Gopal Haldar, Languages of India, →ISBN, page 149:

As an independent language Punjabi has gone through the following three stages of development: Old Punjabi (10th to 16th century). Medieval Punjabi (16th to 19th century), and Modern Punjabi (19th century to Present).

2013, Tej Bhatia, Punjabi, →ISBN, page XXV, →ISBN:

The Adi Granth is written in Old Punjabi language.

2021, Zhanna Chalabayeva, Red Indian Sun, →ISBN:

An early New Indo-Aryan language, ancestor of modern Punjabi, spoken from c. 1000–1600 CE which is found in certain hymns of the Guru Granth Sahib and poems of Fariduddin Ganjshakar.


Reub

A diminutive of the male given name Reuben.


Rabindranath

Transliteration of Bengali রবীন্দ্রনাথ (robindronath), from Sanskrit रवि (ravi) + इन्द्र (indra) + नाथ (nātha).


Old Malay

(linguistics) The oldest attested form of Malay language.

(linguistics) The ancestor of Malay language (all form and dialects), spoken in Sumatra from about 1,000 BCE.

(nonstandard, colloquial, proscribed) Archaic Malay speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" Malay.


Gipper

From Reagan's role as George "The Gipper" Gipp (1895-1920) in the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American, which lead to him acquiring the nickname "the Gipper," later popularized by the media during his presidency.

It took no more than a jaunty one-liner in the second presidential debate—"I refuse to hold my opponent's youth against him"—for large numbers of people to be reassured that if the Gipper had ever been out of it, he was now back.

1992, Michael Weiler, W. Barnett Pearce, Reagan and Public Discourse in America, page 137:

Over the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the Gipper asked Congress for $16.1 billion more in spending than it passed into law.

1999, Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, page 126:

[…] most of the Ford vote from 1976, which Bush had hoped to claim, went heavily for the Gipper.

2014, Craig Shirley, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America, unnumbered page:

A nickname for American actor and politician Ronald Reagan.


Sirenik

Transliteration of Sirenik Сиӷы́ных (Siǧýnyh), from сиӷы́ных (siǧýnyh, “horn”), from Proto-Eskimo *ciʀunǝʀ.

transliteration

(linguistics) An extinct Eskimo-Aleut language that was spoken on the Chukotka Peninsula of Russia.


libertopia

But as long as your libertopia is imaginary, I guess you can't be bothered to imagine that it is imperfect.

1995 February 15, Mike Huben, “Re: LP Challenge to GOP”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

I have yet to see one libertopist explain how indigents have real rights in libertopia.

1997 November 18, BretCahill, “Who Reads Canned Nazispam?”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

In "libertopia" it would be easy for large corporation to institute large-scale oppression.

2003 May 4, Siobhan Medeiros, “Sorry Commies. Americans Cannot Be Charged For War Crimes”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet):

(US, politics, chiefly derogatory) A hypothetical utopian libertarian society or nation-state.


Harv

A diminutive of the male given name Harvey.


Keerthi

Keerthi was waiting inside to meet him. She had been waiting there for him since morning.

2017, Arun K Nair, Murderous Greed, Chennai: Notion Press, →ISBN, →ISBN:

Alternative form of Kirti (A female given name)


Kirti

Keerti (alternative)
Kirthi (alternative)
Keerthi (alternative)

Transliteration of Hindi कीर्ति (kīrti, “fame, renown, glory”).

translit

The left-handed girl sitting in front of him was Kirti and not Jennie.

2016, Juggi Bhasin, Bollywood Deception: When Death Bares a Mask of Glamour and Sleaze, Penguin, →ISBN, →ISBN:

Shreyas was worried. He had called his wife Kirti on her cell phone. There was no response. Kirti had told him after lunch that she would go out to buy fruits and vegetables at Abids market.

2019, R C Natarajan, Post Googlism and Other Short Stories, Manipal University Press, →ISBN, page 121, →ISBN:

Kirti had known the two of them as good friends because she saw them a couple of times talking to each other.

2021, Nagesh Sudhakar, Love Beyond Religion, Booksclinic Publishing, →ISBN, page 79, →ISBN:


DeSatan

2021 September 11, “Killing Florida Schooĺ Kids -- DeSatan's Goal”, in political-euwetopia (Usenet):

Joseph Kleinplatz, a protester who referred to the Florida governor as "DeSatan," told the New York Jewish Week that it's "wrong" to have him in the city. "The Jewish religion is not about hate," he said.

2022 June 12, Jacob Henry, “Ron DeSantis calls out 'woke gender ideology' in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan”, in NY Jewish Week, Jewish Telegraphic Agency:


Gettysburgian

en-adj

Gettysburgian (comparative more Gettysburgian, superlative most Gettysburgian)

more Gettysburgian (comparative)
most Gettysburgian (superlative)


Rip

Rip Weaver, Rip Rawlings

A diminutive of the male given name Ripley.


Koushik

Transliteration of Bengali কৌশিক (kōuśik).


Aafia

From Urdu عافی ('āfī), from Arabic عَافِيَة (ʕāfiya).


Afia

A female given name.
A female given name from Arabic.

A female given name.
A female given name from Akan.

Alternative form of Aafia; A female given name from Urdu.


Itonama

A moribund language isolate spoken by these people.


Ibanag

Ibanak (alternative)
Ybanag (alternative)
Ybanak (alternative)

The Austronesian language of these people.


Partygate

2021 December 8, “'Partygate' strains trust in Boris Johnson's government”, in Financial Times:

2021 December 8, “Partygate: Tory anger as Boris Johnson told he 'should resign' if he misled Parliament”, in The Telegraph:

(UK politics) The controversy surrounding members of the government holding parties in 2020 and 2021 during COVID-19 lockdowns, when gatherings were banned.


Peckham Rye

An open space (Peckham Rye Common and Park), named thoroughfare and railway station in Peckham, borough of Southwark, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3475).


Maggers

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

(Oxford University slang, archaic) Magdalen College, Oxford.


Wuggers

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

(Oxford University slang, archaic) Worcester College, Oxford.


Shura

From Russian and Ukrainian Шура (Šura), short for Александр (Alexander) or Александра (Alexandra).

A male given name from Russian, Ukrainian.

A female given name from Russian, Ukrainian.


Inner

Capitalization of inner, from Middle English inner, ynner, ynnere, from Old English innera, comparative of inne (“within”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the inner planets of the Solar System


Vilela

An extinct Lule-Vilela language, indigenous to northwestern Argentina.


Invasion Day

From the fact that Australia Day, which commemorated the beginning British colonization, also marks the invasion and oppression against Aboriginals.

(derogatory, typically in Aboriginal use) Australia Day.


Toriel

(Oxford University slang, derogatory, UK politics) Oriel College, Oxford.


Rad Cam

the Rad Cam (canonical)
RadCam (alternative)

(Oxford University slang) Contraction of the Radcliffe Camera.


Noakhailla

A transliteration of Bengali নোয়াখাইল্লা (noakhailla), a dialectal variant of নোয়াখালীয়া (nōẇakhaliẏa), from নোয়াখালী (nōẇakhali) + -ইয়া (-iẏa).

der

নোয়াখাইল্লা

com

নোয়াখালী (nōẇakhali) + -ইয়া (-iẏa)

A dialect of Bengali (or an independent language akin to it) spoken in the Greater Noakhali region of south-eastern Bangladesh and some parts of the Indian state of Tripura. The speakers of the Noakhailla language also identify themselves as Noakhailla.


Urinal of the Planets

In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.

A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.) Ireland is perhaps the only[…]

2008, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Facts on File:

'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.

2015 April 18, Graham Sutherland, Conspiracy of Fate, Knowle Villa Books, →ISBN:

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, derogatory, rare) Ireland.


Greenlandman

In the year 1779, Ten guineas, being the Premium offered for an account of taking Whales by the Gun Harpoon, was adjudged to Captain Humphrey Foord of the Mancheſter Greenlandman[.]

1784, Joseph Mace et al., “A summary account of rewards bestowed by the Society, from the year MDCCLXXV to the year MDCCLXXXII, inclusive”, in Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volume 2, page 214:

(historical) A whaling ship, normally operating in the North Atlantic.


Weasel Boy

From a humorous reference to a scene in which Dana Scully warns Spender not to "weasel" (i.e. trick) her in the 1998 episode "Triangle".

At least Weasel Boy makes no bones about his hatred for Mulder, though.

1998 November 12, StarGzrMC, “Re: *Getting rid DIANA FOWLEY - Survey*”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Skinner berates her in front of Weasel Boy and CSM.

1998 November 24, rmun...@yahoo.com, “The chaser? ”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I hardly think the solution is to pair Scully up with a dead Weasel Boy.

2000 July 16, Sandy Waddell, “Spender will be Scully's new partner,”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) The fictional character Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files.


Trudope

Trudope spews all the right cliche progressy talking points, such as aboriginal consultation, then he flips the aboriginals the bird […]

2017 April 11, Chom Noamsky, “‘We are very disappointed’: Loss of Northern Gateway devastating for many First Nations, chiefs say”, in can.politics (Usenet):

We spend millions processing illegal immigrants each year after Trudope told them to come here […]

2019 February 4, Greg Carr, “Law Enforcement In Canada Overwhelmed By Online Child Porn.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

March against Trudope and his tyranny. This march is your march. Make your voice heard.

2019 October 15, Covfefe (quoting a Million Canadian March press release), “[Breitbart Sedition] City police call B.S. on Breitbart report of massive pro-Trump Ottawa Parliament Hill rally”, in can.politics (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.


Turdeau

This stupid experiment in social engineering began under Turdeau back in the late sixties with the francoization of both radio and TV English stations and channels.

1995 December 5, Cerise Lopez, “French TV in English Canada a Shocking Waste of Taxpayers' Money”, in ont.general (Usenet):

Chretien is yesterday's man. He failed Canada along with Turdeau back in the 1960s and '70s and he is failing us again.

1996 November 10, George Skorpios, “Re: Conrad Black supports Reform Party”, in ont.general (Usenet):

This does not mean, however, that the Liberals in Ottawa under Jean Chretien have reformed from the wasteful, irrational spending of the Turdeau era.

1997 October 8, Erik Trammel, “Auditor-General Assails Ottawa Grits' Crazy Spending”, in ont.general (Usenet):

(Canada, derogatory) A nickname for Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

Turdeau...not ready, not smart, likes carbon tax.

2015 August 23, Roy, “Re: Mulcair's NDP making inroads in Alberta . . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):

Turdeau has already broken his promise to run a modest 10 billion dollar deficit it only remains to be seen how huge a hole he will dig.

2016 February 23, Greg Carr, “Re: Liberals Shuckin' & Jivin' Over Deficit.”, in can.politics (Usenet):

The tail doesn't wag the dog. The Americans allowed this. Turdeau has ZERO influence.

2019 May 17, Liberals are VERMIN!, “Re: Another major coup for our Trudeau government . . .”, in can.politics (Usenet):


Welshy

(informal, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of Walian: a Welshman or Welshwoman, a Welsh person.


Johnetta

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


Scots law

(formal) The legal system of Scotland, a hybrid of civil law and common law.


katakanization

The writing of a non-Japanese word in katakana


Hadramitic

Hadramautic (alternative)
Hadhramautic (alternative)

An extinct Old South Arabian language once spoken in Hadhramaut


Shehri

Modern South Arabian
Modern South Arabian

A Modern South Arabian language spoken in southern Oman


Agaw

A language family, a subfamily of Cushitic, spoken by the Agaw people.


Sidamic

A language family, a subfamily of Cushitic, spoken in Ethiopia


Kuliak

A language family, a subfamily of Nilo-Saharan, spoken in northeast Uganda.


agé

en-verb

agé (third-person singular simple present agés, present participle agéing, simple past and past participle agéed)

agés (present singular third-person)
agéing (participle present)
agéed (participle past)
agéed (past)

Probably from Latin age, imperative of Latin agere.

(Scots law) To act for another (as a law agent or solicitor).


Dice-K

Dice-Ks (plural)
Dice-K's (plural)
Dice K (alternative)

A diminutive of the male given name Daisuke.


Jacki

Jacki set about making the tea—bacon grills with chips and bread and butter.

2018, Ray Wyre, Tim Tate, The Murder of Childhood, page 126:

A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline or Jacquelyn.


Tricky Dick

Coined in the 1950 Californian Senate election, due to allegations Nixon was deliberately misrepresenting himself as a Democrat. Later associated with the Watergate scandal.

Look at “Tricky Dick” Nixon's Republican Record!

1950 June 5, Veterans Democratic Committee, “Warning to All Democrats!”, in Los Angeles Daily News:

1950 United States Senate election in California


Veneti

(historical) A seafaring Gallic tribe in Armorica, in the northern part of modern Brittany, during the Iron Age and under Roman rule.

(historical) A Venetic-speaking tribe in northeastern Italy and Slovenia under Roman rule.


Quaggers

(Oxford University slang, archaic) The Queen's College, Oxford.


Deontae

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


Quatavious

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


Rectina

A female given name from Latin, of historical usage.


Ramusi

A member of an Indian people of the Maratha region.


Clothilda

A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Clotilda.


Shoshana

Borrowed from Hebrew שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (shoshána).

bor+

Soshana Zuboff, b. 1951


Brucey

A diminutive of the male given name Bruce.


Nolly

1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Nolly, dear?” murmured Nancy in a gentle voice; “Nolly?”

(archaic) A diminutive of the male given name Oliver.


Sukumar

Borrowed from Sanskrit सुकुमार (sukumāra) (cf. Bengali সুকুমার (śukumar)).


Gerbert

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Gerbert of Aurillac


Dipankar

Transliteration of Bengali দীপঙ্কর (dipoṅkor).


Ive

“'e should've bin back by now from 'is 'ouse call. And what's she doin' up? I wants me supper and I wants it in peace.” “she's just goin up,” carroty kate replied quickly. “Ain't yer, Ive?” Ivy looked from one person to another.

A diminutive of the female given name Ivy.


Dipannita

Transliteration of Bengali দীপান্বিতা (dipannita).


Latinxua

From the Latinxua romanization Latinxua of Mandarin 拉丁化 (lādīnghuà, literally “Latinization”), the first part of 拉丁化新文字 (lādīnghuà xīn wénzì, literally “Latinized New Script”).

zh-m

A group of methods of Chinese romanization that uses a set of 28 characters and does not include tone markers.


GPEW

Green Party of England and Wales
w:Green Party of England and Wales

(UK politics) Initialism of Green Party of England and Wales.


Biljana

From Macedonian Билјана (Biljana), from билје (bilje).

Билјана Билјана#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Билјана (Biljana)


Biljan

From Macedonian Билјан (Biljan), from билје (bilje).

Билјан Билјан#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Билјан (Biljan)


Ubavka

From Macedonian Убавка (Ubavka), from убав (ubav).

Убавка Убавка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Убавка (Ubavka)


Ognen

From Macedonian Огнен (Ognen), from огнен (ognen).

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Огнен (Ognen)


Goce

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Гоце (Goce)


Goca

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Гоца (Goca)


Liljana

From Macedonian Лилјана (Liljana), from лилјан (liljan).

Лилјана Лилјана#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Лилјана (Liljana), equivalent to Lilian


alien space bats

Coined in the Usenet newsgroup soc.history.what-if.

(fandom slang) An implausible point of divergence from reality, used as a plot device in alternate history.


Comical Ali

Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
w:Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf


Jurchenic

A subfamily of Tungusic languages, a branch of Southern Tungusic.


National Romanization

A loose calque from Chinese 國語羅馬字／国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì, literally “romanization of the national language”).


Madhav

A male given name from Hindi of Indian usage.


De'Marion

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


Jesusland

From Jesus + -land, implying that Republican states are historically and traditionally religious.

(slang, derogatory, humorous, US politics) A collective term describing the numerous US states who typically vote for Republican candidates in US elections.

red state

referring to states that overwhelmingly support Republican politicians


Red Dragon Book

The textbook was originally published with a red dragon on its cover art.

(computer science, slang) The first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986), a notable textbook about compiler construction.


Pichinglis

An Atlantic English-lexicon creole language spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea; an offshoot of the Krio language of Sierra Leone.


Crom

From a typo of Crows that appeared on the live broadcast of an AFL game.

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football, slang, humorous) The Adelaide Crows, an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide.


Latanya

A female given name of African-American usage.


Tsouic

A small language family, a subfamily of Austronesian, spoken in central Taiwan


Kunigami

A Ryukyuan language spoken in northern Okinawa


Pootin

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Blend of poo + Putin, or simply a phonetic respelling of Putin.

the notion that anything pootin says is worth listening to...
is a form of self-delusion...

2017 April 8, abelard, “pootin will tell any lie with a flat face”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

‘Tsar Pootin’ was pissed that America wasn’t […] treating Russia as an equal partner.

2017, The Republic: Traitor, R.R. Quaggiato:

Windopws^([sic]) is full of swiss cheese. And Pootin's government workers are rebelling over the threat to their grannies because they love Linux more than grannies, but grannies are more important than Pootin. Novachooking Pootin and anyone who mentions Windopws^([sic]) is one option being considered by rebels in St. Pootersberg.

2018 October 20, 7, “Linux threatens to destabilize Pootin's government over Novachooking grannies”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

St. Petersberg is to be cleared of all Linux users unless they
want their knobs novachooked and the city is to be renamed St. Pootiberg
demands Pootin who is distant relative of Raspootin.

2018 November 10, I, “Pootin kills Muscovites accusing them of being Linux users, threatens St. Petersberg users with Novachook”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

Pootin is always threatening the planet with nuclear annihilation, but
it may not come in the form of rockets but rather typical Russian stupidity.

2022 August 5, JeSSe, “ANOTHER nuclear power plant ready to cook thanks to Pootin and his Orcs”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(politics, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Vladimir Putin.


pals battalion

pals battalions (plural)
Pals Battalion (alternative)
Pals battalion (alternative)

From pals + battalion, from the sense that one's pals would fight along with them.

(UK, military, historical) A group of men who were friends before being enlisted, all of whom were placed into a single battalion in order to incentivize enlistment in the British Army during World War I.


Madrilene

Madrilene was a sweet, average American girl with an inordinate number of teeth in need of straightening because our dentist was building a ballroom over his garage.

1974, Leo Rosten, Dear "Herm"--with a Cast of Dozens, page 39:

She continued to see her friend Madrilene from Haverford State Hospital.

2010, H. Michael Zal, Dancing with Medusa: A Life in Psychiatry : a Memoir, page 63:

Her name was Madrilene and she caused me a deal of trouble once.

2014, Laura Cassidy, Madrilene's Granddaughter:


Obiden

(US politics, informal, often derogatory) The continuation of the policies of Barack Obama under the administration of Joe Biden.


Mensun

Mensun Bound, b. 1953


kenesa

Borrowed from Karaim כְּנִיסָא (kǝnîsāʾ), from Aramaic כְּנִישָׁא (kənīšā, “gathering”), likely via Arabic كَنِيسَة (kanīsa, “church, synagogue”).

der

An Eastern European or Persian Karaite synagogue.


Dusunic

A language family, a subfamily of Sabahan


FaCIAbook

Blend of Facebook + CIA, suggesting that the site has an ulterior motive of spying on its users, or is a tool of the US government.

All teh Important People have moved-on to FaciaBook...

2016 March 22, ah, “Friday, June 25 2015”, in demon.local (Usenet):

Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook [FaCIAbook] documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

2018 December 3, jgsh...@aol.com, “You Saw This? Re: NY AG agrees to submit evidence of unprosecuted 9/11 federal crimes relating to destruction of WTCs to Special Criminal Grand Jury”, in peopleofCA12 (Google Groups):

Facebook takes down Trump campaign ads for 'violating our policy against organized hate' Facebook [FaCIAbook] on Thursday said it had take action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the Trump campaign described as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an upside-down triangle... The ads targeted the far left group Antifa, calling on Trump supporters to back the President's calls to designate the group a terrorist organization. Responding to criticism of the ad earlier Thursday, the Trump campaign said the red triangle was "a symbol widely used by Antifa."

2020 July 19, Lori Price, “Protest in Albany as NY State Bar Association Walks Back COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Recommendation”, in I Hate Trump Fan Club (Google Groups):

(Internet slang, derogatory, rare) The social networking site Facebook.


Alon

Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Hebrew אַלּוֹן (alon, “oak tree”).
* Borrowed from Tagalog Alon; this surname is predominantly found in Bangsamoro region.

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.


Sujit

Transliteration of Bengali সুজিত (śujito).


Oxana

‘Now,’ said Wardle, and Detective Sergeant Ekwensi clicked out the nib of her pen and prepared to write, ‘does the name Oxana Voloshina mean anything to either of you?’

2015, Robert Galbraith [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Career of Evil, Sphere, →ISBN:

‘Go and explore the city. And start thinking about your cover name. Oxana Vorontsova’s dead.’

2017, Luke Jennings, Codename Villanelle, John Murray, →ISBN:

It has a picture of a woman that I know isn’t me but looks exactly like me with the name ‘Oxana Deseroyova’ on it.

2020, Nick Tyrone, Politics is Murder, Accent, →ISBN:

Окса́на Оксана#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian female given name Окса́на (Oksána).


Clackamas

from ɬak'amas, the Chinookan name for the people of the Clackamas River region, "g-i-ɬá-q'imaš" or "g-it-ɬá-q'imaš"

An extinct Chinookan language spoken by the Clackamas.


Abigor

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Abigor.

A male given name, of a demon of war in Christian mythology, and of various (often fictional) figures named after him.


Omagua

A Tupí-Guaraní language closely related to Cocama.


Terrion

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


Higaonon

(linguistics) A Manobo language spoken on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.


Äiwoo

An Austronesian language spoken in the Solomon Islands.


Tulsi

From Hindi तुलसी (tulsī, “holy basil”), from Sanskrit तुलसी (tulasī).

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday chose Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who became one of his most enthusiastic backers, to serve as the director of national intelligence.

2024 November 13, Julian E. Barnes, “Trump Chooses Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence”, in The New York Times:


Rocketman

Coined by Donald Trump in September 19, 2017 for a United Nations speech, in reference to Kim's launch of military rockets.

coined

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.

Little Rocketman has totally misrepresented denuke plan we offered. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Fat kid blew it and will be sorry. Sad!
[…]
Rocketman's sister IS NOT North Korea's IVANKA. Ivanka is 6 feet tall. She's got the best body. Rocketman's sister is flat as a board!

2018 August 7, Dr Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

It wouldn't surprise me. I thought Trump was using Bolton as the "bad cop" in
North Korea, and would use him to annoy Rocketman, then fire him and be the
"good cop".

2019 October 2, Rick Sabian, “THE WHISTLE BLOWER IS”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Today in North Korea we see the lasting Karma of those events where the Japanese mutilated millions for the sheer lust of it. And North Korea's Rocketman wins the fearful adoration of his peoples in consequence.

2019 October 23, RANCE DEWITT, AMAZON COVENANT 2020 TRUMP and BOLSONARO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(slang, humorous, derogatory, neologism) North Korean politician Kim Jong-un.


Pooty

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(slang, derogatory) Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Pooty-Poot

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(slang, sometimes derogatory) Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Mescal

en-proper noun

Mescal (countable and uncountable, plural Mescals)

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Meiscill (“descendant of Meisceall”), a personal name perhaps related to meisce (“drunkeness, intoxication”).


Hip

A diminutive of the female given name Hippolyta.


Sarikoli

Iranian languages are at present spoken across a wide belt of territory stretching from eastern Turkey (Kurdish) to the Sinkiang province of China (Sarikoli) and the shores of the Arabian Sea in western Pakistan (Beludzh).

1981, Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158:

An Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks of China.


Balkaner

(possible internet slang, colloquial) A person from the Balkans.


Khmer Krom

Khmer Krom, ethnic Khmers of South Vietnam (Kampuchea Krom)


Suleika

Suleika Jaouad, b. 1988


Shateasha

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


Eyleen

A female given name from Irish, variant of Eileen.


Thakali

The Sino-Tibetan language of these people.


McDick's

We called it Mickey's or McDick's or Mickey D's—a frequent stop on our aimless nocturnal rambles.[…]Mostly, there was talk of parties. You went to McDick's when you wanted to find out whose parents were out of town.

2007 December 18, Rich Cohen, Lake Effect, Vintage, →ISBN, page 36:

McDick's is a little busier than the rest of town.

2012 October 1, Craig Marriner, Stonedogs, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:

I mean I doubt I would make more working at a McDick's or sweeping floors or something.

2021 October 23, Conor Kerr, Avenue of Champions, Harbour Publishing, →ISBN:

(Canada, derogatory, slang) McDonald's (the fast food restaurant chain).


Frafra

Farefare (alternative)
Farefari (alternative)


Kubachi

A language spoken in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.


Barty

A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.


Uneapa

Borrowed from Uneapa Uniapa with contamination from Muduapa Unea, from earlier *Uneap or *Uniap.

An Oceanic language spoken on the island of Bali, Papua New Guinea.


Randon

A variant of Rand or borrowed from French Randon.


Aiki

A Maban language that originates from Chad, theorized to be derived from Nilo-Saharan.


Wogland

(Australia, New Zealand, offensive, ethnic slur) The Mediterranean Region.


Sherley

Sherleys (plural)
Shirley (alternative)
Shurley (alternative)

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

Sherley Moore

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

Sherley Anne Williams

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


Siamak

Siamak Pourzand, b. 1931


Warekena

An Arawakan language of Brazil and of Maroa Municipality in Venezuela, spoken near the Guainia River.


ROILA

Robot Interaction Language
w:Robot Interaction Language

Abbreviation of Robot Interaction Language (“a spoken artificial language designed to allow talking to robots efficiently”).


Adjuvilo

international auxiliary language
international auxiliary language

An international auxiliary language created by Claudius Colas in 1910, from a mix of Esperanto and Ido.


San Fransicko

right after hitting his Bong he bought in downtown San Fransicko crack row
stores.

2007 October 18, Al Goreon's Great Global Warming Scam, “BREAKING -- Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) tells it like it is”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):

All you have to do is look closely at the deranged
view of the San Fransicko Board of Supervisors.
They hate the military and make no bones about it.

2007 October 30, Jan Orme, “OT ~ And Then The Room Was Silent”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):

Considering the Shit hole cesspool that San fransicko has become after being
represented by DemoncRATS Pelosi and Frankenstein , it should be named
Pelosi Sewage plant .

2008 April 3, is the Real Man@election2008 Another McCain Voting Democrat, “Coming soon: ‘George W. Bush Sewage Plant.'”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Naturally, the sexually disoriented in San Fransicko
were ecstatic, no doubt squealing with delight and celebrating with all manner
of unspeakable vice.

2011 July 4, Chauncey Chilton, “California Supreme Court Creates a Supreme Disaster in Supporting Gay Marriage”, in alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, sometimes humorous) San Francisco, viewed in terms of its population afflicted with mental illness.


San Franfreako

Blend of San Francisco + freako, in reference to a perception of the people that live there.

(slang, derogatory, sometimes humorous) San Francisco.


Javonte

African-American coinage from the second half of the 20th century. Compare Javon, Javion.

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


Chang'an Avenue

Partial calque from Mandarin 長安街／长安街 (Cháng'ān Jiē).

zh-l

長安街／长安街 (Cháng'ān Jiē)

The wall poster, put up on Changan Street in Peiping on March, declared that the Chinese Communist regime should actively promote democracy, especially the democratic system formulated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

[1979 April 1, “Wallposter call”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 12, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

I was a Communist Party member, and I was leading about 40 students from my college out of Tiananmen Square early on the morning of June 4. The crackdown was pretty much over.
Several girls were with us, and one was really scared. I told her not to worry, that I'd stay with her. But when we turned onto Changan Avenue, the army began shooting tear gas at us.

[2001 February 4, Craig S. Smith, “Tiananmen's Shadow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, Section 6, page 52:

After the crackdown, an unarmed man briefly stopped a line of tanks on Chang’an Avenue. The scene, captured by foreign journalists, has become one the most powerful symbols of dissent in China. The man remains unidentified.

2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “China’s Military Parade Celebrates World War II Victory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-02, World:

The SK Tower transaction is particularly significant, given the 35-storey office building’s prime location in the heart of Beijing’s central business district, right next to the Chang’an Avenue thoroughfare.

2021 June 9, “Chinese insurer Hexie snaps up US$1.4 billion Beijing tower from SK Group in largest office deal since onset of coronavirus pandemic”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2021-06-09:

Fu Yangen, a Beijing resident, gave a resounding "Yes!" when asked if she would like the party to stay in power for another 100 years.
"It has enabled us ordinary people to achieve happiness in our lives," said Fu, 27, as she posed for photos in front of large anniversary-themed flower arrangements along Changan Avenue, the city's main thoroughfare.

[2021 June 30, “China's Communist Party to celebrate 100th birthday in show of pomp and power”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-06-30:

A street in Beijing, China, that runs past the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and other important locations.


Kelsea

Variant of Kelsey, presumably influenced by Chelsea.


Plaid Cymru

A Welsh political party, committed to Welsh independence from the UK


Carwyn

Means "blessed love" in Welsh. From Welsh caru (“love”) and Welsh gwyn (“blessed”).


Xitler

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Calque from Chinese 習特勒／习特勒 (Xítèlè). Blend of Xi + Hitler. Compare English Putler (“Vladimir Putin”). Introduced into English by reports of a 2016 incident where a man was arrested for wearing a "Xitler" T-shirt.

zh-m

習特勒／习特勒 (Xítèlè)

(derogatory) Xi Jinping (Chinese leader)


Ubi

An Afro-Asiatic language spoken in central Chad.


Old Czech

A historical form of the Czech language, spoken between the 12th and 15th centuries.


Jameshia

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


Ananya

Transliteration of Bengali অনন্যা (ônônna), Hindi अनन्या (ananyā), etc.


Cobus

Shortened form of Jacobus, Latin form of Jacob.


multiglobal

en-adj

multiglobal (comparative more multiglobal, superlative most multiglobal)

more multiglobal (comparative)
most multiglobal (superlative)

your CHERISHED MULTIGLOBAL EMPIRE

2011 November 11, Andrew Hussie, Homestuck:

“Be careful what you say, Ms. Modane. VectorCorp does not respond well to baseless accusations. We are a multiglobal company.

2014 December 18, Joseph R. Lallo, Artificial Evolution: Big Sigma #3, Joseph R. Lallo, →ISBN:

“[…] A multiglobal harmony of thought and reason.”

2017 December 5, Gareth L. Powell, Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy, Solaris, →ISBN:

[…] let us consider the story of “Bonk Business,” the imaginary corporation made up by Finnish artist Alvar Gullichsen: Bonk Business Inc. is a multiglobal industrial conglomerate employing 13,000 in 52 countries.

2020 August 12, Pekka Aula, Saku Mantere, Strategic Reputation Management: Towards A Company of Good, Routledge, →ISBN:

(science fiction) Spanning multiple globes.


USAmerican

USAmerican (comparative more USAmerican, superlative most USAmerican)

more USAmerican (comparative)
most USAmerican (superlative)

(rare) Alternative form of U.S. American


Jakov

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Јаков (Jakov), equivalent to Jacob


Stojan

Стојан Стојан#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Стојан (Stojan)


Trajanka

From Macedonian Трајанка (Trajanka), from трај (traj, “to last (to endure, continue over time)”); Трајан (Trajan) + -ка (-ka).

Трајанка Трајанка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Трајанка (Trajanka)


Trajka

From Macedonian Трајка (Trajka), from трај (traj, “to last (to endure, continue over time)”) + -ка (-ka).

Трајка Трајка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Трајка (Trajka)


Trajko

From Macedonian Трајко (Trajko), from трај (traj, “to last (to endure, continue over time)”) + -ко (-ko).

Трајко Трајко#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Трајко (Trajko)


Zlatka

From Macedonian Златка (Zlatka), from злато (zlato, “gold”) + -ка (-ka).

Златка Златка#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Златка (Zlatka)


Abruzzese

Abruzzese (comparative more Abruzzese, superlative most Abruzzese)

more Abruzzese (comparative)
most Abruzzese (superlative)

Of, from or relating to the region of Abruzzo in Italy.


Srna

From Macedonian Срна (Srna), from срна (srna, “roe deer”).

A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Срна (Srna)


Essence

A female given name of African-American usage.


Amit

Transliteration of Hindi अमित (amit), Marathi अमित (amit), Gujarati અમિત (amit), Bengali অমিত (omito), etc.

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


Amit

Transliteration of Hebrew עָמִית ('amít).


Amity

The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:


Cedars

(rugby league) The Lebanon national rugby league team.


Knackerville

Travelling Community
Travelling Community

(Ireland, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An area mainly populated by members of the Travelling Community/Gypsies.


Elham

Borrowed from Persian الهام (elhâm), itself borrowed from Arabic إِلْهَام (ʔilhām, “inspiration”). Related to Ilham.

A unisex given name from Persian or Arabic.


purple shirt of sex

The play's promotional art features Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock (wearing the character's purple shirt of sex, as fans have called it) in front of a red-and-white heart-shaped bull's eye-style target.

2014, Lynnette Porter, Benedict Cumberbatch, Transition Completed: Films, Fame, Fans, unnumbered page:

She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”

2016, Brigid Cherry, Cult Media, Fandom, and Textiles: Handicrafting as Fan Art, page 109:

Little did they know, there would soon be legions of fans armed with evidence to the contrary like the button-down that was labeled the “Purple Shirt of Sex,” because, well, it was both fairly low cut and stirred all kinds of feelings.

2020, Esther Zuckerman, A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes from A to Z, unnumbered page:

(Sherlock fandom slang) A tailored royal-purple dress shirt worn by Sherlock Holmes (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch) on the television series Sherlock.


Dépor

From Galician Dépor (short for Deportivo).

(soccer) Deportivo La Coruña, a football club from A Coruña


Sayantan

Transliteration of Bengali সায়ন্তন (śaẏonton).


Gaagudju

An Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory.


Evander

From Latin Evander, from Ancient Greek Εὔανδρος (Eúandros, literally “good man”).


Binod

Transliteration of Bengali বিনোদ (binōd), Nepali विनोद (vinod), Odia ବିନୋଦ (binoda), etc.


Vinod

Transliteration of Hindi विनोद (vinod), Gujarati વિનોદ (vinod), etc.


Pokeyman

Pokeymans (plural)
Pokeymen (plural)
Pokéman (alternative)
pokeyman (alternative)

Yeah, but can they name all of the Pokeymans?

2000 August 9, Carlos May, “I scream for ice cream!”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

251 "pokeymen", as you naive Webtvers would say.

2000 August 10, Areku: I'm a jedi without a light saber., “Worlds biggest on-line RPG (and funnest)”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

Pokeyman XP (GC) - I got to the bit where you have to put the pokeymans in the big Pokeymag washing machine to clean them from evilness and then I couldn't really work out what I was supposed to do and started overdosing on cheap cider and clarkey cat until I puked up my pelvic bone. What a fucking disgrace.

2005 November 14, rich a, “Play, Want, Bin, and all that jazz”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:

They put new pokeymen in it! Well, new old pokeymen. I caught a lot of them.

2017 February 21, deKay, “Punctuality Would Be Effective (PWBE 20 Feb 2017)”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-12:


Dreama

Dreama pulled the plaid Burberry knock-off bag onto her lap and fished around inside it.

2005, C. M. Miller, Dead Broke: An Audrey Wilson Mystery, page 6:

“He'd give the store away if Sissy and I let him,” said Dreama.

2013, Lee Martin, Southern Psalms, page 70:


Bugis

From Malay Bugis, from Makasar ᨅᨘᨁᨗᨔᨗ (Bugisi'), probably from Proto-South Sulawesi **Bugis or Buginese ᨓᨘᨁᨗ (Wugi'), ᨕᨘᨁᨗ (Ugi'), ᨕᨚᨁᨗ (Ogi') (a self-designation). Cognate with Mandar Bugis, Toraja-Sa'dan Bugi'.

The Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by these people.


Kyran

A male given name, variant of Kiran or Kieran.


Charvi

Transliteration of Hindi चार्वी (cārvī), from Sanskrit चार्वी (cārvī), feminine of चारु (cāru).


Fuckbook

Facebook is turning into a mean horrible thing. I got more real friends in these news groups than I do on fuckbook.

2012 October 25, BuZZard, “FUCKBOOK”, in alt.countrystuff (Usenet):

For so long she's stayed away from everybody's Fuckbook pages, but now she types in Facebook. She stares at the login screen and tries to remember her username, her password.

2013, Andre Dubus, Dirty Love, page 221:

Twit and Fuckbook emerge and before long they are infected with the human race's weirdos.

(vulgar, derogatory, humorous, chiefly Internet) Facebook.


Babine-Witsuwitʼen

An Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia Interior.


demon core

So called because of its involvement in two fatal criticality accidents at the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1945 and 1946. In the late 2010s, the circumstances of the second accident were popularized widely by science history videos and internet memes.

(historical) A spherical subcritical mass of plutonium manufactured during World War II by the United States as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb.


Coahuiltecan

(linguistics, historical) Belonging to a proposed Native American language family associated with these people.


colpindach

(Scots law, obsolete) A two-year-old heifer.


Comecrudo

From Spanish come (“to eat”) + crudo (“raw”).


Taega

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


Arlando

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


Procopius

Via Latin Procopius from Koine Greek Προκόπῐος (Prokópĭos), from Ancient Greek προκοπή (prokopḗ, “progress forward to prosperity; advancement toward success; improvement by diligence”), with Latin suffix -ius equivalent to Greek suffix -ῐος (-ĭos).

der

A male given name from Latin Procopius [in turn from Ancient Greek Προκόπιος (Prokópios)], of rare usage, variant of Prokopios, feminine equivalent Procopia.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Saint Procopius, an early Christian martyr of the 3rd century C.E..

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius, a Roman imperial usurper of the 4th century C.E..

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius of Caesarea, a Byzantine Greek historian of the 6th century C.E..


Prokopios

Direct transliteration of Ancient Greek Προκόπῐος (Prokópĭos); less common than traditional English variant form derived via Latin Procopius.

translit

A male given name from Koine Greek Προκόπιος (Prokópios), of rare usage, variant of Procopius, feminine equivalent Prokopia.


GayStation

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

But what I really want is an Ultra 64. I’m waiting to buy one when it’s released. Never mind the ‘Seega Shaturn’, or Sony’s ‘GayStation’, Nintendo will come through.

1996 June, Sasha Nixon, “[Mailbag] Creepy Crawlies”, in Nintendo Magazine System, number 39, Melbourne, Vic.: Catalyst Publishing, →OCLC, page 58:

(humorous, derogatory, offensive) PlayStation.


Bhupendra

Transliteration of Hindi भूपेंद्र (bhūpendra), Bengali ভূপেন্দ্র (bhupendro), etc.


Tailte

(Irish mythology) Alternative form of Tailtiu


Berengaria

A female given name of historical usage.


Amartya

Transliteration of Bengali অমর্ত্য (ômôrtô).


Pinyinize

en-verb

Pinyinize (third-person singular simple present Pinyinizes, present participle Pinyinizing, simple past and past participle Pinyinized)

Pinyinizes (present singular third-person)
Pinyinizing (participle present)
Pinyinized (participle past)
Pinyinized (past)
Pinyinise (alternative)
pinyinise (alternative)
pinyinize (alternative)

The move to Pinyinise Chinese names in schools meant technically switching to a different system of spelling for names to which people were unaccustomed to.

1983, Ministry of Culture, The Mirror, numbers 19-20:

I'm not Chinese, but I can tell you that Mao Zedong's Chinese name, 毛泽东, would be officially Pinyinized as "Mao2 Ze2 Dong1", Deng Xiaoping's name, 邓小平, is "Deng4 Xiao3 Ping2" and Beijing's kanji, 北京, is "Bei3 Jing1".

2000 August 10, Your Name Here:, “MAO SAYDONG???”, in alt.tv.game-shows (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

A quick Google on "French Revolution" "too soon" turns up scads of references to this famous and highly quotable remark, attributed variously to Chou and Mao; some of them even pinyinise the names to Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong.

2002 January 20, Phil Edwards, “Mao (or Chou) and the French Revolution”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

To understand why many Singaporeans remained unimpressed with the state's call to Pinyinize personal names, particularly their family names, we need first to appreciate that the more successfully implemented SMC measures were successful precisely because Singaporeans were convinced of their pragmatic and communitarian rationales.

2011, Lionel Wee, Language Without Rights, page 119:

At the height of the movement to pinyinise place names in Singapore, Bukit Panjang, now a Housing and Development Board New Town, was known as Zhenghua, along with Yisbun for Nee Soon, and Zhujiao market for tek kha market in Kandang Kerbau.

2013, Victor R Savage, Brenda Yeoh, Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics, page 55:

However, this distinctive dialect market is slowly being eroded as new parents choose to englishize and pinyinize their children's names.

2015, Jessieca Leo, Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking, page 181:

(transitive) To romanize Standard Mandarin using the Pinyin system.


pinyinize

pinyinize (third-person singular simple present pinyinizes, present participle pinyinizing, simple past and past participle pinyinized)

pinyinizes (present singular third-person)
pinyinizing (participle present)
pinyinized (participle past)
pinyinized (past)

(transitive) Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinize.


Pinyinise

Pinyinise (third-person singular simple present Pinyinises, present participle Pinyinising, simple past and past participle Pinyinised)

Pinyinises (present singular third-person)
Pinyinising (participle present)
Pinyinised (participle past)
Pinyinised (past)

(transitive) Alternative spelling of Pinyinize.


pinyinise

pinyinise (third-person singular simple present pinyinises, present participle pinyinising, simple past and past participle pinyinised)

pinyinises (present singular third-person)
pinyinising (participle present)
pinyinised (participle past)
pinyinised (past)

(transitive) Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinise.


Pinyinization

en-noun

Pinyinization (countable and uncountable, plural Pinyinizations)

Pinyinizations (plural)
Pinyinisation (alternative)
pinyinisation (alternative)
pinyinization (alternative)

In Chinese, the speakability-readability problem is capable of various solutions depending on the audience for which the Pinyinized material is intended. A dilemma exists in the fact that the work of Pinyinization must be undertaken by people who are already literate—which means literate in characters—and Chinese literati, even of the newer generation, have displayed even less capacity than their Western counterparts to write in a style capable of ready comprehension by ordinary people.

1986, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy, page 198:

There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that official pinyinization only applies to PRC placenames. This lets out Taipei and, until recently, Hong Kong and Kowloon.

2000 June 18, Mike Wright, “一、台北市路牌；二、漢語拼音”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

Chinese doesn't have any capitals, so it really doesn't matter :-)
If you're talking Pinyinization, I guess the only capitals would be Ni and Zhongwen.

2000 November 13, Dalai Lama, “Election Results...”, in alt.roundtable (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

His rationale was that pinyinization was necessary to reduce dialect-based identity and to unite the Chinese community.

2003, Roxy Harris, Ben Rampton, The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader, page 184:

No it's our good friend Juli Zhang who promotes pinyinisation of Chinese.

2005 July 23, Dylan Sung, “accoustic^([sic]) evidence for uninterruption of speech”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-23:

Two other interventions in bilingual education should be noted here: (1) the introduction of a few other Indian languages as mother tongues for Indian learners; and (2) the not too successful attempt at Hanyu Pinyinization of Chinese pupils' names.

2011, Andrew W. Conrad, Alma Rubal-Lopez, Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, page 451:

(uncountable) The Romanization of Standard Mandarin using the Pinyin system.

There are several erroneous pinyinizations (Guang wu/Guangwu, Chang sha/Changsha, Guang zhou/Guangzhou, Shui-hu-ti/Shuihudi, Hupei/Hubei, jhiu/jiu, You Yingshi/Yu Yingshi, kao/xiao [...]

2004, Society for the Study of Chinese Religions, Journal of Chinese Religions, numbers 32-33:

Note that many Chinese characters have more than one possible Pinyin representation. For instance, there are actually 16 different Chinese pinyinizations of the Chinese transliteration of Ashburton, according to the tables our system uses to map a Chinese character to its Pinyin.

2012, Thierry Poibeau, Horacio Saggion, Jakub Piskorski, Roman Yangarber, Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization, page 59:

Though these orthographies used the Roman alphabet (with a handful of special characters) it is best thought of not so much as a romanization as a 'Pinyinisation'; that is, it followed not the global standards for romanising Turkic languages, but rather the idiosyncratic assignments of letters to sounds employed in Hanyu pinyin, the PRC romanisation of Chinese.

2021, James Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, Revised and Updated:


pinyinization

pinyinization (countable and uncountable, plural pinyinizations)

Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinization


Pinyinisation

Pinyinisation (countable and uncountable, plural Pinyinisations)

From Pinyin + -isation or Pinyinise + -ation.


pinyinisation

pinyinisation (countable and uncountable, plural pinyinisations)

Alternative letter-case form of Pinyinisation


Alaster

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Alistair.


Algy

A diminutive of the male given name Algernon.


Allentiac

A Warpean language, originally native to Cuyo in Argentina but later displaced to Chile.


Yankism

I had thought that 'coon' was a Yankism for raccoon, having learned that it isn't, I am pleased that I didn't use the word inadvertently to insult people that I met in Yankland.

1996 October 16, Peter H.M. Brooks, “Racist horseshit”, in uk.legal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

The word is 'lose' not 'loose' - please, no yankisms in here.

2002 November 29, Guig, “OT Ebberdeen to loose manager”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.celtic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

> While there may be SOME native born Americans who speak spanish or polish as their primary language, I can't believe there are very many.
By hell that Yankism grates BADLY on the ear. It is one that display GROSS stupidity, as it is apparently a NEED for you to define the fact that people are indeed "born" as opposed to assembled from cadavers to some kind of a bitsa or whatever else might lurk in those dark corners of your mind!

2003 August 24, Seppo Renfors, “The KRS Hoax - Part 1”, in soc.history.medieval (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

I think "rosebud" may be a Yankism. To me it means a torch with a head on it about as big as your fist, which throws a gigantic amount of heat.

2004 January 7, Grant Erwin, “Oxy/Acet torch question”, in rec.crafts.metalworking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-24:

(often derogatory) A word or phrase originating from or specific to American English.


Poushali

Transliteration of Bengali পৌষালী (pōuśali).

translit

Paushali (alternative)
Pousali (alternative)
Pausali (alternative)


Arpita

Transliteration of Bengali অর্পিতা (orpita), Hindi अर्पिता (arpitā), etc.


married name

The name a person (especially, in many cultures, a woman) takes upon marriage


Charontian

en-adj

Charontian (comparative more Charontian, superlative most Charontian)

more Charontian (comparative)
most Charontian (superlative)
Charontean (alternative)

/kəˈɹɒntɪən/

The Charontian imagery is more subtle [...] the lameness of one of the horses makes the hearse toss and roll like a boat.

1979, Gerald Wade, Sylvia Bowman, Studies in Honor of Gerald E. Wade, page 126:


Charontian

Charontians (plural)
Charontean (alternative)

/kəˈɹɒntɪən/

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).


Apalachee

The extinct Muskogean language of these people.


Aphra

Aphra Behn, b. 1640


Aubreigh

Hurts also wore a wristband for 10-year-old Aubreigh Nicholas who was suffering from a rare and inoperable brain cancer known as DIPG.

2018, Christopher Walsh, Bama Dynasty: The Crimson Tide's Road to College Football Immortality:


Obongo

Blend of Obama + bongo. Compare Bongo Bongo Land.

Obongo doesn't sound much like a Grik name, Pants?
Hussein does, though! LOL.

2008 June 6, Eli Grubman, “Obongo's uncle liberated Auschwitz”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Unprecedented chatter coming from such a high level, unbecoming of this position, for very becoming for the Halfrikan.
Gutter talk like this is always reserved for low party functionaries or hired guns - But Obongo, low class half breed that he is, has no problem at all sinking into the gutter, and demeaning the office of the presidency while hes at it.

2010 November 1, Jesse, “Race baiter Obongo at it again”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Another day in Mr. & Mr. Obongo's anti-White Zio-Marxist America -- a six month prison sentence meted out to a drunken White college prankster who draped a rope around a statue of James Meredith -- the ex-Air Force serviceman whose determination to become the first Black man to attend the University of Mississippi was perhaps the biggest news story of 1962.

2015 September 19, Topaz, “Obongo”, in alt.fan.adolf-hitler (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Barack Obama.


Nobama

Nobama has been an elected official 1997.
Governor Sarah Palin has been an elected official 1992.
Nobama has been to Iraq 1 time.
Governor Sarah Palin has been to Iraq 1 time.
Nobama has never held an executive position.
Governor Sarah Palin held executive positions by being mayor of Wasilla, Alaska and governor of the State of Alaska.
Democrats and Obamanics bitch and moan has ran^([sic]) only a small city and state.
What has Nobama run? I can tell you. Nada.

2008 August 31, Berkeley Bolshevik, “Experience? Nobama don't need no steenkin' experience.”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

This is the environment the Nobama was raised in. This is what he brings to Washington. This is what the US is going to look like shortly.

2009 June 11, CharlesTheCurmudgeon, “OT: Chicago leading the way for Nobama”, in alt.autos.toyota (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

President Nobama and his family will be brutally butchered! Why so?
Well, what did happen to The Russian Tsar and his family during The Russian Revolution? Oh, they all got brutally butchered! And now we have Nobama royally busting his ass to cause an ARMED SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION, therefore I do expect him and his family to end up being brutally butchered.

2010 December 28, Nancy Luft, “### President Nobama & Family will be BRUTALLY BUTCHERED! ###”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:


Timmies

(chiefly Canada, slang) Synonym of Tim Hortons


Wakhi

From Wakhi Xik, but ultimately comes from Khotanese Xik.
Most likely derived from Old Iranian Khotanese, an Iranian language spoken throughout the Pamir range. The word Xik came to be known as Baxi in Wakhi.

Waxi (alternative)
Vakhi (alternative)
Tajik (alternative)
Tuzhik (alternative)
Bakhi (alternative)
Baxi (alternative)
Xik (alternative)
Zik (alternative)

An Iranian language spoken throughout the Pamir region, primarily in Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.


hard r

hard r's (plural)
hard R (alternative)
hard-r (alternative)

First and foremost / You are under no circumstances / Ever permitted / To say the n-word / I don't care if it's soft a or hard r

2016 May 5, MItchell Joseph Sewell, Standpoint: Black Queer Southern Revelations, University of South Carolina - Columbia, Senior Theses. 87, page 45; Tips for a Successful Interracial Relationship:

While telling the story, Student B said the "N-word". Student A told Student B that using that language was not okay. Student B's response was "It's okay, I don't say it with the hard R."

2021, Dean of Students Office, “Fall 2021”, in Bias Advisory and Response Team Updates, Xavier University, archived from the original on 2023-03-14:

Opinions will continue to differ about the N-word — does pronunciation that ends in a soft “a” versus a hard “r” make a difference?

2022 January 7, John McWhorter, “Opinion: I Can’t Brook the Idea of Banning ‘Negro’”, in The New York Times:

African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English

(chiefly US) The hard r at the end of the word nigger when spoken with a General American accent and considered more offensive than the African-American Vernacular English pronunciation conventionally spelled nigga, whose final sound is sometimes called soft a.


Arindam

Transliteration of Bengali অরিন্দম (orindom).


Maban

Of or relating to a small language family of languages spoken in eastern Chad, the Central African Republic, and western Sudan (Darfur).


Freedonian

I sagged with relief, delighted to finally talk to someone who didn't speak Freedonian, and an adult besides.

2011, Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places, page 49:

A lodge decides it can reach out to men from a variety of variety of nations who speak Freedonian and live in greater Washington.

2012, Kenneth D. Fuller, “Grand Lodge Community Outreach Competition Begins”, in The Voice of Freemasonry, volume 29, number 1, page 24:

An imaginary language spoken in the imaginary country Freedonia.


Imanqoli

Transliteration of Persian ایمانقلی (imânqoli), from Old Anatolian Turkish.

transliteration

ایمانقلی ایمانقلی#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name ایمانقلی (imânqoli)


Tartarish

(archaic) The language spoken by the Tartars.


Angelyne

A female given name, variant of Angeline.


Amadea

From Latin Amadea. From Latin amo (“love”) + dea (“goddess”).

A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Amadeus.


Subrata

Transliteration of Bengali সুব্রত (śubrôtô).


Nuala

From Irish: either a shortened form of Fionnuala, alternative form of Fionnghuala, or an alternative form of Úna.


Ormuri

An Iranian language spoken in Waziristan as well as Logar in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is spoken by Baraki tribe.


hanger and flogger

en-noun

hanger and flogger (plural hangers and floggers)

hangers and floggers (plural)
a hanger and a flogger (alternative)

I am certainly not a hanger and flogger and I hate the occasions when we have to deprive someone of their liberty, but sometimes that has to be done.

1994 April 25, Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe, “Criminal Justice And Public Order Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 487:

Kenneth Clarke yesterday intensified his assault on Iain Duncan Smith when he dismissed his rival for the Tory leadership as a rightwing "hanger and flogger".

2001 August 30, Nicholas Watt, “Clarke dismisses Tory rival as a 'hanger and flogger'”, in The Guardian:

Later, as shadow home secretary, with her devout Catholicism informing her political positions, she [Ann Widdecombe] had opposed gay marriage, opposed the equalization of the age of consent for men, opposed abortion, but hadn't opposed the death penalty – a hanger and a flogger, she wanted that brought back.

2019, Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television, Pan Macmillan:

(UK politics, derogatory) A person who is in favor of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment.


Eriq

Eriqs (plural)
Eric (alternative)
Erick (alternative)
Erik (alternative)
Erique (alternative)


Bagri

bor

Bagri बागड़ी

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in Rajasthan and Punjab in India and Pakistan.


Bateri

A Dardic language spoken in Kohistan as well as parts of Jammu and Kashmir.


Jakati

A extinct variety of Lahnda that was spoken in Afghanistan.


Bhaya

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sindh, Pakistan.


Od

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan and Gujarat, Haryana, New Delhi and Rajasthan in India.


Jogi

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sindh, Pakistan and Gujarat, India.


Gawar-Bati

A Dardic language spoken in Chitral, Pakistan as well as the Kunar province of Afghanistan.


Beergate

From beer + -gate; politicians were photographed with beer and takeaway food.

(UK politics, neologism) The political controversy in response to an alleged breach of COVID-19 pandemic legal restrictions at a gathering in a Labour Party office in Durham, England, on 30 April 2021.


Kabutra

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan, related to the Sansi language of India.


Ibinda

The form of the Western Kongo language that is spoken in Cabinda.


Mehri

A Modern South Arabian language spoken in Yemen, Oman, and Saudi Arabia.


Eboo

Eboo Patel


Ken and Eddie Show

Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

(UK politics, economics, historical, informal) The minutes of the monthly meetings between Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke and Edward George, Baron George during which interest rates were set, published regularly during the 1990s.


Razihi

Razih (alternative)
Naẓīri (alternative)

One of the two last Old South Arabian languages left; it is spoken in Yemen.


Faifi

Fayfiya (alternative)
Ḫawlāniya (alternative)
Lahja (alternative)

One of the two last Old South Arabian languages still spoken alongside Razihi. There are around 50,00 speakers and is spoken in Yemen and also a village in Saudi Arabia.


Tanacross

An Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska.


Holikachuk

an extinct Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska


Deg Xit'an

An Athabaskan people of Alaska that speak the Deg Xinag language.


Abdollah

Transliteration of Iranian Persian عبدالله ('abdollâh), from Arabic عَبْد اللَّٰه (ʕabd allāh, literally “slave of God, servant of God”).

der

عَبْد اللَّٰه

عبدالله عبدالله#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name عبدالله ('abdollâh)


Mahdiqoli

Transliteration of Persian مهدیقلی (mahdiqoli), from Old Anatolian Turkish.

transliteration

مهدیقلی مهدیقلی#Persian

A transliteration of the Persian male given name مهدیقلی (mahdiqoli)


Hiw

An Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu.


Apma

Apma is named after the local word for "what" or "something".


Ap Ma

A Keram language spoken in Papua New Guinea.


Shawiya

Maybe from Tachawit [script needed] (Shawiya).


Tooba

Transliteration of Urdu طوبیٰ (tobā), from Arabic طُوبَى (ṭūbā).

der

Arabic طُوبَى (ṭūbā)

طوبیٰ طوبی#Urdu

A transliteration of the Urdu female given name طوبیٰ (tobā).


Mainiac

(humorous) A Mainer; someone from the U.S. state of Maine.


Jah Hut

An Austroasiatic language spoken in Malaysia.

An Austroasiatic people living in Malaysia.


ba construction

A grammatical construction in Mandarin Chinese, SUBJ-把-OBJ-VERB, or any analogous constructions in other Chinese lects.


Shitty Kitty

(US, naval slang, historical, vulgar) USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)


Doughnut

Former hackers as well as government suits roam the curved corridors of “the Doughnut”, as GCHQ’s base is known.

2015 November 19, Steve Rose, “The future is round: why modern architecture turned doughnut-shaped”, in The Guardian:

(informal, UK) The head office of the GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK.


Shonell

A female given name of African-American usage.


Ieesha

American 20th-century phonetic spelling of Aisha.


United States of Canada

Blend of United States of America + Canada, coined in 2004.

blend

(slang, humorous) Collectively, the numerous US states who typically vote for Democrat candidates in US elections, and all provinces and territories of Canada.


Dipanjan

Transliteration of Bengali দীপাঞ্জন (dipanjôn).


Ellice

Probably a variant spelling of Alice or Elise.


Satyajit

Transliteration of Bengali সত্যজিৎ (śôttôjit), etc.


Taïwanese

en-adj

Taïwanese (comparative more Taïwanese, superlative most Taïwanese)

more Taïwanese (comparative)
most Taïwanese (superlative)

Borrowed from French taïwanais. Equivalent to Taïwan + -ese.

Who'll get their revenge with a taïwanese woman in Bush's government and the taïwanese going bezerk with direct access to the White House, Pentagon, CIA, FBI, Nuclear Command, Army "I want all the latest stuff to set up on the Straits between Taïwan and China" weapons shopping mall.

2001 January 13, Geir, “Something to think about ...”, in alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-24:

Ialso play as straight soprano on a taïwanese "Cleveland" srictly copied on MK VI (the real ones, notre the 6.5 models after #210.000): it's a fine horn, for tuning, tone, mechanics, much better than the Selmer Serie II I resold after few monthes as too heavy with no "soul"

2003 September 1, SaxyBird, “Stagg saxophone”, in alt.music.saxophone (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-24:

Taïwan is not part of the United-Nations for historical reasons, since China took the place of its reprentatives in the United-Nations. Taïwan is not a recognized state. The Taïwanese flag does not have international recognition.

2004 May 5, Jean-Michel POURE, “Re: Resignation”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-24:

(non-native speakers' English) Taiwanese.


Japonese

Borrowed from French japonais, Italian giapponese, Portuguese japonês, or Spanish japonés. Equivalent to Japon + -ese.

I'm looking for a shop (in Britain or in Europe) which imports Michael Nyman Japonese CDs on a (quite?) regular basis (not necessarely^([sic]) an on-line dealer. By the way, I already know about CD Banzai, but they have only two of them).

1995 December 3, Francesco Valvo, “where to find Nyman Japonese CDs?”, in rec.music.collecting.cd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:

Hi!
I'm Sara, a portuguese student of arts.
I'm doing a research about japonese art. I have find some bibliography about architecture and gravure, but about porcelain I couldn't find anything.
Can someone (in Japan) give some information about this matter and in general about Japonese art?
Please send me a mail.

1996 February 17, Jose Martins, “JAPONESE PORCELAIN - JAPONESE ART”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:

A lady I work with has a Ford Torus. She is presently living a night-mare with it.
She is trying to find a way to dump it, and buy a Japonese car or a Volvo.
Everytime^([sic]) I talk to her, the car is in the garage for something !
And when she had European or Japonese cars, she never had such problems...

1997 November 2, Jerry G., “American Cars verses the Japonese and European cars for service...!”, in alt.autos.nissan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of Japanese.


Japonese

hi ! I have bought Overblood2 in japonese and i m^([sic]) searching a guidebook for this game, preferently^([sic]) in english
else in japonese if it is a website i have a program which approximately translate^([sic]) in english. so is there somebody who could tell me where i may found^([sic]) a free guide on internet.
thanks for attention
cheers

1999 May 3, jules, “Backups of Playstation^([sic])-games.”, in alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-26:


Anisha

Transliteration of Sanskrit अनीशा (anīśā, feminine of अनीश (anīśa)).

translit

feminine of <i class="Deva mention" lang="sa">अनीश</i> (anīśa)

A female given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.


Yanny

Then, in that gravelly voice I loved, he said, “Yanny asked me to come see if you were ready to go.”

2020, Ellie Isaacson, The Ghost: A Mafia Romance:

Turning his full attention toward a rather tall, attractive middle-aged woman seated to his right, the Prime Minister smiled and said, “Yanny, I want to thank you once again for coming.”

2021, Neill G. Russell, Wiles of the Devil 2020, page 184:


Labib

Borrowed from Arabic لَبِيب (labīb, literally “sensible, reasonable”); this surname is predominantly found in Egypt.


Zay

An Afroasiatic language of the Semitic branch spoken in Ethiopia.


Cancún Cruz

Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said the senator shouldn’t have apologized, and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. complained that people were trying to “cancel Cancún Cruz” — a defense wrapped in a classically Trumpian insulting nickname.

2021 February 19, Lisa Lerer, “How Ted Cruz Became the least sympathetic politician in America”, in New York Times:

You'd think they'd be ashamed of the shenanigans they try / But never Cancun Cruz or Lady G

2021 April 5, “Ted and Lindsey”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics):

Ken dressed up like Cancun Cruz and sang "Margaritaville." When he got to the chorus, everyone joined in and sang, "I tried to say that my kids were to blame, but I know it was my own damn fault."

2021 October 6, Joe Lovato, Blood, Love and Justice, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

We have all read about “Cancun Cruz,” and how he blamed his poor decision to travel to Cancun during Texas’ winter freeze on his daughters.

2022 April 4, “Cruz's actions display a lack of maturity, poor decision-making”, in Austin American-Statesman, page A8:

(US politics, derogatory, neologism) U.S. senator Ted Cruz.


Donta

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


Deontay

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


Xandria

A female given name, variant of Alexandra.


Shanequa

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


Jenessa

Most likely a Blend of Jennifer + Vanessa.

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Khalaj

A language that is part of the Turkic language family.


Angelical

There are no onomatapeioæ^([sic]) in Angelical.

2009, Geoffrey James, The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee:

The Enochian language (believed to be the language of angels).


Beijing Biden

A Republican coinage, in the belief that Joe Biden is either amenable to or in direct allegiance with the People's Republic of China.

He described Biden as "Beijing Biden" and soft on China, but a review of Biden's China policy by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Deutsche Welle, BBC and RFE/RL found that there are actually many similarities between Biden's[…]

2021 March 14, David Rong, William Luo, Haitian Liu, Contemporary China Review (Quarterly Journal): 当代中国评论（英文季刊）, Bouden House, →ISBN, page 37:


Moscow Mitch

Referring to Mitch McConnell's opposition to sanctions voted by the Senate against the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in 2018.

"Moscow Mitch" has acted as a Trojan horse for crony capitalists, allowing them to wield domineering control over our national politics and decision-making. He has been diabolically opposed to fairer political representation and[…]

2016 May 21, Tiffany Twain, Big Picture Perspectives and A Pursuit of Social Activism, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16:

Moscow Mitch won't allow it. The Senate Republican majority leader told us he didn't like that nickname. So in deference, I will not call him that. Even before the House impeachment hearings began, Leningrad Mitch pledged that[…]

2020 May 26, Marvin Kitman, Gullible's Travels: A Comical History of the Trump Era, Seven Stories Press, →ISBN:

The efforts earned McConnell the moniker "Moscow Mitch." In September 2019, Sen. McConnell finally agreed to a bill authorizing $250 million for election security. The bill did not require that states use the funds for secure[…]

2021 February 9, Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

(US politics, derogatory) U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.


Douchebagistan

“one way ticket to Douchebagistan pls, this dude needs it so much.”

2013 November 12, Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 132:

(slang, humorous) A fictional country inhabited by douchebags.


Marsian

Caso Cantovios and allies. Bronze plate found in the Fucine Lake. Dialect-Latin or mixed Marsian and Latin.

1940, E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, published 1959, page 59:

Though much of what remains of Marsian is of doubtful status and meaning, the following inscription (plate 3), from Antinum, is relatively unambiguous.

1999, Philip Baldi, The Foundations of Latin (Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs 117), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 128:

There is little evidence for Marsian, the language of the Marsi, a people who occupied the area south of the Fucine Lake. Marsian is mainly attested in a few short inscriptions from the third and second centuries bc: VM 3–7.

2004, Jane Stuart-Smith, Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic, Oxford University Press, page 125:

The extinct (since ca. 150 BC) Osco-Umbrian language of the Marsi, native to Marruvium.


Harrie

“Be careful, Logan, to remember how he spells his name. It is Harrie, and not Harry. This may be of great use to you when you come to be cross-questioned.”

1883, Caleb Harlan, chapter VII, in The Fate of Marcel, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 111:

Clearing up a couple of minor errors in Mrs. Thayer’s squib, we would report that Mr. Lindeberg’s first name is Harrie, not Harry, and that his one-piece garment includes a collar in addition to shirt, shorts, and tie.

Harrie Brigham Chase, a young man on the state’s Supreme Court, was wholly unknown to Hand and his friends. As Hand told Taft, “[M]y heart sinks a little at a man who carries the name ‘Harrie.’”

2011, Gerald Gunther, Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 244:


Saint Clare

A calque of Latin Sancta Clara (“holy Clara”), chiefly in reference to Italian Chiara Offreduccio, St. Clare of Assisi.

St Clare (alternative)
St. Clare (alternative)
Clare (alternative)
Clair (alternative)
Claire (alternative)
Clara (alternative)
Chiara (alternative)
Saint Clair (alternative)
St Clair (alternative)
St. Clair (alternative)
Saint Claire (alternative)
St Claire (alternative)
St. Claire (alternative)
Saint Clara (alternative)
St Clara (alternative)
St. Clara (alternative)
Saint Chiara (alternative)
St Chiara (alternative)
St. Chiara (alternative)
Saint-Clare (alternative)
St-Clare (alternative)
St.-Clare (alternative)

(uncommon) Alternative form of Sinclair, a male given name.


Emme

A diminutive of the female given name Emily.


Muhyi'd-Din

Transliteration of Arabic مُحْيِي الدِّين (muḥyī d-dīn, literally “Renewer of the Faith”).

transliteration

مُحْيِي الدِّين

Muhyiddin (alternative)
Muhyid-Din (alternative)
Muhyi ad-Din (alternative)
Muhyi al-Din (alternative)

مُحْيِي الدِّين
محيي الدين#Arabic

A transliteration of the Arabic male given name مُحْيِي الدِّين (muḥyī d-dīn).


Wet Toast Eagles

(Australian rules football, humorous, rarely derogatory) The West Coast Eagles, an Australian rules football club based in Perth.


Black Caps

(plural only) The New Zealand national cricket team.


Kangaroos

(rugby league) The Australia national rugby league team.


Jillaroos

(rugby league) The Australia women's national rugby league team.


Baggy Greens

(rugby league) The Australia national cricket team.


Men in Blue

(cricket) The India national cricket team.


Gorkhalis

(cricket) The Nepal national cricket team.


Rhinos

(cricket) The Bangladesh national cricket team.


Chevrons

(cricket) The Zimbabwe national cricket team.


Southern Stars

(cricket) The Australia women's national cricket team.


White Ferns

(cricket) The New Zealand women's national cricket team.


Bengal Tigers

(soccer) The Bangladesh national football team.


Blue Tigers

(soccer) The India national football team.


Kumuls

From Tok Pisin kumul (“bird of paradise”).

(rugby league, plural only) The Papua New Guinea national rugby league team.


Jewrusalem

/ˌdʒuːˈɹuːsələm/

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.


takyeh

Borrowed from Iranian Persian تکیه (takye). Doublet of takya, takiyya, and tekke.

bor+

Here I was informed that the Kedkhudá (chief man of the village), apprised by the muleteer of my arrival, had assigned quarters to me in the takyé consecrated to the Muḥarram passion-plays.

1893, Edward G. Browne, A Year amongst the Persians, page 250:

Another communication centre for the Muslims and members of the community is the takyeh, of which there are hundreds in Tehran and other provinces.

1995, National Development and Security, page 116:

This Maidan and the Takyeh, once considered as the entrance portal of the old Bazar of Yazd, belong to the late part of the 9th century A.H. (15th cent. A.D.), and have been founded in 830 (1426 A.D.), when Masjid-i Mir Chakhmaq was also under construction.

1974, Nosratollah Meshkati, A List of the Historical Sites and Ancient Monuments of Iran, page 72:

(Shia Islam, Iran) Synonym of husayniyya; alternative form of takya


Piscataway

By naturalization into English from the Piscataway language.

The extinct Algonquian language of these people.


takya

takyas (plural)
takyé/takyeh (alternative)
tekye/tekyeh (alternative)
tekke (alternative)
takiyya (alternative)
takyah (alternative)
takia (alternative)
takiya (alternative)
takiyah (alternative)
takieh (alternative)
takié (alternative)
takiye (alternative)
takiyeh (alternative)
tekieh (alternative)
tekiye (alternative)
tekiyeh (alternative)

The presence of the Hindiler Tekkesi or the Indian takya in Istanbul since the time of Tipu's mission is another indication but it was not until the 1840s that the position of the Indian Muslims with regard to the Ottoman caliphate was fully crystallized.

1999, M. Naeem Qureshi, Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics, page 16:

The younger shaykh, Baba Musafir, turned to the task of establishing a takya or khanqah at Awrangabad

A gathering place for Sufis, especially in the Ottoman Empire and South Asia.

takyas (graveyards)

1994, A. D. Khan, Diplomatics of the Soyurghal Farman of the Great Mughals, page 6:

Takya, a pillow, a resting-place of Faqīrs

2017, Ja'far Sharif, William Crooke, Islam in India:

The cemetery or graveyard of Sufis, especially in South Asia.

The takya was often endowed with several stores, the profits from which would help to defray the cost of maintaining the takya.

2004, Robert Gleave, Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, page 388:

(Shia Islam, Iran) Synonym of husayniyya


Dockers

(Australian rules football) Fremantle Football Club, an Australian rules football club based in Fremantle, a suburb of Perth.


Suns

(Australian rules football) the Gold Coast Suns, an Australian rules football club based on the Gold Coast.


GWS

Greater Western Sydney Giants
w:Greater Western Sydney Giants

(Australian rules football) Initialism of Greater Western Sydney Giants.


Khersonite

A native or inhabitant of Kherson, Ukraine.


Arkesha

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


SRA

en-noun

SRA (countable and uncountable, plural SRAs)

(UK politics) Initialism of special responsibility allowance.


NEH

The New English Hymnal
w:The New English Hymnal

(Church of England) Initialism of The New English Hymnal.


Jaffna Tamil

From Jaffna (borrowed from Tamil யாழ்ப்பாணம் (yāḻppāṇam)) and Tamil (borrowed from Tamil தமிழ் (tamiḻ)).

bor+

a Tamil dialect native to Jaffna and is the primary dialect used in northern Sri Lanka.


Fonzi

A diminutive of the male given name Alphonse/Alfonse/Alphonso/Alfonso.


Nabulsi

en-noun

Nabulsi (countable and uncountable, plural Nabulsis)

From Arabic نَابُلْسِيّ (nābulsiyy). By surface analysis, Nablus + -i.

(uncountable) A semihard white brined Palestinian cheese made from sheep or goat milk.


Petrova

Borrowed from Bulgarian and Russian Петрова (Petrova), feminine form of Петров (Petrov).

A female surname from the Slavic languages, masculine equivalent Petrov.


Ganza

From Arabic غانزا, from the name in Ganza.

An Omotic language spoken in the Blue Nile state of Sudan, with approximately 3,000 speakers.


plastic crack

From plastic + crack, comparing the collecting habit to a drug addiction.

2021 November 5, u/Extraturbulence, “[Serious] How do I handle the plastic crack addiction.”, in Reddit, r/Warhammer40k, archived from the original on 2024-02-14:

(humorous, slang, derogatory) Expensive plastic scale models that are very popular, such as those from the Warhammer franchise.


Theoderic

/θiːˈɒd.əɹ.ɪk/

From Late Latin Theodericus, Theodoricus, from a Germanic origin, likely via Gothic *𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃 (*þiudareiks) from Proto-Germanic *Þeudarīks, from *þeudō (“people”) + *rīks (“king”); thus cognate with German Dietrich.
Etymologically unrelated to English Theodore from Koine Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódōros, “Theodore”, literally “gift of God”), although medieval conflation of the Germanic and Hellenic names may have given rise to variant spelling Theodoric.

noncog

Ostrogoths
Theoderic
Theodoric the Great

A male given name from Gothic, equivalent to Koine Greek Θευδέριχος (Theudérikhos) or English Derek; variant form Theodoric.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Flāvius Theodericus Magnus (Theoderic the Great) (c. 454–526 C.E.), King of the Ostrogoths (from 475), of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy (from 493), and of the Visigoths (from 511).

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Theoderic I (c. 390–451 C.E.), King of the Visigothic Kingdom from 418 to 451.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Theoderic II (c. 426–466 C.E.), King of the Visigothic Kingdom from 453 to 466.


Pisslam

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, religious slur) The religion of Islam.


Fakebook

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

Blend of fake + Facebook, suggesting that the site consists of phony, inauthentic users.

I love Fakebook, where all my fake friends hang out.
When the weather is fair my fakebook friends are there. When things
get ruff they're gone in a huff.

2010 July 22, onet...@gmail.com, “Fakebook”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):

2016 December 16, Ubiquitous, “Fakebook - The social-media site empowers a journalism cartel.”, in alt.journalism (Usenet):

Fakebook stuck to the antisemite crap and never investigated. Just like the Justice shit system.

2018 June 1, hic...@gmail.com, “Fakebook Removes Trending Topics”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):

(derogatory, Internet slang) The social networking site Facebook.


Old Ruthenian

(historical) A descendant of the Old East Slavic language, a language used in the 15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Cossack state, ancestor of Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian. It contrasts with the Middle Russian language or early modern Russian language of Muscovy.