androgynous

源自拉丁語 androgynus (“男人-女人，雌雄同體的人”) ← 古希臘語 ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógŭnos)，源自ἀνήρ (anḗr，“男人”) + γῠνή (gŭnḗ，“女人”) + -ος (-os，形容詞後綴)。

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雌雄同體的，擁有兩性生殖器官的 （自17世紀早期）

Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.

帕特、薩姆、克里斯這些暱稱都是兩性兼用的，男性女性都可以使用。

(我們能否確認Owen引文的時間，或提供標題、作者全名和其他詳情？)


antic

可能源自意大利語 antico (“古代的；奇異的”)，指古代的壁畫，源自拉丁語 antiquus。參見grottesco (“怪誕的”)。antique的雙詞。

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:Template:藝 奇形怪狀的，怪異的

The amusement park environment of seaside resorts such as Venice and the antic eclecticism of Greene & Greene's pre-Craftsman work all preceded the establishment of the movie colony in Hollywood.

2004，John Chase，Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular city，頁 58:

a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces, with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on.

Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave / Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?

1591-1595，William Shakespeare，Romeo and Juliet:


antsy

源自ants + -y，源自ants in one's pants。最早作為20世紀早期的美國南部鄉村俚語。

antsier (comparative)
antsiest (superlative)

The children were antsy and worried […]


mesto

借自意大利語 mesto，作音樂情感表示記號。


made in China

便宜質低的（多指東亞、東南亞貨品）


antebellum

源自拉丁語短語ante bellum (字面意思是“戰前”)，ante (“之前”) + bellum (“戰爭”)。

希特勒統治下戰前的德國，出現了一種全新的國家榮譽的形式。


tutti

源自意大利語 tutti ← 拉丁語 totus (“全部”)。

a tutti passage


antislavery

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creo

[comment #128 by "raven"] In the hotbed of creo nonsense, the USA, acceptance of the fact of evolution runs around 99% among relevant scientists.

2007年November17日，PZ Myers，引 raven (username), “The Discovery Institute lies to educators”, in Pharyngula, comment #128:

First, I have to agree with you regarding the many creo sites and their unqualified interpretations of fossil evidence […]

2008年November26日，Mark Gerard，“Re: Science be damned!”, in talk.origins (Usenet):


creationist

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assailant

源自古法語 asaillant，源自動詞asaillir (“跳上”)，源自拉丁語 assaliō，源自ad (“朝，向”) + saliō (“跳”)。

But he though blind of sight, / Despis'd, and thought extinguish'd quite, / With inward eyes illuminated, / His fiery virtue roused / From under ashes into sudden flame, / And as an evening dragon came, / Assailant on the perched roosts / And nests in order ranged / Of tame villatic fowl, but as an eagle / His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
（請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes, lines 1687 to 1696.


dece

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I'm sorry but this book did not quite move me. Yeah, the slang wuz kewl, the attitude was neat, and the music was dece (if you read the book four years ago) but it's not THE BEST READ I've ever had […]

1993, "Chris L Concepcion", Re: _Bad Voltage_ (on newsgroup alt.cyberpunk)

Salad and Franchise both played ridiculously well after we took our lead, especially considering the ridiculous conditions of the game. I suppose the rest of Texas was dece as well, good for you […]

2006, "Joseph.H...@gmail.com", Re: Callahan race, post-Regionals (on newsgroup rec.sport.disc)


ded

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def

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(非裔美國人俚語) 很好的

See I do this thing, so come pursue this king / One minor rhyme is all you just bring / Cause I’m the best I’m def, ask the rest they left

1988，“Run’s House”, in Tougher Than Leather，演出者 Run-DMC:


mouvementé

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dernier

借自法語 dernier，源自derrenier，派生自古法語 derrain (“最終的，最後的”)（可能類比premier），派生自通俗拉丁語 *dēretrānus，源自拉丁語 dē (“遠離”) + retrō (“向後，在後面”) + -ānus (“屬於……的”)。

常以 dernier resort 或 dernier ressort的形式出現。

Then as I'm a Chriſtian, I ſuſpect we have both been equally involv'd in the misfortune of a Miſtake. Sir, I am in the dernier Confuſion to avow, that tho my Daughter Conſtantia has been liable to ſeveral Addreſſes; yet ſhe never has had the Honour to be produc'd to his Grace.

1617，[John Fletcher]，George, Duke of Buckingham [i.e., George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham]，“The Chances: A Comedy; as It is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. By His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, Author of The Rehearsal”, in Two Plays Written by His Grace George Late Duke of Buckingham: viz. I. The Rehearsal; to which is Added the Key to It. And, II. The Chances. Being All that His Grace Ever Publish’d. Corrected from the Errors of Former Editions，London: Printed by J. Darby for M. P. and sold by A. Bettesworth […], and F. Clay […], 出版於 1723, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii，頁 157:

That thoſe laws of Ed[ward] 3 for Annual Parliaments are pro bono publico [for the public good], and of the greateſt concern to the Nation, beſides they are made concerning the higheſt Court of Judicature, of the Dernier Reſort, and which regulates and keeps all the reſt in order, needs not a proof to any reaſonable man.

1676，author uncertain, attributed to Nicholas Carey or Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles，Some Considerations upon the Question, whether the Parliament is Dissolved by It’s Prorogation for 15 Months?，[s.l.: s.n.], →OCLC, section II，頁 7:

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

1788 June，Richard Brinsley Sheridan，“Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D.，卷 I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, […], 出版於 1808, →OCLC，頁 474:

[T]he attention of the Board in New-street, Spring-gardens, was in vain called to the petinacious obstinacy of these justices, until, wearied with official correspondence, and "having no reasonable expectation," they state, "that any steps would be taken by the committee of visiting justices to the remedy of the manifest defects," upon which they had animadverted, they inform us that they had recourse to the dernier ressort—an appeal to the Secretary of State […]

1853年October1日，“Art. I. State of Lunacy in England.”, in The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology，卷 VI, 期 XXIV, London: John Churchill, […], →OCLC，頁s 475–476:

In the autumn of 1849 Mr. and Mrs. Bracebridge, who were to spend some months in the East, again proposed that Miss [Florence] Nightingale should travel with them, and again the offer was gladly accepted. Her sister was delighted. […] The sister reported to her friends that "Flo had taken tea with the Bunsens to receive the dernier mot [last word] on Egyptology," and that she was going out "laden with learned books."

1913，Edward [Tyas] Cook，“Foreign Travel: Egypt and Greece (1849–1850)”, in The Life of Florence Nightingale […] In Two Volumes，卷s I (1820–1861), London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, […], →OCLC，頁 84:

And of course what was there possibly to be said that hadn't already been said about the dernier mot or the last word or the afterword or postscript or any number of other equivalent terms, in an interminable logic of the supplement, by Jacques Derrida himself?

2009，Nicholas Royle，“Last”, in In Memory of Jacques Derrida，Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN，頁 186:


Punjabi

借自波斯語 پنجابی (panjâbi)，源自پنجاب (panjâb) + ی (-i，形容詞後綴)。等同於Punjab + -i。


sotto

Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.

1978–81, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:

The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto, intimate.

2008, David Henderson, ‛Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child, page 192:


doux

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doon

(泰恩赛德) 同down。


Pashtun

源自普什圖語 پښتون (paẍtun)。參見Pathan。

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tenebrous

盎格魯-諾曼語 tenebrous (tenebrus)，源自拉丁語 tenebrōsus，源自tenebrae (“黑暗，陰影”)。

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Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress
Met in a dusky arch, […]

1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"

[…] and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.

1992, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, "Troia Vittrice: Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem", Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History, page 174

White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous.

1993, Georges Duby, Natalie Zemon Davis, Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, page 62, 1991, Storia delle donne in Occidente, Volume III: Dal Rinascimento all'etá moderna,

Although Ishiguro's novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emotional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, "against tenebrous historical backdrops."

2008, Edited by Brian W. Shaffer and Cynthia F. Wong, Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, University Press of Mississippi, page xi,


tenebrose

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/ˈtɛnɪbɹəʊs/


dur

源自德語 Dur，源自拉丁語 dūrus (“硬的，堅定的，果斷的”)。

C dur


manoeuvrable

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manœuvrable

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prest

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(我們能否確認R. of Gloucester引文的時間，或提供標題、作者全名和其他詳情？)


extraordinaire

在複數名詞後，可類似法語複數化，作 extraordinaires ，所以既可以有 dancers extraordinaire ，也可以有 dancers extraordinaires。

He was a dancer extraordinaire.

Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.

查理·帕克是一位傑出的薩克斯風演奏家，出版了許多唱片。


erer

源自中古英語 eror, erur, earre, arre ← 古英語 ǣrra (“之前的”)，等同於ere + -er。


yar

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yar

源自古英語 gearu (“準備好的”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *garwaz。

yarrer (comparative)
yarrest (superlative)

My, she was yar...It means, uh...easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, right. Everything a boat should be, until she develops dry rot.

1939, The Philadelphia Story（劇本），Philip Barry

...to make a ship best weighed, or yarest in her going.

1958, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

Arr, here be a fine vessel: the yarest river-going boat there be.

1993 Captain McAllister, The Simpsons ep. 1F06


ex

源自拉丁語 ex (“出，從”)，源自電報縮寫。

When between the station and the junction I was looking to the rear of the train on the near side, thinking it possible that we might receive a signal from the guard to shunt at Swindon junction to allow the 2.27 a.m. fast train ex Derby to pass, but the guard did not give any signal

1885，F. A. Marindin，引 Arthur Oakes, Annual Reports, Returns, Etc, Midland Railway - inquiry into the causes of a collision at Swinton station，頁 96:

The train was the 12.40 p.m. ex Derby on January 14th, 1914

1921，The Locomotive News and Railway Contractor, Volumes 8-10，Locomotive news agency，頁 34:

All trains from start of service up to the 13.57 ex Norwich (16.45 ex Nottingham) are 4 cars between Nottingham and Liverpool and all East bound trains are 4 cars from Liverpool Lime Street as far as Nottingham.

2003年February11日，"Fat Richard"，“Re: Chiltern not stopping at Warwick Parkway”, in uk.railway (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-11, message-ID <2a1e76b8-185c-4b27-a8d2-6f3f3331f6cd@dp10g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>:

The outward timing is: Ashford International railway station (domestic side) *departs at 09.25hrs* (connecting with the 07.32 ex Brighton *Marshlink* train and, 08.37 ex London St. Pancras International *HS1* train)

2016年March17日，Derek Jones，“South East Bus Festival, Detling, 2 April 2016”, in Invicta Newsgroup (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-11, message-ID <CAJ9GgXJNSabs=QsEzzf-tCXQcXPdZyRZgiEtk9J3e8ToRs+ctg@mail.gmail.com>:


ex

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It's too ex.


seclusive

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Hmong

源自白苗語 Hmoob。


Anglish

源自Angle + -ish，最早是由英國幽默作家Paul Jennings在《笨拙雜誌》（Punch）上提出。

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gapy

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The sessions in a dental chair where a man hovers over your gapy mouth with needle, hooked-pick and drill are over.

1958, Charles E. Heartsill, Molars Away: Tips and Titters for People Soon to Get False Teeth


gorky

gorkier (comparative)
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(非正式) 尷尬的；奇怪的

Dr Gill says: "Phillip Schofield went from being a gorky boyish chump to a daytime anchor when he went back to grey. Suddenly, he seemed more mature. Maturity is what women want for a stable relationship."

2009, Maria Croce, "Rise of the silver fox: Why grey is best look for older men", Daily Record (Scotland), 22 January 2009:

"He was nine weeks old when he arrived and, although he was a gorky long-legged funny little fellow, he won our hearts instantly, especially mine," Michelle Ackland said.

2010, Sue Hewitt, "Legal stoush over Chihuahua", Herald Sun, 17 October 2010:

We kept in touch, but not long after starting at the bank, she started dating some real gorky looking older bloke called Ray. He must have felt like all his Saturdays had come at once to be dating a girl like Jemma when his mirror told only horror stories.

2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456770099, page 282:


grue

green + blue，由納爾遜·古德曼所創。

指物品粗看是綠色或藍色的。

The grue property is defined as: x is grue if and only if x is green and is observed before the year 2000, or x is blue and is not observed before the year 2000.

1965, Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction and Forecast,

The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue, since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue.

2007，Michael Clark，Paradoxes from A to Z:

指部分語言（如威爾士語）中不經區分的綠色或藍色的。


gud

可能由英語拼寫改革支持者所用。


propre

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inacceptable

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Spring and Autumn

仿譯自漢語 春秋 (chūnqiū)。


apo

(生化) （蛋白質）處於無配體狀態的

In this scenario, unbound proteins are predominantly in the ligand-free ("apo") structure.

2009年January30日，Robert B. Best, Gerhard Hummer，“BIOCHEMISTRY: Unfolding the Secrets of Calmodulin”, in Science:


printanier

(後置定語) 春季蔬菜的

Today, for example, he had dined on the finest entrecôte steak he had ever tasted; lunched on a superb braised oxtail printanière; breakfasted on broiled kippers and Wiltshire bacon.

1985, Marshall Jevons, The Fatal Equilibrium, chapter 16, page 173:


salty

源自中古英語 salti，等同於salt + -y。
對比薩特弗里斯蘭語 soaltich, 西弗里斯蘭語 sâltich, 荷蘭語 zoutig, 德國低地德語 soltig, 德語 salzig (“鹹”)。

saltier (comparative)
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A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.

2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":

There's a sailor's tavern at the end of the street where I could find companionship if I chose (one catches salty boys going in and out at any hour) but only music matters to me now.

Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers.

1946, Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, page 61:

I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.

1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Holloway House Publishing, page 162:

指撒丁語和加泰羅尼亞語的巴利阿里方言，在定冠詞上用拉丁語ipse (“自己”)的派生詞而不是ille (“那”)的派生詞。


esteemed

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deaerated

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Umayyad

源自阿拉伯語 أُمَيَّة (ʔumayya，“沃馬亞”)。


approx

approx.的另一種拼寫法


anarchist

源自法語 anarchiste ← 古希臘語 ἀναρχία (anarkhía)，ἀν- (an-，“沒有”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ，“規則”)。

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aneroid

源自法語 anéroïde ← 古希臘語 ἀ- (a-) + νηρός (nērós，“濕”)。

An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.


antifeminist

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反女權主義的，反女性主義的


aorist

源自古希臘語 ἀόριστος (aóristos，“無盡的”)。

the aorist stem of a verb


technocratic

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surgical

源自中古英語 cirurgical，借自中古法語 cirurgical，源自中世紀拉丁語 cirurgicālis，源自古希臘語 χειρουργία (kheirourgía)，χείρ (kheír，“手”) + ἔργον (érgon，“工作”)。

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/ˈsɜːdʒɪkəl/

Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

2013 May-June，Charles T. Ambrose，“Alzheimer’s Disease”, in 美国科学家，卷 101, 期 3，頁 200:

The building was destroyed with a surgical air-strike.

這座大樓正正好被飛機擊中而被毀。


FOB

(貿易) free on board (“船上交貨”)之首字母縮略詞。


tumorigenic

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tumourigenic

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kawaii

借自日語 可愛い, かわいい (kawaī)。

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(一般指日本文化、ACG) 可愛的，卡哇伊

However, Wong's connection to kawaii culture, which I have attempted to establish here, suggests a different reading of his films. As Larissa Hjorth has argued, “The kawaii is not about post-humanism but rather a clear demonstration of neo-humanist types” (144). In this sense, East Asian kawaii culture, like Wong's films, should be understood as desperate attempts to create a dreamlike humanist space within the harsh reality of globalized capitalism.

2010，Susan Cahill，Emma Hegarty，Emilie Moran，Waste and Abundance: The Measure of Consumption: Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 116, 37:2 (2008)，University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN，頁 106:


tech-savvy

最早見於1984年11月19日刊Business Week第170-172頁文章“A New B-School Mission: Teaching High-Tech Savvy”，作為“high-tech savvy”的縮略。

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(非正式) 對科技十分在行的

The Tofflers have also recruited as executive partners TV producer Al Burton and the tech-savvy film producer and entrepreneur Jeff Apple.

1996年July15日，Krantz, Michael，“Cashing In On Tomorrow””, in Time，卷 148, 號 4, →ISSN:


savvy

save, sabi (“知道”)的變體，源自葡萄牙語或西班牙語 sabe (“他/她知道”)，源自saber (“知道”) ← 拉丁語 sapiō (“智慧的”)。
作為名詞最早見於1785年。通過西印度群島皮欽語借自法語 savez(-vous) (“你知道嗎”), 葡萄牙語 (você) sabe (“你知道”)或西班牙語 (usted) sabe (“你知道”)，源自通俗拉丁語 *sapere ← 拉丁語 sapere (“智慧的，知道”) (參見sapient)。形容詞最早見於1905年。

savvier (comparative)
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That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/


anemic

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近義詞：enervated、underoxygenated

[H]e was one of those weak creatures full of a shifty cunning - who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves, void of pride, timorous, anæmic, hateful souls.

1898，H.G. Wells，The War of the Worlds，London: William Heinemann，頁 219:

My ordinarily even disposition was shattered, I thought, beyond repair — a condition that was not improved by my utter abhorrence of a diet of infant's food and anemic vegetables.

1938，Henry Goddard Leach，Forum and Century，卷 100，頁 156:


high-tech

hi-tech的另一種拼寫法


hi-tech

(非正式) 高技術的，高新技術的

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.

2013年June22日，“T time”, in The Economist，卷 407, 期 8841，頁 68:


anaemic

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anemic的另一種拼寫法


breme

源自中古英語 brem, breme ← 古英語 brēme (“知名的，榮耀的”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *brōmiz (“知名的”)。與拉丁語 fremō (“嚅囁；吼”), 古希臘語 βρέμω (brémō，“吼”), 波蘭語 brzmieć (“被聽說”)同源。

He was war of Arcite and Palamon / Þat fouȝten breme as it were bores two.

14世紀末, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale:

Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.

1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:

The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme.

1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence:

"So upon the morn there came Sir Gawaine as brim (breme) as any boar, with a great spear in his hand."

(我們能否確認Mallory引文的時間，或提供標題、作者全名和其他詳情？), "Le Morte d'Arthur":


aborted

Spines are aborted branches.

The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state.


avascular

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An avascular mass was discovered during surgery.


intimidating

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transexual

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semblable

源自中古英語 [具體何詞?] ← 中古法語 [具體何詞?] ← 古法語 sembler (“像”) + -able。

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successoral

In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 47:


spatial

In the one case these are spatial, in the other chromatic, in the third moral; and would be what the Germans call intensiv in a fourth case, if I were to say, "Camphor smells milder than ammonia."

1879，William James，“The Spatial Quale”, in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy，卷 5:

The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

2013 July-August，Fenella Saunders，“Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

It was a land that could no longer be seriously described as underdeveloped, a land that has been able to achieve remarkably high rates of growth in its industrial production and gross national product since 1928, and a land that would shortly send into outer space the first man-made, and eventually also the first manned, spatial vehicle.

1964, Food Research Institute Studies, volume 4, issue 2, page 123:

By following the roadmap suggested by Godunov himself, the next step in order to reduce truncation errors in a context of large gradients should be to set up moving mesh methods; a suggestion from the man who created the scheme by means of which were achieved computations of the Apollo spatial vehicle during its reentry into Earth's atmosphere [20], is most probably worth being worked out!

2013, Laurent Gosse, Computing Qualitatively Correct Approximations of Balance Laws (ISBN 8847028922):

According to Peter Dickens, the cosmos has become capitalism's new “outside,” and these “outer space imperialisms” are now seeking “outer spatial fixes”—investments in outer space—to solve the crises of capitalism (Dickens 2009, 68).

2017, Greta Gaard, Critical Ecofeminism (ISBN 1498533590), page 106:


astronomical

至少出現在1550年以前，源自中古法語 astronomique，或直接源自拉丁語 astronomicus，源自古希臘語 ἀστρονομικός (astronomikós)。

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/ˌæstɹəˈnɑːmɪkəl/

massive astronomical compact halo object

Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet.

1839，Edgar Allan Poe，The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion:

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.

2012年March10日，Brian Hayes，“Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist，卷 100, 期 2，頁 106:

At the moment he wondered why anyone would want to visit Khatka, let alone pay some astronomical sum for the privilege.

1959，Andre Norton，Voodoo Planet - Chapter IV:


risque

借自法語 risqué。

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risqué的另一種寫法


kwik

kwikker (comparative)
kwikkest (superlative)

一般見於商店名稱，如 Kwik Meal。

quick的視覺方言拼法。


teal

源自中古英語 tele，可能源自未曾記錄過的古英語 *tǣle，與西弗里斯蘭語 tjilling (“水鴨”), 中古荷蘭語 teling （“水鴨”；現代荷蘭語 taling）, 中古低地德語 telink同源，源自原始日耳曼語 *tailijaz。作為顏色最早見於1923年，源於水鴨頭和翅膀上的花紋顏色。

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apish

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simian

源自拉丁語 sīmia (“猿”) ← 古希臘語 σιμός (simós)。

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led

由……領導的，由……管理的


schizophrenic

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thoracic

源自古希臘語 θωρακικός (thōrakikós) ← θώραξ (thṓrax，“胸腔”)。


gone with the wind

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/en-au-gone with the wind.ogg


shod

源自中古英語 shoed，shon的過去分詞。


omakase

借自日語 お任せ (omakase，“交給您了；由您來決定”)。

廚師發辦：餐廳點餐的一種方式，由主廚決定用餐的菜單

So Americans are stuck between chef-driven omakase meals at elite restaurants that cost a fortune and the cheap, predictable fare at our neighborhood places.

因此，美国人只能要么选择在高档餐厅里由大厨精心烹制、价格不菲的omakase餐食，要么选择邻里餐馆里便宜又可口的餐食。

2007年July15日，Trevor Corson，“Sushi for Two”, in New York Times:

He prefers a greasy cheeseburger to a hundred-dollar omakase sushi dinner.

比起价值一百美元的omakase寿司晚餐，他更喜欢油腻的芝士汉堡。

2007，Jeremy Blachman，Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel，Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

An omakase menu is available, as are sushi plates, which consist of a variety of nigiri, maki, and／ot sashimi chosen by the chef.

酒店提供omakase菜单以及寿司拼盘，其中包括厨师选择的各种握寿司、卷寿司和/或生鱼片。

2011，Crystal Esquivel，Food Lovers' Guide to® Austin: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants & Events，Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN，頁 56:


meh

* 因《辛普森一家》的 "Sideshow Bob Roberts"一集而流行。

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They redeemed themselves with this show. The first song or two was meh, but they were on fire after that.

2003，steve-o，“Jam On The River Mini-Review”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):

The voice is excellent as always, but the overall effect was meh until the end, where he became a little bit awesome.

2006，Suzanne D.，“Recaps: Finals Week 8 Performances, 5/2/2006”, in alt.tv.american-idol (Usenet):

Nothing that was supposed to be big and exciting came off as such and the rest was meh at best.

2006，FunkyM，“Turned on RAW for the first time in forever last night...”, in rec.sport.pro.wrestling (Usenet):

Both shows left me feeling, meh.

2003，Dana，“10/18/03 Shows”, in alt.tv.trading-spaces (Usenet):

I’m a huge Clay fan, love Ruben’s voice, and have become quite a fan of Kelly’s, as well. Fantasia just leaves me feeling meh.

2004，jennifer，“The FANtasia thing: I don’t get it...”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

I liked it but I wasn’t feeling it for some reason that day, again, I was feeling meh toward video games in general.

2006，ettie...@hotmail.com，“Steve’s impressions on random Genesis games”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):


sunny

源自中古英語 sunni ← 古英語 *sunniġ。與西弗里斯蘭語 sinnich, 低地德語 sünnig, 荷蘭語 zonnig, 德語 sonnig同源。等同於sun + -y。

sunnier (comparative)
sunniest (superlative)

Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.

雖然今天可能是晴天，但是天氣預報說會下雨。

the sunny side of a hill

I would describe Spain as sunny, but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.

我會說西班牙經常天晴，但是和撒哈拉就沒有可比性了。

a sunny disposition

My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.

c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors Act I scene 1

A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.

太陽的；似太陽的；燦爛的


lenis

借自拉丁語 lēnis (“軟，柔”)。

All vowels, whether short or complex, are relatively shorter when followed by a fortis consonant and relatively longer when followed by a lenis one or, for those where this is possible, when no consonant follows (in free or unchecked syllables).

2004, Stephan Gramley, Michael Pätzold, A Survey of Modern English, Routledge (ISBN 9781134420469), page 80:


optique

One Symoy, an optique inſtrument‐maker, found the first of thoſe inſects as he was ſearching for polypes; which gave me ſince an occaſion of examining ditch‐water, where I not only found the plant, but the crown’d inſect, and a good many other ſurpriſing little things, of all ſhapes and faſhions, of which I will take the liberty to ſend you an account.

1755, T. Brady in Philosophical Transactions, Volume XLIX., page #250:


sexist

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A defender of communitarianism might argue that just because extant communitarian theories are sexist, it does not follow that communitarianism is inherently sexist.

2013，Susan J. Hekman，Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory:


existentialist

源自法語 existentialiste，等同於existential + -ist。

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form-fitting

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a form-fitting evening dress


louche

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Upstairs Downstairs hosts the Kennedys and Wallis Simpson (these days, in British culture, the archetypal louche American).

2012年February25日，“The other half lives: The transatlantic appeal of the British ruling classes”, in The Economist，存檔自the original on 2016-04-28:

The aunt will refuse; she will think the whole proceeding very louche!

1888，Henry James，“The Aspern Papers”, in The Atlantic Monthly，卷 LXI, Boston, Mass.: Atlantic Monthly Co., →OCLC，頁 304:

特立獨行而又名聲不光彩的；放蕩的

Anyone inside the business can also tell you that without Carine Roitfeld's louche sexy styling Tom Ford's Gucci might easily have come off looking like a high-end Club Monaco.

2007年September9日，Guy Trebay，“Who will pull together the collections?”, in The New York Times，存檔自the original on 2015-11-03:


fucked

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I can't repair your computer, it's fucked, mate.

哥們兒，我修不好你的電腦，都壞掉了。

He's lost his map in the middle of a desert! He's fucked.

他竟然在沙漠裡把地圖弄丟了！真是惹大麻煩了。

Man, I was mixing all sorts of drinks, and by the end of the night I was so fucked!

哥啊，我昨晚調了好幾種酒，最後簡直是爛醉如泥啊！

fucked up (“令人煩惱的”) 的截斷形式。

I'll be awake all night finishing all the work I had to bring home. That is so fucked!

我得通宵把帶回家的工作做完。真是太操蛋了！

I'm so fucked – I didn't get home until 5am.

累死我了——我凌晨5點才到的家。


motivated

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We're looking for a highly motivated individual who will fit into our fast-paced corporate culture.

我們正在尋找一位對工作保持高度熱情，且能融入本公司快節奏文化的人士。


yester

源自中古英語 yester, yister ← 古英語 geostran (“昨天”)。與荷蘭語 gisteren (“昨天”), 德語 gestern (“昨天”)同源。參見yesterday。

yester eve, yester even(ing), yester morning


taupe

借自法語 taupe，源自拉丁語 talpa (“鼴鼠”)。參見talpa。

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At five o'clock the patch of daylight above the red-lighted exit door turned taupe, as though a gray curtain had been flung across it; […]

1915, Ben Hecht, "Life", The Little Review, November,

In the front room, on an old taupe overstuffed sofa, the head of the house lay in a blanket bathrobe, […]

1952, Wallace Earle Stegner, "Pop Goes the Alley Cat", Harper's Magazine, February, pp. 42-52,


integro-differential

/ɪnˈtɛɡɹəʊdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl/

/ɪnˈtɛɡɹoʊdɪfəˈrɛnʃəl/

An integro-differential equation is an equation that involves both integrals and derivatives of a function.

積分微分方程是一個同時涉及積分和微分的方程式。


exaggeratory

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meare

mere的棄用形式。 （16-17世紀）


miz

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But when I finally left the pub, it must have been about five minutes later, beginning to feel a bit miz, there he was outside, leaning against the pillar at the corner, one foot raised behind him - very rent-looking, actually, which should have made me wonder, but I found I was talking to him.

1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 222


Senegalese

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carboxylic

(有機化學) （含）羧基的


genotoxic

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bitchier

bitchy 的比較級形式。


bitchy

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disaffectionate

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sycophantic

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scatterbrained

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tacit

源自晚期中古法語 tacite，或源自拉丁語 tacitus，源自tacere (“安靜”)。

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默示的；心照不宣的，不言而喻的

tacit consent

He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:

[…] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]

2004, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798:


Lahu

借自拉祜語 Laˇhuˍ。


nef

numerically effective的簡稱；由 Miles Reid 所造。


nemo

:Template:舊 not emanating from main office (“非本部廣播”) 之首字母縮略詞。

In New York City alone, there are nearly three dozen of these "nemo" points from which speeches, music, and entertainment are broadcast regularly.

1929, Popular Science (volume 115, number 4, page 153)

All "nemo" broadcasting, except entirely musical, would be abandoned. Stations would not risk broadcasting anything arising outside the studio, as there would be no editorial or censorship power.

1935, Alison Reppy, Air Law Review (volume 6, page 86)


free of charge

Buy two and pay for just one – the other is free of charge.

買二送一——也就是第二件免費。


transatlantic

Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expected transatlantic traffic.

1961 August，“New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated，頁 492:


chinky

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[…] the accustomed warmth pierced his marrow, and ran thrilling through his shaken bones; just as when at times, with forked thunder burst, a chinky stream of fire in flashy lightning shoots athwart the skies.

1826, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, The Works of Vergil: Translated into English Prose

The door was knockerless and chinky, and creaked dismally as I inserted the key.


udal

源自冰島語 óðal。參見odal。


teak

源自葡萄牙語 teca，源自馬拉雅拉姆語 തേക്കു് (tēkkŭŭ)或泰米爾語 தேக்கு (tēkku)。


Roman Catholic

（天主教會）採用拉丁禮或羅馬禮的


thermoluminescent

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pacific

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dovish

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的

nonviolent

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的

bellicose

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的

hawkish

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的

martial

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的

militant

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的

violent

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的

（性格）平和的，不訴諸暴力的


exhibitionist

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gungho

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gung ho的另一種拼寫法


Nigerian

/naɪˌdʒɪəɹɪən/


Judaean

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Judean的另一種寫法


antarctic

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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:


Afro-American

I inadvertently gave the afro-american delivery boi a $5 tip probably due to the fact that I had pickled a few brain cells.

2004年August5日，"Zonee"，“Ungratefull fucking pizza boi....”, in alt.pizza.delivery.drivers (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-09:


Brit

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Vandal

源自拉丁語 Vandalus，源自原始日耳曼語 *wandilaz，源自原始印歐語 *wendʰ-eh₂-，源自原始印歐語 *wendʰ- (“轉，纏繞，編織”)。與古英語 Wendlas有關。


absolvent

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

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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


bicornuate

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sinological

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Sinological

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unairworthy

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airworthy

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time-invariant

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For time-invariant systems, the system properties remain constant with time.

對於非時變系統，系統的特性隨時間保持不變。


deuterated

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-deuterated.wav


double-plus-good

由喬治·歐威爾在1949造出，使用於小說《一九八四》當中。

doubleplusgood (alternative)
double-plus good (alternative)
double plus good (alternative)
++good (alternative)

For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!

1992，Norman Spiney，“Info about SKREW?”, in alt.music.alternative (Usenet):

I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother.

1999年March12日，"BAM"，“Re:Use of the "J" word (RANT!)”, in alt.toys.gi-joe (Usenet):

We can only agree with Mermin's anonymous physicist, but must add that they are double-plus-good rocks, full of promise.

1999，Alan A. Grometstein，“Bells Thunderbolt 1964”, in The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics, →ISBN，頁 511:

Nudging the nearly-closed bedroom door secret-agent style, I saw on the bed the double-plus-good definition of inviting.


yiffiest

yiffy的最高級形式。


inessive

內格的，表示與內格相關。


assassinative

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pedi

“We've drilled it into all the fire departments to give us a heads-up with pedi patients. Even Frank knows that.”

2001, Janice Hudson, Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse (page 79)


pulchritudinous

源自拉丁語 pulchritūdō (“美麗”) + -ous，源自pulcher (“美麗的”) + -tūdō。

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Beninese

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Bhutanese

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Viennese

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Rwandese

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In 2003, Rwanda changed its official name from "Rwandese Republic" to "Republic of Rwanda".

2003年，盧旺達將其（英語）官方名稱由“Rwandese Republic”改為“Republic of Rwanda”。


Rwandan

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Burkinese

布基納法索/布吉納法索的


plaine

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Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.


Honduran

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blinde

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[…] but if you finde that their encrease and continuance multiply with your labour, it shall be then good for you to plant in diuers places of your Garden the hearbe called Palma Christi, in other places Garlicke and in other places Onyons, and it is an assured rule that no Moale will come néere where they grow for the strength and violence of their smell, is poysonous and deadly to those blinde vermines.

1614，Gervase Markham，章號 7, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman，London: John Browne，頁s 45–46:


anti-vax

And, indeed, fashion is already doing its part in the form of pro-vaxx and anti-vaxx T-shirts. Many of the anti-vaxx versions come pre-loaded with Libertarian subtext.

2015年January21日，Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell，“How Fashion Helped Defeat 18th-Century Anti-Vaxxers”, in The Atlantic:

Online anti-vax communities, most of which are on Facebook, have taken on a very different tone.

2020年June18日，Kiera Butler，“The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders”, in Mother Jones:

Donald Trump’s habit of projecting his own failings onto his adversaries reached a new level of absurdity on Labor Day, when he attacked the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for “reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric” and accused them of a position that “undermines science.”

2020年September8日，Michael Hiltzik，“Column: Trump attacks Biden and Harris as anti-vaccine, but he’s the one with the anti-vaxx record”, in Los Angeles Times:

The anti-vaxx movement punches down and punches hard. Its leaders tend to be men and women from wealthy backgrounds.

2021年January30日，Nick Cohen，“Anti-vaxxers posing as victims has a history. Look at Andrew Wakefield”, in The Guardian:


unvaxxed

In Rockland County, just north of New York, where 155 cases have been confirmed as of Wednesday, County Executive Ed Day declared a state of emergency this week, banning any unvaccinated person under 18 from appearing in a public place.

紐約北部的羅克蘭截至週三已確診155例病例，行政長官埃德·戴本週宣布進入緊急狀態，禁止任何未接種疫苗的18歲以下人士出現在公共場所。

2019年March28日，Doug Stanglin，“'Extraordinary': 5 states fight measles outbreak as N.Y. county bans unvaxxed minors in public”, in USA Today:


touchy

源自tachy, techy, teachie, tetchy，等同於touch + -y。參見tetchy。

touchier (comparative)
touchiest (superlative)

It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.

這是一個極其棘手的情況，所有人的耐心都正被消磨。

He can be very touchy when you talk about his cat, so be as tactful as possible.

一旦聊到他的貓，他就會變得很敏感，所以你可別惹到他了。


poz

Her test results were poz.

她的檢測結果是HIV陽性。

At a contentious public meeting to discuss barebacking in New York in 1999, an interesting statement came from a man who described himself as the manager of the nation's largest moderated bareback computer list. He stated almost in passing that the the list was “about 98 percent poz guys.”

2002，David Nimmons，The Soul Beneath the Skin，New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN，頁 74:

I recall when we exchanged our HIV statuses at one point; not tonight. He's poz.

2010，Rick Reed，Tales from the Sexual Underground，頁 61:


sentencing

There were no sentencing guidelines for this crime.


ensuing

We watched the derailment and ensuing train wreck with a mixture of fascination and horror.

我们怀着既着迷又恐惧的心情看着火车脱轨和随后发生的相撞事故。


anticolonial

more anticolonial (comparative)
most anticolonial (superlative)


monocellular

In Spore the player guides a species from primordial monocellular ooze through the various stages of evolution: onto land, into tribes, civilizations and finally interstellar colonization.

2009年July2日，Seth Schiesel，“Role Playing at Warp Speed in a Galaxy Darwin Never Imagined”, in New York Times:


monoglot

more monoglot (comparative)
most monoglot (superlative)

只會說一種語言的，單語的

He thought Britain was more monoglot than ever.

他認為英國人比以往變得更加不會說其他語言了。


dialectological

方言學的、和方言學相關的


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。

more Indian (comparative)
most Indian (superlative)

Aboriginal

印第安人的，美洲原住民的 （自16世紀）

Amerind

印第安人的，美洲原住民的 （自16世紀）

Amerindian

印第安人的，美洲原住民的 （自16世紀）

First Nations

印第安人的，美洲原住民的 （自16世紀）

native

印第安人的，美洲原住民的 （自16世紀）

The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […] .

1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, volume 10:

印第安人的，美洲原住民的 （自16世紀）

The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.

1879, Friedrich August Flückiger & al., Pharmacographia..., p. 346:

以玉米為原料製作的 （自17世紀）


treatable

more treatable (comparative)
most treatable (superlative)

In the 1980s, AIDS was not a treatable disease, and as a consequence the mortality rate at that time was very high.

在20世紀80年代，艾滋病還不可治愈，因此當時的死亡率很高。


Indonesian

more Indonesian (comparative)
most Indonesian (superlative)

/ˌɪndəˈniːʒən/


smaller

small 的比較級形式。

The worse things get, the smaller your focus should be.

事情發展越是不好，你就越要減少對它的注意。


introduced

The prickly pear cactus is an introduced species in Australia.

仙人掌是澳大利亞的引進物種。


shortest

short的最高級形式。


caught

音頻（美式，有cot-caught合併）

以擊球員擊球，外野手接球的方法出局的


elephant's

考克尼俚語，源自elephant's trunk，其中trunk 和 drunk 押韻。

more elephant's (comparative)
most elephant's (superlative)


saffron

源自中古英語 saffron，源自古法語 safran，源自中世紀拉丁語 safrānum，源自阿拉伯語 زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān)。

The saffron robe of a Buddhist monk.

佛教僧侶藏紅花色的袈裟。

Now Hymen change thy saffron weedes

1624, Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerninge women inscribed by the names of the nine Muses, London, Book 3, “A Funerall Oade vpon the death of Anna Panareta” p. 123,

The sun was now set; but, under the dark branches of the almond trees, was seen the saffron glow of the west, spreading beyond the twilight of middle air.

1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. & J. Robinson, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 256,

[…] it was half-past four, and the gray day was dying gloriously, its western clouds all broken into narrowing purple strata before a wide-spreading saffron clearness […]

1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Chapter 40,

The jacket was brown but had turned saffron where it had been soaked by Lal’s sweat.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Part 1, Chapter 2,


prohibited

more prohibited (comparative)
most prohibited (superlative)

/pɹəʊˈhɪbɪtɪd/

Theater works and religious essays were the most prohibited literary genres

1993，Germán Bleiberg，Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula，Volume 1, →ISBN，頁 374:


simplest

simple的最高級形式。


simplified

more simplified (comparative)
most simplified (superlative)

With punctuality nosediving and both overcrowding and cancellations on the rise, a new simplified timetable was introduced in December amid threats from the Mayor that he would ask the Secretary of State for Transport to strip Abellio of the franchise.

2020年July29日，Paul Stephen，“A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail，頁 56:

同類詞：traditional

The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.

這個傳統漢字的筆畫數是簡化字筆畫數的兩倍。


cleansing

more cleansing (comparative)
most cleansing (superlative)

Apply the cleansing cream to your skin.

往你的皮膚上搽點清潔膏。


allergic

more allergic (comparative)
most allergic (superlative)

對……有過敏反應的，過敏的

I am allergic to cats.


sare

sarer (comparative)
sarest (superlative)


terser

terse 的比較級形式。


yellower

yellow 的比較級形式。


adjutant

源自拉丁語 adiūtō，adiuvō (“幫助”)的持續態。最早見於17世紀。或源自拉丁語adiuvāns，adiuvō的現在分詞，源自iuvō (“幫助”)。

adjutant officer


adjusted

more adjusted (comparative)
most adjusted (superlative)


admiring

more admiring (comparative)
most admiring (superlative)


granted

用於表示三段論問題的假設：如果。

Granted that he has done nothing wrong, he should be set free.

如果他沒做錯事，就應該被釋放。

Granted the lack of evidence, we can make no such conclusion.

如果缺乏證據，我們就無法作出這樣的結論。


adulterous

more adulterous (comparative)
most adulterous (superlative)


Coptic

科普特（人/教會/語言）的


Glagolitic

來自新拉丁語 glagoliticus，來自古教會斯拉夫語 глаголица (glagolica)，來自глаголъ (glagolŭ，“詞語，話語”)，格拉哥里字母拼寫ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ (glagolica)。

/ˌɡlæɡəʊˈlɪtɪk/

/ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/

The Slavic, and Illyric language has two alphabets. The first is called Glagolitic…, and in our times, is only used in the sacred books.

1778, Alberto Fortis, Travels Into Dalmatia: Containing General Observations on the Natural History of that Country and the Neighboring Islands; the Natural Productions, Arts, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, p. 401:

達爾馬提亞斯拉夫天主教的

In the case of mixed marriages between a Glagolitic and Latin Catholic, the children follow the rite of the father; but there is an exception in favour of the eldest daughter of a Glagolitic family.

1861, John Mason Neale, Notes Ecclesiological & Picturesque, on Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria, Styria: With a Visit to Montenegro, p. 98:


Yiddish

源自意第緒語 ייִדיש (yidish)，來自Yidish Daytsh，來自中古高地德語 jüdisch diutsch (“猶太裔德國人”)。與德語 jüdisch (“猶太的”)同源。

more Yiddish (comparative)
most Yiddish (superlative)

意第緒式（猶太式）生活方式的


hypercorrect

more hypercorrect (comparative)
most hypercorrect (superlative)

矯枉過正的，（對正確形式過分追求而）糾正過頭的


proviolence

more proviolence (comparative)
most proviolence (superlative)


traumatic

來自拉丁語 traumaticus，來自古希臘語 τραυματικός (traumatikós)，來自τραῦμα (traûma)。

more traumatic (comparative)
most traumatic (superlative)

/tɹɔːˈmætɪk/

It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.

1960，P. G. Wodehouse，Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

"I've seen more patients, but never this many patients with this number of severe injuries," said Dr. Michael Morkin, chief of Renown's emergency department […] . "It was traumatic."

2011, September 18, Don Thompson and Ken Ritter, “Reno air race crash scene shows violence of impact”, Associated Press:

traumatic tetanus


seeming

more seeming (comparative)
most seeming (superlative)

seeming friendship

O, good my lord, you have lost a friend / And I dare swear you borrow not that face / Of seeming sorrow—it is sure your own.

c. 1596–1599，William Shakespeare，“The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio)，London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

I'le hide my anger in a seeming calm,
And what I have to do, consult the while,
And mask my vengeance underneath a smile.

1671, Aphra Behn, The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband, London: Thomas Dring, Act II, Scene 5, pp. 32-33,

Of all the English philosophers, I most reverence Bacon, that great and hardy genius: he it is who, undaunted by the seeming difficulties that oppose, prompts human curiosity to examine every part of nature;

1765, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays, London: W. Griffin, Essay 18, p. 150,

[…] she was overcome like the thirsty one who is drawn toward the seeming water in the desert […]

1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Chapter 27,

[…] though they marched in seeming peace, the hearts of all the army, from the highest to the lowest, were downcast, and with every mile that they went north foreboding of evil grew heavier on them.

1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, Chapter 10,

Fields (or “camps”) enclosed by chest-high wire fences now contain thousands of ostriches in seeming harmony, sometimes spread out like feathered chess pieces, sometimes seated in clusters.

2020年August4日，Richard Conniff，“They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:


afeerd

afeared的視覺方言拼法。


afeared

源自中古英語 aferd。

I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.

1886, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"


angree

angry的視覺方言拼法。


quintuplex

This was entered 1 ♅. iii., in November, 1776, and had the honour of being the object to which the grand forty-foot reflector was first directed, in February, 1787, under the designation of “quadruple.” As a trapezium it was gazed at, measured, and delineated, for upwards of fifty years, when Σ. announced it “quintuplex,” by the addition of the little star E.

1844，William Henry Smyth，“θ¹ Orionis”, in Cycle of Celestial Objects, for the Use of Naval, Military, and Private Astronomers，卷 the second (The Bedford Catalogue), London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]，頁 130:

The use of those scientific duplex, quadruplex, and even quintuplex systems could then safely be brought into general use, and this would render possible much cheaper telegraphy.

1881年February14日，“The Telegraph Clerks’ Agitation”, in The Manchester Guardian，期 10,764，頁 7，列 5:

We need to point out that in some critical missions, the performance and reliability of a triplex system may not be high enough. In this case, the level of redundancy needs to be increased beyond a triplex system—a quintuplex system (K = 1, N = 5) or a double-triplex system (K = 2, N = 3).

1996，Proceedings of the Summer Computer Simulation Conference，SCS, →ISBN，頁 120，列 1:


Cajun

盎格魯化的阿卡迪亞法語 Cadien（來自Acadien (“阿卡迪亞的”)的詞首音省略），在阿卡迪亞方言表現為顎音/dj/到/d͡ʒ/。

Cajin (alternative)
Cadjin (alternative)
Cagin (alternative)
Cadien (alternative)

描述卡郡人或他們的文化。

用香料調味的食物，稱之為肯瓊料理。


in charge

more in charge (comparative)
most in charge (superlative)

負擔起領導或監督的責任；主管

He left his daughter in charge of watching her younger sisters.

他讓他的女兒照顧她的幾個妹妹。

This internet browser puts you in charge of your personal settings.

這個網頁瀏覽器能讓你管理個人設定。

I have myself seen the wife of a mohout give a baby in charge to an elephant, while she was on some business, and have been highly amused in observing the sagacity and care of the unwieldy nurse.

The average number of children in charge is about 90. One hundred and fifty could be accommodated.

1873, Pennsylvania. Dept. of Public Instruction, The Pennsylvania School Journal, page 34

If the commitment be made on the petition of parents, guardian or persons having the child in charge, the judge may, in his discretion, require them to pay the whole or any part of the expense of his maintenance, according to their ability.

1878, Wisconsin. Legislature. Joint Special Committee on the Revision of the Statutes, Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Revision of the Statutes, page 20


large and in charge

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-large and in charge.ogg

信心與沉著地支配/控制當前的處境

Sure, as the captain of your ship, you are the one to blame when things go wrong or fall apart, but you are also large and in charge when they go well.

2011，T.D. Jakes，64 Lessons for a Life Without Limits, →ISBN:

The little girl in me was crying, "No more." She was large and in charge, front and center—the lead actress in the play about her life.

2012，Naomi Nelson，Breaking the Silence, →ISBN，頁 87:

Hampton Touissant Hamilton held a degree in Business Economics from the United States Naval Academy and he was svelte, tall, large and in charge, black as the skies at midnight and handsome as an Adonis would or could be a real ringer.

2014，Letitia L. A. Najieb，Luscious Savoy: "The Unstoppable Women!"，頁 479:

Despite the difficulties with Skyler and Mike, Walt is large and in charge again in the cold open to “Say My Name.”

2014，Ensley F. Guffey & K. Dale Koontz，Wanna Cook?: The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad, →ISBN:


kicked

more kicked (comparative)
most kicked (superlative)


fulfilled

more fulfilled (comparative)
most fulfilled (superlative)

情感上滿足的，有滿足感的


smoked

smoked salmon

'A pair of smoked spectacles will do it,' he said positively. 'Look at him now; he looks like an angelic office boy. Put him on a pair of smoked spectacles, and children will scream at the sight of him.'

1908, G. K. Chesterton, The Man who was Thursday


cryptozoological

crypto- + zoological，或 cryptozoology + -ical。

/ˌkɹɪptoʊˌzoʊəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/

屬於或關於隱棲動物學、神秘動物學的


trisyllabic

[…] how many nonelitist Americans can, without undue difficulty, read as many as a thousand consecutive words of small print, some of which may be trisyllabic?

1980年January20日，Isaac Asimov，“A Cult of Ignorance”, in Newsweek, →ISSN，頁 19:


werewolfish

more werewolfish (comparative)
most werewolfish (superlative)

When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.

1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures (page 259)


safer

safe 的比較級形式。


soused

more soused (comparative)
most soused (superlative)

Yes, happy hour. A great American invention for spending quality time with spouse, soused.

1988，Heywood Gould，Cocktail (motion picture), spoken by Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise):


untalkative

more untalkative (comparative)
most untalkative (superlative)

不願意談話；沉默寡言；拒絕說話


somnolent

最早見於1615年。借自法語 somnolent，源自古法語 sompnolent，源自拉丁語 somnolentus，源自somnus (“睡眠”)，源自原始印歐語 *swépnos、*supnós (“夢”)，派生自*swep-。

more somnolent (comparative)
most somnolent (superlative)

[…]; and in chronicling the passing parade of Harry's life, the books have also created a Kodachrome-sharp picture of American life - the psychic ups and downs, enthusiasms and reversals experienced by this nation as it moved from the somnolent 50's through the upheavals of the 60's and 70's into the uncertainties of the 80's.

1990年September25日，Michiko Kakutani，“Just 30 Years Later, Updike Has a Quartet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


mayonnaiselike

more mayonnaiselike (comparative)
most mayonnaiselike (superlative)


mayonnaisey

more mayonnaisey (comparative)
most mayonnaisey (superlative)

Garnish the platter with greenery if you want. Serve the fish cold, with one of the cucumber salads (crunch is good) and a mayonnaisey sauce.

2008, Rick Moonen, Roy Finamore, Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion

含有或覆蓋美乃滋／蛋黃醬的

Huge, mayonnaisey Cuban sandwiches are also available for $5 from the take-out counter […]

2006, Pauline Frommer, Pauline Frommer's New York City


Okinawan

more Okinawan (comparative)
most Okinawan (superlative)


sneaking

more sneaking (comparative)
most sneaking (superlative)

秘密的或不正當的；不公開承認


stealthy

stealthier (comparative)
stealthiest (superlative)


Slovene

斯洛文尼亞/斯洛維尼亞的


Pythonic

pythonic (alternative)
more Pythonic (comparative)
most Pythonic (superlative)

Pythonesque

Python（一門程式語言）風格的、Python 的

unpythonic

Python（一門程式語言）風格的、Python 的

Python（一門程式語言）風格的、Python 的

The Zen of Python requires almost all code to be Pythonic.

Python 之禪要求幾乎所有代碼都以Python風格編寫。

The Pythonic style isn't regimented or enforced by the compiler. It has emerged over time through experience using the language and working with others.

2015年February12日，Brett Slatkin，Effective Python，Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN，頁 1:

Pythonic code—when you first hear of it, you might think it is a programming paradigm, similar to object-oriented or functional programming. While some of it could be considered as such, it is actually more of a design philosophy.

2016年August31日，Fabrizio Romano，Dusty Phillips，Rick van Hattem，Python: Journey from Novice to Expert，Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN，頁 850:


whoreson

來自中古英語 horesone，hureson（horessone，hores sone），等同於whore + son。對照荷蘭語 hoerenzoon、德語 Hurensohn。


takeout

源自動詞短語 take out。


teary

源自中古英語 tery；等同於tear + -y。

tearier (comparative)
teariest (superlative)

No wonder Ryan was teary; he missed his parents.

難怪瑞安之前在哭；他想念父母了。

Wade looked into his girlfriend's teary eyes.

韋德看著他女朋友哭泣的雙眼。


manufactured

more manufactured (comparative)
most manufactured (superlative)

人工/人造；由人類製造的非自然產物


deliverable

more deliverable (comparative)
most deliverable (superlative)

/dɪˈlɪvɹəbəɫ/

The packages were not deliverable because the roads had flooded out.

因為道路被水沖毀，這些包裹無法派送。

In any of our worlds, if we went out to consult on options that weren't deliverable, we would rightly be heavily criticised for wasting people's time.

2021年May5日，Philip Haigh，“I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL，期 930，頁 50:


used up

more used up (comparative)
most used up (superlative)

筋疲力盡的；耗盡的，枯竭的

That used up old man is no good in a fight.

那個筋疲力盡的老頭根本不擅長戰鬥。

1840, A chant opposing then-presidential candidate Martin Van Buren: "And with them we'll beat Van, Van, Van/Van is a used up man".

2001, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 304.


worn out

more worn out (comparative)
most worn out (superlative)

That old tractor is worn out.

那個舊拖拉機已經破爛不堪了。

That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

I was worn out after all that work.

幹完那項工作，我已經筋疲力盡。

That game was fun, but now I'm all worn out.

那個遊戲很好玩，但是現在我已經玩累了。


upside down

早期up so down的變體，源自中古英語 up-so-doun、upsedowne、upsadowne (“翻轉，顛倒”)，等同於up + so + down。

The pattern resembled an upside down letter W.

這個圖案像顛倒的字母W。

The wenches and the men have been on the streets all day, and the kitchen is upside down. You never saw the like.

1901, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The lion's whelp: a story of Cromwell's time (page 248)

He's upside down on his mortgage.


sharpened

a sharpened pencil

a sharpened knife


adaptogenic

more adaptogenic (comparative)
most adaptogenic (superlative)


surrealist

more surrealist (comparative)
most surrealist (superlative)


VN

very nice (“[遊戲表現]非常好”)之首字母縮略詞。


bloo

blue的視覺方言拼法。

Another chap had got my jack-nife, and was amusin' hisself by slashin' holes in my bloo cotton umbreller, which two other Muskeeters had shoved up, and was a settin' under, engaged in tyin' my panterloon legs into hard nots.

1870，Various，Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870:

"'That's whatever!' assents this marshal gent, 'an' you can gamble a bloo stack that hangin' you is a bet we ain't none likely to overlook.

The Consarvatives painted thurselves bloo, and the Radicals yaller, an' thay as danced the longest, the Roomans sent to Parlyment to rool the roost.

1918，J. Arthur Gibbs，A Cotswold Village:


cowld

cold的視覺方言拼法。


eazy

eazier (comparative)
eaziest (superlative)

easy的視覺方言拼法。


thicc

thiccer (comparative)
thiccest (superlative)

thick (“性感的，肉感的”)的另一種拼寫法

To some fans, Wicke is thicc. To others, she’s a positive representation of diverse bodies in video games.
“Thicc Wicke,” as some are calling the fan art version of the character, has become such a trend that there’s already a meme criticizing it:
And there are plenty of images that depict her as “thicc,” but not in a drooling, overtly sexualized way.

2016年September12日，“Thirsty Pokémon fans are sexualizing Wicke, Sun & Moon’s new Pokémon researcher”, in Daily Dot:

“The weight of the female Gyr given as 1396-2000g [brings it to a] mean of 1752g (n=12),” Sweet tells Inverse. That’s roughly four pounds — extremely thicc by falcon standards.

2018年February8日，“The Original "Falcon Heavy" Isn't What You Think”, in Inverse:


furst

first的視覺方言拼法。

They wur not paid for weet days at th' furst; an' they geet it into their yeds at Shorrock were to blame.

1862，Edwin Waugh，Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:

"An' it black noight, an' men and women wild in the drink; an' Pat Harrigan insoide bloind an' mad in liquor, an' it's turned me an' the children out he has to shlape in the snow--an' not the furst toime either.

1888，Frances Hodgson Burnett，Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories:

"De furst work I done to get my food wuz to carry water in de field to de hands dat wuz workin'.

1936-1938，Work Projects Administration，Slave Narratives – A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves – The Ohio Narratives:


societal

more societal (comparative)
most societal (superlative)

While H5N1 flu is obviously lethal, some milder flus pose a greater societal threat, Professor Mathews says.

2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 46:


helluva

hell of a的合音，以書面形式寫出。

增義詞，可表示極好、極壞等意思。


hungree

hungry的視覺方言拼法。


int'resting

more int'resting (comparative)
most int'resting (superlative)

/ˈɪntɹɛstɪŋ/


librul

more librul (comparative)
most librul (superlative)

liberal的視覺方言拼法。


mitey

Mr. Robert Farquhar paid the town's people in old mitey meal for his soldiers entertainment, who had continued there a long time.

1830, John Spalding, The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland: From 1624 — 1645, page 268,

A few specimens transferred from a mitey cheese to an old cheese not mitey, will soon colonize it thoroughly.

1878, Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, E. B. Reed, The Canadian entomologist, Volumes 10-12, page 239,

Both were inoculated with 1 gm. of very mitey flour placed at the bottom of the bottle.

1929, The Industrial Chemist, Volume 5, page 244,


mo'

無r音的口音中more的發音拼寫，尤見於非洲裔美國人白話英語。對比fo' (“for; four”)、ho (“whore”)。

more的視覺方言拼法。（表示無r音的口音）

But the people are great han's for religion, and it's a common saying they got mo' religion an' less morals than yo'll find anywhere else in the world.

1904，Clifton Johnson，Highways and Byways of the South，頁 124:

A millennium, mah son, am jes' de same as a thousan' legged worm, only hits got mo' legs.

1916，Official Proceedings，Western Railway Club，頁 143:

Brethren if you want mo' preachin', save a little dram for me.

2005，Tim Brooks，Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919，頁 137:


nat'ral

more nat'ral (comparative)
most nat'ral (superlative)

natural的視覺方言拼法。


old skool

more old skool (comparative)
most old skool (superlative)


owdacious

more owdacious (comparative)
most owdacious (superlative)


owld

owlder (comparative)
owldest (superlative)

A sore penny it has cost me, first and last, and by all tales, not worth an owld tobacco pipe."

1892，Robert Louis Stevenson，Lloyd Osbourne，“Irons in the Fire. Opes Strepitumque.”, in The Wrecker，London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC，頁 115:

I was standin' by owld Foley's gate, whin I heard the cry of the hounds coming across the tail of the bog, an' there they wor, my dear, spread out like the tail of a paycock, an' the finest dog fox ye ever seen a sailin' ahead of thim up the boreen, and right across the churchyard.

Shure the Dog and the Cat both av thim was scairt, and the owld white-faced cow come a-runnin' an' jumped the bars to get aff av the road."

1917，Ernest Thompson Seton，Two Little Savages:


agnostic

由托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎在1870年造出。源自古希臘語 ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos，“無知的，不知道的”)，或源自a- + Gnostic，派生自古希臘語 ἀ- (a-，“不”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō，“知道”)。

more agnostic (comparative)
most agnostic (superlative)

In matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.

His agnostic viewpoint is summarized in his book.

他的不可知論觀點在著作中得到總結。

She left the church when she became agnostic.

她開始懷疑神的存在後，便退出了教會。

無關的，不依賴的，中立的，獨立的

The socket communications layer is agnostic with regard to its underlying transport mechanism -- it is “transport-agnostic”.

套接字通信層與其底層的傳輸機制無關——它是“傳輸獨立”的。

對事情沒有堅定立場/意見的

I'm agnostic on whether ethanol is a green fuel.

我不清楚乙醇到底是不是綠色燃料。

He says he's agnostic concerning the Secretary's claims.

他說對於國務卿的聲明，他不知道如何評論。


stringed

The violin is a stringed instrument but without frets.

小提琴是一種無品的弦樂器。


archipelagic

more archipelagic (comparative)
most archipelagic (superlative)

/ɑːkɪpəˈlædʒɪk/

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state.

印度尼西亞是世界上最大的群島國家。


Greenlandic

格陵蘭的、格陵蘭人的、格陵蘭語的


bodied

more bodied (comparative)
most bodied (superlative)

具有……形體的；具有……軀體的。


abortifacient

more abortifacient (comparative)
most abortifacient (superlative)


accelerant

more accelerant (comparative)
most accelerant (superlative)

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

加速的，加快的，催速的，促进的。


accelerative

more accelerative (comparative)
most accelerative (superlative)


shure

sure的視覺方言拼法。

"You see, sir, quite hand in glove with Dashing Jerry; met in the same inn last night--preconcerted, you may be quite shure."

1845，Edward Bulwer Lytton，Night and Morning, Complete:

"Oh, Mr. Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card.

1873，Various，Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873:

1905，Upton Sinclair，章號 VIII, in The Jungle，紐約，N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 出版於 1906年2月26日, →OCLC:


sicc

more sicc (comparative)
most sicc (superlative)

sick的視覺方言拼法。


speshul

special的視覺方言拼法。

more speshul (comparative)
most speshul (superlative)

My brother works on the Telegraph; he's a compositor and he'd give me the first pull of any speshul stuff and I could bring it to you.

1991, Frank Harris, John F Gallagher, My Life and Loves

Theyve put me on the speshul detail. The speshul detail, Mable, is a bunch of fellos what knows more than any one else in the camp.

2005, Lieutenant Edward Streeter, That's Me All Over Mable


wanted

more wanted (comparative)
most wanted (superlative)


self-encrypting

a self-encrypting hard disk


trigeminal

來自拉丁語 trigeminus (“三重的，三種的”) + -al，等同於tri- + geminal。trigeminus 的同源對似詞。


aboundant

more aboundant (comparative)
most aboundant (superlative)


abundaunt

more abundaunt (comparative)
most abundaunt (superlative)


habundaunt

more habundaunt (comparative)
most habundaunt (superlative)


habundant

more habundant (comparative)
most habundant (superlative)


abscessed

more abscessed (comparative)
most abscessed (superlative)

膿腫的、生膿瘡的 （首次記錄於19世紀中期）

The sore was abscessed and filled with pus.


vorpal

首次由路易斯·卡羅在其詩作 Jabberwocky 中使用，用於形容劍。

more vorpal (comparative)
most vorpal (superlative)


above-board

aboveboard (alternative)
above board (alternative)

/əˈbʌvˌbɔɹd/

光明正大的，合法公正的 （首次記錄於16世紀晚期。）

Fair and aboveboard.

Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?

2013年May15日，Stephen Lemons，“Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”, in Phoenix New Times，存檔自the original on 2019-03-11:

Over the weekend, Android owners were displeased to discover that Facebook had been scraping their text-message and phone-call metadata, in some cases for years, an operation hidden in the fine print of a user agreement clause until Ars Technica reported. Facebook was quick to defend the practice as entirely aboveboard—small comfort to those who are beginning to realize that, because Facebook is a free service, they and their data are by necessity the products.

2018年March26日，Maya Kosoff，“Zuckerberg hits users with the hard truth: You agreed to this”, in Vanity Fair:


revered

more revered (comparative)
most revered (superlative)


Kampuchean

more Kampuchean (comparative)
most Kampuchean (superlative)


Meiji

來自日語 明治 (meiji，字面意思是“開明的統治”)。


Macanese

more Macanese (comparative)
most Macanese (superlative)


Hassidic

像許多以非無聲 h 開頭但重音落在第二個音節的詞彙一樣，有些人在 Hassidic 之前使用 an 作為不定冠詞，有些人則使用 a。


hangry

more hangry (comparative)
most hangry (superlative)

飢餓和生氣，特別指由飢餓造成的憤怒。

I also get really "hangry".

2005，L. R. Parenti，Durata Del Dramma: Life Of Drama，頁 98:

Seriously, somebody needs to give this toddler a bottle and put him down for a nap. That baby pitches a fit when he gets hangry.

2011，Chris Haire，“I'm tired of writing about Nikki Haley”, in Charleston City Paper:

Mission Control: "Get them pizza before they get hangry. Hungry and angry!"

2016 "People Pleaser", The Powerpuff Girls

You know this if you've ever been hangry. You go through your day without stopping to eat, and for a while it doesn't matter. Then your stomach starts sending signals to your brain that it's waiting.

2018, Jean Chatzky, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve, p. 11:


oofless

more oofless (comparative)
most oofless (superlative)


wuzzent

more wuzzent (comparative)
most wuzzent (superlative)


yor

your的視覺方言拼法。


tray bon

來自法語 très bon。

très bon的視覺方言拼法；很棒；非常好。

“You know,” he said thoughtfully, his mind far away from the Colinqueaus, “I think that new bloke′s a bit of tray bon. The bayonet instructors would go absolutely fanti if they heard him, wouldn′t they? He sounded as mad as a maggot.[…]”

1961，John Harris，Covenant with Death，頁 205:

[…]all the clerks were waving: “Au revoir, Sally.” “Mmmm, tray bon, y′all!” She flashed the peace sign again and clattered away in her ankle-strap shoes like a crack of sunshine on a foggy day.

1974，Rex Reed，People Are Crazy Here，頁 79:


Bri'ish

more Bri'ish (comparative)
most Bri'ish (superlative)


roadlike

more roadlike (comparative)
most roadlike (superlative)


streetlike

more streetlike (comparative)
most streetlike (superlative)

A meandering central circulation path evokes a streetlike ambience, reinforced by gritty materials, including the old warehouse's original concrete floor.

1998，Justin Henderson，Workplaces and workspaces: office designs that work:


hygge

源自丹麥語 hygge或挪威語 hygge。

用於帶有丹麥或挪威背景的語境。

愜意、歡樂。 （自21世紀）

‘So, where are they all? What's everyone doing?’

2015, Helen Russell, The Year of Living Danishly, Icon Books Ltd (ISBN 9781848318137):


Lojbanic

Brett Douglas Williams, also known on the Internet as "mungojelly," and to the Lojbanic community as "stela selckiku," is still human.

Brett Douglas Williams，在互聯網上也被稱為「mungojelly」，在邏輯語社群中被稱為「stela selckiku,」，仍然是人類。

2011，Ron Hale-Evans, Marty Hale-Evans，Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level:


chimic

chemic的另一種寫法


ichthyographic

與魚類志或魚類學相關的。


mindblowing

more mindblowing (comparative)
most mindblowing (superlative)


armed

arm (“武裝，配備武器”) + -ed

more armed (comparative)
most armed (superlative)

配備有……的；（特指）武裝的，攜帶武器的；使用武力的

nuclear-armed

擁有能增強力量或效率之物的

a distemper eminently armed from heaven

1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year

The naked eye then will immediately direct us, by means of the two stars just mentioned, towards the place where, in the finder, the armed eye will perceive the double star in question about ¾ degree from the 44th Lyncis.

1821, Sir William Herschel, Catalogue of Double Stars


armed

有一條或多條手臂的（前一般加數字或描述用的形容詞）

有著……（數字或描述）手臂的

the four-armed creature.

the strong-armed man.

His shoulders broad and strong, / Armed long and round.

1634, attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen

有部分身體部位（如角、爪、牙齒、喙等）的，與整隻動物相對


uncultivable

more uncultivable (comparative)
most uncultivable (superlative)

uncultivable wasteland

uncultivable bacteria


barbecued

barbequed (alternative)
BBQed (alternative)
BBQ'd (alternative)
bar-be-qued (alternative)
bar-be-cued (alternative)
bar-b-qued (alternative)
bar-b-cued (alternative)
bar-be-qed (alternative)
bar-be-q'd (alternative)
bar-b-qed (alternative)
bar-b-q'd (alternative)
bar-B-Qed (alternative)
bar-B-Q'd (alternative)
more barbecued (comparative)
most barbecued (superlative)

On recollecting myself, I diſcovered that I had almoſt reached the entrance of the lagoon, and determined to venture in, if poſſible, to take a few fiſh, […] I ſoon caught more trout than I had preſent occaſion for, and the air was too hot and ſultry to admit of their being kept for many hours, even though ſalted or barbecued.

1793 January，William Bartram，“Art. II. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper Plates. By William Bartram. Re-printed from the Philadelphia Edition. 8vo. pp. 520. 7s. 6d. boards. Johnson. 1792.”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged，卷 X, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, in Pall Mall, 出版於 1794, →OCLC，頁 17:


barbequed

more barbequed (comparative)
most barbequed (superlative)


BBQed

more BBQed (comparative)
most BBQed (superlative)


BBQ'd

more BBQ'd (comparative)
most BBQ'd (superlative)


bar-be-qued

more bar-be-qued (comparative)
most bar-be-qued (superlative)


bar-be-cued

more bar-be-cued (comparative)
most bar-be-cued (superlative)


bar-b-qued

more bar-b-qued (comparative)
most bar-b-qued (superlative)


bar-b-cued

more bar-b-cued (comparative)
most bar-b-cued (superlative)


bar-be-qed

more bar-be-qed (comparative)
most bar-be-qed (superlative)


bar-be-q'd

more bar-be-q'd (comparative)
most bar-be-q'd (superlative)


bar-b-qed

more bar-b-qed (comparative)
most bar-b-qed (superlative)


bar-b-q'd

more bar-b-q'd (comparative)
most bar-b-q'd (superlative)


bar-B-Qed

more bar-B-Qed (comparative)
most bar-B-Qed (superlative)


bar-B-Q'd

more bar-B-Q'd (comparative)
most bar-B-Q'd (superlative)


testicular

源自中世紀拉丁語 testicularis，源自拉丁語 testiculum (“睪丸”)，testis的指小詞。


squalid

squalider (comparative)
squalidest (superlative)

A squalid attempt to buy votes.


astrological

more astrological (comparative)
most astrological (superlative)


prepubescent

more prepubescent (comparative)
most prepubescent (superlative)

青春期前的，未達到青春期的


unlaid

未放下的，未放置的 未被驅魔的

an unlaid egg

unlaid paving stones

The table was still unlaid, despite Mum asking us the kids to lay it five times.

雖然媽媽已經五次叫我們佈置好餐具了，但這張桌子上還沒佈置好。

未放下的，未放置的 沒有發生性行為的

an unlaid egg

unlaid paving stones

雖然媽媽已經五次叫我們佈置好餐具了，但這張桌子上還沒佈置好。

I've been unlaid since my boyfriend left me 5 months ago, so I'm desperate for a shag!

我和男朋友五個月前分手之後就沒做過了，所以現在我好饑渴！

未放下的，未放置的 （屍體）未準備好埋葬的

an unlaid egg

unlaid paving stones

雖然媽媽已經五次叫我們佈置好餐具了，但這張桌子上還沒佈置好。

未放下的，未放置的 未用平行線標記的

an unlaid egg

unlaid paving stones

雖然媽媽已經五次叫我們佈置好餐具了，但這張桌子上還沒佈置好。


thermonuclear

The first thermonuclear reaction was in a star; it was brought about by heat, as the description implies.

最早的熱核反應發生在恆星內；如同此前的描述所說，是熱量引致的。

1956年May25日，“Chances Of Power Station Use For Hydrogen Bomb”, in The Times，London:


bestest

最好；best的最高級形式。

It was the bestest teddy I ever had.

這是我擁有過最好的泰迪熊。

You're my bestest friend in the whole world!

你是我全世界最好的朋友！

I'm in his favorite sundress, watching me get undressed / Take that body downtown / I say, "You da bestest," lean in for a big kiss

2011，Lana Del Rey, Justin Parker （作曲作詞）, “Video Games”:


dreckish

more dreckish (comparative)
most dreckish (superlative)


argh

來自中古英語 argh，古英語 earg (“弱小的，膽小的”)，原始西日耳曼語 *arg，原始日耳曼語 *argaz。低地蘇格蘭語 ergh, argh, arch, erf (“膽小的，不情願的”)的同源詞，eerie 的同源對似詞。

more argh (comparative)
most argh (superlative)
arȝe (alternative)
arȝ (alternative)
arowȝe (alternative)
areȝ (alternative)
earh (alternative)
arwe (alternative)
arg (alternative)
arghe (alternative)
arewe (alternative)


vaccinated

more vaccinated (comparative)
most vaccinated (superlative)

已接種疫苗的，已獲得疫苗保護效果的

I'll come and see you again once I'm fully vaccinated.

等我接種完疫苗了，我就會過來見你。


exculpatory

源自exculpate + -ory (形容詞後綴)。 exculpate 派生自中世紀拉丁語 exculpātus、拉丁語 exculptus，exculpō的完成被動分詞，源自ex- (“出，離”) + culpa (“缺陷；過錯；犯罪”)（源自原始印歐語 *kʷelp-）。

more exculpatory (comparative)
most exculpatory (superlative)


incriminating

more incriminating (comparative)
most incriminating (superlative)


fair-skinned

fairer-skinned (comparative)
fairest-skinned (superlative)


skinned

more skinned (comparative)
most skinned (superlative)

被一層皮膚狀薄膜覆蓋著的

皮膚（或類似的外表層）損傷的；被剝除的

My skinned knuckles hurt until the scrape healed.

我的指關節擦破了皮，傷好之前一直疼痛。


soft-hearted

more soft-hearted (comparative)
most soft-hearted (superlative)


softhearted

more softhearted (comparative)
most softhearted (superlative)

心軟的，善良的，容易感動的


gooder

源自 good + -er (“比較級形容詞後綴”)。

good 的比較級形式。


sperate

more sperate (comparative)
most sperate (superlative)


standardized

more standardized (comparative)
most standardized (superlative)


Bavarian

more Bavarian (comparative)
most Bavarian (superlative)

/bəˈvɛəɹɪən/


Venusian

the Venusian landscape

a Venusian invasion


onomatopoetic

more onomatopoetic (comparative)
most onomatopoetic (superlative)


antigovernment

more antigovernment (comparative)
most antigovernment (superlative)

反政府的；反對現任政府的

Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital.

反政府示威者在首都舉行遊行。

反對一切政府形態的；無政府主義的

They have an antigovernment philosophy.


anti-government

more anti-government (comparative)
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progovernment

more progovernment (comparative)
most progovernment (superlative)


pro-government

more pro-government (comparative)
most pro-government (superlative)

progovernment (“親政府的，支持政府的”)的另一種寫法


antirevolutionary

more antirevolutionary (comparative)
most antirevolutionary (superlative)


anti-revolutionary

more anti-revolutionary (comparative)
most anti-revolutionary (superlative)


counterrevolutionary

more counterrevolutionary (comparative)
most counterrevolutionary (superlative)


anti-Soviet

more anti-Soviet (comparative)
most anti-Soviet (superlative)


antisoviet

more antisoviet (comparative)
most antisoviet (superlative)


disestablishmentarian

more disestablishmentarian (comparative)
most disestablishmentarian (superlative)


aluminian

more aluminian (comparative)
most aluminian (superlative)


starry-eyed

more starry-eyed (comparative)
most starry-eyed (superlative)

天真的，空想的，過分樂觀的

He was so starry-eyed when he started, but reality ground him down, and he became both more realistic and more practical.

剛開始時他很天真，但現實擊垮了他，他也因此變得更加實際。


serendipitous

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causeless

僥倖得到的，意外發現的，機緣湊巧的

unintentional

僥倖得到的，意外發現的，機緣湊巧的

accidental

僥倖得到的，意外發現的，機緣湊巧的

lucky

僥倖得到的，意外發現的，機緣湊巧的

僥倖得到的，意外發現的，機緣湊巧的

The weather was serendipitous for our vacation.


prime ministerial

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pilate

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pilate pollen


pavlovian

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qwerty

QWERTY的大小寫替代形式

It was the Monotype model D keyboard introduced in 1907 which became the standard for printers, with a "qwerty" typewriter lay and removable keybars which made the keyboard independent of the matrix case arrangement.

1978，Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science，卷s 24 (Printers and Printing to Public Policy, Copyright), New York, N.Y., Basel: Marcel Dekker, →ISBN，頁 109:

The typewriter using separate characters on type bars striking on a cylinder soon dominated the market. Because adjacent striking bars tended to jam when struck rapidly, manufacturers abandoned the alphabetical placement of letters on the keyboard in favor of the left-to-right "qwerty" disposition that takes into account the frequency and sequence of letters in English.

1994，Henri-Jean Martin，Lydia G. Cochrane, transl.，“Beyond Writing”, in The History and Power of Writing，Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN，頁 465:


Valentine's

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仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见Valentine、-'s。

Samantha pressed the garish Valentine’s card to her still flushed cheek one more time, for it had been a particularly long time since she had received the last gift.

2004 November，Lesley Zobian，“Chapter 4”, in Valentine's Day，iUniverse, →ISBN，頁 45:

A small dot of blood, red as a Valentine’s rose, bloomed against her alabaster skin.

2005，Gregory Maguire，One Final Firecracker, →ISBN，頁 148:

Specialty Candies, a popular choice for all occasions, is offering a Valentine’s basket that is the perfect choice for your sweetheart.

2007年February14日，Susan Lake, Karen Bean May，“Chapter 12: Print Standards”, in The Business of Technology: Digital Multimedia，Cengage Learning, →ISBN, Unit 3: Desktop Publishing，頁 165:

I only regret that I will miss / You in my arms and a Valentine’s kiss. / I have only kissed you once my dear / But that kiss can’t be compared / To all the others I’ve had in years. / You have a nice Valentine’s Day / I’ll be thinking of you / And all the others we’ll go through!

2007年November15日，Michael Iacobucci，“Erstwhile”, in In and Out of Love，Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, What Day Is This?:

“No, I’m taking them. Her wedding rings, her Valentine’s ring, and the necklace I gave her. I’m keeping those.” / “Valentine’s ring?” / “Yeah, that one right there,” Terry smiled. “Randy gave that to her one year for Valentine’ Day. […]”

2010年April12日，Amy Shannon，“Final Good-Bye”, in Life's Written Past, →ISBN，頁 38:

Jemma is surprised to hear her name called and she shyly walks towards the outstreched hand wielding the plastic Valentine’s rose.

2010，Meg Fargher，Helen Dooley，The Adolescent Storm - A Handbook for Parents，Penguin Books, →ISBN:

Now we come to the Valentine’s present. The Valentine’s present is not just a card that says “I Love You” or a beautiful bouquet of flowers, but a gift that expresses all the above messages without a word.

2012，Adam K Randle，“Communicate Your Love”, in Hot Tips & Treats: Making Valentine's Day Special，Lulu.com, →ISBN:

IT TOOK A month for Francis to come up with the perfect Valentine’s gift, and a week to wrap it. What he couldn’t muster in words, he hoped the present would convey. / He put his heart into the Valentine’s gift.

2012年July6日，Nikki Alfar，Vincent Michael Simbulan，引 Tan, Charles, “A Yellow Brick Road Valentine”, in Philippine Speculative Fiction，卷 5, →ISBN, the Valentine’s gift:

At one point I plucked up the courage to say, ‘So Megs was going on about her Valentine’s rose from Cameron yesterday.’

2014年April24日，Candy Harper，“Wednesday 15th February”, in Keep the Faith，Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

I glance at the clock above the door. Cooper is already six hours late delivering the Valentine’s flowers.

2014年June3日，Lynne Branard，“Chapter Fifteen”, in The Art of Arranging Flowers，Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN:

As Emily watched, he wrote something in a Valentine’s card, then slipped it into a red envelope, licked the flap, and sealed it.

2019年February5日，Robert Jeschonek，Valentine's Day at Glosser's: A Johnstown Tale, →ISBN:


ensuite

借自法語 ensuite (字面意思是“跟隨”)。


fermented

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出現不應有的發酵過程而發酸的


soured

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etymological

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（詞彙）與其歷史形式或源語言一致的


trucker

源自中古英語 *trukere (“騙子”)，源自中古英語 trukien (“失敗，使失望”)，等同於truck (“失敗”) + -er。對比trooker。

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southerly

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a southerly voyage

Warm, moist air was brought by southerly winds


granulated

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stopped

源自stop + -ed。部分形容詞義項來自動詞；有的也來自名詞stop。

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沒有行駛，但沒有正確泊車的

We were stopped for more than three hours!

我們已經停在這三個多小時了！

They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help.

他們路過街邊一輛停下的車，但意識到對此也無能為力。

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

就算是停了的時鐘，每天也會有兩次顯示正確的時間。

口腔部分部位完全閉合而發出的（指某些輔音，如b、d、p、t）

þ was first voiced and then stopped , becoming d

1874, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period


scorbutic

源自早期新拉丁語 scorbuticus (“壞血病的”)，源自scorbutus (“壞血病”)，源自法語 scorbut，源自日耳曼語族。

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antiscorbutic

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mentally ill

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nucleic

Nucleic acids are found in the nuclei of cells.


sugoi

借自日語 凄い (sugoi，可能原意為“可怕的，厲害的”)，或與英語 terrific的含義變化相同。

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Now ... I got one, and for some reason was able to see a very sugoi card was next in the machine […]

1997年August16日，username NeoMercury，“ARRGH! 955 Posts! and now while we’re on the topic, SM Dreams.”, in Usenet group alt.fan.sailor-moon:

The Miko outfits are totally sugoi, and the human forms of the gods are really cool as well.

1998年June23日，username Shiva the perpetually busy，“[POLL] What anime scenes would look best in real life movie?”, in Usenet group alt.fan.sailor-moon:

I’m wearing my latest Harajuku find: a gauzy, green sleeveless blouse, a pair of slimming pants—black, with some kind of shiny fabric—and a pair of totally sugoi sandals, with thick heels, black straps, and gleaming silver buckles.


Cypriot

來自古希臘語 Κυπριώτης (Kupriṓtēs，“塞浦路斯人”)。等同於Cyprus + -iot。


thermic

起於19世紀中葉，源自古希臘語 θερμός (thermós，“熱”) + -ic。

/ˈθɜː(ɹ)mɪk/


overanxious

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née

源自法語 née (“出生的”，陰性單數)。

音頻 (美國)，讀作/neɪ/

在本詞的源語言法語中，如果被修飾語是陽性，則應用本詞的陽性形式né；英語也經常跟隨法語的規則。

Mrs Smith, née Jones

Irene Norton, née Adler.
#*:: 艾琳·諾頓，舊姓艾德勒。

1891, A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle

Since the name change, Butch (née Frances) seems more tough and self-assured.

改名之後，布奇（舊名弗朗西斯）似乎變得更加堅強自信。


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


trusting

源自中古英語 trustyng、trostinge、tristynge，等同於trust + -ing。

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trustful

容易相信他人的；容易輕信的

容易相信他人的；容易輕信的


trustful

源自中古英語 trustful、trystefull，等同於trust + -ful。

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願意相信他人的；容易輕信的


trafficked

承載交通的，受交通影響的

Possessed of many thinly trafficked lines and dual-purpose assignments for engines, CPR commonsensically employed Pacifics as all-purpose engines, bought 4-6-2's until dieselization.
由於線路交通稀疏，且配備兩用發動機，加拿大太平洋鐵路在柴油化之前通常使用太平洋發動機加4-6-2式火車頭。

1959, Steam's Finest Hour, David P. Morgan (編), Kalmbach Publishing Co., p. 114:

The questionnaire was mainly referred to the white marble and was carried out at two sites, the more soiled North façade (FN), very trafficked area and the cleaner South façade (FS) (pedestrian area).
#*:: 調查的問卷主要針對白色大理石，在兩個地點進行，即交通非常繁忙的區域較髒的北立面，以及更清潔的南立面（行人區）。

2004, C. Saiz-Jimenez, Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage, CRC Press (ISBN 9781482283990), p. 202:

We see a very trafficked big cross in Roma. Cars and people running everywhere. Camera holds on Emma standing on the pavement, like a statue, alone with her big suitcase.
#*:: 我們在羅馬看到一個非常擁擠的大十字路口。到處都是車和人。相機拍到艾瑪站在人行道上，像一尊雕像，獨自提著她的大手提箱。

2016, Irv Bauer, Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing, Taylor & Francis (ISBN 9781317214144), p. 158:

Likely this portion of the causeway was far more trafficked than the more remote regions.
#*:: 很可能這部分堤道的交通量遠遠大於更偏遠的地區。

2018, Jonathan Moeller, Sevenfold Sword: Serpent, Azure Flame Media


minour

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aromatic

晚期中古英語詞彙，源自中古法語和古法語 aromatique，源自晚期拉丁語 aromaticus，源自古希臘語 ἄρωμα (árōma，“調味的，芳香的，芬芳的”)。

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aromatic herbs

aromatic taste


stupefying

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Detectives on Thursday arrested and charged a man and his girlfriend who they allege were running an illegal prostitution racket involving sexual slavery, the administration of "stupefying drugs" and secret filming of the girls with clients.

星期四，警探逮捕並指控一名男子及其女友，稱他們從事非法賣淫活動，涉及性奴役、使用“迷魂藥”，以及與客戶秘密拍攝女性。

2021年February6日，The Courier-Mail，Brisbane，頁 4，列 1:


stupendous

最早可靠於1547年，源自晚期拉丁語 stupendus (“驚人的”)，源自動詞stupeō (“震驚的”)。stupend 的同源對似詞，與stupor、stupid有關。

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One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.

沒有親眼看過馬特洪峰的人，就無法欣賞到她的壯麗。

The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.

我們的房子被修補得煥然一新。


allied

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bacteriology and allied subjects


embellished

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universalisable

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aeronautic

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/ˌɛəɹəˈnɔːtɪk/


longsleeved

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kaleidoscopelike

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萬花筒般的，形狀或性質類似萬花筒的


autumnal

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fallish

秋天的秋季的；用於美國和加拿大

"The magistrates are God-fearing gentlemen, but merciful over-much,--that is a truth," added a third autumnal matron.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:


aestival

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estival的另一種拼寫法


sub-Mediterranean

類似地中海氣候的（但旱季降水稍微多一些）


sharp-eyed

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The sharp-eyed detective noticed things the ordinary patrolman missed.

眼尖的偵探觀察到了一般巡警所沒有看見的事物。


uniliteral

uniliteral phonograms


naïver

naïve 的比較級形式。


sudoriferous

源自拉丁語 sūdōrifer (“出汗的”)，源自sūdor (“汗”)（←動詞 sūdō (“出汗”)）+ -i- + -fer（←動詞 ferō (“帶來”)）+ -ous（組成-ferous）。


iceless

an iceless refrigerator


stonen

源自中古英語 stonen，早期stenen的變體，源自古英語 stǣnen (“石頭的；硬如石頭的；用石頭建築/製成的”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *stainīnaz (“用石頭製成的”)，等同於stone + -en。與荷蘭語 stenen、德國低地德語 stenen、德語 steinen同源。

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用石頭建築的；含有石頭的

[…] And up these well-worn blocks of stone / I came when I first ran alone, / The stonen stairs beclimb'd the mound, / Ere father put a foot to ground, […]

1869, William Barnes, Poems of rural life in common English:


ethnoreligious

The Jews are an ethnoreligious group.

猶太人是一個民族宗教群體。

I will do this no matter how brutal the ethnoreligious persecution could become.

不管種族宗教迫害有多麼殘酷，我都會這樣做。


ethnopolitical

How can ethnopolitical violence be hindered or mitigated?


ethnographical

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hyperosmic

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antipathetic

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antipathetical

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oranger

orange 的比較級形式。


multiflorous

源自拉丁語 multiflorus，源自multus (“許多”) + flos、floris (“花”)。對比法語 multiflore。

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outre

outré的另一種拼寫法


presbyterian

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Presbyterian

/ˌpɹɛz.bɪˈtɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/


asthmatic

源自拉丁語 asthmaticus，源自古希臘語 ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós，“受呼吸短促折磨的”)，源自ἆσθμα (âsthma，“呼吸短促”) （對比asthma）；等同於asthma + -ic。

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The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

1917，Anton Chekhov，譯者 Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories，Project Gutenberg, 出版於 9 September 2004, →ISBN，頁 71:


thalassophile

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Alaskan

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thirty-first

The answer appears on the thirty-first page of the book.

She finished thirty-first in the race.

她以第三十一名完成比賽。


thirty-second

The answer appears on the thirty-second page of the book.

She finished thirty-second in the race.

她以第三十二名完成比賽。


thirty-third

The answer appears on the thirty-third page of the book.

She finished thirty-third in the race.

她以第三十三名完成比賽。


thirty-fourth

The answer appears on the thirty-fourth page of the book.

She finished thirty-fourth in the race.

她以第三十四名完成比賽。


thirty-fifth

The answer appears on the thirty-fifth page of the book.

She finished thirty-fifth in the race.

她以第三十五名完成比賽。


thirty-sixth

The answer appears on the thirty-sixth page of the book.

She finished thirty-sixth in the race.

她以第三十六名完成比賽。


thirty-seventh

The answer appears on the thirty-seventh page of the book.

She finished thirty-seventh in the race.

她以第三十七名完成比賽。


thirty-eighth

The answer appears on the thirty-eighth page of the book.

She finished thirty-eighth in the race.

她以第三十八名完成比賽。


thirty-ninth

The answer appears on the thirty-ninth page of the book.

She finished thirty-ninth in the race.

她以第三十九名完成比賽。


forty-first

The answer appears on the forty-first page of the book.

She finished forty-first in the race.

她以第四十一名完成比賽。


forty-second

The answer appears on the forty-second page of the book.

She finished forty-second in the race.

她以第四十二名完成比賽。


forty-third

The answer appears on the forty-third page of the book.

She finished forty-third in the race.

她以第四十三名完成比賽。


forty-fourth

The answer appears on the forty-fourth page of the book.

She finished forty-fourth in the race.

她以第四十四名完成比賽。


forty-fifth

The answer appears on the forty-fifth page of the book.

She finished forty-fifth in the race.

她以第四十五名完成比賽。


forty-sixth

The answer appears on the forty-sixth page of the book.

She finished forty-sixth in the race.

她以第四十六名完成比賽。


forty-seventh

The answer appears on the forty-seventh page of the book.

She finished forty-seventh in the race.

她以第四十七名完成比賽。


forty-eighth

The answer appears on the forty-eighth page of the book.

She finished forty-eighth in the race.

她以第四十八名完成比賽。


forty-ninth

The answer appears on the forty-ninth page of the book.

She finished forty-ninth in the race.

她以第四十九名完成比賽。


fifty-first

The answer appears on the fifty-first page of the book.

She finished fifty-first in the race.

她以第五十一名完成比賽。


fifty-second

The answer appears on the fifty-second page of the book.

She finished fifty-second in the race.

她以第五十二名完成比賽。


fifty-third

The answer appears on the fifty-third page of the book.

She finished fifty-third in the race.

她以第五十三名完成比賽。


fifty-fourth

The answer appears on the fifty-fourth page of the book.

She finished fifty-fourth in the race.

她以第五十四名完成比賽。