child’s play

Controlling the device was child’s play for her.

Commander l’appareil était un jeu d’enfant pour elle.


sound barrier

Chuck Yeager was the first to break the sound barrier.


on watch

Who is the office on watch tonight?


holler

to holler (infinitive)
hollers (present third-person singular)
hollered (preterite)
hollered (participle past)
hollering (participle present)

He hollered at the top of his lungs.

The sergeant hollered at the troops to shape up.


holler

the holler tree


crystallised

crystallised sugar, crystallised idea


crystallized

crystallized sugar, crystallized idea


pilfer

(Environ 1548) Du moyen anglais pilfre (« butin »).

to pilfer (infinitive)
pilfers (present third-person singular)
pilfered (preterite)
pilfered (participle past)
pilfering (participle present)

Though Kaspersky Lab consistently denied any direct involvement in helping Russian intelligence agencies to pilfer sensitive secrets, the United States government banned federal agencies from using Kaspersky antivirus software over spying fears.

Bien que Kaspersky Lab ait constamment nié toute contribution directe visant à aider les services de renseignements russes à chaparder des secrets sensibles, le gouvernement des États-Unis a interdit aux organismes fédéraux d'utiliser l'antivirus Kaspersky, par crainte d'espionnage.

MohitKumar, Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home, The Hacker News, 25 septembre 2018


be mother

Ah, here are the cakes and tea; shall I be mother?

They went to a cafe and had afternoon tea.
'Shall l be mother?' Marcus said, lifting a utilitarian brown teapot, all cosied up in something that looked like a bobble hat.

Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?, page 277, 2009

Be mother, will you, Charity? Teile and Letizia have a watered-down version.'
So they had a pleasant tea, although Charity kept an anxious eye on the clock, keen not to outstay her welcome.


bankster

(XIXᵉ siècle) Mot-valise de banker et gangster (sur le modèle d'autres mots anglais comme fraudster, trickster, huckster).

Business: Bankster Jailed


dystopia

\ˈdɪsˌtəʊpɪiə\

\ˈdɪsˌtəʊpɪiə\

The patient suffers from adrenal dystopia.


mindset

Earth Day is a way of propagating and celebrating the environmentalist mindset.

Le Jour de la Terre est un moyen de propager et de célébrer la mentalité écologiste.


superego

The childish, immature, or neurotic superego is rigid; it is characterized by slavish adherence to rules which, moreover, may not be clearly understood. The mature or normal superego, on the other hand, is flexible; it can evaluate the situation at hand and modify the rules accordingly.

Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., The Myth of Mental Illness, 1974


nondescript

more nondescript (comparative)
most nondescript (superlative)

He was of Henderson’s age, totally nondescript, not tall or short, portly or thin, his hair a neutral brown and of medium length, wearing glasses that might or might not have held prescription lenses.


herdsman

The savage herdsmen and the fierce-looking peasants who had chequered the way while the light lasted, had all gone down with the sun, and left the wilderness blank.

Les bergers sauvages et les paysans farouches, dont la présence avait varié la monotonie de la route tant que le jour avait duré, s’étaient tous couchés avec le soleil, laissant le désert vide.


throng

(Environ 1300) Du vieil anglais geþrang.

Resolute and wild of look, rapid of foot and yet weak and uncertain, conspicuously dressed in its black garments and with its hurried head-covering, gaunt and of an unearthly paleness, it pressed forward, taking no more heed of the throng than a sleep-walker.

L’air résolu, mais effaré, aussi pâle et aussi maigre qu’un spectre, elle s’avançait d’un pas rapide, quoique faible et incertain, dans son antique costume tout noir, avec son étrange coiffure, sans faire plus d’attention qu’une somnambule aux nombreux passants.


throng

to throng (infinitive)
throngs (present third-person singular)
thronged (preterite)
thronged (participle past)
thronging (participle present)

Each year, bottlenose dolphins throng the coves.


saunterer

Saunterers pricked up their attention to observe it;

Les flâneurs s’arrêtaient pour la voir passer.


saunter

Peut-être du moyen anglais santren (muser)

to saunter (infinitive)
saunters (present third-person singular)
sauntered (preterite)
sauntered (participle past)
sauntering (participle present)

Once our ancestors got moving on two legs, they kept on walking, and that journey has continued right up to today. In a lifetime, the average person will take about 150 million steps—enough to circle Earth three times. We stroll, stride, plod, traipse, amble, saunter, shuffle, tiptoe, lumber, tromp, lope, strut and swagger. After walking all over someone, we might be asked to walk a mile in their shoes. Heroes walk on water, and geniuses are walking encyclopedias. But rarely do we humans think about walking. It has become, you might say, pedestrian. The fossils, however, reveal something else entirely. Walking is anything but ordinary. Instead it is a complex, convoluted evolutionary experiment that began with humble apes taking their first steps in Miocene forests and eventually set hominins on a path around the world.

Jeremy DeSilva, “Walks of Life”, Scientific American, vol. 327, no. 5, novembre 2022, pages 72-81


-free

De free from (« exempt de, libéré de »).

Sans, ne contenant pas. Exempt de, libéré de.

Sugar-free chocolate.

A duty-free shop.


Bantu

(1862) De l’allemand Bantu attesté en 1850 chez le linguiste allemand Wilhelm Bleek, apparenté au xhosa abantu (« gens, humanité ») pluriel de umntu avec le préfixe pluriel ba-.

Bantu languages.

Bantu peoples.


Bantu

The Hottentot is one of three tribes of South Africa which may be divided - Bantus, Hottentots, and Bushmen.

ACT to amend the Marriage Act, 1961, so as to assign the administration of the provisions thereof in respect of any Bantu in the Republic and any member of any of the native nations in the territory of South-West Africa to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development.

Marriage Amendment Act, 1970 enacted by the Parliament of South Africa


Bantu

BANTU LANGUAGES. The greater part of Africa south of the equator possesses but one linguistic family so far as its native inhabitants are concerned. This clearly-marked division of human speech has been entitled the Bantu, a name invented by Dr W. H. I. Bleek, and it is, on the whole, the fittest general term with which to designate the most remarkable group of African languages.

«Bantu Languages », dans Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911

The total number of Bantu speakers is estimated to be around 350 million in 2015 (roughly 30% of the population of Africa).

Bantu languages sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


furl

to furl (infinitive)
furls (present third-person singular)
furled (preterite)
furled (participle past)
furling (participle present)

furl the sails


look out for

Stand here, and look out for intruders.


paucity

Du français moyen paucité, du latin paucitas

Trump’s reluctance to commit to a new strategy to this point has reflected the paucity of good options.

La réticence de Trump à décider d'une nouvelle stratégie à ce moment est le reflet du manque de bonnes options.

Trump’s ‘strategy’ on Afghanistan: Let the next president figure it out, Washington Post, 2017-08


fasciculus

Petit faisceau de nerfs, muscles, ou fibres du tendon.

The seeds have been used to develop arcuate and superior longitudinal fasciculi in (A) and (B), for brainstem, and corona radiata in (C), and as combined data sets in (D).

Tractography sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


rheum

Chassie, écoulement aqueux ou mince de sérum ou de mucus, en particulier dans les yeux ou le nez.

He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum.

James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 102), 1916


sparingly

Extra blank lines may be used (sparingly) to separate groups of related functions.


nomophobe

(Sens 1) Dérivé de nomo-, du grec ancien νόμος, nomos (« loi ») et -phobe, du grec ancien φόβος, phobos (« peur, effroi »).

Personne qui déteste ou qui a peur d’être privée de l’usage de son téléphone mobile.

Losing a smartphone or being unable to get online can make a nomophobe very stressed and uncomfortable, and that itself can be a symptom of an addiction to technology.

Perdre un smartphone ou ne pas pouvoir se connecter peut rendre un nomophobe très stressé et mal à l'aise, et cela peut être en soi un symptôme d'une dépendance à la technologie.

Olivia Rahim, « Mobile Device Separation Anxiety Is a Growing Problem », article contenu dans Does the Internet Increase Anxiety? (sous la direction de Tamara Thompson), Greenhaven Press, 2016, page 11


Asa

Asa Butterfield.


baseline

A SQL plan baseline name was specified that did not exist.


MBD

Dynamique des systèmes multicorps, c'est-à-dire étude dynamique prenant en compte les mouvements relatifs de différentes pièces du système étudié, typiquement dans des mécanismes.

In some cases, MBD has become a multi-physics multi-scale analysis, comprising contact mechanics, tribo-dynamics, terramechanics, thermodynamics, biomechanics, etc.

Dans certains cas, la simulation dynamique des systèmes multicorps nécessite une analyse multiphysique et multiéchelle, prenant en compte des contacts mécaniques, la tribo-dynamique, l’interaction roues-sol, la thermodynamique, la biomécanique, etc.

H. Rahnejat, P.M. Johns-Rahnejat, N. Dolatabadi, R. Rahmani, « Multi-body dynamics in vehicle engineering », dans Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14644193231181666 texte intégral

Since the main advantage of the meta-model is the enhancement of computational efficiency in returning solutions, the modeling would be beneficial for solving highly complex MBD problems in a short time.

L’avantage principal du méta-modèle étant l’amélioraiton de l’efficacité calculatoire pour renvoyer une solution, la modélisation permettrait de résoudre des problèmes hautement complexes de dynamique de systèmes multicorps en un temps réduit.

H.S. Choi, J. An, S. Han, « Data-driven simulation for general-purpose multibody dynamics using Deep Neural Networks », dans Multibody System Dynamics http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11044-020-09772-8 texte intégral


splatter

to splatter (infinitive)
splatters (present third-person singular)
splattered (preterite)
splattered (participle past)
splattering (participle present)

When I dropped the food into the frying pan, the cooking oil splattered, and stained my shirt.


St

Par (Abréviation) de :
:* (Sens 1) street
:* (Sens 2) state
:* (Sens 3) saint
:* (Sens 4) strait
:* (Sens 5) stratus

En anglais, contrairement au français, St pour Saint est utilisé également pour les deux sexes ; le tiret n’est jamais utilisé en anglais.

Scuffles at Occupy Wall St protest.

titre d’article, BBC News,1ᵉʳ janvier 2012

Downing St admits blunder on Iraq dossier

titre d’article, The Guardian, guardian.co.uk, 8 février 2003

Thus, for example, consider the sentence ‘Mrs Thatcher is in Downing St’.

GrahaPriest, Beyond the Limits of Thought, 2002, p. 17

In St Petersburg, Russia, an underground arts movement is challenging the zeitgeist of greed, turning old buildings into creative utopias.

« An art revolution in St Petersburg », The Guardian, guardian.co.uk, 3 aout 2012


vitriolic

The language during the political campaign had become vitriolic.


upheaval

During the severe winter, there was an upheaval of part of the road, as the frozen earth underneath it expanded.

The theory of tectonic plates talks about the upheaval of the Himalayas as the Indian subcontinent rammed into Asia.


zillion

Créé à partir de million, billion, trillion avec un z- initial qui n’est pas utilisé pour le sens d’un chiffre.

Très grande quantité, non précisément déterminée.

We are certainly not blaming lower socioeconomic families for not talking to their kids - there are probably a zillion reasons why that happens.

Nous ne reprochons certainement pas aux familles socio-économiques défavorisées de ne pas parler à leurs enfants - il y a probablement un milliard de raisons pour lesquelles cela se produit.

Brain tests show child wealth gap, publié dans BBC News, 6 Décembre 2008


pomp and circumstances

The coronation was accompanied by a lot of pomp and circumstances.


Liebestod

She saw how his jaw began to slaver and the room was full of the clamour of the forest’s Liebestod but the wise child never flinched, even when he answered: All the better to eat you with.

Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves (1979), in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Penguin Books, 1993 (et de nombreuses autres anthologies et éditions)


Kipper

Acronyme de kid invading parents' pockets, eroding retirement savings.

Tanguy, jeune adulte qui persiste à vouloir habiter avec ses parents.

The Kipper rises from bed at the last possible moment, arrives at the breakfast table, where it may or may not speak, and then speeds off to work.

Is there a Kipper in the house? The Telegraph


buff

De buffe (« cuir »), du moyen français buffle.

Une personne très intéressée par un sujet particulier, un enthousiaste.

He’s a history buff.

TOES analysis determined that the maximum in-train buff force was 1895 kips on the occurrence train.

L’analyse au moyen du logiciel TOES a permis de déterminer que les forces maximales de compression des attelages ont été de 1895 kips dans le train en cause dans l’événement.


buff

buffer (comparative)
buffest (superlative)

The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.

Le videur était un gorille balèze et tatoué, à la tête rasée et au visage menaçant.


farcically

De farcical « ridicule » (voir farce en français), avec le suffixe -ly formant un adverbe.

“Violent incidents and ethnic tensions in Xinjiang have been on the rise in recent years, but the government’s farcically repressive policies and punishments are hardly solutions.”

Sophie Richardson, citée dans China bans Islamic baby names in Muslim majority Xinjiang province,The Independant, avril 2017


gabber

→ voir gab et -er.
Du néerlandais gabber.

hook in the gabber

; littéralement « mettre un crochet dans la blablateuse »

Personne aimant à parler de choses futiles. Beau parleur, blablateur.

But watching Smith — who is a gifted gabber, if nothing else — relay the pure joy felt when walking on the walkway (bridge? deck??) of the Millennium Falcon will make you feel like you are 9 again, ready to enjoy the magical wonder of the movies that was generated by films like Star Wars.

Sean O'Connell, Kevin Smith's 'Star Wars' Set Visit May Restore the Magic of Movies, mashable.com, 29 juillet 2014.


isotone

Evidence about the nature of the transition is provided by the observed proton numbers of the stable highest-Z isotones. A useful empirical rule is that the largest proton number for a set of stable isotones is equal to the neutron number of the mantle.

Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb, Linus Pauling: Physical sciences, 2001, citant Physical Review Lettersvol. 15, no. 22, 29 novembre 1965


ultrabook

D'Ultrabook, nom déposé par Intel, forgé à partir de book avec le préfixe ultra-.

The examples in this book were run on a Windows 7 and 8 ultrabook, through Python's portability makes this mostly a moot point, especially in this fundamentals-focused book.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, p. xlvii


itchy trigger finger

Tendance à agir dans la précipitation ou sans considération.

Given any remote chance to gun down an effective spokesman for conservative economics as a secret fascist and torturer, even Nobel laureates can, we see, succumb to an itchy trigger finger.


iid

Independent and identically distributed : indépendantes et identiquement distribuées.

However, it might be argued that, in the location shift form of the iid error model, quantile regression is really superfluous; in this case any reasonable estimator of the conditional central tendency of the response, given the covariates, is perfectly adequate.

Roger Koenker, Quantile Regression, 2005


mercenariate

The great numbers of mercenaries in Egypt, their permanent settlement, and their gradual adaptation to Egyptian society suggest that the Egyptian ase represents a particular type of mercenariate, different from the short-term employment usually associated with this phenomenon, and more comparable to the contemporaneous colonization movement.

Kurt A.Raaflaub, « Archaic Greek Aristocrats as Carriers of Cultural Interaction », dans Robert Rollinger et Christoph Ulf, Commerce and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World: Means of Transmission of Cultural Interaction, 2004


flunk

Altération de funk, ou peut-être un mélange de flinch et de funk.

to flunk (infinitive)
flunks (present third-person singular)
flunked (preterite)
flunked (participle past)
flunking (participle present)

He flunked math, again.


wash out

to wash out (infinitive)
washes out (present third-person singular)
washed out (preterite)
washed out (participle past)
washing out (participle present)

That stain will easily wash out.

The sandcastle was washed out by the tide.

The continuous rain washed out the cricket match.

Perdre de la traction durant un virage, en particulier dans le cyclisme, le sport automobile et le ski / snowboard.

The rider washed out around that last turn and hit a tree.


Gurkha

Gurkha signifierait <<disciple de Gorkhanath>>.

Membre d'une ethnie vivant sur le territoire actuel du Népal, réputée pour sa valeur guerrière et fournissant régulièrement des soldats à plusieurs armées étrangères, notamment l'armée britannique et l'armée indienne.

After the conflict with the British, Gurkhas have enjoyed considerable fame in various battlefields.


prosopagnosia

Apparemment dérivé du titre allemand d’un papier de 1947 du neurologiste Joachim Bodamer décrivant la maladie, intitulé Die Prosop-Agnosie, dérivé du grec ancien πρόσωπον, prosopon (« visage ») et ἀγνωσία, agnosia (« ignorance »).

\ˌpɹɒsəpaɡˈnəʊzɪə\

\ˌpɹɒsəpaɡˈnəʊsɪə\

\ˌpɹɒsəʊpaɡˈnəʊzɪə\

\ˌpɹɒsəʊpaɡˈnəʊzɪə\

\ˌpɹɑsoʊpæɡˈnoʊʒə\

"The extent to which this function [recognition of faces] has become specialized is revealed by a brain disorder called prospagnosia. A normal person can name someone from facial features alone, even if the features have changed substantially over the years. People with prosopagnosia are not able to make this association, but have few other neurological symptoms other than a loss of some part of the visual field."

Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, page 102, 1984


disappearer

Dérivé de disappear, avec le suffixe -er.

Wizards are rabbit disappearers.


that’s that

If you’ve been a council tenant for at least three years, you’ll have the right by law to buy your house and that’s that.

Si vous êtes locataire d’un logement social depuis au moins trois ans, vous aurez le droit selon la loi d’acheter votre maison et un point c’est tout.

Margaret Thatcher, Party Political Broadcast on housing and rates, 28 août 1974


leeway

When the target is likely to be missed, it provides no incentive for getting close to the target and it offers no leeway in case of unforeseen events.

Quand l’objectif est en passe d’être raté, cela n’incite pas à s’en rapprocher et ne procure pas de latitude en cas d’imprévus.

The World Bank and the post-Washington Concensus in Vietnam and Indonesia : inheritance of loss,Routledge, London, New York, 2010, 227 p. ISBN 978-0-415-54743-7, p. 102


foible

human foibles


slinky

Rather, we will pick up another 2500 slinkies (while waiting for our ant friend to complete the circuit) and attach them in such a way that the three meter doughnut, because its end won't quite meet.

The Lark, the Lemming, and the Owl: Traipse Through Perspicuity - Page 409, L. Jeffrey Young - 2009


Galilean

(1605-1615) Du latin Galilaea, composé de Galilee et du suffixe -an.

The Galilean moons are named after Galileo.


Galilean

A Galilean is a person from Galilee.


peace-loving

(Date à préciser) De peace (« paix ») et loving, participe présent du verbe to love (« aimer ») : littéralement donc, « aimant la paix ».

more peace-loving (comparative)
most peace-loving (superlative)

Finally with the help of the bracelet, Arthur defeated the demons. They will never arise to menace peace-loving people again.

Finalement avec l’aide du bracelet, Arthur vainquit les démons. Ils ne surgiront jamais plus pour menacer les gens pacifiques de nouveau.


ea.

Abréviation de each. Chacun. Note d’usage : Utilisé généralement après un nombre avec une unité.

$20 ea.

2 cartridges (50 ml ea.).

Pièce entière. Note d’usage : Utilisé quand on doit écrire une unité de mesure même pour les dénombrables.

GARNISH FOR GASPACHO PAILLETTES (CHEESE STICKS)
[…]
1 ea. egg yolk
½ oz. whole milk
1 ea. puff pastry sheet
2 oz. Parmesan cheese
tt Hungarian paprika

Al Meyer,The Working Garde Manger, 2012, ISBN 9781466592421, p. 31


bloodshot

(1545-1555) Apocope de blood-shotten ; voir blood (« sang ») et shotten (participe passé archaïque de to shoot).

more bloodshot (comparative)
most bloodshot (superlative)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bloodshot.wav

I am so tired I have bloodshot eyes.

Je suis si fatigué que j’en ai les yeux rougis.


avunculicide

Du latin avunculus (« oncle maternel »), avec le suffixe -cide.

Action de tuer son oncle (→ voir onclicide).

'Yes,' cried my uncle; 'and I can hardly pull my weight; besides which, the training would kill me; so, if you persist in your refusal, Bob, you will be guilty of avunculicide.'

James Payn, Mirk Abbey dans Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, William & Robert Chambers,4ᵉ série, nᵒ 106, 6 janvier 1866, page 10

In those days — which as a very old and very sick man, guilty of worse sins than avunculicide, he remembered with a grin of contempt — young Franz was oblivious to the corrosive probity of his pleasant daydreams about Dreyer's dropping dead.

En ce temps-là — que, vieillard accablé de maux, coupable de péchés pires que l’avunculicide, il évoquerait avec un rire dédaigneux —, le jeune Franz n’avait guère conscience de la corrosive probité de ces rêveries où il imaginait son oncle foudroyé par la mort. — (Vladimir Nabokov, traduction de Georges Magnane, Roi, Dame, Valet, Gallimard, 1971, page 150)

Vladimir Nabokov, King, Queen, Knave: a novel, McGraw Hill, New York, 1968, page 138


Kingston

Du vieil anglais, Cyngestun, équivalent ducomposé de king, ’s et town, littéralement « ville du roi ».

Jeff Kingston.


rangoli

Via le marathe, du sanskrit रङ्ग, raṅga (« couleur »).

In one corner of the room she had drawn an incredibly elaborate painting with rangoli powder of the Flautist and herself dancing the raas on the banks of the Jamuna.

Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, 2013


lamestream

Formé à partir de l'adjectif lame (ringard, miteux, pourri) et de mainstream (pratique de masse).

Relatif aux médias de masse ou à toute pratique culturelle de masse.

In something of a lamestream grudge match, Palin is guest-hosting “Today” while Couric does those chores on “Good Morning America.”

Frank Bruni, And Now, the Veepstakes, New York Times

Dude, did you listen to Green Day? That's so lamestream.

(Exemple dans Urban Dictionary, 1999-2025 → consulter cet ouvrage)


thoroughfare

Composé de through (« au travers ») et de fare (« voyage, aller »).

thoroughfares (plural)
thorough-fare
thoroughfair (obsolete)
thorowfair (obsolete)

“I ask you,” cried Lloyd George in 1909. “Are we to have all the ways of reform, financial and social, blocked simply by a notice board: ‘No thoroughfare. By order of Nathanial Rothschild’?”

Je vous demande, s’écria Lloyd George en 1909, tous les moyens de la réforme, financiers et sociaux, seront-ils bloqués par une simple affiche : « On ne passe pas. Par ordre de Nathanial Rothschild » ?

Frederic Morton, The Rothschilds, 1961, page 173

Grande rue ou route ouverte aux deux bouts ; rue principale, grand-rue ; artère.

a dozen houses were quickly blazing, including those of Sir John Fielding and two other justices, and four in Holborn – one of the greatest thoroughfares in London – which were all burning at the same time, and burned until they went out of themselves, for the people cut the engine hose, and would not suffer the firemen to play upon the flames.

Local art is now a viable industry, and hundreds of islanders make a living in it. The thoroughfare of Oneroa village is lined with shops and galleries full of their work.

L’art local est maintenant une industrie viable, et des centaines d’insulaires gagnent leur vie dedans. La grand-rue d’Oneroa village est bordée de boutiques et de galeries d’art pleines de leur travail.

Stephen Phelan, The Guardian,1ᵉʳ juillet 2011


Seth

Du latin Seth, du grec ancien Σήθ, Sếth, de l’hébreu ancien שֵׁת, Šet (« élu »).

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.


brass knuckles

The morning after the election I was attacked down the street by old man Sally, with brass knuckles, […] Then I was cut by George Moss and Mike Sally, and they struck me in the head with a brass knuckle, and then one came up and hit me […]

Congressional Edition, United States Congress, 1879

They were partial to roundhouse punches with brass knuckles and swipes with switchblades. Ripping the mirror off the wall, Bourne slammed its edge into a brass knuckle. The mirror cracked into a dozen shards, and Bourne grabbed […]

Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum’s™ The Bourne Dominion, 2011

After some careful analysis, I think brass knuckles are the new octopi, which were the new owls, which were the new sparrows. Check it out! There are about 200 different brass knuckle–related items on Etsy right now. Sell your stock in octopi and jump on the brass knuckles train.


frot

Du français frottage, on trouve aussi frottage et frotage en anglais.

Pratique sexuelle, ou deux hommes frottent l'un contre l'autre leur penis.

Frot is a slang term derived from frottage (from the French verb frotter, meaning “to rub”), describing a form of non-penetrative male/male sex that usually but not always involves direct penis-to-penis contact.

(traduction) Frot est un terme d'argot dérivé de frottage (du verbe français frotter), décrivant une forme de sexe entre hommes, non pénétrant, qui implique généralement, mais pas toujours, un contact direct de pénis contre pénis.

Jess C Scott, Matt Posner, Teen Guide to Sex and Relationships, éd. JessINK, 2012


floordrobe

Mot-valise composé de floor et de wardrobe.

Pity about the suit being covered in cat fur when I retrieved it from the floordrobe, but it was dark anyway.

Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season, Victory Books (2009),ISBN 9780522856958, page 127, 2002


splice

to splice (infinitive)
splices (present third-person singular)
spliced (preterite)
spliced (participle past)
splicing (participle present)

He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.


iffy

iffier (comparative)
iffiest (superlative)

The weather is still iffy for Saturday's shuttle launch.

Pas complètement bon, honnête ou adapté.

He's selling new CD players for £20 each – that sounds a bit iffy to me.


short-lived

shorter-lived (comparative)
shortest-lived (superlative)
shortlived

I do not mean to be alarmist, but complacency is dangerous. Any comfort derived from viewing things through rose-colored glasses will be short-lived.

RichardHaass, A World in Disarray, Penguins Book, 2018, p. 211


homely

Dérivé de home (« foyer, maison ») avec le suffixe -ly.

homelier (comparative)
homeliest (superlative)

Relatif à la maison. Qui a l’air d’une maison.

A cute and homely cottage.

Pas beau ou belle physiquement, en parlant d’une personne.

A homely girl.


smileyless

(XXIᵉ siècle)Dérivé de smiley, avec le suffixe -less.

Qui n’utilise pas de smiley (en particulier, mais pas seulement, dans sa signature).

Oh. Smileyless sarcasm. You bastard. :peace: :D

Ouh. Un sarcasme sans smiley. Espèce de salopard. :peace: :D


Kwale

The Angolan National Liberation Front (FNLA) declared in a communique distributed to us yesterday that the rivers that run through the liberated zones of northern Angola, in the Dange area, especially the Dange and Kwale rivers, haven been poisoned by more than 50 drums of “Tiodan” on the orders of the FAPLA high commands in Uíge.

Le Front national de libération de l’Angola (FNLA) a déclaré dans un communiqué qui nous a été distribué hier que les rivières coulant dans les zones libérées du nord de l’Angola, dans la région de Dange, particulièrement les rivières Dange et Kwale, ont été empoisonnées avec plus de 50 tonneaux de « Tiodan » sur les ordres des hauts commandements FAPLA à Uíge.

« FAPLA accused of poisoning », Sub-Saharan Africa report, numéros 22 à 27, 1984, p. 27


sell off

Vendre à prix sacrifié, dans le but de vendre rapidement ; brader.

When Cyril goes searching for his deadbeat father, he’s also looking for his bike, and he’s devastated to discover his dad sold it off to make ends meet.

Soctt Tobias, The Kid With A Bike [Review], 15 mars 2012


give the lie

Your conduct gives the lie to the good opinion that I had of you.

Vous démentez par votre conduite la bonne opinion que j’avais de vous.


cuckquean

Cocue, femme trompée par un homme infidèle.

Ye make hir a cookqueane.

John Heywood, The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562), edition Reprint, Spenser Society, published 1867,page 62, 1562

Yes, that’s her name! His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!

William Kirby, “Wierd Sisters”, in The Golden Dog, edition Repritnt, Fiction, Echo Library,ISBN 9781406853940, published 2009, page 289, 1897


bail out

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de bail et de out.

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de bail

Water was leaking into the boat, and we had to bail it out as quickly as possible.

De l’eau s’infiltrait dans le bateau, et nous devions l’écoper aussi vite que possible.

Se barrer, filer, se tirer, se casser. Note d’usage : Suivi de la préposition of.

I’ve had enough. I’m bailing out of here.


figment

Perhaps, dear reader, you are only a figment in the dream of some god, as Sherlock Holmes was a figment in the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.


commonwealth

Composé de common (« commun ») et de wealth (« richesse »).

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

A separate society, which attacked the established religion of the empire, was obliged to adopt some form of internal policy, and to appoint a sufficient number of ministers, intrusted not only with the spiritual functions, but even with the temporal direction, of the christian commonwealth.

Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. Westly and A. H. Davis, 1835, page 192


cymotrichous

Du grec ancien κῦμα, kūma (« vague ») et de τριχ- (trikh-, radical de θρίξ, thrix (« cheveu ») avec le suffixe -ous.

saɪˈmɒtɹɨkəs

The hair is cymotrichous: one had flat wavy hair, in 19 it was very wavy, and in 7 it was markedly curly.

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Man, Volumes 7-8,page 123, 1907


sell out

to sell out (infinitive)
sells out (present third-person singular)
sold out (preterite)
sold out (participle past)
selling out (participle present)

Vendre toute la marchandise qui est en réserve.

They sold out of concert posters yesterday and won't get another shipment until next week.

Ils ont 'vendu toutes' les affiches du concert hier et n'auront pas d'approvisionnement avant la semaine prochaine.

Se vendre : abandonner ses principes ou ses soutiens pour recherche un profit ou un avantage personnel.

It used to be a pleasant little community, until the leaders sold out to the developers.

C'était une petite communauté agréable, jusqu'à ce que les responsables se vendent aux développeurs.


atheophobia

Composé de atheo- (« a- + theo- ») et de -phobia.

At many institutions, I have found atheophobia to be rampant among students; and religiophobia to be common among faculty.

Nash, Robert J., “Inviting Atheists to the Table: A Modest Proposal for Higher Education”, Religion & Education, volume 30, number 1, DOI:10.1080/15507394.2003.10012315, ISSN 1550-7394, printemps 2003


counter to

She acted counter to the popular wisdom.


chlorpheniramine

Significant hypokalemia has been reported to occur in patients who take large amounts of cough medication that contains pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, chlorpheniramines, and promethazine.

Samir P. Desai, Clinician’s Guide to Laboratory Medicine, 2004, page 217


plangent

Du latin plangens, dérivé de plangere (« frapper, battre avec bruit »).

more plangent (comparative)
most plangent (superlative)

Retentissant (en parlant d’un son), ayant une voix forte.

Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.

Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 49, 1919


party pooper

Call me anti-social, call me a holiday-hater, call me Scrooge, call me a party-pooper—call me anything, but please don’t call me about a party you’re giving because I won’t come.

Robert Yoakum,"Scrooging up courage for a party", Eugene Register-Guardian, p. 11A, 19 décembre 1971

Still, it’s not something that any country can easily walk away from—not even a Bush administration that has made a habit of being the party pooper in international forums.

Tony Karon,"Who’s a Racist? Can a UN Conference Decide?" Time, 1 août 2001


time and again

Time and again the U.S. government would be reluctant to cast aside its neutrality and formally denounce a fellow state for its atrocities.

Encore et encore, le gouvernement des États-Unis serait réticent à mettre de côté sa neutralité et à dénoncer formellement un État tiers pour ses atrocités.

Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, 2003


mulligan

Don't do poorly in your first interview; you won't get a mulligan.

Ne sois pas mauvais lors de ton premier entretien ; tu n'auras pas de seconde chance.


-fold

Du moyen anglais, de l’anglo-saxon -feald, du proto-germanique -falþaz, du proto-indo-européen -poltos.

Fois, forme des adjectifs et des adverbes de multiples.

A threefold increase.

To increase threefold.

manifold

divers, varié ; de types ou qualités diverses ; multiple


much of a muchness

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-much of a muchness.ogg

Du pareil au même, bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet.

I don′t know which car to buy - they are all much of a muchness.

Je ne sais pas quelle voiture acheter - c′est du pareil au même.


𝕏

(2023) De , logo du réseau social représentant un X ajouré.

Réseau social de messagerie publique, Twitter/X.

It is vital to the support of free speech that you forward 𝕏 posts to people you know, especially in censorship-heavy countries

Il est vital pour la pérennité de la liberté d’expression que vous envoyiez des posts 𝕏 aux personnes que vous connaissez, notamment dans des pays gangrénés par la censure


naturism

In 1930, with a growing interest in the psychological and health benefits of naturism across Europe, the brothers created a resort they called Héliopolis, on the Île du Levant, off the coast of Hyères on the French riviera.

Tim Adams, The big picture: a nudist paradise in 1930s France by Pierre Audebert, The Guardian, 23 Juin 2024


misbehave

to misbehave (infinitive)
misbehaves (present third-person singular)
misbehaved (preterite)
misbehaved (participle past)
misbehaving (participle present)

Mal se conduire, agir ou se comporter d’une manière inappropriée, incorrecte ou inattendue.

He doesn’t mean to misbehave; he just doesn’t know better.


grab-and-pound

His regular attacks do massive damage, his grab-and-pound move is absurdly overpowered and his counter throw take an enormous amount amount of your health away.


rain check

Expression étatsunienne qui provient de l’annulation des matchs de base-ball. Avoir un rain check, c’est avoir l’assurance d’obtenir un nouveau billet pour le match annulé à cause de la pluie.

Façon polie de décliner une invitation, laissant la porte ouverte pour une autre opportunité.

I can’t go with you to the museum this Saturday, but can I take a rain check and go some other day?

Je ne peux pas aller au musée avec vous ce samedi, mais peut-être une autre fois.


resplendent

Du latin resplendens (« brillant, resplendissant »).

more resplendent (comparative)
most resplendent (superlative)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-عُثمان (Middle river exports)-resplendent.wav

The Honorable Mr. Justice Wheeler sat in one of the five high-backed chairs behind it. He was resplendent in a scarlet robe and sash, and a horsehair wig, called a “peruke,” Ryan had been told, that fell to his narrow shoulders and clearly looked like something from another age.


cul-de-four

The remarkable cross-in-square sister churches of Abreha-wa-Atsbeha (which does not feature a dome above the central sanctuary but a cul-de-four over the apse) …

Annales d'Éthiopie, Volumes 25-26, 2010, page 310


progeny

Du moyen anglais progeni, issu de l’ancien français progenie, lui-même issu du latin prōgeniēs, dérivé de progignere.

I treasure this 5 generation photograph of my great-great-grandmother and her progeny.

Je garde précieusement cette photo de 5 génération de mon arrière-arrière-grand-mère et de sa descendance.

His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

Sa dissertation est son travail intellectuel le plus important à ce jour.


lungful

A lungful of air


backlash

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de back et de lash.

The employer didn’t count on a backlash from the employees after the new, harsh, company rules were put in place.

There was a huge backlash against the victorious party in the next election.

Il y eut un énorme tollé contre le parti qui remporta l’élection suivante.

Backlash, contre-offensive conservatrice dans un pays, une culture, en particulier contre les avancées récentes en matière de droits des femmes.

Lorde’s theorizing on difference emerged during the period that scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., termed the “culture wars,” that period in the 1970s and 1980s when we witnessed the emergence of what some derisively dismiss as identity politics and political correctness as well as the beginnings of a national backlash against affirmative action.

Rudolph P. Byrd, « Create your own fire: Audre Lorde and the Tradition of Black Radical Thought », Introduction àAudre Lorde, I Am Your Sister, Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York, 2009, page 21

Isn’t gender fatigue – or being fed up with feminism – just a euphemism for backlash, i.e. overt sexism?

Athénaïs Gagey, « “Gender fatigue” or the backlash against feminist activism », Philonomist, Philo Éditions, Paris, 5 mars 2024 (mise à jour le 29 mai 2024). Consulté le 31 janvier 2025


Taylor

Ancienne graphie de tailor, de l’ancien français tailleur.

Nom de famille anglais et écossais équivalent, pour le sens, au français Sartre, à l’allemand Schneider.

Habitué des insultes à l'encontre des syndicats, Maurice Taylor a récidivé au micro de France Bleu Picardie, leur adressant un cinglant.

Le PDG de Titan récidive: "La CGT, ce sont des timbrés", L'Humanité.fr, 26 octobre 2013


gaslight

(1948) De Gaslight (Hantise en français), film de 1944 réalisé par George Cukor, lui-même inspiré de la pièce de théâtre Gas Light de Patrick Hamilton (1938), dans lequel un homme pousse sa femme à la folie notamment en faisant varier l’intensité de l’éclairage à gaz (gaslight en anglais). Le mot est utilisé dans ce sens en 1948 dans des jugements de divorce aux États-Unis.

to gaslight (infinitive)
gaslights (present third-person singular)
gaslighted (preterite)
gaslighted (participle past)
gaslighting (participle present)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-gaslight.wav

Manipuler une personne de manière à ce qu’elle doute de sa mémoire, de sa perception de la réalité ou de sa santé mentale, généralement pour des raisons malveillantes.

“With his poll numbers cratering, Biden is now trying to gaslight Black Americans with misleading attacks, but everybody knows we were better off with President Trump.” [Trump adviser Jason Miller says.]

“Alors que ses sondages s’effondrent, Joe Biden tente maintenant de manipuler les Noirs américains avec des attaques trompeuses, mais tout le monde sait que nous étions mieux lotis avec le président Trump.” [déclare le conseiller de Trump, Jason Miller.]

(anglais) Brett Samuels, Biden goes after Trump in second straight speech for pushing ‘second lost cause’ sur The Hill, 2024-08-01. Consulté le 2024-01-12


shongsasha

Écorce pilée de Salix laevigata (red willow) que certaines tribus indiennes des États-Unis mélangeaient au tabac.

The Big Crow produced is pipe and filled it with the mixture of tobacco and shongsasha, or red willow bark.

Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail, The New American Library of World Literature, « Mentor Books » M51, 1950, p. 135


pump-action

pump-action rifle.

The Winchester was a pump-action rifle.


Continent

Mise en majuscule de continent (« continent »).

(Avec the) Continent européen, par opposition au Royaume-Uni.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

De Szczecin dans la Baltique à Trieste dans l’Adriatique, un rideau de fer est tombé à travers le continent européen.

There was on one side Germany, with its silver monometallism, having to make up its bank reserves only with silver ; and on the other England, with its bi-monometallism, at one time dependent for its reserves on the gold that might come in, at another time running over the Continent to purchase silver for transmission to India.

Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, Silver and Gold: The Money of the World, 1891, page 70


laird

Its'a pleasure to obey a laird; or should be, to the young.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped et Catriona, page 3. Édition intégrée de 1962.


prunella

To see those proud young gentlemen and young ladies, dressed in their silks, jewelry, and prunella, from top to toe, take the jerks, would often excite my risibilities. The first jerk or so, you would see their fine bonnets, caps, and combs fly; and so sudden would be the jerking of the head that their long loose hair would crack almost as loud as a wagoner's whip.

Peter Cartwright, The Backwoods Preacher, Alexander Heylin, 1858, p. 20


you can’t fight city hall

Composé de you, can’t, fight (« combattre, s’opposer ») et city hall (« administration d’une ville »), littéralement « on ne peut pas s’opposer à l’administration ».

Il est impossible de passer outre la bureaucratie.

I see they’re going to build the airport after all. I suppose you can’t fight city hall.

Ils vont finir par construire un aéroport. C’est comme ça.


tincture

\ˈtɪŋkt.ʃəʳ\

The five tinctures of heraldry are gules, azure, sable, vert and purpure.

Les cinq émaux de l’héraldique sont gueules, azur, sable, sinople et pourpre.


mah

(Date à préciser) Déformation de my (« mon/ma »).

Mah spoon is too big.


lakh

De l’hindi लाख, lākh, lui-même issu du sanskrit लक्षं, lakṣaṇ.

The Assamese Wikipedia, which was born on June 2, 2002, enjoys roughly four lakh views per month.

Assamese Wikipedia completes 10 years of existence, The Hindu business line, juin 2012


end-to-end

Arrangé de sorte que l'extrémité d'un objet soit adjacente à l'extrémité d'un autre ; à la queue leu-leu

We lay the bricks end-to-end in one long line.

Nous posons les briques l'une derrière l'autre en une longue ligne.

The end-to-end trip takes about forty minutes.

Le trajet dans son ensemble dure environ quarante minutes.

Land's End to John o'Groats, the journey from "End to End" across Great Britain

Land's End to John o'Groats, le voyage « d'un bout à l'autre » de la Grande Bretagne.


Bonnie

De bonnie (« beau, belle »), apparenté au prénom français Bonne.

Bonnie and Clyde.

Bonnie Watson Coleman.


&lit

& (« et ») + lit, ellipse de literally : « et littéralement ».

Indice qui doit être compris ordinairement et aussi comme un jeu de mots, par exemple An insane Roman (4 lettres) pour Nero.

Perfect &lits are hard to create.


lose one’s mind

Métaphorecomposé de lose, one’s et mind.

You’re in my dreams every night
You’re in my thoughts all the time
I think I’m losing my mind
Oh, when will you will be mine?


kms

De kill myself, « (je) me suicide, me suicider ».

i left my wallet at home kms i don't wanna go back and get it

j’ai laissé mon portefeuille à la maison putain je veux pas y retourner pour le récupérer


Ulster

Du gaélique irlandais Ulaidh ; pour la finale, voir Leinster et Munster.

By 1598, Ulster was the last bastion of pure Celtic life in Ireland.

En 1598, l'Ulster était le dernier bastion de la pure vie celtique en Irlande.

« 1598 - 1629: The defeat of Ulster and the Ulster Plantation », wesleyjohnston.com


Houston

Composé de Hugh, ’s et town, le village écossais tient son nom de Hugh de Paduinan ; de là aussi Huston ; (1836) la ville du Texas, tient son nom de Sam Houston, premier président du Texas. Le nom de famille provient de la baronnie de Houston, en Écosse.

Houston was the site of the control center of the U.S. space program.

— Houston, we’ve had a problem!


Houston

Sam Houston.

Whitney Houston.

William J. Houston.


guffaw

to guffaw (infinitive)
guffaws (present third-person singular)
guffawed (preterite)
guffawed (participle past)
guffawing (participle present)

(... ) while a mingled guffaw, from Heathcliff and Hareton (...)

(...) pendant que des rires mêlés d'Heathcliff et Hareton (..)


drumlin

Composé du gaélique irlandais droim et du suffixe anglais -lin.

Drumlins are normally bigger, and are found in groups.

Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories: A spotter's guide to the British landscape, page 19


asymptotically

Dérivé de asymptotic, avec le suffixe -ally.

Asymptotiquement, de manière asymptotique.

The difference of the temperatures only tends asymptotically toward zero.

Henry Poincaré, The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method, 1913, traduit par George Bruce Halsted en 1946, page 400


summation

Summation by parts is also called Abel transformation.

La sommation par parties est aussi appelée transformation d’Abel.


whitewash

to whitewash (infinitive)
whitewashes (present third-person singular)
whitewashed (preterite)
whitewashed (participle past)
whitewashing (participle present)

The whole affair was highly embarrassing, and they decided to whitewash it.


zine

Zines are written in a variety of formats, from computer-printed text to comics to handwritten text.

Les « zines » sont écrits dans des formats variés, du texte imprimé par ordinateur aux bandes dessinées en passant par le texte manuscrit.


stiletto

(XVIIᵉ siècle) De l’italien stiletto (« dague ») ; le sens adjectival stiletto heel (« talon aiguille ») date des années 1950.

Her stiletto heels would cause damage if she ever stepped on someone's foot with them.


talk out

I can talk Brian out coming back home.

Je peux dissuader Brian de rentrer à la maison.


pep talk

Composé de pep (« entrain, tonus ») et de talk (« discours »), littéralement « discours d’entrain ».

the man shot the military commandant after he had given a “clumsy” pep talk for the men to go and fight in Ukraine.


brow

She wrinkled her brows.

Wipe the sweat from your brow.


pour point

Point d’écoulement, température à laquelle un fluide, notamment un lubrifiant ou un produit pétrolier, commence à s’écouler.

Airase 5400 defoamer is an opaque, low odor, and low viscosity liquid with a pour point of -10.7 °C.

L’agent anti-moussant Airase 5400 defoamer est un liquide opaque, peu odorant et peu visqueux qui présente un point d’écoulement de -10,7 °C.


brass knuckle

Leo Grex, The Brass Knuckle, 1964

Carleton Beals, Henry G. Alsberg, Brass Knuckle Crusade: The Great Know Nothing Conspiracy, 1820–1860, 2012

Darcy G. Richardson, Others: Third Party Politics from the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party, volume 1, Chapter 7: The Brass-Knuckle Crusade, 2004

The morning after the election I was attacked down the street by old man Sally, with brass knuckles, […] Then I was cut by George Moss and Mike Sally, and they struck me in the head with a brass knuckle, and then one came up and hit me […]

Congressional Edition, United States Congress, 1879

They were partial to roundhouse punches with brass knuckles and swipes with switchblades. Ripping the mirror off the wall, Bourne slammed its edge into a brass knuckle. The mirror cracked into a dozen shards, and Bourne grabbed […]

Robert Ludlum, Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum’s™ The Bourne Dominion, 2011

After some careful analysis, I think brass knuckles are the new octopi, which were the new owls, which were the new sparrows. Check it out! There are about 200 different brass knuckle–related items on Etsy right now. Sell your stock in octopi and jump on the brass knuckles train.


Higgs boson

Composé du patronyme Higgs et de boson ; du nom du physicien britannique Peter Higgs.

The existence of a Higgs boson would be the simplest solution to the problem of electroweak symmetry breaking.

Robert N. Cahn, The Search for a Heavy Higgs Boson at the SSC, Orrin Fackler, J. Thanh Vân Trân (editors), New and Exotic Phenomena: Proceedings of the Seventh Moriond Workshop,page 468, 1987


fap

(Onomatopée, verbe 2) Une onomatopée du bruit de la masturbation masculine, utilisé dans les traductions de manga adulte japonais.

And next we could clearly hear the squeaky-scrunch of a chain-link fence being scaled and the fap, fap, fap of fast running feet on the dark street that ran between the F&M and the little house.

JudyConner, Southern Fried Divorce, 2005

With his paws, he picks up clumps of mud, and, fap, fap, fap, he pats them into the holes Lion made. Fap, fap, fap, he closes them over until there are no holes left.

Scholastic literacy place, volume 2, 1996

Smiling and eager, he stood on his front step, facing the opening of the gulch, watching the lead pair of dun-colored oxen polod toward him while the sound of the ox whips cracked against the gulch walls – fap! fap! fap! – like a stack of lumber dropping.

LaVyrleSpencer, Three Complete Novels: The Endearment, Bitter Sweet, Forgiving, 1995

She turned to him. “I’m just relieved you weren’t one of the men going fap-fap-fap to my vid. Or were you?” she asked with a stage wink, but his demeanor remained frosty.

KresleyCole, Dreams of a Dark Warrior, 2011


fap

The original blunder may have been IBM’s, which by “fapping” a good number of employees at the turn of the year unwittingly sent a few interesting patents and smart dudes out of the door. (FAP stand for “financial assistance plan,” the IBM term for early retirement.)

JohnGantz, « Spin-Off Company From IBM Will Revamp Semiconductor Industry », InfoWorld, volume 11, numéro 13, 27 mars 1989


fap

Many of the men in this online forum attempted to outdo one another by bragging about how many times they had “fapped” that night—a euphemism for masturbation.

Eric MichaelJohnson, « Misogyny Is Not Human Nature », Slate.com, 24 septembre 2014


working day

Is Saturday a working day for you?


workday

The normal workdays are Monday through Friday. But some businesses operate on different schedules.


run out of

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de run

The printer has run out of ink.


move out

(Date à préciser)Composé de move et de out. (étymologie à préciser ou à vérifier)

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de move

We’re moving out at the end of the month.


decamp

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-decamp.wav

The troops decamped and moved out at the dawn of day.


dislodge

De l’ancien français deslogier, → voir dis- et lodge.

to dislodge (infinitive)
dislodges (present third-person singular)
dislodged (preterite)
dislodged (participle past)
dislodging (participle present)

The surgeon was unable to dislodge the bullet.

Despite a charge up the hill, the infantry was unable to dislodge the enemy.


Brixit

Mot-valise formé à partir de Britain et exit.

The other possibility, one that is increasingly being discussed, is the Brixit. The length of the crisis within the Eurozone and the seeming inability of member states and the European institutions to restore faith in the project leads some to.

Charles Dannreuther & Simon Lightfoot, « Surveying Institutions in Crisis », in Institutional Crisis in 21st Century Britain, edited by David Richards, Martin Smith & Collin Hay, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, p. 179


now or never

\ˌnaʊ ɔːɹ ˈnɛv.əɹ\

You should join the chess club, it's now or never!

Tu devrais t'inscrire au club d'échecs, c'est maintenant ou jamais!


muggy

Tomorrow is predicted to be hot and muggy.


millinery

Watch film footage from any time until the mid-1960s and you will see men from every walk of life whose heads exhibit a bewildering assortment of homburgs, fedoras, trilbies, caps, boaters, bowlers and berets, while the women present an array of clothes, picture hats, pillbox, and other species of millinery whose proper names I shall never know.

Stephen Fry, Fry's Ties, Michael and Joseph, 2021, page 15


Afrophone

Dérivé de Africa avec le suffixe -phone.

more Afrophone (comparative)
most Afrophone (superlative)
afrophone

In sixteenth century England the decision to write literature in English rather than Latin was perhaps as significant as the literary rejection of Europhone for Afrophone languages is today.

JeannineDeLombard, « Mzee’s New Clothes: Neocolonial Detention as a Spectacle of Invisibility », dans Charles Cantalupo, Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o: Text and Contexts, 1995, p. 50


Euphrosyne

Euphrosyne of Alexandria.


make a pass

My sister’s boyfriend just made a pass at me. I think I should tell my sister.

DavidBurke, Street Speak 2: Complete Course in American Slang & Idioms, 2000


ravel

Du néerlandais ravelen dérivé de rafel ; voir rafelig.

The savannah valley is shadeless, spotted only with the thorny ravel of mesquite bushes.


ravel

to ravel (infinitive)
ravels (present third-person singular)
raveled (preterite)
raveled (participle past)
raveling (participle present)

… and in them are minute glands, which resemble ravelled tubes …

But the real work of the First Thursday Foundation is remembering, and its biggest gift is knitting back together lives raveled by loss.

Martha T. Moore, “After 9/11, dinner gang raises funds to honor those lost”, dans USA Today, 10 septembre 2011


phototransduction

Perhaps one of the more obvious ways to approach the problem of phototransduction is to attempt to relate the onset of the electrical responses in the retina to what is known about the photochemistry of visual pigments.

Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology, Long Island Biological Association, volume 30, page 493, 1966, Biological Laboratory.


porée

Du moyen français porée. Ce mot a été repris au XXᵉ siècle par ceux qui s’intéressent à la cuisine médiévale.

A porée of chard that is washed then cut up and boiled will stay greener than one that is first boiled then chopped.

O. Redon, F. Sabban, S. Serventi, The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy, 2000


wind chill

Refroidissement éolien, température ressentie.

When the wind blows in cold weather, the air feels even colder thant it actually is because the movement of the air increases the rate of cooling for warm objects, like people. This effect is known as wind chill.

BenStephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition), Springer, 2019, page 21


Yongnan

They reported it to God, who was moved by his sincerity, and commanded the two sons of Kua’er to carry the mountains on their back and put one in Shuodong, the other in Yongnan.

John Minford et Joseph S.M.Lau, Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations, 2000


mither

Fin du XVIIe siècle. D’origine inconnue, peut-être du gallois moedrodd (« perturber, tracasser »). Possible alternative du gallois meidda (« mendier pour du petit-lait ») ou peut-être de meiddio (s’aventurer). Il faut savoir que le « dd » en gallois correspond au son « th » dans mither, et qu’il existe également moider et moither en anglais.

to mither (infinitive)
mithers (present third-person singular)
mithered (preterite)
mithered (participle past)
mithering (participle present)

Importuner. Habituellement destiné aux enfants.

Will you stop mithering me!

Est ce que tu vas arrêter de m’importuner !


seniority

Du latin senioritas → voir senior et -ity.

It's an old-fashioned company, with parking spaces and other perks doled out on the basis of seniority.


sagacity

Du français sagacité, issu du latin sagacitas, dérivé de sagax (« qui a l’esprit subtil, fin, pénétrant, clairvoyant, sagace »), lui-même dérivé de sagire (« sentir, avoir du flair »).

I had sagacity enough to discover that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 104, édition de 1869


hexatic

The hexatic phase is a phase that is between the solid and the isotropic liquid phases in two dimensional systems of particles. It is characterized by two order parameters: a short-range positional and a quasi-long-range orientational (sixfold) order. More generally, a hexatic is any phase that contains sixfold orientational order, in analogy with the nematic phase (with twofold orientational order).


column-major

Stocké en colonne (se dit des tableaux bidimensionnels qui sont stockés dans la mémoire colonne par colonne).

Make sure multidimensional arrays are referenced using proper array syntax and are traversed in the natural ascending storage order, which is column-major order for Fortran.

Assurez vous que les tableaux multi-dimensionnels sont référencés avec la syntaxe spécifique correcte et qu’ils sont traversés dans l’ordre naturel ascendant de stockage, qui est l’ordre de stockage en colonne pour Fortran.


portend

Du latin portendere (« prédire, présager »), composé de tendere et du préfixe por-.

to portend (infinitive)
portends (present third-person singular)
portended (preterite)
portended (participle past)
portending (participle present)

A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,

Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.


feng shui

Emprunt du chinois 风水, fēngshuǐ (écriture traditionnelle : 風水), littérallement « le vent et l’eau ».

to feng shui (infinitive)
feng shuis (present third-person singular)
feng shuied (preterite)
feng shuied (participle past)
feng shuiing (participle present)

I’m going to have my bedroom feng shuied. Maybe this will finally bring me good luck.


fengshui

to fengshui (infinitive)
fengshuis (present third-person singular)
fengshuied (preterite)
fengshuied (participle past)
fengshuiing (participle present)

Now, if you’ve considered these things, had your warm bath, fengshuied your room, silenced your bed partner, and still can’t sleep, consider your sex hormones.

PhuliCohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover, 2008


porcelain

The museum has an extensive collection of rare Chinese porcelains.

Ce musée possède une importante collection de porcelaines de Chine rares.


on the average

\ɑn ði ˈæv.ə.ɹɪdʒ\

\ɒn ði ˈæv.ə.ɹɪdʒ\

On the average, we’ll each live beyond the age of 70.


curl up

On a cold night, I like to curl up with a good book.


intuit

He intuited that there was something that no one was telling him.


opposite number

Homologue ; Personne ayant une fonction identique à une autre.

I’ll have to speak to my opposite number in the other organization.


shoelace

Composé de shoe (« soulier ») et de lace (« lacet »), littéralement « lacet de soulier ».

Tie up your shoelaces or you'll trip.


real estate

De real et estate, l’immobilier étant quelque chose de concret, de réel, par opposition à d’autres types de biens.

Real estate taxes.

Real estate agent.


real estate

He invested in real estate.


botnet

Mot-valise formé par contraction de robot et de network (réseau).

Réseau d’ordinateurs dits zombis, passés sous le contrôle total ou partiel d’une seule personne ou organisation, le plus souvent à la suite de leur infection par un cheval de Troie.

If the attackers use a botnet, they can guess many more passwords in a fixed timeframe than by using their own hardware.

Si les agresseurs se servent d’un botnet, ils pourront découvrir beaucoup plus de mots de passe à durée égale que s’ils utilisent leur propre matériel.


McAdam

Du gaélique écossais Mac Adam, « fils d’Adam ».

John Loudon McAdam.


chutzpah

Du yiddish חוצפּה, issu de l’hébreu חוצפה, khutspa (« audace »).

The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.

Christopher Hitchens, André Malraux: One Man's Fate, 2005


screw face

Argot jamaïcain, popularisé avec la chanson Screw Face de Bob Marley.

visage en grimace, généralement en colère.

On the way back they saw a screw face woman by the name of Sandra.

The “screw face” (contorted face) is used as part of what Barry Chevannes calls the “ritualized aggression” with which a Rasta migh begin the process of engaging in an antagonistic discourse with a visitor in an apparently friendly and unprovoked atmosphere.

Nathaniel SamuelMurrell, Chanting Down Babylon, 1998


off-limits

You can play wherever you want, but remember that the cemetery is off-limits.

Déplacé ; extrêmement incivil ; déraisonnable.

You were off-limits to call him a criminal.


bedridden

She was bedridden with the flu.


zode

Zode : dans l’univers fictif de Barsoom, unité de temps valant environ 2 heures et demi.

In a cylindrical bracelet of gold about my wrist was my Barsoomian chronometer—a delicate instrument that records the tals and xats and zodes of Martian time, presenting them to view beneath a strong crystal much after the manner of an earthly odometer.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars, 1919


peristaltic

It works like a muscle rather than a clock, undulating along the ground with the same peristaltic motion our esophagus performs when we swallow food.

Drake Bennett, The Velveteen Robot, Businessweek, août 2012


bell pepper

Composé de bell « cloche » et pepper « poivron, piment, poivre ».

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bell pepper.wav

The recipe includes red and green bell peppers.

La recette comprend des poivrons rouges et verts.


Sinhala

Du sanskrit सिंहल, siṃhala (« île des lions, Ceylan »)

Sinhala language.


Gladys

Gladys was the eldest daughter of the house, and when her parents had chosen her name—a name which they considered emblematic of happiness, in spite of certain questionings that had arisen among the name fanciers on the subject—it would seem that some unseen fairy godmother had really bestowed that best of all gifts on their child, for Gladys was the happiest, most contented, sunshiny little person imaginable.


Amqui

The main line or “main stem” of the L&N between Louisville and Amqui, Tennessee, just north of Nashville, completed in 1859, survives today as the CSX “Main Line Subdivision.”

KevinComer, Louisville & Nashville Railroad in South Central Kentucky, 2012, p. 11


this instant

Tout à l’heure, aussitôt, immédiatement, à l'instant, sitôt, tout de suite, d’abord.

You come back here and stand before me this instant, young man!


face-kini

Dubbed the ‘face-kini’, the new craze is sweeping across China as the most efficient way to avoid the damaging effects of the sun.

‘Face-kini’ beach balaclava craze hits China, Metro.co.uk, 17 aout 2012

The upper part of the swimsuit, which covers the head and only leaves the eyes, nose and mouth exposed, not only adds a hint of mysterious fashion on the beach, but has also brought instant fame to their wearers on the internet. Netizens are calling the swimwear “face-kinis,” according to CRI online, a web version of the state-run broadcaster China Radio International.

« Amphibious ‘face-kini’ wearers invade the beaches of Qingdao », WantChinaTimes.com, 15 aout 2012


panegyric

eulogy

éloge, discours à la louange de quelqu’un

La forme verbale est plus commune: donner un panégyrique se traduit par eulogize.

he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 37, édition de 1869


tons of

She has tons of books in her house.


long in the tooth

locution adjectivale formée des mots long et tooth ; litt. aux dents longues, venant probablement de l'évaluation de l'âge d'un cheval à partir de la longueur de ses dents.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-long in the tooth.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-long in the tooth.ogg

Vieux, âgé, blanchi sous le harnois, vieux jeu, défraîchi, has-been.

His cousin was now of more than middle age… She was lean, and yellow, and long in the tooth.

William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, 1852, Esq., ch. 2

So as Microsoft began its 30th year last month, investors wondered whether it's a little long in the tooth.

Chris Taylor, Is Microsoft A Slowpoke?, Time, 10 mai 2004


out of the blue

Ellipse de out of the blue sky, littéralement « hors du bleu ». Le « bleu » fait ici référence au ciel. L'idée du ciel comme origine d'apparition soudaine, inattendues, se retrouve dans l’expression française tomber du ciel.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-out of the blue.ogg

De manière inattendue, sans avertissement ni préparation, à l’improviste ; comme un cheveu sur la soupe, tout à trac, comme un chien dans un jeu de quilles.

After I hadn’t heard from her in six months, she called me out of the blue to meet for lunch.

I really can’t understand how something like this could simply pop up out of the blue.


demangled

Dont on a enlevé les caractères ajoutés par le compilateur, en parlant du nom d’une variable.

One can do this either by using analysis utilities that can switch between mangled and demangled output, or using filters.

Thorsten Grötker, Ulrich Holtmann, Holger Keding, The Developer’s Guide to Debugging, 2008


kulich

Pain brioché, glacé au sucre et recouvert de paillettes de sucre colorées, qui se mange à Pâques.

One of the most famous of all Easter breads is the Russian kulich, a tall but delicate sweet yeasted bread that is sugared and decorated with the initials XB, which stand for “Christ is risen.”


Sigle de kindergarten through twelfth grade.

M-12, M à 12, système éducatif de la maternelle à la douzième année, c’est-à-dire maternelle, primaire et secondaire.

There is no universally accepted answer to this question, but my list would include better education at every level from preschool through K-12 through all forms of postsecondary education qnd in to lifelong learning.

RichardHaass, A World in Disarray, Penguins Book, 2018, p. 291


bishopping

D'un dénommé Bischop qui mit la méthode au point.

Art de maquiller l'âge des chevaux pour les faire paraitre plus jeunes.

There are some teeth which present unusual facilities for bishopping, and on which the operation is in consequence more frequently performed.


cro

Oh no, here we go, but I'm busy bagging my cro / Gotta go to my drum, but I got buds / So let me just have a quick smoke (quick smoke)


bottom line

Composé de bottom (« bas, fond ») et de line (« ligne »).

So what is your bottom line?


give a shit

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-give a shit.wav

S’intéresser à, s’occuper de. Note d’usage : Utilisé dans une phrase négative.

I just don't give a shit!


unibrow

Dérivé de brow (« sourcil »), avec le préfixe uni-.

Mickael has a unibrow because of his spanish origin.


Bash

Acronyme de Bourne-Again shell, d'après Bourne-Shell, prédécesseur de Bash, lui-même formé de Bourne, du nom de son auteur Stephen Bourne, et shell (« interface de terminal »).

And for Vi aficionados, it is possible to configure Bash to recognize Vi-style binding instead

Michael Stutz, The Linux Cookbook (2ème édition), No Starch Press,San Francisco, 2004, page 55


propensity

He has a propensity for lengthy discussions of certain favorite topics.

Il a une propension aux longues discussions sur certains sujets favoris.


STS

(Sigle) Initiales de Space Transportation System.

Navette spatiale américaine ayant effectué 135 vols pour l'agence spatiale américaine (NASA) entre le 12 avril 1981 et juillet 2011.

The official responsible for the implementation of the payload portion of an STS flight(s).


affrication

(Attesté en 1719) Du latin affricatio, variante du latin adfricatio (« frottement »), du latin adfrico (« frotter contre »).

Sens linguistique :
:* (Attesté en 1878) De l’allemand Affrikation, du latin affricatio
:* ou (Entre 1930 et 1940)Dérivé de affricate, avec le suffixe -ion.

The affrication of [t-] and sometimes of [d-] appears, for example, in the speech of many university students from middle class families.

Allan Forbes Hubbell, The pronunciation of English in New York City, Octagon Books, New York, 1972

[…] an inspection of the Atlas materials reveals that affrication of the palato-dental stops [t’ d’] is widespread from North Galway northwards, being particularly common around the north west coast of Mayo.

Cathair Ó Dochartaigh, Dialects of Ulster Irish, Belfast, 1987, page 148

[…] in southern Alberta, as early as 1860 — where a French Metis was known to the anglophones of the area as Butcheesh […], the spelling tch denoting here an affrication in the name Baptiste.

Patrick C. Douaud, Ethnolinguistic trajectory of a rural Metis community, University of Alberta, 1982, page 74


Cambridgeshire

Evidence of construction techniques for timber walkways has been preserved at Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire (TL 225 989), where 60,000 posts and 250,000 horizontal timbers were shaped into a 1km-long ritual causeway that crossed a marshy fen.

Mary-Ann Ochota, Hidden Histories : A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, Frances Lincoln, 2018, page 166


Cheshire

Comté d’Angleterre situé dans la région d’Angleterre du Nord-Ouest.

William Davenport called on his Cheshire tenants to join him in supporting the king, but while politely answering that they had ‘no disloyal thought’, they said, ‘we dare not lift up our hands against that honourable assembly of parliament’, and enlisted on their side.

William Davenport appela ses locataires du Cheshire à se joindre à lui pour soutenir le roi, mais en répondant poliment qu’ils n’avaient pas de « pensées déloyales », ils ont dit, « nous n’osons pas lever la main sur cette honorable assemblée du parlement », et nous sommes engagés à leur côté.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 224


Derbyshire

Other industries reacted less predictably. Derbyshire miners backed the king in return for remission of the tax on tin.

D'autres industries ont réagi de manière moins prévisible. Les mineurs du Derbyshire ont soutenu le roi en échange d'une annulation de la taxe sur l'étain.


Shropshire

But Shropshire weavers, who traded with the Mediterranean, were royalist.


Somerset

Dérivé de Somerton, ancienne capitale du comté.

Charles Henry Somerset.


Somerset

William Somerset Maugham.


Warwickshire

At one stand-off in Warwickshire, the royalist Earl of Northampton was challenged by Lors Brooke to decide the issue by single combat, and when he declined because ‘gross and corpulent’, it was suggested that twenty men from each side should fight it out.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 221 et 222


Wiltshire

It’s older than the great pyramids of Egypt, and was the site of rituals and sacrifices performed by Wiltshire residents more than 200 generations ago.

Il est plus anciens que les grandes pyramides d'Égypte et était le lieu de rites et sacrifices pratiqués par les habitants de Wiltshire il y a plus de 200 générations.

Mary-Ann Ochota, « Hidden Histories: A spotter’s guide to the British landscape », Frances Lincoln, 2016, page 6


snippet

In this code snippet, we need five lines of code to create a list of the first 10 square numbers and print it to the shell.

Christian Mayer, Python One-Liners, No Starch Press, 2020, page xxi


St.

L’Oxford Style Manual recommande la contraction sans le point abréviatif, tandis que le Chicago Manual of Style le recommande comme pour l’abréviation. En anglais, contrairement au français, St. pour Saint est utilisé également pour les deux sexes ; le tiret n’est jamais utilisé en anglais.

Everything Wall St. Should Know About Ryan

titre d’article, New York Times, nytimes.com, 13 aout 2012

That was the message Catherine Bockman heard when she attended Mass on May 27, 1862, at St. Vincent’s, near the French market in St. Louis’s Soulard neighborhood.

« Secession and Ascension in St. Louis », New York Times, nytimes.com, 14 juin 2012

About midway between Banasa and the St. of Gibraltar stood Lixus El Haratch, at the mouth ofa cognominal river now called Luccos ; ….

AaronArrowsmith, A Grammar of Ancient Geography, 1832, p. 266


katzenjammer

De l’allemand Katzenjammer (« la déprime des chats, gueule de bois »), composé de Katzen (pluriel de Katze), chat et de jammer, déprime, détresse.

In those days a still-birth brought as high as ten dollars and after riding the shoot-the-chutes we always left a little stale beer for the morning because the finest thing in the world for Katzenjammer is a glass of stale beer.


Élysée Palace

Although Bush is not for now scheduled to visit France during a fence-mending European trip next month, talks are continuing between the White House and the Élysée Palace to arrange a U.S. visit by Chirac, following an invitation from Bush.

Brian Knowlton,Tsunami aid joins trans-Atlantic squabble, The New York Times, 2005-01-05


attention whore

Personne ayant un besoin pathétique d’attention, m’as-tu-vu.

My MTB won’t be an annoying, immature, uncultured, dirty-joke-making boy like Jason. He won’t be an attention whore who is spending every waking minute trying to be the loudest person in a room.

Lauren Morrill,Meant to Be, page 206. Delacorte Press, 2012.

I click on her page. Ohmygod, what an attention whore, I think as I read all her status updates.

Amir Abrams,Crazy Love, page 216. Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2012.

I know writers here in New York who don’t even want their shows to get picked up because they don’t want to move to L.A. I’m not like that. I’m too much of an attention whore to let things go unnoticed.

Gavin McInnes,The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, page 245. Scribner, 2012. Note : ouvrage précédemment publié sous le titre principal How to Piss in Public, avec le même sous-titre.


warmist

The warmists howled that this document was facially discredited by including individuals who, it turns out, merely held the very same professional training as the IPCC authors.

Les réchauffistes ont hurlé que ce document était en apparence discrédité en incluant des individus qui, s'avère-t-il, avaient simplement la même formation professionnelle que les auteurs du GIEC.

Christopher C. Horner, Red Hot Lies : How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, page 315, Regnery Publishing, 2008. Chapitre 8 (« The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change : The UN’s Four Alarm Liar »).


warmist

Conservatives tend to midtrust the warmist scientists because they believe theit research is more focused on promoting their careers than in a concern for public interest.

Les conservateurs ont tendance à se méfier des scientifiques réchauffistes parce qu'ils pensent que leurs recherches sont plus axées sur la promotion de leur carrière que sur un souci d'intérêt public.

Jim Burho, Footprints : A Practical Approach to Active Environmentalism, page 190, iUniverse Publishing, 2019.


ERP

This is short for Erotic Role Play. When attempting any kind of ERP in VRChat remember to ask people of their age to make sure they are old enough to give consent.

Il s’agit d’un raccourci pour Jeu de rôle érotique. Lorsque vous tentez tout type de jeu de rôle érotique dans VRChat, n'oubliez pas de demander aux personnes de leur âge de s'assurer qu'elles sont suffisamment âgées pour donner leur consentement.

« Roleplaying » sur vrchat-legends.fandom.com, version du 14 octobre 2019


hiney

I’ve sat out there so much my hiney’s sore.

Je me suis tellement assis ici que mon derrière est douloureux

Barry Benefield, April was when it began, 1939


eat out

(Date à préciser)Composé de eat et de out, littéralement « manger dehors ».

to eat out (infinitive)
eats out (present third-person singular)
ate out (preterite)
eaten out (participle past)
eating out (participle present)

Diner dans un restaurant ou tout endroit public.

To celebrate their anniversary, the couple ate out by the bay.

Pour fêter son anniversaire, le couple alla dîner près de la baie.

Jacky wanted Korean barbeque, but his mom didn’t want to eat out.

Jacky voulait du barbecue coréen, mais sa maman ne voulait pas sortir manger.

The lesbian couple ate each other out.

Les deux lesbiennes firent chacune un cunnilingus à l’autre.


mahut

A mahut passed with two elephants in chains.


resuscitation

An interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of clinical and basic science research relating to acute care medicine and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

– Un journal interdisciplinaire pour la diffusion de la recherche clinique et fondamentale concernant la médecine de soins intensifs et de ressuscitation cardiopulmonaire.

Présentation du journal Resuscitation,Elsevier.com, 2012


jawan

In any event we soon had the Army jawan sent by the Major with us in the boat and headed for shore.

Satyindra Singh, Blueprint to Bluewater: The Indian Navy, 1951-65, page 402, 1992

He obviously expected one of the senior army officials to walk over and talk to the jawan.

R. D. Pradhan, Debacle to Revival: Y.B. Chavan as Defence Minister, 1962-65, page 44, 1999


Glagolitic

Glagolitic spelling.


Glagolitic

The text is written in Glagolitic.


What’s your 10-20?


internetting

Action d’utiliser Internet, surfer sur Internet.

Apple is pushing OS X (pronounced ten not ex) as the way forward, with features such as multitasking, protected memory, more stability, new icons, easier internetting, improved resistance to hackers and so on.

CraigMcGill, « X-rated upset for Mac faithful », The Guardian, guardian.co.uk, 28 septembre 2000


D-sugar

Dérivé de sugar (« sucre ») avec le préfixe biochimique D-.

\ˌdi.ˈʃʊɡ.ɚ\

\ˌdiː.ˈʃʊɡ.ə\

Chirality is a property found in many biologically important molecules such as amino acids, carbohydrates, and lipids. For example, the natural amino acids share a common stereochemistry; they are all L-amino acids. Our bodies use only D-sugars; DNA and RNA are made up of D-sugars, resulting in a right-handed DNA double helix.

Nita K. Pandit, Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2006, p. 86,ISBN 9780781744782


L-amino acid

Dérivé de amino acid (« aminoacide ») avec le préfixe biochimique L-.


patent troll

Composé de patent (« brevet ») et de troll (« troll »).

This perception of a patent troll must be changed because it unfairly gives a number of legitimate intellectual property businesses a bad name.

Cette perception du patent troll doit être changée, car elle fait injustement mauvaise presse à un certain nombre de pratiques légitimes en propriété intellectuelle.

Marc Morgan,Stop Looking under the Bridge for Imaginary Creatures: A Comment Examining Who Really Deserves the Title Patent Troll, 2008


Conley

Variante de Conleth et de Connolly qui proviennent tous les deux du gaélique irlandais.

Majoritairement enregistré en Irlande et aux États-Unis.

After she was brutally murdered, Jim Conley, the black janitor at the factory, testified that Frank had killed the girl, then forced Conley to dispose of the body.

New York Times (The Lively Arts: Stage), 1 juillet 1984


VSP

(Sigle) Sigle de l’anglais very serious person (« personne très sérieuse »).

Gee, remember the enthusiasm with which the Cameron/Osborne turn to austerity was greeted by VSPs on both sides of the pond, with David Broder urging Obama to “do a Cameron”?

Paul Krugman, The conscience of a liberal, The economic consequences of Mr. Osborne


kowari

Peut être utilisé avec une majuscule (Kowari) pour mettre en avant le fait qu’on donne un caractère générique au mot.

Kowari (petit marsupial carnivore d’Australie).

On average, a kowari weighs in at 100g.


wife-beating question

Composé de wife-beating (« action de battre sa femme ») et de question, en référence à l’exemple souvent cité : « Have you stopped beating your wife? » (« Avez-vous arrêté de battre votre femme ? »).

Mr. [Tony] Banks: When the Leader of the House sees his right hon. friend the Prime Minister, will he ask her to come to the Dispatch Box and condemn picket line violence by the police?

Mr. [John] Biffen: That is the most obvious and plain wife-beating question that I have ever heard asked. — (British House of Commons debate, Hansard vol. 70, 20 décembre 1984)

Amis also recounts some aggressive questions allegedly put by him to me and to James Fenton in our (James’s and my) Trotskyist years, when all three of us were colleagues at the New Statesman. The questions are so plainly wife-beating questions, and the answers so clearly intended to pacify the aggressor by offering a mocking agreement ….

Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, septembre 2002


trainiac

Mot-valise composé de train et de maniac.

Ferrovipathe, passionné de chemins de fer.

The Lomita Railroad Museum was once a regular stop on our shopping trips, a little reward for my trainiac.

Kathie Weir, A Parent’s Guide to Los Angeles: Friendly Advice for Touring Los Angeles with Children, Mars Publishing, Inc. (2001),ISBN 9780967512716, page 29, 2001

There are still trainiacs, for sure — approximately 300,000 hardcore train hobbyists in the United States, who spend about $500 million on their passion.

James B. Twitchell, Where Men Hide, Columbia University Press (2006),ISBN 9780231137348, page 77, 2006

Sheldon Cooper: It’s official. I’m an HO trainiac.

Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan & Jim Reynolds, "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation", episode 5-3 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:10:27-00:10:32, 29 septembre 2011


boffin

L'usage du mot se répand dans les années 1940, même si quelques attestations sporadiques existent plus tôt ^([1]).

The 'super solvents' developed by boffins at Queen’s University have beaten 11 other ground-breaking British innovations to be named the discovery that will have the greatest impact in the coming century.

LindaStewart, Forget the God Particle, now science world is stuck on Belfast boffins’ super solvent, Belfast Telegraph, mars 2013


chaw

to chaw (infinitive)
chaws (present third-person singular)
chawed (preterite)
chawed (participle past)
chawing (participle present)

Some pikey’s chawed my bike.


swing state

Composé de swing (« bascule ») et de state (« état »).

Lors d’une élection présidentielle, État des États-Unis, formant une circonscription pivot, dont il est impossible de prévoir le vote.

Swing states are those in which neither major political party holds a lock on the outcome of presidential elections.

Les "swing states" sont des États dans lesquels aucun des deux grands partis politiques n’a de prise sur l’issue des élections présidentielles.


catch wind

Did the King's men catch wind of the plot?


fomite

(Date à préciser) Du latin fomes, fomitis (« amadou, ce qui enflamme, qui provoque une inflammation »).

Objet inerte pouvant être vecteur d’agents infectieux (bactéries, virus, parasites).

20. Thomas M. England, private, Hospital Corps, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and served in the Army from January 6, 1899, to January 5, 1914, in the grades of private, acting hospital steward, and sergeant, first class, Hospital Corps. […] He volunteered and underwent the fomites experiment, sleeping 20 nights in infected bedding, for which experiment he received a donation of $100 from the Cuban funds allotted by General Wood for these experiments.

Honor Memory of Heroes of Fight Against Yellow Fever, in Congressional Edition House Reports, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930, pages 8–9

Alternatively, such fluids may be transferred from soiled hands to fomites, or airborne organisms may impinge or settle onto fomite surfaces. Fomites may also serve as a site for the replication of a pathogen, as in the case of enteric bacteria in household sponges or dishcloths.

Raina M.Maier, Ian L. Pepper, Charles P. Gerba, Environmental Microbiology, 2009, page 559

Fomites play a significant role in the transmission of infectious agents. The list of fomites is seemingly endless and includes objects in common use […] Toys are fomites and contribute to illness in children wherever the toys are shared.

Robert I.Krasner, The Microbial Challenge: Science, Disease and Public Health, 2009, page 166


turnout

This restaurant had a pretty good turnout for a Wednesday night.

Ce restaurant avait une bonne affluence pour un mercredi soir.

Candidates say turnout will be key.

Les candidats disent que le taux de participation sera la clé du succès.

Telegram.com, Nedra Pickler & Kasie Hunt (AP), 6 novembre 2012


megaron

The megara faced north (“notebook north” equals true northeast) in the first court behind the archaic East Gate, similar in layout to their predecessors Megara 1 and 2 in the pre-Kimmerian East Court. Megaron C had gone through a period of use and a complete reconstruction before the Painted House was built.

Keith DeVries (éditeur), Machteld J. Mellink, VII. Archaic Wall Paintings from Gordion, From Athens to Gordion: The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young, page 91, 1980

The megaron is a hall building with an open-fronted porch, but this porch is not just any laterally confined space.

G. R. H. Wright, Ancient Building in South Syria and Palestine, page 141, 1985

Probably he points out that the east room, used as oikos, is wider and shorter than the classical narrow and long megaron form. Although this house is interpreted as two megarons side by side, Akurgal [4] also states that the east wall of the space XIV is added later to the building, which means that the east part is not a megaron, but a rectangular room at the first construction phase.

H. Gönül, Main topics and discussions on ancient Greek Architecture on West Anatolia, C. A. Brebbia, L. Binda (éditeurs), Structural Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture XII, WIT Press, page 64, 2011


Nyasaland

Du mot Nyassa (« lac ») en langue ChiYao avec le suffixe land

There was unrest in Nyasaland, Ceylon, Somaliland, Sudan, Egypt, Iraq and the West Indies.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 652


fuck me sideways

Expression d’étonnement, de surprise intense.

"Oww, fuck me sideways, shit-a-goddam, don’t that fuckin HURT!"

Stephen King, Dreamcatcher: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7432-1138-3, p. 90


sideway

more sideway (comparative)
most sideway (superlative)

He cast me a sideway glance.


annexation

Du latin médiéval annexatio (« action d’annexer »).

Annexion, en particulier d’un pays par un autre.

Obama expands US sanctions on Russians over Crimea annexation.

Titre d’une dépêche de Reuters, mars 2014


Luther

Luther Burbank.


Luther

Frank Luther.


mismaladjusted

De misadjusted (dérivé de adjust, avec le préfixe mis-) et maladjusted (dérivé de adjust, avec le préfixe mal-), signifiant tous les deux « mal ajusté, déroutant ».

Composé de mis-, mal- et adjusted, littéralement « mal ajusté, déroutant ».

more mismaladjusted (comparative)
most mismaladjusted (superlative)

First of all, everything was very mismaladjusted on the screen. You shouldn’t put the senators and the congresspeople and the presidents all jumbled together like that. It’s too crowded. Just confuses folks.

George W. Bush, à propos de son vote pour Obama, 2012


in the same boat

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Dans la même galère, dans le même bain, dans le même bateau.

Well, you’re in the same boat as me now.

Bon, vous êtes maintenant dans la même galère que moi.


bend over backwards

to bend over backwards (infinitive)
bends over backwards (present third-person singular)
bent over backwards (preterite)
bent over backwards (participle past)
bending over backwards (participle present)

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de bend

They bent over backwards to make sure everything was just right for the visit.

Ils firent un grand effort afin d’être sûrs que tout était prêt à temps pour la visite.


jump in

to jump in (infinitive)
jumps in (present third-person singular)
jumped in (preterite)
jumped in (participle past)
jumping in (participle present)

I jumped in the car, and we sped off to the meeting.


percontative

Some [grammatical writers] call these affections of the verb moods; others call them divisions, qualities, states, species, &c.; and as to the various appellations of each mood we have the personative and impersonative, the indicative, declarative, definitive, modus finiendi, modus fatendi, the rogative, interrogative, requisitive, percontative, assertive, enunciative, vocative, precative, deprecative, responsive, concessive, permissive, promissive, adhortative, optative, dubitative, imperative, mandative, conjunctive, subjunctive, adjunctive, potential, participial, infinitive, and probably many others.

Edward Smedley, Hugh James Rose, and Henry John Rose [eds.], Encyclopædia Metropolitana I: “Universal Grammar and Philology”, pages 50–51, 1845

‘Perfect Dicibles are of various sorts: Interrogative; Percontative; Adjurative; Optative; Imprecative; Execrative; Substitutive; Compellative; Hypothetical; and, lastly, Dubious.’

Herman Melville, Mardi II (1922 reprint), page 285, 1849

Destined for internal consumption, these three words nevertheless provoked the reply which you see here: who doesn’t? With an interrogation point, for the reply was percontative.

Raymond Queneau, Zazie, traduction anonyme de Zazie dans le métro, 1960, page 128


Dallas

(Nom propre) Du gaélique écossais Dalais. (1846) La ville texane tient son nom soit du vice-président des États-Unis, George Mifflin Dallas, soit du village écossais ; comparer à Houston.

(Nom de famille) Du village écossais ou corruption ducomposé de dale et de house ; comparer à Dalhousie.

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On November 22, 1963, United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Elm Street while his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Downtown Dallas.

Le 22 novembre 1963, le président des États-Unis John F. Kennedy a été assassiné sur Elm Street alors que son cortège passait par Dealey Plaza au centre-ville de Dallas.


Dallas

Robert Charles Dallas.

George Mifflin Dallas.

Alexander J. Dallas.


visitable

Adjectifdérivé de visit, avec le suffixe -able.

Because of the dangers of crumbling masonry, the castle turrets are no longer visitable by the public.


stopgap

They put a stopgap solution in place, but need something more permanent.

Ils ont mis une solution temporaire en place, mais ils ont besoin de quelque chose de plus permanent.


stopgap

The small company uses their product's features as a stopgap until they can develop a new one.

La petite entreprise utilise les fonctionnalités de leur produit comme une solution temporaire jusqu'à ce qu'ils puissent en développer un nouveau.


so far

Jusqu’à présent, jusqu’à maintenant, jusqu’alors.

So far, nothing unusual has happened.

How is your driving lessons? - So far, pretty good.


confectionary

Variante orthographique de confectionery (confiserie, art et commerce du confiseur).

After half a mile, he found them lapping up mint fondant at the SugaRich factory plant, near Selby, which recycles confectionary waste into animal feed.

« Bee keeper left exasperated as colony produces unsellable mint-flavoured honey after feeding at confectionary waste dump », The Daily Mail, dailymail.co.uk, 9 novembre 2012

Variante orthographique de confectionery (confiserie, ce qui est confit).

They threatened the male staff member and demanded money from the register, but fled the scene with confectionary and without any cash.

« 7-Eleven bandits steal sweets not cash on Penshurst Road, Narwee », The Daily Telegraphe, thedailytelegraph.com.au, 24 octobre 2012


tokenizer

Étymologie manquante ou incomplète. Si vous la connaissez, vous pouvez l’ajouter en cliquant ici.

Parseur en tokens. Par exemple cela permet de transformer un texte en plusieurs mots séparés par des espaces.

In the Unix-based world, there are two general tools which allow a user to write a natural language tokenizer: Lex (chap. 3 of Aho et al. 1986) and Awk (Aho 1988).

Syntactic Wordclass Tagging - Page 121, H. van Halteren - 1999


dixie

(Gamelle) De l’hindi देगची, degcī apparenté au persan دیگ, dêg (« pot »).

(Billet de dix dollars) Du français dix, les billets émis par la Citizens State Bank à la Nouvelle-Orléans portaient le mot français « dix ».

Then from the communication trenches came dixies or iron pots, filled with steaming tea, which had two wooden stakes through their handles, and were carried by two men.


dixie

Ten-dollar notes from the Citizens' Bank of Louisiana, their red backs printed with the French “dix” (“ten”), were familiarly known as “dixie” notes.


Dixie

(Sud des États-Unis) (1859) Mot popularisé par la chanson Dixie par Dan Emmett plus avant d’origine incertaine :
:# Vient peut-être de la ligne Mason-Dixon, frontière entre les états du Nord et ceux du Sud.
:# De l'argot dixie désignant un billet de dix dollars émis par la Citizens State Bank à la Nouvelle-Orléans, sur lequel était imprimé le mot français dix.

Dixie D'Amelio.


Dixie

The Dixie Baronetcy was created in the Baronetage of England at the time of the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 for Sir Wolstan Dixie (1602–1682), a supporter of King Charles I during the English Civil War and afterwards.

Dixie baronets sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


pawnbroker

Composé de pawn (« gage ») et de broker (« courtier »), littéralement « courtier en gages ».

\ˈpɔːn.ˌbɹəʊ.kə\

“Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the mornings.

Conan Doyle, The Red-headed League, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892


biochar

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Sorte de charbon produit artisanalement ou industriellement à partir de la biomasse.

However, at a low temperature of 600°C, residence time had no impact on biochar yield.

Biochar: Fundamentals and Applications in Environmental Management and Protection, 2021, page 306


liner

An ocean liner.

Doubleur, ouvrier qui applique une doublure (a lining).

A liner of shoes.

I threw out the trash can liner.


scrounge

She's always scrounging for food.

He scrounged to get the missing parts.


referral

\ɹɪˈfɜː.ɹəl\

For every new customer who comes to us because of your referral, we’ll give you a credit of $100 in your account.

Transfert d’un patient d’un médecin généraliste à un médecin spécialiste.

I’ll give you a referral to a specialist who can look at this more closely.


be born yesterday

(Date à préciser) → voir born et yesterday. Littéralement, « être né hier ».

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Être naïf. Principalement utilisé avec négation : Ne pas être né de la dernière pluie.

I wasn’t born yesterday.


fuhgedaboudit

Graphie phonétique de forget about it, compte tenu de la prononciation new-yorkaise (et du New Jersey).

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter) Laisse tomber, oublie ! (avec une graphie volontairement non standard censée représenter l'accent de New York et du New Jersey).

Remarkably, historians and other scholars in the humanities who need to understand silent evidence the most do not seem to have a name for it (and I looked hard). As for journalists, fuhgedaboudit!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The black swan, Penguin books, 2010


fuhgedit

Graphie phonétique de forget it, compte-tenu de la prononciation new-yorkaise (et du New Jersey).

Laisse tomber (avec une graphie volontairement non standard censée représenter l'accent de New York et du New Jersey).

Now take a look at the cemetery. It is quiet difficult to do so because people who fail do not seem to write memoirs, and, if they did, those business publishers I know would not even consider giving them the courtesy of a returned phone call (as to returned e-mail, fuhgedit).


ha’p’orth

Composé de halfpenny (« moitié d’un penny ») et de worth (« valeur »).

Quantité que l’on peut acheter avec une moitié d’un penny.

Don’t spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar.

Méfiez-vous des économies de bouts de chandelle.


evil eye

She has the evil eye.


ballsucker

Composé de ball (testicule) et de sucker issu du verbe to suck (sucer).

ballsuckers (plural)
ball-sucker
ball sucker

you’re a fuckin’ ballsucker !


mudra

(Début XIXᵉ siècle) Du sanskrit मुद्रा, mudrā, « sceau ».

Gestes des mains et des doigts ayant un sens codé ou mystique.

The mudra is a form of body language, a silent physical invitation.


playoff

We tied the first day, but I beat her the next day in a playoff.


frevo

Musicians from Recife, Olinda and rural Pernambuco have concocted rock laced with funk; reggae; the local beats of maracatú and frevo; old rural songs; and the beats, burbles and scratches of electronica.

Jon Pareles, “Recalling Romance, Brazilian Rock Beats and an Age-Old Harp”, New York Times, 28 février 2008


sojourn

De l’ancien français sojourner (« séjourner »).

His second sojourn into North Vietnam wouldn’t end up being as long as the first.


primitive type

A primitive type is predefined by the language and is named by a reserved keyword. Primitive values do not share state with other primitive values.


Patience

(XVIᵉ siècle) Du patience (« patience »), de la vertu chrétienne.

Meg had named it Patience. “But why?” he had exclaimed, not liking the name at all. “Patience is my favourite virtue,” she had replied, “and we can call her Patty for short.”

Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoaks of Jalna, 1929