dog-ear

Composé de dog (« chien ») et de ear (« oreille »), littéralement « oreille de chien ».

to dog-ear (infinitive)
dog-ears (present third-person singular)
dog-eared (preterite)
dog-eared (participle past)
dog-earing (participle present)

“Can your chap restore it?”
“I don’t know…” The leather was cracked, some of the pages had been dog-eared, and the binding was frayed almost to nonexistence.
“I’m afraid the attic in which they found it had a leaky roof,” the customer said casually.


culvert

A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert.


put the blame on

(Siècle à préciser) → voir put, the, blame et on

I put the blame on the last president.

J’ai rejeté la faute sur le dernier président.


classical mechanics

Suppose the world was actually governed by classical mechanics.

Allan Adams, 8:04 Quantum Mechanics — Problem Set 1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 05/02/2013


fairy-tale

fairy-tale romance


clannish

Dérivé de clan (« clan, coterie »), avec le suffixe -ish.

more clannish (comparative)
most clannish (superlative)

More importantly, this island was a clannish place even by English standards, and any stranger on the loose would at least be noticed, and might even be commented upon.


varsity

The DPG escort is also one of the varsity, and they’ll have a chase car everywhere they go.


swabbie

Variante orthographique de swabby ; marin.

Ryan grinned. “Sir, I work at Annapolis. The Academy crawls with naval officers, and remember I used to be a Marine. If I let myself get intimidated by every swabbie who crossed my path, the Corps would come and take my sword back.”


rugged

Du moyen anglais rugged, de l'ancien occitan rugat (« plissé, froissé »).

ruggeder (comparative)
ruggedest (superlative)

Almost every day since the incident on The Mall, Highland and several other detectives had sat across a rugged wood table from this young man arid tried to start some kind of conversation.

Rugged landscape

For two hundred years, the rugged mountain barriers of Appalachia served as a cultural barrier until the coming of electric power lines, new roads, and modern mass media opened up the region to more modern influences.

Mike Clark,« Appalachia: The Changing Times », préface, page XI, dans Voices from the Mountains: collected and recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan. University of Georgia Press, 1996.


ledger book

Composé de ledger et de book (« livre »), littéralement « livre de comptes ».

He’d made his wife smile on Christmas, and now this year went into the ledger book as a success.


submachine gun

Dérivé de machine gun, avec le préfixe sub-.

\ˌsʌbməˈʃiːn ɡʌn\

“So we meet again,” Miller said. He held an Uzi submachine gun and bent down to pick up another from one of the fallen guards.


base transceiver station

Composé de base, transceiver et station.

Station de transmission de base, station émettrice-réceptrice de base.

The base station subsystem, like the mobile station, also has two components : the base transceiver station and the base station controller.

— Le sous-système de station de base, comme la station mobile, dispose également de deux composantes : la station émettrice-réceptrice de base et le contrôleur de station de base.

Syngress, Hackproofing Your Wireless Network, 2002


leaden

leaden skies


ebook

Technology’s constant attempts to re-invent the "ebook" prove only the vigour of the real thing.

Simon Jenkins,« Old is new. Even Gutenberg's ghost has returned to live in Silicon Valley », The Guardian, 23 janvier 2009

C’est après avoir abordé la notion d’ebook avec ses qualités et ses contraintes, entraînant une évolution plus ou moins forcée des gestes relatifs à la lecture, que l’auteur introduit son passage intitulé "Le tournant décisif"...

Camille Palandjian, L’invincible Papier, Éditions du Palio, 2021


booster seat

Composé de booster (« qui hausse ») et de seat (« siège »), littéralement « siège qui rehausse ».

He distributed the steaks and put Sally’s hamburger on a roll. Next he got their daughter in a booster seat. The one awkward thing was that nobody was drinking.


teetotaling

Dérivé de teetotal, avec le suffixe -ing.

He’d gotten four bottles of a choice California red to go with the steaks, but it seemed that everyone was in a teetotaling mood.


teetotaler

Dérivé de teetotal, avec le suffixe -er.

Abstinent (personne qui ne boit pas d’alcool).

“We have agents following him around. He knows they’re there, of course. If he spits on the sidewalk, we’ll put him on the next bird home. He knows that, too. He hasn’t broken a single law. Even his driver—the guy’s a teetotaler. I hate to say it, Jimmy, but the bum’s clean, and he’s making points.”


shamefaced

Altération de shamefast, du moyen anglais schamefast, du vieil anglais sceamfæst (« timide, modeste »).

more shamefaced (comparative)
most shamefaced (superlative)

He lowered the extinguisher with a shamefaced grin and gestured comically to the spectators. The light was off. The switch was off. The fire, if it had been a fire, was gone.


pulchritude

Du moyen anglais pulcritude, du latin pulchritudo, du latin pulcher (« beau, gracieux »).

\ˈpʰʌɫkɹəˌtuːd\

“Cathy, you are talking to an expert,” her husband pronounced. “I am the one person in this house who can give out a dispassionate appraisal of the pulchritude of any female human being, living or dead, and I say that you are beautiful. End of discussion. ”

« Cathy, tu parles à un expert, » déclara son mari. « Je suis la seule personne dans cette maison capable de donner une évaluation désintéressée de la splendeur de toute femme, vivante ou morte, et je dis que tu es belle. Fin de la discussion. »


swivel

to swivel (infinitive)
swivels (present third-person singular)
swiveled (preterite)
swiveled (participle past)
swiveling (participle present)
to swivel (infinitive)
swivels (present third-person singular)
swivelled (preterite)
swivelled (participle past)
swivelling (participle present)

No one impishly asks if they can also swivel their eyes independently of each other, or pick up snacks with a rapidly emerging mega-tongue.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 50


Microsoft

De Microsoft, nom d’une entreprise d’informatique. Mot-valise compose du préfixe micro-, abréviation de microcomputer, et du terme soft, abréviation du substantif software (logiciel).

Entreprise multinationale dont les produits sont omniprésents.

Similarly, said Fraley, farmers were going to demand Bt cotton or Roundup-resistant soybean plants no matter where they went shopping for seeds. Monsanto would be the Microsoft of agriculture.

Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, 2001,ISBN 0738202916, page 110

The company wanted to turn Celera into the Microsoft of the gene-hunting world, selling its version of the human genome to private or public gene hunters through a proprietary computer program.

Merrill Goozner, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs, 2005nISBN 0520246705, page 64

Shepherding is more or less gone (though there’s an interesting move back toward discipleship in today’s church especially among those influenced by Rick Warren’s blockbuster book The Purpose-Driven Life), but Integrity remains as sort of the Microsoft of worship music.

Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, 2006,ISBN 0306814579, page 232


etch

to etch (infinitive)
etches (present third-person singular)
etched (preterite)
etched (participle past)
etching (participle present)

Graver quelque chose dans la mémoire de quelqu’un.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall is etched on our memory.

La chute du mur de Berlin est gravée dans nos mémoires.


hugize

to hugize (infinitive)
hugizes (present third-person singular)
hugized (preterite)
hugized (participle past)
hugizing (participle present)

This architect is planning to hugize his already vast house into a castle.


harelip

Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk’s gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal.

Alan Moore, Entrevue sur la BBC Radio 4, 27 Janvier 2005


curmudgeon

Une personne bourrue, têtue, de mauvaise humeur, souvent en association au cynisme et au vieil âge.

A very "fine old English gentleman", was my grand-uncle Rumgudgeon, but unlike him of the song, he had his weak points. He was a little, pursy, pompous, passionate semicircular somebody, with a red nose, a thick scull, a long purse, and a strong sense of his own consequence. With the best heart in the world, he contrived, through a predominant whim of contradiction, to earn for himself, among those who only knew him superficially, the character of a curmudgeon.

Edgar Allan Poe, Three Sundays in a Week, 1841


fuzz

(1590) Étymologie obscure, peut-être le dérivé régressif de fuzzy attesté un peu postérieurement et apparenté à fussig (« informe, spongieux ») en allemand, voos (« informe, mou, spongieux ») en néerlandais.

His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.

Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, 1895

…scientific advances happen more often at the frontier of representation, at the edge of resolution where an image dissolves into fuzz and blur.

Iain Boyd Whyte, Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010

Let's get the hell out of here before the fuzz turns up.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, 2009


passion fruit

De passion (« passion ») et fruit (« fruit »).

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He brought four passion fruits from the market.

Il a ramené quatre fruits de la passion du marché.


Muriel

Prénom celtique, équivalent du composé de muir et de geal, littéralement « claire mer », apparenté à Meryl, Meriel. L’élément celtique signifiant « mer » se retrouve dans Murphy.

Guy Halifax, gentleman, married Muriel Joyce, spinster, May 17, in the year of our Lord 1779.

Dinah Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman, 1802

Lady Muriel accompanied us to the door. "You couldn't have given my father a more acceptable present!" she said, warmly.

Muriel Stuart.

Muriel’s Wedding.


opus piscatum

Opus piscatum (appareil en arêtes de poisson).

The 'opus spicatum' (meaning like ears of corn, also called laying herringbone) and opus piscatum (referring to the fishbone) are two arrangements already in use in Roman times and still traditionally found in some areas.

Paul F. McCombie, Jean-Claude Morel, Denis Garnier, Drystone Retaining Walls: Design, Construction and Assessment, 2016


go to town

(Date à préciser)Composé de go et de town, littéralement « aller en ville ».

\ˈɡəʊ tə ˈtaʊn\

Être enthousiaste, vigoureux, ou expert.

She really went to town with the party preparations.

Elle s’est vraiment régalée avec les préparatifs de la fête.


get on one’s nerves

I can only take so much of him. But after a while he just gets on my nerves.


Bolshevik

(Date à préciser) Du russe большевик, bolchevik

Anglo-Russian rivalries in Afghanistan continued following the overthrow of the Tsarist regime and the establishment of the Bolshevik government in 1917, although this dynamic was somewhat muted in comparison with previous decades..

Amin Saikal, Zone of crisis : Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2014, page 18


glut

(Verbe) (XIVᵉ siècle) Probablement de l’ancien français glotir (« engloutir, avaler ») qui en anglais a pris le sens de « rassasier, trop manger ». Apparenté à glutton (« glouton, mangeur excessif »), gluttony (« gourmandise »).

(Nom) Déverbal du précédent qui au XVIᵉ siècle est passé du sens de « gorgée, ce qui est avalé pour rassasier » à « rassasiement » puis « surabondance » pour prendre celui de « excès ».

A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.


glut

to glut (infinitive)
gluts (present third-person singular)
glutted (preterite)
glutted (participle past)
glutting (participle present)

To glut one's appetite.

Come Kings and Bassoes, let us glut our swords
That thirst to drinke the feeble Perseans blood.

Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, 1587–1588


bondage and discipline language

bondage and discipline languages (plural)

Langage de programmatioon particulièrement contraignant

Java is a bondage and discipline language. Javascript is not.


-ene

Slovene, Damascene


overthink

to overthink (infinitive)
overthinks (present third-person singular)
overthought (preterite)
overthought (participle past)
overthinking (participle present)

Penser excessivement, analyser excessivement.

Don’t overthink the problem. It’s not that difficult.

Ne pense pas trop au problème. Ce n’est pas si difficile.


braveheart

Composé de brave (« brave, courageux ») et de heart (« cœur »).

more braveheart (comparative)
most braveheart (superlative)

For all of Newcastle’s braveheart efforts, Wolves were also guilty of profligacy with Fletcher and Doyle wasting chances when in good positions.

Saj Chowdhury, «Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle », BBC Sport, 1ᵉʳ octobre 2011


braveheart

Jumping off a cliff is indeed dangerous, but it’s meant for bravehearts only.

Sauter d’une falaise est en effet dangereux, mais c’est uniquement réservé aux courageux.

Pallavi Sharma, «Beating Stress May Not be a Cake Walk for all », Top News, 29 septembre 2011


in touch

Keep in touch.

Let’s stay in touch.


Mrs Watanabe

Mrs Watanabe, the market’s metaphor for Japan’s housewife yen speculators, has come back to life.

Kosuke Takahashi, The return of 'Mrs Watanabe', Asia Times, 2009

Mrs Watanabe is tiptoeing back into Japan’s stockmarket

?story_id=13382159 Japanese stocks: Wide girls, Economist, 2009


Latino

(1946) De l’espagnol latino ici au sens de latinoamericano → voir Latin America. (1974) forme adjectivale.

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US election: why Latino and Hispanic voters are shifting to Trump after a long history of supporting the Democrats?


Latino

Latinos are the second-largest group of voters in America. Here’s what impacts their vote.

Latinos are the second-largest group of voters in America, 22 aout 2024


blueberrying

The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.

Henry James Smith, Amédée’s Son, Houghton Mifflin Company (1908),page 91, 1908

Most joyously recalled is the blueberrying — a pleasure I had not had since my youthful days. Huge ones they, hanging thick and easy; that night when I shut my eyes I saw blueberries, a dense pattern, like wallpaper.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, University of Wisconsin Press (1991),ISBN 9780299127404, page 231, 1935

No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December.

Carrie Jones, Love (And Other Uses for Duct Tape), Flux (2008),ISBN 9780738712574, page 74, 2008


subsurface

Termedérivé de surface (« surface »), avec le préfixe sub- (« sub- »).

A fatigue limit of 195 MPa for machined and polished samples was obtained by substantial removal of surface and subsurface defects.

Une limite de fatigue de 195 MPa pour les échantillons usinés et polis a été obtenue par l’élimination substantielle des défauts de surface et en subsurface.

Milad Hamidi Nasab, Alessandro Giussani, Dario Gastaldi, Valeria Tirelli, Maurizio Vedani, « Effect of Surface and Subsurface Defects on Fatigue Behavior of AlSi10Mg Alloy Processed by Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) », dans Metals, nᵒ 10, 29 septembre 2019, vol. 9, page 1063 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/met9101063 texte intégral


lose face

(Date à préciser) Calque du chinois 丟臉, diū liǎn, signifiant littéralement « perdre la face ».

Ahithophel, Absalom’s chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected.

La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

John Shelby Spong, Beyond Moralism: A Contemporary View of the Ten Commandments, HarperCollins (2000),ISBN 9781878282149, page non numérotée, 1986

When you start to feel unmotivated, you will look for ways to weasel out of your commitments. We all do it. If there’s a stealth way to back out, without ever losing face, you will do it without hesitation.

Mel Robbins, Stop Saying You’re Fine: Discover a More Powerful You, Crown Archetype (2011),ISBN 9780307716729, page 221, 2011

He had arranged for one of his managers to be present in the office with us, so I should have realised immediately that there was little chance of him backing down since that would have meant losing face in front of a subordinate.

Sharon Pincott, Battle for the President’s Elephants: Life, Lunacy and Elation in the African Bush, Jacana Media (2012),ISBN 9781431403592, page 97, 2012


keep posted

- I’ll keep you posted on the case.


spell out

Épeler tout en lettres, sans acronymes, abréviations ni chiffres.

A number at the beginning of a sentence must be spelled out.

Lucille Keir, et al.,Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies, 2007, ISBN 9781111798444, p. 145


katajjaniq

Emprunté à l’inuktitut ᑲᑕᔾᔭᓂᖅ, katajjaniq (« chant guttural traditionnel »).

Yesterday, Quebec recognized its first example of intangible cultural heritage: throat singing, katajjaniq.

« Inuit throat singing granted special designation in Quebec », CBC News, 29 janvier 2014


RAT

(Date à préciser) Sigle de remote access trojan.

Type de virus informatique permettant de prendre le contrôle à distance d’un ordinateur infecté.

A RAT is typically deployed as a malicious payload using exploit kits, such as Metasploit. Once installed, the RAT gets connected to the command-and-control server, which the hackers control. The hackers achieve this connection by compromising an open TCP port on the target device.

Un RAT est typiquement déployé comme charge utile malicieuse par l’intermédiaire de kits d’exploit tel que Metasploit. Une fois installé, le RAT se connecte au server de commande controlé par le hackeur. Les hackeurs parviennent à établir cette connexion en compromettant un port TCP ouvert de la machine ciblée.

Kinza Yasar, RAT (remote access Trojan) sur techtarget.com. Consulté le 4 mars 2023


airborne

There goes the siren that warns of the air raid/There comes the sound of the guns sending flak/Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne/Got to get up for the coming attack

Iron Maiden, Aces High (album Powerslace, 1984)


beat one to it

I was going to wash the dinner dishes before I went to sleep, but you beat me to it.


family-phobia

Over 100,000 conservative French marched through Paris and Lyon on Sunday accusing the government of “family-phobia” for legalizing gay marriage and other planned policies they say will harm traditional families.

TomHeneghan, "French conservatives march against government ‘family-phobia’", Reuters.com, 2 février 2014

A gathering against “family-phobia” is scheduled to take place Feb. 2.

PeterGumbel, "Hollande and French attitudes about the family", Miami Herald.com, 19 janvier 2014


chartalism

In fact, Chartalism has tended to be seen as a populist underside of economic theory, favored by mainly cranks.

David Graeber, Debt, The first 5,000 years, 2011


sissy

(1846) Forme étendue de sis, abréviation de sister (« sœur »). Le sens de « garçon efféminé » est attesté pour la première fois en 1879 ou 1887.

“What! Bill Gadsby? Is this town plumb crazy? Say! If you put that fop in City Hall you’ll find all its railings flapping with pink satin ribbons; a janitor at its main door, squirting vanilla on all who go in; and its front lawn will turn into a pansy farm! Put a man in City Hall, not a sissy who thinks out ‘upsy-downsy, insy-outsy’ camping suits for girls!”

Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby, Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc., 1939, Chapitre 22

Here’s some more cool slang people are comfortable using—‘pussy’ means you’re weak, ‘dick’ means you’re a jerk, a ‘sissy’ means you need to toughen up, etc.

RenitaSiqueira, « Trapped By Gendered Language? Is There A Way Out? », shethepeople.tv, 3 février 2020

So I would put on a mask when I was with my peers, rather than authentically feel my feelings. That’s how I wound up having the default script of masculinity embed itself as a chant in my brain, as I grew up into a toxic teenager: Man up. Don’t cry. Don’t back down. Work harder. Have more sex. Don’t show weakness. Don’t share your feelings. Don’t be a sissy.

DennisShinski, « ‘Western alienation’ isn’t a political talking point – it’s a real crisis, for real people », The Globe and Mail, 7 février 2020


sissy

"A sissy outfit, that 's what it is," he said abruptly; "and a sissy program. None of it in mine, please."

Jack London, The Cruise of the Dazzler, 1902, Chapitre 1

We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile, 2012


backoff

Situation où un algorithme ou processus évite une action qui était prévue.

A backoff strategy to avoid collisions

Une stratégie "backoff" pour éviter les collisions.


classless

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We lived in a classless state, where all were equal.


once-in-a-lifetime

(Siècle à préciser) → voir once, in, a et lifetime

Qui a de fortes chances de ne se produire qu’une seule fois dans la vie de quelqu’un.

It was really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him.

C’était une vraiment une occasion qui ne se présenterait qu’une fois dans sa vie.


cotidal

The first memoir which was published by Mr. Whewell was an “Essay towards a first approximation to a map of cotidal lines,” and appeared in our Transactions for 1833.

The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, vol. XII, Londres, 1838, p. 352


cotidal

Dr Whewell was obliged to abandon his famous chart of cotidals in 1836 on two grounds: (1) the excessive contouring of well-determined cotidals, and (2) the great difference of epoch of the diurnal wave in Europe and America, together with the identical epoch in Spain and at the Cape of Good Hope, supposed to be separated by a long journey up the Atlantic.

The National Geographic Magazine, vol. X, Washington, 1899, p. 365


hellish

more hellish (comparative)
most hellish (superlative)

I woke up from a hellish noise coming from the house next door.

Not more unutterable could have been the chaos of hellish sound if the pit itself had opened to release the agony of the damned, for in one inconceivable cacophony was centered all the supernal terror and unnatural despair of animate nature.

H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator


Indo-European

(1813) Motdérivé de European, avec le préfixe Indo-.

Indo-European languages.


Bacon

De l’anglo-normand, lui-même d’origine discutée :
:# à rapprocher de Bayeux ;
:# apparenté à Bacot avec le suffixe -on ;
:# dérivé du nom d’homme germanique Bac(c)o, Bahho, du radical *bag- (« (se) battre »), lui-même à bang en anglais, Bengel en allemand.

Roger Bacon.


Horeb

De l’hébreu ancien חֹרֵב, horev ; la localité galloise tient son nom du mont biblique → voir Beulah pour un autre exemple.

Mount Horeb.


to date

Jusqu’à présent, jusqu’à ce jour, à ce jour, à date.

To date, they have sold only 500 copies of the book.

À ce jour, ils ont seulement vendus 500 exemplaires du livre.


god mode

Mode de jeu où le joueur est invulnérable aux dégâts, typiquement activé en entrant un code triche.

You can activate Unreal’s god mode by simply typing “GOD”.

On peut activer le mode invincible d’Unreal en tapant simplement « GOD ».


snag

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

The snag is that …


partisanship

Dérivé de partisan, avec le suffixe -ship.

The extreme partisanship in the parliament was hurting the country.


unrepentant

Dérivé de repentant, avec le préfixe un-.

He is unrepentant about his actions.


unapologetic

Dérivé de apologetic, avec le préfixe un-.

Despite the public outrage, she remained unapologetic.

Malgré le choc ressenti par le public, elle restait de marbre.

The lyrics are unapologetic and paired with striking melodies.

Les paroles sont décomplexées et mêlées à des mélodies frappantes.


high time

Grand temps (notion de grande nécessité, ou d’urgence…).

It is high time I started doing my homework!

Il est grand temps que je commence à faire mes devoirs !

It was high time to tell the truth.

Le verbe principal de la proposition subordonnée à l’expression be high time est soit à l’infinitif (donc avec to), soit au subjonctif


user-friendly

(1980-1985) Composé de user et de friendly, littéralement « amical envers l’utilisateur ».

user-friendlier (comparative)
user-friendliest (superlative)
userfriendly (rare)

My smartphone has a user-friendly interface.

Mon smartphone a une interface conviviale.


workmanlike

more workmanlike (comparative)
most workmanlike (superlative)

Qui ressemble ou a les caractéristiques d’un ouvrier.

He went with: “Holy shit.” Come to think of it, that’s also a workmanlike gloss of a lot of Bible verses.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 37


Cavalier

Cavalier officers tended to quarrel and fight duels

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 226


toffee

A popular variant in the US is English toffee, which is a very buttery toffee often made with almonds.

toffee sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


men’s room

\ˈmɛn‿z ˈɹʊm\

John Winston, the man who is quietly eating at the table behind me, will soon get up and go to the men’s room where he will be the victim of a savage murder.

John Winston, l’homme qui est en train de manger calmement à la table derrière moi, va bientôt se lever pour aller aux toilettes pour hommes où il sera victime d’un meurtre sauvage.


eye chart

\ˈaɪ ˈtʃɑːt\

The doctor said I needed glasses after I failed to read past the fourth line on the eye chart.

Le docteur a dit que j’ai besoin de lunettes après que j’ai échoué à lire au-delà de la quatrième ligne du tableau de lettres / du tableau optométrique.


king’s ransom

En référence aux sommes exceptionnellement élevées demandées contre la libération du roi. → voir king et ransom

“But to yonder pavilion . . . the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king’s ransom.”

Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman, chapitre 12, 1825

Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king’s ransom of diamonds.

Jane Feather, Rushed to the Altar, Pocket Books (2010),ISBN 9781439145241, p. 386, 2010


Gaylord

Du français Gaillard par étymologie populaire compris comme lecomposé de gay et de lord.

Mitchell Gaylord.


Gaylord

Gaylord Nelson.


Gwendoline

Gwendoline Butler.


bog down

to bog down (infinitive)
bogs down (present third-person singular)
bogged down (preterite)
bogged down (participle past)
bogging down (participle present)

The army was bogged down in an unwinnable war.

They bogged him down with paperwork so that he had no free time to react.


mediaeval

The house is very large and of all periods back, I should say, to mediaeval times,


body of work

(Date à préciser) → voir body, of et work

Œuvre (totalité de la production créative ou académique).

Did you write songs specifically for the film, or were they chosen from your body of work?

Avez-vous écrit des chansons spécialement pour le film, ou bien ont-elles été choisies parmi votre œuvre ?

Jill Malcolm,« Interview: Damien Carter of Birdemic », Cinedelphia, 15 octobre 2013


flag down

to flag down (infinitive)
flags down (present third-person singular)
flagged down (preterite)
flagged down (participle past)
flagging down (participle present)

Utiliser un geste ou un signal similaire pour attirer l’attention de quelqu’un, se manifester.

If you want a taxi in Central London, you’ll have to stand in the road and flag one down.

Si vous voulez prendre un taxi au centre de Londres, vous devrez vous tenir sur le bord de la route et en héler un.


shoot one’s wad

Épuiser toutes ses ressources ou ses efforts ; exprimer tous les arguments ou les idées que l’on a.

Uh, Mrs. Meyer, as far as girls is concerned, I shot my wad.

Euh, Madame Meyer, en ce qui concerne les filles, je suis à sec.

Monty Python : Le Sens de la vie, Martin Luther dans la scène coupée « The Adventures of Martin Luther », 1983


make out

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de make

Cheques may be made out to the Foo Bar Company.

Les chèques doivent être libellés au nom de la Foo Bar Company.

The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Discerner, parvenir à voir, à entendre, etc.

In the distance, I could just make out a shadowy figure.

Au loin, je pouvais à peine discerner une silhouette dans l’ombre.

Oh, you were on a TV game show? How did you make out?

Oh, tu étais dans un jeu télévisé? Comment t’en es-tu sorti ?

His version of the story makes me out to be the bad guy.

Sa version de l’histoire me fait passer pour le mauvais gars.

Prendre dans les bras et embrasser passionnément.

We found a secluded spot where we could make out in private.

Nous avons trouvé un lieu isolé où nous pouvions nous embrasser en privé.

Se livrer à des caresses intimes ou à des rapports sexuels.

As long as she knows that she’s completely free to do what she wants, she’ll remain quite loyal to the commitment she made - especially if there’s plenty of wiggle-room for the occasional flirtation, make out or friendly fling.

Tant qu'elle sait qu'elle est complètement libre de faire ce qu'elle veut, elle restera absolument loyale à l'engagement qu'elle a pris - surtout s'il y a beaucoup de marge de manœuvre pour les occasionnels flirts, pelotages ou aventures entre amis.

Libra Woman: Personality Traits: Love & More,Astrology.com, 17 janvier 2018.


philanderer

Dérivé de philander, avec le suffixe -er.

Oh, no. Never make a hero of a philanderer.


bright side

(Date à préciser)Composé de bright et de side.

On the bright side, I’ll never have to see my boss again if I’m fired.


macabrely

Motdérivé de macabre, avec le suffixe -ly.

When Heracles returns alive and victorious from Hades, he finds his family macabrely dressed in their funeral garments, awaiting death.

Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead, 1999


sex life

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

Anyway, how is your sex life?

Quoi qu’il en soit, comment va ta vie sexuelle ?

The Room, Johnny s’adressant à Mark, 2003


sex-life

That sex-life update was TMI!

Cette mise à jour concernant sa vie sexuelle était inappropriée !


rabbit holing

Serait une référence à l’entrée du monde magique dans Alice au Pays des merveilles, de rabbit « lapin » et hole « trou, terrier ».

I like to take the time to completely understand the problems with the current patchset before making any changes…which often results in too much rabbit-holing, and not enough coding.

Maria Pacana, The Never-Ending Patch, 2014


for starters

Pour commencer, premièrement, tout d’abord.

The circle is the most obvious shape with “diameter 1,” but there are infinitely many others: the equilateral triangle, the regular pentagon, the regular hexagon and a three-sided shape with bulging sides known as the Reuleaux triangle, for starters.

Le cercle est la figure la plus évidente avec un « diamètre unité », mais il en existe une infinité d’autres : le triangle équilatéral, le pentagone régulier, l’hexagone régulier, et une figure à trois faces convexes connue sous le nom de triangle de Reuleaux, pour les plus notables.

KevinHartnett, Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover, Quanta Magazine, 15/11/2018


nociceptive

Traditionally, doctors have divided pain into two categories: nociceptive pain, triggered by injuries such as bruises, burns, fractures (…)

Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong, The Guardian, 2021


at length

At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 45, édition de 1869


Boston Brahmin

(Date à préciser) → voir Boston et Brahmin

Yes, this guy is a super-WASP. Boston Brahmin.

Oui, ce type est un super WASP. Brahmane de Boston.

J. W. Whitehead, Appraising the Graduate,Dustin Hoffman s’adressant à Mike Nichols


plain Jane

Miss Parton revealed that she considered herself to be unattractive and a plain Jane but yearned to be glamorous.

Mademoiselle Parton a révélé qu’elle se considérait peu attrayante et comme une madame Tout-le-monde mais aspirait à être glamour.

Laura Cox,« The town tramp inspired my trashy look because I was a plain Jane, says Dolly Parton », Daily Mail, 11 décembre 2012


all the rage

(Date à préciser) → voir all, the et rage

\ɔːl ðə ɹeɪdʒ\

This new video game is all the rage.


on the same page

(Date à préciser) → voir on, the, same et page

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-on the same page.ogg

Environments may be different, situations may be different, but if you put all that stuff on the side, we’re still on the same page, meaning we do have some issues.

Le milieu peut être différent, la situation peut être différente, mais si on met tout ça de côté, nous sommes toujours sur la même longueur d’onde, ce qui veut dire que nous avons en effet quelques problèmes.

Matt Fagerholm,« Interview: Cult Icon Tommy Wiseau Revisits ‘The Room’ », propos de Tommy Wiseau, 12 février 2011


to the day

On May 6, 2010, almost 11 years to the day after Dana Plato’s death, her son Tyler Lambert died at age 25 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Le 6 mai 2010, presque 11 ans jour pour jour après la mort de Dana Plato, son fils Tyler Lambert est mort à l’âge de 25 ans d’une blessure à la tête causée par un tir d’arme à feu qu’il s’est infligé lui-même à Tulsa (Oklahoma).

Wikipédia en anglais, article sur Dana Plato


Rolodex

Upon entering the restaurant, I could see various diners consulting their mental Rolodexes, trying to place Tommy.

Dès mon entrée dans le restaurant, je pus voir divers clients consulter leur Rolodex mental, essayant de situer Tommy.

Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room


come full circle

Retourner à la case départ ; boucler la boucle.

It took his experiences in Los Angeles and his time working on the outrageous cult film to come full circle and realize that he should stick to writing.

Il a fallu ses expériences à Los Angeles et le temps où il a travaillé sur le film culte extravagant pour boucler la boucle et se rendre compte qu’il devrait s’en tenir à l’écriture.

« Newspaperman recounts Hollywood act in 'My Big Break' », arizona.newszap.com, 27 février 2013


you don’t say

Vraiment ? Sérieusement ? Pas possible ! Sans blague ? Note d’usage : Parfois ironique après une affirmation jugée évidente.

They’re going to have a baby? You don’t say!


cream cheese

(XVIIIᵉ siècle)Composé de cream (« crème ») et de cheese (« fromage »).

I always eat my bagels with cream cheese in the morning.

Le matin, je mange toujours les bagels au cream cheese.


have nots

Du verbe have (« avoir ») et de l’adverbe not (« pas »).

The haves and the have nots.


richly

Richly decorated


tammite

(XIXᵉ siècle)Dérivé de Tamm, avec le suffixe -ite.

TAMMITE (Ferro-tungstine) : An incomplete description of material containing tungsten, iron, a small amount of manganese, and undetermined constituents was published by Tamm in 1872, for which the name crookesite was proposed.

Paul Francis Kerr, Tungsten Mineralization in the United States, 1946

Under these circumstances Mr. Crookes suggests that, as soon as the missing constituent be identified, the new mineral may appropriately be designated Tammite.

The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology, 1872


Mitchell

De l’ancien français Michel, apparenté à Michael.

Mitchell Hurwitz.


Mitchell

Joni Mitchell.


dishrag

(1830-1840) Américanisme ; de dish (« vaisselle ») et rag (« chiffon »).

Lavette (chiffon servant à nettoyer la vaisselle).

I buy you beautiful dresses, and you treat them like they were some dishrag!

Je t’achète de belles robes, et tu les traites comme si ce n’étaient que des lavettes !

Mommie Dearest, réplique de Faye Dunaway interprétant Joan Crawford, 1981


mousetrap

Mot composé de mouse (« souris ») et de trap (« piège »).

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

to build a better mousetrap.


neverland

The peculiar strength of popular music (and, by analogy, civil poetry) is that it is a public utterance capable of connecting with hearers who are in danger of becoming lost in private confusion; that is, they may wander in wonderlands or neverlands of private neuroses, often sexual.

Stephen W. Delchamps, Civil Humor: The Poetry of Gavin Ewart, 2002


hamstring

to hamstring (infinitive)
hamstrings (present third-person singular)
hamstrung (preterite)
hamstrung (participle past)
hamstringing (participle present)

The current trend toward higher concentration of power and control in the central government (…) could hamstring China as the global economy reaches higher stages of development.

Who’s going to win? Chinese workers or robots?, Market Watch, 2018-04


boardwalk

Promenade en bois (chemin pour piétons, généralement constitué de bois et situé le long d'une plage).

The boardwalk along the seafront is currently being repaired.


Rousseauesque

(Siècle à préciser) Emprunt au français Rousseauesque.

Melville makes certain Rousseauesque equations which form the premises on which the story rests. These are innocence-nature-morality on the one hand, depravity-civilization-necessity on the other.

AladárSarbu, “Melville, Our Contemporary”, Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, vol. 27, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1985, p. 303

On the other hand the stories present an idyllicised Rousseauesque picture of country life: hardworking, non-drinking peasants are portrayed as healthy, happy and prospering amid the beauties of Nature.

UrsulaPhillips, Introduction à Malvina, or The heart’s intuition de Maria Wirtemberska, Polish Cultural Foundation, Londres, 2001, p. xiv-xv


shenanigan

\ʃəˈnæ.nɪ.ɡən\

Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.

That’s enough! I’ll have none of your shenanigans here in the town square.


un-Rousseauesque

(Siècle à préciser) De Rousseauesque avec le préfixe marquant l’opposition un-.

But he sides with them, making them credible and powerful figures, particularly because he needs them to make a rather un-Rousseauesque point.

Patrick W.Byrne, Les Liaisons dangereuses : A Study of Motive and Moral, University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1989, p. 35

And of course, in his early novel Typee (1846), Melville has his narrator Tom, a shipwrecked young sailor, take us right into the heart of a Polynesian society and, in a most un-Rousseauesque moment, uncover grizzly evidence of cannibalism.

Gerald E. P.Gillespie, “Traveling into the Abyss” in Manfred Schmeling & Monika Schmitz-Emans (Éditeurs), Das Paradigma Der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne, Königshausen & Neumann, 2007, p. 112


Rousseau-esque

(Siècle à préciser) Emprunt au français Rousseau-esque.

The Rousseau-esque indigenous inhabitants (peace-loving, handsome, vigorous, chaste and naturally eloquent -- O gens lndorum, vos terque quoterque beati,

nulla quibus requiem sollicitudo vetat!) gave the Pennyslvania settlers no trouble.

Echos du Monde classique/Classical Views, Classical Association of Canada, 1986,p. 96


Ferrier

De l’ancien français ferrier, apparenté à farrier, Farrier.

Dave Ferrier.

James Frederick Ferrier.


self-supporting

a self-suporting person

une personne qui subvient à ses (propres) besoins

a self-supporting company


buzz off

S’en aller avec un bruit de bourdonnement.

The bee was flying around my head, but then it buzzed off.

L’abeille volait autour de ma tête, mais elle partit en bourdonnant.


wide open

wider open (comparative)
widest open (superlative)
more wide open (comparative)
most wide open (superlative)
wide-open

The front door was wide open.

He was staring at me, his eyes wide open.


big data

→ voir big et data. Popularisé vers 2009.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Samuel Muldoon (Muldoonsamuel55)-big data.wav

Today, big data is coming into the mainstream.

Aujourd’hui, les mégadonnées arrivent parmi le grand public.


Miles

Apparenté au français Milo, par étymologie populaire, attribué au latin miles (« soldat, guerrier »).

Miles Davis is a famous jazz musician.


give it one’s best shot

(Date à préciser) → voir give, it, one, best et shot

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I didn’t win the contest, but I sure gave it my best shot.

Je n’ai pas gagné le concours, mais j’ai assurément fait de mon mieux.


turnkey

She was a hired nurse, the wife of one of the turnkeys

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 140, édition de 1869


reaver

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer.

Alors vint Conan, le Cimmérien aux cheveux noirs, le regard sombre, l'épée à la main. Un voleur, un pillard, un tueur.

The phoenix on the sword by Robert E. Howard


purpose-built

Relatif à un bâtiment construit avec plusieurs appartements, par opposition à un bâtiment converti en appartements.

A purpose-built block of flats is one building, but each flat within that building is an independent unit.

SimonGarner et Alexandra Frith, A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenan, Oxford University Press, 2010, page 224


saving grace

(Date à préciser) De saving et grace, soit littéralement « grâce qui sauve ».

\ˈseɪ.vɪŋ ˈɡɹeɪs\

Qualité qui compense un ou plusieurs autre(s) défaut(s).

The actor’s good performance is the only saving grace of this film.

La bonne interprétation de l’acteur est la seule chose qui rachète ce film.


vanish into thin air

Se déguiser en courant d’air, s'évanouir, se volatiliser.

“Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of the hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country. What was he, then? If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff, he could only have been a house-surgeon or a house-physician—little more than a senior student. And he left five years ago—the date is on the stick. So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.”

Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902


be cruel to be kind

Faire ou dire des choses dures à quelqu'un, quand on pense que ça lui sera malgré tout bénéfique.

I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so
 To punish me with this, and this with me,
That I must be their scourge and minister.
I will bestow him, and will answer well
The death I gave him. So again good night.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Acte III scène 4


play fast and loose

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Agir avec désinvolture, traiter par-dessus la jambe, prendre à la légère.

And shall these hands, so lately purg’d of blood,
 So newly join’d in love, so strong in both,
 Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?
 Play fast and loose with faith?

William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Acte III scène 1


budge an inch

Hostess
I know my remedy; I must go fetch the thirdborough. [Exit]
Sly
Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him by law. I'll not
budge an inch, boy; let him come and kindly. [Falls asleep]

William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew Induction, Scène 1


silently

That‘s almost sufficient, but any extra keyword arguments are silently ignored.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 570


spin off

to spin off (infinitive)
spins off (present third-person singular)
spun off (preterite)
spun off (participle past)
spinning off (participle present)

For example, an OS/2-based data manager might spin off a thread to sort a file or allow two files to be sorted at the same time, one using CPU time while the other is waiting for disk I/O.


hogwash

Composé de hog et de wash. En ce qui concerne wash, on peut rappeler que vers 1950 on pouvait encore lire sur les flacons de produits destinés à laver la vaisselle l'indication d'une concentration maximale du produit dans l'eau de vaisselle donnée comme repas aux porcs.

At the time, it was hogwash – pure PR garbage.

Woody Leonhard, Write once, run on any Windows device? Maybe so, 2014


sans déconner

Dans certains cas, s’exprime sur le ton de l'ironie ou du sarcasme en réaction à ce qui est déjà su, connu ; réaction de surprise ou d'indignation feinte à un truisme, un propos relevant de l'évidence même.

No shit, Sherlock?


writethrough

Copie de chaque données du cache immédiatement sur la mémoire vive.

When the processor core writes to memory, the cache controller has two alternatives for its write policy. The controller can write to both the cache and main memory, updating the values in both locations; this approach is known as writethrough. Alternatively, the cache controller can write to cache memory and not update main memory, this is known as writeback or copyback.

ARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software, Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright, 10 mai 2004


writeback

Copie des données du cache sur la mémoire vive selon les cas.


cloisonette

Méthode de ferronnerie et de bijouterie voisine du cloisonné, de la résine remplaçant l'émail.

Cloisonette provides the same quality look and feel as Cloisonné while offering the ability to match most PMS colors. Resin material is fired for a high luster finish.

Site commercial, consulté le 6 avril 2014.


bar none

(Date à préciser) Possiblement une forme abrégée de to bar none (« n’en exclure aucun ») ou barring none (« en n’en excluant aucun »).

Sans exception, sans négliger quoi que ce soit de la même sorte.

It’s a price to be paid in a time when advocacy for whites has become, bar none, America’s most towering taboo.

C’est le prix à payer dans un âge où défendre les blancs est devenu, sans exception, le tabou le plus imposant de l’Amérique.

Anonymous Attorney,« Left Targets Kevin MacDonald Again. How About These Professors Too? », The Occidental Quarterly, 4 février 2010

Suit un substantif qualifié par un superlatif


paradoxolog

Classical Greek writers refer to Heracleitus as a paradoxolog, or maker of paradoxes, because of the puzzling nature of his gnomic sayings, which he is said to have collected in a book that he deposited in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus.

John Freely, Children of Achilles : The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the ..., page 26, 2010, I.B.Tauris


eat like a horse

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Manger comme quatre, manger comme un ogre.

If he ever took me out to dinner, he’d pick some cheap restaurant that served his special diet food, and then he’d eat like a horse and wince at the tab.

Ironman Magazine, vol. 59, No. 11, novembre 2000, p. 169


sashay

to sashay (infinitive)
sashays (present third-person singular)
sashayed (preterite)
sashayed (participle past)
sashaying (participle present)

Marcher avec désinvolture, de manière voyante, se pavaner.

Goldie pulled her skirts up in front of her, gave Elijah a look over her shoulder, and sashayed away.

Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field,ISBN 978054505575 ISBN invalide, page 80, 1994


inherently

Dérivé de inherent, avec le suffixe -ly.

Startup details are inherently platform-specific

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, p. 27


monger

Plus couramment utilisé dans un mot composé sans espace.

A warmonger.


tomcat

(XVIIIᵉ siècle)Composé de Tom et de cat, du nom du héro de The Life and Adventures of a Cat.

My big lazy tomcat is always looking for food.

Mon gros matou paresseux est toujours à la recherche de nourriture.


tomcat

to tomcat (infinitive)
tomcats (present third-person singular)
tomcatted (preterite)
tomcatted (participle past)
tomcatting (participle present)

Rôder près d'une fille dans un but sexuel.

Tomcatting all night and sleeping until afternoon.

Rôder toute la nuit et dormir jusqu’à l’après-midi.


Carolina

Dérivé savant du latin Carolus (« Charles ») avec le suffixe -ina ; l’État de la Caroline est nommé en l’honneur du roi Charles Iᵉʳ d’Angleterre.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Samuel Muldoon (Muldoonsamuel55)-Carolina.wav

The Carolinas are distinct for their economic dependence on tobacco as well as on cotton and rice, and for their many small-scale furniture, textile, and tobacco factories.

The Carolinas sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


out there

There are a lot of illiterate people out there who are afraid to even say that they can’t read.

Il y a beaucoup de gens illettrés dans le monde qui ont peur ne serait-ce que de dire qu’ils ne savent pas lire.

YusufJah et Sister Shah’Keyah, Uprising, 1997, ISBN 9780684825373

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

S’il y a qui que ce soit dans le monde qui doute encore que l’Amérique est un endroit où toutes les choses sont possibles, qui se demande encore si le rêve de nos fondateurs est vivant de nos jours, qui s’interroge encore sur la puissance de notre démocratie, ce soir est votre réponse.

Barack Obama, Discours de victoire, 2008


out there

more out there (comparative)
most out there (superlative)

Étrange, excentrique. Note d’usage : Généralement en fin de phrase.

I like the ideas Melissa came up with, but Brad’s ideas were just out there.

J’aime bien les idées que Melissa a imaginées, mais les idées de Brad étaient tout simplement barrées.


shampoo

(1762) Du hindi चाँपो, champo, impératif de चाँपना, champna (« presser, masser »). Le nom commun vient du verbe et est attesté depuis 1866.

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I’m going to give the carpet a shampoo.


shampoo

to shampoo (infinitive)
shampoos (present third-person singular)
shampooed (preterite)
shampooed (participle past)
shampooing (participle present)

My neat-freak of a friend has been compulsively shampooing for every bath he has taken.


lookup

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

My database lookup failed because I misspelled the word.


coolant

Here, a scientist urges Freeman to quickly activate the coolant pumps.

Ici, un scientifique presse Freeman d’activer rapidement les pompes de liquide de refroidissement.

« Sector F Lambda Complex », Half-Life Wiki


cubelet

Petit cube, ou sous-cube (cube faisant partie d’un plus gros cube ou d’une plus grosse structure).

Each cubelet destroyed by a player awards them coins.

Chaque sous-cube détruit par un joueur lui rapporte des pièces.

« Curiosity – What's Inside the Cube? », Wikipédia


snell

Voir snel en vieux haut allemand, isnel en ancien français.

He is a remarkably snell young lad.


diocese

The number of dioceses in the Church of England was reduced from forty-four to forty-two in 2014.


filth

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

Il annonce haut et fort Filth, souillure, le titre du numéro, et exécute une référence


photocall

\ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ˌkɔːl\

But Johnny Depp looked to be getting cosy with his Transcendence co-star Paul Bettany at the movie’s photocall in Los Angeles as the British actor jokingly gave him a peck on the cheek.

JamesLeyfield, « Look away now Amber! Johnny Depp gets a kiss on the cheek from co-star Paul Bettany at Transcendence photocall… as he admits to feeling ‘stupid’ using technology », Daily Mail.co.uk, 7 avril 2014


photo call

He was seen arriving in France yesterday afternoon, and it looks like there’s no rest for Ryan Reynolds who attended the photo call for his latest movie The Captive in Cannes this morning.

« Ryan Reynolds and Rosario Dawson turn up the heat in Cannes for The Captive photo call », Express.co.uk, 16 mai 2014

Angelina Jolie cut a fierce figure at a photo call for her new movie, Maleficent, at Hotel Bristol in Paris, France on Tuesday, May 6.


photo-call

Her latest film is a hot contender for this year’s Palm d’Or, but it was a rather different looking Rosario Dawson who attended a promotional photo-call ahead of its official launch at the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival.

JasonChester, « A close shave! Rosario Dawson shows off a drastic new hairstyle as she attends photo-call for The Captive at Cannes », Daily Mail.co.uk, 16 mai 2014


mesial

His pale Galilean eyes were upon her mesial groove. Venus Kallipyge. O, the thunder of those loins!


normcore

Mot-valise composé des mots normal et -core, popularisé par la journaliste Fiona Duncan dans un article du New York Magazine du 26 février 2014 intitulé « Normcore: Fashion for Those Who Realize They’re One in 7 Billion » — (Fiona Duncan, « Normcore: Fashion for Those Who Realize They’re One in 7 Billion », 26 février 2014, New York Magazine, lien).

When I texted my friend Brad (an artist whose summer uniform consisted of Adidas barefoot trainers, mesh shorts and plain cotton tees) for his take on the latest urban camouflage, I got an immediate reply: “lol normcore.”

Fiona Duncan, « Normcore: Fashion for Those Who Realize They’re One in 7 Billion », 26 février 2014, New York Magazine,lien


shard

Peter has broken the bottle, shards of glass have flew in the air.

Cavemen have been making tools with shards of silex for thousands years.


decommissioned

more decommissioned (comparative)
most decommissioned (superlative)

ICE was then redirected to study coronal mass ejections from the sun, before being decommissioned in 1997 (…)

Saving a space probe: Private team seeks to revive abandoned NASA spacecraft, CollectSpace.com, mai 2014

A decommissioned nuclear reactor.


wikiality

(2006) Mot valise de wiki et reality, créé par Stephen Colbert.

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

It's this view that Stephen Colbert was able to mock so effectively and hilariously as "wikiality": reality is what the wiki says it is.

Larry Sanger, Who says we know: On the new politics of knowledge, 2007


Yalta

The Yalta Conference.


thagomizer

Le terme a été inventé en 1982 par Gary Larson, dans une bande dessinée intitulée The Far Side où des hommes des cavernes sont réunis à une conférence, dans laquelle un professeur leur enseigne que les piques sont réputés pour « the late Thag Simmons » (« le défunt Thag Simmons »). Ce mot a été repris par Ken Carpenter, un paléontologue du Musée de la Nature et de la Science de Denver qui a utilisé ce terme pour décrire un fossile, à la Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, en 1993 ^([1]).

[ˈθæɡəmaɪzɚ]

[ˈθæɡəmaɪzə]

Like the thagomizer of the stegosaur, the ankylosaurid tail club was probably used to smash into attackers.

Thomas R. Holtz; Riley, Terry, The Little Giant Book of Dinosaurs,page 54, 2001


try out

If you want to play varsity, you’ll have to try out for the team.

We’re trying out for the parts of Romeo and Juliet.


superinterface

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

When an interface B inherits from interface A, interface A is known as the superinterface of interface B, and interface B is known as a subinterface of interface A.

Kishori Sharan, Java 7: A Comprehensive Approach to Learning Java 7, 17 septembre 2011


wholeheartedly

Composé de wholehearted et du suffixe -ly.

He jumped in wholeheartedly and began to learn the language.


tremendously

I enjoyed the performance tremendously.


Joyce

Du français Josse rapproché par étymologie populaire de joy, rejoice.

James Joyce.


not only

Because it is not only simpler, but, arguably, more natural, extended sequence unpacking will likely become widespread in Python code over time.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 358


bare-headed

She decided to go to the affair bare-headed.


æra

\ˈɛɹ.ə\ ou \ˈɪɚ.ə\

Variante orthographique de era (« ère »).

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original æra of my being

M. Shelley, Frankenstein. Page 213. 1823 (date de l’édition).


carrel

Carré, espace de lecture dans une bibliothèque.

He was busy writing his report in a small library carrel.


hike up

to hike up (infinitive)
hikes up (present third-person singular)
hiked up (preterite)
hiked up (participle past)
hiking up (participle present)

He hiked up his sagging trousers.

They tried to make more money by putting lots of salt in the popcorn and hiking up the price of drinks.


tie one’s shoes

Tie your shoes now, or you'll trip.


knock on the door

There's no doorbell. You'll have to knock on the door.


dwarfism

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

Studies of disproportionate dwarfisms in animals have revealed the importance of core proteins an sulfation in the development of cartilage.

J. D. Esko et al., Animal Cell Mutants Defective in Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 82, no. 10, p. 3200, 1985


aldebaranium

Composé de Aldebaran et du suffixe -ium.

The symbol for aldebaranium was Ad.


yeehaw

Expression de joie ou d’excitation, communément associée aux cow-boys.

Au Texas, ouais, il fait trop chaud, tout le monde est très "Yee Haw", l'accent est terrible...

Aedan Carden, Dix choses qui m'ont surpris en France, Youtube, 14 juillet 2018


place setting

We have four guests coming tonight. We’ll need six place settings, including us.


table setting

We have four guests coming tonight. We’ll need six table settings, including us.


muff

Du moyen anglais mof apparenté à mof, mouw en néerlandais, Muff en allemand, moufle en français → voir vulva pour le lien sémantique entre « enveloppe » et « vulve, con ».

Tissu ou fourrure dans lequel on s’enveloppe.

Selwyn …, after having boloed Drina to everybody’s exquisite satisfaction, looked around (…) to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure (…) and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

Manchon où mettre les mains pour les tenir au chaud.

While the saleslady’s back is turned for a moment, Mrs. Banker quickly conceals a pair of hose in her muff.

Someone repositioned the washcloth so it covered all of her muff. Then she heard a whooshing sound she recognized as an aerosol container being activated. She smelled shaving cream. They were going to shave her muff!

Plumeau sous le bec de certains oiseaux.

muff and beard.

a muff of a curate.


muff

to muff (infinitive)
muffs (present third-person singular)
muffed (preterite)
muffed (participle past)
muffing (participle present)

Maltraiter, gaffer, faire en dépit du bon sens.

Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs, like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.

Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, 1977, New York Review Books 2006, p. 69


highlander

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de highland, avec le suffixe -er.

Other essayists, however, detect significant distinctions between highlander and lowlander—differences in racial attitudes (abolitionist or rabid racist), in the types of work that African Americans performed, and in the extent to which perceptions of whiteness shaped how outsiders understood the region and acted toward it.

John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: “Introduction”, 10, 2001


forb

Du grec ancien φορβή, phorbē, « pâture », de φορβειν, phorbein, « brouter ».

Phorbe, plante à fleur, ni ligneuse ni herbeuse.

Clover, sunflower, cannabis and milkweed are forbs.

Most forbs do not woody stems and branches behind that will comme back to life in the spring. They will grow again from the roots up.

Cindy Crosby, The tallgrass prairie: an introduction, 2017, page 5


playful

You’re in a playful mood today.

Her writing has a very playful style to it.

The exhibit allowed children to explore ideas in a playful way.


cupcake

(Date à préciser)Composé de cup (« tasse ») et de cake (« gâteau »).

These homemade vanilla cupcakes are simply perfect.

Ces cupcakes à la vanille faits maison sont tout simplement parfaits.

Sally McKenney, « Simply Perfect Vanilla Cupcakes », blog Sally’s Baking Recipes, 28 juin 2022. Consulté le 1ᵉʳ décembre 2024

I remember the first time my dad tried a cupcake I made. “It’s good,” he said, “but isn’t it a bit too hard to eat?” he seriously questioned as he wiped away that dollop of buttercream on the tip of his nose.

Je me rappelle la première fois que mon père a goûté un de mes cupcakes. « C’est bon », dit-il. « Mais n’est-ce pas un peu difficile à manger ? » a-t-il sérieusement demandé alors qu’il essuyait la bonne cuillérée de crème au beurre du bout de son nez.

Angie, « How to Eat a Cupcake Properly? », blog BakingHow, 6 avril 2023. Consulté le 1ᵉʳ décembre 2024

You’re hot, cupcake! So it will be... men or women?

T’es canon, cupcake ! Alors, c’est quoi ton trip... les meufs ou les mecs ?

Arcane, réplique de Vi à Caitlyn, épisode 4, acte 2, saison 1, Riot Games, Los Angeles, Californie, novembre 2021.


Madiale

Amongst those expected at the sentencing will be Poppy and Madiale, Molefe’s daughters whom South African media recently quoted as saying they did not know where their father was till they read in the media that he had been convicted of murder in Botswana.

Morula Morula, « Judgment in murder of two Zimbabweans due tomorrow », Sunday Standard.info, 24 février 2008


no news is good news

(Date à préciser) → voir no, news et good

Littéralement « pas de nouvelle est une bonne nouvelle ».

Pas de nouvelles, bonnes nouvelles ; pas de nouvelle, bonnes nouvelles.

Hello Mouchtou, No News Good News


smoke and mirrors

It's all done with smoke and mirrors.


old saw

Cliché, adage, ou expression éculée, en particulier un proverbe ou une maxime.

He’s full of old saws, but he’s not much for original advice.

Il a plein de clichés en réserve, mais il n’est pas au point pour donner des conseils originaux.


Gross

De l’allemand Gross, apparenté à gross (« grossier »).

Arye Gross.


try on

On voit également to try on the shirt et to try the shirt on.

Why don't you try on the shirt and see if it fits?


bologna

Saucisse qui emprunte son nom à la ville italienne de Bologne.

Aliens are attacking New York City? You're full of bologna!

[Vous dites que] des extra-terrestres attaquent la ville de New York ? Vous êtes plein de mensonges !


in force

Is the regulation still in force?


pyroentomologist

(XXIᵉ siècle) De entomologist « personne qui étudie les insectes », avec le préfixe pyro- « qui concerne le feu ». Il s'agit d'un jeu de mot savant (les parties du mot viennent du grec ancien) sur le nom du logiciel Firebug, lequel est composé de fire « feu » et de bug « insecte, bestiole ».

Firebug pyroentomologist Rob Campbell gives a quick overview of Firebug,.

F. D. Giezendanner, Firebug : Tutoriels vidéo sur Dailymotion, 2010


shebang

(1871) Origine inconnue. Dans le sens de « véhicule », peut-être du français char-à-bancs.

[…] So they got into the empty omnibus and sat down. Colonel Jack says: “…What is the name of this.” Colonel Jim told him it was a barouche. After a while he poked his head out in front and said to the driver, “I say, Johnny, this suits me. We want this shebang all day. Let the horses go.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), 1871 ; cité dansFred W. Lorch, « Mark Twain’s Lecture from Roughing it », dans American Literature, novembre 1950, page 305


Tudor

The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin.

House of Tudor sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)

Henri Tudor.


Tudor

Qui est du style des bâtiments anglais du XVIᵉ siècle, en utilisant des armatures de bois (colombage) visibles de l'extérieure.

The comparatively modest price tag on this amazing Tudor mansion is, I realised, a direct consequence of the vulgarity of the rich — of the shocking fact that 99% of the world's money is in the hands of people possessing 0.0001% of the world's taste.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 175


rhinestone

Lucinda sewed rhinestones into her scarf to add a bit of flair.

Karl wore a cowboy hat with a rhinestone hatband when he played his country and western gigs.


reuse

The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.


culminate

to culminate (infinitive)
culminates (present third-person singular)
culminated (preterite)
culminated (participle past)
culminating (participle present)

A crisis culminating at the New York Gold Exchange, with threatened disturbance of our foreign commerce, and a panic in the stock market, have been the leading financial features of September.

Article« Monetary », page 124. The American Exhange & Review, vol. XVI (septembre 1869-février 1870), nᵒ 2 (octobre 1869).

Being without a name, the ridge may be appropriately referred to as the Elk Mountain ridge, from the so-called Elk Mountain, its most prominent landmark, in which, near the State line, 25 miles east-northeast of Jarbidge, it culminates at about 8,500 feet above the sea.

lang)en, A Reconnaissance of the Jarbidge, Contact and Elk Mountain Mining Districts, Elko County, Nevada, page 21. United States Government Printing Office, 1912.

Aboutir à, déboucher sur, se terminer par, conduire à.

Rapprochement with Spain, on the other hand, would diminish international tension and, if it culminated in a marriage alliance, result in the payment by Spain of a dowry which would eliminate the greater part of James’s debt.

Roger Lockyer, The Early Stuarts: A Political History of England, 1603-1642, page 45. Longman, 1999.

The party quickly implemented a policy convention process, which culminated in a February 2005 convention.

James Harold Farney etDavid Rayside, Conservatism in Canada, page 53. University of Toronto Press, 2013.


keep up

to keep up (infinitive)
keeps up (present third-person singular)
kept up (preterite)
kept up (participle past)
keeping up (participle present)

Dans le sens de « poursuivre, continuer », il est suivi du gérondif lorsqu’il traduit « continuer à faire » (keep up doing).

Maintenir, préserver, éviter la détérioration de.

The NRA is pumping groundwater into the River Itchen in Hampshire to keep up its flow and is trying to save three streams, the Tong, the Little Stour and the Dour from going dry this summer.

Keep up the good work of entertaining your fans on court Steffi; we know you can do it; your fans are behind you all the way.


inspissate

to inspissate (infinitive)
inspissates (present third-person singular)
inspissated (preterite)
inspissated (participle past)
inspissating (participle present)

Épaissir, en particulier par ébullition, par évaporation ou par condensation.

Inspissate at 85°C (moist heat) for 45 min.

Ronald M. Atlas, Handbook of Microbiological Media,page 937, 2004

Instead of allowing the juice after the incision to inspissate on the capsule, he collected it immediately, and dried it by artificial heat.

George Bacon Wood, Franklin Bache, The dispensatory of the United States of America, page 551, 1858


in effect

Is the regulation still in effect?


drop a dime

(Date à préciser) De to drop et dime, littéralement « laisser tomber une pièce de dix cents », en référence à l’utilisation d’un téléphone public pour avertir la police d’un crime : en effet, les téléphones publics américains prenaient dix cents dans presque toutes les juridictions jusqu’à la fin des années 1970.

Passer un appel (téléphonique), ordinairement pour dénoncer à la police les agissements d’autrui.

He was in the back for a few minutes. Turned out he was dropping a dime on Ralph.

Il était à l’arrière pendant quelques minutes. Il s’est avéré qu’il balançait Ralph.


mega-church

\ˈmɛ.ɡə.ˌtʃɝtʃ\

It looked like a typical Sunday morning at any mega-church. Hundreds packed in for more than an hour of rousing music, an inspirational sermon, a reading and some quiet reflection. The only thing missing was God.

AP, « Atheist ‘mega-churches’ look for nonbelievers », USA Today.com, 10 novembre 2013


play it by ear

I'm not sure yet if I'll be ready for another meeting next week. Let's play it by ear.


subdirectory

The new __pycache__ subdirectory helps to avoid clutter, and the new naming convention for byte code files prevents different Python versions installed on the same computer from overwriting each other's saved byte code.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, p. 31


matter of time

Question de temps (événement inévitable).

The princess is mine! Now that I possess the royal blood that courses through her veins, it is only a matter of time before your world bow to our own.

La princesse est mienne ! Maintenant que je possède le sang royal qui coule dans ses veines, ce n’est qu’une question de temps avant que votre monde ne s’incline devant le nôtre.

Ultimate Ghosts’n Goblins, le dark lord à Arthur (introduction), 2006


bring back

to bring back (infinitive)
brings back (present third-person singular)
brought back (preterite)
brought back (participle past)
bringing back (participle present)

Ce verbe peut prendre deux objets comme dans l’exemple « bring me back some chocolate » (rapporte moi du chocolat).

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de bring

The smell of the magnolia brought back sweet memories of my childhood.

L’odeur du magnolia m’a rappelé de doux souvenirs de mon enfance.


aptonym

apt + -onym, sur le modèle des autres mots suffixés avec -onym.

Students enjoy making up aptonyms for people in various professions, such as Ruth Decay or Dennis Drill for dentists.


sablefish

Morue charbonnière, charbonnier (poisson de nom scientifique Anoplopoma fimbria).

smoked sablefish


wooden language

This wooden language, which in Communist countries denotes the official jargon of the press and of official speeches […]

Douglas Rae,The Egalitarian State: Notes on a System of Contradictory Ideals, Daedalus: Hypocrisy, Illusion and Evasion, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 108, No. 3, pp. 37–54 (p. 41), 1979


dig out

On distingue entre les deux sens figuré de exhumer en anglais. Dans le cas de dig out, on sait que l'objet cherché existe. Dans le cas de dig up, on ne sait pas en avance que l'objet existe.

dig out some old newspaper articles


tassel

De l’ancien français tassel, croisé, pour certains des sens, avec teasel.

Tassels are normally decorative elements, and as such one often finds them attached, usually along the bottom hem, to garments, curtains or other hangings.

The apex of the stem ends in the tassel, an inflorescence of male flowers. When the tassel is mature and conditions are suitably warm and dry, anthers on the tassel dehisce and release pollen. Maize pollen is anemophilous (dispersed by wind), and because of its large settling velocity, most pollen falls within a few meters of the tassel.


tassel

to tassel (infinitive)
tassels (present third-person singular)
tasselled (preterite)
tasselled (participle past)
tasselling (participle present)

[…] gauzes of silver mist;
Loop’d up with cords of twisted wreathed light,
And tassell’d round with weeping meteors!

John Keats, Otho the Great, Act V, Scene V, verses 37-39, 1819

Former une inflorescence en forme de tassel.

Maize is a crop that tassels.


fetcher

Personne ou objet qui apporte, va chercher quelque chose.

More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.


cherry picking

Cueillette de cerises, pour dire à la carte ou picorage, par exemple.

reiterates that such a ‘cherry-picking’ approach is unacceptable for the EU

réaffirme qu'une telle approche «à la carte» est inacceptable pour l'Union européenne

source multilingue inconnue, Journal officiel, 18 juin 2020

Do not use this option if you are cherry-picking from your private branch because the information is useless to the recipient.

N’utilisez pas cette option si vous faites du picorage depuis votre branche privée car l’information est inutile pour le destinataire.

"git-cherry-pick last updated in 2.45.0"


Kevorkianesque

(Date à préciser) Du nom de Jacob Kevorkian (1928–2011).

Le patronyme Kévorkian est bien établi en français, aussi l’adjectif français serait-il kévorkianesque(mais il n’existe encore aucune attestation).

Qui concerne ou rappelle les croyances ou activités de Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian, activiste euthanasiste américain.

Networks continue their suicidal ways, serving up this "flash in the pan" dreck, and your attention to it is nothing less than Kevorkianesque.

Lethal injection or some other Kevorkianesque technique? That would be illegal.

Michael Shermer, The Mind of the Market, 2007

My then-boyfriend-now-husband scared the hell out of me that day in 1991, both because he wasn’t the type to wail and because he was suggesting that I do something pretty Kevorkianesque.

Jane Heller, You’d Better Not Die Or I’ll Kill You, 2012


woozy

woozier (comparative)
wooziest (superlative)

If you see yourself getting woozy or… you know; if it didn’t work, just… take it easy.

Si tu sens que tu commences à être dans les vapes ou… tu sais ; si ça n’a pas marché, contente-toi… de te détendre.

The Walking Dead (jeu vidéo), saison 1 épisode 5 (Plus assez de temps / No Time Left), dit par Christa à Lee Everett


piece of ass

(Date à préciser) Littéralement « morceau de cul ».

Femme très attirante sexuellement, bombe sexuelle.

When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass —a good one!— there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left.

Quand un homme quitte une femme, en particulier pour une bombe — et une bonne !— il y a 50 pour cent de la population qui aimera la femme qui a été laissée.


sesquipedalian

Du latin sesquipedalis (« long d’un pied et demi »), dérivé de sesqui et de pedis, forme de pes (« pied »). Cognat avec le français sesquipédal.

Un long mot, qui a beaucoup de syllabes.

“The fine old fellow,” as a Northern contemporary of ours patronizingly calls him, certainly rolled out his sesquipedalians with a majesty previously unknown, and gave a fine organ-like swell to his full-blow periods;

On the Art of Rising in Prose The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, part 2, v. 29, Henry Colburn and Co., page 162, 1830

Fleet-streetese, the so-called English written to sell by the Fleet-streeter (q.v.), or baser sort of journalist: a mixture of sesquipedalians and slang, of phrases worn threadbare and phrases sprung from the kennel;

John S. Farmer, William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English: Abridged from the Seven-volume Work, Entitled "Slang and Its Analogues", Taylor & Francis, page 164, 1927

‘Sometimes we converse in ballad-rhymes, sometimes in Johnsonian sesquipedalians; at tea we condescend to riddles and charades.’

Hannah More, Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 220, 1952

Don’t be a sesquipedalian! / Yes, you guessed right. A sesquipedalian is a person who enjoys long words.

Jonathan Herring, How to Argue: Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively, FT Press, chapitre 8, page ?, 2012


sesquipedalian

more sesquipedalian (comparative)
most sesquipedalian (superlative)

Long, polysyllabique (en parlant d’un mot).

More people know the sesquipedalian word "antidisestablishmentarianism" than know what it means.

Relatif au fait d’utiliser de trop longs mots.

Our dinner guest was so sesquipedalian that no one could understand what he said.


preen

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

to preen (infinitive)
preens (present third-person singular)
preened (preterite)
preened (participle past)
preening (participle present)

My poor kitty, gratified in its attempts to vie the rogue tomcat's attentions, started preening. Little did the poor, unsuspecting darling knew...


trippy

trippier (comparative)
trippiest (superlative)

Étrange, space ; qui ressemble à ou provoque un effet hallucinatoire produit par la prise d’une drogue psychédélique.

This is such a trippy song!

Cette chanson est vraiment psychédélique !


linoleum

(1860) Mot forgé par Frederick Walton son inventeur, sur le latin linum (« lin ») et oleum (« huile »).

Un tapis de linoleum recouvrait le plancher, deux affiches et quelques gravures ornaient les murs. C’était la vie bien rangée d’un garçon qui fait sa chambre lui-même et la revêt simplement, à l’image de son esprit.

Charles-Louis Philippe, Bubu de Montparnasse, 1901, réédition Garnier-Flammarion, page 113


duet

(Siècle à préciser) De l’italien duetto, diminutif de duo → voir quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet et nonet.

The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...

James Henderson, Caribbean and the Bahamas, 2005


customization

Motdérivé de customize, avec le suffixe -ation.

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

Customization is the process in which an individual or a group appropriates a product or practice of another culture and makes it their own.

standardization and customization scale.


FUD

(Date à préciser) Sigle de fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Terme employé par certain·es adeptes des cryptomonnaies pour décrire et rejeter les critiques envers cet écosystème ou certains projets.

Tensions emerged between the project team and the community, with the project team dismissing all criticism as "FUD" and accusing their community members of "sabotage", and community members accusing the project team of rug-pulling and failing to listen to feedback.

Des tensions ont fait surface entre l’équipe du projet et la communauté, l’équipe rejetant toutes les critiques comme du « FUD » et accusant les membres de leur communauté de « sabotage », et les membres de la communauté accusant l’équipe du projet de vol et de ne pas écouter leurs remarques.

Molly White, Metroverse blockchain game implodes sur web3isgoinggreat.com. Mis en ligne le 23 février 2023


for a song

(Date à préciser) Littéralement « pour une chanson », « en échange d’une chanson ».

\fɔɹ ə ˈsɔŋ\

\fɔɹ ə ˈsɑŋ\

\fɔː.ɹ‿ə ˈsɒŋ\

Pour une bouchée de pain, pour trois fois rien, pour une misère.

I bought the company’s entire stock as spare parts for a song, in… sixty-four.

J’ai acheté le stock complet de la société comme pièces de rechange pour une bouchée de pain, en… soixante-quatre.

Heavy Rain, Manfred parlant à Scott Shelby


on the quiet

He’s a struck off surgeon that used to sell drugs to junkies on the quiet.

C’est un chirurgien radié qui vendait des drogues à des camés en douce.


branduit

Nom générique pour une catégorie de produits.

A branduit is a brand name which has become the generic name for its product category (examples include : Coca-Cola, Post-it, Kleenex, Bic).

Michael Solomon, Gary Bamossy, Søren Askegaard, Consumer Behaviour A European Perspective


fall by the wayside

(1526) Expression apparaissant dans la traduction du Nouveau Testament par William Tyndale. (étymologie à préciser ou à vérifier)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-fall by the wayside.ogg

Être abandonné, tomber à l’eau (au figuré).

Bit ratings for consoles largely fell by the wayside after the fifth generation (32/64-bit) era.

L’évaluation des consoles selon le nombre de bits est largement tombée en désuétude après l’ère de la cinquième génération (32/64 bits).

« History of video game consoles (sixth generation) », article de la Wikipédia anglophone (consulté le 27 août 2014)


doggy bag

(Date à préciser)Composé de doggy et de bag, littéralement « sac à toutou ». Dans son sens alimentaire, cette locution fait référence à l'idée de ramener les restes de repas à la maison pour le chien.

\ˈdɔ.ɡi ˌbæɡ\

\ˈdɑɡ.i ˌbæɡ\

\ˈdɒɡ.i ˌbæɡ\

Results highlight a double paradox between conflicting norms and emotions: personal norms encourage not to waste while salient social norms encourage leaving leftovers; asking for a doggy bag generates immediate shame while leaving leftovers produces anticipated regret and guilt.

Les résultats mettent en évidence un double paradoxe entre des normes et des émotions contradictoires : les normes personnelles encouragent à ne pas gaspiller tandis que les normes sociales saillantes encouragent à laisser les restes ; demander un doggy bag génère une honte immédiate tandis que laisser les restes produit un regret et une culpabilité anticipés.

Lucie Sirieix, Jan Lála, Klára Kocmanová, Understanding the antecedents of consumers' attitudes towards doggy bags in restaurants: Concern about food waste, culture, norms and emotions, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Volume 34, 2017, Pages 153-158 (lire en ligne).


from cover to cover

(Date à préciser) → voir from, cover et to

Littéralement « de la couverture (sous-entendu initiale) à la couverture (sous-entendu finale) ».

Du début à la fin, de la première à la dernière page, de la première à la dernière ligne, de bout en bout.

I got people who give me the low-down on books, I’m a busy guy; but this one, I actually read from cover to cover.

Il y a des gens pour me tenir au courant sur les livres, je suis un mec occupé ; mais celui-ci, je l’ai en fait lu de la première à la dernière page.

Alan Wake, Harry Garrett à Alan Wake dans l’émission fictive The Harry Garrett Show


chances are

\ˈtʃɑːn.sɪz ɑːʳ\

Probablement. Note d’usage : Placé au début d’une phrase.

Chances are, you’ll be spending some of your time off this summer with a piña colada in one hand and a cell phone in the other.

Il est probable que vous passiez une partie de votre temps libre cet été avec une piña colada dans une main et un téléphone portable dans l’autre.

Kerri Anne Renzulli,« How to Disconnect from Work (Without Getting on the Boss’s Bad Side) », Time, 18 juillet 2014


wikibreak

Pause que prend un contributeur d’un wiki, en arrêtant de contribuer un temps.

I have not taken a wikibreak for a long time.

Cela fait longtemps que je n’ai pas pris de wikibreak.


Logan

Du gaélique écossais lagan (« vallon »), apparenté à Laggan.

Logan is served by a regular daytime bus service to Cumnock.


Logan

Adam Logan.

Sir Donald Logan.


Logan

Logan Miller.


Logan

Logan Miller.


yeow

D’origine imitative ; comparez avec ow, yowch, etc.

Exprime une douleur soudaine ou une surprise soudaine.

Yeow! I don't think I could recommend going to this extreme, but the story certainly illustrates the lengths to which one is inspired to go to experience the feeling of steam-cleaned skin.

Annie Berthold-Bond, Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living (1999)

"You see anything?" Yeow! I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.

Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City (1995)


crusty

Dérivé de crust (« croûte »), avec le suffixe -y.

crustier (comparative)
crustiest (superlative)

The hermit had a crusty personality.


crunchy

crunchier (comparative)
crunchiest (superlative)

crunchy biscuits

crunchy snow


freak accident

(Date à préciser) → voir freak et accident

Accident improbable, tout particulièrement s’il est nuisible.

In the midst of the game, and insults, Father Time breaks his tooth in a freak accident.

En plein milieu de la partie, et des insultes, le Père Temps se casse une dent dans un accident improbable.

Synopsis du court-métrage Father Time surIMDb


cool head

You’re gonna need a cool head and good reflexes if you want to survive.

Il va vous falloir du sang-froid et de bons réflexes si vous voulez survivre.

Fahrenheit, David Cage au joueur lors du tutoriel


Assisi

St. Francis of Assisi.


decouple

(Date à préciser) Du français découpler.

to decouple (infinitive)
decouples (present third-person singular)
decoupled (preterite)
decoupled (participle past)
decoupling (participle present)

This decouples the process of searching from the code that uses the result.

David Beazley & Brian K. Jones, Python Cookbook (3ème éd.),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 6


smirk

Sourire d’un air satisfait, sourire en coin.

“Oh, how jolly!” they murmur; and they hurry in from the conservatory, and come up from the stairs, and go and fetch each other from all over the house, and crowd into the drawing-room, and sit round, all smirking in anticipation.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, VIII, 1889


smirk

to smirk (infinitive)
smirks (present third-person singular)
smirked (preterite)
smirked (participle past)
smirking (participle present)

Sourire d’un air satisfait, sourire en coin ; sourire d'une manière affectée.

The bride was blushing and smirking when she entered.


know one’s stuff

(Date à préciser) Du verbe to know (« connaître », « savoir »), de one’s (« ses (propres) ») et du nom stuff (« trucs »), ce qui donne littéralement « connaître ses trucs ».

Well, you certainly seem to know your stuff.

Hé bien, vous semblez assurément vous y connaître.

The IT Crowd, saison 1 épisode 1 (Yesterday’s Jam), Denholm Reynholm à Jen Barber


fictitional

more fictitional (comparative)
most fictitional (superlative)

We were like these kind of fictitional creatures kind of abandoned to a nether region of cobwebs and second toilets.

Nous étions comme ces espèces de créatures fictitionnelles en quelque sorte abandonnées dans un endroit reculé fait de toiles d’araignées et de toilettes de seconde zone. (traduction de second toilets (« toilettes de seconde zone ») à préciser ou à vérifier)


pillory

De l’ancien français pilori, apparenté à pillar (« pilier »).

… worthy to be put into the cage, yea, and the pillory too.


pillory

to pillory (infinitive)
pillories (present third-person singular)
pilloried (preterite)
pilloried (participle past)
pillorying (participle present)

When James Naylor, a radical sectarian, re-enacted Christ’s entry into Jerusalem by riding into Bristol on a donkey, Parliament demanded his blood. Cromwell saved his life; but he was branded, pilloried, bored through the tongue, flogged twice and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Lorsque James Naylor, un sectaire radical, reconstitue l'entrée du Christ à Jérusalem en arrivant à Bristol sur un âne, le Parlement exige sa mort. Cromwell lui sauve la vie, mais il est marqué au fer rouge, mis au pilori, percé de trous dans la langue, fouetté deux fois et condamné à la prison à vie.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2014, page 246


peak hour

Composé de peak (« maximum ») et de hour (« heure »), littéralement « heure du maximum ».

The electric company charges a higher rate during peak hours.


off-peak

The electric company charges a lower rate during off-peak hours.


shake up

The new technology has shaken up the whole industry.


-fucking-

Le mot fucking est inséré, avec très exactement la même fonction d’infixe, dans certains mots contenant des espaces, par exemple dans New Fucking York : c’est ici le York qui est accentué, et cette syllabe accentuée est précédée de l’espace, d’où cette écriture, à comparer avec San Franfuckingcisco, qui comporte aussi l’espace, mais pas immédiatement avant la syllabe accentuée.

Putain de. Note d’usage : intensificateur inséré devant la syllabe accentuée.

Absofuckinglutely!

On days like this, I wish I lived in Seattle not happy, bubbly sunny Califuckingfornia.

Jennifer Harlow, Werewolf Sings the Blues, 2014,ISBN 9780738739342

And, of course, Aaron was away on a business trip in San Francisco, today of all days, San Franfuckingcisco on the other side of the country, and his flight wasn’t getting in until late that night.

Stacey Lender, City Mouse, 2017,ISBN 9781617755613


better-looking

good-looking (positive)
best-looking (superlative)

Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better-looking drivers mean they’re not just the emergency services — they’re your emergency services.

Des ambulances plus jolies, un temps de réponse plus rapide et de plus beaux conducteurs signifient que ce ne sont pas juste les services d’urgence — ce sont vos services d’urgence.

The IT Crowd, saison 1 épisode 2 (Calamity Jen), narrateur d’une publicité télévisée


cyberspace

(1982) Mot-valise de cybernetics et space inventé par l'écrivain de science fiction William Gibson en 1982 dans la nouvelle Burning Chrome et popularisé en 1984 avec le roman Neuromancer.

The EU reaffirms its commitment to the settlement of international disputes in cyberspace by peaceful means.

Conseil de l’Union européenne,Cyber attacks: EU ready to respond with a range of measures, including sanctions, consilium.europa.eu, 19 juin 2017


composite name

Composite names were never so common in England. […] In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Mary Anne and Anne Maria were fairly common in the middle and lower classes.

Stephen Wilson, The Means Of Naming, 2003,ISBN 9781135368364


punctuation mark

Composé de punctuation et de mark, littéralement « marque de ponctuation ».

\ˌpʌŋk.tʃʊ.ˈeɪ.ʃən ˈmɑːk\

The punctuation marks that you must consider include commas, periods, question marks, hyphens, apostrophes, exclamation points, colons and semicolons.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 85


pay a visit

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de pay

Transitif avec le complément d’objet introduit par to

The Queen accompanies the King on official state visits abroad, and she participates when foreign heads of state pay official visits to Norway. (...) Every year the King and Queen usually pay a visit to a county in Norway.

Det Norske Kongehus [site officiel de la famille royale norvégienne],« Her Majesty Queen Sonja ». kongehuset.no, 17 mars 2017.

Aller aux toilettes (par abréviation de pay a visit to the lavatory).

I am reliably informed that, when members of the royal family wish to ‘pay a visit’, they inform their hosts that they ‘wish to retire’.

Gervase Phinn,Out of the Woods But Not Over the Hill, page 156. Hachette UK, 2010.


mongrel

(XVᵉ siècle) Du radical *mong (« mélange ») qui est dans among, mingle.

more mongrel (comparative)
most mongrel (superlative)

The old beggar kept a verminous mongrel dog for a pet.


break away

[…] and when I finally broke away from school and became a musician […]

[…] et lorsque j’ai finalement quitté l’école et que je suis devenu musicien […]

Giorgio by Moroder, Random Access Memories, Daft Punk, 2013


Angus

(Prénom) Du gaélique écossais Aonghas, équivalent du composé de aon (« un ») et de gus (« vigueur, force »).

(Région écossaise) Du précédent, la région tient son nom d’un ancien roi de ce nom.

(Bovin) La race bovine tient son nom de la région.

Angus MacAskill.

Angus McLaren.

Angus was a great enlargement of experience for me, because he illustrated how haphazardly Fate attributes names to her unoffending children. Angus McGubbin: a Scots giant, red-haired and scowling - wouldn't you think so?

Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, 1994 (p. 168)


Angus

The Angus is naturally polled and solid black or red; the udder may be white. The cattle have been exported to many countries of the world; there are large populations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South America and the United States, where it has developed into two separate and distinct breeds, the American Angus and Red Angus.

Aberdeen Angus sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


number one

De number (« numéro ») et de one (« un »).

Meilleur dans sa catégorie, premier, numéro un.

The Number One Girl


number one

He’s the number one!

We are number one, but…

Mom, I need to go number one.


cryptocurrency

Dérivé de currency, avec le préfixe crypto-.

The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency' bill will create a facilitative framework for an official digital currency to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India, and ban all private cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

India to ban almost all private cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin in new clampdown, Euronews, AFP and Reuters, 23/11/2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said all democratic nations must work together to ensure cryptocurrency "does not end up in wrong hands, which can spoil our youth" - his first public comments on the subject.


scripting language

The brief description in the prior section is fairly standard for scripting languages.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, page 30


logjam

The senator tried to break the legislative logjam.


orgulous

Du moyen anglais orgulous, orgeilous, issu de l’ancien français orgueilleus, orgoillos (« fier »), lui-même issu du vieux bas francique *urgol (« fier »). Cognat avec le vieux haut allemand urgol (« excellent »), l’anglo-saxon orgel (« fier »).

more orgulous (comparative)
most orgulous (superlative)
orgueilous

Orgueilleux, fier, hautain, dédaigneux, méprisant.

Then spoke young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom.


out of the woods

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

The patient is feeling a little better, but she's not out of the woods yet.

La patiente se sent un peu mieux, mais elle n'est pas encore sortie d'affaire.


Duncan

Du gaélique écossais Donnchadh, composé de donn et de cath.

Duncan I of Scotland.

Duncan Keith.


Duncan

Adam Duncan.

William Murdoch Duncan.


prostitutional

Composé de prostitution et du suffixe -al.

Now, you know that the classical analytical explanation of agoraphobia of the early 1900s was that it represented a street phobia because the patient equated streetwalking with prostitutional activity […]

Donald F. Klein, Judith G. Rabkin, Anxiety: new research and changing concepts, 1981


microperforation

(XXᵉ siècle) De micro- et de perforation.

Microperforation laser technology creates numerous, precise holes with diameters in the range of 40–200 μm but typically 50–60 μm.

La technique de la microperforation par laser crée de nombreux et précis trous de diamètres compris entre 40 et 200 μm mais surtout entre 50 et 60 μm.

Gordon L. Robertson, Food Packaging : Principles and Practice, 2012


reach out

to reach out (infinitive)
reaches out (present third-person singular)
reached out (preterite)
reached out (participle past)
reaching out (participle present)

He reached out to catch the falling snowflake.

Il tendait la main pour attraper les flocons de neige qui tombaient.

His drug overdose was just him reaching out to you.

overdose de drogue était juste un moyen pour lui de te demander de l’aide.

Se faire plus d’amis, augmenter son groupe d’amis ou de connaissances.

Volunteering projects can be good ways to reach out.

Les projets de bénévolat sont de bons moyens de faire de nouvelles connaissances.


tear one’s hair out

\ˈtɛə wʌn‿z ˈhɛə.ɹ‿aʊt\

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-tear one's hair out.ogg

Writing for Destructoid, Ian Bonds gave the game a 9.5/10, and praised “the sweetspot of “simple to control” and “just difficult enough” to keep you playing without tearing your hair out”.

Écrivant pour Destructoid, Ian Bonds a donné au jeu un 9,5/10, et a loué « l’alliance idéale du « simple à contrôler » et « juste assez difficile » pour garder le joueur sans qu’il ne s’arrache les cheveux ».


drivel

Pay no attention to him. He's just speaking drivel.


bear with

Please bear with me!


game face

Expression faciale utilisée pour éviter de laisser paraître ses émotions.

He put on the best game face that he had, but to no avail as I saw right through it.

Il donna le change / fit mine de rien / fit son plus beau sourire du mieux qu’il pût, mais sans succès puisque je vis clairement dans son jeu.


referenceable

Composé de reference et du suffixe -able.

Referenceable objects can be useful when an object not belonging to any particular naming system needs to be bound to a naming service for ease of lookup.

Paul J. Perrone, Venkata S. R. R. Chaganti, Tom Schwenk, J2EE developer's handbook, page 543, 2003


see fit

(Date à préciser) Du verbe to see (« voir ») et de l’adjectif fit (« approprié », « opportun »).

Sheldon: I’m a grown man capable of living my life as I see fit. And I certainly don’t need someone telling on me to my mother.

Sheldon : Je suis un homme adulte capable de vivre sa vie comme je le veux. Et je n’ai certainement pas besoin que quelqu’un parle de moi à ma mère.

The Big Bang Theory, Épisode 4, Saison 1, 11:35

Do as you see fit.

He didn’t see anything fit to write about.

Il ne trouva rien de valable sur quoi écrire.


back door

Moyen d’accès, souvent secret et non protégé, à quelque chose.

US pickup trucks, such as Dodge RAMs, are not required to comply with all EU safety and environmental standards as they are imported through a back-door channel called “Individual Vehicle Approval”.

Sales of dangerous US pickup trucks up 20% in Europe, ETSC, 5 July 2024

Despite this, tens of thousands of the biggest vehicles have flooded the continent through a back-door channel. Imported cars can be registered through an “individual vehicle approval” that subjects them to less scrutiny than the “type approvals” that most cars undergo. Approval authorities in member states, which are responsible for checking vehicles before they reach the market, have some room to deviate from EU rules in individual cases if they impose alternative requirements.

En dépit de cela, des dizaines de milliers des plus lourds véhicules ont innondé le continent en passant par le canal d'une porte-dérobée.

Ajit Niranjan, Tesla Cybertruck ‘too big and sharp’ for European roads, say campaigners, The Guardian, Tue 8 Oct 2024 12.00 CEST


contactable

(Date à préciser) Composé de contact et du suffixe -able.

more contactable (comparative)
most contactable (superlative)

Steve is contactable on his mobile phone.


uncontactable

Composé de contactable et du préfixe un-.

more uncontactable (comparative)
most uncontactable (superlative)

Injoignable, qui ne peut pas être contacté.

Steve is uncontactable on his mobile phone.