profanity

profanities (plural)
prophanity (obsolete)

Dans le sens de impiété, on parle de the sacred and the profane. Le dicton a le sens de « Ce qui n’est pas sacré est laïque. »

His profanity left the entire audience in shock.

Son langage grossier laissa le public entier en état de choc.

He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.

Il courait dans un sens puis dans l’autre dans la rue en criant des insanités comme un fou.


shtoink

Probablement dû à Don Martin, qui, jusqu’en 1987, dessinait pour le magazine Mad et incluait des onomatopées comme shtoink, sladap, fagoon ou splop. La plaque de sa voiture se lisait shtoink.

Man, that field goal kicker had a 25 yarder to win the game, but he really shtoinked it.

If mom and dad didn’t shtoink, you wouldn’t be here this very moment.


at the feet of

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I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.

Je suis un Juif, né à Tarse en Cilice, mais élevé ici, éduqué aux pieds de Gamaliel selon la loi stricte de nos pères, plein de zèle envers Dieu, comme vous tous en ce jour.


in instalments

We will pay you for the work in instalments.


sapling

Jeune arbre âgé entre 5 et 25 ans selon la longévité de l'espèce.

Our dendrochronological approach allows individual trees to be examined over many years, back to previous centuries when tall trees in today’s primary forests were much shorter and when the largest trees in today’s secondary forests were mere saplings.

Notre approche dendrochronologique permet d'examiner des arbres individuels sur de nombreuses années, en remontant jusqu'aux siècles précédents, lorsque les grands arbres des forêts primaires actuelles étaient beaucoup plus courts et que les plus grands arbres des forêts secondaires actuelles n'étaient que de jeunes arbres.

Sillett et al., Rangewide climatic sensitivities and non-timber values of tall Sequoia sempervirens forests, Forest Ecology and Management; Volume 526, 15 December 2022


YYYYMMDD

Composé de YYYY signifiant une année (year en anglais) de quatre chiffres, de MM signifiant un mois (month en anglais) de deux chiffres et de DD signifiant un jour (day en anglais) de deux chiffres.

Enter dates in the metadata in YYYYMMDD format, such as 20080131.

Technical Specifications: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Metadata, Department of Administration, State of Montana, 2009


original sin

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.


Fescennine

Du latin Fescenninus, du nom de l’ancienne ville étrusque Fescennia, qui avait pour tradition de scander des chansons injurieuses pour des occasions spéciales ^([1]).

more Fescennine (comparative)
most Fescennine (superlative)

As the poet decorously shows his desire to consummate the marriage, he retains the fescennine element without being crude.

James D. Simmonds, Milton Studies, Volume 6, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, p168, 1988

The conventional complaint over the delay in the proceedings is voiced by the poet in... [this] series of questions which include fescennine teasing of the bridal couple.

John Donne & Gary A. Stringer, The variorum edition of the poetry of John Donne: The Epigrams, Epithalamions, Epitaphs, Inscriptions and Miscellaneous poems, Indiana University Press, p380-1, 1995

For instance, I admit that this book is anacreontic, paphian, and sometimes even fescennine.

Mark Steven Morton, The Lover’s Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex, Insomniac Press, p25, 2003


fanged

Muni de crocs, en parlant de la dentition d’une créature.

Fanged immortal protagonists, lycanthropic lovers, and fanciful faeries have become a welcome addition to the bodice-ripping heroines and shirtless, sword-wielding pirates that have traditionally served as the mainstay of romance novel covers.

Tonya Keyser, Passion for the Paranormal, Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 34, No. 6, novembre-décembre 2010


fanciful

more fanciful (comparative)
most fanciful (superlative)
fancifull
phanciful
phancifull

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


disquisition

Emprunt savant au latin, voir ci-dessus.

The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder.


divo

Divo, une célébrité, notamment un chanteur ou un acteur.

The divo leaves the stage

Lynne Walker, « The divo leaves the stage », dans The Independent, 9 mai 2009 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/the-divo-leaves-the-stage-1681849.html texte intégral

Divo, homme vaniteux au comportement capricieux.

Yet not even the tremendous ovations by rapturous audiences that greeted his return turned him into a divo.

Pourtant, même les formidables ovations du public ravi qui ont accueilli son retour n’ont pas fait de lui un divo.


churlish

more churlish (comparative)
most churlish (superlative)

\ˈtʃɜː(ɹ).lɪʃ\

'Churlish means “pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic, rude, surly, ungracious”.

Rustique signifie « se rapportant à un serf, paysan, ou brutal, revêche, disgracieux. »


ukiyo-e

(XIXᵉ siècle) Du japonais 浮世絵, ukiyoe, lui-même composé de 浮世, ukiyo (« monde flottant ») et de 絵, e (« peinture, dessin »), littéralement « image du monde flottant ».

Like many Ukiyo-e artists, Jacoulet hires woodcarvers and printers to convert his ideas into prints.

Approved by the Air Force, Time, 20 janvier 1946

The masters of Ukiyo-e, the woodblock print, like Utamaro, immortalized its great courtesans and its famous houses of prostitution.

The Times, page 11, col. F, 2 avril 1958

Starling looked past Carter, to an ukiyo-e woodcut of a Kabuki player.

Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil, 2001


with all one’s heart

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I wish it with all my heart.


hit the nail on the head

Composé de hit, the, nail, on, the et head, littéralement « frapper le clou sur la tête ».

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se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de hit

Faire mouche, mettre dans le mille, identifier quelque chose avec précision.

He hit the nail on the head when he said the problem was the thermostat.

Il a mis dans le mille quand il a dit que le problème était le thermostat.


abaft

Dérivé du préfixe a- (« sur ») et du moyen anglais baft, baften, biaften, du vieil anglais beæftan, lui-mêmecomposé de be (« près de ») et de æftan (« arrière »).

Abaft means on the aft side : The mate sleeps abaft.


abaft

Darbishire looked slightly shocked. You are an ignorant bazooka, Jen; you ought to know ships don't have backs. You mean it's got it's name abaft.

Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire, Collins, 1958


abaft

Abaft means toward the stern, relative to some object : The mate is abaft the wheelhouse.


Creator

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Déclaration d’indépendance des États-Unis, 1776


Nintendo

Du nom en japonais de l’entreprise japonaise Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki Gaisha).

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Nom d’une entreprise produisant des consoles de jeux vidéo.

Nintendo would not say what kind of technology its new 3-D handheld employs or how much it would cost.

Nintendo n’a pas voulu révéler quel type de technologie sera employé par le nouveau contrôleur 3D, ni quel sera le coût.

Hiroko Tabuchi,Nintendo Make 3-D Version of Its DS Handheld Game, New York Times, 23 mars 2010

Console de jeu vidéo produite par la compagnie japonaise du même nom.

Gorillas Play With Boy’s Dropped Nintendo at San Francisco Zoo.

Des gorilles s'amusent avec la Nintendo qu’un garçon avait fait tomber au zoo de San Francisco.

Joe Eskenazi,Article publié dans le SF Weekly, 9 août 2010


lieu d’oubli

(Date à préciser) Emprunté au français lieu, d', et oubli.

Endroit où l’on se retire pour se déconnecter, pour oublier ou pour se faire oublier.

Superman’s Fortress of Solitude was his lieu d’oubli.

(par extension) Association d’un lieu ou d’un objet à l’oubli.

However, the effective censorship of the tableau meant that a crucial aspect of the narrative of Empire had been elided, so that the galleries effectively moved from being a potential lieu de mémoire (however limited) to an actual lieu d’oubli.

Rice,Radical narratives of the Black Atlantic, p. 204


wedding ring

\ˈwɛd.ɪŋ ˈɹɪŋ\

Alliance (bague d’or ou d’argent, symbole de l’union contractée par le mariage).

The surgeon leaned over the body, and raised the left hand. "The old story", he said, shaking his head: "no wedding-ring, I see".

Le chirurgien se pencha sur le corps, et soulevant la main gauche de la défunte : « Toujours la vieille histoire, dit-il en hochant la tête ; elle n’a pas d’alliance… »


dribblable

Player by player, they seemed to be very dribblable.


balanephagous

Du grec ancien βαλανηφάγος, balanēphagos (« qui mange des glands »), issu de βάλανος, balanos (« gland »).

The man with whom we take shelter has his wife and children, and his sons’ wives and all their children, to the number of twelve or fifteen, in the tent. Milk and misíthra is their only food: “We have milk in plenty,” they tell me, “but no bread.” Such is the life of a modern Arcadian shepherd, who has almost reverted to the balanephagous state of his primitive ancestorsᵃ. The children, however, all look healthy, and are handsome, having large black eyes and regular features, with very dark complexions.

ᵃ Ἀϱϰάδες Ἀζᾶνες βαλανηφάγοι, οἳ Φιγάλειαν Νάσσασθ᾽, &c. — Orac. Pyth. ap. Pausan. Arcad. c. 42.

William Martin Leake, Travels in the Morea: With a Map and Plans, volume 1, chapitre 11: “Messenia — Arcadia”, pages 487–488, 1830


dorm

I go to college
That makes me so cool
I live in a dorm
And show off by the pool.

Dead Kennedys, « Terminal Preppie », Plastic Surgery Disasters, 1982


pareidolia

Emprunté à l’allemand Pareidolie, du grec ancien, composé de παρά-, pará- (« à côté ») et de εἴδωλον, eidōlon (« image, portrait »).

Pareidolia underlies several forms of divination.

Raymond Moody, avec Paul Perry, Reunions: Visionary encounters with departed loved ones, page 13, 1993

Pareidolias aren’t solely limited to images. When I was a youngster, I remember listening to The Beatles’ song "Strawberry Fields" over and over to hear what seemed to be "I buried Paul."

Steve W. Martin, Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy, page 150, 2006

The most famous example of pareidolia is the familiar face of the Man in the Moon.

Rick Emmer, Loch Ness Monster: Fact Or Fiction?, page 81, 2010


whoa

giddap

Ho, stop (en s’adressant à un cheval), doucement, ralentis. Interjection destinée à faire arrêter un cheval.

Whoa, Nelly!

Whoa, are you serious?


Ilan

Ilan Halevi.


jones

Argot des héroïnomanes de Great Jones Alley, rue du quartier de Broadway à New-York.

The patient is an addict, it’s not his fault he’s jonesing for whatever he can get his hands on.

Le patient est dépendant, ce n’est pas sa faute s’il est en manque de tout ce sur quoi il arrive à mettre la main.


jones

I’ve got a basketball jones!


naked eye

The Greeks were able to see five planets with the naked eye, besides the Sun, Moon, and Earth.


quarterback

(Date à préciser)Composé de quarter et de back.

In modern American football, the quarterback is usually considered the leader of the offense, and is often responsible for calling the play in the huddle.


Ralph

Ralph the Timid.

Ralph d'Escures.


californate

(Date à préciser) De California, avec le suffixe -ate.

Transformer de façon à ressembler à la Californie.

Don’t Californate Oregon!

Autocollant de protestation politique des années 1970


seaborgate

I am looking forward to obtaining evidence for seaborgous chloride, seaborgic sulfate, sodium seaborgate, etc.

István Hargittai, Candid Science III: More Conversations with Famous Chemists, Imperial College Press, Londres, 2003


bohrate

L’IUPAC a décidé, fin XXᵉ siècle, d’utiliser bohriate plutôt que bohrate pour éviter l’homonymie avec borate.

nielsbohrium
Bh, name unsuccessfully suggested for bohrium, in honor of the Danish physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885–1962)—the suggested name was intended to avoid confusion between boron and bohrium in derived names such as borate and bohrate.

Alexander Senning, Elsevier’s Dictionary of Chemoetymology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2006

There was some concern however that the name might be confused with boron and in particular the distinguishing of the names of their respective oxo-ions bohrate and borate. Despite this, the name bohrium for element 107 was recognized internationally in 1997. The IUPAC subsequently decided that bohrium salts should be called bohriates.


hassate

(Chimie) (Date à préciser) De l’anglais hassium.

Thus, CALLISTO has shown that HsO₄ like OsO₄ is an acid anhydride and forms with NaOH a hassate(VIII) in analogy to the known osmate(VIII), that is, a salt.

Attila Vértes, Sándor Nagy, Zoltán Klencsár, Rezső G. Lovas, Frank Rösch, éditeurs, Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry, vol. 1: Basics of Nuclear Science, Springer, 2010,2ᵉ édition


boatswain

I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man-o-war fashion on board the good ship Hispaniola.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 57. 1883.


americate

Crystal structural determinations [1228] of caesium tetrakis-(hexafluoroacetylacetonate)-europate and -americate, Cs[Eu(hfac)₄] and Cs[Am(hfac)₄], show that these two complexes are isomorphous, with an orthorhombic unit cell having dimensions nearly equal to […]

Ram Charan Mehrotra, R. Bohra, D. P. Gaur, Metal β-diketonates and Allied Derivatives, 1978


streetwear

(XXᵉ siècle) Mot formé de street (« rue ») et de wear (« porter, vêtement »)

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That’s never going to turn into hot streetwear, is it?

Zoe Williams, “Zoe Williams: Straw’s vest is full of holes”, The Guardian,1ᵉʳ janvier 2009


accidentally on purpose

(1880) Composé des deux antonymes accidentally et on purpose. Utilisé au Royaume-Uni depuis environ 1880, aux États-Unis depuis environ 1885.

Délibérément, bien qu’apparemment accidentel.

When a buffalo charges at her husband, Margot, directly in back of him and standing up in Wilson’s open car, fires toward the buffalo and kills Francis—whether accidentally, on purpose, or accidentally on purpose, H. leaves ambiguous.

The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature, édité par Steven R. Serafin and Alfred Bendixen, p. 512 (entrée Hemingway), 2003

“Or maybe,” Jack added, “her mother accidentally on purpose lost it.”

Karen White, The House on Tradd Street, 2008


thoughtfully

It seemed as though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them.

Il semblait que, pensif, il en allât chercher, au delà de la vie apparente la cause, l’explication ou l’excuse. — (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862, traduction anglaise de Isabel F. Hapgood)

Intelligemment, avec considération, avec réflexion, de manière réfléchie.

Considering the possibility of expanding the domain name space, the addition of new gTLDs should be done thoughtfully and through a consensus-based process.

Eu égard à la possibilité d’étendre l'espace des noms de domaines, la création de nouveaux domaines génériques de premier niveau (gTLD) doit se faire de manière réfléchie et sur la base du consensus. — (Commission des communautés européennes, L’organisation et la gestion de l’Internet : Enjeux internationaux et européens 1998 - 2000, 11 avril 2000)


toddy

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A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.


radonate

(Date à préciser) De radon avec le suffixe -ate.

The application of electrical or microwave discharges caused fixation of the radon on the walls of the quartz reaction vessel, possibly through the formation of very stable radonates.

Russian chemical reviews, volume 51, Akademiia nauk SSSR, 1982


lawfully

Dérivé de lawful (« légal »), avec le suffixe -ly (« -ment »).

more lawfully (comparative)
most lawfully (superlative)

Section 3. At any election at which a citizen or subject of any foreign country shall offer to vote, under the provisions of this Constitution, he shall present to the persons lawfully authorized to conduct and supervise such elections, a duly sealed and certified copy of his declaration of intention, otherwise he shall not be allowed to vote; and any naturalized citizen offering to vote, shall produce before said persons lawfully authorized to conduct and supervise the election, the certificate of naturalization, or a duly sealed and certified copy thereof; otherwise he shall not be permitted to vote.

Constitution of the State of Florida, 1868


lawful

Du moyen anglais laweful.
Dérivé de law, avec le suffixe -ful.

more lawful (comparative)
most lawful (superlative)

Section 22. The people shall have the right to bear arms in defense of themselves and of the lawful authority of the State.


vadose

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin vadosus (« guéable »).

Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.

B. B. Huckell; C. Vance Haynes, The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory, American Antiquity, 2003, vol. 68, no. 2 page 357


anile

Du latin anilis, issu de anus (« vieille femme »).

more anile (comparative)
most anile (superlative)

Dr. Wittman, too, was passing over the same ground trodden by Bonaparte in his Syrian expedition, and had an ample opportunity of inquiring its probable object, and the probably success which (but for the heroic defence of Acre), might have attended it ; he was on the theatre of Bonaparte’s imputed crimes, as well as his notorious defeat ; and might have brought us back, not anile conjecture, but sound evidence of events which must determine his character, who may determine our fate.

Sydney Smith, The Works of Sydney Smith, “Wittman’s Travels” (Edinburgh Review, 1803),pages 248–249, 1844

Romanticism, so sanguine and so venturous in its revolutionary youth, grew anile in its premature decrepitude ; mumbled its credos ; cursed its heretics — and died.

Robert Alfred Vaughan, Hours with the mystics : a contribution to the history of religious opinion,page 347, 1880


booger

Altération de boggart, buggard de bug (« gêne ») et du suffixe ard (« spécialiste de »).

The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs


treble

Du latin triplus (« triple », au sens de « troisième voix »).

Qualifie, dans une famille instrumentale, l’instrument le plus aigu.

Treble recorder.


disappearable

Dérivé de disappear, avec le suffixe -able.

Rabbits in hats are magically disappearable, just as doves in sleeves are magically appearable.


cdr

(Acronyme) De l’instruction cdr de l’IBM 704, acronyme de contents of the decrement part of the register number (« contenus de la partie de décrémentation du nombre registre »). Note : On ne sait généralement pas cette étymologie, qui n’a pas d’importance aujourd’hui.

The elements of a list are the successive cars along the “cdr chain.” That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios et J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach, 2000


cdr

to cdr (infinitive)
cdrs (present third-person singular)
cdred (preterite)
cdred (participle past)
cdring (participle present)

(Avec down) Itérer récursivement utilisant cdr en LISP.

The first clause of the do arranges for a local variable, check-lis, to be initialized to the value of the input list and then to be cdred down element by element on each cycle of the loop.

Tony Hasemer, Common LISP Programming for Artificial Intelligence, 1989,ISBN 0201175797, page 424

Here are some more exercises in cdring down a list: a. Write a predicate that will determine whether or not a particular element is in a list. […]

Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser et Karl Knight, Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme, 1999,ISBN 0534952119, page 174


hopeless

Dérivé de hope (« espoir »), avec le suffixe -less, littéralement « sans espoir ».

more hopeless (comparative)
most hopeless (superlative)

He can't do anything. He's hopeless!


crunch

Match de rugby opposant l’Angleterre à la France.

'Le crunch' showdown returns to top of the bill


crunch

to crunch (infinitive)
crunches (present third-person singular)
crunched (preterite)
crunched (participle past)
crunching (participle present)

To crunch numbers

That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.

Ces métadonnées rendent plus facile pour le moteur de recherche le calcul des données pour les requêtes.


toss off

He tossed off literally tens of decimals of pi.

Il a recraché littéralement des dizaines de décimales de pi.


grow up

to grow up (infinitive)
grows up (present third-person singular)
grew up (preterite)
grown up (participle past)
growing up (participle present)

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!


enumerate

to enumerate (infinitive)
enumerates (present third-person singular)
enumerated (preterite)
enumerated (participle past)
enumerating (participle present)

Richard enumerates all the impediements to win Anne.


demographic

Dérivé de demography, avec le suffixe -ic.

\ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk\

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).

What are the demographics of your audience?


tween

(Date à préciser) Mot-valisecomposé de teen (« ado ») et de between (« entre »), littéralement « entre l'adolescence et l'enfance ».

That girl is too old for toys, but too young for boys; she’s a tween!

(Littéralement) Cette fille est trop âgée pour les jouets, mais trop jeune pour les garçons : C’est une pré-adolescente!


tickle pink

→ voir tickle et pink (« chatouiller rose »).

Amuser fortement, faire prendre un grand plaisir, remplir de joie.

It tickles me pink that they chose me for the award.

Cela me fait grand plaisir qu’ils m’aient choisi pour le prix.


Stockholm syndrome

Nomme d’après le braquage de la Kreditbanken dans le quartier de Norrmalmstorg à Stockholm en Suède dans lequel les braqueurs ont tenu en otage les employés du 23 au 28 août 1973. L’expression a été inventée par le criminologue et psychiatre Nils Bejerot.

The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in a hostage, in which the hostage exhibits loyalty to the hostage-taker, in spite of the danger (or at least risk) in which the hostage has been placed.... In the most famous case of the Stockholm Syndrome, Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing baron William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the leftist Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and robbed a San Francisco bank together with her captors

You’re suffering from what humans call Stockholm Syndrome: you have bonded with your captors.

Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 259, 2001

Natascha Kampusch, the 18 year old Austrian woman who escaped from her kidnapper last week after eight years in captivity, […] is thought to be suffering from an extreme version of Stockholm syndrome, in which victims begin to associate and sympathise with their attackers.


cerate

De l’anglais cerium, avec le suffixe -ate.

The hydrosols obtained by this method were more turbid than those resulting from hydrolysis of the cerate salt. The cerium in these hydrosol systems was considered to be in a state of colloidal dispersion because […]

Natalie Kiersted Fitch, Complex basic ceric and cerate hydrosols, 1940


astatate

If the Cl⁻ concentration is very low, however, further partial oxidation to astatate takes place.

E. H. Appelman, Astatine, in Viktor Gutmann, Main Group Elements: Group VII and Noble Gases, Butterworths, 1972


polonate

(Date à préciser) De polonium avec le suffixe -ate.

As is the case for bismuth, the compounds of polonium are more ionic in the lower oxidation states than are those of tellurium. The stability of the Po(VI) state is low, with the existence of polonate(VI) ion or polonic(VI) acid being doubtful.

Robert CrockerBrasted, Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 8: Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium, Polonium, and Oxygen, Van Nostrand, 1953


bismuthate

(Date à préciser) De bismuth avec le suffixe -ate.

On fusing bismuth trioxide with KOH in air, a brown mass of potassium bismuthate is obtained.

AmitArora, Text Book of Inorganic Chemistry, 2005


appellate

appellate courts


thallate

(Date à préciser) De thallium avec le suffixe -ate.

The thallates of the alkalies [sic] are also soluble in water, and may be prepared by dissolving the acid in the alkali, or by fusing thallium or its oxyd [sic] with a mixture of alkaline carbonate and nitrate. The method I originally published for extracting thallium was based upon the formation in this manner of an alkaline thallate soluble in water.

William Crookes, Scientific Intelligence: Chemistry, American Journal of Science, volume 84, 1862


mercurate

When mercuric oxide is digested in ammonia, a small portion of mercury dissolves; the white mercurate of ammonia produced dissolves quickly in warm hydrochloric acid ; perfectly, also, in a large quantity of warm aqueous carbonate of ammonia.

Leopold Gmelin, Hand-book of chemistry, Volume 6, 1852, traduit de l’allemand à l’anglais par Henry Watts


paraphernalia

(Date à préciser) Du latin paraphernalis (« paraphernal »).

Ensemble d’objets disparates, objets nécessaires à une activité particulière.

Above the fireplace is suspended from the roof an apparatus or frame containing pot-hooks and all kinds of cooking paraphernalia.

John Batchelor, The Ainu and their Folk-Lore, chapter XIV (« Household Furniture »), page 133. The Religious Tract Society, 1901.

Sales of records, radios, stereos, cassette tapes, and other music paraphernalia indicate that more people than ever are listening to music.

Shelley Katsh et Carol Merle-Fishman,The Music Within You, page 155. Simon & Schuster, 1985.

The paraphernalia of a particular occupation includes all the things that one would expect of any follower of that occupation, whether window cleaner or High Court judge – ladders, buckets, wigs, hammers and gavels.

Steven Connor, Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things,« Introduction: Speaking of Objects », page 13. Profile Books, 2011.


obliquity

Du moyen français obliquité, issu du latin obliquitas, dérivé de obliquus (« oblique »).

Obliquité, inclinaison d’une ligne, d’une surface sur une autre.

The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, / Insensibly three different Motions move? / Which else to several Sphears thou must ascribe, / Mov’d contrarie with thwart obliquities

John Milton, Paradise Lost, lignes 766-769, 1667

She wore glasses which, in humble reference to a divergent obliquity of vision, she called her straighteners, and a little ugly snuff-coloured dress trimmed with satin bands in the form of scallops and glazed with antiquity.

Obliquité, ce qu’il y a de contraire à la droiture, à la franchise dans sa conduite, dans ses démarches, dans ses comportements.

Habitually living with the elements and knowing little more of the land than as a beach, or, rather, that portion of the terraqueous globe providentially set apart for dance-houses, doxies and tapsters, in short what sailors call a "fiddlers'-green," his simple nature remained unsophisticated by those moral obliquities which are not in every case incompatible with that manufacturable thing known as respectability.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd,chapitre 2, 1924

Stray’s [friends], apt to keep more to the shadows, tended to be practitioners of obliquity—as it quite often came down to, varieties of pimp.

Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 404, 2006

That spiked my gun. I could not say anything. I was entirely out of verbal obliquities; to go further would be to lie, and that I would not do; so I simply sat still and suffered , -- sat mutely and resignedly there, and sizzled, -- for I was being slowly fried to death in my own blushes.

Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad,chapitre 25, 1879


osmiate

La forme osmate est recommandée par l’IUPAC.

The osmites may, likewise, be obtained, by adding to an alcaline osmiate the deutoxyde of osmium ; solution takes place immediately, and the osmiate is converted into an osmite.


peregrine

The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.


rhenate

Potassium hexachlorotechnetate(iv) forms golden yellow octahedra and is isostructural with the corresponding rhenate and platinate.

Quarterly reviews, Chemical Society, Volume 16, 1962


hafnate

(Date à préciser) De l’anglais hafnium, avec le suffixe -ate.

If follows from [1] that in lead hafnate, unlike lead zirconate, a ferroelectric phase is not formed on the application of a strong electric field near the temperature of the change to the paraelectric state.

Soviet Physics: Technical Physics, volume 3, American Institute of Physics, 1958


osmate

Osmate esters of cyclic terpenes are readily prepared and are useful in this process.

Engelhard Industries Technical Bulletin, Volumes 10-11, Engelhard Industries, Inc., 1969


ytterbate

(Date à préciser) De l’anglais ytterbium, avec le suffixe -ate.

The crystal and molecular structure of monoclinic trisodium tri-(pyridine-2,6-di-carboxylato) ytterbate (III) 13-hydrate.

Bulletin signalétique : Structure de la matière II, Volume 33, Nos. 4235-8346

[…] a methanolic solution (10 cm³) of erbium thiocyanate (1.0 mmol) tetraethylammonium thiocyanate (0.61 g, 3.2 mmol) was added and dissolved. […] Odd number ones are erbate, and even number ones are ytterbate.

Nihon Kagakkai, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, Volume 62, 1989, pp. 2129-3054


neodymate

Dérivé de neodymium, avec le suffixe -ate.

A pellet of barium neodymate, when stored in air, fairly fast becomes friable, the X-ray pattern of such a sample only contains well-defined lines characteristic of neodymium oxide.

Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry, Volume 75, Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), 2001


praseodymate

Dérivé de praseodymium, avec le suffixe -ate.

The presence of oxygen vacancies facilitates the migration of oxygen ions and, consequently, creates oxygen conduction in barium praseodymate.

Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, Volume 37, Nos. 5-8, Interperiodica Publishing, 2001


fudge

to fudge (infinitive)
fudges (present third-person singular)
fudged (preterite)
fudged (participle past)
fudging (participle present)

Volontairement, mais pas nécessairement avec malveillance, altérer la réalité pour cacher un défaut ou une incertitude ; truquer.

She purposely fundged the paperwork to hide her incompetence.


nictate

to nictate (infinitive)
nictates (present third-person singular)
nictated (preterite)
nictated (participle past)
nictating (participle present)

Indignantly interrogated as to whether he himself believed or exercised this abhominable and perabsurd superstition, he very gravely nictated his dexter eyelid. And I nictated mine. And we both laughed.

Frederick Rolfe, Don Renato, Chatto & Windus 1963, 1909

Gently I pressed my quivering sting along her rolling salty eyeball. ‘Goody-goody,’ she said nictating.

In the absence of stimulation, C. elegans dauers are lethargic and generally immobile but nictate vigorously when disturbed.

Perry & Wharton, Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nematode Survival, p. 113, 2011


xenate

De l’anglais xenon, avec le suffixe -ate.

The compounds of xenon may be conveniently grouped in three categories. The xenon-metal hexafluoride adducts, the xenon fluorides and oxyfluorides, and the xenon oxides, xenates, and perxenates.

Herbert H. Hyman, The Chemistry of Noble Gas Compounds, Science, Volume 145, No. 3634, 21 août 1964, pp. 773-783


xenonate

(Date à préciser) De l’anglais xenon, avec le suffixe -ate.

The slow action of sulfuric acid on xenonates, preferably Ba₂XeOₙ, yields gaseous XeO₄, which can be condensed at −196 °C as a pale yellow solid and purified by careful sublimation at −70 °C.

FritzUllmann, Matthias Bohnet, Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, volume 23, Wiley-VCH, 2003


Great Depression

The Great Depression lasted from 1929 until 1939.


considerate

Dérivé de consider, avec le suffixe -ate.

Thank you. That was very considerate of you.


blurt

to blurt (infinitive)
blurts (present third-person singular)
blurted (preterite)
blurted (participle past)
blurting (participle present)

Divulguer, laisser échapper (en parlant).

To blurt is to utter suddenly and unadvisedly, to speak quickly or without thought, to divulge inconsiderately.

Please think about your reply and don’t just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.


indeterminate

The form is linear, quadratic, cubic, biquadratic or quartic, quintic, &c., according to its order in respect of the indeterminates it contains; and binary, ternary, quaternary, &c., according to the number of its indeterminates. Thus x²+y² is a binary quadratic form, x³+y³+z³-3xyz is a ternary cubic form.

H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers—Part III, Report of the 31st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science,British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1862, page 292


transom

Probablement du latin transtrum (« traverse »).

It was after four when Kelly pulled into the marina. He backed the Scout to the transom of his boat and got out to open the cargo hatch after checking the darkness for spectators, of which, thankfully, there were none.


machinate

to machinate (infinitive)
machinates (present third-person singular)
machinated (preterite)
machinated (participle past)
machinating (participle present)

Internally, employees would ceaselessly machinate against each other with heartless glee.

En interne, les employés ne cessaient de se machiner les uns contre les autres avec une jubilation sans nom.

ChrisMatyszczyk, In 1 Stunning Sentence, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Gave a Brilliant Lesson In Truly Modern Leadership (Without Even Knowing It), Inc.com, 5 mai 2019


iodate

De l’anglais iodine, avec le suffixe -ate.

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The salts of iodine are also hydrolyzed by water, forming iodine iodate, which in turn is decomposed as just indicated.

Joseph William Mellor, A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Volume 2, 1963


antimonate

De l’anglais antimony, avec le suffixe -ate.

Antimony Tetroxide, Sb₂O₄, or antimony antimonate, Sb₂O₃.Sb₂O₅, is obtained by roasting the preceding compound [antimony trioxide], or by the action of nitric acid upon the metal.

Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe, A Manual of Inorganic Chemistry, 1877


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Eaves are the underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.


free-standing

more free-standing (comparative)
most free-standing (superlative)

Free-standing means not fixed in any way to a surface, relying solely on the force of gravity to stay in place.

A free-standing lamp, a free-standing garage.


Fiona

(Date à préciser) Du gaélique irlandais Fiona.

Fiona Avery.

Fiona Campbell-Walter.


indate

De l’anglais indium, avec le suffixe -ate.

We found that allylic indium sesquihalides, prepared from indium metal and allylic halides, are suitable precursors for allylic indates.

Perkin transactions 1, nos. 5-8, Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), 1995


in-line

Motcomposé de in (« en ») et de line (« ligne »).

An in-line mathematical formula does not require to be on a line of its own.

Une formule mathématique insérée ne requiert pas d’être sur la seule sur sa ligne.

Parenthetical referencing is a citation style which uses in-line citations enclosed within parentheses.

Le référencement avec parenthèse est un style de citation qui utilise les citations incluses entre parenthèses.


kennel

– We want to look at the dog kennels.
– Ah yes, well that’s the pets’ department, second floor.

She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.

Établissement où l’on accueille les chiens.

The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.


kennel

to kennel (infinitive)
kennels (present third-person singular)
kenneled ou kennelled (preterite)
kenneled ou kennelled (participle past)
kenneling ou kennelling (participle present)

Garder, élever (un chien, voire un autre animal).

While we’re away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.


Warner

Jack Warner.


Warner

Warner Dearns.


chode

(Verbe) (16-17e siècle) Par analogie avec les autres verbes forts.

And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

King James Version, Genesis, 31:36, 1611

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!


choad

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'1970±, S. Clay Wilson, as quoted by Blair Haworth, “Meaning of Choad? (and a Peter Jackson question)” (1993 August 11), alt.tasteless, Usenet

1986, Robert Crumb, Zap Comix, volume 3, unpaged

1993 December 14, Steven Snedker, “Wanking 101 [long]”, alt.sex.masturbation, Usenet, as quoted by Richard J. McCunney (December 26)

We all wank, sonny wiggles his willy, daddy plays with the meat in an orderly and rational way, and granddad’s choad also delivers on a regular basis.

1985 February 28, Kevin Carosso, “VMS terminal I/O question”, fa-info.vax, Usenet via info-vax

If you aren’t the type of system manager that likes to be nice to the choad that forgot to log out, then the program has it’s [sic.] other uses

'1992 October 12, “x3460afe” from maple.circa.ufl.edu, “sonic fags”, alt.music.alternative, Usenet

sebadoh blew sonic youth off the stage, you stupid choad

1997, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, “Pinkeye”, South Park, episode 107

Cartman: Aw, come on Stan. Maybe that’s just because you look like a total choad.


oscine

Du latin oscen, oscinis (« oiseau chanteur »).

Because the oscines are the most speciose group of living birds, the use of learned vocalizations for mate competition and attraction has been hypothsized to have facilitated speciation.

ElizabethAdkins-Regan, Hormones and Animal Social Behavior, 2005


Bostonian

There are more than half a million Bostonians.


New Yorker

Dérivé de New York, avec le suffixe -er, qui indique dans ce cas, un gentilé.

New-Yorkais, New-Yorkaise (personne de la ville de New York).

The dialectal infamy that can result when an actor with this system plays a New Yorker is exemplified by Tobey Maguire in his role of the Queens teenager, Peter Parker, who becomes Spiderman.

Michael Newman, New York City English, De Gruyter Mouton, 2014, page 63


beldame

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Why, so I would if I could ; but Justice is an old hobbling beldame, and I can't get her to keep pace with Generosity for the soul of me.

Sheridan, The School of Scandal, Aubier Flammarion, 1969, p. 210


bugger all

\ˈbʌɡ.ə ˌɔːl\

\ˈbʌɡ.ɚ ˌɔl\

And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space ’cause there’s bugger all down here on earth.


sleiveen

Du gaélique irlandais slíghbhín, slíbhín, de même sens.

In trust he took John’s lands; / Sleiveens were all his race

WBYeats, The Ballad of Father O’Hart, 1889

You blackened, filthy sleeveen liar. I curse the living day I ever let you near me.

JosephO’Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, 2002, page 298


Nguyen

Du vietnamien Nguyễn, lui-même issu du chinois classique 阮.

SB: […] In contrast, the Qui Nguyen supporters were louder than ever. Your last name is pronounced “win”, which made for a lot of fun.
QN: After every hand I heard, “All we want to do is, win win win!” and “Who’s gonna win? Qui Nguyen!”

Qui Nguyen et Steve Blay, From Vietnam to Vegas!: How I Won the World Series of Poker Main Event, 2017,ISBN 9781909457829


mistranslation

Composé du préfixe mis- et de translation « traduction ».

This is one of several constructive mistranslations that bedevil the Bible, the most famous being the mistranslation of Isaiah's Hebrew for young woman (almah) into the Greek for virgin (parthenos).


belike

He would, belike, never make it home that night, not in his drunken condition.

Il n’arrivera probablement pas à rentrer chez lui cette nuit, pas en ayant bu autant.


euchre

(XIXᵉ siècle) De l’allemand Jucker (« valet »), apparenté à joker (« joker »).

By the time the breeze picked up and blew us directly into the far shore opposite our dock, it was fully dark and time to hed in for some late-night snacks and euchre.

Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, 2013, pages 256 et 258


armigerous

\ɑːˈmɪ.dʒə.ɹəs\

\ɑɹˈmɪ.dʒɚ.əs\

Mr. Udal suggests that an armigerous woman who marries an non-armigerous man may still display her own arms. But how? Her husband has no shield, so where are the wife’s arms to go?

George Angus, "Arms of Married Women", Notes and Queries (ser. 9) 9 (Jan-Jun): 197, 1903

Although the rolls of arms upon which Denholm-Young relied so heavily do not after all show that the esquires became armigerous in about 1370, it is still significant that the arms of esquires which were not emblazoned on the Parliamentary, Carlisle or Dunstable Rolls should appear for the first time on a roll of arms in about 1370.

Nigel Saul, Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century, page 23, 1981


rubellite

Rubellite is found primarily in Brazil , but good specimens have also come from Africa , as well as California and Maine.

La rubellite se trouve principalement au Brésil, mais de bons spécimens proviennent également d'Afrique, ainsi que de Californie et du Maine.

Robert Simmons, Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach, 2007


banato

This is the Banato Tree.


black flight

Exode urbain, migration des populations noires depuis les centres-villes vers les banlieues.

It was dramatic testimony to the crumbling industrial base of the Midwest, black flight to the suburbs and the tenuous future of what was once a thriving metropolis.
C’était un témoignage tragique de la base industrielle croulante du Midwest, du black flight (fuite des noirs) vers les banlieues, et du futur limité de ce qui était à un moment une métropole prospère.

« Detroit Census Confirms a Desertion Like No Other », New York Times, 22 mars 2011

“White flight is no concern of mine,” asserted Gibson to a conference of the country’s Black mayors who gathered to discuss their unique problems in Boston recently. “I am worried about Black flight. We are losing Black professionals, people of higher-income brackets.”


cadmate

(Date à préciser) De cadmium, avec le suffixe -ate.

Therefore additional anti-oxidants are needed in the cadmate system [251]. A fundamental study of the action of the chemicals in the cadmate vulcanisation system showed that cadmium oxide is the key substance for increased heat resistance, whereas magnesium oxide is needed for pH stabilisation [255].

Progress of Rubber Technology, volumes 45–46, 1982


merm

Forme courte de « male pseudohermaphrodite », c’est-à-dire littéralement « pseudo-hermaphrodite mâle ».

Personne intersexuée dotée de testicules et de certains aspects de l’appareil reproducteur féminin, mais sans ovaire.

But the standard medical literature uses the term intersex as a catch-all for three major subgroups with some mixture of male and female characteristics: the so-called true hermaphrodites, whom I call herms, who possess one testis and one ovary (the sperm- and egg-producing vessels, or gonads); the male pseudohermaphrodites (the "merms"), who have testes and some aspects of the female genitalia but no ovaries; — « The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough », Anne Fausto-Sterling, The Sciences March/April 1993, p. 20-24.


herm

Apocope de « true hermaphrodite », c’est-à-dire littéralement « véritable hermaphrodite ».

Personne intersexuée dotée précisément d’un ovaire et d’un testicule.

For some time medical investigators have recognized the concept of the intersexual body. But the standard medical literature uses the term intersex as a catch-all for three major subgroups with some mixture of male and female characteristics: the so-called true hermaphrodites, whom I call herms, who possess one testis and one ovary (the sperm- and egg-producing vessels, or gonads); […]

Anne Fausto-Sterling, « The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female Are Not Enough », The Sciences, mars/avril 1993, page 20-24


dismally

It’s too bad, then, that these days you’re not considered serious in Washington unless you profess allegiance to the same doctrine that’s failing so dismally in Europe.

Paul Krugman, The Austerity Delusion, The New York Times


in lieu of

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Well, Murray's Cheese in New York City offers cheese towers that you can have at your wedding in lieu of a more traditional wedding cake.

Candice Jalili,« Murray's Cheese In New York City Offers Cheese Towers Instead Of Wedding Cakes ». Elite Daily, 23 avril 2018.


in place of

In place of dancing, he chose drinking. - Au lieu de danser, il a choisi de boire.

He signed his mark in place of his signature.


one fell swoop

D’après Shakespeare, dans Macbeth, acte iv, scène 3, où Macduff apprend que sa femme et toute sa famille ont été assassinées :
::Ro. Wife, Children, Seruants, all that could be found. […]
::Macd. […] All my pretty ones?
::Did you ſay All? Oh Hell-Kite! All?
::What, All my pretty Chickens, and their Damme
::At one fell ſwoope?

Changing the oil lubricates the engine and removes debris in one fell swoop.

Changer l’huile lubrifie le moteur et retire les débris d’un seul coup.

...they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment’s notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.


lipogram

A lipogram is a written work that does not use a particular letter (or group of letters).

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 122


lambswool

The box label called them lambswool pants, and lambswool vests.

L'étiquette de la boîte indiquait qu'il s'agissait de pantalons et de gilets en laine d'agneau.

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, chapitre XXII, E. Arnold, 1897, page 201.


pull over

to pull over (infinitive)
pulls over (present third-person singular)
pulled over (preterite)
pulled over (participle past)
pulling over (participle present)

Can you pull over just after the post office? My house is next door.

Causer un arrêt sur le côté de la route, de la part d’un policier ou autre autorité routière.

Why have you pulled me over?


cool down

You can drink the coffee when it's cooled down.

Causer une baisse de température, un rafraîchissement sur quelque chose.

We had to cool down the equipment with water before using it.

I'd love to go to Iraq, but I'll have to wait until the violence cools down.

Dave was kicking and screaming, so I had to cool him down with some mellow music.


cooldown

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Temps que doit patienter un joueur avant de pouvoir être capable de refaire une certaine opération.

I had to wait for the cooldown to finish before recasting the spell.


haemorrhage

haemorrhages (plural)
hemorrhage
hæmorrhage (obsolete)

The pills came with a leaflet written in bold which warned that I might have, amongst other things, a brain haemorrhage if I ate something ordinary like eggs while taking the advised course.

Sandi Toksvig, Between the stops: a most wonderful memoir, 2019, 320 pages, page 247


jubilee

Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, her Golden Jubilee in 2002, and her Diamond Jubilee in 2012.


snafu

(Date à préciser) Acronyme : situation normal, all fucked up (« situation normale, tout est foutu »). Terme popularisé durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale par le film Private Snafu.

Cafouillage, pagaille, situation devenue chaotique.

Preparations for the most important trial since the trial of Jesus Christ were a snafu.

Les préparatifs pour le plus important procès depuis le procès de Jésus-Christ étaient une pagaille.

Alice Kaplan, French Lessons. A Memoir, The University of Chicago Press, 1993, p. 28


pipol tree

She tore her womb open, and taking out the child which she laid at the foot of a pipol tree, joined her husband.

Elle déchira son ventre ouvert, et extrayant son enfant qu'elle déposa au pied d'un pipol, rejoignit son mari.

The Tribes and Castes of the North-western Provinces

On the banks of the Mohanonda, the mulberry may occupy about 4000 bogahs Calcutta measure, all within a mile of the river, amidst noble groves of Mango, Banyan and Pipol trees, which shelter the houses of those who rear the worm...

Sur les rives de la Mohanonda, le mûrier peut occuper environ 4000 bogahs, le tout dans un rayon d' un mile de la rivière, au milieu des bosquets majestueux de manguiers, banians et pipols, qui abritent les maisons de ceux qui élèvent le ver.

Robert Montgomery Martin, The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India, 1838


wannabe

Déformation de want to be (« vouloir être »).

World loves wannabes.


wannabe

more wannabe (comparative)
most wannabe (superlative)

The Senate, meanwhile, is tied in knots by wannabe presidents and aspiring talk-show hosts, who use the chamber as a social-media platform to build their brands by obstructing—well, everything.

Jonathan Rauch,« How American Politics Went Insane ». The Atlantic, juillet-août 2016.


childlike

more childlike (comparative)
most childlike (superlative)

Even as an adult, she was still able to display childlike wonder at the bright lights of the holiday season.


epiphany

And then I had an epiphany.


mull

to mull (infinitive)
mulls (present third-person singular)
mulled (preterite)
mulled (participle past)
mulling (participle present)

He paused to mull over his various options before making a decision.


start over

to start over (infinitive)
starts over (present third-person singular)
started over (preterite)
started over (participle past)
starting over (participle present)

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de start

Recommencer à zéro, reprendre depuis le début.

I forgot to save my work, and I had to start over.


so-and-so

\ˈsəʊ.ən.ˌsəʊ\

Ceci ou cela, chose dont on a oublié le nom, dont on ignore le nom ou dont on n’a pas besoin de spécifier le nom.

He will tell you to do so-and-so, but read the instructions first, anyway.

Il vous dira de faire ceci ou cela, mais lisez quand même les instructions d’abord.


pair à pair

(Date à préciser) De l’anglais peer-to-peer (même sens).

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Modèle de réseau informatique dans lequel chacun des participant·es connecté·es dispose des mêmes droits et qui permet un échange direct de services sans recourir à un serveur central.

Grâce au pair-à-pair, les données de Christelle sont sauvegardées automatiquement, dès que le logiciel arrive à localiser un autre pair capable d'héberger ses données. Celles-ci sont chiffrées avec sa clé secrète, de telle sorte qu'elle seule peut les lire à nouveau.

Fabrice Le Fessant & Jean-Marie Thomas, Peer-to-peer: Comprendre et utiliser, Éditions Eyrolles, 2011, page 7


to excess

It's fine to do it occasionally, but don't do it to excess!


cross one’s mind

Why do you say that? It never even crossed my mind.


primal scene

Traduction de l’allemand Urszene. Inventé par Sigmund Freud en 1914.

The primal scene is the site at which the issues of ego differentiation become translated into the issues of the oedipus complex.

William J. Kerrigan, The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost, Harvard University Press,ISBN 0674785002, page 164, 1983

The father’s presence and image, together with those of the mother, form the raw material of the primal scene.

Andrew Samuels, The Plural Psyche:: Personality, Morality, and the Father, Routledge,ISBN 0415017602, page 123, 1989

She argues that perverse sexual activity constitutes an attempt to restage the primal scene in such a way as to eliminate its traumatic aspects.

Joel Whitebook, Perversion and Utopia: a study in psychoanalysis and critical theory, MIT Press,ISBN 0262731177, page 51, 1995


offhand

more offhand (comparative)
most offhand (superlative)
off-hand

Dont la manière de parler est désinvolte, cavalier.

an offhand remark, an offhand comment

some offhand remarks


offhand

Positif
Comparatif
more offhand
Superlatif
most offhand

Offhand, I'd say it's to the north of here. But I'm not really sure.


glib

Ultimately, Churchill saved the world, and Boris is a glib chancer motivated by vanity and lust.

David Mitchell, Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By, Guardian Faber Publishing, 2019, p. 162


sheer

(XIIIᵉ siècle) Du vieil anglais scir (« pur, clair »).

sheerer (comparative)
sheerest (superlative)

Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.

I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.

It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.


subminimal

Dérivé de minimal, avec le préfixe sub-.

Inférieur au seuil minimal nécessaire pour produire un effet.

Von Basch has shown that subminimal induction shocks increase the irritability of the quiescent cold-blooded heart.

American journal of physiology: Volume 16 - Page 174


nuke

to nuke (infinitive)
nukes (present third-person singular)
nuked (preterite)
nuked (participle past)
nuking (participle present)

Nuke it for a minute at half power to defrost.

Mettez-le au micro-onde pendant une minute à puissance moyenne pour le décongeler.


cute hoorism

Composé de cute hoor et du suffixe -ism.

Fourberie, sournoiserie, tricherie, astuce, en particulier dans un sens négatif : truanderie.

Some of the articles in this volume point to a culture of individusalism and ‘cute hoorism’ – where people try to get the political system to work for their own individual desires rather than for broad policy changes.

McGrath & O’Malley, Irish Political Studies Reader, p. 7, 2007

On a positive note, the Rechthaberei culture has bred a society of remarkable, dogged fairness – the opposite of cute hoorism.


stowaway

Origine incertaine. Possiblement l’accumulation du verbe to stow et du mot away. (to stow away, to reserve, mettre en réserve). (To stow away correspond aussi à un des sens du verbe latin hospitare d’après Munimenta gildhallae londoniensis : Liber albus, Liber custumarum, et Liber horn. Liber custumarum / edited by Henry Thomas Riley volume 3).

Well, you see, sir, a stowaway is very different, sir. The rules are very strict about reportin* ’em, sir. You’ll be put in hirons, and sent back from Liverpool by the first return steamer.

William DeanHowells, A Sea-Change or Love’s Stowaway: A Stowaway Farce in Two Acts Two an Epilogue., 1884

Stowaways face dangerous situations. Since they are not legally on board, they must sometimes spend days without water or food when traveling by ship, risking death. — (Stowaway Article Wikipedia anglophone)


crack down

to crack down (infinitive)
cracks down (present third-person singular)
cracked down (preterite)
cracked down (participle past)
cracking down (participle present)

Répliquer durement, répondre de façon strict.

The authorities are trying to crack down on drunk driving during the holidays.

Les autorités essaient de répondre aux conducteurs ivres pendant les vacances.


fuliginous

(XVIᵉ siècle) Du latin fūlīginōsus, dérivé de fūlīgo (« suie »).

more fuliginous (comparative)
most fuliginous (superlative)

To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot-mill, what is the first duty I will prescribe, and offer help towards? That he clean the skin of him.

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, livre 4, chapitre XV, 1843

On the beach, masts and chimneys interlaced, and like a fuliginous shadow the figure of Albertine gliding through the surf, fusing into the mysterious quick and prism of a protoplasmic realm, uniting her shadw to the dream and harbinger of death.

I toy with shouting some tidbit more – some terrifying, unthinkable threat, some blackly fuliginous riddling hex – but my heart’s not in it.

John Gardner, Grendel, London 1972, p. 10, 1972

With its own fuliginous Weather, at once public and private, created of smoke billowing from Pipes, Hearths, and Stoves, the Room would provide an extraordinary sight, were any able to see ….


regex

Ellipse de regular expression (même sens).

\ˈɹɛdʒ.ˌɛks\

The dot regex matches any character (including whitespace character).

Christian Mayer, Python One-Liners, No Starch Press, 2020, page 129


precovery

(fin XXᵉ siècle) Combinaison de pre- et recovery avec l’influence de discovery : "pre-discovery recovery".

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« Pré-découverte » (ou « prédécouverte ») : confirmation d’une solution orbitale pour un petit objet du Système solaire (comète, planète mineure, satellite) par sa récupération sur des plaques photographiques datant d’avant sa découverte.

The search for precovery images on photographic archives represent^([sic]) a very valuable alternative to R recoveries for various further reasons […] Precovery images are still very useful even when an accurate orbit is already available.

Andrea Boattini, The importance of Near-Earth Object detections on archival plates, in Peter Kroll, Constanze la Dous et Hans-Jürgen Bräuer (éditeurs), Treasure-Hunting in Astronomical Plate Archives: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at Sonneberg Observatory, March 4 to 6, 1999, Harri Deutsch, 1999


at the money

An at the money option will give you no gain or loss if you exercise it now.


invertebrate

Scientists do not know what the rim rock crowned snake eats, but centipedes and other small invertebrates are presumed to constitute a major part of its diet.

J. Whitfield Gibbons, Michael E. Dorcas, Snakes of the Southeast, 2005, page 53


palustral

Du latin palustris, issu de palūs (« marais »).

more palustral (comparative)
most palustral (superlative)

Telebasis salva is found in shallow waters containing palustral vegetation.

Robert Leslie Usinger, Aquatic Insects of California, p. 145, 1956

The insects are scant, skinny.
In these palustral homes we only
Croak and wither.

Its archaic handsomeness, nemoral and chthonic, is the palustral involution of the vagina folded out and distended, cave become tower, as elegant a morphology as the spreading of the conifer leaf into oak and elm.


fishbowl

Enthusiastic sports cities are often said to place the players on their team in a fishbowl atmosphere.

Les villes enthousiastes aux sports sont souvent réputées pour sélectionner leurs joueurs dans leur équipe devant un nombreux public.


neonism

Formé irrégulièrement à partir du grec ancien νέον, neon, neutre singulier de νέος, neos (« nouveau ») et du suffixe -ism.

Now, it will not be denied that in the present day two great sources of the modification of our language are native slang and American neonism.

S. Mullen, The Melbourne Review, Volume 8. page 204, 1883

Blurb is a neonism, a modern manufactured word which appears in only the most recent dictionaries.

Johnson O’Connor, English Vocabulary Builder, vol. 2, 1948


cleavage

De cleave (« fendre ») et du suffixe -age.

Her dress showed a lot of cleavage.


pontificate

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin pontificatus.

He could pontificate on any academic subject for hours.


paraben

I got breast cancer this year, and now avoid products containing parabens.

“Products for the Skin (1 Letter)”, New York Times, 19 février 2007


vestiary

De l’ancien français vestiarie, issu du latin vestiarium, dérivé de vestis (« vêtement »).

more vestiary (comparative)
most vestiary (superlative)

The Professor was left to stare into the depths of his ancient hat, as if it were a vestiary expression of his present situation.

Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 39, 2006


per capita

per capita allowance


sejunct

Du latin sēiūnctus, participe passé de sēiungō (« séparer »), composé de sē (« sans ») et de iungō (« joindre »).

more sejunct (comparative)
most sejunct (superlative)

Now that mechanical science has realised his ancient dreams of flight and sejunct communication, he is the advance guard of the psychologist on the watch for new emotions, new vibrations sensible to faculties as yet ill understood.

Ezra Pound, "The Wisdom of Poetry", Selected Prose 1909-1965, 1912

images, divine and human, the cogitation of which by sejunct females is to tumescence conducive or eases issue in the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of mothers when, ostensibly far gone and reproductitive, it is come by her thereto to lie in, her term up.


moabi

The inside walls are sheathed in an amber-colored veneer about the thickness of two sheets of paper, cut from a single log of an African moabi tree.

Daniel J. Wakin, “Musicians Hear Heaven in Tully Hall’s New Sound”, New York Times, 29 janvier 2009


riad

The walls of the riads are adorned with tadelakt plaster and zellige tiles, usually with Arabic calligraphy, with quotes from the Quran.


undreamed-of

Dérivé du participe passé du verbe dream of (« rêver ») avec le préfixe négatif un-.

more undreamed-of (comparative)
most undreamed-of (superlative)

Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were?


burrowing owl

Chevêche des terriers, chouette des terriers (Athene cunicularia).

Burrowing owls place mammalian dung in and around their burrows.

Les chevêches des terriers placent des excréments de mammifères dans et autour de leurs terriers.

Douglas J. Levey, R. Scot Duncan et Carrie F. Levins, « Use of dung as a tool by burrowing owls », Nature, 2 septembre 2004.


protozoon

In one case, indeed, what appear to be flagella and, as such, organelles of the protozoon cell, prove to be, rather, distinct organisms that have established a symbiotic relationship with it. The protozoon Myxotricha paradoxa is solidly covered with what were always regarded as flagella, fine hairs that by their whiplike action move it through the water, until it was discovered that each hair was in fact a distinct bacterium […]

Louis Joseph Halle, Out of chaos, page 129, 1977, Houghton Mifflin


worlds apart

Composé de worlds (« mondes ») et de apart (« séparé »).

Surely they are deceived when they look forward with equal confidence to things which are worlds apart, the joys of idleness and the rewards of merit.

Salluste, The War with Jugurtha, traduit par John C. Rolfe, 1921

Curious and remote he was, saying nothing except what had to be said. And she, for her part, was as remote from him. They seemed far, far apart, worlds apart, now they were so near.


ravisher

Ravisseur ; personne qui ravit, qui enlève avec violence.

Ravisher of the belongings of another


by no means

Composé de by (« par »), no (« aucun ») et means (« moyen »), littéralement « par aucun moyen ».

Certainement pas, nullement, en aucun cas.

He was by no means a handsome man—perhaps the reverse.

But then, the idea was, that his presence was by no means necessary in getting the ship under weigh, and steering her well out to sea.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapitre 22, 1851


hazy

Primitivement hawsey, heysey, métathèse d’un moyen anglais *haswy, issu du vieil anglais haswig « cendré, sombre ».

hazier (comparative)
haziest (superlative)

This is a hazy sunset.


mixing valve

It is very difficult to propose strict rules for mixing valve operation.

Traduction = Il est très difficile de proposer des règles strictes pour le fonctionnement des vannes mélangeuses.

J .-P. Wauquier, Petroleum Refining - Séparation processes, éd. Tecnhnip, 1998.


eyeball

to eyeball (infinitive)
eyeballs (present third-person singular)
eyeballed (preterite)
eyeballed (participle past)
eyeballing (participle present)

A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.

Un bon cuisinier peut souvent corriger la quantité des ingrédients rien qu'en jaugeant.

Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.

Chaque construction géométrique doit être exacte ; les jauger à peu près ne doit pas compter.


criminal sexual act

He was held at a police precinct overnight and charged with "a criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and unlawful imprisonment".

ArticleDominique Strauss-Kahn sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


goodbye, cruel world

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de goodbye, cruel et world.

“But I’ll drown!” screamed Henry. “I can’t swim!”
“Get in!” screamed Soggy Sid.
Goodbye, cruel world. Horrid Henry held his breath and fell into the icy water.

Francesca Simon, Horrid Henry: The Mummy’s Curse, 2010


leathery

His face had become leathery from being out in the desert so long.

This beef is leathery. I can't eat it.


debacle

(Siècle à préciser) Du français débâcle.

Résultat catastrophique de décisions antérieures.

Shutdown debacle leaves Trump with stark choices


honcho

Du japonais 班長, hanchō (« chef de groupe »), probablement via l’anglais américain. Des histoires apocryphes abondent au sujet de soldats américains entendant les prisonniers de guerre japonais se référant à leur lieutenants par cette expression durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Max Von Sidewinder is back to play Spectre’s head honcho, only now we see his face!

Gulfstream makes jets for both Hollywood honchos and foreign governments like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Michael Moore, Stupid White Men, 2001, p.22


Ruritanian

Dérivé de Ruritania, un royaume fictif où se déroule les histoires d’Anthony Hope (1863-1933).

more Ruritanian (comparative)
most Ruritanian (superlative)

\ˌɹʊə.ɹɪ.ˈteɪ.nɪən\

These claims were called the Greater Ruritania by the cultivated classes who regarded Kipling, Treitschke, and Maurice Barres as one hundred percent Ruritanian. But the grandiose idea aroused no enthusiasm abroad. So holding this finest flower of the Ruritanian genius, as their poet laureate said, to their hearts, Ruritania's statesmen went forth to divide and conquer.

Walter Lippman, Public Opinion, chapter X, page 79, 2007

Utilisé pour décrire un gouvernement ou une personne étranger fictif et générique, utilisé pour indiquer une situation générale ou hypothétique.

In practice, the Ruritanian regime is autocratic, controlling business, government, finance, and military posts.

Robert Ellsworth Elder, The Information Machine, p 339, 1968


Désigne une manière de jouer à Donjons & Dragons dans laquelle le niveau 6 est considéré comme épique, une limite indépassable par les personnages joueurs.

E6 is a radical take on D&D 3.5, where level 6 is made the "epic" level. Characters stop leveling at level 6, and instead gain more feats as they continue to advance.

E6 (3.5e Sourcebook) sur Dungeons and Dragons Wiki, 2007-07-07. Consulté le 2022-02-08


bondsman

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You shall remember that you were a bondsman in the land of Egypt. — Tu te souviendras que tu as été esclave dans le pays d’Égypte.


vomitus

The dry cleaner was informed that the stain on her coat was baby vomitus.


touch base

Touch base with your boss before you start work to make sure you understand the project.

Contactez votre patron avant que vous ne commenciez à travailler pour être sûr que vous comprenez le projet.


speak up

Parler plus fort, de manière plus bruyante.

I haven't heard anything; could you please speak up?


call off

to call off (infinitive)
calls off (present third-person singular)
called off (preterite)
called off (participle past)
calling off (participle present)

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Renvoyer quelqu’un après l’avoir assigné à une certaine tâche.

I've finally found my keys, you can call off the locksmith.


Linus

Linus Pauling.


run by

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de run

bitransitif Soumettre quelque chose (un projet, une idée) à quelqu'un.

Let me run that idea by the board before we spend too much time on it.


United States of Canada

États-Unis du Canada. Ensemble des États bleus et du Canada considéré plus libéral que les États rouges ou Jesusland, signifiant que la division entre les États bleus et les États rouges est assez forte pour séparer la nation.

The map suggested a geopolitical re-sorting of North America into two more culturally cohesive and geographically sensible nations, helpfully renamed the United States of Canada (comprising our northern neighbor and the “blue” states) and Jesusland (the “red” states).

After the 2004 election, a map circulated on the Internet, identifying the states that supported Kerry as one country—the “United States of Canada,” as though they had seceded and joined Canada—and the states that supported Bush as another country—“Jesusland.”

Susan Welch, John Gruhl, John Comer et Susan M. Rigdon, Understanding American Government, 2009


crime against humanity

(XXᵉ siècle)Composé de crime, against et humanity.

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“The Taliban’s campaign of gender persecution is of such magnitude, gravity and systematic nature, that cumulatively the acts and policies form a system of repression which aims to subjugate and marginalize women and girls across the country. Our report indicates that this meets all the five criteria to qualify as a crime against humanity of gender persecution,” said Santiago A. Canton, Secretary General of the International Commission of Jurists.

« Afghanistan: Taliban’s treatment of women and girls should be investigated as the crime against humanity of gender persecution », Amnesty International, 26 mai 2023. Consulté le 4 février 2025


nefandous

Du latin nefandus, composé de ne- (« non ») et de fandus, gérondif de fari.

more nefandous (comparative)
most nefandous (superlative)

Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High.

Increase Mather, An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, 1684

It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.

H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness, 1931

some combination of scrapie, long-term climatic change, nefandous conduct by jealous Outer Qwghlmians, and a worldwide shift in fashion away from funny-smelling thirty-pound sweaters with small arthropods living in them had driven them all into honest poverty and then not-so-honest poverty and led to their forcible transportation to Australia.


fanboy

Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.

Tim Barribeau, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 décembre 2008


backward

Dérivé de back (« dos, arrière »), avec le suffixe -ward.

A backward culture.


resistor

De resist (« résister ») avec le suffixe -or.

Résistance, résisteur, résistor (composant électrique).

A resistor is a two-terminal passive electronic component which implements electrical resistance as a circuit element.


Isaac

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.


cause célèbre

(XVIIIᵉ siècle) Du français cause et célèbre.

Cette locution n’est pas utilisée en français.

Problème ou incident qui provoque d’énormes controverses.

The case was a cause célèbre throughout the United States.

L’affaire fit grand bruit à travers les États-Unis.

Article « Lizzie Borden », Wikipédia anglophone


supervacaneous

Du latin supervacāneus qui a également donné en italien supervacaneo, en espagnol supervacáneo et en portugais supervacâneo.

It is an awful thing to find your efforts supervacaneous when you are so far away from home and friends, sympathy, and help.

George Wharton James, Our American Woodlands, 1915

‘It became all the more important for me to get out because my son Foster, aged now fifteen, is only ten points below genius and this genius would have been unavailing and supervacaneous, in other words wasted, behind the iron curtain.'

If I were simply to discuss noses in disregard of their relation to other entities, then I would declare without fear of contradiction that the nose of Mrs. Goldfield is superb, superlative, and, though possibly supervacaneous, one well-placed to win first prize at any exhibition of nasal development which might be organized by the long-nosed goblins on Mount Kurama.

Aiko Itō and Graeme Wilson, translating Natsume Sōseki, I Am a Cat 2002 combined edition, Tuttle Publishing,ISBN 080483265X, volume un, chapitre III, page 152, 1972


timeout

Temporisation : annulation d’une transaction lorsqu’une des entités participantes ne fournit pas la réponse exigée dans le délai imparti.

This conservative design means that only expected messages and timeouts can alter the protocol state: unexpected messages are uniformly inert.

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

Brett Keith Watson, Network Protocol Design with Machiavellian Robustness, thèse de doctorat en informatique, Macquarie University, 2010, page 119

Délai d’inactivité : durée au bout de laquelle le système entre dans un autre état (généralement un état de veille ou de verrouillage) s’il n’y a eu aucune activité de la part d’une autre partie du système.

If the timeout value is zero, [the] screen-saver is disabled (but an activated screen-saver is not deactivated). If the timeout value is nonzero, [the] screen-saver is enabled.

Adrian Nye, X Protocol Reference Manual for X11, Release 6, 1995, page 301


timeout

to timeout (infinitive)
timeouts (present third-person singular)
timeouted (preterite)
timeouted (participle past)
timeouting (participle present)

Le prétérit et les participes passé et présent sont à peu près inutilisés ; on leur préférera les flexions de la locution verbale to time out (c.-à-d. timed out, timing out).

In the extreme case that no guessers were available, the image was accepted as such. Also if the guessing timeouted or the player closed the client without guessing, no guess was recorded.

Ville H. Tuulos; Jürgen Scheible; et Heli Nyholm; Combining Web, Mobile Phones and Public Displays in Large-Scale: Manhattan Story Mashup, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4480 : Anthony LaMarca; Marc Langheinrich; et Khai N. Truong, éditeurs, Pervasive computing: 5ᵗʰ International Conference, PERVASIVE 2007, Toronto, Canada, May 2007, Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (DE), 2007, pp. 37–54


Baltic

(1580) Du latin médiéval Balticus ; équivalent dudérivé de Balt, avec le suffixe -ic.

The Baltic states.

The Baltic languages.


funest

Du français funeste, issu du latin fūnestus, issu de fūnus (« funérailles, mort »).

more funest (comparative)
most funest (superlative)

I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest.

John Evelyn dans une lettre au Dr. Pierce, publié en 1863 dans Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., volume 3, page 142, 17 septembre 1663

Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover’d these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow’d from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.

Probablement Alexander Pope, God’s Revenge Against Punning, deMiscellanies, 3e volume, page 226, cité à partir de 1742, 7 novembre 1716

..excepting only some Popes have be’en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths.

Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

Wallace Stevens, Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds, de la collection Harmonium, 1922 (première publication le 7 septembre 1923)

Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun.

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 264, 1969


shuttlecock

(1522) De shuttle (« aller et venir ») et cock (« coq, en référence à la forme de ses plumes »).

The practice of the game in this country is to keep the shuttlecock in the air by striking it from one person to another.

The boy's own toy-maker, Ebenezer Landells, page 122, 1859


in sight of

They finally arrived in sight of the castle.


refract

The glass prism refracts the light.

The light refracts when it passes through the prism.


burletta

In addition to burlesque plays, operas and burlettas, the Italians invented two other species of drama, pastoral and rustic plays.

Sholto et ReubenPercy, The Percy Anecdotes, volume 17, 1823, page 97


backfire

The engine backfires every time that we start the car.

Causer une situation dans laquelle un de ses actes se retourne contre soi-même.

Their plan backfired.


jump the gun

→ voir jump, the et gun. Au commencement d’un concours au tir à la carabine, si quelqu’un court avant que l’on tire, on dit qu’il saute avant le fusil.

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

\ˈdʒʌmp ðiː ɡʌn\

This bill jumps the gun on technological improvements.

Ce projet de loi anticipe trop sur les avancées technologiques.


droshky

La fatigue du Lout nous tenait encore bien. On s'endormait partout. Chez le barbier, appuyés au guichet de la poste, au trot des droshky jaunes qui remplacent ici les taxis ; […]

Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du monde, La Découverte/Poche, Paris, 1985, 2014, page 280

Des droshkies allaient et venaient comme au XIXᵉ siècle, au rythme du trot de chevaux caparaçonnés. Rêveurs et anonymes, des passants déambulaient sur l’avenue Centrale (ex-rue Lénine) : des hommes aux yeux clairs en survêtement ou en jeans, des femmes en robes vagues.

Colin Thubron, En Sibérie, traduit de l'anglais par Katia Holmes, Gallimard, collection Folio, 2012, page 17


transactional

Motdérivé de transaction, avec le suffixe -al

Transactional analysis.


villainess

Dérivé de villain (« vilain, méchant »), avec le suffixe -ess (« -esse »).

villainesses (plural)
villain (masculine)

This season, Brazilian-born Baccarin (a heroine to fans of FIREFLY and SERENITY for portraying Inara Serra as well as a veteran of STARGATE SG-1 as the dangerous Adria) killed a fellow visitor with her tail and ingested a rodent, not to mention dealing with her mother Diana, played by original ’80s V villainess Jane Badler – none of which she was expecting.

Abbie Bernstein,Exclusive Interview: V star Morena Baccarin reflects on Season 2 and beyond, 15 mars 2011, Assignment X


lock out

to lock out (infinitive)
locks out (present third-person singular)
locked out (preterite)
locked out (participle past)
locking out (participle present)

Empêcher quelqu’un d’entrer en verrouillant la porte à clé.

To be locked out.

Être bloqué à l’extérieur, sans possibilité d’entrer.


close up

to close up (infinitive)
closes up (present third-person singular)
closed up (preterite)
closed up (participle past)
closing up (participle present)

Le verbe close up et le nom close-up ne sont pas des homophones.

The crowd closed up and I couldn’t get through to the train.

La foule se serra et je ne pus passer à travers pour rejoindre le train.


in terms of

Recursion can be used to solve any problem that can be expressed in terms of itself.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 131


serial monogamy

For some adolescents, serial monogamy - or a succession of 'permanent' relationships - is the norm, confirming earlier findings with American adolescents reported by Sorensen (1973).

Susan Moore & Doreen Rosenthal, Sexuality in Adolescence, p. 127, 1993

If serial monogamy is the norm, even if individuals have many partners over time, the virus is trapped within relationships and gets around slowly.

"Sex and sensibility", The Economist, 1 mars 2008

Pawley was, of course, not the last man to suffer from Taylor’s serial monogamy, with the Hollywood star marrying eight times in her life.


latah

Latah is a condition occurring in Southeast Asia. Otherwise sane, Latahs compulsively imitate every motion once their attention is attracted by snapping the fingers or calling sharply.

It seemed to Sir Edwin that this patient, a young man who had never set foot outside England, was suffering from an ailment known as latah – common enough in the Malay archipelago but hitherto unknown, so far as the clinical records – admittedly not very reliable – could advise, in the temperate clime of northern Europe.

Actually, there is a debate among scholars as to whether the latah condition should be regarded as a culture-related "mental disorder" or merely as an "unusual behavior response" found in some cultures.

Wen-Shing Tseng, Clinician’s Guide to Cultural Psychiatry, p. 116, 2003


hair-splitting

Gérondif de split hairs ;composé de hair et de splitting.

Argutie, tétrapilectomie, fait de couper les cheveux en quatre.

On Thursday, the United Nations will vote on whether Palestine should be raised to the status of "non-member observer state" at the United Nations, rather than the status of "observer entity" which it currently holds. This seems like hair-splitting, but it is a contentious issue.

Jake Wallis Simons, Britain is right to support Palestine at the UN – and so should Israel, The Telegraph, novembre 2012


word to the wise

(Date à préciser)Composé de word (« mot »), to, the et wise (« sage »), littéralement « mot pour le sage ».

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-word to the wise.ogg

Well have fun, but, word to the wise, don’t let your sister take control.

Bon, amusez-vous, mais, un bon conseil, ne laisse pas ta sœur prendre la main.


kerfuffle

(Début du XIXᵉ siècle) Probablement du scots curfuffle, de ker- et fuffle, ou encore du gaélique cior thual (« confusion, désordre »).

kerfuffles (plural)
curfuffle
kafuffle
kerfluffle
kurfuffle

You know all this kerfuffle about Jordan and Peter Andre, and how you don’t know if they’re really splitting up or it’s just an act […]

On connaît tout ce brouhaha au sujet de Jordan et Peter Andre, et à quel point on ne sait pas s’ils se séparent vraiment ou si c’est juste de la comédie […]

Stuart Heritage, « Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About », Hecklerspray, 22 mai 2009

There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle the past couple days over something Sarah Palin said about Paul Revere.

Il y a eu un peu de tumulte les quelques jours derniers concernant quelque chose que Sarah Palin a dit à propos de Paul Revere.

Mark Memmott,« Sarah Palin’s Had Her Say; Now Let’s Hear From Paul Revere », The Two-Way, National Public Radio, 6 juin 2011


thenceafter

À partir de ce moment-là ; désormais (ne se dit pas du moment actuel)

There was a horrific argument about their father's will, and thenceafter they never talked to each other.


breakaway

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

The breakaway has maintained its lead all day and may actually survive to the finish.

L’échappée a maintenu son avance toute la journée et pourrait en fait survivre jusqu’à l’arrivée.


add fuel to fire

Composé de add (« ajouter »), fuel (« combustible »), to et fire (« feu »), littéralement « ajouter du combustible au feu ».

Mettre de l’huile sur le feu, jeter de l’huile sur le feu

Shouting at a crying child just adds fuel to the fire.


transitory

more transitory (comparative)
most transitory (superlative)

\ˈtɹænzɪˌtɔɹi\

\ˈtɹænsɪˌtɔɹi\

Secondly, that the materials being very transitory, have suffered much from inclemencies of air, especially in these north-west regions.

Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, Section I - The Introduction, 1704

Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.

Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, chapitre 38, 1839

For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them--wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls’ cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, Book Three, chapitre II : A Matter of Aesthetics, 1922


peaceable

(XIVᵉ siècle) De l’anglo-normand pesible, peisible, issu du moyen français paisible, dérivé de pais (« paix ») avec le suffixe -ible ; plus tard remodelé à partir de peace et du suffixe -able.

more peaceable (comparative)
most peaceable (superlative)

But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable.

Faisal Bodi, The Guardian, 29 décembre 1999

But if you talk to people here privately, they suggest there are three possible scenarios. The first (intended to sound incredible) is that Israel’s biggest neighbour will be transformed into a peaceable, pluralist democracy.

‘Feeling understandably twitchy’, The Economist, 8 février 2011

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head ….


mezuzah

De l’hébreu post-biblique מזוזה, (« poteau de porte »).

mezuzahs (plural)
mezuzot (plural)
mezuzoth (plural)

Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere…a spell against Marvy tonight, against Tchitcherine. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night

Lubavitchers, Penansky says, believe mezuzahs need no adornment and simply wrap them in cellophane.

Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, Reader, 2 septembre 1988

When Manny or either of his parents went through their front door they put a finger on their lips and then to the mezuzah on the door frame.

Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007 ed., page 20, 2006


gewgaw

The crow has a bad one in the family — the Jackdaw, a cunning chap who is fond of gathering glittering gewgaws to himself that rightfully belong to others.

Sean O'Casey, The Green Crow, W.H. Allen, 1987, p. 9


binge drinking

Composé de binge et de drinking (de drink).

Consommation d’une quantité excessive d’alcool sur une courte période de temps.

Fights caused by binge drinking are a major problem in Cardiff.


becomable

more becomable (comparative)
most becomable (superlative)

I never expected in my lifetime to see so mannerable, so behavable and so becomable a crowd of young people as I sees here.^([sic])

Emmett Jay Scott, The Tuskegee Negro Conferences, 1904

In the Lacanian model, Self is constituted by an encounter with a mirror; the concept of I is becomable as a concept when split off, observable.


escapology

Escapology is the study or art of escaping from a constriction, e.g. rope, handcuffs, etc.

L’escapologie est l’étude ou l’art de s’échapper d’une entrave, p. ex. une corde, des menottes, etc.


escapologist

An escapologist is an entertainer skilled in the art of escapology.

Un escapologiste est un amuseur expérimenté dans l’art de l’escapologie.


push-up

How many push-ups can you do?


ocker

De Ocker, diminutif d’Oscar ; popularisé dans des sketches de séries de télévision où le mot était utilisé comme un surnom général.

For many Australians, the screen persona of the character actor Bill Hunter, who has died of cancer aged 71, was the archetypal "ocker", an uncultivated Australian working man who enjoys beer, "barbies", Aussie rules football and V8 supercars.

Ronald Bergan, The Guardian, 23 mai 2011


ocker

more ocker (comparative)
most ocker (superlative)

Relatif à un Australien rustre ou inculte.

‘Non-erotic male bonding, that’s the thing isn’t it; what our ocker cousins call “mateyness”.

Melbourne surf shop Mordy Surf triggered outrage after posting the YouTube clip, in which an ocker man says he is "gonna get a glass and smash it on some poof", on its website.

Emily Portell, Herald Sun (Melbourne), 25 janvier 2011


bestir

Du moyen anglais bestiren, du vieil anglais bestyrian. Équivalent à stir avec le préfixe be-.

to bestir (infinitive)
bestirs (present third-person singular)
bestirred (preterite)
bestirred (participle past)
bestirring (participle present)

I bestir’d myself to see if possible how to supply two Wants

Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, page 126. 1719.


nitpicky

nitpickier (comparative)
nitpickiest (superlative)
nit-picky

Some might call it nitpicky but it’s really just thorough.

Certains pourraient qualifier cela de chipotage mais c’est juste minutieux en réalité.


Cro-Magnon

But 60,000 years ago Neanderthals were present in what was still a peninsula, and 40,000 years ago the Cro-Magnons, who left flint tools and bones, including their own, some of which show possible signs of cannibalism.

Robert Tombs, The English and their History, Penguin Books, 2015, page 8


double agent

Composé de double (« double ») et de agent (« agent »), littéralement « agent double ».

Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal continues to fight for his life in hospital three days after he was found slumped on a bench.

Who is Sergei Skripal? The Mirror, Scott D’Arcy et Sophie Evans, 07-03-2018


defray

Du moyen français desfrayer, qui a donné le français défrayer, issu de l’ancien français fraier avec le préfixe dé-.

to defray (infinitive)
defrays (present third-person singular)
defrayed (preterite)
defrayed (participle past)
defraying (participle present)

Payer (une dette, une dépense…), rencontrer (le prix de quelque chose).

The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.

Durant la guerre, on payait les dépenses de celle-ci en mettant à mort les riches afin de leur confisquer les biens.

Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29, 1946

Investors, meanwhile, got back a fraction of their money. Some say Mr Meinl’s €100m bail, paid by a source in Liechtenstein, should be used to defray their losses.

Pendant ce temps, les investisseurs n'ont recouvert qu'une fraction de leur argent. Certains sont d'avis que les 100 millions d'euros exigées à titre de caution pour M. Meinl, qui ont été payées par une source au Liechtenstein, devraient servir à les indemniser.

« A Viennese grind », The Economist, 30 juillet 2009

In order to help defray the substantial costs involved, they then raised revenue through taking advertisements.

Afin de couvrir les dépenses importantes qui étaient nécessaires, ils ont gagné de l'argent en diffusant des publicités.

Roy Greenslade, The Guardian, 9 décembre 2010


pantslessness

Dérivé de l’adjectif pantsless avec le suffixe nominal -ness.

And of course Lady Gaga has made pantslessness her trademark look.

Lindsey Schickner,Testing the Pantless Trend in New York City, Stylelist, 2010


23 skidoo

Partir rapidement, particulièrement au moment opportun.

I can imagine nothing more shocking than to hear some one use a slang expression current ten years ago, such as ‘23 skidoo’ or ‘you’re off your base.’

1=Henry Robinson Luce,Time, volume 11, 1928


velleity

Du latin médiéval velleitas, dérivé de velle (« vouloir »).

The debate in the House of Lords would convert the impartial listener from any velleity towards single-chamber government.

The Times, 24 octobre 1919, page 12 col. A

Who could have imagined then, in Crumpsall, that the ancient Jewish hope, ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ – for so long more a velleity than a hope, the feeblest and most unanticipated of anticipations – would be realised in their lifetime and that they would be able to stand here, under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers, but otherwise unimpeded, together?

Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, page 372, 2006


all the tea in China

(XXᵉ siècle)Composée de all, the, tea, in et China.

\ˌɔl ðə ˈti ɪn ˈtʃaɪ.nə\

\ˌɔːl ðə ˈtiː ɪn ˈtʃaɪ.nə\

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-all the tea in China.ogg

Tout l’or du monde ; chose d’une valeur incommensurable.

I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China : je ne ferais pas ça pour tout l’or du monde.

MichelMARCHETEAU, Stop your salads, Univers Poche, 2013


hagwon

Geneho, whose bedroom faces the street, is attending a hagwon, a Korean tutoring program.

Fred A. Bernstein,A House to Grow Into, New York Times, 12 août 2007


hairy canary clover

Study of the attributes of one semi-herbaceous species, hairy canary clover (Dorycnium hirsutum), should provide insights relevant to similar species.


spankee

Personne recevant une fessée, ou en étant victime.

The spanker is often also the spankee.

Tom Beaudoin, Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy, 2007


hairy canary-clover

If you are intrigued in storing a hairy canary-clover as a house plant, Do everyone a favor and do not take one from the wild.


Brice

Brice Marden.


luminary

Luminaire ; Lumière, expert éclairé dans un domaine, orfèvre en la matière.

A panel of Kenya's tech luminaries.


polishability

Dérivé de polishable avec le suffixe -ity.

Porcelain tile microstructure: implications for polishability.


pharma

We’re investing in pharma and biotech.


scare quote

One other important figure in postmodern thought is Richard Rorty, who might be characterized as master of the scare quote.

“The Retreat From Inquiry and Knowledge in Special Education.”, Journal of Special Education, 1 janvier 2001

He is inordinately fond of the scare quote, a sign that he is not really sure of what he’s talking about.

P Timms, What’s Wrong with Contemporary Art?, 2004

An incidental pleasure is his witty mastery of the scare quote and the square bracket.

“Where Hairsplitting Can Become High Drama”, New York Sun, 6 septembre 2006

I put the relevant pronouns in scare quote because Bundy’s interviewers succeeded in getting Bundy to talk about his crimes only by allowing him to describe them in the third person

D Jeske, “Friendship and the grounds of reasons”, papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca, 2008


irregardless

(1795) Mot-valise Possiblementcomposé de irrespective et de regardless ^([1]).

\ˌɪɹ.ɪˈɡɑɹd.ləs\

\ˌɪɹɪˈɡɑɹdlɪs\

\ˌɪɹɪˈɡɑːdlɪs\

[Alt: attention] Il s’agit d’un terme utilisé qui n’est pas d’un usage standard. ^([1]) ^([2]) ^([3]). Certaines personnes considèrent le préfixe ir- de ce mot comme inutile, représentant habituellement la négation; cependant, ce préfixe exprime dans ce mot un intensifieur (comme les mots irremediless, irresistless et irrelentlessly) ^([1]). Le dictionnaire Merriam-Webster considère que irregardless a reçu des critiques dès les années 20, que sa réputation ne s’est pas améliorée au fil des années, qu’il est encore loin d’être acceptée par tous, et qu’il est recommandé d’utiliser regardless ^([1]).

Verbiage. Va-jay-jay. Irregardless.

Randall Munroe, Tween Bromance, xkcd, 2011


va-jay-jay

Altération par réduplication de vagina (« vulve »). Popularisé par une réplique de l’épisode de la série télévisée Grey’s Anatomy diffusé le 12 février 2006.

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

“My va-jay-jay itches”, yeasts my friend Anna scratchily into her cell phone.

Billy Manes,Return to Paris, Orlando Weekly, 3 mars 2005

Stop looking in my va-jay-jay.

« As We Know It », dans Grey’s Anatomy, saison 2, épisode 17, diffusé le 12 février 2006

Ce mot est considéré non-sexuel et donc acceptable à la télévision


nullo

(Sens 2) Abréviation de genital nullification.

Personne qui subit une ablation chirurgicale de ses organes génitaux (et parfois de ses mamelons) dans le cadre d'une modification corporelle.

This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers – particularly nullos and transgenders – on the Body Modification Ezine website.

Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts, 2014 page 70


Mitch Morgan

In order to understand the punch line, you need to visit the Fat Alley BBQ in Telluride, Colorado, and enjoy a Mitch Morgan with Esch and his brother.

Cienna Madrid, The Bacon-Flavored American Dream, thestranger.com, octobre 2007


mammothrept

Du latin mammothreptus, issu du grec μαμμόθρεπτος (« élevé par sa grand-mère »), composé de μάμμη (« grand-mère ») et de θρεπτός issu de τρέφω (« nourrir »).

O, you are a meere mammothrept in judgement, then. Why, doe you not obserue how excellently the dittie is affected in euerie place?

Ben Jonson, Fountaine of Selfe-love, IV.3, 1601

She concludes, "you better apologize." The day I apologize to you, you contumacious mammothrept, there will be two moons in the sky.

Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947

‘And having seen the parents I am impatient to see this youth, the fruit of their strangely unattractive loins: will he be a wretched mammothrept?’

Patrick O’Brian, Master & Commander, 1970


A game

Composé de A et de game (« jeu »), littéralement « meilleur jeu », par ellipse de A-list.

Ya'll dudes better come wit it, I mean, bring ya a-game and shit.