pig in a wig

Citation du poème de Thomas Hood The Wise Little Pig → voir pig et wig.

\ˈpɪɡ in ə ˈwɪɡ\

Cochon à perruque, expression fortement dépréciative.

Harry often said that Dursley looked like a pig in a wig.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-49559, p. 28


kinematic

more kinematic (comparative)
most kinematic (superlative)

The Cognitive function in Humans results from our extremely complex kinematic capabilities. Grasping for objects, bending down and up, or sitting down on objects are examples of kinematic capabilities […]

Frank Kirchner, Takamasa Koshizen, & Dirk Spinneberg, "Cognitive Human Robots Based on Complex Kinematic Features", in Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 7th International Conference, Proceedings Part II, page 584, 2003


got to

He got to quit.


malamanteau

Néologisme créé en 2010 par Randall Munroe dans xkcd ; mot-valisecomposé de malapropism (« impropriété de langage ») et de portmanteau (« mot-valise »).

[Alt: attention] Il s’agit d’un terme utilisé qui n’est pas d’un usage standard.

Mot-valise créé de façon impropre en combinant un abus de langage avec un néologisme.

I am pretty damn sure that "squawk-dagon" is a malamanteau.

Words like "format" and "specification" might make one think that GeoPDF is a malamanteau of sorts or a perverse play on GeoTIFF.

Refudiate looks like a malamanteau to me!


exude

His pores were exuding sweat.

(Sens figuré)'Our host just exuded' warmth.

Notre hôte respirait tout bonnement la chaleur.


abjectly

Composé de l’adjectif abject et du suffixe -ly.

Positif
Comparatif
more abjectly
Superlatif
most abjectly

I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.

J’exprime mon regret le plus amer du dommage que j’ai causé.

So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;

Ainsi, dépourvu d’une jambe, et avec ce navire étrange bien entendu dépourvu de l’invention pratique, Ahab se trouva de retour réduit à l’état détestable de terrien éclopé.


greenhouse gas

(Années 1980)Composé de greenhouse (« serre ») et de gas (« gaz »).

\ˈɡɹiːn.ˌhaʊs ˌɡæs\

They offer energy diversity and a substantial overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

The Economist, édition du 14-20 octobre 2006, page 7

But according to leading climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan — credited with discovering that chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, are actually a greenhouse gas, among other major findings — a new study this week showing that clouds already are shifting their distributions across the Earth, and in a way predicted by climate change models, stands out. And not in a good way.

ChrisMooney ‘The most singular of all the things that we have found': Clouds study alarms scientists, The Washington Post, le 14 juillet 2016


twiddle

(1540) D’une onomatopée avec pour certains des sens, l’influence de twirl, twist ; voir tweedle.

to twiddle (infinitive)
twiddles (present third-person singular)
twiddled (preterite)
twiddled (participle past)
twiddling (participle present)

She sat and nervously twiddled her hair while she waited.

Elle s’assit et tritura nerveusement ses cheveux tandis qu’elle attendait.

to twiddle one's thumbs.


titted

A big-titted woman.


dowel

(XIVᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais dowle, à rapprocher du vieux haut-allemand tubili (« bouchon »).

Cheville, morceau de bois ou de métal qu’on fait entrer dans un trou pour le boucher, pour faire des assemblages ou pour d’autres usages.

"Put dowel centers in the holes, align the edge of the front with the end panel, and press the cabinet front against the cabinet to mark the location of the dowel holes that need to be drilled in the cabinet."
— Walter Simmons, Duck Trap Woodworking

« Placez les centres des chevilles dans les trous, alignez le bord de l’avant du meuble avec le panneau et poussez l’avant contre le meuble pour marquer l’emplacement des trous qui doivent être percés dans le meuble. »

Karen M. Koenig, Solving Cabinet Dowel Hole Location Problems: Shop Smart Challenge sur www.woodworkingnetwork.com. Mis en ligne le 12 novembre 2015


in isolation

Considered in isolation, the clues mean nothing, but when you put them together ....


celibate

The old bachelor was celibate.


tl;dr

(XXIᵉ siècle) (Sigle) de too long; didn’t read, soit « trop long ; pas lu ». Les premières références à ce sigle datent de 2003 dans Urban Dictionary.

Message initial à destination des personnes qui ne veulent pas en lire l'intégralité, en parlant du texte qui suit.

tl;dr: What about MF DOOM am I missing?


-s-

Du moyen anglais -s, -es, du vieil anglais -es (« -’s », terminaison du masculin et neutre au génitif singulier), qui persiste dans de nombreux vieux mots composés. Pour les composés plus récents, de la contraction du clitique dérivé ’s.

Interfixe qui lie deux éléments dans des éléments composés, équivalent au clitique ’s.

bridesmaid, herdsman, Queensland.


underdifferentiate

Dérivé de differentiate, avec le préfixe under-.

to underdifferentiate (infinitive)
underdifferentiates (present third-person singular)
underdifferentiated (preterite)
underdifferentiated (participle past)
underdifferentiating (participle present)

When diacritics are not used, the orthography underdifferentiates the phonemes /e/, /ɛ/ and /ə/.

Wikipédia en anglais, Slovene language, 31 mai 2010


goose is cooked

(Date à préciser) Littéralement « l’oie [de quelqu’un] est cuite ».

My goose is cooked.

His goose is cooked.

Her goose is cooked.

Our goose is cooked.

Your goose is cooked.

Their goose is cooked.

Les carottes sont cuites pour eux/elles.

In other words, Obama’s goose may already be cooked.

En d’autres termes, il se pourrait que les carottes soient déjà cuites pour Obama.

Lawrence Kudlow, « Obama’s goose is cooked », site humanevents.com, 7 octobre 2012


sinecure

Du latin sine (« sans, absence ») et cura (« soin, souci, attention »). Historiquement provient de l’expression « Beneficum sine cura » : Bénéfice sans soin, s’appliquait à un émolument versé à un clerc sans qu’il n’ait de paroissien à sa charge (par exemple pour pouvoir réaliser des recherches théologiques).

In the ADF, while the numbers vary between the individual services and the reserves, employment is no comfortable sinecure for any personnel and thus does not appeal to many people, male or female, especially under current pay scales.

Michael O’Connor, Quadrant, novembre 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Numéro 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 25

However, by the time of World War II (if not before), politics, at least in the federal sphere, was no longer regarded as sinecure for well-intentioned part-timers.

Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, avril 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28


hush

(Vers 1600) Première attestation écrite.

Hush, hush, hush, hush, hush
Shush your mouth, don’t make a sound
Whoops! You already have
And the Warden’s been awakened now

Chut, chut, chut, chut, chut
Ferme ta bouche, ne fait plus un bruit
Oups ! C’est déjà fait
Et le Warden est désormais réveillé

Dan Bull, Quiet Please!. Mis en ligne le 1ᵉʳ juin 2023


black oak

In southern New England, black oak grows on cool, moist Orthod Spodosols.

In August 2006, we undertook a retrospective study of black oak recruitment (i.e., growth of seedling/ sprouts into tall saplings and trees) by inventorying all black oaks in stands accessible to deer and greater than 0.5 ha in size (18 stands, 2921 trees).


had better

Devrais, devrait, devrions, devriez, devraient (selon la personne et le nombre). Plus impératif et plus pressant que should.

You had better finish that homework on time, if you want to get a good grade.

You had better not say anything.

— Will we get it finished?
— We had better.

The project had better get finished by the current deadline.


set out for

to set out for (infinitive)
sets out for (present third-person singular)
setting out for (participle present)

They set out for California, but they never reached it.


stereo

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter) (stereo player).

We can listen to my stereo while we talk.

Today, almost all films are in stereo or better.


caulk

(XIVᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français cauquier issu du latin calicare (« chauler »), apparenté à chalk (« craie »).

to caulk (infinitive)
caulks (present third-person singular)
caulked (preterite)
caulked (participle past)
caulking (participle present)
calk

We might be disturbed during the night by an order being given to "go about," and by hearing in the quiet hours of the morning the familiar inquiry of "How's her head?" Mine often ached with the din of the men caulking all day long!

Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, 1887


in turn

Alternativement ; tour à tour ; l’un après l’autre ; à tour de rôle ; chacun à son tour ; successivement.

Negotiation was yet managed in the manner of antient times, much by conference, little in writing. Introduced to audience, the ambassadors all spoke in turn, the elder beginning. Demosthenes, as youngest, spoke last.

Les négociations se déroulaient encore à la manière des temps anciens, beaucoup par conférence, peu par écrit. Présentés à l'auditoire, les ambassadeurs prirent tous la parole à tour de rôle, le plus âgé commençant. Démosthène, le plus jeune, parla en dernier.

William Mitford, History of Greece, Volume IV, 1808, page 445

The Cardinal of Bourbon did not agree ; he replied that, on the contrary, all the present evils of France were the result of the king’s toleration of two religions. Henry was much offended by the Cardinal’s statements and replied in turn that, since he had personally combatted the Huguenots, he knew that they could not be converted by the sword.

Le cardinal de Bourbon n’était pas de cet avis ; il répondit qu’au contraire, tous les maux actuels de la France étaient le résultat de la tolérance de deux religions par le roi. Henri fut très offensé par les déclarations du cardinal et répondit en retour que, pour avoir personnellement combattu les huguenots, il savait qu’ils ne pouvaient être convertis par l’épée.

A. Lynn Martin, Henry III and the Jesuit Politicians, Librairie Droz, Genève, 1973

The physical truth expressed is that every force acting upon a body is the action upon it of another body which in turn is acted upon equally by the first body, the action taking place in the straight line which joins the two bodies.

La vérité physique exprimée est que toute force agissant sur un corps est l’action sur celui-ci d’un autre corps qui, à son tour, subit la même action de la part du premier corps, l’action s’exerçant sur la ligne droite qui relie les deux corps.

William Woolsey Johnson, The Mechanical axioms or laws of motion dans Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, Volume I, 1892, page 131

Their hypothesis is that the house was built on the site of the medieval chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Champs, which in turn was constructed on a pagan temple honoring a spring.

Leur hypothèse est que la maison a été construite sur le site de la chapelle médiévale de Notre-Dame-des-Champs, elle-même à son tour construite sur un temple païen honorant une source.

David Ruiz Marull, A neighbor in Paris renovated his basement and came across an ancient cemetery with dozens of bodies,La Vanguardia, (2024-10-10)


zombification

Both the threat and the fact of zombification confer on the bokor a potent means of social control, if he chooses to use it.

Wade Davis, Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, 1988


month of Sundays

I felt like this weekend was as long as a month of Sundays.


educated guess

Littéralement « supposition éduquée ». → voir educated et guess

Souvent précédé du verbe to make, « faire ».

Une supposition éclairée, hypothèse raisonnée. Fait de deviner ou d’essayer de deviner judicieusement, avec perspicacité la réponse à une question.

Call it an educated guess, or informed speculation.

Appelez ça une hypothèse éclairée, ou une spéculation bien informée.

John Malkovich — Hello George!
George Clooney — Where am I?
J. M. — Make an educated guess…
G. C. — It’s not my time!
J. M. — Maybe we could make an arrangement…

John Malkovich — Bonjour George !
George Clooney — Où suis-je ?
J. M. — Sois perspicace…
G. C. — Mon heure n’est pas venue !
J. M. — Peut-être pourrions-nous trouver un accord…


sinkhole

Peer over the rims of collapse and solution sinkholes and wander through an interesting sunken valley called a uvala.

Regardez aux abords des avens d’effondrement et des cupules et promenez‑vous dans une vallée encaissée intéressante appelée ouvala. — (Parc national du Canada Wood Buffalo, Parcs Canada, 2009)

It is important to stay on the trail as there may be crevasses, sinkholes, or fissures camouflaged by the thick vegetation.

Il est important de rester dans le sentier, car il peut y avoir des crevasses, des dolines ou des fissures camouflées par la végétation dense. — (Parc national du Canada Wood Buffalo, Parcs Canada, 2009)


chateau

palace

: par exemple,  - le château de Versailles

Attention! En anglais, le mot castle est uniquement un château-fort, et le mot anglais chateau est uniquement une habitation seigneuriale ou toute maison de plaisance vaste et magnifique. Surtout, un chateau réfère surtout à une habitation française ou une habitation d'un style français.

Château ; habitation seigneuriale ou toute maison de plaisance vaste et magnifique.

St Aubert was going to ask him some farther question concerning the chateau, but the man abruptly passed on.

Ann WardRadcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1859

In the glow, the water of the château fountain seemed to turn to blood, and the stone faces crimsoned.

CharlesDickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859


nostrum

Nay, he would sometimes retire hither to take his beer, and it was not without difficulty that he was prevented from forcing Jones to take his beer too: for no quack ever held his nostrum to be a more general panacea than he did this; which, he said, had more virtue in it than was in all the physic in an apothecary’s shop.

Henry Fielding, Histoire de Tom Jones, enfant trouvé, Book V, chapter ii, 1749


hawker

Colporteur, marchand ambulant, vendeur de rue.

There always are many hawkers in Singapore.


look forward to

Attendre (avec plaisir, avec intérêt, avec impatience) ; se réjouir (d’avance) de. Note d’usage : Suivi par un nom ou un gérondif en -ing.

I look forward to seeing you again this summer.

Je me réjouis d’avance de vous revoir cet été.


long vowel

(Anglais) Voyelle longue, diphtonguée. En anglais, plusieurs des voyelles comprises comme longues sont en fait des diphtongues : \æ\ contre \eɪ\, \ɪ\ contre \aɪ\ et \ɒ\ contre \oʊ\.

He pronounces flat long vowels. For example, "time" goes [ˈtʰaːm] instead of [ˈtʰaɪm].

Il aplatit les voyelles diphtonguées. Par exemple, « time » se fait [ˈtʰaːm] au lieu de [ˈtʰaɪm].


stirrer

Composé du verbe stir avec le suffixe -er.

We’re out of coffee stirrers again and I’m not using my finger!

Why would you say something so hurtful like that? God, you are such a stirrer!


dumpling

My little dumpling.


blockade

(c. 1690)Dérivé de block, avec le suffixe -ade.

Israel is examining ways to ease its Gaza blockade, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.


blockade

The opposing navy blockaded the port.


pull an all-nighter

(Date à préciser)Composé de pull et de all-nighter.

Passer une nuit blanche à travailler, réviser.

I pulled an all-nighter for my exams.

J’ai passé une nuit blanche à réviser mes examens.


biennium

At the end of the biennium.


affidavit

(XVIIᵉ siècle) Du latin affidavit (« il a juré, il a promis »).

I once wrote an affidavit for a court on the differences between Nabokov’s Lolita and a pimp’s pictorial with words, “Lolita Pissing. ” These are some of life’s easier distinctions.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « The High School Library », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 27


nuclear family

(1924) ou (1949)Composé de nuclear (« nucléaire ») et de family (« famille »). L’année d’apparition de ce terme semble débattue, mais selon etymonline.com il serait apparu pour la première fois en 1949 dans le livre Social Structure de l’anthropologue américain George Murdock.

Le terme nuclear fait ici référence au fait que cette partie d’une famille est considérée comme son « noyau ».

The widespread myth in Western contexts that the male breadwinner–female homemaker nuclear family is the ‘traditional’ family structure leads to a focus on mothers alone as the individuals with responsibility for child wellbeing. Inaccurate perceptions about the family have the potential to distort academic research and public perceptions, and hamper attempts to improve parental and child health.

Le mythe très répandu dans les pays Occidentaux que la famille nucléaire, avec l’homme qui travaille et la mère au foyer, est la structure familiale « traditionnelle » mène à donner l’entière responsabilité à la mère seule du bien-être des enfants. Ces perceptions erronées au sujet de la famille peuvent potentiellement perturber la recherche académique et la vision du public, et bloquer les tentatives d’amélioration de la santé des parents et des enfants.

Rebecca Sear, « The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the ‘traditional’ human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences », dans Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences., 3 mai 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0020 texte intégral

Pretty much everyone agrees that the era of the nuclear family, with a dad who went to work and the mom who stayed at home, has declined to the point of no return. The big question is: What is replacing it? Now a new study suggests that nothing is — or rather, that a whole grab bag of family arrangements are.

Presque tout le monde est d’accord pour dire que l’ère de la famille nucléaire, avec un papa qui allait au travail et une maman qui restait à la maison, a décliné au-delà du point de non retour. La grande question est : Qu’est-ce qui l’a remplacée ? Une nouvelle étude suggère que rien ne l’a remplacée, ou plutôt qu’elle l’a été par une grande variété de structures familiales.

Belinda Luscombe, There Is No Longer Any Such Thing as a Typical Family sur time.com. Mis en ligne le 4 septembre 2014

In the cover story of The Atlantic’s March issue, David Brooks charts the rise of the nuclear family as the idealized American household unit.

À la une du numéro de mars de The Atlantic, David Brooks retrace la montée de la famille nucléaire en tant que modèle idéalisé de l’unité familiale américaine.

Joe Pinsker, If the Nuclear Family Has Failed, What Comes Next? sur www.theatlantic.com. Mis en ligne le 13 février 2020


Yoruba

(Date à préciser) Emprunt au yoruba Yorùbá. référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

The Yoruba alphabet.

Yoruba, relatif au Yorubaland, au peuple yoruba, sa culture et sa diaspora.

The Yoruba spirituality is more than just an old religion or belief—it’s a way of life for many people who still practice it in West Africa. It’s not just about praying to gods; it’s also about staying close to nature, honoring ancestors, and feeling connected to something bigger than yourself.

La spiritualité yoruba est plus qu’une simple religion ou croyance ancienne : c’est un mode de vie pour beaucoup de gens qui la pratiquent toujours en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de prier les dieux ; il s’agit également de rester proche de la nature, d’honorer les ancêtres et de se sentir en rapport avec quelque chose de plus grand que soi.

Hakima, « Yoruba Spirituality & Religion: An In-Depth Guide to Beliefs, Deities, and Practices », Discover Yorùbá, 26 septembre 2024. Consulté le 29 janvier 2025


Sumerian

“No languages whatsoever are descended from Sumerian. It is an agglutinative tongue, meaning that is is a collection of morphemes or syllables that are grouped into words—very unusual”.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993)


in the distance

Do you see the house in the distance?


in the distance

I saw her disappear in the distance.


tanzanite

The name tanzanite (after Tanzania) was introduced by the New-Yorker jewelers Tiffany & Co. In good quality the color is ultramarine to sapphire blue ; in artificial light, it appears more amethyst violet.

Le nom tanzanite (d'après la Tanzanie) a été introduit par les bijoutiers new-yorkais Tiffany & Co. De bonne qualité, la couleur va du bleu outremer au bleu saphir ; à la lumière artificielle, il apparaît plutôt violet améthyste.

Walter Schumann, Gemstones of the World, 2009


jingoism

(1878)Dérivé de jingo, avec le suffixe -ism.

\ˈdʒɪŋ.ɡəʊ.ɪ.zᵊm\

He came along in the seventies, as English-speaking Canada was beginning to discover that jingoism works just as well up north as it does down south.

Cathal Kelly, Don Cherry, fired by Sportsnet, hated any changes to hockey – and his imaginary Canada, The Globe and Mail, 11 novembre 2019


head over heels

Cul par-dessus tête, jambes par-dessus tête, jambes en l’air, les quatre fers en l’air.

She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill.

Elle trébucha et roula jambes par-dessus tête de la colline.


sedum

Many sedums are cultivated as garden plants, due to their interesting and attractive appearance and hardiness.


connected speech

(XVIIIᵉ siècle) → voir connected et speech.

Attesté dans le sens linguistique en 1767.

I had Recourse to the Minerva of Sanctius, to Vossius, the Grammaire Raisonnée, Buffier’s Grammar, and several other very ingenions Performances on the Subject of rational Grammar; but was sorry to find that the Principles made use of in them, were not sufficient to account for many of the Effects which appear in connected Speech.

WilliamWard, A grammar of the English language, 1767

The syllables of words, as uttered in connected speech, receive in addition to the articulate sounds conveyed by their letters, two distinc properties or accidents, viz. time and tone, or in other words, quantity and accent. — (T.F.B., «Argument in favour of the Greek Accents», The Monthly Repository, nᵒ 212, aout 1823)


Phoenicia

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, Syria and Israel.


flip-flop

(1900)Composé de flip (« retournement ») et de flop (« bide »).

The politician was accused of doing a flip-flop in his stand on taxes.

Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators.

George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, 2013


flip-flop

(1970) D’une onomatopée imitation du bruit des sandales, flip-flap date de 1520 et avait aussi le sens de « battement, bruit de ce qui bat ».

a pair of flip-flops.


fewer and fewer

Fewer and fewer people are travelling in these hard economic times.

De moins en moins de gens voyagent dans ces temps économiques difficiles.


pesky

peskier (comparative)
peskiest (superlative)

"What a pesky boy !", said the mother with a little smile.


spread thin

spread thinner (comparative)
spread thinnest (superlative)

The army was spread thin and could not defend easily when the attack came.


crystal clear

Composé de crystal et de clear, littéralement « clair comme un cristal ».

ˈkɹɪs.təl ˌklɪə

I can’t stand rockin’ when I’m in here
’Cause your crystal ball ain’t so crystal clear

Beastie Boys, Sabotage, Ill Communication, 1994


runaway

runaway child, runaway slave

runaway shopping cart, runaway train, runaway horse, runaway climate change


runaway

The child is a runaway.


floe

floe of ice


ransack

On emploie ransack spécialement en fouillant un objet cherché.

Voyez sack pour mettre à sac une ville ou un quartier.

Mettre à sac (une maison, un édifice), saccager

The robbers ransacked my apartment looking for jewelry.

She ransacked her bedroom looking for the document that she needed.


that’s what she said

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-us-that's what she said.ogg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-that's what she said.ogg

« C’est ce qu’elle a dit » ; réplique humoristique destinée à attirer l’attention sur une phrase venant d’être prononcée et présentant, généralement involontairement, un double sens grivois.

So this morning we pulled up a pumpkin-pancake recipe on the kitchen laptop. Just one problem: My wife couldn't read it from where she was mixing. "Can't you make it bigger?" she asked. (Go ahead, insert your own "that's what she said" joke here. No class.)

RickBroida, "Quick Tip: Increase the Font Size in Your Browser," PCWorld.com, 24 novembre 2008


en- -en

Combinaison rédondante du préfixe en- et du suffixe -en.

Circonfixe verbal transitif signifiant une augmentation de la qualité signifiée par la base.

light → enlighten.


wishy-washy

wishy-washier (comparative)
wishy-washiest (superlative)

Not wanting to be pressed for details, public relations gave a wishy-washy answer.

Ne voulant pas que l’on insiste auprès d’elles pour avoir des détails, les relations publiques firent une réponse aseptisée.


regretful

I will always feel regretful about this incident.


regretfully

Dérivé de regretful, avec le suffixe -ly.

She regretfully handed in her resignation.


with regret

She handed in her resignation with regret.


temerity

(date à préciser ou à vérifier) Du latin temeritas.

How dare you have the temerity to tell me that in my own house!

Comment osez-vous avoir l’effronterie de me dire cela dans ma propre maison !


foolhardy

(milieu du XIIIᵉ siècle)Composé de fool (« fou ») et de hardy (« robuste »). Attesté initialement avec les orthographes fool-hardy et folhardi.

more foolhardy (comparative)
most foolhardy (superlative)

You can try screaming futilely
I’d deem it foolhardy
I’ll be here driving you doolally
R.I.P

Tu peux essayer de crier futilement
Je jugerais cela inconscient
Je serai ici à te rendre fou
RIP

Dan Bull, Quiet Please!. Mis en ligne le 1ᵉʳ juin 2023


hardy

Dérivé de hard (« dur »), avec le suffixe -y.

hardier (comparative)
hardiest (superlative)

Résistant, rustique (se dit d’une plante).

Hardy means having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

Rustique signifie ayant une force physique solide ; endurci à la fatigue ou aux épreuves. Une plante rustique est une plante qui peut supporter les extrêmes du climat, tels que le gel.


jewellery

This jewellery is very fine.

May I see your jewellery?


Jane Doe

\ˌdʒeɪn ˈdəʊ\

Nom générique utilisé pour désigner une femme inconnue. Madame X, madame Untel ou Unetelle, madame Durand, madame Dupont, madame Tout-le-monde.

Legal suit against Jane Doe.


elicitation

Dérivé de elicit, avec le suffixe -ation.

Engaging a potential prospect about UFO propulsion can lead to elicitation of information about real-world rocket engine designs, as an example.

G. S. Bekkum, Spooks vs Aliens: Are Russian spies working the UFO Spy Game?, American Chronicle, juillet 2010


liana

In a new study published in the African Journal of Ecology, scientists advocate the temporary removal of lianas in selected areas to help tropical forests grow back.

Can’t see the wood for the climbers: Vines threatening tropical forests, Science Daily le 22 juillet 2016


head start

Airbus has a head start over Boeing.

Airbus a une longueur d’avance sur Boeing.


dishwater

Composé de dish (« vaisselle ») et de water (« eau »), littéralement « eau de vaisselle ».

Se dit d’une chose dénuée d’intérêt ou de saveur.

That beer is just plain dishwater!


drachma

drachmas (plural)
drachmae (plural)
drachmai (plural)

Cupro-nickel 50-drachma coins were introduced in 1980.

Five drachmae.

In 1982, the spelling of the plural of drachma was changed from drachmae (δραχμαί) to drachmas (δραχμές). In 1986, nickel-brass 50-drachma coins were introduced, followed by copper 1- and 2-drachma pieces in 1988 and nickel-brass coins of 20 and 100 drachmas in 1990.


out of bounds

Composé de out of (« en dehors de ») et de bound (« limite »), littéralement « en dehors des limites ».

Pour une comparaison, on dit farther out of bounds, farthest out of bounds ou encore further out of bounds, furthest out of bounds.

You can play wherever you want, but remember that the cemetery is out of bounds.

Vous pouvez jouer où vous voulez, mais n'oubliez pas que le cimetière est interdit.

Déplacé, extrêmement incivil, déraisonnable.

You were out of bounds to call him a criminal.

C'était déplacé de votre part de le traiter de criminel.


Tobolsk

Du russe Тобольск

Capitale historique de la Sibérie et ville de l'oblast de Tioumen.

Les Cosaques ne sont pas reçus en audience impériale, mais les conseillers de l'empereur leur remettent une lettre en mandarin que personne ne peut déchiffrer tant à Tobolsk qu'à Moscou.

C. Grataloup, « En quelles langues les Russes et les Chinois négocient-ils », Carto, août 2022, page 75


go to one’s head

The liquor went to his head.


gain ground

It’s no surprise that speed limits are being introduced into cars in Europe first; the continent’s anti-speeding movement is gaining ground.

Henry Grabar, « The American Addiction to Speeding, How we became obsessed with driving fast, no matter the cost », Metropolis, 15 décembre 2021


Romeo and Juliet couple

Composé de Romeo and Juliet (« Roméo et Juliette »), les deux personnages de la tragédie du même titre par William Shakespeare, et de couple (« couple »).

Par analogie avec les personnages éponymes de William Shakespeare, couple consistant en un membre de chacun des deux partis ou pays opposés, ou en un membre de chacune des deux familles opposées.

There are, for example, the Romeo and Juliet couples, who come from warring or enemy nations and escape to a neutral third country…

Dugan Romano, Intercultural marriage: promises and pitfalls, 1998


antonomasia

In rhetoric, antonomasia is a substitution of any epithet or phrase for a proper name, such as "the little corporal" for Napoleon I.


monoseme

A monoseme can be distinguished by definite linguistic features from a polysemantic word or a word combination.


monoseme

The Dutch word 'loods', as a person, is monoseme and can only mean 'a pilot in shipping', and certainly not 'airplane pilot' or any other type of guide.

Literary Criticism, C. H. M. Versteegh, Everhard Ditters, Harald Motzki, 2007


Turner

Tina Turner.


take on

to take on (infinitive)
takes on (present third-person singular)
took on (preterite)
taken on (participle past)
taking on (participle present)

I'll take on the project if no one else will.


Achilles

Du latin Achilles, lui-même issu du grec ancien Ἀχιλλεύς, Akhilleús.

Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and Peleus, the king of the Myrmidons.

Achille était le fils de la nymphe Thétis et de Pélée, le roi des Myrmidons.


cast pearls before swine

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Jeter des perles aux pourceaux, donner de la confiture à des cochons.

You're casting pearls before swine with your detailed explanations - she isn't listening.


purported

more purported (comparative)
most purported (superlative)

One of the purported benefits of foundational ontologies is that they facilitate the design of sharable and reusable domain ontologies.

Un des bénéfices putatifs des ontologies fondationnelles est qu’elles facilitent la conception d’ontologies de domaine partageable et réutilisable.

MichaelGrüninger et Megan Katsumi, Foundationless Ontologies, 2019


OP

Initiales de original poster (« auteur initial ») ou de original post (« message initial »).

Auteur du premier message ouvrant une discussion sur Internet.

I don't think your response really answers the OP’s question.

Je ne crois pas que tu aies vraiment répondu à la question de l'auteur initial.


amygdala

Son nom provient de sa forme, du latin amygdăla (« amande »).

Cognitive scientists distinguish between normal risk-assessment decisions, which activate the reward-prediction regions of the brain, and decisions made amid extreme uncertainty, which generate activity in the amygdala.

David Brooks, The Worst-Case Scenario, New York Times, 12 février 2009


get it

to get it (infinitive)
gets it (present third-person singular)
got it (preterite)
got it ou gotten it (participle past)
getting it (participle present)

He just doesn’t get it, and he never will.

Il ne pige tout simplement pas, et ne pigera jamais.

Do you get it?
— Yes, I get it.


habit-forming

more habit-forming (comparative)
most habit-forming (superlative)

Susceptible de provoquer une accoutumance ou dépendance.

Many governments prohibit the advertising of habit-forming substances to minors.

De nombreux gouvernements interdisent la publicité auprès des mineurs pour des substances susceptibles de provoquer une accoutumance ou une dépendance.


matrifocal

(1952)Dérivé de focal, avec le préfixe matri-.

more matrifocal (comparative)
most matrifocal (superlative)

On this matrifocal island, women head their households and men watch the babies, make dinner, and wash the clothes.

Sur cette île matrifocale, les femmes dirigent leur foyer et les hommes surveillent les bébés, font le dîner, et lavent les vêtements.

Rahna ReikoRizzuto, The Impact of War: Lisa See’s “The Sea Island of Women”, Los Angeles Review Of Books, 10 mai 2019


airedale

“You know, you airedales kind of limit your thinking.”
“What do you mean?” Maxwell asked.


outpour

But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only / That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. / Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered— / Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before— / On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." / Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."


nief

Du vieux norrois hnefi, nefi, d’origine inconnue.

Nestorius exploded at that and hit out. He roared and dismissed the class, hitting out with his old mottled gnarled niefs.


ambitransitive

Composé du préfixe ambi- et de l’adjectif transitive. À rapprocher de l’espagnol ambitransitivo, ou de l’allemand ambitransitiv.

Labile, diffus, à la fois transitif et intransitif.

In some languages every, or almost every verb is strictly transitive or intransitive; in other languages at least some verbs can have either transitivity value. These verbs are called ambitransitive, or labile.

Dans certaines langues, chaque ou presque chaque verbe est uniquement transitif ou intransitif ; dans d’autres langues, au moins quelques verbes peuvent avoir une des deux valeurs de transitivité. Ces verbes sont appellés transitifs et intransitifs, ou labile.

LeonidKulikov, Typology of verba categories, 1998


ruefully

As Max Millikan ruefully noted, “The only prophet without a significant Indonesian following is probably Adam Smith”.

Comme Max Millikan le notait tristement, « Le seul prophète ayant peu de disciples indonésiens est probablement Adam Smith » .

The lady shook her head ruefully, and the Professor laughed loudly and stroked his beard in his masterful fashion.

La dame secoua la tête tristement, et le Professeur s'exclaffa et caressa sa barbe de façon magistrale.


what the hell

(Siècle à préciser) Composé de what (« quoi ») et de the hell renforcement expressif et vulgaire des pronoms interrogatifs → voir hell.

What the hell are you talking about?

What the hell is he doing here?

Hé ! Mais qu’est-ce qu’il fout là, lui ?


what the hell

Exprime la colère, l’indignation, ou le choc. Équivalent de putain ou merde. Souvent réduit à WTH dans le langage Internet.

What the hell! Did he really do that?


Liberal

Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1911


brash

brasher (comparative)
brashest (superlative)

a brash smile.


inapposite

Dérivé de apposite, avec le préfixe in-.

[It] demonstrates that this statute is inapposite to the use of an image of the seal on an encyclopedia.

Mike Godwin, lettre au FBI, 30 juillet 2010


hee

hee is wholy crest-fallen ; there is no further life, no mettall, no spirit, left in him

Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, 1611. Entrée : Abbatu


ejusdem generis

Du latin ejusdem, génitif de idem, et generis, génitif de genus, soit « du même genre ».

En droit anglo-saxon, indique qu’une liste non limitative s’applique aussi aux choses similaires, mais pas plus.

Courts use ejusdem generis in conjunction with common sense and legislative history to discern the legislature’s intent in writing a statute.

— Les tribunaux utilisent l’« ejusdem generis » en conjonction avec le bon sens et la jurisprudence pour interpréter l’intention du législateur lorsqu’il a écrit la loi.


truant

De l’ancien français truand (« vagabond »).

Absent de l’école, qui fait l’école buissonnière.

He didn't graduate because he was chronically truant and didn't have enough attendances to meet the requirement.


banknote

A ten-pound banknote.


tangential

more tangential (comparative)
most tangential (superlative)

The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earth’s surface, just south of the Arctic Circle.

Edward Teller, Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics, 2002, page 560

That subject is tangential to our discussion, we can't let it distract us.

The mission U only has tangential meaning to the suffix series letter (A/B/C etc.).


spankable

more spankable (comparative)
most spankable (superlative)

Apte à une fessée, convenable pour une fessée, propice à une fessée.

If he says he won't come, he won't,' she said, as though he were one of the elemental forces of nature instead of a spankable brat...

S'il dit qu'il ne viendra pas, il ne le fera pas, dit-elle, comme si il était une force élémentaire de la nature, et non un sale gosse qui mérite une fessée.

Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel, 1900


Melba

(1905) Du nom de la cantatrice australienne Nelie Melba, Helen Porter Mitchell de son vrai nom, dont le surnom rend hommage à sa ville natale, Melbourne.

Melba sauce.

Melba toast.

Peach Melba.


Melba

Melba Montgomery.

Melba Moore.

Melba Roy Mouton.


outgas

Composé de out (« dehors ») et de gas (« gaz »).

to outgas (infinitive)
outgasses (present third-person singular)
outgassed (preterite)
outgassed (participle past)
outgassing (participle present)

New carpeting outgasses over one hundred different VOCs [Volatile Organic Compounds].

John Bower, Healthy House Building: A Design & Construction Guide, 1993

A cast aluminum surface outgasses at a rate approximately ten times higher than the rate at which a stainless steel surface outgasses.

Robert Charles McMaster, Nondestructive Testing Handbook, Vol. 1: Leak Testing, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, 1982


scullery

Arrière-cuisine (dans une maison), laverie.

After eating we crept back to the scullery, and there I must have dozed again, for when presently I looked round I was alone.

Après avoir mangé, nous regagnâmes la laverie, et je dus m’assoupir de nouveau, car, m’éveillant tout à coup, je me trouvai seul.


it’s not a bug, it’s a feature

(Années 1970-1980). Ce dicton humoristique est assez ancien ; la rumeur publique l’attribue aux détracteurs de Microsoft (et de ses logiciels) ou y voit un slogan d’auto-dérision des programmeurs de cette société.

En fait, dès 1979, à la fin du Manuel de référence de l’Apple II, il y a un petit lexique qui définit, en guise de clin d’œil, le mot feature (« fonctionnalité ») de la manière suivante :
:* « Feature: A bug as described by the marketing department » — (Apple II Reference Manual, Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, 1979, page 180 ^([1])).

\ɪts ˌnɒt ə ˈbʌɡ ɪts ə ˈfiː.tʃə\

Littéralement « ce n’est pas un bug, c’est une fonctionnalité », phrase utilisée à l’origine pour se moquer des éditeurs de logiciels qui sont réticents à reconnaître les erreurs dans leurs produits.

One annoyance, or maybe it’s one of those "it’s-not-a-bug-it’s-a-feature" situations, is the gearshift.

Une chose gênante, à moins que ce soit un de ces cas de « bugs qui sont des fonctionnalités », est le levier de vitesses.

Popular Mechanics Magazine, Long-term Test Cars, septembre 1999


scratch monkey

Un jour, un technicien, venu réparer un ordinateur auquel était connectées des électrodes plantées dans le cerveau d'un singe de laboratoire, aurait omis de déconnecter le singe avant de réparer l'ordinateur. Bien entendu, il a commis une erreur et le singe est mort. D'où l'expression, devenue proverbiale : « In case of doubt, use a scratch monkey »

Objet ou donnée de peu de valeur, sacrifié pour faire des essais dangereux

In case of doubt, always use a scratch monkey.


half-duplex

Improvements in technology made half-duplex almost disappear.


gazebo

(Siècle à préciser) Motdérivé de gaze, avec le suffixe -ebo, terminaison latine que l’on retrouve dans placebo.

Functional and long lasting, gazebos are useful shelters, providing shade and an ornamental element to any outdoor space.

Fonctionnels et durables, les belvédères sont des abris utiles, offrant de l’ombre et un élément décoratif à tout espace extérieur.


belvedere

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He went up to the belvedere, carefully shutting every door after him

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 249, 1897


magic smoke

(XXᵉ siècle) Plaisanterie sur le fait que le composant ne fonctionne plus après le dégagement de fumée.

Matière qui, selon une plaisanterie classique, serait à l’origine du bon fonctionnement des composants électroniques.

When the magic smoke has gone, the device doesn’t work anymore.

Quand la fumée magique est partie, le composant ne fonctionne plus.


unseasoned

Dérivé de season, avec le préfixe un- et le suffixe -ed.

unseasoned steak

unseasoned soldier, unseasoned performer, unseasoned campaigner, unseasoned traveller


old-timer

Old-timer locomotive.


quim

D’origine incertaine ; peut-être un altération de queem. À comparer également avec quaint, cunt. Dérivation du gallois cwm (« vallée ») mais l’Oxford English Dictionary indique que c’est peu probable pour des raisons sémantique et phonologique (« unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds »).

For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.

Anonyme, "The Wanton Lass" in The Pearl No. 1http://thepearl.tailfeatherz.com/Pearl01.htm, 1879

Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?

Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.

Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights,ISBN 1419952595, page 131, 2005


racquet

La graphie racquet devient de plus en plus vieillie. Par exemple, la graphie préférée par la LTA (association britannique de tennis) est racket^([1]).

tennis racket, ping pong racket, badminton racket, squash racket


window blind

Please lower the window blind. It's too high.


parkway

Promenade, route panoramique principale traversant un parc, ou en reliant plusieurs, sur laquelle les véhicules commerciaux comme les poids lourds sont interdits.

From what I understand, 'way' means 'road'. So a driveway is a road that you drive on, typically either to the street or your garage. A parkway is a road through or to a park. Usually parkways are landscaped, or beautified, with medians or trees along the edges.

De ce que je comprend, 'way' signifie 'route'. Un driveway est donc une route sur laquelle on conduit, typiquement vers la route ou votre garage. Un parkway est une route à travers ou en direction d’un parc. Les parkways sont généralement aménagés ou embellis avec des ilots centraux ou des arbres sur les côtés.

Wiki User, « Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway? », Answers.com, 29 mars 2012

This project involves the restoration of the Long Sault Parkway, including a new layer of asphalt and geotechnical studies.

Ce projet comprend la réfection de la promenade Long Sault, y compris une nouvelle couche d’asphalte et des études géotechniques.

« St. Lawrence Parks Commission - Road and bridge repairs », Canada Economic’s Action Plan, sur actionplan.gov.ca, 2009

Autoroute ou voie rapide présentant de beaux paysages.

In the fall, brilliantly colored foliage blankets Virginia, especially the Skyline Drive, which runs through the Shenandoah National Park, and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which offers more than 200 miles of driving pleasure.

En automne, un feuillage de couleurs vives recouvre la Virginie, surtout le Skyline Drive, qui parcourt le parc national Shenandoah, et la Blue Ridge Parkway qui offre plus de 200 miles de plaisir au volant.

« International Visitors - Canada: Welcome to Virginia - Where LOVE Lives! », Virginia Tourism Corporation, sur www.virginia.org, 2010


expendable

The expendable razor blade.


in solidarity

The students struck in solidarity with the workers.


shit happens

Composé de shit (« merde ») et de happens (« se produit »), altération plaisante ducomposé de it (« ceci ») et de happens (« se produit »), littéralement « ce genre de choses se produit, ça arrive ».

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Renforce la contradiction heureuse entre ce qui peut arriver (de mal) et ce qui s'est produit (de bien).

Shits happens, but so do miracles.


neutrinoless

Dérivé de neutrino, avec le suffixe -less.

Pair correlations in the ground state of ¹³⁰Te have been investigated using pair-transfer experiments to explore the validity of approximations in calculating the matrix element for neutrinoless double-β decay.

T. Bloxham et al., Pair correlations in the neutrinoless double-β decay candidate ¹³⁰Te, Phys. Rev. C 82, 027308 (2010)


chide

Du vieil anglais cidan, d’origine incertaine.

to chide (infinitive)
chides (present third-person singular)
chid ou chided ou chode (preterite)
chid ou chided ou chidden (participle past)
chiding (participle present)

And yet I was last chidden for being too slow

Et cependant je finis par être réprimandé pour ma trop grande lenteur

Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Acte 2, Scène 1, 1591

If the scorn of your bright eyne
Have power to raise such love in mine,
Alack, in me what strange effect
Would they work in mild aspect?
Whiles you chid me, I did love

Si le mépris de tes brillants yeux
Eût le pouvoir d’attiser un tel amour dans les miens,
Las, en moi quel étrange effet
Eussent-ils éveillé doucement ?
Tandis que tu me réprimandes, j’ai aimé

Shakespeare, As You Like It, Acte 4 Scène 2, 1598

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?

Et Jacob était furieux, and réprimanda Laban : et Jacob répondit en disant à Laban, Où est ma transgression ? Quel est mon péché, pour que tu m’aies si chaudement poursuivi ? (traduction à préciser ou à vérifier)


ness

Du vieil anglais næs ; apparenté à l’islandais nes, au suédois näs, au danois næs. En rapport avec nose.

Ce mot est fréquemment utilisé comme suffixe dans les toponymes.

Velvraz Sebarm stands upon the lake, among orange-trees and pomegranates and almonds and peaches of the south, a mile north-west over the water from Zayana town, and two miles by land: an old castle built of honey-coloured marble at the tip of a long sickle-shaped ness that sweeps round southwards, with wild gardens running down in the rocks to the water’s edge, and behind the castle a wood of holm-oaks making a wind-break against the north.

Eric Rücker Eddison, Zimiamvian Trilogy, volume 3 : « The Mezentian Gate »,page 177 (Elek Bks.), 1958


summertime

I was told that this road is in summertime excellent, but that it had not yet been put in order after the winter snows.


summer-time

What I’d do, I’d let old Phoebe come out and visit me in the summer-time and Christmas vacation and Easter vacation.

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, p. 211, ISBN 0140012486, 1951


natty

nattier (comparative)
nattiest (superlative)

The river affords a good opportunity for dress. For once in a way, we men are able to show our taste in colours, and I think we come out very natty, if you ask me.

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


nascent

Du latin nascens, participe présent de nascor (« je suis né »).

India has a nascent space industry.

L’Inde a une industrie spatiale émergeante.


seafowl

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl

C'était celles qui traitaient de ces repaires des oiseaux de mer


ream

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The dating app knows me better than I do, but these reams of intimate information are just the tip of the iceberg.

Judith Duportail,« I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets ». guardian.com, 26 septembre 2017.


eventide

Du vieil anglais efen (« soir ») et tid (« heure »).

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And Isaacs went out to meditate in the field at eventide…

Un soir qu'Isaac était sorti pour méditer dans les champs…


unwholesome

more unwholesome (comparative)
most unwholesome (superlative)

a dingy and unwholesome skin


workout

Séance, une période d’exercices physiques.

The following guidelines for smart weekly scheduling can simplify this piece of the planning: Swim three or four workouts each week.

Jim Montgomery, Mo Chambers, Mastering Swimming, 2008, page 157

Programme d’exercices spécifiques, en particulier pour atteindre un but donné.

If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout.

I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day!

Mark Alvisi (courrier des lecteurs), « Mark of a Champion », dans Muscular Development, nᵒ 1, décembre 2010, vol. 47

Exercice, entraînement ; activité qui nécessite un effort physique ou mental important, ou qui produit une contrainte.

Cynthia’s phone got a workout, as well. In approximately three days since the news had hit the street, a total of five bridal showers had been booked, not to mention a luncheon at Esther Cunningham’s and tea at Olivia Harper’s.

Jan Karon, A Common Life: The Wedding Story, 2001, page 41


buddleia

Emily then became engrossed in watching several monarch butterflies flitting about a buddleia.

CatherineDeCourcey, Kathryn Pippin, Poor Little Butterflies, ISBN 0595185193, 2001, page 2


unwholesomely

Dérivé de unwholesome avec le suffixe adverbial -ly.

His skin was so unwholesomely deficient in the natural tinge,....


woody

more woody (comparative)
most woody (superlative)

This wine has a woody flavor.


great ape

The great apes include the chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.


Enlightenment

The Enlightenment is a movement dating from the 18ᵗʰ century.

Les Lumières sont un mouvement datant du 18ᵉ siècle.


uneven

Du vieil anglais unefen, → voir un- et even.

more uneven (comparative)
most uneven (superlative)

The pawns on your side of the chessboard are uneven.

This surface is uneven.

This terrain is very uneven.


lopsided

Mal proportionné, irrégulier, dont un côté est plus haut que l'autre côté.

The painting on the wall is lopsided. Raise the left side higher.

That door is lopsided. It's leaning to the right.

That table is lopsided. One leg is higher than the other.

lopsided victory, lopsided combat, lopsided contest


balconing

Emergency services on Spain's Balearic islands have warned holidaymakers of the dangers of jumping off balconies and said the "balconing" craze has claimed four lives this summer and left many tourists seriously injured.

Les services d’urgences des Iles Baléares d’Espagne ont prévenu les vacanciers des dangers de sauter depuis des balcons et ont dit que la mode de « 'balconing' » à coûté quatre vies cet été et laissé plusieurs touristes sérieusement blessés. — («Spanish authorities warn holidaymakers of 'balconing' dangers», The Guardian, , 11 aout 2010)


constituency

Dérivé de constituent, avec le suffixe -cy.

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John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency.


befriend

to befriend (infinitive)
befriends (present third-person singular)
befriended (preterite)
befriended (participle past)
befriending (participle present)

If you befriend one child in your lifetime and help to mold his life toward the betterment


chromatographic

Dérivé de chromatography avec le suffixe -ic.

He analysed the chromatographic peak.


icily

Composé de icy et du suffixe -ly utilisé pour former les adverbes.

The cold Alpine air flowed icily into his car, so he stopped by the roadside to put on a leather trench-coat, thick scarf, and woollen hat […]

Alan Sillitoe, Travels in Nihilon, page 76, 1971

D’une manière glaciale, d’un ton glacial, d’un air glacial.

[…] quite often her husband and Jo did not eat at home, or sat icily silent through a meal.

M. F. K. Fisher, "To Feed Such Hunger", The Gastronomical Me, 1943


sucker punch

(Date à préciser) → voir sucker et punch.

A sucker punch is a blow made without warning.

Un coup en traître est un coup porté sans avertissement.


untold

Untold millions of Americans view lotteries and casinos as their personal ticket to financial freedom.

The untold story of...


sonically

The artifact was cleaned sonically, in the ultrasonic cleaner tank in mere seconds.

This car CD player also differs mechanically and sonically from its homebound cousin.


joinery

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En général aux États-Unis, on ne distingue pas la charpenterie de la menuiserie. Tout est carpentry. On peut préciser avec le mot woodworking (« menuiserie »).

the only example of eighteenth century English joinery in Australia at such a high standard.


serialise

to serialise (infinitive)
serialises (present third-person singular)
serialised (preterite)
serialised (participle past)
serialising (participle present)
serialize

Publier en feuilleton, adapter en feuilleton.

She has serialised Oliver Twist for television.

Transformer des valeurs en format binaire et les écrire dans un fichier.

It's relatively fast to serialise an object into binary format and to deserialize an object from binary format


unmanned

An unmanned island.

An unmanned crossing

an unmanned spatial vehicle.


full-size

The full-size space station..


chiding

a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie


window-seat

I mounted into the window-seat


centerpiece

(Date à préciser)Composé de center et de piece.

The vote sent the measure to President Barack Obama, whose yearlong push for the legislation has been the centerpiece of his agenda and a test of his political power.

Le résultat des votes a envoyé la mesure au président Barack Obama, dont l’effort continu depuis un an en faveur de cette législation a été la pièce maîtresse de son programme et une mise à l’épreuve de son pouvoir politique.

RobertPear, David M. Herszenhorn, « Obama Hails Vote on Health Care as Answering ‘the Call of History’ », The New York Times, 22 mars 2010


romanophone

However, children who have another mother tongue (39%) and who are of mainly romanophone origins experience difficulties, especially as for them the use of German is practically limited to school.

Cependant, des enfants qui ont une autre lange maternelle (39 %) et qui sont principalement d’origines romanophones font face à des difficultés, surtout étant donné que pour eux l’utilisation de l’allemand est pratiquement limité à l’école. — (Wolfgang Hörner, The education systems in Europe, 2007)


Romanophone

Dérivé de Roman, avec le suffixe -phone.

The preference of the Romanophones for French is more dure to the fact that that language is cognitively closest to their native languages than to a collective concern for creating social distance or asserting Luxembourgish identity through “Abgrenzung von Deutschland”.

GeraldStell, Luxemburgish standardization, 2006


moreen

...and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.

-... et, ayant tiré le rideau damassé rouge, je me trouvai enfermée dans une double retraite.


outcrop

Relief, éperon rocheux, zone de terrain s'élevant au-dessus du paysage (le plus souvent de l'eau) l'entourant.

Beach WA consists of two pockets of sand with a central outcrop'


braincase

casts can be obtained of the interior of the braincases of fossil vertebrates


keep going

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

\ˌkiːp ˈɡəʊ.ɪŋ\

The grandfather’s clock keeps going for over a week without winding.

La montre du grand-père continue de fonctionner pendant plus d’une semaine sans être remontée.

Don’t give up. Just keep going!

N’abandonne pas. Continue toujours d’avancer !

I’ve turned off the switch, but it keeps going BOING every 15 minutes.

J’ai éteint l’interrupteur, mais ça continue de faire BOING toutes les 15 minutes.


Japanification

(Économie) Du Japon après 1991, caractérisé par la stagnation économique et la déflation.

La stagnation économique et la déflation persistantes d’une économie nationale.

Japanification is the quasi-permanent stagnation of wages and opportunities for ordinary people, along with sufficient growth to avoid collapse, but not enough to avoid a gradual pressing grind on the the social bonds and expectations. In Japan we see low birth rates, growing alienation and a falling share of world GDP as the symptoms.

Stirling Newberry,The Red Queen’s Money, TPMCafé, 2006

As regards the US, even if Bullard is worried about the Japanification of America, there plenty of inflation hawks on the FOMC who are unconvinced of the need for urgency. Which is precisely why he went public in the first place.

Mike Foster,The Japanification of America, Finantial News, 2010


staghound

Lestrade and Holmes sprang upon him like so many staghounds


unguarded

[…] my sudden appearance might shake his nerves and lead him to say something unguarded.

[…] mon apparition soudaine pourrait lui porter un coup et lui arracher quelque exclamation involontaire. — (A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle)


scour

to scour (infinitive)
scours (present third-person singular)
scoured (preterite)
scoured (participle past)
scouring (participle present)

He scours the burner pans, to remove the burnt spills.

They scour the scene of the crime for clues.

(Médecine vétérinaire) Avoir la diarrhée.

If a lamb is scouring, do not delay treatment.

The police scoured the surroundings looking for the escaped prisoner.


bulletproof

(Date à préciser) Composé de bullet et de proof.

more bulletproof (comparative)
most bulletproof (superlative)
bullet-proof

Female police officers should get bulletproof bras.

Les femmes officiers de police devraient avoir des soutiens-gorge pare-balles.

Richard Edwards,« Female police officers ‘should get bulletproof bras’ », The Telegraph, 15 août 2008

À toute épreuve, sans défaut, inattaquable.

Teenage boys think they are bulletproof. William thought he was bulletproof.

Les ados pensent que rien ne peut les atteindre. William pensait que rien ne pouvait l’atteindre.

Jessica Wauchop, « ‘Not bulletproof’ », The Gisborne Herald, décembre 2010


deexcitation

Dérivé de excitation, avec le préfixe de-.

Désexcitation (retour à un état non-excité, d’énergie minimale).

The cross sections for the deexcitation of He(2 ³S), He(2 ¹S), and He(2 ¹P) by SiH₄ and GeH₄ have been measured and compared with those for the deexcitation by CH₄.

H. Yoshida et al., Cross sections for deexcitation of He(2³S, 2¹S and 2¹P) by SiH₄ and GeH₄, Chemical physics letters, 1991

Excitation and deexcitation are fundamental phenomena in the electrophysiology of excitable cells.

A. Pumir et al., Deexcitation of Cardiac Cells, Biophysical Journal, juin 1998


kith and kin

: Archaïque et littéraire : kith (« ami »), kin (« famille »).

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air....

N'ayant jamais eu ni ami ni famille en Angleterre, je fus libre comme l'air... (A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle)


cesspool

(...) London, that great cesspool...

(...) Londres, ce grand cloaque... (A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle)


carbohydrate

(1851)Composé de carbon (« carbone ») et de hydrate.

kɑːbəʊˈhaɪdɹeɪt

The name carbohydrate was given to these compounds because, in composition, they are apparently hydrates of carbon. In structure, however, they are far more complex.


trinket

Curiosité, décoration, antiquité, cadeau, souvenir.

The trinket shop is open from 10 to 6.

Le cabinet de curiosités est ouvert de 10 heure à 18 heures.


rule of three

Composé de rule (« règle »), of (« de ») et three (« trois »).

\ˈɹul əv ˈθɹi\

\ˈɹuːl əv ˈθɹiː\

Règle de la structure d’histoire disant qu’il est meilleur d’avoir trois répétitions que les autres nombres pour donner une impression forte, comme dans les Trois Petits Cochons et Cendrillon.

One technique of storytelling involves the rule of three. Much has been written about this concept: that we tend to think and remember lists of three.

Paul N. Luvera,The Art of Storytelling, Washington State Bar Association, 2004

As a movie Kick-Ass is exceptionally well paced, and Hit Girl’s development follows the rule of three over her three fight scenes.

Katey Rich,Getting Away With Hit Girl: How Kick-Ass Lets You Root For An Adolescent Killer, 2010


backlog

(Date à préciser) → voir back et log au sens « journal ».

I’ll work on the backlog another day.

Je m’occuperai des tâches en retard un autre jour.


swelter

Fréquentatif de swelt, issu du vieil anglais sweltan.

The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.


lounger

..all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.


eyeware

(Ca 1950) Formé de eye, « œil », et de -ware, sur le modèle de mots comme cookware (matériel de cuisson).

Its knowledge that the sunglasses market has shifted from a functional market to a luxury market is shared amongst other eyeware companies, such as Safilo.

Brian David Smith et al., Creating Market Insight, 2008

Within the eyeware is a miniature video display and a sophisticated reflective optical system.

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 1996


eyewear

Formé de eye, « œil », et de wear, « porter des vêtements ».

Ce qui se porte au niveau des yeux (essentiellement des lunettes).

The following observations are made: (1) eye injuries in skiing where eyewear is mentioned are generally minor and infrequent.

Robert J. Johnson et al., Skiing trauma and safety, 1989


permissible

Du latin permissibilis, du verbe permittere (« permettre »).

more permissible (comparative)
most permissible (superlative)

"Total permissible mass" means the vehicle's technically permissible maximum mass stated by the manufacturer.

« Masse autorisée totale », la masse maximale techniquement admissible du véhicule définie par le constructeur.

UNECE, Règlement ONU no 144, Prescriptions uniformes relatives aux systèmes automatiques d’appel d’urgence (AECS), UNECE, 19 juillet 2018


odds and ends

Oh, these are just some odds and ends that I still have to move from my apartment.

Oh, ce sont juste quelques bricoles que je dois encore déménager de mon appartement.


beefy

Dérivé de beef (« bœuf »), avec le suffixe -y.

beefier (comparative)
beefiest (superlative)

The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.

“Balaur” is a beefy version of the predatory “Velociraptor”.


rush hour

Composé de rush (« ruée ») et de hour (« heure »), littéralement « heure de ruée ».

Traffic was relatively light on the streets and sidewalks. That surprised him, but he looked forward to the evening rush hour.


printing press

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in about 1440.

Johannes Gutenberg inventa la machine à imprimer vers 1440.


jeer

Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.

Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, dans The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5, 1711


bat for the other team

Composé de bat, other, team, littéralement manier la batte pour une autre équipe, jouer dans le camp adverse.

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I bat for the other team. « Meaning? ». « Meaning, Sir, that I am gay ». — J’en suis. « Pardon? ». « Ce que j’entends par là, Monsieur, c’est que je suis homosexuel ».

Muff Andersson, Bite of the banshee, STE Publishers, 2002


tarama

Taramosalata is a meze made from tarama, the salted and cured roe of the cod, carp, or grey mullet (bottarga) mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, and a starchy base of bread or potatoes, or sometimes almonds.

Taramasalata sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


mental illness

Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is caused by electrical changes in the brain.

L’épilepsie n’est pas une maladie mentale. Elle est causée par des changements électriques dans le cerveau.

Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual, RCPsych Publications ISBN 978-1-901242-75-1, page 70, 2002


wasabi

Wasabi is often served with sushi or sashimi, usually accompanied with soy sauce.


faceplant

Fait d’atterrir la tête la première à la suite d’un accident ou d’une erreur.

The skater slipped off his board and did a painful faceplant.

Le skateur a glissé de sa planche et a fait un atterrissage sur la tête douloureux.


Perl

Originairement nommé pearl (« perle »). Puis acronyme de practical extraction and reporting language.

Perl pushed the regular expressions to the mainstream.

Félix López, Víctor Romero, Mastering Python Regular Expressions, Packt Publishing, 2014, p. 7


carpooling

Carpooling is one way to reduce traffic.


carpool

She decided to join a carpool.


sisterhood

(Date à préciser)Dérivé de sister, avec le suffixe -hood, issu du moyen anglais systerhede, susterhede.

Sororité, solidarité féminine ou féministe en tant que moyen de lutte contre la domination masculine.

No one said that sisterhood was easy.

Personne n’a dit que la sororité était facile.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « Plato », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 26


Forth

The Firth of Forth.


lurk

to lurk (infinitive)
lurks (present third-person singular)
lurked (preterite)
lurked (participle past)
lurking (participle present)

John was lurking in the garden.

There still remained some lurking suspicion in my mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 1887


behind-the-scenes

En coulisses. D’une manière officieuse et secrète pour une affaire publique.

The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

Frances D’Emilio,Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case ‘brutal’, The Associated Press, 2010


behind-the-scenes

Making of, revue de tournage. Information en coulisses, très souvent trouvée sur un DVD ou sur un blu-ray.

There’s a certain extent to which all of this is rather old news at this point, but with the behind-the-scenes and stronger theoretical effort going on, this one is worth the time.

MarcEastman, The Lord Of The Rings Motion Picture Trilogy Blu-Ray Review And Giveaway, tv.com, 2010


scotfree

[…] albeit well knowne that they escaped not scotfrée,

Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, volume 3, 1577

[…] but in the actual situation how would you not seem to act outrageously if you are to let go scotfree the men who confess that they have been acting illegally?

George Willis Botsford, Hellenic Civilization, page 429, 1915


labyrinthine

Composé de labyrinth et du suffixe -ine.

more labyrinthine (comparative)
most labyrinthine (superlative)

In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.

Steen L. Jensen, H. Gregerson. M. H. Shokouh-Amin, F. G. Moody, (eds.), Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology, page 27/4, 1996

Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.

Lincoln Child, Deep Storm, page 185, 2011

Mamet, like one of his characters, invents a labyrinthine, convoluted spiel leading nowhere, and like a magician distracts us with his words while elaborately not producing a rabbit from his hat.

Roger Ebert, Review of "American Buffalo", 1996

Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson’s famously elusive mind.

Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, page 51, 2000

By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus.

Michael W. Riley, "Plato’s Cratylus: Argument, form, and structure", page 103, 2005


European Commission

A toughly-worded resolution passed by 337 MEPs also demanded strong action by the European Commission and EU governments to integrate Roma, many of whom live in poverty.

Euro MPs tell France to stop deporting Roma, BBC News, 9 septembre 2010


nation state

The Poles had lost their independence as a nation state in 1795, when Tsarist Russia and Prussia had divided and annexed Polish lands.

Bradley Lightbody, Invasion of Poland, World Wars in-depth, BBC, 8 septembre 2010


doubleplusgood

(1949). Mot-valise créé en novlangue par George Orwell dans Nineteen Eighty-Four. → voir double et plusgood.

(Dans l’œuvre de George Orwell) Doubleplusbon.

To call someone a doubleplusgood duckspeaker was a warm compliment. Three obvious modern examples of good duckspeakers are Jerry Falwell, Dr. Laura, and George W. Bush. (Dan Quayle was a doubleplusgood duckspeaker.)

Lyn Cowan, Tracking the white rabbit: a subversive view of modern culture, 2002


plusgood

(1949). Mot-valise créé en novlangue par George Orwell dans Nineteen Eighty-Four. → voir plus et good.

(Dans l’œuvre de George Orwell) Plusbon.

Or again, if you want a stronger version of “good”, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like “excellent” and “splendid” and all the rest of them? “Plusgood” covers the meaning; or “doubleplusgood” if you want something stronger still.

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949


wordsmith

De word (« mot ») et smith (« forgeron »).

Linguiste, lexicologue, personne qui maîtrise les mots.

She has always been known as a capable wordsmith, but in this latest novel she also shows surprising emotional depth.

Jini Reddy offers a guide on how to make the leap from student to wordsmith in six profitable areas.


wordsmith

to wordsmith (infinitive)
wordsmiths (present third-person singular)
wordsmithed (preterite)
wordsmithed (participle past)
wordsmithing (participle present)

Employer le langage avec une grande maîtrise.

Richard Bayan and any other book I could find to learn how to wordsmith in a way that resulted in immediate sales.


gypsy moth

Composé de gypsy (« tsigane ») et de moth (« papillon de nuit »).

Le bombyx disparate (Lymantria dispar), zig-zag, spongieuse, disparate.

The gypsy moth, a native of Europe, has been in the United States for nearly a hundred years.


choppy

choppier (comparative)
choppiest (superlative)

The sound is choppy in this video.


chippy

chippier (positive)
chippiest (comparative)
most chippier (superlative)

The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns and University of Saskatchewan Huskies battled to a 1-1 draw in a chippy Canada West men’s soccer affair that saw the teams combine for 33 fouls and five yellow cards.

Canadian Interuniversity Sport, cisport.ca, 2007


menial

Du moyen anglais meinial, du vieil anglais meignial, du latin vulgaire mansionata, du latin mansio (« maison »).

A series of menial jobs and even worse housing in Houston had merely given emphasis to her misery, and in short order she’d decided to head elsewhere.


cutting edge

\ˌkʌt.ɪŋ ˈɛdʒ\

The company prides itself for staying at the cutting edge of technology.

La société se vante d’être à la pointe du progrès.

not everyone needs to stay up to date with the cutting edge

Mark Lutz, Learning Python,O'Reilly, 2013, p. 8


sleuth

Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?

Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville, 1908


sleuth

to sleuth (infinitive)
sleuths (present third-person singular)
sleuthed (preterite)
sleuthed (participle past)
sleuthing (participle present)

We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!

Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary, 1922


masonic

Masonic temple.


playing card

A deck of playing cards has four suits with 13 cards in each suit: two through ten, jack, queen, king, and ace.


top-flight

Cutting-edge projects and top-flight researchers gave it an esteemed position.


stemmatics

In other words, they must carry out an operation similar to the collations required by Lachmannian stemmatics, after which they must make a critical (i.e., subjective) choice. And, when constituting the text, they do not just slavishly copy their source, obvious errors included; their editions always contain an element of interpretation.

Conor Fahy, "Old and New in Italian Textual Criticism", page 404 in Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, & Peter L. Shillingsburg (eds.), Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies, 2004


moviegoer

(XXᵉ siècle)Composé de movie, go et -er.

I’d like to add some observations as a moviegoer.


sub-zero

A sub-zero January day.

Sub-zero temperatures.


sun-splashed

more sun-splashed (comparative)
most sun-splashed (superlative)

The two grew up together in the same South Bay city, playing the same sport on the same sun-splashed beaches.

Baxter Holmes , Aaron Wachtfogel and Sean Rosenthal win Manhattan Beach Open, Los Angeles Times, 22 août 2010


whopper

On Saturday when she landed her first fish, and it was a whopper.

Samedi, lorsqu’elle a ramené son premier poisson, et il était énorme. (source: un gamin ramène un muskie de vingt livres, avec une canne à pêche de poupée Barbie, sur le site du Los Angeles Time).

« Toddler using Barbie fishing pole lands 20-lb. muskie », Los Angeles Times (), 18 mai 2010

If you’re going to lie, make it a whopper, and then repeat it endlessly.

Si vous voulez mentir, que ce soit une énormité, et répétez-la sans cesse.


dodgem

What better way to let off a little steam, than by zipping around on the dodgems, or flying high on the Cosmic Typhoon roller coaster?

"Special Offer," North Devon Gazette (UK), 19 décembre 2007


interlock

Alcohol interlocks must be fitted in all school coaches and school taxis in Finland, and are installed in the vehicles of convicted drunk-drivers as part of a long-running rehabilitation program used as an alternative to a driving ban.

Tanya Mohn, Why Can’t All Countries Be Like Finland When It Comes To Road Safety?, forbes, 1 septembre 2024


pangram

Like the search for the perfect palindrome, the pursuit of the perfect pangram has obsessed many people.

Comme la recherche du palindrome parfait, celle du pangramme parfait a obsédé beaucoup de monde.

Tony Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games, 1986


toodeloo

Du français à tout à l’heure et de l’allemand Tüdelü (« à tout à l’heure »).

Vieux et très rarement utilisé en Amérique du Nord. Bien que susceptible d’être compris, il est vraisemblablement considéré avec humour, et peut être utilisé pour parodier l’anglais britannique.

L'orchestre de Duke Ellington avait à son répertoire « East Saint Louis Toodle-oo »


disenfranchised

Dérivé de enfranchised, avec le préfixe dis-.

enfranchise

accorder le droit de vote ou autre droit ; émanciper

enfranchisement

octroi du droit de vote ou d'autres droits ; émancipation

The Nukak are beyond the crossroads in their existence—a situation illustrated by disenfranchised and confused youngsters like Duki, dressed in a dark T-shirt and jeans, standing alongside family members in traditional loincloths.

RichardMcColl, Nukak dispossession highlights Amazonian tribes’ plight, BBC News, 18 septembre 2010


loincloth

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The Nukak are beyond the crossroads in their existence - a situation illustrated by disenfranchised and confused youngsters like Duki, dressed in a dark T-shirt and jeans, standing alongside family members in traditional loincloths.

Richard McColl, Nukak dispossession highlights Amazonian tribes' plight, BBC News, 18 septembre 2010


duress

Du moyen français duresse issu du latin duritia.

It has also been noted by social workers that the Nukak are particularly prone to soil-transmitted diseases and impurities in their water sources so in a region under duress from coca fumigation, the Nukak have arrived with various other health complaints.

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

Richard McColl,« Nukak dispossession highlights Amazonian tribes’ plight », BBC News, 18 septembre 2010


social worker

Assistant social ; travailleur social ; animateur.

Il a aussi été remarqué par les assistants sociaux que les Nukaks sont particulièrement sujets aux maladies transmises à partir du sol et aux impuretés dans leurs sources d’eau de telle sorte que dans une région subissant les contraintes dues à la fumigation de la coca, les Nukaks sont arrivés avec divers autres problèmes de santé.


immune system

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And due to their isolation until the 1980s, the Nukak have an immune system which struggles to combat influenza and the common cold, and tuberculosis is a death sentence.


death sentence

Arrêt de mort, sentence de mort, condamnation à mort (qui entraine une mort, une disparition certaine).


common cold

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welfare services

Illnesses aside, according to Dr Sanchez of Bienestar Familiar, Colombian welfare services, it is the complete about-turn in the Nukak lifestyle that is the biggest concern.


subcontinent

Dérivé de continent (« continent ») avec le préfixe sub- (« sous- »).

The subcontinent has produced just one set of early Homo sapiens fossils, found in a cave in Sri Lanka and dated to about 36,000 years ago.

National Geographic, Early Humans Settled India Before Europe, Study Suggests, news.nationalgeographic.com, novembre 2005


pepperoni

Uncle Enzo has not put in fifty years serving his family and his country so that, at the age when most are playing golf and bobbling their granddaughters, he can get out of the bathtub dripping wet and lie down and kiss the feet of some sixteen-year-old skate punk whose pepperoni was thirty-one minutes in coming.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993)


Burbclave

Mot-valisecomposé de suburb et de enclave.

And how would you feel if you had to interrupt dinner with your family in order to call some obstreperous dork in a Burbclave and grovel for a late fucking pizza?


obstreperous

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


the fuck

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de the et de fuck

Sert à exprimer la contrariété ou la surprise.

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that?

Nous sommes en Amérique. Les gens font les putains de choses qu’ils ont envie de faire, ça te pose un problème ?


wherever

\ʍɛɹ.ˈɛ.vəɹ\

Wherever did you go?


wherever

\ʍɛɹ.ˈɛ.vəɹ\

Wherever it is, it’s not here.


wherever

\ʍɛɹ.ˈɛ.vəɹ\

I go wherever I want.


thenceforward

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 thenceforward they never talked to each other.


squamous

Du latin squamosus, dérivé de squama (« écaille »).

more squamous (comparative)
most squamous (superlative)

In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth.

Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007), page 180, 1658

I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh!

H. P. Lovecraft et Hazel Heald, Out of the Aeons, 1933

We spread the papers on the least squamous section of the floor and lay down; the smell was not so bad at ground level.

Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don’t Point That Thing at Me (Penguin 2001), page 133, 1973

(And we’ll never find out whether the last thought to pass through the mind of the captain of the Thresher was, "It’s squamous and rugose," or simply, "It’s squamous!")

Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archive (trade paperback 2006), page 66, 2001


ur-cell

Cellule primitive originelle hypothétique, dans le cadre de l’origine de la vie.

The energy required to originate a living system, i.e., one capable of evolutionary selective reproduction, is a major unsolved problem of the chemical origin of life. A crude approximation is that it is about the same as that required to maintain a modern cell. The ur-cell would be simpler, but it would also be less efficient.

L’énergie requise pour créer un système vivant, c-à-d un système capable de reproduction avec sélection évolutive, est un des grand problèmes irrésolus de l’origine chimique de la vie. Une vague approximation est que ce serait à peu près la même quantité requise pour maintenir une cellule moderne. La cellule originelle [ur-cell] serait plus simple, mais aussi moins efficace.


barysphere

(Fin du XIXᵉ siècle) Du grec ancien,composé de βαρύς, barús (« lourd ») et de σφαῖρα, sphaîra (« sphère »).

Dr. Raymond, interpreting Posepny, defines the barysphere as all that interior region, the circulating water of which would not come up at all without the aid of heat. Does this mean all but the superficial region traversed by the vadose or oxidizing circulation ?

Transactions, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1895


initialism

Dérivé de initial, avec le suffixe -ism.

BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

BBC est le sigle de British Broadcasting Corporation.


cartographic

Composé de cartography et du suffixe -ic.

\ˌkɑː.təʊˈɡɹæf.ɪk\

\ˌkɑɹ.təˈɡɹæf.ɪk\

This is important to the ends of tangible geography, as well in the construction and arrangement of tables, as in every description of cartographic composition.

Norton Shaw et. al., The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1831

However, both of these examples assume that no three dimensional data is available in the initial digital cartographic data or other data sets that precede the immediate operation.

Harlow C Landphair, Terry Larsen, Evaluation and Development of Visualization Technology for Highway Transportation, 1993


histogram

Composé du préfixe histo- et du suffixe -gram.

to histogram (infinitive)
histograms (present third-person singular)
histogrammed (preterite)
histogrammed (participle past)
histogramming (participle present)

\ˈhɪstəˌɡɹæm\

Use this function if you want to quickly histogram a few variables with a very simple selection mechanism.

Utilisez cette fonction si vous voulez rapidement créer un histogramme de quelques variables avec un mécanisme de sélection très simple.


literary

more literary (comparative)
most literary (superlative)

ˈlɪt.ə.ˌɹɛɹ.i

The fact that the publisher is planning to use AI translation only for commercial fiction, rather than literary titles, “assumes those books are purely formulaic and don’t contain many creative elements, which is rather insulting to the authors and readers involved”, said Michele Hutchison, who won the 2020 International Booker prize for her translation of Lucas Rijneveld’s The Discomfort of Evening.

Ella Creamer, « Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English »,The Guardian, 4 novembre 2024. Consulté le 6 novembre 2024


ridibund

Du latin ridibundus, dérivé de rideo (« je ris ») avec le suffixe -bundus.

\ˈɻɪdəˌbənd\

Qui rit facilement, enclin à rire, heureux.

La<froſ<, m. laughing or ridibund

Christoph Friedrich Grieb, A Dictionary of the English and German Languages,page 531, “Lachfrosch”, 1863

If Ischia could procure a well-regulated outlet after the manner of Stromboli, this danger might be averted and a more ridibund race of mortals evolved.

Norman Douglas, Summer Islands: Ischia and Ponza,page 19, 1931

The ridibund bumpkin in Yiddish jokelore is a hypergelast.

Evan Esar, The Comic Encyclopedia,page 375, 1978


lumber

'1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer

Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber;

'1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

... The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,


lumber

to lumber (infinitive)
lumbers (present third-person singular)
lumbered (preterite)
lumbered (participle past)
lumbering (participle present)

[…] he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.

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

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

'1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak

The mean utensils, pewter measures, empty cans and casks, with which this room was lumbered, proclaimed it that of the host, who slept surrounded by his professional implements of hospitality and stock-in-trade.


ideograph

Most curious were tripods, strong, pikelike legs of golden metal four feet high, holding small circles of the lapis with intaglios of one curious symbol somewhat resembling the ideographs of the Chinese.

Abraham Merritt, The Moon Pool, 1919, éd. 2001, ISBN 0803282680


junket

Conversation is the natural Junket of the Mind ; and most Men have an Appetite to it, once in the day at least ….

Ambrose Philips, The free-thinker, Vol III. No 124., page 95, 1790

I love your meads, and I love your flowers, / And I love your junkets mainly ….

John Keats, "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?", 1818

Their aircraft—the Air Force had lent it to them for the mission, no questions asked—was a semi-VIP bird belonging to Andrews Air Force Base, and was often used for Congressional junkets. That meant an ample supply of liquor […]


basterd

Inglourious Basterds

Titre d’un film de Quentin Tarantino, 2009


juicy

juicier (comparative)
juiciest (superlative)

a juicy peach

Croustillant (en parlant d’un détail, d’une histoire, ...).

I do not keep up with all the latest juicy rumors.

Je ne tiens pas en place avec toutes ces rumeurs croustillantes.


decadelong

A decadelong hunt by an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz has yielded the discovery of a planet that could be the most Earth-like planet ever discovered.

Une chasse de dix ans par un astronome de l'Université de Californie (Santa Cruz) à mené à la découverte d’une planète qui pourrait être la plus semblable à la Terre jamais découverte.


Earth-like

Dérivé de Earth (« Terre ») avec le suffixe -like (« semblable »).

Tellurique. Aux caractéristiques semblables à la Terre.

Une chasse de dix ans par un astronome de l’Université de Californie (Santa Cruz) a mené à la découverte d’une planète qui pourrait être la plus semblable à la Terre jamais découverte.


fluke

A fluke is a lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.

Un coup de chance est une occurrence chanceuse ou improbable, avec le sous-entendu que ladite occurrence ne pourrait pas se répéter.

The first goal was just a fluke.

Le premier but était juste un coup de chance.

Chacune des deux moitiés de la nageoire caudale d’un cétacé (baleine, dauphin).

A fluke is either of the two lobes of a whale’s or similar creature’s tail.

The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it.

A fluke is any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.

The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.

A fluke is a trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.

The man had become infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.


passively

Composé de passive et du suffixe -ly utilisé pour formé les adverbes.

Water flowed passively between tanks via the siphon.

L’eau coulait passivement entre les réservoirs à travers le siphon.

Brian D. Wisenden, "Scents of Danger", dans Animal Signals: signalling and signal design in animal communication, page 369, 2000

Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium.

Klaus Dieter Budras, et al., Anatomy of the Dog, page 188, 2007

Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.

Gary A. Olson, Todd W. Taylor, Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, page 218, 1997

They were not waving at him but sat passively as if waiting to hear if what he had to say would be derogatory to their previous relationship.

Wallace Collins, Dragon Fire, page 9, 1998

Statements phrased in an active voice, with a few outcome-oriented goals, improve school performance more than those stated passively with either multiple goals or goals focused on processes or behaviors.

Timothy J. Conlan, Alice M. Rivlin, & Paul L. Posner, Intergovernmental Management for the Twenty-first Century, page 214, 2008


meal ticket

Volunteers are provided with a meal ticket for every four hours of service.

Les bénévoles sont munis d’un ticket-repas pour quatre heures de service.

I don’t enjoy this job, but it is my meal ticket.

Je n’aime pas ce boulot, mais c’est mon gagne-pain.


heavenly

heavenlier (comparative)
heavenliest (superlative)

(Religion)''heavenly father

— It’s too heavenly here.

(Sens figuré)'I went the ball last night, and it was heavenly'.


pussyfoot

Composé de pussy (« minou ») et de foot (« pied »), du fait de la présence de coussinet léger et soigneux des chats.

to pussyfoot (infinitive)
pussyfoots (present third-person singular)
pussyfooted (preterite)
pussyfooted (participle past)
pussyfooting (participle present)

Agir timidement ou avec prudence, ne pas se mouiller.

— So are you going to practice what you’re preaching and stop pussyfooting around with Faye?
— Hey, I’m 0 for 1 when it comes to practicing what I preach. These feet stay pussied for the time being.

Utiliser un langage euphémique ou une périphrase.

"Then you talk up! And plain! What’s there to be so pussyfooting about?"

Tennessee Williams, The Unsatisfactory Supper, 1946


fourball

The United States pitched a shutout in five alternate-shot matches during a crisp morning, then turned back an International rally with one of its own to split the afternoon fourball matches and build a 14 ½-7 ½ lead going into the 12 singles matches today in Montreal.

The Associated Press, U.S. Widens Lead in Presidents Cup, New York Times, 30 septembre 2007


Assyrian

De Assyria, dérivé du nom de sa capitale Assur, avec le suffixe -ian.

At this time, the Assyrian king Sargon II had recently conquered Samaria—northern Israel— forcing a migration of Hebrews southward into Jerusalem.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993)


Hebrews

At this time, the Assyrian king Sargon II had recently conquered Samaria—northern Israel—forcing a migration of Hebrews southward into Jerusalem.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (édition 1993)


Asherah

“Lagos said that the Brandy in the Black Sun was a cult prostitute of Asherah. So who is Asherah?”
 She was the consort of El, who is also known as Yahweh,” the Librarian says. “She also was known by other names: Elat, her most common epithet. The Greeks knew her as Dione or Rhea. The Canaanites knew her as Tannit or Hawwa, which is the same thing as Eve.”


Yahweh

“[…] So who is Asherah?”
 She was the consort of El, who is also known as Yahweh,” the Librarian says.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992, éd. 1993, ISBN 0-553-56262-4 ISBN invalide


Yahwistic

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).

The tree-like structure is a Yahwistic cult totem from Palestine. It's called an asherah. It's from about 900 B.C..


flamewar

(Date à préciser) Composé de flame et de war, en allusion à l’échauffement des esprits.

Before to engage in a flamewar, you’d better wear asbestos longjohns.

Avant de s’engager dans une joute oratoire, il vaut mieux porter un caleçon long en amiante.


asbestos longjohns

Vêtement que les contributeurs du réseau Usenet étaient censés porter avant de participer à une flamewar

Before to engage in a flamewar, you’d better to wear asbestos longjohns.


discoverable

Composé du verbe discover et du suffixe -able.

more discoverable (comparative)
most discoverable (superlative)

We chose this generic name for making the service more discoverable to the user, but the old PowerDevil name is still kept as in the C++ namespace name in the source code, and in the library files.

drfav, The New KDE Power Management System – fresh from Madrid, 3 octobre 2010


Lilith

Du latin ; de l’hébreu ancien לילית, lilit, lui-même issu de l’akkadien 𒊩𒆤𒇲.

So even might have Lilith, the serpent woman, have shown herself tempting Adam!


fiendishness

Dérivé de fiendish, avec le suffixe -ness.

The fiendishness died from the eyes; they grew blue, wondrous; …


Chomskyan

De Chomsky, nom de famille de Noam Chomsky.

According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal operations on formal strings of symbols.


Kabbalah

“Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called ‘practical Kabbalists’ who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.”


theorist

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


joey

(1829) ou (1839) Certaines sources indiquent une origine des langues des natifes australiens mais des sources plus récentes indiquent que l’origine serait inconnue. Probablement une utilisation étendue de Joey, diminutif du prénom masculin Joseph dont Partridge liste de nombreux sens dans l’argot australien du XXᵉ siècle. Farmer et Henley (« Slang and Its Analogues ») citent un article de 1887 sur les termes familiers australiens.

Bébé marsupial (koala, kangourou, opossum, etc.).

A female Eastern Grey kangaroo gives birth to a tiny joey that weighs about 2gm and is the size of a jellybean.

Une femelle kangourou donne naissance à un petit qui pèse environ 2 g et a la taille d’un bonbon haricot.

Why the baby koalas and the other baby marsupials are called the joeys? The term “Joey” is specifically reserved for the animal babies that are native to Australian natural habitat. Koalas are native to Australian natural habitat, therefore; their babies are also called the joeys.

Pourquoi les bébés koalas et ceux des autres marsupiaux sont-ils appelés des « joeys » ? Le terme « Joey » est réservé spécifiquement pour les bébés des animaux natifs de l’Australie. Les koalas étant natifs de l’Australie, leurs petits sont donc aussi appelés des « joeys ».

« A Baby Koala is called Joey », Koala Info


nonfat

more nonfat (comparative)
most nonfat (superlative)

Nonfat yogurt


tumble dryer

Composé de tumble (« dégringoler ») et dryer (« séchoir »).

But a number of clothes line rebels have risked legal action by disobeying these rules, saying it is the duty of Americans to reduce their carbon footprint and leave their energy-hungry tumble dryers idle.

Tom Geoghegan, The fight against clothes line bans, BBC News, 7 octobre 2010


carbon footprint

Composé de carbon (« carbone ») et footprint (« empreinte, trace de pas »).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Daniel Mietchen-carbon footprint.wav


energy-hungry

Composé de energy (« énergie ») et hungry (« qui a faim »).


clothes line

Composé de clothes (« vêtements ») et de line (« ligne, fil »).

Tom Geoghegan,The fight against clothes line bans, BBC News, 7 octobre 2010


clothesline

“Hanging clothes was the norm prior to the advent of the suburban ideal of modern living in the 1950s. Partly driven by the need to get women back out in the workforce after World War II, partly the need to sell electricity and the appliances being invented to use it, and partly by a idealised notion of progress, clotheslines became a symbol of the life people were leaving behind.”

Dave Rapaport cité par Tom Geoghegan,The fight against clothes line bans, BBC News, 7 octobre 2010