December

來自中古英語 December、Decembre，來自古法語 decembre，來自拉丁語 december (“第十個月份”)，來自拉丁語 decem (“十”) + 拉丁語 -ber，來自形容詞後綴-bris；December 在羅馬曆法中為第十個月份。

Decembre (alternative)
Dec. (alternative)
Dec (alternative)
Dc (alternative)
Decembers (plural)

But others were less than thrilled with this new gizmo, particularly its addictive qualities. There were reports of breakups threatened and consummated over it. “Our marriage or your Sony,” one woman told her husband, who duly sold the Walkman to a bachelor friend. A young woman named December Cole, a sales executive at a beauty magazine, recalled a trip to Atlantic City with "a basically rude" man who wouldn't stop "bopping around to his own music."

2017, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Personal Stereo (ISBN 1501322834), page 45:


controversial

源自拉丁語 controversia (“爭議”) + -al; 參見 controversy。

/ˌkɒn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/

/ˌkɔn.tɹəˈvɜː.ʃəl/


an

繼承自中古英語 an，來自古英語 ān (不定冠詞，字面意思是“一”)。參見 one。

音頻 (美國)，æ-緊繃

音頻 (美國)，在短語“an egg”非重音

主附錄： 英語冠詞#不定冠詞

在標準英語中，冠詞an用在元音前，而a用於輔音前。另外an 也可以出現在h音開頭的非重音音節前，如an historic。這時h音可能變成無聲，或發音微弱。只有6%的英國人喜歡這種用法，在書面中也只是稍微常見一些。

在歷史上，an也可以出現在one跟許多首字母為 u、eu (現在讀作/juː/, /jʊ/, /jə/)的詞之前，像是eunuch、unique、utility。這是因為這些首字母被讀作元音。在書寫中，直到19世紀這些詞在獲得首輔音之後，很久一段時間 an 仍然是這些詞前的常用詞。這種情況偶爾還會出現。

相反，在非標準（通常是方言）語音及其書面表達中，元音前很少出現 a。例如：“ain't this a innerestin sitchation” (Moira Young，Blood Red Road)。

a 的所有冠詞義項均可用在 an 上。

a 的變形 (全義項)
在one和首音為 u、eu 的詞前使用，發音為 /ju/。

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 24:8:

My hopes, from my earliest years, have been hopes of celebrity as a writer- not of wealth, or of influence, or of accomplishing any of the thousand aims which furnish the great bulk of mankind with motives. You will laugh at me. There is something so emphatically shadowy and unreal in the object of this ambition, that even the full attainment of its provokes a smile. For who does not know
'How vain that second life in others' breath,
The estate which wits inherit after death!'
And what can be more fraught with the ludicrous than an union of this shadowy ambition with mediocre parts and attainments! But I digress.

(Can we date this quote?)，John Mackay Wilson，Wilson's Tales of the Borders; Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative, →OCLC，頁 84:

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is open to an European monetary fund but would want it to raise money cheaply on capital markets and lend it to needy euro-zone countries before they faced possible default.

2010年March22日，Paul Taylor，“Greece Debates Revive Old European Fears and Resentments”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2010-04-03, Inside Europe:

In an unanimous vote on Monday, the city’s school board approved removing the name of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from Forrest Hill Academy and calling the alternative school the Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy.

2021年April13日，Neil Vigdor，“Hank Aaron’s Name Will Replace a Confederate General’s on an Atlanta School”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC，存檔自the original on 2021-04-14, U.S.:

Having been given seven full days, Jack Smith took exactly one day to file a forty-page response in opposition, to the Supreme Court, making the argument that there was no reason for the Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump's appeal of an unanimous opinion by the second most important court in the country, the Washington, D.C. Federal Court of Appeals, which supported the trial judge's ruling that there is no such thing as immunity from criminal prosecution for former presidents.

2024年February14日，Lawrence O'Donnell，片头起0:29, in Lawrence: Jack Smith asks SCOTUS to move fast on Trump. Nixon case is proof they can.，MSNBC，存檔自the original on 2024-02-15:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:an。


Russian

中世紀拉丁語 (11世紀) Russiānus，Russia的形容詞，為古東斯拉夫語 Русь (Rusĭ)的拉丁化。16世紀開始出現在英語中 (作為名詞和形容詞)。

Ru. (abbreviation alternative)
Russians (plural)

一種有堅硬外殼的雜耍球，裡頭裝滿鹽、沙子或其他物質

Ok, I do think I am starting to get used to it, but you have to admit, if youve:Template:SIC been juggling bags and then start juggling Russians, they feel sooo lopsided to juggle at first!

2011，jamescoutry24，“Beanbags > Russian”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):


Confucius

源自拉丁語 Confucius，來自官話 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ)。

K'ung-tzu (alternative)
Kongzi (alternative)
Kong Zi (alternative)


fret

來自古法語 frete、fraite、fraicte，可能部分和fret (“航道，海峽”)混淆。


Deutschland

非同化借詞，源自德語 Deutschland。

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德國（國家名，位於歐洲）


English

源自中古英語 Englisch、English、Inglis，來自古英語 Englisċ (“盎格魯人的；英格蘭的”)，來自Engle (“盎格魯人，日耳曼部落”) + -isċ；等同於Angle + -ish。對比荷蘭語 Engels、丹麥語 engelsk、古法語 Englesche（法語 anglais的來源）, 德語 englisch、西班牙語 inglés，最初來源為原始印歐語 *h₂enǵʰ- (“窄的”)（對比梵語 अंहु (aṃhu，“窄的”)、अंहस् (aṃhas，“緊張；罪惡”)、拉丁語 angustus (“窄的”)、古教會斯拉夫語 ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ，“窄的”)）。

Englishes (third-person singular present)
Englishing (present participle)
Englished (past participle)

[…] severe prohibuit viris suis tum misceri feminas in consuetis suis menstruis, etc. I spare to English this which I have said.

1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，第2nd版, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
, page 214 (2001 reprint):

Mamma is an adaptation of a French farce by Mr. Sydney Grundy, made in the time when his chief claim to recognition as a playwright lay in his ingenious aptitude for Englishing the un-Englishable.

1901，The Speaker, the Liberal Review - Volume 3，頁 654:

Here, the poems are Englished by twelve different translators

2011, Colin Cheney, 'Where Should I Start with Tomas Tranströmer?':


German

來自拉丁語 Germānus、Germānī (“來自Germānia的民族”)，不同於Gauls (在凱撒和塔西佗的著作中)，最初源頭不明 (可能是凱爾特語族/高盧語)。
與german (“關係密切的”)或germane無關 (來自拉丁語形容詞germānus，經由古法語)。
至少在1520年開始出現。取代了英語中較早的術語Almain和Dutch (來自原始日耳曼語 *þiudiskaz)。除了德語、日耳曼語、荷蘭語的同源詞外，其他語言中表示德國人的兩類詞源一個是Saxon的同源詞和原始斯拉夫語 *němьcь的派生詞；更多資訊參閱這些條目。

/ˈd͡ʒɜː.mən/

介於美式和撒克遜式的字體大小，約1+¹⁄₂點式


Olive

拉丁語聖人名 Oliva 的中世紀形式；19世紀隨著以花名植物名作為名字的風潮而復興。姓氏則常與地形有關，常代表了歐洲大陸姓氏（如西班牙語 Oliva）的英語化。


Wile

源自中古英語 wile。


substance

繼承自中古英語 substance，來自古法語 substance，來自拉丁語 substantia (“實質，本質”)，來自substāns，substō (“存在”，字面意思是“站在下面”)的現在主動分詞，來自sub + stō (“站立”)。取代本土的古英語 andweorc。

substances (third-person singular present)
substancing (present participle)
substanced (past participle)

賦予實質內容；使其變得真實或充實

If life were nothing but what gets phrased and substanced, the world might as well be rolled up and laid away again in darkness.

1873，Adeline Dutton Train Whitney，The Other Girls，頁 335:

The calm ruminating / Reverie, substancing / Intellect into emotion, / Is shelter enough for love / Unhumiliated by faith.

1982，Dhupaty V. K. Raghavacharyulu，The Song of the Red Rose and Other Poems，頁 78:


estate

繼承自中古英語 estat，來自盎格魯-諾曼語 estat和古法語 estat（法語：état），來自拉丁語 status。state和status 的同源對似詞。

狀態；條件 （自13世紀）

But when I came to mans eſtate,
With hey ho, [the winde and the raine],
Gainſt Knaues and Theeues men ſhut their gate.

c. 1601–1602 （写稿日期），威廉·莎士比亚，“Twelfe Night, or What You Will [第十二夜]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio（第一对开本）)，伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard和Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]，頁 275:

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:16:

To remove therfore if it be possible, this great and sad oppression which through the strictnes of a literall interpreting hath invaded and disturb’d the dearest and most peaceable estate of houshold society, to the over-burdening, if not the over-whelming of many Christians better worth then to be so deserted of the Churches considerate care, this position shall be laid down; first proving, then answering what may be objected either from Scripture or light of reason.

1643，John Milton，Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:


radioactive

於1898年由皮埃尔·居里和玛丽·居里借自法語 radio-actif所創的新詞，等同於radio- + active。

radio-active (alternative)
more radioactive (comparative)
most radioactive (superlative)

對人或思想有危險且令人厭惡的

Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.

And while Biden’s other nominees have done little to provoke Republican backlash thus far, [Neera] Tanden is “radioactive,” as Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) put it.

2020年November30日，Burgess Everett, Caitlin Emma, Theodoric Meyer，引 John Cornyn, “Joe Biden's 'radioactive' nominee”, in POLITICO:

If, by some miracle, Democrats hang on to one or both houses of Congress this November, it will be because of Cawthorn, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other would-be G.O.P. candidates trying to be just like them — the Radioactive Republicans.

2022年April4日，Gail Collins, Bret Stephens，“Which ‘Radioactive Republicans’ Are We Betting On?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


tomato

源自西班牙語 tomate，來自古典納瓦特爾語 tomatl，來自原始納瓦語 *tomatl。對照tomatillo。

tomatos (third-person singular present)
tomatoing (present participle)
tomatoed (past participle)

[tʰə̥ˈmɑːtʰəʊ]

[tʰə̥ˈmɐːtʰɐʉ]

[tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾoʊ]

[tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾə]


honey

來自中古英語 hony, honi，來自古英語 huniġ，來自原始西日耳曼語 *hunag，來自原始日耳曼語 *hunagą（對照西弗里斯蘭語 hunich、德語 Honig），來自早期*hunangą（對比瑞典語 honung），來自原始印歐語 *kn̥h₂onk-o-s，來自*kn̥h₂ónks。和中古威爾士語 canecon (“金”)、拉丁語 canicae 複 (“糠”)、吐火羅語B kronkśe (“蜂”)、阿爾巴尼亞語 qengjë (“蜂巢”)、古希臘語 κνῆκος (knêkos，“紅花”)、北庫爾德語 şan (“蜂巢”)、北盧里語 گونج (gonj，“蜂”)同源。


Absalom

派生自希伯來語 אַבְשָׁלוֹם (avshalóm，字面意思是“和平之父”)，源自אָב (av，“父親”) + שָׁלוֹם (shalom，“和平”)。

源自希伯來語的男性人名。


cheerio

/ˈtʃɪəɹ.i.əʊ/

/ˈt͡ʃɪəɹ.i.oʊ/

在北美很少使用。儘管其他人可能可以理解，但這個詞可能被視作幽默用法，且可能被用來模仿英式英語使用者。

Cheerio, everybody! What a delightful gathering of charming femininity!

大家好！多麼令人愉悅的、迷人女性氣質的聚會！


catamaran

借自泰米爾語 கட்டுமரம் (kaṭṭumaram)，來自கட்டு (kaṭṭu，“繫”) + மரம் (maram，“樹，木頭”)。

音頻（加拿大口音，合成）

She meddles with my prescriptions for your wife; she doctors the infant in private: you'll never have a quiet house or a quiet wife as long as that old Catamaran is here.

1889，William Makepeace Thackeray，Hobson's Choice:


centiare

借自法語 centiare；等同於centi- (“百分之一”) + are (“公畝，100平方米”)。

centare (“平方米，平方公尺”)的另一種寫法


cupcake

cupcakes (third-person singular present)
cupcaking (present participle)
cupcaked (past participle)

“I have thought of nothing but you for many days.” / Leticia actually blushed. “You cupcaking me?”

「我已經好幾天只想著你了。」 / Leticia 居然臉紅了。「你在跟我調情嗎？」

2016，Janey Mack，章號 35, in Choked Up，New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN，頁s 247–248:

“Quit cupcaking me, sugar.” / She was sure she was imagining the warmth in his deep, crinkly eyes, but her belly did a flip and high-fived her heart, as though she truly had succeeded in making him like her.

「別再跟我調情了，甜心。」/她確信自己正在想像他深邃、皺紋滿布的眼睛裡的溫暖，但她的肚子卻翻了個身，在心裡擊掌，彷彿她真的成功讓他喜歡上了她。

2016，Pippa Grant writing as Jamie Farrell，Sugared (Misfit Brides; 4), →ISBN:

Juan winks at her. "Sorry about my language. The shock paralyzed my thinking and tongue." / She smiles brightly. "No worries. I'm a nurse. I've heard it all." / Is Juan cupcaking the She-Ra, Princess of Power?

Juan 朝她眨了眨眼睛。「對不起，我說錯話了。驚嚇麻痺了我的思維和舌頭。」 / 她燦爛地笑了。 「不用擔心，我是名護士，我什麼都聽過。」/ Juan 在和神力女超人希瑞調情嗎？

2018，Carlos Bayne，Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles，[Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, Chronicle VII, Chapter 2，頁 131:

So—we offered a cup cake a day for life to anybody who would find us a better word than the word “market.”[…]She wrote to say that the Farmers Market defies description and asks why we don’t just keep on referring to it as the original Farmers Market and send the cup cakes to some home for under cup-caked children.

所以——我們提供終生每天一個杯子蛋糕，給任何能幫我們找到比「市場」更好詞語的人。 […] 她寫信說農夫市場無法用語言形容，並問我們為什麼不繼續稱其為原來的農夫市場，並將杯子蛋糕送給那些缺少杯子蛋糕的孩子們。

1942年March10日，Fred Beck，“Farmers Market Bulletin”, in Los Angeles Times，卷 LXI，頁 2:

Winnie Ellis “cupcaked” her Decorative Stitchery group and Paul Barnett baked enough of her special bran muffins for all of the Meals on Wheels recipients.

Winnie Ellis 給她的裝飾刺繡小組送了杯子蛋糕，而 Paul Barnett 烘焙了足夠的特製麥麩鬆餅，供所有上門送餐服務的接受者享用。

1975年September11日，Kerrville Mountain Sun，卷 94, 期 48, Kerrville, Tex.，頁 six:

“We grew up here and love this community so anything that we can do to give back we will. We have taken cupcakes to the hospital, outreach groups, the SPCA and even the RCMP and firefighters have been cupcaked,” said [Raj] Singh, noting that they would even like to set up a scholarship for local students.

「我們在這裡長大，熱愛這個社區，所以我們會盡力回饋。我們把杯子蛋糕送到醫院、外展團體、SPCA，甚至皇家加拿大騎警和消防隊員也收到了杯子蛋糕，」[Raj] Singh 說，他指出他們甚至想為當地學生設立獎學金。

2008年December21日，Kristi Patton，“Pair display a sweet taste for business”, in Penticton Western News，卷 42, 期 153, Penticton, B.C.，頁 9，列 5:

Kenny started “You’ve Been Cupcaked” three years ago after she earned a following creating cakes and cupcakes for family members.

凱妮在三年前創辦了「你已收到杯子蛋糕」這個活動，在那之前，她因為為家人製作蛋糕和杯子蛋糕而贏得了追隨者。

2011年June19日，Stephanie A. O’Connell，“A baker’s delight, and that’s just icing on the cake”, in Record-Journal，144th year, 期 170, Meriden, Conn.，頁 E4:


collogue

collogues (third-person singular present)
colloguing (present participle)
collogued (past participle)

And then it seems that she collogued with her master and heard word of a subtler device.

1902，John Buchan，The Outgoing of the Tide:

Ay, well, what I say - " Flusky frowned, endeavouring to put into words just what he did say, when he collogued with his own thoughts. "What I say: in a country where everything's to do, the hands has a chance to put themselves equal with the head."

1937，Helen Simpson，Under Capricorn (fiction):

You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?

1861，George Eliot，Silas Marner (fiction), William Blackwood and Sons:

Witch Hunter: You dare to collogue about me with such a [contemnible] manner of speech?!

2022年November18日，Toontown: Corporate Clash Development Team，The Hires & Heroes Update (v1.3.0):


cowgirl

cowgirls (third-person singular present)
cowgirling (present participle)
cowgirled (past participle)

She also cowgirled and hired out to do ranch and timber work.

1998, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West

Only 250 miles down the road a reclusive beauty named Joann Brebner was living the bucolic life, cowgirling, helping out at her family's remote ranch-based resort.

2007, American Cowboy (volume 13, number 5, Jan-Feb 2007, page 56)

Once recovered I cowgirled him to a torturously slow climax, having him begging for release as I took him to the edge […]

2016，Angela Goodnight，My Life, My Loves: True, Explicit Autobiography:


ennead

來自古希臘語 ἐννεάς (enneás)、ἐννεάδος (enneádos，“九人的身體”) + -ad (指定單位的後綴)；可分析為ennea- + -ad。希臘語詞彙ἐννεάς和ἐννεάδος衍生自ἐννέᾰ (ennéă，“九”) (源頭來自原始印歐語 *h₁néwn̥ (“九”)) + -ᾰ́ς (-ắs，由數字構成抽象名詞的後綴)或-ος (-os)。

任何包含九個物體的組合或系統

We may assert with confidence that no cycle of this kind, and of equal antiquity or even of inferior antiquity, is the actual existence better attested or more thoroughly authenticated than that of this octaëteris of Philammon of Delphi, or, as we may truly call it, this original Pythian ennead of primitive Hellas.

1852，Edward Greswell，“On the Lunar in Contradistinction to the Solar Modifications of the Primitive Calendar”, in Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origines Kalendariæ. … In Four Volumes，卷 I, Oxford: At the Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section V (The Octaëteris)，頁s 566–567:

The exquisite language of the prophecy of Isaiah, especially in its last three enneads, may have had a nearer primary reference to, and a nearer fulfilment in, the return of the exiles under Zerubbabel, and Ezra, and Nehemiah; […]

1882，The Church Quarterly Review，卷 XIII, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →OCLC，頁 172:

At one time one god was a greater favourite with the nation than another, and the cult of the god or gods which the old Babylonians preferred in the early days of their empire frequently fell into disuse and neglect in after times. The most important ennead among the Babylonians was as follows:— […]

1884，E[rnest] A[lfred] Wallis Budge，“The Babylonian Religion”, in Babylonian Life and History (By-paths of Bible Knowledge; V)，London: Religious Tract Society, […], →OCLC，頁s 127–128:


equinox

原始印歐語詞
 *nókʷts
繼承自中古英語 equinox、equinoxe、equynox (“一年中晝夜等長的兩個時段之一，二分點；黃道十二宮中的白羊座或天秤座，在這兩個星座中，太陽穿過天體赤道”)，來自古法語 equinoce、equinoxe (現代法語 équinoxe)或來自詞源中世紀拉丁語 ēquinoxium、ēquinoctium，來自拉丁語 aequinoctium (“二分點”)，來自aequus (“同等”) + nox (“夜晚”) (源頭衍生自原始印歐語 *nókʷts (“夜晚”)) + -ium (構成抽象名詞的後綴)。這個拉丁語詞彙，被後來衍生的中古英語和現代英語所採用，取代了古英語 efnniht (現代英語 evennight)。
罕見的另一個複數形式equinoctes將equinox視為一個拉丁語詞彙；拉丁語 nox (“夜晚”)的複數是noctēs。

equinoxes (plural)
equinoctes (plural)
æquinox (alternative)

evennight

分點，二分點，晝夜平分點（春分或秋分）

一種強風，被認為在春分前後頻繁出現，現在知道是一種誤解；春分大風

The Equinox drove the sand into their faces or round their legs, as they dived among the sheep-haunted hollows.

1920年September1日，Rudyard Kipling，“The Satisfaction of a Gentleman”, in The London Magazine，London: Hunt and Clarke, […], →OCLC; republished on the website of The Kipling Society，accessed 7 September 2022，存檔自the original on 2021-12-22:


ergonomics

/əːɡəˈnɒmɪks/

/ˌɝɡəˈnɑmɪks/


xor

The argument leads to the conclusion that an omnipotent being could rationally be able to do one xor the other and still be omnipotent.

2002, "Rob Janssen", The rock argument (on Internet newsgroup alt.atheism)


groundhog

ground-hog (alternative)
ground hog (alternative)
groundhogs (plural)

whistle-pig

美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）

woodchuck

美洲旱獺，北美土撥鼠（Marmota monax）


handicraft

靠工藝品維生的人；製造工藝品的人

his men were all baſe handie craftes, as coblers, and curriers, and tinkers, whereof ſome had barres of yron[…]

1596，Thomas Nashe，The Unfortunate Traueller: or, The Life of Jacke Wilton:

The M[e]chanicks, and handy-crafts were Induſtrious, Thrifty, and the main ſupporters of the Trade of France.

1691，Sam Norris，The English Spy; Or, the Intrigues, Pollicies, and Stratagems of the French King with His Secret Contrivances, for Undermining the Princes of Christendom, Discovered:

"Why, thou knowest, father," he said, smiling, "that we handicrafts best love the folks we live by;[…]

1828 (reprinted 1842)，Sir Walter Scott，The Fair Maid of Perth，Schlesinger:


irrecognizable

more irrecognizable (comparative)
most irrecognizable (superlative)

/ɪˈɹɛkəɡnaɪzəbəl/

/ɪɹɪˈkɒɡnɪzəbəl/

(古舊，罕用) 難以辨認的

The immortal gods are there (quite irrecognizable under these disguises), and also the lowest broken valets.

1850，Thomas Carlyle，“The Stump Orator”, in Latter Day Pamphlets:

[T]here remains no trace of their having ever existed—outside of course of the family names which are now preserved, though some of them in an almost irrecognizable form.

1902年March15日，“Judge Endlich on Early Life in Berks”, in Reading Eagle，USA, retrieved 2010-08-26，頁 11:

The loamy ground on which I lay, the scattered fragments of the cairn beside me, and the rocks and junipers, were irrecognizable as if they had belonged to some other planet than ours.

c. 1933，Clark Ashton Smith，“The Light from Beyond”, in The White Sybil and Other Stories，第2005版，頁 142:


jack towel

roller towel

環狀長毛巾 （自16世紀）

環狀長毛巾 （自16世紀）

Bronze declared to me that she had never seen such a thing as a jack-towel in the house, nor even the nail-holes where one had been.

Bronze 告訴我，她从来没有在房子里见过像毛巾这样的东西，甚至连钉孔都没有见过。

1828，JT Smith，Nollekens and His Times，Century Hutchinson, 出版於 1986，頁 271:


lingam

古典借詞，源自梵語 लिङ्गम् (liṅgam，लिङ्ग (liṅga，“標誌，標記；陰莖”)的主格單數)。

當用於“陰莖”時，主要見於含有印度教、阿育吠陀、怛特羅、瑜珈的語境下，或譯自梵語的文章。

委婉；參見[[#使用說明]]

Once both partners have felt the connection it is up to the woman to give the signal that permission to enter has been granted. She may whisper her invitation to enter, use her hands to guide his lingam, or press against him, causing his lingam to open her.

2013，Anaiya Sophia，Sacred Sexual Union: The Alchemy of Love, Power, and Wisdom，Rochester: Inner Traditions, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:

He still enjoys a tumble with her now as much as when they were youngsters, his voice cracking and his lingam a sprout that seemed never to get soft.

2008，John Speed，Tiger Claws: A Novel of India，New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁 139, →ISBN:

When the sages saw the great god Siva so haggard and sad, they treated him with scorn and saluted him only with bent heads.
Sica:Template:SIC, tired and weary, asked only for "alms". Thus the god went about begging along the roads of Darauvanam.
As the women looked at him, they felt a pang in their heart. Their minds were perturbed and their hearts agitated by the sensations of love. They forsook the beds of the sages and followed Siva.
As the sages saw their wives following Siva, they pronounced a curse upon him;
"May his lingam fall to the ground."

1993，Hilton Hotema，Son of Perfection，Pomeroy, Washington: Health Research, →ISBN, →OCLC，頁 50, →ISBN:

I gaze into the starry void, into Dominique’s eyes, into the blackness behind my own sealed eyelids as her lips envelop my lingam, and I feel a feedback channel opening between this creature of obsession and the dormant natural man.

2011，Norman Spinrad，The Void Captain's Tale，United Kingdom: Orion, →ISBN, →ISBN:


perfectionist

完善論者；認為今生可以達到宗教上或道德上完美的人 （自17世紀起）


passage

繼承自中古英語，源自古法語 passage，源自 passer (“通過”)。

passages (third-person singular present)
passaging (present participle)
passaged (past participle)

開闢一條（尤指海上的）通道

They passaged to America in 1902.

他们于1902年移居美国。


pussy

對女孩或女人親熱的稱呼 （16世紀－）

If Lloyd George’s endearments to mistress Frances Stevenson – “My darling Pussy. You might phone… on Friday if you can come. Don’t let Hankey see you” – had been made similarly public, would he have maintained his own reputation as a towering statesman?
如果勞埃德·喬治對情婦弗朗西斯·史蒂文森的愛慕─我親愛的小貓。你星期五…可以打電話，如果你能來的話。不要讓漢克看到你─也同樣被公開，他還能保持自己作為一個高大政治家的聲譽嗎？

2010, Jojo Moyes, "Why love letters are better left unread", The Telegraph, 3 Jun 2010:


pope

源自中古英語 pope，popa，源自古英語 pāpa，源自通俗拉丁語 papa (牧師和主教的頭銜，到 8 世紀只有羅馬主教)，源自早期中古希臘語 παπᾶς (papâs，牧師和主教的頭銜，尤其是公元 3 世紀的亞歷山大主教)，源自後期 古希臘語 πάπας (pápas，牧師和主教的稱號，意為精神之父)，源自πάππας (páppas，“爸爸”)。

cleric

羅馬天主教羅馬主教的榮譽稱號，他是教會的神父和領袖，也是梵蒂岡城國的君主。

do not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope

在英語用法中，這個術語最初通常是指羅馬主教，儘管這個埃及頭銜實際上更為古老。在科普特教會內，亞歷山大牧首通常被稱為教皇~;在東正教內部，其獨特的亞歷山大牧首正式被稱為“亞歷山大教皇”，但通常僅在禮拜儀式和官方文件中才這樣稱呼。

From the sketch of the bird which you have sent us, there is no doubt about its being the Pope Grosbeak, which is a species of the Cardinal, but not the crested one.

1864年August6日，The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman，頁 100:

The Pope is a native of Brazil, and the female (it is altogether incongrouous to think of a lady pontiff) exactly resembles her mate.

1883，William Thomas Greene，The amateur's aviary of foreign birds: or, How to keep and breed foreign birds，頁 96:

SIR,—I should be glad to learn how to treat Pope birds (Crestless Cardinals) when nesting.

1895，A. A. Thom，“Dominican cardinals”, in The Avicultural Magazine，頁 128:

Besides the Bicheno's Finches in this Class, the judge disqualified, in other Classes, a pair of Magpie Mannikins and a pair of Popes. These entries were presumably all disqualified on the ground that they were not true pairs: they are all birds in which the outward differences between the sexes (if there be any outward difference at all) are of an extremely slight and uncertain nature.

The wisest plan is always to keep the Pope Cardinal in an aviary, and to have only one pair to each aviary.

1956，Foreign birds for cage and aviary，卷 4，頁 20:


pope

Common Nighthawk... Pope (Conn[ecticut]. From the sound made by its wings while dropping through the air).

1956，Massachusetts Audubon Soc. Bull., 40 81:


bating

I replied, That he was a very unworthy man, if it were true, to speak slightingly of a family, which was as good as his own, bating that it was not allied to the peerage […].

‘There is but little I have heard from you which I did not expect to hear, and which I ought not to have expected; because, bating one circumstance, it is all very true.’


buckra

借自埃菲克語 mbakara或伊比比奧語 mbakara；對照古拉語 buckra (“白人”)。

backra (alternative)
bakra (alternative)
buckras (plural)

“Dunno whether he been a buckra or not,” responded, doggedly, my Cerberus in uniform; “but I’s bound to keep him here till de corporal ob de guard come.”

1865, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Leaves from an Officer’s Journal” in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865, p. 69,

What I think of Abe Lincoln? I think he was a poor buckra white man, to de likes of me.

1941, Ed Barber, interview published in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 14: South Carolina Narratives, Part 1,


panentheism

借自德語 Panentheismus，1828年由卡尔·克里斯蒂安·弗里德里希·克劳泽所創造，借用古希臘語 πᾶν ἐν θεῷ (pân en theôi，“所有的神”)加上 + -ismus (“表示主義的後綴”)而成。

pan-en-theism (alternative)
Panentheism (alternative)
Pan-en-theism (alternative)


rubberband

rubberbands (third-person singular present)
rubberbanding (present participle)
rubberbanded (past participle)

Rubberband them together.

2001, Braiding: Easy Styles for Everyone ISBN 0766837645, page 71:

Long red-gray hair in a rubberbanded ponytail, […]

2013, Phil Rickman, The Fabric of Sin ISBN 1623652839:

Editors are very set in their ways of whether they prefer doing level changes within a clip by rubberbanding or by breaking the clip into pieces and adjusting the levels of each piece.

2014, Steve Hullfish, Avid Uncut ISBN 1134070632:


meme

由英國的生物學家理查德·道金斯在1976造出，用於其著作《自私的基因》。mimeme的縮略（對比英語 phoneme），源自古希臘語 μῖμος (mîmos，“複製，模仿”)。。其網路含義由迈克·戈德温應用。

memes (third-person singular present)
meming (present participle)
memeing (present participle)
memed (past participle)

將……轉變成網路迷因；（在現實生活中）使用網路迷因

to meme into existence

Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”

2016年October31日，Andrew Marantz，“Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 2017-12-02:

David Moyes succeeding Slaven Bilić as West Ham United manager is being memed into existence by the internet, Football Burp understands.

2017年November6日，“David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, in Football Burp, retrieved 2017-12-02:


PSU

psu (“practical salinity unit，實際鹽度單位”)的大小寫替代形式


x的作用是通配符；緊隨最初的8086之後，使用相同架構（逐步擴大）的處理器名稱也用86結尾（80186、80286、80386、80486；英特爾在80486之後不再使用這種命名法，但其他x86處理器製造商繼續使用-586-和-686-作為處理器品牌名稱）。

泛指一系列基於Intel 8086且向下相容的中央處理器指令集架構
特別指原始的16位元版本的x86指令集架構


Cinderella

來自cinder（如little cinder girl）。對照法語 Cendrillon。

/ˌsɪndəˈɹɛlə/


Cinderella

cinderella (alternative)
Cinderellas (plural)

/ˌsɪndəˈɹɛlə/

清洁工女性（工作多为清理火炉中的灰）


Katar

Between Katar and the nearest limits of the province of Sharja, namely, the village of Aboo-Debee, the desert comes right down to the sea

在卡塔爾和沙迦省最近的邊界之間，即 Aboo-Debee 村，沙漠一直延伸到大海

1864，W.G. Palgrave，“Observations in Central, Eastern and Southern Arabia”, in Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London，卷 34，頁 145:

Katar, the pearl-fishery coast east of Hasa. Its inhabitants, said to be 135,000 in number, find an almost exclusive occupation in the pearl trade.

卡塔爾，哈薩以東的珍珠漁業海岸。 其居民人數據說有 135,000 人，幾乎以珍珠貿易為業。

1875，Day Otis Kellogg，“Arabia”, in Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature，卷 2，頁 222:


Lettland

[…] homestead of this nation is not the whole of Livonia, but only a part of which is called Lettland; […]

1800，William Tools，View of the Russian Empire:

The Government of Lettland since July 1 last pays a bonus on farm tractors put into service in that country […]


Noah

詞根
 נ־ו־ע
源自聖經希伯來語 נֹעָה (no`áh)。


axioma

源自拉丁語 axiōma，源自古希臘語 ἀξίωμα (axíōma)；參見 axiom。


Francia

借自拉丁語 Francia。France 的同源對似詞。

Frankia (“法蘭克尼亞”)的另一種拼寫法。


manga

源自日語 漫画(まんが) (manga)，來自中古漢語 漫 (中古 manH, “自由，散漫”) + 畫 (中古 hweaH|hweak)。與官話 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà)，朝鮮語 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa)同源。最早是葛飾北齋1814年作品之題。manhua 的同源對似詞。

Lately I've been reading a Brazilian manga.

最近我在讀一本巴西漫畫。


MRI

MRIs (third-person singular present)
MRIing (present participle)
MRIed (past participle)

When the delirium stopped and it was safe to take Versed, her doctors doped her up and she managed to endure the MRI, on condition that I remain with her all the time. They MRIed her skull for thirty minutes, and two days later MRIed her spine for an hour.

2005，Donald Hall，The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon，Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN，頁s 99–100:

Remarkably, no one to that point had suggested MRIing my leg, which is where my pain actually was. Everyone surmised that the issue was really in my back. Dr. Smith scheduled an MRI for that very day.

2014，Mark Herzlich，What It Takes: Fighting For My Life and My Love of the Game，New York, NY: New American Library, →ISBN，頁 74:


deo

Some men complain their deos don't work after regular use. Your underarm area can build up immunity to the same product. Alternating two deos can give you total protection.

2005, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa (issues 687-694, page 32)

He brandishes a can of deodorant (deo) spray as he says this, grinning all the time. 'I started using this about two years ago. I didn't realise deos can be so useful in controlling sweating and keeping me feeling fresh. […]

2014，Damodar Mall，Supermarketwala: Secrets To Winning Consumer India:

'Maybe it's a teeny bit embarrassing, but seeing that we're good friends, Jabłonovska, don't you use any deo?' 'Any what?' 'Deo. Deodorant.' She pronounced the final T sharply and distinctly.


abominate

首次記錄於1644年。可能自abomination 的逆構詞。或者，派生自晚期拉丁語 abōminātus，abōminarī (“貶低為不祥之兆”) 的過去分詞，源自ab + ominari (“預示、預兆”)，源自omen。

more abominate (comparative)
most abominate (superlative)

/əˈbɒm.əˌnəɪt/

/əˈbɒm.ɪˌnəɪt/

可惡的、厭惡的 （首次記錄於16世紀晚期）


accountable

more accountable (comparative)
most accountable (superlative)

True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege.

1703，Benjamin Whichcote，Moral and Religious Aphorisms:


abe

Let it abe, I say.

1839, The New Monthly Magazine, volume 1, page 527:

But if it amuses her I let it abe.

1864，Charles Dickens，Household Words，頁 186:

But let that abe.

1885，Charles Gibbon，Heart's Delight，頁 154:


nudiustertian

借自拉丁語 nudius tertius，源自短語 nunc dies tertius est (“现在是第三天”)。此詞為納撒尼爾·沃德 (1578–1652) 於《The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America》（1647）中所造。

One of the best Chocolate gateau^([sic，意為gateaux]) I have ever had! And I just had it nudiustertian afternoon.

2015年April14日，“Jet”，“Jamaica Blue”, in Brewtiful Coffee (blog)，存檔自the original on 2016-04-10:

Nudiustertian – adjective Definition: Want a new way to mention something that happened on Wednesday – the day before yesterday? Here you go. Example: “I shared some corned beef hash that nudiustertian morning.”

2015年August21日，“Jaffe Morning Briefing”, in NJTV，存檔自the original on 2015-09-06:


flabbergasted

more flabbergasted (comparative)
most flabbergasted (superlative)


WTF

WTF 和其全称what the fuck 一样，可以引出问句：WTF are you talking about?

WTF 有时以北约音标字母的形式拼写（whiskey tango foxtrot）；

WTF 一般不像其全称what the fuck一样带有无礼的成分。

where the fuck, why the fuck, when the fuck 或 who the fuck 的缩略。


ghoti

儘管常被認為是蕭伯納 (1856–1950)創造的，這個詞最晚在1855年就出現了。
讀音與fish (/fɪʃ/)相同，表現了英語中的不規則讀法：
* gh：/f/，同laugh，/læf/、/læːf/、/laːf/；
* o：/ɪ/，同women，/ˈwɪmɪn/、/ˈwɪmən/；
* ti：/ʃ/，同nation，/ˈneɪʃən/。

本詞極少使用，但很常被拿出來討論。

以英語中不規則的讀法構造出的詞，與fish讀音相同。

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:ghoti。


ey

一種中性的第三人稱單數物主代詞，“斯皮瓦克代词”，等同於單數的they，和he + she。

Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.

1975年August23日，Judie Black，“Ey has a word for it”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1，頁 12:

I'm not familiar with this book, but I encourage Marksmill to look for it-- and while ey is at it, to also look at a number of other books.

1996年December22日，Shirley Worth，“New To Yoga”, in alt.yoga (Usenet), message-ID <32BDCA0C.6C8@worth.org>:

If a mobile user is far from eir home area, ey will pay a long-distance fee for carriage of the call *from* eir home area, just as a caller would pay long-distance on a call *to* that area.

1997年November25日，Scott Robert Dawson，“Who Pays for Cellular Calls”, in alt.cellular (Usenet), message-ID <347acf56.333719@news.interlog.com>:


transexual

more transexual (comparative)
most transexual (superlative)


transexual

As an afterthought, I think I might be entitled to point out that I (and others in the same position) who have had electrolysis, taken hormones and live as a woman full time am not a transexual, are wrong. While all of these things are done by those who ARE transexuals, it does not follow that all who do them are transexuals. This is the same false logic that society follows when it in effect says (wrongly in both cases) that homosexuals wear dresses and make up, therefore all males who wear dresses and make up are homosexuals. I’m sure most of you have been resenting that implication for as long as you’ve been TVs. Naturally I resent the assumption that I am a TS for the same reason—the logic is false. I, at least, know the difference between sex and gender and have simply elected to change the latter and not the former. If a word is necessary, I should be termed a “transgenderal.”

1969 December，Virginia Prince，“Change of Sex or Gender”, in Transvestia，卷 IX, 期 60, Chevalier Publications, →LCCN，存檔自the original on 2021-12-28，頁 65:


nare

中世紀時拉丁語naris（單數）、nares（複數）進入英語，作為學術用途。一些大詞典將這兩個詞作為英語歸化詞，也就是說，詞典收錄nares和nares，卻未收錄 nare （至少到2017年）。但實際上，英語中使用 nare 已有數個世紀，如韋氏詞典1913版中有收錄，17世紀的詩人薩繆爾·巴特勒在長詩《胡迪布拉斯》（1663年）已有使用——"There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not"，愛倫·坡曾引用該句作為"The Folio Club"的引言。nare 可能開始作為 nares 的逆構單數，部分英語使用者可能把 nares 認為是英語構詞中的複數。不管其是如此逆構，還是一種甚少記錄於冊的羅曼語族借詞，現代仍有使用，如鼻孔給藥 "5 mL in each nare"。

There is a Machiavelian plot, / Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not;

1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1


of course

習慣的，自然的 （16世紀）

I am not using a mere phrase of course, when I say that the feelings with which I bear a part in the ceremony of this day, are such as I find it difficult to utter in words.

1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Miscellaneous Writings:


of course

naturally

當然，明顯地 （19世紀）

indisputably

當然，明顯地 （19世紀）

He inspired love and emulation wherever he appeared; envy and jealous rage followed of course; so that he became a very desirable, though a very dangerous acquaintance.

1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.20:

Not tarrying long enough in the brain to be subject to reflection, the next sensations, of course, obliterate them.

1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men:


abstractively

more abstractively (comparative)
most abstractively (superlative)

抽象地 （最早見於17世紀早期）


Michal

源自希伯來語 מִיכַל (mikhál)。

源自希伯來語的女性人名。


absolvent

源自拉丁語 absolvēns (詞幹：absolvent-)，源自absolvō (“赦免，宣告無罪”)。

more absolvent (comparative)
most absolvent (superlative)

Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manége, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side[.]

1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History


pizza nigger

I've seen the Godfather 27 times and every time some wasp gets wacked by one of those pizza niggers.

2001, "Rush Limbush", Re: Note To PI Comic (on newsgroup alt.comedy.standup):

He brought the two mugs to the table. “Carmine says to lay off your two pizza niggers.”

他把兩個杯子擺在桌上。“Carmine 說要辭掉你們兩個意大利佬。”

2007，Vahan Gregory，Where the Sun Don't Shine，頁 42:


Indian

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 indien, 中古法語 indien，等同於Ind + -ian。用於美洲原住民是早期探險家將其與印度人混淆。

大洋洲原住民 （自18世紀）


Indian

印度的語言（尤其指印地語）

[They said] 'Mutton can speak Indian', 'Mutton can see Kanchinjunga out of his bedroom window'[.]

1968 Anne Rider, A hilltop in hazard, page 51:


advertise

源自盎格魯-諾曼語 avertir (“告知”)、advertir、中古法語 advertir、avertir (“警告，通報”)，詞尾為-ise、-ize，可能受名詞advertisement的影響。對比advert。

advertises (third-person singular present)
advertising (present participle)
advertised (past participle)

Socrates being advertiſed, that the God of wiſdome, had attributed the name of wiſe vnto him, was thereat much aſtoniſhed, and diligently ſearching and rouzing vp himſelf, and ranſaking the very ſecrets of his heart, found no foundation or ground for his divine ſentence.

1603，Michel de Montaigne，“An Apologie of Raymond Sebond”, in John Florio（譯者）, The Essayes […]，book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC，頁 288:

[…] I am daily advertiſed by ſeveral friends and correſpondents from Oxford, that I have omitted many particulars, which it is proper to animadvert upon, in order to compleat the Secret Hiſtory of that place; and I have therefore, in compliance with their requeſt, reſolved to reſume this work, and continue to publiſh ſome part of it every Act-Term, till the whole is finiſhed, and the ſubject fully exhauſted: […]

1726，Terræ Filius [pseudonym; Nicholas Amherst]，“[The Dedication]”, in Terræ-Filius: Or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford; in Several Essays. To which are Added, Remarks upon a Late Book, Entitled, University Education, by R. Newton, D.D. Principal of Hart-Hall. In Two Volumes，第2nd版, 卷 I, London: Printed for R. Francklin, under Tom's Coffee-House, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, →OCLC，頁 xi:


aggravate

源自拉丁語 aggravatus，aggravare (“給……增重，使變差，使煩惱”)的過去分詞，源自ad (“到”) + gravare (“使變重”)，源自gravis (“重的”)。參見grave，對比aggrieve、aggrege。

aggravates (third-person singular present)
aggravating (present participle)
aggravated (past participle)

/ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯t/

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

使程度/重量增加 （自16世紀）

He aggravated the story.


were wolf

All these tortures he resisted till the hangman gave him an intoxicating draught, and under its influence he confessed that he was a were wolf after all.

1830，The Polar star of Entertainment and Popular Science:

"Ah! Madame!" they said, "what is the use, what can we do against a were wolf?"

They say that a person turns into a were wolf when he is bitten by another lycanthrope, or even by an ordinary wolf.

2009，Ferran Alexandri，The Big Book Of Fantastic Creatures, →ISBN，頁 19:


trahison

That this trahison would take a partly “multicultural” form was also something that was slowly ceasing to surprise me.

2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2010, p. 270:


copywrite

copywrites (third-person singular present)
copywriting (present participle)
copywrote (past)
copywritten (past participle)


two hundred fifty-sixth note

When you cut four quarter notes in half, you get eight eighth notes, and so on, down the road, all the way to two-hundred-fifty-sixth notes.

2009，Phyllis Sdoia-Satz，Practicing sucks, but it doesn't have to!: surviving music lessons:


zoophilia

/ˈzəʊ.əʊfɪliə/

有關本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:zoophilia。


absurdness

荒謬的狀態。（最早起於16世紀中期）


quicklier

The terrified sailors would have begun to depart quicklier than they did, had not fear itself made them move slowly.

如果不是恐懼本身讓他們行動緩慢，嚇壞了的水手們會更快開始離開。

1834，Leigh Hunt，The Indicator, and the Companion，頁 6:

The apprentice will learn much better and quicklier how to do things for knowing beforehand why he is bidden to do them in any particular way[…]

學徒會更好、更快地學習如何做事，因為他事先知道為什麼要以任何特定的方式做這些事情。


xenophobian

仇外者；有仇外心理的人。


tern

原始印歐語詞
 *tréyes
名詞義項派生自晚期中古英語 terne (“骰子點數為三”)，源自古法語 terne (“三個人，三人一組”)（現代法語 terne），源自拉丁語 ternās，ternī (“每次三個”)的陰性賓格複數，源自ter (“三次”)（源自原始印歐語 *tréyes (“三”)）+ -ī（源自-us (形容詞後綴)）。
形容詞義項可能來自名詞，也可能直接來自拉丁語 ternī (“每次三個”)。

tern flowers; tern leaves

a tern schooner


jerkoff

源自動詞jerk off (“自慰”)。

Slob or Slop for a dirty child, Beans for a child who breaks wind, Jerk-off for a child who masturbates.

髒兮兮的小孩被叫做“Slob”或“Slop”，放屁的小孩被叫做“Beans”，自慰的小孩被叫做“Jerk-off”。

1935，Lawson Gentry Lowrey，“Proceedings of the 8th- annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association”, in American journal of orthopsychiatry, Volume 5 - Page 279，卷 5，頁 279:


nymphe

nymph的另一種拼寫法


allowed

more allowed (comparative)
most allowed (superlative)

承認屬實的 （自15世紀）


tewel

來自中古英語 tuwel，來自古法語 tueil, tuel, tudel (“管”)（現代法語 tuyau也經由此），來自通俗拉丁語 *tūta，來自古法蘭克語 *thūta (“管”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *þeutǭ (“管，水道，流”)，來自*þeutaną (“嚎叫，吼，鳴”)，來自原始印歐語 *tu-, *tutu- (“鳥泣鳴，尖叫”)。對照來自同一日耳曼語族源頭的西班牙語和葡萄牙語 tudel。

tuel (alternative)
tewels (plural)
dewel (alternative)

通風口、煙囪、管道（特別是通向爐子或風箱的管道）

Lamasure, M. Le Petit, French patent of, for a double-case furnace tewel supplied with water, &c., xiv. (3d s.) 29

1846, The Repertory of Patent Inventions and Other Discoveries, page 128:

Also, there are no obvious differences in the proportion of tewel pieces with attached slag in the two furnace types.

1987，Ian Hodder，The Archaeology of Contextual Meanings, →ISBN，頁 5:

[…] the ore-smelting furnace is like a pregnant woman. […] For example, the furnace is described as the reproductive organs of a woman in one of the lessons in the Venda domba ritual while the tewel pipes are described as being symbolically male (Blacking 1969, p. 167).

2014, The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns ISBN 1134679424, page 502:


trucidate

借自拉丁語 trucīdāre。

trucidates (third-person singular present)
trucidating (present participle)
trucidated (past participle)

even Marat and Robespierre considered themselves as denouncing, and trucidating only the enemies of the republic.

甚至馬拉和羅伯斯庇爾也認為他們自己只是在譴責和殺害共和國的敵人。

1815，Hugh Henry Brackenridge，Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan:

Butt.


atterrate

借自意大利語 atterrare。對照晚期拉丁語 atterrare (“扔到地上”)。

atterrates (third-person singular present)
atterrating (present participle)
atterrated (past participle)


Maryam

借自阿拉伯語 مَرْيَم (maryam) 和波斯語 مریم (maryam)。Mary和Miriam 的同源對似詞。


publicate

引自16世紀中葉的文獻，源自拉丁語 拉丁語 publicat (“發表，使公眾知道”)

publicates (third-person singular present)
publicating (present participle)
publicated (past participle)


Shaye

轉變自姓氏和源自愛爾蘭語的女性人名，Shay的變體。


Halsey

英格蘭地名，繼承自古英語 hals (“土地的頸部”) + īeġ (“島”)


epopee

借自法語 épopée。


Denys

源自古希臘語的男性人名，Denis 的異體拼寫


averruncate

源自拉丁語 āverruncāre (“避免”)，源自 āb (“除去”) + verruncāre (“轉動”)，但被解釋為 āb + ēruncāre (“除去，剔除”)，並使用了對應的拼寫。

averruncates (third-person singular present)
averruncating (present participle)
averruncated (past participle)

Unless by providential wit, / Or force, we averruncate it.

1859，Samuel Butler，“Canto 1, Line 758”, in Hudibras，頁 31:


shash

shashes (third-person singular present)
shashing (present participle)
shashed (past participle)

The machine shashed and crackled, broadcasting silence. Urgently the man repeated, 'Shearwater, Shearwater, Shearwater. This is Brewmarine. Keith speaking. Over. Over.' More shashing, more silence.


contrariant

繼承自中古英語 contrariaunt，源自古法語 contrariant，源自晚期拉丁語 contrāriāns，contrāriō 的現在分詞。

相反；具有相反性質的事物


icecube

ice cube的另一種拼寫法

She began to listen for the clunk and drop of the icecubes again— She fought it off.

2011，斯蒂芬·金，末日逼近：完整未刪節版（The Stand: Complete and uncut edition），頁 298:


Rob

轉變自人名的姓氏，來自 Robert


Abdon

借自希伯來語 עבדון (abdon，“僕人”)。對照阿拉伯語 عَبْد (ʕabd)。

源自希伯來語的男性人名。


Stancel

可能源自：
* 古英語 stane cell，意為“石室”；或來自英格蘭村名 Stancil。
* 德語 Stenzel。
* 波蘭-猶太裔姓氏 Stencel。
* 波蘭語 Stanisław 或俄語 Станислав (Stanislav)。
* 羅馬尼亞語 stâncă (字面意思是“岩石；岩壁”)。


masturbatrix

masturbatrices (plural)
masturbatrixes (plural)

Thus under the Restoration one spoke of the branleuses or masturbatrixes of the Palais Royal, whose clients, students for the most part, came to have their hard-ons massaged away for a few centimes.

Mony quickly divested himself of his clothes, then, cock aloft, fully rigid, he flung himself upon the two masturbatrices, attempting to separate them. But his hands slipped on their damp and gleaming bodies which were coiled about like snakes.

1995，Guillaume Apollinaire，Flesh Unlimited: Two Erotic Novellas，頁 17:

Beresford triumphs again with this intoxicating tale, filled with castle dungeons and tightly corseted ladies-in-waiting, naughty viscounts and impossibly cruel masturbatrixes […]

1997，Michael Ford，Butch Boys: Stories for Men Who Need It Bad:

The actress wanted to stretch in a role that was 180 degrees away from the omnivorous Tramell and the masturbatrix from Sutton.

1997，Frank Sanello，Naked instinct: the unauthorized biography of Sharon Stone:


potto

源自一西非語言；對比阿坎語 apɔsɔ。


preludium

(現罕用) 前奏，序幕，先聲

[…]and ſo the dyſputation beganne, ſette a woꝛke by the Prolocutor with a verye ſhoꝛte pꝛæludium.

1563，Iohn Foxe，“Book 5”, in Actes and Monuments of theſe latter and perillous dayes […] ，London: Iohn Day，頁 1006:


étincelé

大塊底色上鋪滿火花狀圖案的


absterge

源自法語和中古法語 absterger，或源自中世紀拉丁語 abstergēre，abstergeō (“擦去”) 的現在主動不定式，源自拉丁語 abs- + tergeō (“擦去”)。

absterges (third-person singular present)
absterging (present participle)
absterged (past participle)

cleanse

擦拭以使乾淨 （最早見於16世紀早期）

purge

擦拭以使乾淨 （最早見於16世紀早期）

擦拭以使乾淨 （最早見於16世紀早期）


adulter

源自拉丁語 adulterō。

(現罕用) 通姦者（多指姦夫）


réclame

源自法語 réclame。

宣傳；廣告 （自19世紀）


insultant

The insult is one of the highest art forms. It is a form of minimalism, like the minimalism of an abstract artist. The one who insults is an insultant who, rather than use a canvas, uses another person. The insultant draws lines on a person to reduce them to the person they see and want others to see; and lines which they want the insulted one to feel.

2013，Claudis Weyser，The Diary of an Aphorisiac:


alliant

the presence and approbation also of other Princes , States , Alliants, Deputies with full Power and Authority[…]
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）


malverse

more malverse (comparative)
most malverse (superlative)

[B]e what set of men they will, who would adventure to befriend and patronize such a malverse course […]。

1776，Josiah Hunter，An Inquiry Concerning the Scriptural Order，頁 199:

Never was fellow so pestered with malverse accidents as I am; and all of my own contriving!

1792，Thomas Holcroft，Anne St. Ives, vol. II, letter 36:

It has been well remarked, that a little learning, and a little power, are apt to be more productive of mischief than of advantage to their possessors, and that this malverse propensity has been most particulary^([sic]) efficient , when such attainments and possessions have been rare and splendid.

1815，David Laurie，A Treatise on Finance，頁 933:


Nihon

借自日語 日本 (Nihon)。

It is stooopid and insensative for you to indirectly say that AIDS will come to Nihon via Thailand. AIDS is already in Nihon! And your attempt to make Japanese racists on the incorrect fear that Thailand will bring this disease to Nihon is out of line and very evil which is a characteristic of your race!

1994年January16日，Rikiya Asano，“AIDS on the way to Japan”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-01:


equiparate

古典借詞，源自中世紀拉丁語 aequiparātus，aequiparō (“放在同一水平，比较”) 的過去分詞，源自 aequus (“等同的；水平的”) + parō (“地方”)。

equiparates (third-person singular present)
equiparating (present participle)
equiparated (past participle)


abnegator

借自晚期拉丁語 abnegator，源自 abnegatus。等價於 abnegate + -or。

否認者，拒絕者 （自17世紀初）

On the other side, representing a serpentine generation wholy, made of fraud, policies, and practises, men lovers of the world, and haters of truth and godlinesse, fighters against the light, protectors of darkenesse, persecuters of marriage, and patrons of brothelles, abnegators and dispencers against the lawes of God […]

1605，Edwin Sandys，A Relation of the State of Religion，London: Simon Waterson:

The Catholic is theoretically a Collectivist, a self-abnegator, a Tory, a Conservative, a supporter of Church and State one and undivisible, an obeyer.

1914，George Bernard Shaw，“Preface for Politicians”, in John Bull’s Other Island，London: Constable，頁 xix:


gubernatrix

The year 1527 marked Felice's tenth anniversary as gubernatrix of the Bracciano Orsini.

1527年是费利斯担任布拉恰诺奥尔西尼领主的十周年。

2005，Caroline P. Murphy，The Pope's Daughter，頁 VI:


abacinate

源自晚期拉丁語 abacinātus, abacinō 的完成時被動分詞；可能由 ab (“離，出”) + bacīnum (“盆”) 或 bacīnus 組成。可能與現代意大利語 abbacinare (“使目眩，使眼花”) 同源。

abacinates (third-person singular present)
abacinating (present participle)
abacinated (past participle)

用燒紅的金屬棒或金屬板使人失明

"You young scapegrace," said Dandolo, "I will myself abacinate you — in the Venetian way." "How's that?" "Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count your pile."

Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.

1945，Robert Hardy Andrews，Burning Gold，頁 196:

Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.

1986，Jeff Hanneman （作曲作詞）, “Angel of Death”, in Reign in Blood，演出者 Slayer:

This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology.

1999，Srinivas Aravamudan，Tropicopolitans, →ISBN，頁 220:


songer

可能繼承自中古英語 songere (方言)，繼承自古英語 sangere，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *sangwārijaz (“歌手，歌唱者”)，與德語 Sänger、荷蘭語 zanger等同源，等價於 song + -er。或是上述詞素的現代構詞。

If a man who plays at ping pong is a "ponger," Then a singer of a "singsong" is a "songer"; If the "songer" is a singer. Then the "ponger" is a "pinger," And the man who says it's wrong must be a "wronger."

Will he sing it, I wonder?"
"Chantoozie, I ain't much of a songer any more. I just done that because I was told it was a colorful trait."

1976，Katie Lee，Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle:

No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.

2012，Susan St. Francis，A Tale of the Bug Fairies:


naufragate

naufragates (third-person singular present)
naufragating (present participle)
naufragated (past participle)

All which Proposals we are resolved by Gods gracious assistance with unanimity, constancy, and activity, in our several stations, with our lives and fortunes, to prosecute and accomplish, to our powers, by all just and legal wayes, with what ever else may conduce to the Peace, Safety, Unitie, Wealth, Prosperity of our Lacerated, Macerated, Naufragated Church and State; […]

1660，Thomas Fuller，A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace， […] John Williams […]，頁 48:

[…] the reſtoring of collapſed Honour to the Nations, and of juſt Rights to all orders therein; ( which have been ſo many years obſtruded) the reviving of Trade, the eaſing of Preſſures,the reducing of theſe wofully toſſed and naufragated Kingdoms unto Calmneſs and Serenity again, […]

1660，Edward Reynolds，The Meanes and Method of Healing in the Church， […] Tho. Ratcliffe, for George Thomason，頁 24:

And therefore although Gretſerus [k] be pleas'd to be diſpleas'd with this derivation thereof, yet it is ſuppoſed that others without the leaſt hazard of Naufragating their Art of Gloſſographie, may ſecurely caſt Anchor and ſafely acquieſce therein.

1661，John Godolphin，章號 I, in Συνήγορος θαλασσιος. A Vievv of the Admiral Jurisdiction，London，頁 7:

And very few, if any, would they but weight aright, the vaſt diſproportion that is betwixt their preſent earthly ſhadows and this moſt subſtancial bleſſedneſs, would ever turn their backs on Chriſt, or Naufragate, and make Shipwrack of the Faith, to ſecure the former, and hereby deprive themſelves to eternity of the latter.

1673，John Hickes，A Discourse of the Excellency of the Heavenly Substance，London，頁 28:

Clench's English, is of a piece with his Tuscan. For example, "Peter signifies an inexpugnable rock, able to evacuate all the plots of hell's divan, and naufragate all the lurid designs of empoisoned heretics."

1850，Thomas Babington Macaulay，章號 VI, in The History of England from the Accession of James II，卷 II, Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company，頁 87:

Among others^([sic，意為other]) lessons that could be derived from the Gulf War, this event showed the inner limits to ICT propaganda. The attempt to legitimise the war and to make it morally more acceptable by people because, thanks to ICT, it was an entirely new type of war, i.e. a “clean” and “quick” war without human killing naufragated clamorously, not only for the shame of military establishment but also of media that uncritically supported and propagated such a claim.

1993，Facing the Challenge of Risk and Vulnerablity in an Information Society: […]，IFIP，頁 304:


hariolate

hariolates (third-person singular present)
hariolating (present participle)
hariolated (past participle)


abductive

The logs showed that between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on the abductive day, 10,718 SIMs connected with the seven […] Some people in the kidnap zone would of course have called each other innocently, but […]

2010，Steve Hendricks，A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial, →ISBN，頁 169:


collaboratrix

collaboratrixes (plural)
collaboratrices (plural)


calculandum

拉丁語 calculandum（ calculandus 的主格中性单数形式，而该词又是 calculō (“计算”) 的将来被动分词）在英语的名词化，对照 analysandum、cogitandum、explicandum、memorandum 等

用于计算的方程式、比率或其他定量问题


one of His Majesty's bad bargains

暗示這名士兵不值得他所得到的報酬。

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-one of His Majesty's bad bargains.ogg

無能力（因病等）或不稱職的士兵


stock market

stock market 不代表具體的地方，證券交易所應使用 stock exchange 表達。


colliquate

colliquates (third-person singular present)
colliquating (present participle)
colliquated (past participle)


Cain

源自希伯來語 קַיִן (Káyin，“工匠”)，古英語時期已有此詞。

源自希伯來語的男性人名。


Noh

日語 能 (nō)的不規則羅馬化。


strepent

源自拉丁語 strepent，源自 strepere (“發出噪聲”)；對比 obstreperous。

more strepent (comparative)
most strepent (superlative)

Peace to the ſtrepent horn ! / Let no harſh diſſonance diſturb the morn, / No ſounds inelegant and rude / Her ſacred ſolitudes profane !

1750，William Shenstone，“Rural Elegance: An Ode to the Late Ducheſs of Somerset”, in A Collection of Poems，出版於 1758，頁 13:

But since Reaumer could never witness this, I shall not insist upon your believing it, though the relater declares that he had heard it with his ears, and seen it with his eyes, and had called many to witness the vibrating and strepent wings of this trumpeter bumble-bee.

1817，William Kirby, William Spence，An Introduction to Entomology: or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects，頁 384:


redargue

源自晚期中古英語 redarguen、redargue (“駁倒；斥責，責備”)，源自中古法語 redarguer 及古法語 redargüer (“反驳，驳斥；指责，责备；斥责”)（對應現代法語 rédarguer），源自拉丁語 redarguere (“反驳，驳斥”)（對比晚期拉丁語 redarguere (“斥责，责备”)），redarguō (“反驳，驳斥”) 的現在主動不定式，源自 red-（re- (“再次”) 的異體）+ arguō (“断言，宣布；澄清，说明；证明，展示；指责，控告；谴责，斥责，责备”)（可能最終源自原始印歐語 *h₂erǵ- (“银色，白色；闪闪发光的”)，意为照亮某物以使其清晰）。argue 的同源對似詞。
同源詞
* 加泰羅尼亞語 redargüir
* 意大利語 redarguire
* 古奧克語 redarguir
* 葡萄牙語 redargüir
* 西班牙語 redargüir

redargues (third-person singular present)
redarguing (present participle)
redargued (past participle)

/ɹɪˈdɑːɡjuː/

counterargue

反駁，駁斥（某人或論點、主張）

與某人爭論（事件或主張）


relevate

借自拉丁語 relevātus，relevō (“提起，举起；减轻、缓解、减轻”) 的完成時被動分詞；對比中古法語及現代法語 relever，還有英語 relevation。relieve 的同源對似詞。

relevates (third-person singular present)
relevating (present participle)
relevated (past participle)


out of hand

more out of hand (comparative)
most out of hand (superlative)

offhand

不假思索地，未經深思熟慮地

He bad to open wyde his brazen gate, / Which long time had bene shut, and out of hond / Proclaymed ioy and peace through all his state [...].

于是下命令将黄铜城门开启，/这扇城门长时间来一直关闭。/宣告举国进入和平欢乐时期， […] 。

1590，Edmund Spenser，譯者 邢怡, The Faerie Queene [仙后]，北京时代华文书局, I.xii:

Now any Man finding in hot Blood, one who with a fore-thought Felony hath murthered his Daughter, may, without tying himself to the Formalities and Circumstances of a Legal Proceeding, kill him on a sudden, and out of hand, without incurring any hazard of being attainted and apprehended by the Officers of Justice for so doing.

现在，任何一个男人如果发现自己的女儿被他人蓄意谋杀，而怒不可遏，则可以在不受法律程序的约束和情况限制的情况下，突然、立即杀死他，而不会因此承担被司法官员判处有期徒刑或逮捕的危险。

1653，Francois Rabelais (佚名譯)，The works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, doctor in physick，卷 2, Navarre society, London:


repugnate

repugnates (third-person singular present)
repugnating (present participle)
repugnated (past participle)


lumpatious

源自 lump (“塊/瘤/皰”) + -ious，創造於《阿珊與凱特》集數《#臭腦》。

more lumpatious (comparative)
most lumpatious (superlative)

Beck: "My fist just touched Sinjin's fist, weird right?" FEELING: Lumpatious
#*:: 貝克：「我的拳頭剛剛碰到辛晉的拳頭，很奇怪吧？」感想：很可惡

The memory of that scene was now eclipsed as Patrick looked first through, then past, Monique into the same garden, its lovely ambience disfigured by the lumpatious and immovable trio sitting around, waiting to be fed again.

那個場景的記憶如今黯然失色，因為派翠克先是透過莫妮克，再望向她身後的同一個花園。那原本迷人的氛圍如今被坐在那裡、一動不動、討厭的三人組所破壞，他們正等著再一次被餵食。

(Can we date this quote?)，路易阿比科赫，A BLIND BIT OF DIFFERENCE，Lulu.com, →ISBN:

... with Lala and her date Laurie and went off with them. Chelsea saw Darren and she started chatting with him. Barbie and Stacie went around admiring the hall. “This place is top-notch,” Barbie said. “Yeah it's lumpatious,” Stacie.

和拉拉以及她的約會對象勞瑞一起離開了。切爾西看到達倫後便和他聊了起來。芭比和史黛西四處走動，欣賞著大廳的裝潢。「這地方真是頂級啊，」芭比說。「對啊，簡直太噁心了，」史黛西附和道。

2019年November28日，雷納阿羅拉，Secrets in the City，Notion Press, →ISBN:


Abelard

源自法語 Abélard，Abel + 日耳曼語族後綴 -(h)ard。亦可能來自德語 Eberhard，等價於英語 Everett。

/ˈæb.əˌlɑɹd/

源自日耳曼語族的男性人名。


accresce

借自拉丁語 accrescere。accrease 的同源對似詞。參見 accrue。

accresces (third-person singular present)
accrescing (present participle)
accresced (past participle)


pugne

pugnes (third-person singular present)
pugning (present participle)
pugned (past participle)


reparate

借自拉丁語 reparātus，reparō (“修理，修復”) 的完成分詞。

/ˈɹɛpəˌɹeɪt/


reparate

借自拉丁語 reparātus，reparō (“修理，修復”) 的完成分詞。

reparates (third-person singular present)
reparating (present participle)
reparated (past participle)

/ˈɹɛpəˌɹeɪt/


Russ

源自德語 Russe 等詞彙，源自古東斯拉夫語 Русь (Rusĭ)。對照更為近現代的 Rus。

But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo
All sciences that speed Bellona's car,
All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]

1831，Thomas Campbell，The Power of Russia:


sea lion

源自 sea + lion，因其多生活於海中，叫聲和外形類似獅子而得名。對照中古英語 see hound、cee-hound、se hound (“海狸”，字面意思是“海狗”)。

sea lions (third-person singular present)
sea lioning (present participle)
sea lioned (past participle)

sealion (“作出海獅行為”)的另一種寫法


supererogate

supererogates (third-person singular present)
supererogating (present participle)
supererogated (past participle)

/ˌs(j)uːpəɹˈɛɹəɡeɪt/

/ˌsupəɹˈɛɹəˌɡeɪt/


embread

embreads (third-person singular present)
embreading (present participle)
embreaded (past participle)

But now we must beleue that he cometh downe agayn at the wyll of the prestes, to be inpaned or inbreaded for their bellyes common welthe, lyke as he afore came downe, at the wyll of hys heuenlye father, to be incarnated or infleshed for our vnyuersall sowles helth.

1547，John Bale，The First Examinacion of Anne Askewe:

If christes bodye be in thee bred (as vndoubtedly it is) then it is enbreaded & his bloude enwyued, whych was alway taken for a great heresy, In respect wherof transubstantiacion nedes muste be graunted as ryght true and beleueable.

1548，Edmund Gest，A Treatise Againste the Preuee Masse:

I explain, in the simplest way possible, that "pan" means "bread," so "empanizada" must mean that the Callo is "embreaded."

1868，Charles Stephen Grueber，A Reply to the "Remarks" of the Rev. C. A. Heurtley:


kakorrhaphiophobia

源自古希臘語 κακορραφία (kakorrhaphía) + -phobia。

對挫敗的異常恐懼；失敗恐懼症

Kakorrhaphiophobia prevents me. And I'm not steatopygus.

失敗恐懼症讓我做不到。而且我也不是臀部肥大的人。

2001，“OFF TOPIC Killfile in OE. Was: (Re: Cross-posts (was: Re: Newsgroup FAQ here))”, in soc.singles (Usenet):

First autophobia, which inevitably leads to kakorrhaphiophobia, tropophobia and for the real hard cases phobophobia.

首先是自戀恐懼症，這不可避免地會導致失敗恐懼症、改變恐懼症，對於真正嚴重的病例還會出現恐懼症恐懼症。

2002，Jonathan Gabay，Reinvent Yourself: Tactics for Work, Life and Happiness - Yours:

Vance Engels, diagnosed with acute kakorrhaphiophobia and present, allegedly, due to his epistemophilic poetry, of which he hands out …

凡斯·恩格爾斯，被診斷患有急性失敗恐懼症，據稱是因為他那些充滿求知欲的詩作而來到這裡，他經常分發這些詩……

2005，Christopher WunderLee，The Loony: A Novella of Epic Proportions:


asking

繼承自中古英語 asking、askyng、askynge，繼承自古英語 āscung (“询问；问题”)，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *aiskungu，等價於 ask + -ing。

一般用其复数形式，或见于 for the asking 或 time of asking 等短语。

After many askings, pleadings, and episodes, all leading to nothing, she finally slumped down at the side of a well in a village where she was unknown.

经过多次请求、恳求和尝试，都无济于事，她最终瘫倒在一个陌生人村子的一口井边。

2005，Beth Miller，The Woman's Book of Resilience: 12 Qualities to Cultivate，頁 125:


clunge

情境喜劇 The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin 第三季中，角色 McBlane（Joseph Brady 飾演）在咆哮時說了一句無意義的“ap yer clunge!”（“up your clunge”）。這個詞可能是由作家 David Nobbs 所造的，意思是“屁股”。
因英國電視劇《中間人》而流行。


carcerate

carcerates (third-person singular present)
carcerating (present participle)
carcerated (past participle)


sicaria

借自西班牙語 sicaria。

女杀手；sicario 的陰性形


négligée

借自法語 négligée f (過去分詞、形容詞)，源自法語 négligé m (“衣着不得体；宽松的衣服”，過去分詞，形容詞、名詞), négliger (“忽略，忽視，疏忽”) 的過去分詞，源自拉丁語 negligere。

nightie

女式宽松睡袍/晨衣，尤指较短、带蕾丝和/或暴露者 （自19世紀）

随意脱衣或穿着非常随意的状态 （自19世紀）


Dajjalic

more Dajjalic (comparative)
most Dajjalic (superlative)


languescent

源自拉丁語；參見 languescō。

[S]carcely have the languescent mercenary Fifteen Thousand laid down their tools […]

1837，Thomas Carlyle，The French Revolution: A History […]，卷 (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

It had long been languescent and its revival in 1791 was due to the energy of Home Tooke; its membership was chiefly middle-class.

1939，British common people, 1746-1938，頁 139:

She arrived at the cabin at that late hour of the evening when the languescent river darkened to green-black satin, […]

2002，Frances Myers，Swan: A Novel, →ISBN，頁 217:


interfulgent

more interfulgent (comparative)
most interfulgent (superlative)

The window at each gable end stood open; into one fell the silvery splendor of the moon; the other was dusky with shadows, though beyond he caught the interfulgent rays among the sycamore leaves.

两扇山墙的窗户都敞开着，一扇窗户里洒满了银色的月光，另一扇窗户则笼罩在昏暗的阴影中，不过他能透过它看到梧桐树叶间闪烁的月光。

1891，Mary Noailles Murfree，In the "Stranger People's" Country，Nebraska, 出版於 2005，頁 28:


rasure

繼承自中古英語 rasure，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 rasure、中古法語 rasure，源自拉丁語 rāsūra (“刮，剃”)，源自 rādere (“刮，剃”) 的分詞詞幹。

刮擦羊皮纸等的表面以从文件上擦除某些内容


listy

more listy (comparative)
most listy (superlative)

Yes it will be helpful to make a list. I am a very 'listy' sort of person. And lists are very good when you are running out of motivation and impetus.

是的，列个清单会很有帮助。我是个很喜欢列清单的人。当你缺乏动力和动力的时候，清单就非常有用。

1999，Dominic H. Lam, Steven H. Jones, Peter Hayward，Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder:


calesce

calesces (third-person singular present)
calescing (present participle)
calesced (past participle)

Now [warming it over the spirit lamp] here it is becoming yellow again, and that is all because its attraction of cohesion is changed. And what will you say to me when I tell you that this piece of common charcoal is just the same thing, only differently calesced, as the diamonds which you wear?

1874，Michael Faraday，“Lecture II: Gravitation-Cohesion”, in On the Various Forces of Nature，London: Chatto and Windus，頁 58:

23. Drops of Water。 — In answer to E. J. Pond's query in Science for Jan. 20, it seems to me that the phenomenon is explainable in the same way as the related phenomenon of drops of water on a hot stove; […] The small drops that fall from the oar-blade will float a short time before calescing, even when no wind is blowing; […]

1888年February3日，C. M. Wirick，Science，卷 XI, 期 261，頁 62，列 2:


delectate

源自拉丁語 dēlectātus，dēlectāre 的過去分詞。參見 delight。

delectates (third-person singular present)
delectating (present participle)
delectated (past participle)

使……高兴，使……著迷，使……快乐


zir

z (性別中性（如 ze）) + i (him/his) + r (her) 組成的混成詞。

Appendix:英語第三人稱單數代詞

性別中性第三人稱單數賓格代詞，等價於單數的 them，對應 him 和 her。

However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir.

然而，爱丽丝很快就变得非常孤独，因为爱丽丝的学校朋友再也见不到TA，他们很快就忘记了TA。

2002，Lynsey Calderwood，Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury，Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN，頁 155:


zir

與 ze (性別中性主語，對應 he/she) 一起使用。

zir 的；性別中性第三人稱單數所有格形容詞，等價於單數的 their，對應 his 和 her。

… just when it seemed like zie was beginning to get a handle on zir teapot and form normal relationships – although one could hardly call zir twice-weekly sexual encounters with the March Hare ‘normal’ …


blinden

blindens (third-person singular present)
blindening (present participle)
blindened (past participle)

The race for success has blindened him, making him incapable to lucidly appraise his work and to judge it by higher and more exacting standards than those prevailing in local, more modest competitions.

She laughed at my attempt, and I got a pull of the ears for daring to blinden myself.

2008，Olabisi Gwamna，Dancing with Shadows and Other Stories: