flaky

Dérivé de flake (« flocon »), avec le suffixe -y.

flakier (comparative)
flakiest (superlative)
flakey

This croissant is delicious. It's very light and flaky.

On the flakier side, some say aliens did it.

Terrence McCoy, The surprisingly simple way Egyptians moved massive pyramid stones without modern technology, Washington Post, mai 2014


tacky

tackier (comparative)
tackiest (superlative)

Why did you hang up that really tacky painting?


insecure

more insecure (comparative)
most insecure (superlative)

Pas à l’aise, pas sûr de soi dans certaines situations.

He’s a nice guy and all, but seems to be rather insecure around other people.

C’est un type sympa, mais il semble assez mal à l’aise avec d’autres personnes.


North

Options to punish North for rocket launch limited by China.

Les possibilités de sanction envers le Nord pour son tir de fusée limitées par la Chine.

The North’s ICBM program was long known for modest strides and spectacular failures until it made a rush of advances this year.

William J. Broad, et al.,This Missile Could Reach California. But Can North Korea Use It With a Nuclear Weapon?, New York Times, 3 septembre 2017


lupulin

Du latin lupulus (« houblon ») avec le suffixe -in.

Hop cones contain different oils, such as lupulin, a yellowish, waxy substance, an oleoresin, that imparts flavor and aroma to beer.


Guillemet ouvrant. Note d’usage : L’incise ne doit pas être inclue entre les guillemets ouvrant et fermant.

“No,” said Jean Valjean; “and how happens it that you know me?”

— Non, dit Jean Valjean. Et comment se fait-il que vous me connaissiez, vous ?

VictorHugo, Les Misérables, tome 2, livre 5, chapitre IX, traduit par Isabel F. Hapgood


Guillemet fermant. Note d’usage : L’incise ne doit pas être inclue entre les guillemets ouvrant et fermant.


pron

Variante typographique de porn permettant d'utiliser le mot sans être censuré, typiquement sur les forums de discussion sur Internet, où la censure est généralement effectuée par des bots.

Granted, a lot of it is filled with pron, but you don’t actually have to look at it!

D’accord, on y trouve aussi quantité de pron, mais vous n’êtes pas obligé de le regarder!

snoofle, «As Time Goes By… », The daily WTF, 19 septembre 2016.


nauplius

Many crustacean larvae were not immediately recognised as larvae when they were discovered, and were described as new genera and species. The names of these genera have become generalised to cover specific larval stages across wide groups of crustaceans, such as zoea and nauplius.


outset

Début ou étape initiale de quelque chose.

Japan's financial situation since the outset of the China incident.

La situation financière de Japon depuis l’incident chinois.

Mitsubishi Keizai Kenkyūjo, Japan's financial situation since the outset of the China incident, 1938


unalterable

Dérivé de alterable, avec le préfixe un-.

more unalterable (comparative)
most unalterable (superlative)

Perhaps the most seductive of romantic heroes, Heathcliff is irresistible. His appeal comes from his unwavering passion for Catherine Earnshaw, a passion as inexplicable and terrible as it is unalterable […].

Peut-être l’un des plus séduisants héros romantiques, Heathcliff est irrésistible. Son charme provient de son inébranlable passion pour Catherine Earnshaw, une passion aussi inexplicable et terrible qu’immuable […].

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, éditions Signet Classics (1993), issu de la préface de Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, 1847


reconsider

Dérivé de consider, avec le préfixe re-.

Let's reconsider this decision.


help oneself

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

Se servir librement (peut se traduire par « vas-y » ou « je t’en prie » à l’impératif).

Can I take a candy? - Sure, help yourself!

Je peux prendre un bonbon? - Bien sûr, sers-toi !


pernicious

We have a right, and it may be our duty, to caution others against him, if we think his example or conversation likely to have a pernicious effect on those with whom he associates.

J. S. Mill, On Liberty, édition de 1869, page 139


Baltimore

(Village irlandais, nom de famille) Du gaélique irlandais Baile an Tí Mhóir, composé de baile, teach et mór, littéralement « ville de grande maison ».

(Ville du Maryland) (1729) Elle tient son nom de Cecilius Calvert, baron de Baltimore, en Irlande, colonisateur anglais et premier propriétaire de la province du Maryland.

David Baltimore.


Baltimore

Baltimore was a seat of one of Ireland's most ancient dynasties, the Corcu Loígde, former Kings of Tara and Kings of Munster.

Baltimore, County Cork sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the nation's oldest, was built in 1830 and cemented Baltimore's status as a transportation hub, giving producers in the Midwest and Appalachia access to the city's port.

Baltimore sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


make ends meet

Joindre les deux bouts (littéralement, faire se rencontrer les bouts).

Lady Madonna, children at your feet.
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.


Fairbanks

Variante de Fairbank,composé de fair et de bank, la ville est nommée en l’honneur de Charles W. Fairbanks.

Charles W. Fairbanks.


smurfophilia

once beat a smurf with a whip, due to his perverse fantasies of sadistic smurfophilia

Mr. Wheaton has struggled for years with his severe Smurfophilia.


analyte

Du grec ancien ἀνάλυτος, análutos (« dissoluble ») ; voir λυτός, lytós (« soluble »).

The amount of an analyte captured by the HRP is made quantitative by measuring the color formation on the addition of a chromogenic HRP substrate.

Ajit Sadana, Fractal Binding and Dissociation Kinetics for Different Biosensor Applications, 2005, page 141


Weston

Composé de west et de town, littéralement « ville de l’Ouest » → voir Easton, Sutton et Norton.

Carolyn Weston.


Weston

Weston McKennie.


Benedict

(Date à préciser) Du latin Benedictus (« béni »).

Benedict Cumberbatch


Kea

(Prénom) Du gallois Ke, apparenté au breton Ke → voir Saint-Quay-Portrieux et Saint-Quay-Perros.

(Localité anglaise) En gallois Sen Ke (« saint Kea »), issu du précédent.

Saint Kea.


one shot

Composé de one (« unique ») et de shot (« coup, prise de vue »).

one-hit-kill

(Jeux vidéos) Coup unique qui provoque la mort

When composing a one shot, the subject should usually be centered in the frame.

Lorsque l’on compose un plan unique, le sujet devrait être habituellement au centre du cadre.

Jerry Martin, Active Video: A Teaching Tool for Every Classroom, Good Year Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-67336401-2, page 19

Partie sans lendemain, dont l’histoire est close à la fin de la session de jeu.

A one-shot is an RPG scenario or adventure that can be played from start to finish in one single session, ranging from 2 to 6 hours.

Une partie unique est un scénario ou une aventure de JdR qui peut être joué du début à la fin en une seule session, durant 2 à 6 heures.

Thomas Weinberger, What is a tabletop RPG one-shot? sur Drama Dice. Consulté le 2024-04-12


abnormality

The insect therefore does not develop under normal conditions, and an abnormality is the result.

L’insecte ne se développe donc pas sous des conditions normales, en résulte une anomalie.


copycat

Composé de copy et de cat (« personne »), littéralement « copieur ».

Consider what Le Corbusier would think if he were alive to see his famous church in France duplicated as a Chinese barbecue restaurant. Or imagine what an Austrian village must feel about its entire township being copied to a lake in China. But more on that later – first: Zaha Hadid now is experiencing it all in real time, as she races to complete her original before its copycat takes shape.

Pirated Architecture: Chinese Copies of Famous Buildings, 2013.


bear cub

Brown bear cubs are born during January-March; they are altricial and generally weight about 0,5kg.

George A. Feldhamer,Bruce C. Thompson,Joseph A. Chapman, Wild Mammals of North America: Biology, Management, and Conservation, 2003


palinspastic

Du grec ancien πάλιν, pálin (« encore ») et de σπαστικός, spastikós (« dessin »).

To improve the accuracy of spatial reconstruction through time, it is necessary to estimate and restore bulk strain by working backward in time so that the maps represent palinspastic reconstructions of geologic development.

James L. Pindell, Kenneth D. Tabbutt, Mesozoic-Cenozoic Andean Paleogeography and Regional Controls on Hydrocarbon Systems, A. J. Tankard, Ramiro Suárez Soruco, Herman J. Welsink (éditeurs), Petroleum Basins of South America, Volume 62,page 102, 1995


Titres non pris en charge/Croisillon

Une stylisation de ℔, ligature de ‹ lb ›, abréviation du latin libra (« livre ») (unité de masse).


Brexit

(XXIᵉ siècle) Mot-valise formé à partir de Britain (« Grande-Bretagne ») et de exit (« sortie »), par analogie avec Grexit.

Brexit : sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’Union européenne, et processus politique associé.

Without question now, Britain is not ready for the negotiations, having spent the past year largely avoiding a real debate on the topic, other than a vague argument over the merits of a “hard Brexit” (as a clean break from the European Union is known), versus a “soft Brexit,” which would require more compromise.

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

Steven Erlanger, Katrin Benhold & Stephen Castle, The British Election That Somehow Made Brexit Even Harder, The New York Times, 9 juin 2017


Brexit

to Brexit (infinitive)
Brexits (present third-person singular)
Brexited (preterite)
Brexited (participle past)
Brexiting (participle present)

Quitter, pour le Royaume-Uni, l’Union européenne.

Bremaining is perceived as a young person’s interest, with Brexiting supposedly the preserve of grumpy oldsters who are moreover more schooled in the tiresome pencil-and-paper business of voting, as opposed to liking, RT-ing, etc.

Steve Richards, Harry Potter play exposes the social apartheid in our theatre, 8 juin 2016


heifer

(Date à préciser) Du moyen anglais hayfare. référence nécessaire (pourquoi ? résoudre le problème)

Harmonia believed that the heifer might turn out to be Europa herself. After all, in ravishing her Zeus had transformed himself into a bull, so why mightn’t she have taken a bovine form too?

Stephen Fry, Mythos, Penguin Books, 2018, p. 219


stocky

stockier (comparative)
stockiest (superlative)

Ian is a short, stocky former Crimson Caravan guard, now a Shady Sands guard and a possible companion who resides in Shady Sands in 2161.

Ian est un ancien garde petit et trapu de Crimson Caravan, désormais garde des Sables Ombragés et un possible compagnon qui réside aux Sables Ombragés en 2161.

« Ian (Fallout) », Nukapedia (wiki sur le jeu vidéo Fallout)


forebear

Forebear mean a person from whom one is descended.

Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms With Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words, 1984.


afterbear

→ voir after et beer. D’après forebear : « fore-be-er »

Un descendant. Personne qui descend d'une autre par filiation.

They are happy to celebrate their birthday with their afterbears.


PPT

Abréviation de PowerPoint utilisée comme extension de fichier.

How can I convert a PPT to a PDF?


(Date à préciser) Du symbole de la faucille et marteau, un symbole communiste.

When I'm in a simping for murderous autocrats competition and my opponent is a ☭

Tweet de @solemngeolib publié le 4 aout 2024

Stasi Olaf is a ☭ at heart and a frequent visitor to the GDR and Moscow in the early to mid 80s right up to the orchestrated fall of the wall.

Tweet de @JaneKorean publié le 19 septembre 2024 à 1h41


more ☭ (comparative)
most ☭ (superlative)

Well, I think he is a ☭ bot. So what?

Tweet de @ProfKuzmitch publié le 14 avril 2024 à 19h55

it's really simple, the guy is a ☭ revolutionary leading a bunch of young men either directly into leftism or simply building coalition with the left.

Tweet de @onetallorfour publié le 20 aout 2024 à 17h38


set the Thames on fire

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-set the Thames on fire.ogg

Accomplir quelque chose d’impressionnant.

The baronet will never set the Thames on fire, but there seems no harm in him.

Jane Austen, Persuasion, Borders Classics 2007, page 27, 1816

Do you remember when you jumped into the water after the flowers? I fancy it was then you really set the Thames on fire.

GK Chesterton, ‘The Ultimate Ultimatum of the League of the Long Bow’, The Collected Works, Ignatius Press 2005, page 402, 1925

My head is spinning round / my heart is in my shoes, yeah / I went and set the Thames on fire, oh / now I must come back down.

Tom Waits, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’, 1985


internets

I can't find this word in my print dictionary, let me go look it up on the internets.


scamper

(1687) D’origine incertaine. Peut-être relié au néerlandais schamperen, à l’ancien français escamper, à l’italien scampare.

to scamper (infinitive)
scampers (present third-person singular)
scampered (preterite)
scampered (participle past)
scampering (participle present)

The dog scampered after the squirrel.


stop by

to stop by (infinitive)
stops by (present third-person singular)
stopped by (preterite)
stopped by (participle past)
stopping by (participle present)

I will stop by Thomas.


nondenominational

Dérivé de denominational, avec le préfixe non-.

more nondenominational (comparative)
most nondenominational (superlative)

Sans confession particulière, non-confessionnel.

This is a non-denominational church. We have members who are Baptists, Catholics, Episcopal, Methodists and Presbyterians.

Cette église est œcuménique. Nous avons des membres qui sont baptistes, catholiques, épiscopaliens, méthodistes et presbytériens.


bebother

to bebother (infinitive)
bebothers (present third-person singular)
bebothered (preterite)
bebothered (participle past)
bebothering (participle present)

The lady did not want to bebother her stylist for an extravagant dress design.

La dame ne voulait pas jeter le trouble sur son styliste pour une conception de robe extravagante.

“There is brass for all. Just home, paid off—and find my wife dead—and me saddled with the yowling kid. I’m off to sea again. Don’t see no sport widering here all bebothered with a baby.”

Sabine Baring-Gould, The Broom-Squire, 1905, page 6, 1896

At present I am all upside down—nohow—bebothered—& can only write this much.

Edward Lear, Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave, page 114, 1908

‘Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!’ he said aloud.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, chapitre 1, 1937

‘ […] But above all ... above all, you are the bewitching bebothering and bewildering Evita!’

Pieter-Dirk Uys, A Part Hate, A Part Love: The Biography of Evita Bezuidenhout, page 185, 1990


sweetheart deal

sweetheart deals (plural)
sweetheart agreement
sweetheart contract

Transaction, contrat, ou autre accord dans lequel l’une des parties offre des termes particulièrement favorables à l’autre, particulièrement dans des circonstances suspectes ; traitement de faveur.

Let me count the ways: […] union “corruption” to make sweetheart deals to avoid labor (State) regulations; […]

Laissez-moi comptabiliser les manières : […] la « corruption » syndicale pour faire des arrangements de complaisance pour éviter les réglementations (étatiques) du travail ; […]

Samuel Edward Konkin III, « Reply to Rothbard »


goose bump

The cold air is giving me goose bumps.


so that

He must die so that others might live.

Il doit mourir pour que d'autres puissent vivre.

I'm going to bed so that my father will shut up.

Je vais au lit afin que mon père se taise.


Mentonasc

more Mentonasc (comparative)
most Mentonasc (superlative)

Mentonnais (qui concerne le dialecte parlé à Menton).

Tempe a Pailla (a Mentonasc proverb meaning 'time for yawning')

Tempe a Pailla (un dicton mentonnais signifiant « le moment de bailler »)

Centre Pompidou, dépliant de l’exposition « Eileen Gray », février 2013


interconvert

to interconvert (infinitive)
interconverts (present third-person singular)
interconverted (preterite)
interconverted (participle past)
interconverting (participle present)

To interconvert subsystems and block diagrams, use one of these functions:

The Mathworks, Documentation Simulink, 2013


Mandeville

Liam Mandeville.


guz

Unité de mesure utilisée pour les textiles importés d'Inde, équivalent à un yard.

A present day sari is still measured as 7 guz.

guz sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)


hairbrush

I need a new hairbrush.

J’ai besoin d’une nouvelle brosse à cheveux.


with a fine-toothed comb

→ voir with, fine, tooth et comb « avec un peigne à dents fines ».

I've gone over the place with a fine-toothed comb, and I still can't find it.


outlier

\ˈʌʊtˌlaɪ.ɚ\

\ˈæɔtˌlɑɪ.ə(ɹ)\

Valeur anormale, valeur extrême. Mesure aberrante.

The mean is sensible to outliers.

La moyenne est sensible aux valeurs extrêmes.


henchman

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

I was instantly approached by a rather forbidding henchman so I panicked and bought a tie.

Stephen Fry, Fry's Ties, Michael and Joseph, 2021, page 41


Carmilla

It was all summed up in three very vague disclosures:
First—Her name was Carmilla.
Second—Her family was very ancient and noble.
Third—Her home lay in the direction of the west.

Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, chapitre IV, 1872


Hart

Edith Tudor-Hart.


in God’s name

In God’s name, what do you think you are you doing?

Au nom de Dieu, qu'est-ce que tu penses faire ?

What in God’s name are you doing?


Lapland

Reacting to the Norwegian Defense Ministry’s statement, NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu said: “Finland has expressed concern over possible jamming in Lapland. In view of the civilian usage of GPS, jamming of this sort is dangerous, disruptive, and irresponsible. In general, we see cyberattacks and electronic warfare used with greater frequency and severity.”

Réagissant à la déclaration du ministère norvégien de la défense, la porte-parole de l’OTAN Oana Lungescu a déclaré : « la Finlande a aussi manifesté ses inquiétudes sur la possibilité de brouillage en Laponie. Au regard des usages civils du GPS, un brouillage de cette sorte est dangereux, disruptif et irresponsable. En général, nous voyons des cyberattaques et des attaques électroniques utilisées avec une plus grande fréquence et sévérité. »

BrooksTigner, « Electronic jamming between Russia and NATO is par for the course in the future, but it has its risky limits », Atlantic Council, 15 novembre 2018


bloodhound

Composé de blood et de hound ; comparer avec Schweißhund en allemand.

Limier. Chien assez grand, à la peau du museau lâche, aux longues oreilles tombantes, à robe noir et feu.

C’est droit vers ce coin que Benoît Bandan s’était dirigé en traversant la pièce en diagonale, l’échine penchée, le cou allongé comme un bloodhound, son nez pointu marquant la direction. Il se pencha sur le fauteuil et sur le bureau, examinant tout sans toucher à rien.

Régis Messac, le Mystère de M. Ernest [1928], éditions de la Grange Batelière, 2022, deuxième partie, chapitre XII, p. 95


unbirthday

(1871) Dérivé de birthday (« anniversaire ») avec le préfixe un- (« non- »), créé par Lewis Carroll dans De l’autre côté du miroir.

Have a merry unbirthday!


nurture

De l’ancien français norriture (« jeune bétail qu’on élève »).

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-nurture.wav

The perennial debate about nature and nurture—which is the more potent shaper of the human essence?—is perennially rekindled.

Matt Ridley,What Makes You Who You Are, Time, 2003

The “nature vs. nurture” debate—the question of whether our genes (nature) or environment (nurture) are more important to determining our health—has raged for decades.

Matt Ridley,Why Your Genes Aren’t Your Destiny, Chris Kresser, 2015


nurture

to nurture (infinitive)
nurtures (present third-person singular)
nurtured (preterite)
nurtured (participle past)
nurturing (participle present)

How can you nurture your child’s creativity?


Darius

Darius Danesh.


aegis

(début XVIIᵉ siècle) Du grec ancien αἰγίς, aigís (« de peau de chèvre ») → voir aix. Probablement du grec ancien αἴξ, « chèvre », de l’indo-européen *h₂eyǵ-, « chèvre ».

Le pluriel aegides est emprunté au latin aegides, du grec ancien αἰγῐ́δες.

The robe and aegides of the statues of Minerva the Greeks have made in imitation of the Lybians, for except that the robe among the Lybians is of leather and the fringes of the aegis are not serpents but strips of leather, the adorning is entirely the same. And the very name is an acknowledgement that the vesture of the palladium is derived from Lybia, for the Lybian women put around the robe their goat skins tasselled and stained with madder (ἐρευθεδάνω) and from these goat skins, (ἐχ δὲ τῶν αἰγἑων τουτἑων) the Greeks have taken the word aegis.

F. M. Hubbard, “Article III. An Inquiry into the Commerce of Ancient Egypt”, The American Biblical Repository, vol. X, numéro 27, New York (NY) : Gould & Newman, publishers and printers; Boston (MA) : Perkins & Marvin and Crocker & Brewster; Cincinnati (OH) : Truman & Smith, 1837,page 49, traduisant Hérodote

Égide. under the aegis: gouvernance, protection, endossement, commandite.

Under the aegis of France a group of buffer states would be born. Austria would cede Venetia to Italy and receive Silesia from Prussia. France had only to promise Austria her neutrality and to keep Italy on its leash.

Nancy Nichols Barker, Distaff Diplomacy: The Empress Eugénie and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire, Austin (TX), Londres : University of Texas Press, 1967, page 141


ligase

Du latin ligare (« lier ») avec le suffixe -ase.

These results also indicate that the active site of the ligase is large enough to accommodate two dipeptides or a peptide containing four amino acid residues.

Ces résultats indiquent aussi que le site actif de la ligase est assez grand pour abriter deux dipeptides ou un peptide contenant quatre résidus acides aminés

National Research Council Canada, Revue canadienne de biochimie et biologie cellulaire, 1984


Banguian

Many Banguians use this plant to poison their enemies. its cultivation is encouraged by President Bozize.


bogus

(1827) L'utilisation est attestée dans l’argot américain pour désigner de la fausse monnaie ; bogus press désigne une machine à frapper de fausses pièces. À partir de 1848, le terme est étendu pour désigner des faux billets puis de manière plus générale des objets ayant une valeur inférieur à ce qu'ils paraissent. Le sens actuel « d'inutile » provient probablement de l'argot des hackers.

De bogey ; dans l'argot tantrabogus désignait au xixᵉ un objet utilisé pour menacer ou déroutant mais ne causant habituellement pas de dommage.

So what Jefferson was saying was "Hey! You know, we left this England place because it was bogus. So if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too."

Fast Times at Ridgemont High Amy Heckerling, 1982


bogus

"Calibogus," or "bogus" was cold rum and beer unsweetened.

Harvey Washington Wiley, Beverages and Their Adulteration, 1919


pollack

It is taken with the same baits as the smaller pollacks, and is by no means a rare fish on many parts of our coasts, though, from being so frequently mistaken for the fry of the coal fish.

Il est pêché avec les mêmes appâts que les plus petits lieus et n'est pas du tout un poisson rare sur une grande partie de nos côtes, bien qu'il soit si souvent confondu avec les alevins du lieu noir.


astroboffin

Discovering Type Ia supernovae this early in the universe’s life allows astroboffins to figure out which of two competing explosion models are correct.

Brid-Aine Parnell, Hubble boffins: Incredibly old supernova could explain EVERYTHING, mars 2013


inguen

Ganglions of the right and of the left inguens.


finitely

Let G be a finitely generated group.


gluttony

Emprunt à l’ancien français glotonie, → voir glutton et -y.

Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.


repast

a repast was prepared for me in the desert that restored and inspirited me.

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, page 161, édition de 1869


tugboat

Composé de tug (« tirer, remorquer ») et de boat (« bateau »), littéralement « bateau qui tire, qui remorque ».

There were three of the derelicts. Perhaps they’d been towed in together. The tugboat skippers had probably tried to leave them in a perfect line as a personal conceit.

Tom Clancy, Without Remorse [Sans aucun remords], 1993


were-

Dérivation régressive de werewolf (« loup-garou ») considéré comme composé de were- et de wolf (« loup »).

A werebear.


the hell

Diable. Note d’usage : Inséré après un mot interrogatif comme intensificateur.

Who the hell has done this?!


Cosmotron

Protons were accelerated by the Cosmotron to 1 GeV in May 1952; however, by the time shielding was added and the target, beam, and detector equipment put in place, it was the spring of 1953.

William B. Fowler, Strange particles: production by Cosmotron beams as observed in diffusion cloud chambers, in Laurie Mark Brown, Max Dresden, Lillian Hoddeson, éditeurs, Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (GB), 1989 (édition numérique 2009), pp. 343–347


pro-life

De pro- et life « vie ». Egalement orthographié pro life sans tiret.

When I asked my pro life mom about the 3000 children who die every year from gun violence, she rolled her eyes and said “that’s not that many. We cannot work with Republicans. We have to work around them.”


pull up

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

Soulever, vers le haut ou verticalement.

I pull up the level when I want to make my car go into first gear.

The mother pulls her son up.

The mother pulls her son up for being lazy.

Pull up that website for me, it looks quite interesting.

Conduire près de quelque chose, notamment du trottoir.

Pull up to that curb slowly, you don’t want to scratch that other car.


elapse

to elapse (infinitive)
elapses (present third-person singular)
elapsed (preterite)
elapsed (participle past)
elapsing (participle present)

Passer, s’écouler (en parlant du temps).

Several days elapsed before they met again.

Plusieurs jours se sont écoulés avant qu’ils ne se revoient.


upstairs

the upstairs bedroom


upstairs

After dinner, let's go upstairs.


in the pink

more in the pink (comparative)
most in the pink (superlative)

\ˈɪn ðə ˈpɪŋk\

Elizabeth and I went to see Donna and Chris, collecting Ron on the way. He was looking in the pink, which was nice to see.

Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club, Penguin, 2021, page 160


in a nutshell

(Date à préciser) Calque du latin in nuce.

\ɪn ə ˈnʌt.ˌʃɛl\

He had a lot to say, but his answer, in a nutshell, was no.

Il avait beaucoup à dire, mais sa réponse, en un mot, fut « non ».

In a nutshell, an object is iterable if it is either a physically stored sequence in memory, or an object that generates one item at a time in the context of an iteration operation—a sort of "virtual" sequence.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 123


lookahead

Analyse préalable aux décisions qui seront faites si une branche de l’algorithme était suivie.

Our computer chess program uses lookahead to avoid difficult endgames.


as all get-out

\æz ɔːl ˈɡɛt.ˌaʊt\

Extrêmement, complètement, totalement, comme tout.

His act looked as realistic as all get-out.

Son interprétation sembla extrêmement réaliste.

This hat is as pretty as all get-out.


devotchka

Néologisme créé pour le livre A Clockwork Orange d’Anthony Burgess, issu du russe девочка, dévočka (« jeune fille »).

This evening in the Korova there was a fair number of vecks and ptitsas and devotchkas and malchicks smecking and peeting away, and cutting through their govoreeting and the burbling of the in-the-landers with their 'Gorgor fallatuke and the worm sprays in filltip slaughterballs' and all that cal you could slooshy a popdisc on the stereo, this being Ned Achimota singing 'That Day, Yeah, That Day'.

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 1962


impure name

Nom contenant des informations utiles sur l’entité qu’il identifie.

The absolute path for a file is an impure name, it contains a clear hierarchical structure.

Le chemin absolu d’un fichier est un nom impur, il contient une hiérarchie de la structure claire.


pure name

Nom ne révélant aucune information sur l’entité qu’il identifie.

A MAC address can be considered a pure name as it gives no indication of where on a network it can be found.

Une adresse MAC peut être considérée comme un nom pur parce qu’elle ne donne aucune indication sur où elle peut être trouvée dans le réseau.


hemi-

Du préfixe grec ancien ἡμι-, signifiant "semi-".

Hemiface, hemicube, hemiparalysis, ...


interlocutor

He eyed his interlocutor, and then glanced about him.

H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (L’Homme invisible), page 115, 1897


B.C.

(Sigle) Sigle de before Christ (« avant Jésus-Christ »).

Av. J.-C. Note d’usage : Ce mot est placé après l’année ou le siècle, et souvent écrit en petites capitales.

Homer lived in the 8th century B.C..


log cabin

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L’image de la log cabin fut utilisée comme argument de campagne, lors de l’élection présidentielle américaine de 1840, lorsque le candidat whig, William Henry Harrison battit le président démocrate sortant, Martin Van Buren

Born in a log cabin in the back woods / The back woods of Mississippi / She drank moonshine / Chewed tobacco / Raised thirteen children all by herself

Norman Whitfield, chanson Ma (paroles et musique), successivement interprétée, en février et avril 1973, d’abord par The Temptations, dans une version courte, puis par Rare Earth, dans une version longue, toutes deux produites par l’auteur et publiées sur le label Motown. La seconde version diffère de la première par la présence, au début du texte, des mots supplémentaires « Well she was [born...] ».

The Homers first stayed in the clubhouse but, perhaps finding life there too civilized, they built a log cabin on the extreme edge of the lakeside property.

Helen A. Cooper, Winslow Homer Watercolors,chapitre « Quebec, 1893–1902 », page 196. National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press, 1987.

Conventional log cabin construction in which the logs are laid up horizontally and notched at the corners, is both a Swedish and a German legacy.

Rachel Carley,Wilderness A to Z: An Essential Guide to the Great Outdoors, page 195. Fireside/Simon and Schuster, 2001.


Russian drab yellow hound

In the past, the Russian drab yellow hound was kept in packs for hunting purposes, with the calls of these hounds being sufficiently individual for huntsmen to recognise them from afar on this basis.

David Alderton, Hounds of the World, 2002


take a look

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de take

Can you take a look at the engine to see what’s wrong?

Peux-tu jeter un œil au moteur pour voir ce qui cloche ?


grocer

A grocer sells goods in a grocery.

Un épicier vend des produits dans une épicerie.


Marge

(Date à préciser) Hypocoristique de Margaret.

Marge Simpson.


Abe

Abenomics, as mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, was first presented by the Abe administration as consisting of the three 'arrows' of aggressive monetary policy, flexible fiscal policy and a growth strategy.

Brian K. MacLean, Hassan Bougrine, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Aggregate Demand and Employment: International Perspectives, 2020


ahogado

ahogados (plural masculine)
ahogada (singular feminine)
ahogadas (plural feminine)

Un ruido ahogado.


pharaoh hound

\ˈfɛə.ɹəʊ ˌhaʊnd\

The best dog food for your pharaoh hound must be AAFCO compliant, safe, affordable, and made with high-quality ingredients (predominantly meat).


durophage

Durophage (qui se nourrit de proies dures par rapport à ses dents et devant être broyées, comme des mollusques à coquille, des crabes, etc.).

There are no living durophage (shell-crushing) or specialized bottom-dwelling lamnoids.

Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno, Sharks of the World, 2001


durophage

Durophage (animal qui se nourrit de proies dures par rapport à ses dents et devant être broyées, comme des mollusques à coquille, des crabes, etc.).

Resistance to and repair of shell breakage induced by durophages in Late Ordovician brachiopods

article de RR Alexander, Journal of Paleontology, mars 1986


arpeggiation

Alternated between arpeggiation of the chord outlines and some chord scale runs.

A later composition, the Fantasia in C minor (BWV 906) moves closer to the sonata-allegro form and challenges the performer with rapid arpeggiation, florid ornamentation and hand-crossings reminiscent of the sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti.

As Klaus G. Roy puts it, Mozart "exhausts the possibilities of one theme without at all exhausting the listener." Swirling scale passages, brilliant arpeggiation and lots of trills contribute to the festive air.


Locrian

more Locrian (comparative)
most Locrian (superlative)

Caractérise une gamme qui est en mode locrien.

The B Locrian uses the same notes as the C Ionian, and so on.


Ionian

more Ionian (comparative)
most Ionian (superlative)

Caractérise une gamme ou un accord du mode ionien.


Labrador

(Date à préciser) Du portugais Labrador.

Newfoundland and Labrador.


Iron Man

As Iron Man, Stark takes out dozens of bad guys via guns, missiles, flamethrowers and sheer brute force.

Dans le rôle d’Iron Man, Stark élimine des dizaines de méchants à l’aide de fusils, de missiles, de lance-flammes et de force brute pure.


Iron Man

Something as integrated and powerful as the envisioned Iron Man suit would naturally rely upon massive amounts of mobile electricity able to provide sustained sources of power to propulsion systems, computers, weapons and other anticipated crucial elements of the envisioned technologies.

Quelque chose d’aussi intégré et puissant que la combinaison Iron Man envisagée dépendrait naturellement de quantités massives d’électricité mobile capable de fournir une source d’énergie durables aux systèmes de propulsion, aux ordinateurs, aux armes et aux autres éléments cruciaux prévus dans les technologies envisagées.

Kris Osborn, «Will the U.S. Military Soon Go to War Using ‘Iron-Man’ Suits? », The National Interest, 12 novembre 2020


cranky

crankier (comparative)
crankiest (superlative)

Se dit d’une machine en mauvaise condition.

We had seven canoes, all of them dugouts. One was small, one was cranky, and two were old, waterlogged, and leaky. The other three were good.

Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, The River of Doubt, 1914

He got home from a long day at work tired and cranky.

Singulier, excentrique ; se dit aussi d’une personne dont l’état mental n’est pas parfait.

Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he’ll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be.

Robert E. Howard, The Road to Bear Creek, in Action Stories, décembre 1934


sell like hot cakes

Littéralement, « se vendre comme des crêpes ». → voir sell et hot cake

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This innovative new video game is going to sell like hot cakes.

Ce nouveau jeu vidéo novateur va se vendre comme des petits pains.


transfix

She was transfixed and held spellbound by the sight in the distance of the enormous city.


spellbound

(Adjectif) (Date à préciser)Composé de spell (« sort, sortilège ») et de bound (« attaché, lié »), littéralement « attaché par un sort ».

more spellbound (comparative)
most spellbound (superlative)

And my attention is fixed. I can't look away. Spellbound by mesmerizing shimmering surface which I can no longer control.

Et mon attention était rivée. Je ne pouvais détourner le regard. Fasciné par une surface chatoyante et hypnotisante que je ne peux plus contrôler.

Philip K. Dick, The man in the high castle, 1962


suede

But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.


ragdoll

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Ragdoll. Type d’animation procédurale où un modèle constitué d’un ensemble de corps rigides reliés s’effondre d’une manière naturelle, comme une poupée de chiffon.

In this chapter I’ll give you a taste of some of the most popular applications for physics: ragdolls, breakable objects, and movie-style explosions.

IanMillington, Game physics engine development, 2007, p. 401


price tag

\ˈpɹaɪs ˌtæɡ\

There’s always a price tag

Il y a toujours une étiquette de prix [traduction littérale]

Titre d’un roman deJames Hadley Chase, traduit par Retour de manivelle

Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion

Coût des propositions de Bernie Sanders : 18 billions $

Titre d’un article duWall Street Journal, 14 septembre 2015


en route

Only half an hour before, the boat’s captain had been told that a special passenger was en route.

An intensive land, sea, and air search is under way for the terrorists who snatched their convicted comrade while en route to a British prison on the Isle of Wight.


supply chain

Chaîne d'approvisionnement, chaîne logistique.

This will be part of our work to complete the European Health Union with diversified supply chains, access to the most advanced treatments, more resilient health systems and strategic inventories of key medicines

Cet acte fera partie intégrante de nos travaux visant à achever l’union européenne de la santé grâce à des chaînes d’approvisionnement diversifiées, à l’accès aux traitements les plus avancés, à des systèmes de santé plus résilients et à des inventaires stratégiques de médicaments essentiels.

ORIENTATIONS POLITIQUES POUR LA PROCHAINE COMMISSION EUROPÉENNE 2024 − 2029, Ursula von der Leyen, traductions multilingues, Candidate à la présidence de la Commission européenne


die out

The dinosaurs died out a long time ago.

Les dinosaures s’éteignirent il y a longtemps.


replicable

We believe this model holds promise because it is scalable, replicable and sustainable.

Article A New Way to Finance Early Childhood Education par Alicia Glen, J.B. Pritzker et Deborah S. Bayle, site duHuffington Post, le 14 juin 2013


off the mark

\ɒf ðə mɑːk\

His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense.

Ses réponses sont systématiquement inappropriées. Aucune d’elles ne veut vraiment dire quelque chose.


bring one’s A game

Composé de bring (« apporter »), one’s (« son ») et A game (« meilleur jeu »), littéralement « apporter son meilleur jeu ».

to bring one’s A game (infinitive)
brings one’s A game (present third-person singular)
brought one’s A game (preterite)
brought one’s A game (participle past)
bringing one’s A game (participle present)
bring the A game

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


mansplaining

(Début XXIᵉ siècle) Mot-valise formé de man et de explaining.

Explication faite par un homme à une femme sur ce qu’elle doit faire ou ne pas faire par condescendance sur le simple fait que cette dernière soit une femme.

The idea wasn't political in origin, and mansplaining happens in academia and offices and dining rooms.

L’idée n’est pas politique à l’origine, et le mansplaining se passe dans les universités et les bureaux et les salles à manger.

Lily Rothman, A Cultural History of Mansplaining, le 1ᵉʳ novembre 2012


A police dog, also known as K-9 or K9 (a homophone of canine), is a dog specifically trained to assist members of law enforcement.

Un chien policier, également connue sous l’acronyme K-9 ou K9 (un homophone de canin en anglais), est un chien entraîné spécialement pour assister un membre des forces de l’ordre

(anglais) About K-9s sur National Police Dog Foundation. Consulté le 2024-04-11


sloppy

sloppier (comparative)
sloppiest (superlative)

I gave him a real deep throat, wet, a sloppy blowjob which he loved.

Traduction : Je lui ai fait une véritable gorge profonde, humide, une pipe baveuse qu'il a aimée.

Misty, Erotic Memoirs, éd. Xlibris, 2021.


Elton

Du vieil anglais,composé de Ella et de town, littéralement « ville d’Ella ».

Kim Elton.


Elton

Elton Anderson.


local root exploit

Faille de système d’exploitation permettant à un compte local de devenir root.

She logs into the IRC server using her regular shell account and elevates her privileges using her not-so-regular local root exploit.

Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, Johnny Long, Ryan Russell, Timothy Mullen


remote root exploit

Faille de système d’exploitation permettant à un compte distant de devenir root.

As another example, version 8.2 through 8.2.2 of the Internet Software Consortium's BIND Domain Name Service were vulnerable to the DNS remote root exploit.

Web Security, Privacy & Commerce, Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford - 2011


androgen

(1936)Dérivé du préfixe andro- (« mâle »), avec le suffixe -gen.

The main subset of androgens, known as adrenal androgens, is composed of 19-carbon steroids synthesized in the zona reticularis, the innermost layer of the adrenal cortex.


marvelous

more marvelous (comparative)
most marvelous (superlative)
marvellous

I went to a marvelous party last week.

Je suis allé à une fantastique soirée la semaine dernière.


Fez

The Medina of Fez.

Old Fez.


guinea

De Guinea (« Guinée »), une importante source de l’or britannique à l’époque.

21 shillings (1,05 livre). Note d’usage : L’utilisation de guinea au lieu de pound (« livre ») avait un air aristocratique.

His small stock of money being reduced to twenty-one guineas on his arrival, he sent to England a model, for which he received ten guineas from the Society of Arts; and in 1762 he was further encouraged by a premium of fifty guineas for a marble bas-relief of ‘Timocles conducted before Alexander.’ But the foundation of his future wealth was probably laid by his introduction in Rome to Garrick, by whom he was received with great cordiality. The actor commissioned him to execute a bust, for which twelve guineas ‘in gold’ were paid.

Walter Armstrong, Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823), dans Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 41, 1885-1900


Levi

Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.


Rebekah

And Isaac was fortie yeeres old when hee tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the ſiſter to Laban the Syrian.


relocate

to relocate (infinitive)
relocates (present third-person singular)
relocated (preterite)
relocated (participle past)
relocating (participle present)

Up to 500,000 Roman Catholics would have been forced to leave their homes and relocate to the Irish Republic

The company threatened to relocate to a country with cheaper labor if the union didn't agree to a cut in wages.


fley

Du moyen anglais fleien, issu du vieil anglais flēgan.

to fley (infinitive)
fleys (present third-person singular)
fleyed (preterite)
fleyed (participle past)
fleying (participle present)

The ghoul fleyed the weary traveller.


for the nonce

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Pour la circonstance, pour l’occasion (dans l’attente que la situation change).

That will do for the nonce, but we’ll need a better answer for the long term.

Cela fera l’affaire pour le moment, mais nous aurons besoin d’une meilleure réponse à long terme.


willowy

Dérivé de willow (« saule »), avec le suffixe -y.

willowier (comparative)
willowiest (superlative)

Izzi’s willowy friend summed him up one evening when the ladies of the ensemble were changing their practice-clothes after a particularly strenuous rehearsal, defending him against the Southern girl, who complained that he made her tired.

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Jill the Reckless, 1920

On one side of the road was the immense Roche de St. Julien, which overhung it; through the gateway of the castle we saw the snowy mountains of La Valais, clothed in clouds, and on the other side was the willowy plain of the Rhone, in a character of striking contrast with the rest of the scene, bounded by the dark mountains that overhang Clarens, Vevai, and the lake that rolls between.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, 1817


Garnier

Du français Garnier, apparenté à Warner.

Edward Garnier.


non-profit

A non-profit organization.


non-profit

Wikipedia is operated by a non-profit.

Wikipédia est gérée par une organisation à but non lucratif.

Sue Gardner,« The war for the free and open internet — and how we are losing it », 26 juin 2013


Habakkuk

Habacuc, prophète de l’Ancien Testament.

Of Habakkuk’s personal life nothing is known with certainty, though it has been inferred, from the fact that he is termed specifically 'the prophet,' that he held a recognized position as prophet…

Samuel Rolles Driver, The Minor Prophets: Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi in The Century Bible, 1906, page 49

The present study concentrates on the various types of parallelism which may be observed within the prophetic text Habakkuk 1:1–2:4.

Robert D. Haak, "Poetry" in Habakkuk 1:1–2:4?, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 108, no. 3, 1988, pp. 437–444


Habakkuk

It would be Bowditch’s last voyage. He had been lucky: a younger brother William died on a voyage to Trinidad in 1799, and an older brother Habakkuk drowned in Boston Harbor in 1800.

Jeff Suzuki, Mathematics in Historical Context, 2009, page 315


front end

The front end is an interface between the user and the back end.

Select Web front-end if the server is designated to be a Web front-end only (not an application server).

Wynne Leon, Wayne Tynes, Simeon Cathey, SharePoint Server 2007 Bible, John Wiley & Sons, 12 juin 2007


happenstance

(1895-1900) Mot-valise composé de happening et de circumstance.

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns—endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Frank Herbert, The Great D'une Trilogy: Dune, Orion Books (Londres), page 57


disconsolate

Du latin médiéval discōnsōlātus, issu du latin dis- et cōnsōlātus.

more disconsolate (comparative)
most disconsolate (superlative)

For weeks after the death of her cat she was disconsolate.

Des semaines après la mort de son chat, elle était inconsolable.


gunwale

By clinging like grim death to the gunwale, we just managed to keep inside the boat, but it was exhausting work.

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


delicately nurtured

Composé de delicately (« délicatement ») et de nurtured (« soigné »).

more delicately nurtured (comparative)
most delicately nurtured (superlative)
delicately-nurtured

You know what happened last time. It must be some place where no delicately nurtured woman or child could possibly live ; a country of bad hotels and comfortless travelling ; where we shall have to rough it, to work hard, to starve perhaps.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three men on the Bummel, 1900


Cora

The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the distant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger.

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826


fuel cell

Exactly, fuel cells = fool sells

Parfaitement, c'est idiot de vendre des piles à combustible


sweat like a whore in church

(Date à préciser)Composé de sweat (« transpirer »), like, a, whore (« pute »), in et church (« église »), littéralement « transpirer comme une pute à l’église ».

to sweat like a whore in church (infinitive)
sweats like a whore in church (present third-person singular)
ou \ˈswɛt-\ (preterite)
ou \ˈswɛt-\ (participle past)
sweating like a whore in church (participle present)

Transpirer abondamment à cause du sort adverse attendu. Suer comme une truie à l’abattoir.

Did you see James doing his presentation? He was sweating like a whore in church!

As-tu vu James faire sa présentation ? Il suait comme une truie à l’abattoir !


break a sweat

to break a sweat (infinitive)
breaks a sweat (present third-person singular)
broke a sweat (preterite)
broken a sweat (participle past)
breaking a sweat (participle present)

Sourciller ; broncher. Note d’usage : s’emploie généralement avec la négative.

He succeeded effortlessly, without breaking a sweat.

Il a réussi facilement, sans sourciller.


coxswain

(XVᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français coque (« bateau ») et swain.

"He's no common man, Barbecue," said the coxswain to me.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 80. 1883.

A Canadian Navy Coxswain (or Capitaine d'Armes) is the senior non-commissioned officer aboard a ship.

In the British Royal Navy, Cadet Coxswain is the highest normal rank which may be achieved.


Cantorbéry

Ville, district et cité d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.

Le Cilicien fut envoyé de Rome à Cantorbéry, sous la tutelle d’un guide africain.

Edward Gibbon, Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire romain, tome 9, 1819, page 92

À 11 h 30, l’archevêque de Cantorbéry, précédé du porte-croix et suivi du doyen de Westminster, se rend à la porte Est pour recevoir le cercueil.

« Les funérailles d’Édouard VII », Le Phare de la Loire, 19 mai 1940, page 1

D'autre part, Henri II entre en conflit ouvert avec Thomas Becket, son ancien chancelier, consacré archevêque de Cantorbéry en 1162.

Martin Aurell, L’Empire des Plantagenêt, Tempus Perrin, Paris, 14 octobre 2004, page 27


Canterbury

Attesté en vieil anglais sous la forme Cantwareburh et le sens de « bourg du peuple de Kent » → voir Kent et Bury.

The war, bizarrely, was the last Crusade in English history, officially proclaimed by the Archbishop of Canterbury on the grounds that France had an alliance with the Turks.

La guerre, bizarrement, fut la dernière Croisade dans l'histoire anglaise, proclamée officiellement par l'Archevêque de Canterbury au motif que la France avait une alliance avec les Turcs.

Robert Tombs, The English and their history, Penguin Books, 2015, page 171


introductor

… being thought the introductors of any improvements derived from abroad.


couplement

And forth together rode, a goodly couplement.


cobble

to cobble (infinitive)
cobbles (present third-person singular)
cobbled (preterite)
cobbled (participle past)
cobbling (participle present)

I cobbled something together to get us through till morning.


kindred

Du moyen anglais kindrede, avec un /d/ épenthétique de *kinrede,dérivé de kin, avec le suffixe -red.

souvent considéré comme un plurale tantum et se met au pluriel (voir exemple).

Groupe de membres de la famille, familier.

His kindred are the equable and kind
Whose constant thought is to uplift and bless.

Florence Earle Coates, Benjamin Franklin, dans Lyrics of Life, 1909


colorize

(Date à préciser) Verbedérivé de color, avec le suffixe -ize.

to colorize (infinitive)
colorizes (present third-person singular)
colorized (preterite)
colorized (participle past)
colorizing (participle present)
colourise
colourize
colorise

Recently, Alfred Hitchcock’s wry introductions to his anthology series of the 1950’s and 60’s have been colorized and broadcast with updated versions of some of his macabre stories; they are currently being shown on the USA cable network.

StephenFarber, «Will colorizing revitalize old TV series», New York Times, 7 juin 1987


manipulative

De manipulation, qui manipule, manipulateur.

As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.


show off

(Date à préciser)Composé de show et de off,

to show off (infinitive)
shows off (present third-person singular)
showed off (preterite)
showed off ou shown off (participle past)
showing off (participle present)

Stop showing off. Let someone else have a turn to speak.

Cessez de crâner ! Laissez un autre s’exprimer.

She showed off the new dress that she had bought.

Elle a mis en valeur la nouvelle robe qu’elle s’était achetée.


varchar

Utilisation du mot-clé définissant ce type dans certaines bases de données. De character (caractère), et variable en raison de la taille variable de la chaîne de caractères.

Type de champ destiné à recevoir une chaîne de caractères de taille variable dans une table de base de données.

When to choose a varchar vs char?

Be careful with varchars in Dapper!


Valles Marineris

(XXᵉ siècle) Voir Valles Marineris ci-dessus.

Valles Marineris (des vallées de la planète Mars).

The Valles Marineris, in Figure 12.2 were named after the spacecraft Mariner 9 and extend east from Noctis Labyrinthus on the eastern slope of the Tharsis plateau […]

La Valles Marineris, sur la figure 12.2, ont été nommé d’après la sonde Mariner 9 et s’étend à l’est de Noctis Labyrinthus sur le versant oriental du plateau de Tharsis […]

Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, Introduction to Planetary Science: The Geological Perspective, 2007, chapter 12, p. 220.

[…] including the largest cracks of all, Valles Marineris, a lace of canyons that would cover the United States coast to coast. (pour la traduction en français, voir la section en français)

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, 2003, p 134


dog days

(Vers 1530)Composé de dog et de day. Calque du latin dies caniculares (« jour caniculaire »), calque du grec ancien κυνάδες ἡμέραι.

Dog days bright and clear
Indicate a good year;
But when accompanied by rain,
We hope for better times in vain.

Henry Harrison Chase Dunwoody, Weather Proverbs

Temps d’inactivité, de paresse et de stagnation.

The dog days of August have often spelled trouble for the world economy.


bema

Du grec ancien βῆμα, bêma, bêmata (« pas »), dérivé de βαίνω, baínô (« aller »).

Plateforme surélevée dans une synagogue.

I observed but one step from the Body of the Church to the Bema or place where the Altar formerly stood.

Royal Society, Miscellanea curiosa, 1707


hydrocele

For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.

Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, 2004, p. 205


boogie

the fire engines are bigger, the crews are better trained and the aircraft are more modern. But we're dealing with Mother Nature, and she dances a mean boogie.

Murry Taylor, cité par Eric Weiner, “High-Tech Drone to Join Battle Against Calif. Flames”, National Public Radio, 23 octobre 2007


boogie

to boogie (infinitive)
boogies (present third-person singular)
boogieed (preterite)
boogieed (participle past)
boogieing (participle present)

Mr. Nichols said that with permits, equipment storage fees and other expenses, it costs the association about $7,000 for a season of boogieing.

Tim Murphy, New York Times, « A Little Older and a Bit Creakier, Skaters Boogie on in Central Park », 28 mai 2007

Let's boogie on out of here.

Again, the entire line stopped, and again, by the time I got there the enemy had boogied, having accomplished their mission: to delay and harass us.

Thom Nicholson, 15 Months with SOG: A Warrior's Tour, 1999


bar line

Composé de bar (« mesure ») et de line (« ligne »).

Some of his scores have no bar lines at all.

Certaines de ses partitions ne comportent aucune barre de mesure.


olinguito

(2013) De l’espagnol olinguito (« petit olingo »).

Welcome to the world, olinguito, the first new carnivore to be discovered in the western hemisphere for 35 years.

Philip Hoare, «The olinguito isn't new – it was with us all along. Let's hope it stays that way », The Guardian, 16 aout 2013


cackle

the cackle of chickens, of geese

In this small village, you always heare the cackle of old women.


cackle

Glousser, crier (en parlant d’une poule, d’une oie) ; cacarder (en parlant d’une oie).

The chickens are constantly cackling.

In this small village, you always heare the old women cackle.


windswept

(Date à préciser)Composé de wind (« vent ») et de swept (« balayé »), littéralement « balayé par le vent ».

This windswept desolate region.


far right

\ˈfɑː ˈɹaɪt\

\ˈfɑɹ ˈɹaɪt\

Many political scientists, including those involved in The PopuList, use the term “far right” as a catch-all descriptor for parties considered radical or extreme right.

Jon Henley, Populist, nativist, neofascist? A lexicon of Europe’s far right, The Guardian, 18 juin 2024


galena

The galena of the ore contains microscopic inclusions of various forms that become visible upon polished surfaces etched with hydrochloric or nitric acid.


longhorn

Composé de long et de horn, littéralement « aux longues cornes ».

longhorn beetle.


zealotry

(1650-60)Dérivé de zealot, avec le suffixe -ry.

Doctor Challus Mercer was a scientist aboard the USG Ishimura and a devout Unitologist to the point of zealotry.

Le docteur Challus Mercer était un scientifique à bord de l’USG Ishimura et un unitologue fervent jusqu’au fanatisme.


jorden

It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once […]

William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett, Selections from Cobbett's political works, volume 1, page 33.


fester

De l’ancien français festrir (« ulcérer »).

to fester (infinitive)
festers (present third-person singular)
festered (preterite)
festered (participle past)
festering (participle present)

Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.


hang out

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

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de hang

He was hanging out the washing.

Passer du temps avec quelqu’un, fréquenter une personne, traîner avec.

Do you want to hang out with me?


webbanking

It may be possible that the Board of Directors of a bank decides to go for webbanking and that its IT organization is not at all acquainted with this technology as delineated by its IT Development BSC.

Challenges of Information Technology Management in the 21st Century : 2000 Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 21-24, 2000, Idea Group Inc (IGI), 2000


hodgepodge

(Date à préciser) De l’ancien français hochepot (« hochepot »).

hodgepodges (plural)
hodge-podge
hotchpotch

\ˈhɒd͡ʒˌpɒd͡ʒ\

\ˈhɑd͡ʒˌpɑd͡ʒ\

The architecture here was a hodgepodge ranging from Octavian Augustus to Mies van der Rohe, but most of the buildings had an old, comfortable look that in Washington or Baltimore would long since have been replaced with an unbroken row of new and soulless glass boxes.

L'architecture ici était un mélimélo allant d'Octave Auguste à Mies van der Rohe, mais la plupart des bâtiments avaient un aspect ancien et accueillant qui à Washington ou à Baltimore aurait depuis longtemps été remplacé par une rangée ininterrompue de nouvelles boîtes en verre sans âme.


comme il faut

In his autobiography Lev Tolstoy affectionately and critically sums up his own adolescent view: the whole world for aristocratic boys was divided between people who were comme il faut and those who were not.

SvetlanaBoym, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia, Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 57


pollard

Motdérivé de polle, avec le suffixe -ard.

Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.

The road, which was sufficiently wide to allow of two carriages passing each other, generally conducted 'us along a dyke, or mount of earth raised through the flats. It was son1etÍrnes planted with elms or walnut-trees, but more frequently with pollard willows, which abound on the banks of the rivers and canals;

Letters from France, written in the years 1803 and 1804 : including a particular account of Verdun, and the situation of the British captives in that city, James Forbes, Londres, 1806


white-collar crime

(1937) → voir white-collar et crime, expression forgée par le sociologue américain Edwin Sutherland à l'assemblée de l’American Sociological Society.

Délinquance en col blanc, crime en col blanc.

White-collar crime may be denned approximately as a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation (Sutherland, 1949, p. 9)."

Edwin Sutherland, The white collar criminal in V. C. Branham , S. B. Kutash, Encyclopedia of Criminology, 1949, 511-515

If it can be shown that white collar crimes are frequent, a general theory that crime is due to poverty and its related pathologies is shown to be invalid.

Edwin Sutherland, White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1983

White-collar crimes often involve deception of a gullible victim and generally occur where an individual's job, power, or personal influence provide the access and opportunity to abuse lawful procedures for unlawful gain.

United States Bureau of Justice Statistics, Report to the Nation on Crime & Justice, 1988 , p. 9

White-collar crimes include a multitude of dimensions that continue to expand and complicate this area of study. Several crimes are studied and classified as white-collar crimes, although some researchers are questioning whether they should still be "housed under this umbrella".

Gennaro F. Vito,Jeffrey R. Maahs,Ronald M. Holmes, Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy, 2007


retread

to retread (infinitive)
retreads (present third-person singular)
retrod (preterite)
retrodden (participle past)
retreading (participle present)

As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.


ACOD

(Acronyme) Initiales de adult child of divorce, par modification de ACOA.

Adulte traumatisé par le divorce de ses parents dans son enfance.

ACODs are highly prone to keeping unhealthy family secrets. […] Why do ACODs tend to keep such terrible secrets?

JohnTrent et Larry K. Weeden, Breaking the Cycle of Divorce, 2011, ISBN 9781604828252, p. 28


Robinson

Motdérivé de Robin, avec le suffixe -son, littéralement « fils de Robin ».

Mary Robinson.


Robinson

Robinson Crusoé.


ear goggle

Ce terme est généralement utilisé au pluriel.

Désigne un casque audio de grande dimension.

I strap on my ear goggles and I'm ready to go

Beastie Boys, Sure Shot, Ill Communication, 1994


Timbo

De Timberland, célèbre fabricant de chaussures de randonnée ou de montagne.

Grosse botte de marche du genre de celles fabriquées par la société Timberland.

Got the Timbos on the toes and this is how it goes

Beastie Boys, Get It Together, Ill Communication, 1994


amylum

Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.


find back

[Alt: attention] Cette locution est principalement utilisée par les locuteurs anglais langue seconde et peut être considérée comme une erreur par les anglophones.

In time she shall find back her strength.

En temps voulu elle retrouvera sa force.

Nickie Fleming, Daughter of the Sun, 2005, page 88

The glory days are over. We need to find back a new balance in society and set nostalgia aside.

Les jours de gloire sont révolus. Nous devons retrouver l’équilibre dans la société et mettre la nostalgie de côté.

Gilbert Van Kerckhove, Toxic Capitalism, 2012, pagd 205


planner

(Siècle à préciser) Composé de to plan et -er.

Johnny is a good planner. He starts his work in time to get it finished by the deadline.

Ms. Gunston is a planner for the county.


shackle

The workers must release themselves from the shackles of capitalism.


shackle

to shackle (infinitive)
shackles (present third-person singular)
shackled (preterite)
shackled (participle past)
shackling (participle present)

Al of the American appellate tribunals disapprove the practice of shackling prisoners and quote Blackstone, Hale and Coke to support their opinion.

Elijah Nathaniel Zoline, Federal Criminal Law and Procedure,chapitre XXX (« Conduct of Troal Judge »), section §290 (« Shackling a Prisoner in Court »), page 235. Little, Brown and Company, 1921.

They had me tied to the wall during the day and chained to the bed at night. I had to beg to go to the toilet. I was shackled to the bed one way all night.

United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Detention: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary (...)on Allegations of Serious Abuses and Misconduct in the Detention of Juveniles in Institutions Maintained in the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, page 8. United States Government Printing Office, 1983.

The Australian political blogger and novelist, Yang Hengjun, is being shackled in chains and interrogated inside a Beijing detention centre, and told by authorities he could face the death penalty for espionage.

Ben Doherty et Lily Kuo,« Yang Hengjun: detained blogger is being shackled in chains and interrogated ». Theguardian.com, 27 septembre 2019.


let’s see

(Siècle à préciser) Littéralement « voyons ».

Voyons voir (indique la réflexion du locuteur, en permettant la participation de l’auditeur).

Let’s see… I don’t know if that would work.


let me see

(Siècle à préciser) Littéralement « laisse(z)-moi voir ».

Voyons voir (indique la réflexion du locuteur, sans suggérer la participation de l’auditeur).

Let me see. What should I make for dinner tonight?


tuxedo

Composé de Tuxedo, une ville de la banlieue de New York, lieu d’un club huppé pour millionnaires américains.

This is perfect neckwear for those evenings where ’black tie’ may have been written on the invitation, yet you can be fairly certain that most men won’t be dressing in full tuxedo and bow tie.

C'est le parfait accessoire de col pour ces soirées où « cravate noire » pouvait être inscrit sur le carton d'invitation, pourtant vous pouvez être certain que la plupart des hommes ne porteraient pas un complet tuxedo et un nœud papillon.

Stephen Fry, Fry's Ties, Michael and Joseph, 2021, page 104


intermezzo

De l’italien intermezzo (« intermède »).

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

She had ample time, too, to change for the next scene, which started with a longish intermezzo staged by a ballet company whose services Scotty had engaged.

Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 8


earflap

Partie souple d'un bonnet ou de tout autre couvre-chef qui protège les oreilles.

The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once.

John Kennedy Toole, A confederacy of tooles, 1980


jalapeño

The jalapeño is a spicy chili.


polycontinental

Dérivé de continental, avec le préfixe poly-.

Polycontinental : qui appartient à plusieurs continents.

The eastern polycontinental section, reaching from Africa via Asia to Australia and Polynesia contains 31 genera.

Karl Süssenguth, Mitteilungen der Botanischen Staatssammlung München, vols. 9 à 10, 1971


multicontinental

Multicontinental : qui appartient à plusieurs continents.

On their way from the ocean to the restaurant, some fish take a multicontinental voyage of days, weeks, and, in certain cases, months or years, crossing borders, being subjected to tariffs, having value assessed more than half a dozen times, and visiting more airports than most business travelers.

Sasha Issenberg, The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, Gotham Books, New York, 2007


bicontinental

Motdérivé de continental, avec le préfixe bi-.

Bicontinental : qui appartient à deux continents.

It’s a symptom of a cultural schizophrenia—my bicontinental disorder. It’s quite expensive to treat it—lots of airfares.

Josip Novakovich, Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2009


power word

(Siècle à préciser) → voir power et word

\ˈpaʊə ˌwɜːd\

Mot volontairement émotionnellement chargé.

Politicians are common users of power words.

Les responsables politiques emploient couramment à dessein des mots émotionnellement chargés.


amphicontinental

Ranges of particular significance in this context include arctic-alpine disjunct, amphiberingian, amphicontinental and Appalachian distributions.


Luger

Dan Luger.


gold digger

→ voir gold et digger, littéralement « creuseur d’or ».

\ɡəʊld dɪ.ɡɚ\

Personnage qui aime l’autre pour son argent.

Her boyfriend gives her a lot of gifts but she doesn’t love him. She sure is a gold digger.


goral

The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall into the range of N. griseus.

Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy, 2011, page 251


uncanny

Dérivé de canny, avec le préfixe un-, littéralement « au-delà de sa connaissance, de sa perception », du moyen anglais can (« il peut, il est capable de »), du vieil anglais cunnan (« pouvoir, être capable de »).

uncannier (comparative)
uncanniest (superlative)

In a strange way it was like being back at Quantico Marine Base. The similarity of angle and perspective was uncanny.


jazzy

(1915-1920) (États-Unis) → voir jazz et -y

jazzier (comparative)
jazziest (superlative)

Those are some jazzy clothes!


have a say

I want to have my say on this.


all in all

Composé de all (« tout »), in (« dans ») et all (« tout »), littéralement « tout dans tout ».

The site of the destroyed bunker had been cleared in the name of tidiness, and the island converted to a rescue station, from which a crashboat might respond to an aircraft accident. That had required building a concrete quay and boathouse and refurbishment of the two remaining bunkers. All in all, the island had served the local economy, if not the federal budget, well, until the advent of helicopters made crashboats unnecessary, and the island had been declared surplus.


slovenliness

Dérivé de slovenly (« négligé »), avec le suffixe -ness.

Springer had diesel engines, and he didn’t really have to worry about fumes building up, but for all his recently acquired slovenliness, Kelly was a seaman, and his life on the water followed a strict routine, which meant observing all the safety rules that had been written in the blood of less careful men.


styrofoam

(Date à préciser) De la marque déposée Styrofoam, par antonomase.

The outstretched hand had a Styrofoam cup filled with coffee. Kelly took it and laughed.


nonplussed

more nonplussed (comparative)
most nonplussed (superlative)

“I, uh, forgot to ask you something—” he began.
“Pam,” she said, extending her hand. “What’s yours?”
“Kelly,” he replied, nonplussed yet again.


body of water

Composé de body (« corps »), of et water (« eau »)

It wouldn’t have been the first time, even on a body of water as civilized as the Chesapeake.


on the fly

Jones caught the ball on the fly.

À la volée, au vol, en une seule fois, en un seul passage.

The software program has a table of values for some results, but calculates others on the fly.

Le logiciel a une table avec les valeurs de certains résultats, mais calcule les autres à la volée.


Cheney

De l’ancien français chesnaie qui donne aussi Chesney.

Dick Cheney.

Dorothy Cheney.

Liz Cheney.


Conan

Conan of Cornwall.

Arthur Conan Doyle.


Conan

Neal Conan.


Langley

Composé de long et de ley, littéralement « Longpré, Longchamp ».

Walter Langley.


wizened

more wizened (comparative)
most wizened (superlative)

“Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!” exclaimed the housekeeper… “If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen ’d hide o’ her!”

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

Walter Scott, Old Mortality, chapitre 8, 1816

He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray.

Jack London, Before Adam, chapitre 7, 1907

In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time.

Richard Corliss, « Cannes: Best-Ever Film by a 101-Year-Old Man », Time, 13 mai 2010


Rye

The River Rye in the English county of North Yorkshire flows through Hawnby, Rievaulx, Helmsley, Nunnington, West and East Ness, Butterwick, Brawby, and Ryton, before joining the River Derwent near Malton.


snotty

Dérivé de snot (« morve »), avec le suffixe -y, littéralement « morveux ».

snottier (comparative)
snottiest (superlative)

Impertinent, morveux, de mauvaise humeur.

Oreza looked forward and turned back. “Two anchors for that little puff o’ wind we had? They’re not far enough apart. Thought you knew better.”
“Chief Bosun’s Mate,” Kelly reminded him. “Since when does a bookkeeper get that snotty with a real seaman?”


aegilops

If the ægilops be neglected, it bursts, and degenerates into a fistula, which eats into the bone.


such as

Like strings and lists, items in a tuple are accessed by offset (not by key); they support all the offset-based operations, such as indexing and slicing.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 284


as in

N as in Nancy, M as in Mary


pictorial

(1640-1650) Du latin pictorius (« de peintre »). Apparenté à undérivé de picture (« image »), avec le suffixe -ial.

Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: these pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

Les dessins et les images sont plus que de simples ornements dans le discours scientifique. Les croquis au tableau, les cartes géologiques, les schémas de structures moléculaires, les photographies astronomiques, les images IRM, les nombreuses sortes de tableaux et graphiques statistiques : ces supports picturaux sont des outils indispensables pour présenter des preuves, expliquer une théorie, raconter une histoire.


pibroch

(Siècle à préciser) Du gaélique écossais pìobaireachd (« art de jouer de la cornemuse »), composé de pìobaire et -achd.

He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai’s heights.

E. G. Murphy, ‘The Doctor’s Story’, Australian Ballads & Short Stories, Penguin 2003, page 279


boonies

Dérivé de boondocks avec le suffixe -ies, du tagalog bundok (« montagne »).

In that sense it was a reversal of Vietnam, wasn’t it? There the bad things were out in the boonies, and you wanted to keep them from moving in.


crashboat

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)


and all that

(Siècle à préciser) → voir and, all et that

\ɛn ɔːl ðæt\

Et tout ça, et tout le toutim, et ce genre de choses.

He was involved in helping the homeless, visiting the elderly at the local retirement home and all that.

Il s’impliquait dans l’aide aux sans-logis, la visite des gens âgés à la maison de retraite locale et tout ça.


afoot

Dérivé de foot (« pied »), avec le préfixe a-.

It had just taken too long… and that meant that if it had been betrayed, the leaker had probably been one of the last people to discover what was afoot. He set that thought aside with a penciled question.


piss and vinegar

Composé de piss (« urine »), and (« et ») et vinegar (« vinaigre »), littéralement « urine et vinaigre ».

I know what's a matter. Young fella, all full a piss an' vinegar. Wanta be a hell of a guy all the time.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939.


piss-and-vinegar

He remembered it well: less than thirty years earlier, flying an F4F-4 Wildcat fighter off USS Enterprise, an ensign, with all his hair—cut very short—and a brand-new wife, all piss-and-vinegar and three hundred hours under his belt.


sweet tooth

(Date à préciser)Composé de sweet (« sucré ») et de tooth (« dent »), littéralement « dent sucrée ».

He eats a healthy diet most of the time, but has a sweet tooth when it comes to candy.


Captain Obvious

De captain (« capitaine ») et obvious (« évident »).

, Nom donné à une personne tenant des propos qui relèvent de l’évidence même : on souligne par là leur inutilité et leur ridicule.

Thank you, Captain Obvious!


doggerel

Probablement de dog, dans le sens archaïque « douteux, faux, bâtard » (cf. dog-Latin « latin de cuisine ») avec une variante du suffixe -rel. Sa première mention connue remonte à la fin du xvᵉ siècle, dans Les Contes de Canterbury de Geoffrey Chaucer : « Now swich a rym the devel I biteche! This may wel be rym dogerel, quod he. » — (Sir Thopas, v. 924-925)

Décrivant des vers comiques ou burlesques, le plus souvent irréguliers et mal composés.

But such manner of poesy is called in our vulgar, rhyme doggerel, with which rebuke we will in no case our maker should be touched.

George Puttenham, The Art of English Poesy, 1589

Still — his doggerel verses are not literature.

Bill Wyman, «Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Nobel's Door », The New York Times, 28 septembre 2013


doggerel

Mauvais poème, poème écrit en vers de mirliton.

In his book, My Dear Mr Churchill, Walter Graebner, tells how the prime minister made up an "impromptu piece of doggerel" concerning Graebner's drinking habits after dinner one evening at Chartwell.

Amelia Hill, «Winston Churchill manuscript reveals his poetic side », The Guardian, 6 février 2013

Many such pieces of doggerel appeared in the magazine's pages from the 1880s until the 1920s.

Ross L. Jones, « Cadavers and the Social Dimension of Dissection », in The Body Divided: Human Beings and Human 'materials' in Modern Medical History, 2011

Presents are exchanged, usually accompanied by doggerels praising or admonishing the recipients for their behavior over the past year.

Marvine Howe, «Some Checks for the Neediest Arrive With Christmas Cards », The New York Times, 26 décembre 1988


saucy

saucier (comparative)
sauciest (superlative)

Impertinent, effronté, souvent d’une manière considérée comme amusante.

She is a loud, saucy child who doesn’t show a lot of respect to her elders.

C’est un enfant bruyante et impertinente, ne montrant aucun respect envers ses aînés.

My wife and I enjoyed the dancing, but she found it a little too saucy.

Ma femme et moi aimions dancer, mais elle trouvait cela un petit peu trop érotique.


bitcoin

Bitcoin (Monnaie numérique d'échange chiffrée et décentralisée internationale.)

A study found that less than 10 000 people worldwide collectively owned 4,8 million Bitcoins (12) — nearly a third of the 18,5 million Bitcoins mined thus far. The latter carried a market value of nearly USD 600 billion. The situation has not changed much. The Bitcoin ecosystem is still dominated by large and concentrated players, be it large miners (13), Bitcoin holders or exchangers. This concentration makes Bitcoin susceptible to systemic risk, and also implies that the majority of the gains from further adoption are likely to fall disproportionately to a small set of participants (14).

Une étude a révélé que moins de 10 000 personnes dans le monde possèdent collectivement 4,8 millions de bitcoins (12), soit près d’un tiers des 18,5 millions de bitcoins extraits à ce jour. Ces derniers représentent une valeur de marché de près de 600 milliards d’USD. La situation n’a guère changé. L’écosystème du bitcoin se concentre autour de quelques grands acteurs qui continuent de le dominer, qu’il s’agisse de mineurs (13), de détenteurs de bitcoin ou de changeurs. Cette concentration expose le bitcoin au risque systémique et implique également que la majorité des gains tirés des nouvelles adoptions sont susceptibles de revenir de manière disproportionnée à un nombre restreint de participants (14).

Philip VON BROCKDORFF (Rapporteur), Louise GRABO (Corapporteure), Avis du Comité économique et social européen sur le thème «Les crypto-actifs: enjeux et possibilités» (2022/C 486/05) Décision de l’assemblée plénière 24.3.2022, Résultat du vote (pour/contre/abstentions) 148/0/3, Journal officiel de l'Union européenne, 21.12.2022

We argued that Bitcoin has failed to fulfil its original promise to become a global decentralised digital currency.

Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf, ECB, 24 february 2024

We also showed that Bitcoin's second promise to be a financial asset, the value of which would inevitably continue to rise, was equally wrong.

We warned about the risks to society and the environment if the Bitcoin lobby managed to re-launch a bubble with the unintended help of legislators, who could give a perceived blessing where a ban would be required.


inure

Dérivé de ure (« utiliser, exercer »), avec le préfixe in-, de l’anglo-normand eure, de l’ancien français euvre (« œuvre »), du latin opera (« travail, œuvre »).

to inure (infinitive)
inures (present third-person singular)
inured (preterite)
inured (participle past)
inuring (participle present)
enure

Even though he was becoming accustomed to his mission, he would not become inured to the dangers, and the stress was there.


have one’s hands tied

I can’t help you. I was told not to, so I have my hands tied.

John can't help. He has his hands tied by his boss.


souldier

I am Sir — The Souldier that did company these three — In poore beseeming: 'twas a fitment for — The purpose I then follow'd.

Seigneur, je suis — le soldat qui accompagnait ces trois braves, — sous le vêtement du pauvre : cet équipement convenait — au projet que je poursuivais alors.

Willian Shakespeare, Cymbeline (The Tragedie of Cymbeline, trad. François-Victor Hugo), acte V sc. v


Lancelot

Lancelot Holland.


noncommissioned officer

Composé de non, commissioned et officer.

noncommissioned officers (plural)
non-commissioned officer

Sergeant Major Noah Breckenridge was the image of the Marine noncommissioned officer. Six-three, the only fat on his two-hundred-pound frame was in the hot dogs he’d had for lunch in the adjacent Dalgren Hall.


snuff

(Nom 1, verbe 1) Apparenté à sniff, snuffen en néerlandais, schnupf en allemand, schnouff en français.

Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.

Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1896


snuff

He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.

Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.

Retrousser le nez en signe de mécontentement, de désaccord.

Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?


snuff

His memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out.

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.3, 1621

If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.


ching chong

\ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɑŋ\

Interjection pour ridiculiser un Chinois ou un mort.

Tell Yao Ming, “Ching chong yang, wah, ah soh.”

The power of ching-chong to dehumanize depends on the word having no actual meaning.

traduction : Le pouvoir déshumanisant de ching-chong vient du fait que le mot n’a aucune signification réelle.

Rusty Barrett, Jennifer Cramer, Kevin B. McGowan, English with an Accentéd. Taylor & Francis, 1997.


Kew

Du français quai, suivi par le vieil anglais hoh (« promontoire »).

Jardins royaux situés dans cette localité.

Kew Gardens.


NCO

(Sigle)Composé de N, C et O, par (Abréviation) de non-commissioned officer.

The routine was so exactingly normal that they might have been at any Marine base from Lejeune to Okinawa. The daily-dozen exercises followed by a run, everyone in step, the senior NCO calling cadence.


hindsight

Composé de hind (« arrière »), sight (« vue ») et en.

Recul ; compréhension des événements après coup.

“Hindsight is always easy,” Farber pointed out. “Don’t feel too bad. That one really did look like a robbery, and you had nothing else to go on. By the time you came here, there was a lot more information to look at.” The psychiatrist leaned back and smiled at the ceiling.


inequity

(Date à préciser)Dérivé de equity (« équité »), avec le préfixe in-, littéralement « non-équité ».

The world was full of inequities and not replete with justice.

Le monde était plein d’injustices et pas rempli de justice.


ring a bell

His face rings a bell. I wonder if I know him from somewhere.

Sa figure me dit quelque chose. Je me demande si je ne le connais pas de quelque part.


Trotskyite

Dérivé de Trostky, avec le suffixe -ite (« suiveur, adhérent »), littéralement « suiveur de Trotsky ».

“These arrogant little bastards are not helping us. They are using us, they are using me, they are using my prisoners to blackmail us. And if this is Marxism-Leninism, then I’m a Trotskyite.” It was a joke that few would have been able to make lightly, but Grishanov’s father was a Central Committee member with impeccable political credentials.


Marxism-Leninism

Composé de Marxism (« marxisme ») et de Leninism (« léninisme »).


lightpole

Composé de light (« lampe ») et de pole (« poteau »).

“This way, sir.” The corporal gestured. Kelly followed without a word.
Sir didn’t mean anything, Kelly knew. When in doubt, a Marine would call a lightpole “Sir.”


willie-pete

(Guerre du Vietnam) dérivé des initiales WP de white phosphorus (« phosphore blanc »).

Two Huey Cobra gunships—known with lethal elegance as “snakes” to the troops, and that appealed to him—would hose the barracks and provide heavy fire support—but the grenadiers on the team, he was sure, could take out the towers in a matter of five seconds, then pour willie-pete into the barracks and burn the guard force alive with deadly fountains of white flame, doing without the snakes entirely if they had to.


rodeo

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

been to the rodeo.


front man

Pete Doherty is the front man of the Libertines.


sunzabitches

“Dumb sunzabitches, aren’t we? There’s Russians in the camp, probably interrogating our people. They’re all high-rank, and we think they’re all officially dead. […]”


terrycloth

Composé de terry et de cloth (« linge, étoffe »).

\ˈtɛɹiˌklɔθ\

But the most encouraging sign of all was how she ate. Awkwardness and all, she unfolded her napkin and sat it in the lap of the terrycloth robe. She didn’t shovel the food in. Instead she consumed her first real breakfast in months in as dignified a manner as her condition and hunger allowed. Doris was turning back into a person.


dicey

Dérivé de dice (« dés »), avec le suffixe -y.

dicier (comparative)
diciest (superlative)

Périlleux, dangereux, douteux, incertain.

“You’re old enough to know better, Guns. It’s going to be a dicey one.”

Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.

Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers,page 101, 2011


josh

to josh (infinitive)
joshes (present third-person singular)
joshed (preterite)
joshed (participle past)
joshing (participle present)

type à préciser : {{t}}, {{tr-dir}}, {{tr-indir}}, {{i}}, {{prnl}}, {{impers}}, {{réfl}}, {{récip}} ?

The normal us-them antipathy found among disparate units was down to the level of friendly joshing, so closely had the men trained and dedicated themselves.


orotund

Du latin ore rotundo (« avec une bouche ronde »),composé de os (« bouche ») et de rotundus (« rond »), littéralement « bouche ronde ».

more orotund (comparative)
most orotund (superlative)

President Clinton commenced the blathering with orotund Clintonisms: “The international community must take a side, not merely stand between the sides or on the sidelines.” With a side of fries.

2002, P. J. O'Rourke, The CEO of the Sofa,http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=ydvj7I-LDFkC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&sig=a8Bk5lxw0SnlXa0gX5OK7oMhzCo


jackrabbit

Mot-valisecomposé de jackass (« âne ») et de rabbit (« lapin »), littéralement « lapin-âne ».

However she did it, she was in a car with a top speed of over a hundred twenty miles per hour and the maneuverability of a jackrabbit.


clerical

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

In recent years, issues of clerical abuse have been uncovered.

Clérical. administratif, relatif aux employés de bureau.

A well-run business depends on the skills of its clerical staff.


teenybopper

(Années 1950) :composé de teen (« adoescent ») et de bopper (« personne qui danse le bop (musique et danse à la mode dans les années 1950) »).

Petit minet, petite minette ; adolescent qui suit la mode.

There was boat traffic on the river. Whether it was ferrying triple-A ammo from one bank of the river to another or perhaps the Vietnamese version of a teenybopper crossing to see his girlfriend, there were small boats here. Running into one could be lethal in one of several ways, differing only in immediacy, not the final outcome.


calisthenics

(XIXᵉ siècle) Composé du grec ancien κάλλος, kállos (« beauté ») et σθένος, sthénos (« force physique »).

Gymnastique suédoise ; série de ces exercices de gymnastique.

The guard force was forty-four men, plus four officers—and maybe a cook or two. All except the eight on tower duty formed up just after dawn for calisthenics.


canny

Dérivé de can (« pouvoir, être capable de »), avec le suffixe -y, du moyen anglais can (« il peut, il est capable de »), du vieil anglais cunnan (« pouvoir, être capable de »).

cannier (comparative)
canniest (superlative)

She's a canny lass hor like!

That's a canny big horse, man!


whiplash

Composé de whip (« fouet ») et de lash (« fouetter »).

He didn’t want the American prisoners to die. That plus the stress of capture, plus the whiplash surprise of the cordial treatment, plus a lot of good brandy, all conspired to loosen his tongue.


whiplash

to whiplash (infinitive)
whiplashes (present third-person singular)
whiplashed (preterite)
whiplashed (participle past)
whiplashing (participle present)

[…] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.

Nicholas Confessore,“Resistance to Kennedy Grows among Democrats”, 23 décembre 2008


peridot

Gem-quality olivine is known as peridot, which has a subtle green light all its own.

L'olivine de qualité gemme est connue sous le nom de péridot, qui possède une lumière verte subtile qui lui est propre.


Constantine

(Localité) Comme pour Thorpe Constantine, du précédent : paroisse dédiée à saint Constantin.

Constantine the Great


britannium

(Date à préciser) Dérivé du latin Britannia (« Angleterre »), car issu de ce pays, et -ium.

Britannium, alliage d’étain (92 %), d’antimoine (6 %) et de cuivre (2 %).

Britannia metal or britannium is a pewter-type alloy favoured for its silvery appearance and smooth surface. The composition is approximately 93% tin, 5% antimony, and 2% copper. It was first produced in 1769 or 1770, under the name of “Vickers White Metal”, by the Sheffield manufacturers Ebenezer Hancock and Richard Jessop. […] One notable use of britannium is to make the Oscar statuettes handed out each year at the Academy Awards. The 8½-pound statuettes are Britannia metal plated with gold.


atomic nucleus

An atomic nucleus consists of protons and neutrons, and is surrounded by an electron cloud.

Un noyau atomique est constitué de protons et de neutrons, et est entouré par un nuage électronique.


rush-hour

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

The rush-hour traffic was terrible today.


Electra

Electra Waggoner Biggs.


Electra

Carmen Electra.

Justine Electra.


exegete

A text that could not speak to the present was dead, and the exegete had a duty to revive it.

Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, page 94, 2009


illustrator

Terry is one of the best illustrators of children's books in the country.


shoestring

Composé de shoe (« soulier ») et de string (« corde »), littéralement « corde à soulier ».

He’d seen the man now. The one who had finished the process of killing Pamela, with a shoestring. It would have been so easy to take care of him there. Kelly had never killed anyone barehanded, but he knew how.


dinky

dinkier (comparative)
dinkiest (superlative)

How do you like my hat? That one you had on in church yesterday was real dinky.

Comment trouves-tu mon chapeau ? Celui que tu avais sur la tête à l’église hier était vraiment mignon.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island, chapitre 11, 1915

“I moved around the right-rear corner of the car and looked around. I saw the guy was using a pistol. Your man Wilson explained that to me—that was lucky, too. I wasn’t real crazy about taking an AK on with a dinky little handgun. He saw me come around. We both fired about the same time—I just shot straighter, I guess.”


dovetail

Composé de dove (« colombe ») et de tail (« queue »), littéralement « queue de colombe ».

to dovetail (infinitive)
dovetails (present third-person singular)
dovetailed (preterite)
dovetailed (participle past)
dovetailing (participle present)

Both aspects of the town dovetailed nicely with the good manners he’d encountered so far.


green space

(Années 1960)Composé de green (« vert ») et de space (« espace »), littéralement « espace vert ».

green spaces (plural)
greenspace
green-space

Yet another pleasant thing about London was the profusion of green spaces. The park looked big enough, and he could see that the grass was tended with care.


pigsticker

Dérivé de pigstick, avec le suffixe -er.

Ryan winced again. “Christ, I thought he’d put that pigsticker right through me. For a second there I could see it all—I do something right, then get wasted by a good guy.”


sonuvabitch

\ˌsʌnʌvəˈbɪtʃ\

“Sonuvabitch!” Ryan kept his head up, scarcely able to believe what he saw. “It’s the goddamned IRA—they’re killing somebody right—”


orthopod

He saw his wife relax a little. “You might say that. Sir Charles Scott is one of the best orthopods in the world. He trained Professor Knowles—he did a super job on you. You’re lucky to have an arm at all, you know—my God!”


dewy

dewier (comparative)
dewiest (superlative)

She had that dewy look. Ryan was unable to remain angry with pretty women, and hated them for it. Especially young nurses with that dewy look.


heedless

Dérivé de heed (« prêter attention »), avec le suffixe -less, littéralement « qui ne prête pas attention ».

more heedless (comparative)
most heedless (superlative)

“Daddee!” Ryan’s head snapped around to see his little daughter running toward him from behind a tree, heedless as usual of her safety.


painstakingly

Dérivé de painstaking (« méticuleux, minutieux »), avec le suffixe -ly.

more painstakingly (comparative)
most painstakingly (superlative)

All the months of planning, the painstakingly gathered intelligence, the rehearsals carried out right under the Brit noses, the three escape routes, the radiomen—all for nothing because of this bloody meddler.

At Cruson’s fruit and veg shop an old woman is painstakingly going through all the onions netted in large red bags to find just the ones she wants.

Sandi Toksvig, Between the stops: a most wonderful memoir, 2019, 320 pages, p. 134


cramerite

… and some other authority has called it Cramerite.


stray bullet

Composé de stray (« errant ») et de bullet (« balle »), littéralement « balle errante ».

Sean would never talk. Not Sean, not with his girl in her grave these past five years, from a para’s stray bullet.


TTT

(Date à préciser) (Sigle) Initiales de « team time trial ».

At the Paris-Nice TTT on 5 March, everything seemed to be going perfectly to plan for Soudal-Quick Step.

Au contre-la-montre par équipes de Paris-Nice, le 5 mars, tout semblait aller parfaitement comme prévu pour Soudal-Quick Step.

David Bradford, « 'I'm the same age as Remco – he respects what I'm doing': Meet the WorldTour's youngest performance director », Cycling Weekly, 13 avril 2024


in common

My cousin and I have a grandfather and grandmother in common.

Mon cousin [ou : Ma cousine] et moi avons un grand-père et une grand-mère en commun.

We live in a flat we have in common.

Nous vivons dans un appartement en copropriété. (traduction à préciser ou à vérifier)

I hate being alone with my boss as we have nothing in common.

Je déteste être seul avec mon patron car nous n’avons rien en commun.


cercaricide

The results of the present study using crude leaf extracts suggest that Artemisia annua has potential as a plant molluscicide and cercaricide.

Shabad Preet et Anamika Kudeshiya, Laboratory evaluation of Molluscicidal and Cercaricidal Potential of Artemisia annua (Family: Asteracae), in Proceedings of the International Conference on Environmental Paraisotllogy and Community Hralth Care Initiatives,page 120, 2007


clonal

more clonal (comparative)
most clonal (superlative)

A clonal ant.


Alice in Wonderland

Du roman Alice in Wonderland (Alice au pays des merveilles en français) par Lewis Carroll.

more Alice in Wonderland (comparative)
most Alice in Wonderland (superlative)
Alice-in-Wonderland

It is an Alice in Wonderland question. Let me answer it this way: To design a car, you must — emphasize must — have restrictions to guide you.

Popular Mechanics, avril 1978, vol. 149,nᵒ 4, p. 204

This is all a little more Alice in Wonderland than I had expected.

Lisa Margonelli, Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, 2008, p. 68


flash back

Faire un flashback, faire un retour en arrière.

The movie then flashed back to an earlier time.


QoD

Initiales de quality of data (« qualité des données »).

Capacité à véhiculer les données du réseau dans de bonnes conditions.

In [160], the authors proposed to consider the quality of service (QoS) (response time and/ or query lifetime) and quality of data (QoD) (the received data to be more evenly distributed) while dealing with query scheduling.

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Management, Performance, and Applications, Jing (Selina) He, Mr. Shouling Ji, Yingshu Li, Yi Pan, 6 août 2013


subatomic

The electron microscope is able to resolve detail at the subatomic level.

Le microscope électronique est capable de détailler au niveau subatomique.


clueless

more clueless (comparative)
most clueless (superlative)

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

There’s still a whole bunch of stuff we’re completely clueless about.

In truth I was clueless.

That was delusional, clueless, irresponsible policy.