Trinidad and Tobagonian

en-noun

Trinidad and Tobagonian (plural Trinidad and Tobagonians)

Of the estimated 648,615 English-speaking Caribbean immigrants living in the United States in 1990, 320,809 lived in New York state (Irish and Murphy n.d.). Of these an average of 8.5 percent were unemployed nationwide, and 8.7 percent were unemployed in New York. Barbadians were below these average figures, and Trinidad and Tobagonians were above them.

2001, Holger Henke, The West Indian Americans, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, pages 46–47:

Trinidad and Tobagonians have migrated mostly to the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.

2007, Hebe Verrest, Home-Based Economic Activities and Caribbean Urban Livelihoods: Vulnerability, Ambition and Impact in Paramaribo and Port of Spain, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 72:

Trinidad and Tobagonians in: / New York State [Children] 22.1% [Families] 13.1% / The U.S. [Children] 20.2% [Families] 12.7%

2013, Gladstone F. Greene, Caribbean: Economics, Migrants and Control: An Analysis of Socio-Cultural and Economic Dependence, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 62:

Enhancing the Caribbean family’s resources and capacity to adjust to their adapted home is their Labor Force Participation Rate. For example, males from Jamaica have a Labor Force Participation Rate of 81.3% and females 85.7%, Guyanese males have a rate of 84.2% and females 71.3%, while the Trinidad and Tobagonians have an 82.3% male and 82.3% female rate (US Census Bureau, 2009).

2013, Annette Mahoney, Lear Matthews, “Caribbean Immigrant Families: Transnational Identity”, in Lear Matthews, editor, English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants: Transnational Identities, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 97:

Just steps away from where travelers will board their aircraft for the twenty-five-minute flight to Trinidad, the poster is located along one of the well-traveled circuits of potential Signature customers: wealthy, cosmopolitan, and country-proud Trinidad-and-Tobagonians.

2015, Rebecca Prentice, Thiefing a Chance: Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN:

David Rudder’s “Hosay” forces Trinidad and Tobagonians to accept the reality of gun violence that they have long denied: “now Trini know what is Uzi diplomacy.”

2017, Louis Regis, ““Who Going to Guard These Guards?” The Treatment of the Military in the Calypso”, in Shalini Puri, Lara Putnam, editors, Caribbean Military Encounters (New Caribbean Studies), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 322:

Afro-Trinidad and Tobagonians are descended from enslaved Africans brought to the country by various colonists, including the Spanish, French, and British.

2019, Charity Butcher, The Handbook of Cross-Border Ethnic and Religious Affinities, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 20:

Alternative form of Trinidadian and Tobagonian (“a native or inhabitant of Trinidad and Tobago”).


Chitimachan

en-adj

Chitimachan (comparative more Chitimachan, superlative most Chitimachan)

more Chitimachan (comparative)
most Chitimachan (superlative)


Pessi

All they need is one crumb of ammunition and they'll go for miles. Such is how the nickname "Pessi" was born. As fans on Twitter look for any possible way to reduce Messi's incredible career to a punchline, they've come up with a reductive way to pretend that he's not one of the best players to ever step on a football pitch.

[2022 December 19, Kyle Bonn, “Why Lionel Messi is called Pessi”, in The Sporting News:


Aushiri

Auxira (alternative)
Awishira (alternative)

An extinct Zaparoan language formerly spoken in Peru.


vicious intromission

en-noun

vicious intromission (countable and uncountable, plural vicious intromissions)

(Scots law) The unauthorized assumption of ownership, or other interference with the rights of an estate.


Newfoundland and Labradorian

Newfoundland and Labradorian (plural Newfoundland and Labradorians)

Newfoundland and Labradorians stand to gain little from their increased taxes and higher drug costs in the light of the fact that the vast majority of research facilities are located in Québec and Ontario.

1987 May 28, Proceedings of the Special Committee of the Senate on the Subject-matter of Bill C-22, page 8 : 46:

“But not all Newfoundland and Labradorians are in favour of a large call.”

1999 March 29, Nicola Luksic, “Canadian seal slaughter unsustainable, warn scientists”, in The Varsity, volume 119, number 46, page 8, column 3:

We think of Newfoundland and Labradorians as people that are outdoors and enjoying the outdoors, and yet, when we look at our physical activity rates, we see that is no longer the case.

2001, Délibérations du Comité Sénatorial Permanent des Affaires Sociales, des Sciences et de la Technologie, numbers 40–43, pages 41-15:

Newfoundland and Labradorians by and large do not rate political activity highly.

2009, Lawrence Felt, “A Tale of Two Towns: Municipal Agency and Socio-economic Development in Akureyri, Iceland, and Corner Brook, Newfoundland”, in Godfrey Baldacchino, Rob Greenwood, Lawrence Felt, editors, Remote Control: Governance Lessons for and from Small, Insular, and Remote Regions, Institute of Social and Economic Research, →ISBN, part II (Reviewing Municipal Government in Small, Insular, and Remote Regions), page 163:

Workers in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador also experienced increases in real hourly wages of about 3 percent, but their average hourly wages of $17.35 and $17.46 respectively remained below the national average. Having said that, Newfoundland and Labradorians had the smallest rise in the cost of living (1.5 percent), resulting in an increase in their purchasing power (Statistics Canada 2009a)—a value undoubtedly reflected in their dropping child poverty rates.

2010, Patrizia Albanese, Child Poverty in Canada (Issues in Canada), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 69:

His character and courage over a long and interesting life have made Newfoundland and Labradorians proud to claim him as a native son.

2012, Helen Forsey, quoting Jack Harris, Eugene Forsey: Canada’s Maverick Sage, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn, →ISBN:

That’s me, feasting on cliché, cultivating ennui and a thirst so fine I make a beeline for the next boat’s lounge and drink my way to Ilfracombe and back with Dylan Thomas, to and fro to Staten Island drink for drink with Lowell on a bender – or, better – head for Port-aux-Basques or Blanc-Sablon with manic homebound Newfoundland-and-Labradorians, jigs and reels unscrolling like a casually opened vein.

2012, Don McKay, Paradoxides, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 64:

“He wasn’t afraid to go out and explore the world and bring it back to [Newfoundland and Labrador],” said Mr. Steele, adding that Mr. Stirling was also the first to introduce 24-hour television in North America. “He was a guy that instilled confidence in Newfoundland and Labradorians.”

2013 December 30, “Geoff Stirling brought the world to Newfoundland and Labrador”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 2017-01-02:

I lived in the tightly knit province of Newfoundland and Labrador 35 years but was still identified as a “come-from-away,” clearly recognized as being not from the province, most often because of my last name. Often, it was more curiosity than malice. For Newfoundland and Labradorians, the question “Who are you from?” is about establishing who your parents are and fitting you into your spot in the relatively small provincial firmament.

2022, Russell Wangersky, Same Ground: Chasing Family Down the California Gold Rush Trail, ECW Press, →ISBN:

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador#English

(rare) A native or inhabitant of Newfoundland and Labrador.


Tooro

Of or pertaining to the Tooro Kingdom, the Tooro people, or their language.

-a Tooro

of or pertaining to the Tooro Kingdom or the Tooro people


Irakli

From Georgian ირაკლი (iraḳli), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἡρακλῆς (Hēraklês).

ირაკლი ირაკლი#Georgian

A transliteration of the Georgian male given name ირაკლი (iraḳli), equivalent to Heracles.


Joktan

en-proper noun

Joktan (countable and uncountable, plural Joktans)


Hagarene

From Middle English Agarene, from Medieval Latin Agarēnus. By surface analysis, Hagar + -ene. From the belief that Arabs are descendants of Hagar and Abraham.

(archaic or historical) Of or pertaining to (early) Arab Muslims.


Anastatia

A female given name, variant of Anastasia.


Vancouver Islander

en-noun

Vancouver Islander (plural Vancouver Islanders)

There are, however, a few of their traditions, which appear to have been handed down to them from the same source as the story of Mango Capac amongst the Peruvians—the overflow of the great waters, to the Indians of Central America; the worship of Al, the great spirit, by the Vancouver islanders; and although these are mingled with many absurd rites to propitiate the demons, yet they appear to have some connection with revelation.

1862, Charles Ede, “The Disappointment”, in Warm Hearts in Cold Regions. A Tale of Arctic Life., London: T. Nelson and Sons, […], →OCLC, pages 94–95:

Those Vancouver Islanders from “up-Island” are conveniently linked only to Thetis Island via Chemainus and Salt Spring Island via Crofton.

2012, Theo Dombrowski, “Introduction”, in Secret Beaches of the Salish Sea: The Southern Gulf Islands, Vancouver, B.C.: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., →ISBN, page 8:

At this time, New Westminster was the official capital of the colony of British Columbia, much to the concern and disbelief of Vancouver Islanders, who strongly believed Victoria should have retained the position.

2018, Andrew Hempstead, Moon British Columbia: Including the Alaska Highway, 11th edition, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:

Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island#English

A native or inhabitant of Vancouver Island.


Tombi

From Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombee). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombee); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

translit

ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ#Manipuri

A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯇꯣꯝꯕꯤ (tombee).


Chaoba

From Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (chaauba). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (chaauba); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯆꯥꯎꯕ (chaauba).


Chaobi

From Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (chaaubee). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (chaaubee); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ#Manipuri

A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯤ (chaaubee).


Thoiba

From Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯊꯣꯏꯕ (thoʼiba).


Thoibi

From Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ#Manipuri

A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee).


Khamba

A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯈꯝꯕ (khamba).


Modican

en-adj

Modican (comparative more Modican, superlative most Modican)

more Modican (comparative)
most Modican (superlative)


Shaznay

Oh, and you won't believe who Shaznay, that tall girl in Subscriptions, has been seen out with.


Lashonda

Lashawnda (alternative)
LaShonda (alternative)

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


Vivek

Viveks (plural)
Vibek (alternative)
Bivek (alternative)
Bibek (alternative)

James Johnson, of J.L. Partners who carried out the poll, said three candidates could be satisfied with their night's work.
 'First and foremost, Vivek Ramaswamy, who has inserted himself onto the national stage and narrowly won the debate with Republican voters,' he said.

2023 August 24, Rob Crilly, “Vivek Ramaswamy beats Ron DeSantis for best performance AND tops Donald Trump as the 'real winner' in poll of the Republican debate”, in The Daily Mail:

A male given name from the South Asian languages [in turn from Sanskrit].


Shulamith

Shulamiths (plural)
Shulamit (alternative)
Shulamis (alternative)

bor

Hebrew שולמית

A female given name from Hebrew, masculine equivalent Shlomo, equivalent to English Salome.


Shulamis

Shulamises (plural)
Shulamit (alternative)
Shulamith (alternative)

Hebrew שולמית

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Shulamith, masculine equivalent Shlomo, equivalent to English Salome.


Shulamit

Shulamits (plural)
Shulamith (alternative)
Shulamis (alternative)

Hebrew שולמית


Shula

Clipping of Shulamith, Shulamit, Shulamis, diminutives of Hebrew שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית (shulamít).

der

שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית

Hebrew שולמית \ שׁוּלַמִּית (shulamít)

A diminutive of the female given name Shulamith, from Hebrew.


Graftonite

The community of Grafton is fortunate to be serviced by two conscientious local newspapers. The weekly Ozaukee Press covers five of the communities in Ozaukee County and is delivered to approximately 1,000 Graftonites.

2011, Erin Blum, Saving a Dam: And the Heart of a Community, Grafton, W.I.: The Grafton Difference, →ISBN, page 5:

When Graftonites sought help from New Hampshire Fish and Game officials, they received little more than reminders that killing bears without a license is illegal, and plenty of highly dubious victim-blaming to boot.

2020 October 13, Patrick Blanchfield, “The Town That Went Feral”, in The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-21:

A native or inhabitant of any of various places known as Grafton.


Samuelina

And off she sprang with the agility of a forest doe, so very unlike the polished lady of the manor, full of grace and gentility, but yet so truly in character with Samuelina, the farmer’s daughter.

1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XVI, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume II, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 137:

At Grange, Burntisland, aged eight years, Samuelina Paterson, youngest daughter of the Rev. Robert Culbertson, Leith.

1819 June, “Register.—Deaths.”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany; a New Series of the Scots Magazine, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, page 587, column 2:

To Miss Mercy Elizabeth Samuelina Snagwallader

1860, James W[illia]m Bowles, The World’s Fifth Empire, and Other Poems, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., […], page viii:

Letter No. 1 was from her first-floor lodger, Miss Samuelina Johnson, and ran thus:—[…]

1878 June 13, “Breakfast Yarns”, in Thomas Hake, Arthur Compton-Rickett, The Life and Letters of Theodore Watts-Dunto, volume II, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Limited; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1916, page 295:

M‘Caughey, Samuelina Jane, elected 1907.

1908, Sessional Papers, volume 27, page 28:

Parker, Annie Samuelina.

1947, The London Gazette, volume 4, page 6309:

“My friends, I would like you to meet Miss Samuelina Adkinson.”

1984, Fayrene Preston, For the Love of Sami, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 171:

M 4 Aug 1951 Betsy Lyall Innes, b 5 Feb 1927, d of John Gilmour I. and Samuelina Wallace Craig.

1981, Donald Farquhar Macleod Macdonald, editor, Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, volume X (Ministers of the Church from 1 January 1955 to 31 December 1975), Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, →ISBN, page 200, column 1:

With the ACAP and INDEPTH teams in Accra, Ghana, left to right, are Mr. Pali Lehohla, Dr. Alioune Diagne, Mr. Timothy Cheney, Ms. Samuelina Arthur, Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Dr. Ayaga Bawah, Dr. Cheikh Mbacke, Dr. Martin Bangha, Dr. Philomena Nyarko, Mr. Somnath Sambhudas, Ms. Jeannette Quarcoopome, and Dr. Osman Sankoh, 2011.

2015, Tukufu Zuberi, African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xiii:


Orokolo

A Trans–New Guinea language spoken of Papua New Guinea.


Lizeka

A female given name of South African usage.


Bakersfieldian

A native or resident of the city of Bakersfield, California.


Zabelle

Miss Flora Zabelle invests the gentle, lively "San Toy" with a beauty and charm that has added much to the past season's success of the Daly Company …

1901, “Miss Flora Zabelle”, in Book Notes: A Monthly Literary Magazine and Review of New Books, volume 7, Siegel-Cooper, page 796:

Oh, every little girl's dream at the wedding was, "when will I be old enough to get married and wear the beautiful long white dress as a bride." Certainly Zabelle was no exception.

1981, Zabelle Sahagian, The Amazing Journey of Zabelle, A. R. Graphics & Publishing, page 27:

A female given name from Armenian, equivalent to English Isabella.


Sarel

From Old English Sarlo, Sarle and Serle, from Anglo-Scandinavian or Norman Sarli and Sarle, ultimately from Old Norse.
The given name sense is derived from Afrikaans Sarel.

The Boers who had ridden into Germiston were under the command of Captain Sarel Eloff, President Krüger's grandson …

1899, George Griffith, Briton or Boer?: A Tale of the Fight for Africa, F. V. White & Company, page 143:

My name is Sarel Kandell. I am an attorney formerly with the migrant legal action program, and I just have one basic comment to make.

1967, Sarel Kandell, edited by Patsy T. Mink, Hearings, Reports, Public Laws, volume 12, United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labour, page 324:

His party grew along the way and was joined by that of Charl (Sarel) Celliers (or Cilliers) from the Colesberg District with 25 adult men.

2023, John Laband, The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom 1837–1840, Jonathan Ball, →ISBN, unnumbered page:


Romanian Sign Language

A sign language used by deaf people in Romania


Memorare

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin memorāre (“remember”, imperative), from the opening of the prayer in Latin, “Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria …”.

bor+

With this in mind, the second part of the Memorare is the prayer of one who is aware of his or her sin and unworthiness and humbly seeks the mother’s mercy, prayers, and intercession.

2002, María Ruiz Scaperlanda, The Seeker’s Guide to Mary, →ISBN, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) A prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, beginning in English, “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary …”


Safina

* (female Russian surname): From Russian Сафина (Safina), from Сафин (Safin). Analyzable as Safin + -a.


Harutyun

(countable) A male given name from Armenian.


Yegor

Егор Егор#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Егор (Jegor).


Troye

A female given name, masculine equivalent Troy.


Polingaysi

Polingaysi Qöyawayma, b. 1892


Chinada

For the tiny 35-million population of Canada, including some selfish former Hongkongers who landed shortly after the Tiananmen massacre in June 1989, it would be a nightmare to witness the country that they love transform into a Chinada.

2014 February 20, “Canada Says No To Chinada”, in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-11:

In recent years, a reverse brain drain has seen Canadian-born Chinese moving back to Hong Kong and China in search of better job opportunities (there are up to 300,000 Canadian passport holders in Hong Kong). ¶ They've been replaced by a new wave of Chinese arrivals, this time from the mainland. As one commentator puts it: "Forget Hongcouver, here comes Chinada!"

2017 June 29, Simon Ostheimer, “World's best Chinatowns”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2023-07-27:

Unsurprisingly, Skelly and his team are already painting what happened away as simple corruption. Skelly laid the groundwork for this in his morning blog, writing "the Crown will rely on procedural BS or a biased judge." Afterwards on Twitter he wrote, "welcome to Chinada."

2021 June 28, Mack Lamoureux, quoting Adam Skelly, “BBQ Bro Who Raised $350K to Fight Lockdowns Defeated by His Lawyer's Paperwork”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-15:

At the Dec. 15 event, which The Gazette attended, Pawlowski told the crowd "we are in the middle of tyranny," comparing COVID-19 public health measures to his childhood in Poland under a communist government. ¶ [Artur] Pawlowski also said he calls Canada "Chinada" because of the fines and charges he has faced for breaching pandemic-related health measures.

[2022 December 26, Jack Farrell, “Arden rental policies under scrutiny after controversial event”, in St. Albert Gazette, St. Albert, A.B.: Great West Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-29:

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China#Proper noun

(usually derogatory) A version of Canada influenced or politically dominated by the People's Republic of China.


Kathrynne

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


Dierdre

A female given name, variant of Deirdre.


Oyub

Oyub Titiev, b. 1957

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Оюб (Ojub)


Tenisha

Tenisha Yancey, b. 1976


Lomayumtewa

Lomayumtewa Ishii, b. 1959/60


Zarah

A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.

A female given name from Arabic, variant of Zara.


Dommy

A diminutive of the male given name Dominic.


Dimitrija

Димитрија Димитрија#Macedonian

A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Димитрија (Dimitrija)


Kaburi

A Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua.


Engred

(rare) A female given name from Swedish.


Ronya

Ronyas (plural)
Ronia (alternative)
Ronja (alternative)

A female given name from Swedish, variant of Ronia.

A female given name from Russian, variant of Ronia.


Ronia

Ronias (plural)
Ronya (alternative)
Ronja (alternative)

A female given name.
A female given name from Swedish.

A female given name.
A female given name from Russian.


Kairouani

A person from, or an inhabitant of, Kairouan.

قَيْرَوَانِيّ

a person from, or an inhabitant of, Kairouan


Kabrina

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


Talasquaptewa

(historical) A male given name from Hopi.


Taco Hell

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

(slang, derogatory, humorous) Taco Bell (a chain of fast food restaurants).


One Nation

(UK politics) Alternative letter-case form of one nation


Gauri

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.


palawa kani

constructed language
constructed language

(linguistics) A constructed language created as a composite of the now-extinct Tasmanian Indigenous languages.


Estee

A diminutive of the female given name Esther, variant of Esti.


Wyndi

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Mical

A male given name originating as a coinage.


Jew City

Saint Louis County
Saint Louis County#English

(slang, humorous, sometimes offensive) A nickname for University City, Saint Louis County, referring to its Jewish population.


Sorkhei

A Western Iraniab language, spoken in the village of Sorkheh, Iran.


Botlikh

A Northeast Caucasian language, dpokin in southwestern Dagestan, Russia.


ENHG

Early New High German
Early New High German#English


skyfish

(ufology) Synonym of rod (“rod-shaped optical phenomenon”)


Krymchak

A language that is part of the Turkic language family.


Tolly

A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.


Samaire

Samaire Armstrong, b. 1980


Graveyard of the Atlantic

the Graveyard of the Atlantic (canonical)

A nickname for the treacherous waters and area of numerous shipwrecks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States.


Nimboran

Nambrong (alternative)
Namblong (alternative)
Namlong (alternative)

A Papuan language of Nimboran District, Jayapura Regency, Indonesia.


Nooksack

Nooksacks (plural)
Nooksack (plural)
Nootsack (alternative)

A member of a Native American tribe near the Pacific Northwest Coast.


Yoel

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Joel.


MSDNC

Blend of MSNBC + DNC (“Democratic National Committee”).

blend

“[…] MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus [sic]^([sic]) look as bad as possible,” President Trump tweeted on February 26, a sentiment he would repeat throughout the year.

2022, Donald Trump, quotee, edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Democracy Amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, and Persuasion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118:

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory, humorous) The news channel MSNBC, regarded as having a bias in favor of the Democratic Party, the major centre-left political party in the United States.


Pewds

(slang) PewDiePie (born 1989), online video streamer.


Jaxxon

A male given name of modern usage, variant of Jackson.


Calynn

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


Briahna

A female given name of African-American usage.


Tay Tay

Reduplication of Tay, a clipping of Taylor.

Tay-Tay (alternative)
TayTay (alternative)
Taytay (alternative)

As it turns out, I’m not the only dork in attendance tonight. It’s evident when I start Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off.” / “A little Tay Tay? I’ve so got this.” Camille stretches, like we’re in a boxing ring and she’s about to knock me out.

2019, Tracy Goodwin, Ice Hard (New York Nighthawks), New York, N.Y.: Loveswept, →ISBN:

I love that I can be in the shower and be like, “Alexa, play ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift,” and two seconds later I’m jamming out to Tay Tay.

2019, Rachel Hollis, Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Leadership, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

Mum, my last big concert was Taylor Swift. April knew how much I loved Tay Tay when I was little, so she surprised me with the tickets.

2021, Claire Thomas, The Performance, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 190:

(fandom slang) Nickname of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (born 1989).


Yorùbá

From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders.

2004, Kamari Maxine Clarke, Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 88:

Unlike in the past, the Yorùbá are showing they are ready to accept those who profess Awoist ideals and ideas – and are therefore proper Yorùbá – joining different political parties, an almost heretical practice until the last few years.

2014, Wale Adebanwi, Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ and Corporate Agency, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251:

The piano was supported by indigenous musical instruments like the ekwe (slab and stick of the Igbo people) and the gangan (of the Yorùbá people—the talking drum) (Modfestivals Marktoberdorf, 2016b and 2016c).

2022, Rhoda Abiolu, “Intercultural Relations in Church Music of Nigeria and South Africa”, in David G. Hebert, Jonathan McCollum, editors, Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy (The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings), Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, part 4 (African Insights), page 266:


Yorùbá

From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, merchants raided Yorùbá towns, captured men and women from large Yorùbá-speaking regions, and sold them, mainly to Portuguese traders. Yorùbá-speaking men and women, more than any other West African ethnic and linguistic group, were enslaved and exported to North America, Cuba, and Brazil in large numbers.

An analysis of the Lucumí subclassifications associated with Yorùbá-speaking kingdoms and places indicates that over 75 percent had Yorùbá names, compared to less than 25 percent from other non-Yorùbá-speaking ethnonyms. This analysis confirms how the largest concentrations of Yorùbá speakers left Ouidah and Lagos, while non-Yorùbá-speaking groups generally departed to the east and west of those two ports.

2018, Henry B. Lovejoy, Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba during the Age of Revolutions, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 103:

The use of the gangan, or “talking drum,” was particularly unique because it enunciated Igbo words. What makes this special is that the drum is poised to pronounce Yorùbá words with its various distinctive tones and inflections. […] The inculcation of the drum to pronounce Igbo words draws attention to an intercultural and linguistic dimension to the talking drum’s beats where there is the superimposition of indigenous Yorùbá rhythms on the Igbo language.


Taco Smell

Taco Bell (a chain of fast food restaurants).


Dmitriy

Russian Дми́трий (Dmítrij) from Ancient Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios)

Dimitri (alternative)
Dimitry (alternative)
Dmitri (alternative)

Дми́трий Дмитрий#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Дми́трий (Dmítrij).


Drizzy

Toronto rapper Drake has publicly disowned the new concert film Drake's Homecoming: The Lost Footage – and Drizzy's disdain might be the most interesting thing about the movie.

2015 March 18, Nick Patch, “Five things we learn from the unofficial Drake documentary”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-25:

(endearing) Drake (Canadian rapper and singer born in 1986).


Luly

A diminutive of the female given names Louisa or Louise.


Seefelder

en-noun

Seefelder (plural Seefelder or Seefelders)

(demonym) A native or inhabitant of Seefeld (Tyrol, Austria).

Seefelder

native or inhabitant of Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria


Budukh

The Lezgic language spoken by these people.


Palermitan

Ultimately from Latin Panormitānus, with influence from Palermo.

A native or inhabitant of Palermo on the island of Sicily in Italy.


Liberlander

Chased down by Croatian police, he and five other Liberlanders were forcibly removed to the local town of Beli Mansir and there confined on charges of exiting Croatia illegally, from other than an approved border station.

2018, Tom W. Bell, From the Nation State to Stateless Nations: From the Nation State to Stateless Nations, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 226:

A person from Liberland or of Liberlandish descent.


DAERA

[…]DAERA has a range of significant programmes under way to improve water quality … [and]^([sic]) the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) also undertakes extensive monitoring and inspection programmes as well as investigating all reported pollution incidents.

2023 August 23, Tommy Greene, “Lough Neagh ‘dying in plain sight’ due to vast algal blooms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

w:Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

(Northern Ireland) Initialism of Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.


Nikky

A female given name; Alternative spelling of Nicky


Waalubal

An Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Western Bundjalung living in northeast New South Wales.


Bundjalung

Most likely an autonym from Bandjalang [Term?].

Badjalang (alternative)
Bandjalang (alternative)
Bunjalung (alternative)

A nearly extinct aboriginal language of New South Wales.


Ilon

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.


Jenipher

en-proper noun

Jenipher (countable and uncountable, plural Jeniphers)

A female given name from Cornish, an uncommon form of Jennifer.


Rawang

A Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India and Myanmar


Israeli Destruction Forces

In reference to the alleged destructive war crimes of the IDF.

Israeli Destruction Force (alternative)
Israel Destruction Force (alternative)
Israel Destruction Forces (alternative)

Nah, they'r^([sic]) just lining up to convict your "Man of Peace " [Ariel] Sharon and his genocidal Israeli Destruction Forces

2002 April 22, Amir.M, “Amnesty International demands inquiry into Jenin 'war crimes'”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet):

Nope , the papers are reporting today that the overexessive use of flares by the Israeli Destruction Forces caused the fire

2002 May 2, Amir.M, “Filthy Israel, just like Talibans...”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

Yet again, Gaza is under siege. 'Israeli Destruction Forces' have their tanks, bulldozers, and troops in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya, Jabaliya Camp, Khan Younis, and Rafah.

2004 October 2, GabrilJb, “The Rape of Palestine”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):

Indeed, Dr. Ghannam is a colorful figure. In a publicly available video for the entire world to see (11:18 in length), Dr. Ghannam takes the podium at a Ralph Nader presidential rally where, among other things, he refers to the Israeli “Destruction” Forces (at 6:20), he calls the United States the “Empire” and recounts apologizing to a five-year old^([sic]) child for being from the “Empire” (at 6:55) (he said the five-year old^([sic]) child “understood” him), and he encourages the audience to “challenge the imperial wet dreams that George Bush and John Kerry have” (at 10:17).

2017, Dana J. Boente, “United States of America v. Mohamad Jamal Khweis”, in Case 1:16-cr-00143-LO (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia), page 6:

(slang, derogatory) The Israel Defense Forces.


Rangpuri

Equivalent to Rangpur + -i, either borrowed from Bengali রংপুরী (roṅpuri) or from Kamta রংপুরী.

bor

Kamta রংপুরী

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern Bangladesh and western Assam in India.


Desia

Either from Odia ଦେଶିଆ (deśiā) or from Desiya ଦେଶିଆ (deśia).

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states of India, considered to be a dialect of Odia.


Halbi

Halba (alternative)
Halvas (alternative)
Halabi (alternative)
Halvi (alternative)

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra states of India.


Khandeshi

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Khandesh region of India.


Mewari

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Mewar region of India.


Sankethi

A Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka, India.


Zatsepin

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Zatsepina


Iñapari

An indigenous South American language spoken in Perú along the Las Piedras river near the mouth of the Sabaluyoq river.


Tswa

A Bantu language of southern Mozambique, related to Ronga and Tsonga.


Jessyca

A female given name, variant of Jessica.


Barn

* Clipping of Barney.
* Clipping of Barnett.
* Clipping of Barnabas.
* Clipping of Barnaby.
* Clipping of Barnard.

A diminutive of the male given names Barney, Barnabas, Barnaby, or Barnett.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname diminutive of Barnard (“surname”)


Barne

* Clipping of Barney.
* Clipping of Barnett.

A diminutive of the male given names Barney or Barnett.


Port Sandwich

An Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu.


Antigua and Barbudan

THE ANTIGUA AND BARBUDAN POLITICAL SYSTEM: TRENDS AND PROSPECTS

1982, The Antigua and Barbuda Forum, page 13:

President Clinton shares a laugh with Antigua and Barbudan President Lester Bird, Jamaican President P.J. Patterson and Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur.

1995 May, Building a Partnership for Prosperity: White House Report on The Summit of the Americas, Miami, Florida - December 9-11, 1994, Washington, D.C.: The White House, page 41:

[…] the Antigua and Barbudan flag is so noted.

2000, The New Zealand Law Reports, page 58:

[…] an Antigua and Barbudan vision of the Caribbean.

2002, Lester Bryant Bird, translated by Ronald Sanders, Antigua Vision, Caribbean Reality: Perspectives of Prime Minister Lester Bryant Bird, Hansib, →ISBN:

Antigua and Barbudan president, Vere Cornwall Bird (right) with president of Saint Kitts Labour Union, Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw (left).

2008, Sara Louise Kras, Antigua and Barbuda (Cultures of the World), 2nd edition, Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, →ISBN, page 37:

Papaya paired with lime makes for a classic Antigua and Barbudan pie.

2014, Jeanne Jacob, Michael Ashkenazi, “[Antigua and Barbuda] Papaya Pie”, in The World Cookbook: The Greatest Recipes from around the Globe, revised edition, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, volume 1 (A–D), page 41:

There hasn’t been much interest in Antigua and Barbudan football over the past two decades, which might explain his nervousness.

2014, James [Piotr] Montague, Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 152:

Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda#English

Of, from or relating to Antigua and Barbuda.


Hadauti

Borrowed from Hadothi हाड़ौती (hāṛautī).

A Rajasthani language spoken in southwestern Rajasthan, India.


Surjapuri

An Indo-Aryan language spoken in eastern India, as well as in Bangladesh and Nepal.


Islamsterdam

(slang, derogatory, offensive) The city of Amsterdam, with regard to its population of Muslims and other immigrants.


K-Country

Kananaskis Country
Kananaskis Country#English

Abbreviation of Kananaskis Country.: A region of Alberta, Canada


Lamorne

Lamorne Morris, b. 1983


Sturgeonite

Forbes and her allies have already set up a backbench group in the Scottish Parliament to develop alternative policies; Yousaf and the Sturgeonites remain committed to her (superficially) progressive vision of the party and its controversial alliance with the Scottish Greens.

2023 October 6, Henry Hill, “Time to put devolution out of its misery”, in The Telegraph:

(UK politics) A political supporter of Nicola Sturgeon (born 1980), Scottish politician who served as First Minister from 2014 to 2023.


Wathaurong

Wadawurrung (alternative)
Wada wurrung (alternative)
Wathawurrung (alternative)

A Kulinic Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Victoria, from Geelong north to Ballarat.


Arshag

Arshag Chobanian, b. 1872

Արշակ Արշակ#Armenian

A transliteration of the Armenian male given name Արշակ (Aršak)


Imphalite

Aye, aye! What sort of ceremony is that? Tell me, oh beautiful wife of an Imphalite.

1992, K. M. George, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Plays and prose:

The beginning receives some criticisms, but as the organisers are picking up more experience in the running of Imphal Evening – ‘the first night life in Imphal’, lifestyle of Imphalites is changing to a better direction.

2017, Imphal Times, ‘Imphal Evening’ is giving new lifestyle to Imphalites:

Imphalites and other living in the State had been witnessing the colourful annual festival as youngsters sprayed (coloured) water each others...

2016, Citizen Radio, “Archived copy”, in Yaoshang festival concludes in Manipur, archived from the original on 2023-11-01:

Those were the days when Imphalites used to see the team led by Coach Ibomcha jogging every morning.

2009, Sobhapati Samom, REALISING A DREAM Oja Ibomcha, the unsung boxing guru:

Another very important source of fresh water which meets a large proportion of the daily requirement of Imphalites is ponds.

2003, Kanchan Ratna Chopra, C. H. Hanumantha Rao, Ramprasad Sengupta, Water Resources, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Eco-system Services:

Mid-day, June 19, 2020, we Imphalites got to see an unusually spectacle in the sky, a distinctly clear halo around the sun. It was a breathtaking sight to say the least. According to our elders, in our native language this is called Thabi Mahum Saba which literally translates as “cucumber’s nest.”

2020 July 11, NANDITA SANASAM, The Enchanting Meitei Myths Once Told to Explain the Spectacle of Halo Around the Sun:

It seems the Imphalite son-in-law of our house is planning to go back to Imphal and he has started a new scheme.


The Farm

A reference to Stanford University's establishment on the grounds of Leland Stanford's Palo Alto Stock Farm.

It's clear, then, that the return to The Farm has brought all five a healthy dose of joy.

2023 July 5, Alex Simon, “USWNT's former Stanford stars cherish return to The Farm for World Cup training”, in The Mercury News:


Chuckster

Whether you agree with the Chuckster or not, there's no denying just how entertaining a figure he has been, is and hopefully will be for many more years.

2014 February 20, Josh Martin, Bleacher Report:

(informal) Nickname of former NBA basketball player Charles Barkley.


Boz Angeles

In fact, it's often somewhat disparagingly called "Boz Angeles" for the many Californians and celebrities that have come to town, as well as its perceived "fanciness" in relation to the rest of the state.

2020 May 3, Sophie-Claire Hoeller, “I spent 3 days in Bozeman, Montana, aka 'Boz Angeles.' Here's what surprised me most about one of the fastest-growing cities in the US.”, in Insider:

(slang, derogatory) Bozeman, viewed in terms of its high housing prices.


Korean Sign Language

A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on Korean words in South Korea. ISO 639-3 code: kvk.

(rare) A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on Korean words in North Korea.


Anucha

A transliteration of a Thai male given name


Watsana

A transliteration of a Thai female given name


Tagakaolo

Synonym of Kalagan (“Austronesian language”)


Ancestral Puebloan

en-noun

Ancestral Puebloan (plural Ancestral Puebloans)

Any member of a Native American people who once lived in cliff-dwellings in Utah and Colorado.

Anasazi

member of a Native American people who once lived in Utah and Colorado


Dawnn

Dawnn Lewis, b. 1961


PNoy

Abbreviation of President Noynoy, with Noynoy being a nickname of Benigno Aquino III. Additionally, also a pun on Pinoy.

(Philippine politics, slang) Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines


Zarel

It has been also reported to me by the Field Corporal Zarel Marais that the Bushmen were very active in his district, they had away all Marais' cattle, though fortunately retaken, with exception of 2 which they had stabbed to death, and the robbers fled.

1838, A. S. Robertson, “Report of Commandant Godlieb Roedolf Opperman.”, in Donald Moodie, editor, The Record Or, A Series of Official Papers Relative to the Condition and Treatment of the Native Tribes of South Africa, page 42:

Notice is hereby applying for a ... [title deed] Zarel Francois Haasbroek, in respect of certain portion marked " B " named Inhoek, of the quitrent farm Blinkklip No. 113, District Wolmaransstad, measuring 1,294 morgen 150 square roods

1937, Government of South Africa, Government Gazette Extraordinary, volume 109, page 16:

Zarel C. Spears, an author and director and [manager] of the Ruth Wyeth Spears Newspaper Syndicate, died Wednesday at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco.

1967 May 5, “Zarel C. Spears, Author, 80, Dies; Managed Wife's Syndicated Newspaper Articles”, in The New York Times, page 38:


gender asterisk

gender asterisk (plural gender asterisks)


Dontavious

Blend of Donte + Octavius, the latter revised to accord with -ious.

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


one nationer

A Conservative party source said: “This would tear the party apart. Several cabinet ministers and the one nationers would not stand for it – the prime minister wouldn’t even get it through the Commons. Never mind that this wouldn’t placate the head-bangers on the right either.”

2023 November 19, Rajeev Syal, “Sunak could block Human Rights Act to force through Rwanda asylum plan”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

one-nation conservative
one-nation conservative#English

(UK politics) Synonym of one-nation conservative


Cleve

A male given name, found predominantly in the United States.


one nation

The next prime minister must redefine Brexit as a One Nation project. If they do not, the door will be wide open for Britain’s first-ever Marxist government and a likely decade of decline.

2019 May 18, George Freeman, Nicky Morgan, Bim Afolami, Chloe Smith, Nicholas Soames, “One Nation conservatism can make a success of Brexit”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

one-nation conservatism
one-nation conservatism#English

(UK politics) Ellipsis of one-nation conservatism.


Lahu

The Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Lahu people.


Ivan the Terrible

A calque of Russian Ива́н Гро́зный (Iván Gróznyj), using the older “inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; powerful” (not “defective; evil”) sense of terrible.

calque

Ива́н Гро́зный

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, who was the Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533, and Tsar of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.


Clif

A diminutive of the male given name Clifford.

A diminutive of the male given name Clifton.


S'gaw

The Sino-Tibetan language of these people.


い-adjective

い-adjectives (plural)
i-adjective (alternative)
-i adjective (alternative)

/iː ˈæd͡ʒɪktɪv/

From Japanese い (-i) + adjective, so named because all such adjectives end in い (-i) in their imperfective positive form.

Coordinate term: な-adjective

(Japanese grammar) An inflecting Japanese adjective.


Swoonatra

Blend of swoon + Sinatra, in reference to his infatuated fandom.

(slang, dated) Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), American singer and actor.


Phazanian

(historical) Of or pertaining to Phazania.


occupational surname

en-noun

occupational surname (plural occupational surnames)

(linguistics, onomastics) a name, especially a surname such as Smith or Taylor, that is derived from an occupation - presumably the occupation of a distant ancestor


Soterios

Borrowed from Greek Σωτήριος (Sotírios).

Soterios Johnson


Ashling

From Aisling, to match English spelling.


Malavedan

A Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.


Lowies

(rare) A male given name from the surname.


Xitter

Blend of X + Twitter, following the rebranding of Twitter to X, influenced by the pronunciation of shitter.

(Internet slang, humorous, derogatory, vulgar) Twitter.


Lashondra

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


Spokanite

A person from the city of Spokane in Washington, United States.


Swedish Nightingale

Nickname of Jenny Lind (1820–1887), renowned Swedish opera singer.


Teduray

Tirurai (alternative)
Tiruray (alternative)


The County

A nickname for w:Aroostook County in w:Maine.


Akolet

an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea


Abureni

a Central Delta language spoken in Nigeria


Tifal

an Ok language spoken in Papua New Guinea


Foi

a Trans-New Guinean language spoken in Papua New Guinea


Fiwaga

a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea


Memfrica

Blend of Memphis + Africa, alluding to the substantial number of African Americans who reside there.

Memphrica (alternative)
Mem-frica (alternative)

The only good thing I've heard lately is that my nephew's friends all call Memphis (my home town) "Memfrica," which makes me suspect that maybe not all young Whites are blind and dumb.

2002, Resistance - Issues 17-21, page 62:

Over the next several weeks I placed numerous calls and sent countless e-mails to every news outlet in the fine nation of Memfrica.

2010, Kevin L. Hogan, Politically Correct My Ass...:

Still, man, they take our jobs and don't pay taxes and bring drugs. It's bad enough the blacks have turned this place into 'Memfrica' and now we gotta worry about them too?”

2015, Joshua Savage, Melting Pot, page 84:

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang, offensive) Synonym of Memphis (“city in Tennessee”)


Suckramento

She would call the alcohol retro squad, hitch to Tiffany's in Suckramento, split to San Francisco.

1994, William Luvaas, Going Under, Putnam's, →ISBN, page 299:

There was a short period during the 1990s when our great city deserved the moniker "Suckramento" — the only town where White Zombie could fill ARCO Arena, and you could still find tickets available to Paul McCartney on the day of the show.

2005 June 9, Eddie Jorgensen, “No more Suckramento”, in Sacramento News & Review:

Well, it applies to Suckramento and SmellA, too.

2023 June 20, Julia Heaberlin, Night Will Find You: A Novel, Flatiron Books, →ISBN, page 122:


Satanyahu

(derogatory, politics) Nickname for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician.


Old Kannada

The language spoken in Karnataka, evolved into Kannada in 500 CE.


Maryna

Transliteration of Russian and Ukrainian Мари́на (Marýna), from Marina.

transliteration

Мари́на Марина#Ukrainian

A transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Мари́на (Marýna).

Марына Марына#Belarusian

A transliteration of the Belarusian female given name Марына (Maryna)


Brunny

These are the people who you end up calling to help you move your stuff at the last minute, road trip with, or who look after you when you've been kicked out of the Brunny for vomiting on the bar.

2010 September 27, Caro Kronlachner, “Why I Row”, in The Varsity, volume CXXXI, number 4, Toronto, Ont.: Varsity Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:

While we may have graduated to cocktail parties and sophisticated soirées since those hazy varsity days, those of us who went to school in the city were not above a visit to the Brunny – or at least a fervent opinion of the place.

2015 November 27, Cliff Lee, “Three talking points before saying goodbye to Toronto’s Brunswick House”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:

Previous to this corporate facelift, "The Brunny" was many things in its 141-year history: a watering hole for the working class, the "poor man's Granite Club," host to unconventional events and weddings, a venue for jazz and blues acts, the site of a so-called "lesbian riot" and where University of Toronto students went on Frosh Week.

2017 February 17, Laura Beeston, “The Brunny gets corporate facelift, but Rexall vows to maintain building's charm”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:

(Toronto slang, historical) The Brunswick House, a well-known pub in Toronto which existed from 1876–2016.


Turkish Star Wars

From Turkish + Star Wars, in reference to being a Turkish-language film that became notorious for containing plagiarized clips, music and sound effects from the Star Wars films, among others.

(film) Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam; a Turkish science-fiction film from 1982.


Odie

Separate origins as diminutives of British name Odell and Germanic name Odin; later used as nickname for additional given names.

A diminutive of the male given names Odell, Odin, Ogilvie, Otis, Odysseus, Odicea, Odoardo, or Odunayo, also used as a formal given name.

A diminutive of the female given names Odell, Odele, or Odette, also used as a formal given name.


Genocide Joe

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

Originating from Joe Biden's support of Israel during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, and refers to the US military support that has been provided in the Gaza genocide.

[The protest] started with the chants: […] “Hey hey! Ho ho! Genocide Joe has got to go!”

2023 November 5, Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, Joe’: Massive D.C. Cease-Fire Protest Directs Its Rage at Biden"

Challenged at a White House briefing to confront the term “Genocide Joe” by some protesters to described Biden, Kirby […] embarked on an animated exposition.

2023, December 4, Robert Tait, The Guardian, the White House’s John Kirby is taking on the word ‘genocide’"

2024, January 23, Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Event | Manassas, VA
[JOE BIDEN:] Jill and I had a chance to sit down —
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Genocide Joe, how many kids have you killed in Gaza?

(US politics, derogatory) A nickname of the American president Joe Biden.

2023 Israel–Hamas war
Gaza genocide
Joe Biden


CensorStation

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

(slang, video games, derogatory) The PlayStation video game console, regarded as having excessively censored content in its games.


Zuinglius

Borrowed from New Latin Zuinglius, itself from Alemannic German Zwingli.

Zuinglius Calvin Graves, b. 1816

A male given name from Latin [in turn from Alemannic German].


Dextra

Dextra Quotskuyva, b. 1928


CRG

Nonetheless, before Christmas he still had to rely on Labour votes to pass new coronavirus restrictions amid a 101-MP rebellion instigated by the Covid Recovery Group (CRG), which is sceptical about new pandemic rules.

2022 January 8, Peter Walker, “ERG out, CRG in: the Tory factions Boris Johnson is struggling to appease”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

COVID Recovery Group
w:COVID Recovery Group

(UK politics) Initialism of COVID Recovery Group.


Serian

(linguistics, rare) A proposed language family including Seri, more often considered an isolate or a member of the Hokan family.


ordinary language

en-noun

ordinary language (countable and uncountable, plural ordinary languages)

natural language
natural language#English


the boat

Angela Davis, longtime revolutionary and former member of the Communist Party, was stunned to learn that she, of all people, could trace her ancestry back to the boat.

Bit by bit, she learned the stories of her ancestors and of Cape Cod. And it occurred to her: “These people,” she said, “probably went all the way back to The Boat.”

2020, Josephine de la Bruyere, “The Duality of Being a Mayflower Descendant”, in The Provincetown Independent:

“So, I started working on that particular individual where the error occurred and found out almost immediately that we did descend from William Brewster," Wheaton said. “The story I always tell, when I found the error, I walked over to where my friends were sitting and said, ‘Well, I am off the boat.’ They commiserated and then I went back to work and was eventually able to say, ‘I am back on the boat again.’”

2020, Bill Kemp, “Polk Mayflower descendants talk about 400th anniversary of landing”, in The Ledger:

(informal) In US history and genealogy, a nickname for Mayflower, the ship on which the Pilgrims sailed from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.


Landslide Lyndon

Sarcastic nickname from the fact that Lyndon B. Johnson's 1948 run to a be a Texas senator needed a runoff in order to be successful, which LBJ won by 87 votes over Coke Stevenson, in a state with a large population. After 1964, there were more sincere uses due to his 1964 United States presidential election landslide win over Barry Goldwater.

Hence, […] quiet fence-mending on the part of “Landslide Lyndon”, as he is now known to his friends since his 87-vote margin over Stevenson in the Democratic primary.

1948 October 16, Doris Fleeson, “G.O.P. Needs Landslide to Get Texas Seat”, in Youngstown Vindicator:

Perhaps you have noticed a slight decline in your popularity of these past several months. Perhaps you get the feeling that if you ran for office today the “Landslide” Lyndon of 1964 would be more like the “Landslide” Lyndon who just barely made it back to the U.S. Senate from Texas.

1967 February 11, J.C. Goolrick, “JCG: This Week”, in The Free Lance-Star:

The [coiner of the nickname] cannot be definitively established, although it may have been [Lyndon] himself[, who] was among those [to] make it a familiar part of the scene of insider Washington. “From the start, [he met] he did not know by sticking out a hand and saying, ‘Howdy, I'm Landslide Lyndon,’” [writes] Alfred Steinberg[.]

1990, Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent:

(US politics, historical) Lyndon B. Johnson.

1948 United States Senate election in Texas


Xong

The northernmost Hmongic language, spoken in south-central China.


Contemporary Latin

The Latin language as used from the late 19th century to the present.

llatín contemporaneu

the Latin language as spoken and written from the 19th century to the present


Flying Banana

From flying (“capable of speed”) + banana (in reference to its yellow colour).

com

(UK, rail transport, humorous) The New Measurement Train; the high-speed track testing train used on the British railway network.


Doctor Yellow

Calque from Japanese ドクターイエロー (Dokutā Ierō), itself a pseudo-anglicism from English doctor + yellow, in reference to its diagnostic function and bright yellow appearance.

ja-r

ドクターイエロー (Dokutā Ierō)

(rail transport, humorous) The high-speed track testing train used on the Tokaido Shinkansen and San'yō Shinkansen.


Fishtar

Blend of fish + Ishtar, in reference to Ishtar (1987), another film that failed to recoup its lavish budget.

(slang, humorous, derogatory) The 1995 film Waterworld, known for its runaway production costs.


Kevin's Gate

Blend of Kevin and Heaven's Gate, in reference to actor Kevin Costner and Heaven's Gate (1980), another film that failed to recoup its lavish budget.


Gerrie

A unisex given name from Afrikaans or Dutch.


Bramladesh

/ˌbɹæm.ləˈdɛʃ/

/ˌbɹɑm.ləˈdɛʃ/

Yet half a century later, it is part of Brampton and known in some quarters as "Bramladesh" because it epitomizes the transformation taking place.

2013 June 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “How Brampton demonstrates the new vision of Canada”, in The Globe and Mail:

Brampton – a.k.a. “Browntown,” “Bramladesh” or “Singhdale” – is just like the nicknames imply: mostly brown.

2016 June 3, Noreen Ahmed-Ullah, “How Brampton, a town in suburban Ontario, was dubbed a ghetto”, in The Globe and Mail:

It is now 73% visible minority, with its largest ethnic group Indian, particularly Sikhs from Punjab, earning the city the nicknames “Bramladesh” and “Browntown”.

2018 September 4, Sadiya Ansari, “‘Everybody fits in’: inside the Canadian cities where minorities are the majority”, in The Guardian:

(Canada, colloquial, derogatory) Brampton (city in Ontario)


Bahanna

(Hopi culture) Synonym of white (“European American”)


Bahanna

(Hopi culture) Synonym of white (“European American”).


Kuvi

A Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha.


Avokaya

Abukeia (alternative)
Avukaya (alternative)

Democratic Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo

a Central Sudanic language spoken in southern South Sudan and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo


Old Portuguese

Old Galician-Portuguese
Old Galician-Portuguese#English


PebbleYeet

Compound of pebble + yeet, replacing each element in StoneToss with a near-synonym.

oh wow a racist with a pebbleyeet profile pic?

2020 February 3, u/blightofcicadas, “Nothing is yours”, in Reddit, r/ForwardsFromKlandma, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

Rightists are simple. You can tell why the person who assembled this is buttmad about being called a racist. They enjoy content from Pebbleyeet, a Nazi pretending not to be a Nazi.

2020 February 23, u/Amazon-Prime-package, “From this image it seem the left perfectly understands the right.”, in Reddit, r/TheRightCantMeme, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

PebbleYeet is a member of an ideology popular in Germany during the 1930s to 1940s

2020 March 10, u/c0d3s1ing3r, “Stonetoss Progression Compass”, in Reddit, r/PoliticalCompassMemes, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

How the hell does pebbleyeet consistently have the worst takes possible

2023 December 16, u/PigeonInAUFO, “i love the ones where the photographer is with the animal”, in Reddit, r/bonehurtingjuice, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

(Internet slang, Reddit slang) StoneToss, a far-right webcomic frequently featured in online memes.

amogus

a meme originating from a StoneToss edit


Bomu

A Gur language of Burkina Faso and Mali.


Pterry

A reference to the kingdom of Djelibeybi in Pratchett's novel Pyramids, where names beginning with the letter T have a silent P in front, as in Ptraci. Coined on the Internet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett.

(Internet slang) Nickname for Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), English author.


Tavasuh

Borrowed from Hopi tusavuhta, from a term meaning "head pounders", referring to the historical practice of killing captured enemies by beating them with a club.

(ethnic slur, Hopi culture, derogatory) Synonym of Navajo.

Anasazi

considered insulting to Hopi people because it was using a Navajo-language name for their ancestors

Moqui

dead; insult against Hopi people as it resembles the word for


Madame Mao

In reference to her being the wife of Mao Zedong.


Pamona

An Austronesian language spoken in Central and South Sulawesi, Indonesia.


Dashawn

A male given name of African-American usage.


Da'Shawn

Da'Shawn Hand, b. 1995


Latifa

Latifas (plural)
Lateefa (alternative)
Lateefah (alternative)
Latifah (alternative)

A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Latif.


Zaynulla

A transliteration of a Russian male given name.


Sopan

Sopan Deb, b. 1988


DeSanctimonious

Blend of DeSantis + sanctimonious. Coined by Donald Trump at a rally in 2022.

coinage

Mr Trump mockingly referred to his onetime ally, who won the Sunshine State’s 2018 gubernatorial election after earning the then-president’s endorsement, as Ron DeSanctimonious while discussing his standing in the polls during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

[2022 November 5, Andrew Feinberg, “Trump road-tests nickname for Florida governor and potential 2024 rival Ron DeSantis”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-19:


Dmitriev

Borrowed from Russian Дмитриев (Dmitrijev).

bor+

A male surname from Russian, feminine equivalent Dmitrieva.


Dajasha

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


Polyclitus

Learned borrowing from Latin Polyclītus, from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polŭ́kleitos).

bor

Πολῠ́κλειτος

Polycletus (alternative)
Polycleitus (alternative)
Polykleitus (alternative)
Polykleitos (alternative)

A male given name from Latin Polyclītus [in turn from Ancient Greek Πολύκλειτος (Polúkleitos, “far-famed, greatly renowned”)].

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Elder, 5th century BCE Ancient Greek sculptor and artist from Argos or Sicyon

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Younger, 4th century BCE Ancient Greek architect


Zisis

Zisis Verros, b. 1880

Ζήσης Ζήσης#Greek

A transliteration of the Greek male given name Ζήσης (Zísis).


Alaskan English

A distinct form of American English spoken in the state of Alaska, United States.


Polycletus

Learned borrowing from Latin Polyclētus, from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polŭ́kleitos).

Πολῠ́κλειτος

Polyclitus (alternative)
Polycleitus (alternative)
Polykleitus (alternative)
Polykleitos (alternative)

Alternative form of Polyclitus, A male given name from Latin Polyclētus [in turn from Ancient Greek Πολύκλειτος (Polúkleitos, “far-famed, greatly renowned”)].


Caradog

From Welsh Caradog. Doublet of Caradoc, Caratacus, Cedric, Craddock, Cradock, McCarthy, and McCarty.


African-American English

Synonym of African-American Vernacular English


Jaimy

Jaimy Gordon, b. 1944


Ethelred

/ˈɛθ.əlˌɹɛd/

Learned borrowing from Old English Æþelrǣd, Æþelred, Æðelred, from æþele (“noble”) + rǣd (“counsel, advice”).

af

Æthelred (alternative)
Aethelred (alternative)
Athelred (alternative)

A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Aethelred or Æthelred.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred II “the Unready”, King of the English between 978 and his death in 1016


Aethelred

/ˈæθ.əlˌɹɛd/

Learned borrowing from Old English Æþelræd, Æðelred, from æþele (“noble”) + rǣd (“counsel, advice”).

lbor

Ethelred (alternative)
Æthelred (alternative)
Athelred (alternative)

A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Ethelred or Æthelred.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Aethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871.

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Aethelred II “the Unready”, King of the English between 978 and his death in 1016.


Athelred

/ˈæθ.əlˌɹɛd/

A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Æthelred, Aethelred, or Ethelred.


Moji

A Loloish language spoken by the Phula people of China.


Bird and Baby

(colloquial) Nickname for The Eagle and Child, a public house in St Giles', Oxford, England, having associations with the Inklings literary group.


Belvo

(slang) Belvedere College, a secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland.


Bahamian English

A group of varieties of English spoken in the Bahamas and by members of the Bahamian diaspora.


Bangladeshi English

An English accent heavily influenced by the Bengali language and its dialects in Bangladesh and surrounding Indian areas that speak Bengali.


Barbadian English

A dialect of the English language as used by Barbadians and by the Barbadian diaspora.


Belizean English

The set of varieties of the English language spoken in Belize and by members of the Belizean diaspora.


Cameroonian English

The English dialect spoken predominantly in Cameroon, mostly learned as a second language.


Channel Island English

The dialects of English found in the Channel Islands, including the English of Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey.


Sri Lankan English

The English language as it is used in Sri Lanka.


Ceylonese English

Sri Lankan English
Sri Lankan English#English


Bajan English

Barbadian English
Barbadian English#English


European English

A dialect of English based on the technical jargon of the European Union and the native languages of its non-native English speaking population.


Jamaican English

The variety of English native to Jamaica.


Manx English

The historic dialect of English spoken on the Isle of Man.


Falkland Islands English

The form of English used in the Falkland Islands.


Gibraltarian English

British overseas territory
British overseas territory

The accent of English spoken in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.


Posidonius

Borrowed from Latin Posīdōnius, from Ancient Greek Ποσειδώνιος (Poseidṓnios).

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Posidonius, an Ancient Greek polymath of the Hellenistic period, best known for his studies of philosophy.


Zöe

A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.


Chrysippus

Borrowed from Latin Chrysippus, from Ancient Greek Χρύσιππος (Khrúsippos).

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Chrysippus, an Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher of the Hellenistic period.


Abijam

From Hebrew אֲבִיָּם, the name of the son of Rehoboam as reported by 1 Kings (rather than 1 Chronicles.)

bor

Hebrew אֲבִיָּם

A male or female given name from Hebrew.


Upper Tanana

An endangered Athabaskan language spoken in eastern Interior Alaska, United States.


Payaguá

An extinct language of Paraguay, Argentina, and Bolivia, spoken by the Payaguá people.


Agatharchus

From Ancient Greek Ἀγάθαρχος (Agátharkhos).


Gorap

The film is also being remade in Gorap.

A Northern Halmahera language spoken mainly by the Bobaneigo people in North Halmahera.


Makassar Indonesian

The film is also being remade in Makassar Indonesian.

An Indonesian language spoken mainly by the community in Makassar.


Peranakan Indonesian

the film is also being remade in Peranakan Indonesian

An Indonesian language spoken by the Peranakan in Java, and elsewhere.


erizational

en-adj

erizational (comparative more erizational, superlative most erizational)

more erizational (comparative)
most erizational (superlative)

(Chinese phonetics) Relating to erization (the process of undergoing erhua).


Hell's Forty Acres

(US, slang, obsolete) The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in southeastern Arizona, United States.


Nivaclé

A Matacoan language spoken by these people.


Meagain

“Please give us MORE MORE MORE of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Sick to absolute death of fake narcissistic MeAgain Markle,” a commenter wrote on a photo of Prince William and Kate on the royal family’s Instagram account.

2018 November 26, Patricia Treble, “Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton’s fans are fighting a fierce new royal feud”, in Maclean’s, archived from the original on 2018-11-27:

Commenter Rhirhi, remarking on the Duchess's appearance at the British Fashion Awards, writes ‘if Meagain cradles her bump once more I’m going to puke. Kate didn’t do any of this kind of attention grabbing because she isn’t a narcissist like Sparkles’ (2513 upvotes, 68 down).

2022, Kendra Marston, “Hating Meghan Markle: Drawing the boundaries of British whiteness against postfeminist femininity”, in Shona Hunter, Christi van der Westhuizen, editors, Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (Routledge International Handbooks), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Conspiracies: Ideologies reinforcing whiteness):

The Jubilee... will they won’t they.....will Meagain and the very private ginger one be able to stop filming their behind the scenes epic for Netflix and pop across to put in an appearance on the balcony (in disguise to prevent any invasion of privacy).

2022 June/July, W. Anchor, “Grumpy Corner”, in Triangle Norwich, Beccles, Suffolk: Anglia Print Ltd, →ISSN, page 10:

She had a ready-made excuse to stay at home with the children, since the event coincides with Archie’s fourth birthday, but there was no way Meagain was ever going to risk being booed at the coronation, or having lines from that humiliating South Park parody shouted from the crowd.

2023 April 14, Brenda Power, “Meghan spares Kate a right royal drama”, in Daily Mail, London, →ISSN, page 14:

(derogatory) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born 1981), American member of the British royal family and former actress, viewed as self-absorbed and narcissistic.


Pentagram

From the shape of the star, symbolizing Satanism.

(Internet slang, derogatory) Synonym of the Pentagon.


Bungtown

(informal) Nickname for Burlingham, Ohio, United States.


Chontaquiro

An Arawakan language of the Pre-Andine group, spoken on the Iaco River, Caeté River, and Chandless River, territory of Acre, Brazil.


Google machine

Want more info? Type in "paleo diet," "primal eating," or "paleo 2.0" into the Google machine, and you'll have lots more to choose from, everything from busy moms cooking paleo for their family, to recipes, to the ever-popular "Paleo Hacks" where folks ask questions and the paleo community responds.

2011, Julie Mayfield, Charles Mayfield, Paleo Comfort Foods: Homestyle Cooking for a Gluten-Free Kitchen, Las Vegas, N.V.: Victory Belt Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 26, column 2:

We have noted before that the first impulse of people upon hearing that a person is running for president is to head to the Google machine and ask it stupid questions.

2015 April 21, Philip Bump, “Marco Rubio answers most of the top Google questions about him. We answer the rest.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-24:

Using the example of Spartacus again, do you think his prospects are ever going to be hitting the Google machine and looking for "best CPAs for manufacturing companies?" No! They're heavily engaged with his content and specific offerings in a way that negates the need for them to conduct a search.

2017, Kasim Aslam, The 7 Critical Principles of Effective Digital Marketing, Scottsdale, A.Z.: Stone Soup Hustler Publications, →ISBN, page 80:

(informal, humorous) The Google search engine.


McD

Executive staff members take themselves very seriously at McD. This is a war, not a game. Yet they also know how to enjoy themselves and have fun. They realize that as serious as a situation may be, McD will overcome it, just as it has overcome all the nasty, unfounded rumors of worms in McD burgers and other innuendos over the years.

1994, Charles Bernstein, Ron Paul, “Leader of the Pack: The Big Mac”, in Winning the Chain Restaurant Game: Eight Key Strategies, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 240:

I went to McD for lunch with Jen Nee and Sunny. Cheeseburgers only 88c.

2005, Ee Lin See, “Chicken Pox!”, in My Kiasu Teenage Life in Singapore, Singapore: Monsoon Books, published 2011, →ISBN:

This time, I upgraded the standards and we went to McD. As we entered the place, it was crowded as usual. I went up to the counter to place an order and used my Food Panda passes which allowed me to have an extra burger and a coke at the purchase of Rs. 100.

2017, Harshda Mangal, “Checking out the Way”, in Almost a Love Story, Chennai: Notion Press, →ISBN:


Medbh

A female given name from Irish, variant of Maeve.


World of Warcrack

Blend of World of Warcraft + crack, an allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

Noah Tsutsul world of warcrack addict

2005 March, “Staff Rants”, in MacAddict, volume 10, number 3 / 103, Brisbane, Calif.: Future Network USA, →ISSN, page 08:

The first thing I did was install a few games, including Call Of Duty 2, Far Cry, F.E.A.R., rFactor, and World Of Warcrack (don’t ask).

2006 September, Rahul Sood, “Wagging The Dog: Intel Will Change The Way It Does Business”, in Computer Power User, volume 6, number 09, Lincoln, Neb.: Sandhills Publishing, →ISSN, page 99, column 2:

World of Warcrack — er, Warcraft

2007, Hugh Hancock, Johnnie Ingram, “Massively Multiplayer Machinima: World of Warcraft”, in Machinima For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, part III (Advanced Machinima Creation), page 190:

As with EverQuest before it, concerned citizens around the nation have attempted to liken its addictive gameplay to substance abuse. As usual, these dire warnings serve only as free publicity, vaulting “World of Warcrack” to even greater fame.

2008, Matt Barton, “The Modern Age”, in Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters, Ltd., →ISBN, page 419:

In other circumstances, the overweening success of a single game would prove frustrating to its competitors: other developers trying to get their products in the hands of receptive audiences. Except in this case, most of those developers are themselves addicted to what some call the “World of Warcrack.”

2009 December 2–8, Ben Richardson, “No escape from Azeroth”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 44, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, page 23, columns 1–2:

“And it’s a crack addiction.” Everybody stared. “World of Warcrack, that is,” Chip said, and smiled. / “Wait,” Tracy said. “They locked you up for a video game addiction?”

2013, Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin, A Really Awesome Mess, New York, N.Y.: Egmont USA, →ISBN, page 124:

As usual, Ryan was playing World of Warcrack, as Mom called it. The most addictive computer game ever created, where kids with no lives have names like Worgen and are always leveling up.

2014, Mitchell Kriegman, Being Audrey Hepburn, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 4:

Brandon’s parents also made their home a “screen free zone” replacing “World of Warcrack” with a cooking class, the Percy Jackson book series, yard work, a chemistry set, and a soccer league.

2014, David Altshuler, Love the Kid You Get. Get the Kid You Love., Langley Press, →ISBN, page 175:

The improvements it made to the EQ [EverQuest] template were noticed, and players around the globe became absorbed by what was being termed ‘the World Of Warcrack’. It ate up lives and players became devoted to their guilds, their levelling friends and their online avatars.

2019 October 31, Adam Barnes, “World Of Warcraft”, in Retro Gamer, number 200, Bournemouth, Dorset: Future Publishing Limited, →ISSN, pages 80–81:

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


Morven

A variant of the place name Morvern, from Scottish Gaelic A' Mhorbhairne, meaning "the sea gap" or "the big gap".

A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.


Ecce Mono

By replacing Latin homō (“man”) of ecce homō (“behold the man”) with Spanish mono (“monkey”).

The heartfelt but awful result was described as “a furry alien Neanderthal,” “Ewok Jesus,” and, ultimately, “Ecce Mono” (Behold the Monkey). Martínez’s descendants and the church were distressed, but the story endeared the world to “Ecce Mono.”

2013, Sarah Janssen, editor, The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2013, New York, N.Y.: World Almanac® Books, Infobase Learning, →ISBN:

“That’s what people call it. The worst restoration job ever. Un fracaso. The old woman says the priest gave her permission. He denies it. They are bringing in experts to see if it can be saved. The piece is an Ecce Homo. Behold the man. But people now call it Ecce Mono. Behold the monkey.” […] “That’s why you took me to the Ecce Mono. You didn’t just happen to stop in my café. Gonzáles sent you. You never cared about me, you were keeping an eye on the mask. That’s why you’re here now. Not for me. For the mask.”

2016, Lili Wright, Dancing with the Tiger, London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, pages 207 and 278:

Split-screens of the mural before and after the ‘restoration’ tickled the funny bone of people worldwide, who dubbed it ‘Ecce Mono’ (behold the monkey) and ‘the Beast Christ’.

[2017 August, Secret Marvels of the World: 360 Extraordinary Places You Never Knew Existed and How to Find Them, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN:

Jimnénez’s^([sic]) restoration, which, to be fair, looks nothing like Martínez’s original, was immediately mocked around the world with the monikers Monkey Christ or Ecce Mono.

[2018, Jeffrey Taylor, Visual Arts Management (Mastering Management in the Creative and Cultural Industries), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

Giménez, an elderly amateur artist, botched the intervention so badly that mockers have dubbed the painting Ecce Mono (“Behold the monkey”).

[2019, Bradley Jersak, A More Christlike Way: A More Beautiful Faith, Pasadena, Calif.: Plain Truth Ministries, →ISBN:

So popular was Giménez’s handiwork, that budget airline Ryanair offered special flight deals to nearby Zaragoza, for those wanting to make the pilgrimage to see Ecce Homo. The purists amongst us will question why so many are visiting. We know the answer—to have a laugh and take a ‘selfie’ with Ecce Mono (Behold the Monkey) as Martinez’s^([sic]) painting is often now referred to as.

2019, Penelope Jackson, “She Vandals”, in Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 73:

(derogatory, humorous) A nickname for the ecce homo (depiction of Jesus with a crown of thorns) in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain, a fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martínez and attempted to be restored by Cecilia Giménez, an untrained amateur artist, in 2012.


Aoibhinn

Borrowed from Irish Aoibhinn, from aoibhinn (“delightful; blissful”).


missing time

The report of abduction, the memory loss, the missing time, and the shape of the UFO are all familiar to UFO investigators, for this is not an isolated episode.

1978, Brad Steiger, Alien Meetings, page 168:

We have already seen how the victims of UFO abductions seem to have 'missing time' - sometimes they have no memories of several hours of their lives.

1984, John Rimmer, The Evidence for Alien Abductions, page 45:

There were two to three hours of missing time in their return trip for which neither of them could account.

1991, David Allen Lewis, UFO: End-Time Delusion:

Hopkins describes "missing time" as a time lapse of approximately two hours, after which the abductee can consciously remember little or nothing of the experience.

1996, Angela Hague, David Lavery, Marla Cartwright (editors), Deny All Knowledge, Reading the X-Files, page 8:

While Johnson doesn't display many of the indications of alien abduction, he does have a period of missing time which can be absolutely verified, unlike most abductees' cases.

1999, Chris A. Rutkowski, Abductions and Aliens - What's Really Going On, page 153:

According to Zerbe, while he and his team were out at the crash site, they experienced a period of what in alien abduction terminology has become known as missing time.

2018, Nick Redfern, Top Secret Alien Abduction Files, What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know, page 127:

(psychology, parapsychology, ufology) A time period of amnesia or a gap in conscious memory reported by individuals who have experienced alien abduction.


Smyrnaean

Smyrnaeans (plural)
Smyrnæan (alternative)
Smyrnean (alternative)

(demonym) A native or inhabitant of (ancient) Smyrna. Contrast Smyrniot.


Toda

A Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu, India.


West Bird's Head

A language family whose members are spoken in the west of Bird's Head peninsula in West Papua


South Bird's Head

A language family whose members are spoken in the south of Bird's Head peninsula in West Papua


Piapoco

An Arawakan language of Colombia and Venezuela.


Teka

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


Nuosu

A Loloish language, considered the prestige language of the Yi people, primarily spoken in Sichuan, China.


Busuu

An endangered or extinct language spoken in Cameroon.


Nicander

Borrowed from Latin Nicander, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Νίκανδρος (Níkandros). Cognate with French Nicandre.

A male given name from Latin Nicander [in turn from Ancient Greek Νίκανδρος (Níkandros)].


SETF

Social Exclusion Task Force
w:Social Exclusion Task Force

(UK politics, historical) Initialism of Social Exclusion Task Force.


Longjia

A Sino-Tibetan language of Guizhou, China.


Caijia

An endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken in an area centred on Bijie, in the west of the Chinese province of Guizhou.


scary devil monastery

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-scary devil monastery.wav

I pull on a fresh pair of black heans, a faded Scary Devil Monastery tee shirt, and a pair of rubber-soled socks: I feel much better immediately. It's as if my brain is slowly rebooting, just like the Media Center PC.

2010, The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross:

(Internet slang, humorous) The newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery.


Raizal

A member of an Afro-Caribbean ethnic group from the province of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina in Colombia


Kolami

A Dravidian language spoken in the Maharashtra and Telangana states of India.


Konda-Dora

a Dravidian language spoken in the Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states of India.


Mewati

An Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Meo people.


Evangelina

/ɪvænd͡ʒəˈliːnə/

A female given name originating as a coinage.


Phinny

A diminutive of the male given name Phineas.


Ginger Line

In reference to its orange colour on maps (resembling ginger hair); named as though it were one of the London Underground lines.

[…] take the Ginger Line overground from Canada Water to Penge West. So you'll be getting off the Tube, and taking the train. I know you're American, but can you remember that?

2015, Orren Merton, The Dawning of Firebird Alex:

(UK, humorous, slang) The London Overground railway network.


Ollari

Ollaro (alternative)
Hallari (alternative)
Allar (alternative)

A Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.


Duruwa

A Dravidian language spoken in the Odisha and Chhattisgarh states of India.


From Au and H₂O being the chemical formulae for gold and water, respectively.

A campaign poster […] reads: "AUH2O in MCMLXIV."

1962 May 24, “Sign for Egghead Conservatives”, in Lakeland Ledger:

Were I AuH₂O, I would be a little more careful about the verbiage I scatter like water […] over the political scene.

1966, Herbert Faulkner West, The Impecunious Amateur Looks Back:

Ron had [the desk] custom made from a laminated campaign sign proclaiming "Goldwater in '64". Attached […] and laminated [was] the famous bumper sticker "AuH2O", a must for Arizona Republicans during Barry's run[.]

2001, Edward Alexander McKenzie, Scorpion's Sting:


Ashtabulan

Ashtabulan (comparative more Ashtabulan, superlative most Ashtabulan)

more Ashtabulan (comparative)
most Ashtabulan (superlative)


Cherri

A female given name from English, variant of Cherry.


Nazila

Nazila Fathi, b. 1970


Oirat

Elet (alternative)
Elut (alternative)
Oird (alternative)


Chatty G

/t͡ʃætiː ˈd͡ʒiː/

Clipping of ChatGPT (separated into two words) + -y.

Generative AI is advancing at a fast pace and quickly finding a place within education. Tools such as ChatGPT (or Chatty G as the kids say) continue to dominate conversations in education as these technologies are explored and developed.

[2024 February 5, Tamika Worrell, “Generative AI in the classroom risks further threatening Indigenous inclusion in schools”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-02-09:


Spenny

A diminutive of the male given name Spencer.


Russian Sign Language

A sign language used by deaf people in Russian-speaking countries.


sixpenny bit

sixpenny bits (plural)
sixpenny-bit (alternative)

(historical) Former (pre-decimalisation) British and Irish coins worth six old pennies.


Nethalp

An East Santo language spoken on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu.


Hisatsinom

Unadapted borrowing from Hopi Hisatsinom. Literally Ancient People.

ubor

Meronyms: Motisinom, Palatkwapi clans


Palatkwapi clans

Holonym: Hisatsinom

Ancestors of the Hopi people who migrated from Mesoamerica.


Sheana

Sheana Davis, b. 1969


Neha

Borrowed from Hindi नेहा (nehā). Doublet of snow.

A female given name from Hindi, of mainly Indian usage.


Navarro-Aragonese

(historical) A Romance language once spoken in a large part of the Ebro River basin, south of the middle Pyrenees.


Tetty

(archaic) A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.


Ardentric

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


Moonite

(science fiction) An inhabitant of the Moon.


Bathhouse Barry

From rumors that Obama spent a lot of time in Chicago's gay bathhouses. First use appears c. 2011 online.

(US politics, slang, derogatory, humorous) Nickname for Barack Obama.


Ruthy

A diminutive of the female given name Ruth.


DSIT

w:Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

(UK politics) Initialism of Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.


Turkuan

[Turku] was, as Turkuans can also be counted upon to tell you, the capital of the Finnish province during the long, four century period of Swedish rule.

2001, Scandinavian Review, The American-Scandinavian Foundation:


Espoonian

I got one Espoonian and one Vantaanian together and I asked them which town was better and why. The Vantaanian started the discussion with the captivating phrase that I later learned is known by all Vantaanians. “Blah blah blah Vantaa,” he said. “Blah Vantaa good, blah blah Espoo blah bad.”

2008 September 9, Joe McVeigh, “Espoo vs. Vantaa”, in BTSB: Better Than Sliced Bread (blog), archived from the original on 2024-05-25:

[W]hether you are a Helsinkian, an Espoonian or from further afield, I hope you'll give both parkruns a go.

2021 October 27, puolarmaari, “Run report #2”, in parkrun (blog), archived from the original on 2024-05-25:


Maltenglish

Synonym of Manglish (“mixture of Maltese and English”)


Classical Persian

A chronolect of the New Persian language beginning from Islamization and Arabization around 650 CE or 850 CE if Early New Persian is not included till at least the 16th century and likely early 19th century including 15th—19th century post-classical Persian.

klassinen persia

the Persian literate chronolect between Middle and Contemporary Persian


Elephant's Foot

Calque of Russian Слоно́вья нога́ (Slonóvʹja nogá), in reference to its bulky mass and wrinkled appearance which resembles the foot of an elephant.

clq

Слоно́вья нога́

A large mass of corium beneath the remains of Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was produced by its meltdown during the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.


Netanyahoo

(derogatory, politics) Nickname for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician.


Central Min

Partial calque of Chinese 閩中語 /闽中语 (mǐnzhōngyǔ).

pclq

A variety of Min Chinese spoken in central Fujian province, China.


Hagenaar

I went to a concert in the Zoological Gardens at the Hague, and thence to supper at one of the principal cafés. The waiters did not begin to worry us at a quarter to eleven, and by half-past twelve, when we left, the streets were still alive with people. Alive, not noisy, for the sense of the founder of the Dutch Republic appears to have been inherited by the nation generally, and by the Hagenaars especially. William the Silent, two of whose effigies adorn the royal residence, was neither silent nor taciturn, in spite of the adjectives tacked to his name.

1895 June 22, “Anecdotal Europe. By the Author of ‘An Englishman in Paris.’”, in The Illustrated London News, volume CVI, number 2931, London, page 774, column 2:

Her sallies, carried right into the enemy’s citadel thus, plucking at the heart of his conceits, gave Tante Lotje quite a notoriety in The Hague. The Hagenaars looked upon her through their quizzing-glasses as a curiosity that matched well with her brother, the General—a prickly hero, bred on the pure, gross national stock; and tolerated her accordingly.

1899 February, “Tante Lotje”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, section I, pages 290–291:

And the Utrechters, after they were whisked round their beautiful Singel, and even through the noble bosky alley of the Maliebaan, were only restrained from an intolerable upsettingness by the gibes of the Hagenaars at the old horse-express, now departed, which survived for a time to ply a raucous and tortuous course around their Dom.

1911, D[avid] S[torrar] Meldrum, “Shades of the Rapenburg”, in Home Life in Holland, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 303:

When Hendrik arrived in The Hague, he brought greetings from her father to Doerga. Since then, they had been seen constantly together, and the Hagenaars began to whisper about the possibility of a marriage, just as they did about Louise and Adriaan.

1947, Lilla van Saher, chapter 11, in The Echo, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc., part two, page 144:

Next day, in the presence of the States, he [William of Orange] took the oath as Captain-General, and returned his thanks for the honour “with a winning modesty”. He went out to meet a delirious ovation. The Hagenaars, who long ago had thronged about the Groote Kerk “as if they all wanted to be christened with him”, were out in their thousands, reinforced by visitors from the neighbouring towns and villages.

1962, Nesca A[deline] Robb, “Prelude to Fame”, in William of Orange: A Personal Portrait, volume 1 (1650–1673), London: Heinemann, book four (The Crucible 1671–1673), page 210:

The palace was only seven miles from The Hague, overlooking the Westland dunes, and the drive out to it was a popular excursion for Hagenaars and foreign visitors.

1973, Henri van der Zee, Barbara van der Zee, “Mary in Holland”, in William and Mary, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 130–131:

In case you wonder, no, there is no trace whatsoever of nouvelle cuisine influencing this establishment. It is as impervious to passing fashions as are the strictly protected eighteenth-century buildings which make up most of the Lange Voorhout. On both counts, the conservatism of the Hagenaars wins our heartfelt gratitude.

1988, Alan Davidson, “A Dutch Treat”, in A Kipper With My Tea: Selected Food Essays, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, part one (A Personal Miscellany), page 19:

In late May, just as [Arthur] Seyss-Inquart was about to begin his defence, Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister, appeared in The Hague to give a speech before the reactivated Dutch legislature. Hagenaars cheered to see the man attached to the voice that had promised them deliverance when they were occupied and had – in concert with the United States army – made good on that promise.

2004, Gordon F. Sander, “To See the Sky”, in The Frank Family That Survived: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey, London: Arrow Books, The Random House Group Limited, published 2005, part five (Safe Harbour/Holland, USA, 1945–49), page 247:


Imperial Aramaic

Designated imperial for the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid Empires.

(broad sense: sociolinguistics) The chronolect of the Aramaic language (mid-8th century–late 4th century BCE), intermediate between Old Aramaic and Middle Aramaic, that was used as a language of public life and administration in the late Neo-Assyrian Empire (from the reign of King Tiglath-Pileser III [r. 745–727 BCE] onward), the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the Achaemenid Empire, until the latter’s conquest by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE.

𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀

chronolect of Aramaic (745–330 BC) used by the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid Empires


Rayonna

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


Ireima

Ileima (alternative)
Eleima (alternative)
Ereima (alternative)
Eeleima (alternative)
Eereima (alternative)


Cirroc

Cirroc Lofton, b. 1978


Bilhorod People's Republic

Calque of Ukrainian Бі́лгородська наро́дна респу́бліка (Bílhorodsʹka naródna respúblika), which in turn was based on Ukrainian Луга́нська наро́дна респу́бліка (Luhánsʹka naródna respúblika, “Luhansk People's Republic”) or Ukrainian Доне́цька наро́дна респу́бліка (Donécʹka naródna respúblika, “Donetsk People's Republic”).

calque

Бі́лгородська наро́дна респу́бліка

der

Луга́нська наро́дна респу́бліка

Доне́цька наро́дна респу́бліка

Belgorod People's Republic (alternative)
BPR (alternative)

(humorous, Internet slang) "Bilhorod People's Republic"; a fictional quasi-state located in Belgorod, southern Russia.


Teena

Teena had grown up in Ballyroan, the fourth youngest of 13.

2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 17:


Borisism

Boris Johnson, in typical faux-naif Borisism, said once of his leadership ambitions that he might "pick up the ball if it came loose from the back of the scrum".

2014 August 6, Patrick Wintour, “Boris Johnson positions himself perfectly for Tory leadership bid”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The day after his arrival in Birmingham, in the conference hall, he crammed his speech with Borisisms.

2019, Harry Mount, The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

Sharp says there was no such conflict, echoed by Johnson himself, who minted a Borisism specially for the occasion: “I can tell you that for 100% ding-dang sure.”

2023 January 27, Jonathan Freedland, “The stench coming from this government? It’s the corrupt mixture of private wealth and public squalor”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK politics) A turn of phrase employed by British politician Boris Johnson.


Moscow-on-Thames

An allusion to various English towns called (name)-on-Thames.

(derogatory, humorous) The city of London, seen as a haven for Russian exiles and oligarchs.


Simlish

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language designed by Will Wright for the video game franchise The Sims.


Proto-Basque

The reconstructed ancestor of the Basque language, spoken in roughly Ancient Roman times.


Ramie

Ramie Dowling, b. 1921


Polydorus

From Latin Polydoros/Polydorus, itself from Ancient Greek Πολύδωρος (Polúdōros).

A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage.


Snob Hill

[…]and the hill itself was called Snob Hill, a term that survives to this day. By 1882 so many estates had sprung up on Nob Hill that Robert Louis Stevenson called it “the hill of palaces.”

[2019, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's San Francisco: with the Best of Napa & Sonoma, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:


Dilrukshi

Transliteration of Sinhalese දිල්රුක්ෂි (dilrukṣi).

translit

Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe

දිල්රුක්ෂි දිල්රුක්ෂි#Sinhalese

A transliteration of the Sinhalese female given name දිල්රුක්ෂි (dilrukṣi).


Ranil

Transliteration of Sinhalese රනිල් (ranil).

Ranil Wickremesinghe, b. 1949

රනිල් රනිල්#Sinhalese

A transliteration of the Sinhalese male given name රනිල් (ranil).


New South Welshman

en-noun

New South Welshman (plural New South Welshmen)

(uncommon) A resident of New South Wales


South Australian

South Australian (plural South Australians)

An inhabitant or resident of South Australia.


Sunshine Coaster

en-proper noun

Sunshine Coaster (plural Sunshine Coasters)

An inhabitant or resident of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland


Toowoomban

An inhabitant or resident of Toowoomba, Queensland


Townsvillean

An inhabitant or resident of Townsville, Queensland


Townsvillian

“As a proud Townsvillian, I’m passionate about providing positive, healthy female role models to our community and am honoured to be able to take on this role and build on the outstanding successes of the club to date.”

2019 March 14, “Fire unveil new GM”, in Townsville Fire:

“Mates Rates has been a great opportunity for Townsvillians to grab a great deal to get out and explore their own backyard while also supporting local businesses.

2024 February 20, “Townsville recovery campaign sells out in three days”, in Queensland Government:

An inhabitant or resident of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.


Cairnsite

An inhabitant or resident of Cairns, Queensland


Launcestonian

An inhabitant or resident of Launceston, Tasmania


Geelongite

(obsolete, Australia) An inhabitant or resident of Geelong, Victoria.


Gosfordian

An inhabitant or resident of Gosford, New South Wales


Central Coaster

en-noun

Central Coaster (plural Central Coasters)

An inhabitant or resident of the Central Coast, New South Wales


Mackayite

An inhabitant or resident of Mackay, Queensland


Rockhamptonian

An inhabitant or resident of Rockhampton, Queensland


Bundabergian

An inhabitant or resident of Bundaberg, Queensland


Kotoxó

Catethoy (alternative)
Cotoxo (alternative)
Kotosho (alternative)
Kutasho (alternative)

An extinct Macro-Jê language of Bahia, Brazil.


Shilluk

A member of a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group residing in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the Nile River in Malakal.


Shilluk

(historical) A kingdom dominated by the Shilluk people, located along the left bank of the White Nile in what is now South Sudan and southern Sudan, and existing from perhaps the late 15th century until the early 1860s.


Kusaal

A Gur language spoken primarily in northeastern Ghana and Burkina Faso.


Sillok

A Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Sillok people.


Yumana

Jumana (alternative)
Ximana (alternative)
Xomana (alternative)


Jenu Kurumba

Jen Kurumba (alternative)
Jennu Kurumba (alternative)

A Southern Dravidian language of the Tamil–Kannada subgroup.


Megyn

A female given name from Welsh, modern variant of Megan.