manoeuvrability

The prohibit[ed] zone cuts across the isthmus about 200 yards north of the runway; the pilot's manoeuvrability, approaching from the has been reduced by about half. The ban was announced 01 April 12, days before the Anglo-Spanish talks on ...

The desire to break away from this, to develop Zambia's economic character and increase Lusaka's manoeuvrability, thus became a guiding light of Zambian foreign policy (Anglin and Shaw, 1979; Shaw, 1976; Burdette, 1984) and has been termed 'the politics of disengagement' (Tordoff, 1977).

2007，Ian Taylor，China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise:

This might be due to the nature of the work done, to the motivation to work or to the total burden that women in the lower socioeconomic group bear in comparison with those who are better off and have greater 'manoeuvrability'.

2012，P.A. van Keep, R.B. Greenblatt, M. Albeaux-Fernet，Consensus on Menopause Research:

Some hated him for his attitude while others, including Shirmin, fancied his manoeuvrability and stark mannerism.

2017，Kamlesh Choudhary，Vertical and the Organic:


prest

And when loftier mansions prest/Lure of pleasure on their guest

1850，Lydia Sigourney，Return to Native Land from Poems for the Sea，頁 80:


sodomiser

Gómara's account of the Amerindian population is harsh to say the least: of the inhabitants of the Caribbean he charged that their god is the devil (XXVII, 45), the women are lascivious and the men are sodomisers, lazy, deceitful, ungrateful, […]

2007，Stephen M. Hart，A Companion to Latin American Literature，頁 17:


ent

源自古英語 ent (“巨人”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *anti。最早出現在托爾金的《指環王》（1954–55）。

托爾金作品中描寫的樹人。

Ents and Entwives, Jack thought crazily. BAD Ents and Entwives.

2001，Stephen King and Peter Straub，p133 The Talisman:

[…] and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).

2003, Walter Scheps, "The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings", in Jared Lobdell (ed.), A Tolkien Compass

Tolkien's Treebeard, his Ent creation, was inspired by Lewis, especially his sometimes emphatic deep voice

2003, Colin Duriez, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship

Tolkien perhaps speaks for himself when he has Treebeard confess that "nobody cares for the woods as I care for them," and when this same Ent also warns that "the withering of all woods may be drawing near"

2003, Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth

But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.

2003，Allen Paterson，p180 Trees for Your Garden:

Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.

Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.

The Ents are a race of giant, tree-like people. Their purpose is to protect the electrons, though some align themselves with holes. However, as the great arrays have grown, the number of Ents has dwindled. Now they are said only to be found in the darkest and most mysterious of laboratories.

2004，Paola Amico and James Beletic，page xxvi Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era:


entrée

借自法語 entrée。

appetizer

(英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭、加拿大法語區) 前菜

hors d'oeuvre

(英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭、加拿大法語區) 前菜

starter

(英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭、加拿大法語區) 前菜

(英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭、加拿大法語區) 前菜

ENTREES AND ENTREMETS. Usually, outside of France, entrees are side or corner dishes. ... In conclusion I again remark, entrees can be made from almost anything, the difference being, they are highly cooked and seasoned. Remember nothing large is served as an entree. There are game entrees, meat entrees, fish entrees, fowl entrees, etc.

1887，Estelle Woods Wilcox，Practical housekeeping: A careful compilation of tried and approved recipes (published in Dayton, Ohio, United States)，頁 457:

Entree: The main course is normally beef, chicken, duck, or lamb, and you eat these foods with a dinner knife and dinner fork.

2007，Sue Fox，Etiquette for Dummies (published in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States)，頁 180:

It was not by the aid of mules and porters, sedans and sledges, that the hero of Carthage made his entrée into Italy.

1796，John Owen，Owen's travels into different parts of Europe, in the years 1791 and 1792，頁 307:

Burton conveniently afforded him entree into the world of art and those who buy it.

2008，Lyn Hamilton，The Chinese Alchemist，頁 253:


envoi

From the pulsing throb of the very opening, this was a detailed, incisive playing, culminating in an envoi glowing enough to provide the catharsis this programme so uncompromisingly demanded.

2009年January28日，Erica Jeal，“LSO/Segerstam”, in The Guardian:


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>:


ey

源自中古英語 ei, ey，來自古英語 ǣġ，來自原始西日耳曼語 *aij，來自原始日耳曼語 *ajją，來自原始印歐語 *h₂ōwyóm。
英語在16世紀被古諾爾斯語派生的egg代替，可能是因為“ey”和eye相似。

蛋，卵 （16世紀以後罕用）

And one of theym... cam in to an hows and axed for mete and specyally he axyd after eggys, and the goode wyf answerde that she could speke no Frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no Frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges; and she understode hym not. And thenne at laste a-nother sayd that he wolde have eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she understod hym wel. Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte, egges, or eyren? Certaynly it is hard to playse every man, by-cause of dyversite and chaunge of langage.

1490，William Caxton，Prologue to Eneydos:

Take brothe of capons withoute herbes, and breke eyren, and cast into the pot, and make a crudde therof, and colour hit with saffron, and then presse oute the brothe and kerve it on leches; and then take swete creme of almondes, or of cowe mylk, and boyle hit; […]

1787, originally 1381，Liber quotidianus contrarotulatoris garderobae:


ey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


eir

中性的第三人稱單數形容詞性物主代詞，等同於單數的their，his + her。

A person whose habit is to stand and walk splay-footed may *think* eir feet are straight ahead, when they are actually pointed only slightly less out.

The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.

2004年March31日，Sue Thomas，Hello World : travels in virtuality，Raw Nerve Books, →ISBN, →OL，頁 78:

And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender em.

2011年March15日，RJ Edwards，“#89: New Friend”, in Riot Nrrd, retrieved 2012-10-06:


thank you very much

對有人懷疑之前的陳述表示憤慨。

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

住在水蠟街四號的德斯禮先生及夫人，非常驕傲地宣稱自己是十分正常的人，託福託福。

1997，J·K·羅琳，哈利·波特與魔法石:


fair play

Financial fair play – talked about as if it is somehow nothing to do with the way the club is run, an imposition upon their work rather than a consequence of the way they work – meant that they could not spend what they do not generate.

2017年January18日，Sid Lowe，“Chaos at Mestalla: Valencia's journey from Champions League to utter disarray”, in the Guardian:


fair play

(英國、愛爾蘭) 表示祝賀。

[S]he consolidated her position by purchasing the kennels, doing them up regardless of expense and buying two new horses, and, fair play to her, fair play, as they say in Wales, ...

1964，Charles Norman De Courcy-Parry，Here lies my story，頁 248:

"Fair play to Jean, he has made it work for him."

1990年July1日，Joe Saward，引 Martin Donnelly, “Interview: Martin Donnelly”, in The Business of Motorsport Newsletter:

The Gaelic Athletic Association, fair play to them, want absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with that thingumajig football tournament in America.

1994年June21日，Liam Hayes，“GAA's holding it's own now, but could lose in the end”, in Irish Voice:

I wasn't expecting much of Ms Dynamite at the start of the night, but fair play to her, she's got a great voice on her.

2002年October30日，"Acquiesce"，“Re: noel and chris at fair play gig”, in alt.music.oasis (Usenet):


fantastique

一種文學和電影風格，糅合了科幻、奇幻和恐怖。


cul-de-sac

借自法語 cul-de-sac，源自cul (“底部”) + de (“的”) + sac (“包”)。

cul-de-sacs (plural)
culs-de-sac (plural)

And in suburbs known for new development, preservationists are often battling a general perception that there is nothing historic or worth saving among the cul-de-sacs.

2010年January17日，Cara Buckley，“A Suburban Treasure, Left to Die”, in New York Times，頁 Section MB; Column 0; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 1:

Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.


Swatow

來自郵政式拼音 汕頭／汕头 (suan1 tao5)。

汕頭（地級市名，位於中國廣東）

Han Yü

1902，J. Campbell Gibson，Mission Problems and Mission Methods in South China，第2nd版, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier，頁 56:

Bangkok is twenty-five miles from the mouth of the River Menam Chow Phya. The usual route to the city is from Singapore, by steamer or rail, though several shipping lines carry cargo direct. There are also steamship connections with Hong Kong, direct or via Swatow, a coastal service between Bangkok and the ports of French Indo-China, and occasional sailings to Java.

1920，Irving National Bank，Trading with the Far East: How to Sell in the Orient: Policies: Methods: Advertising: Credits: Financing: Documents: Deliveries，第2nd版, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company，頁 265:

With Waichow subdued and the enemy troops in the entire area surrendering or in headlong flight, Chiang struck at another malcontent general and captured the coastal city of Swatow.

1938，Robert Berkov，Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek，Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company，頁 46:

A "public trial" at the "people’s park" in Swatow, Kwantung^([sic，意為Kwangtung]) on April 5, the anniversary of the Tienanmen riots in Peiping, was followed by execution of 11 citizens.

1977年May15日，“Political executions scare mainlanders”, in Free China Weekly，卷 XVIII, 期 19, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC，頁 3:

There were none, and the only evidence of hostile action was some inaccurate anti-aircraft fire far below the F-7B as it made landfall just south of the first target, the port at Swatow.

2015，Stephen Harding，Last to Die : A Defeated Empire, A Forgotten Mission, and the Last American Killed in World War II，Da Capo Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 25:

The extant scholarship on Sinophone Thai literature attributes the uniqueness of such works as Stormy Yaowarat Road to three aspects of their evocation of Teochew: their use of the Chaoyang-Swatow (Chaoshan) dialect of Teochew (particularly in the spoken dialogues of the text), their depiction of specific Teochew cultural practices like the regions' unique opera (ngiu) and tea ceremony (gongfu cha), and their emphasis on Teochew cultural and linguistic cultivation and preservation-an emphasis woven into the theme of the narratives.

2015，Brian C. Bernards，Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature，University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC，頁 180:

My family in Swatow prepares this using a fresh fish and just a few pantry staples as part of a quick meal.

2018，Diana Danxia Zheng，Jia! The Food of Swatow and the Teochew Diaspora, →ISBN, →OCLC:

有關使用本詞的更多用例，請參閱Citations:Swatow。


gat

(原為20世紀20年代的幫派俚語) 槍，多指手槍

You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.

Goin' off on a motherfucker like that

It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.

1992，“A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic，演出者 Dr. Dre, Death Row Records:


gat

gats (third-person singular present)
gatting (present participle)
gatted (past participle)

He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.

2000，George Nelson，One Woman Short，頁 27:

Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.

2002，Brian A. Massey，Shadow Clock，頁 293:

Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.

2005，Lewis Grossberger，Turn that down!，頁 198:


gorm

gaum的變體 (源自中古英語 gome ← 古諾爾斯語 gaumr；對比哥特語 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan，“觀察”))。

gorms (third-person singular present)
gorming (present participle)
gormed (past participle)

Passing through St. George's Square, Lupus Street, Chichester Street, he scarcely saw a soul; then, quite suddenly, he struck a dense crowd, kept back by the police, standing gorming at a great jagged hole in a high blank wall, a glimpse, the merest glimpse of more broken walls, shattered chimneys.

1922, Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton, page 110:

"Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.

They would stand in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other, […]

1990，Jean Ure，Play Nimrod for him, →ISBN，頁 96:

In particular, we like to emphasize that, far from wasting our childhoods (not to mention adulthoods) mindlessly gorming at The Virginian and The Avengers, we spent those couch-potato years in rigorous preparation for our chosen career.

2005, Lynne Truss, The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels ISBN 1101218266:


gorm

有人認為與gormless 和/或 gorming有關，也有人認為與gorm (“弄髒”)有關 (gum)。

(美國南部、阿巴拉契亞、新英格蘭、多與‘up’連用) 弄亂

I find the cheap shilling self-filling pen advertised in these pages excellent value—quite equal to that of fountain-pens I have paid ten times as much for. It is also durable. I am a careless person, and prefer to discard it when I have “gormed” it […]

1910, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 91, page 273:

"Truth is, I've gormed it all up, Alistair. When it comes t' women — nice women anyway — I'm as caw-handed and cork-brained as any pimply boy."

2008，Christine Blevins，Midwife of the Blue Ridge, →ISBN，頁 133:


vegetable garden

The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

1944，Miles Burton，章號 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:


grue

源自中古英語 gruen，可能源自中古低地德語 gruwen或中古荷蘭語 gruwen (對比荷蘭語gruwen)，源自原始日耳曼語 *grūwijaną。

grues (third-person singular present)
gruing (present participle)
grued (past participle)

“It is seenteen hundred linen,” said the pedlar, giving a tweak to one of the shirts, in that knowing manner with which matrons and judges ascertain the texture of the loom ; “it’s seenteen hundred linen, and as strong as an it were dowlas. Nevertheless, mother, your bidding is to be done ; and I would have done Mr. Mordaunt’s bidding too,” he added, relaxing from his note of defiance, into the deferential whining tone with which he cajoled his customers, “if he hadna made use of profane oaths which made my very flesh grue, and caused me, in some sort, to forget myself.”

1822，Sir Walter Scott，The Pirate，卷 I, Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea，頁s 111–112:


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:


regretter

Catholics were not the only regretters of the British Government's lack of courtesy to Cardinal Lauri during his two passings through England and Wales.

1940，Ernest James Oldmeadow，Francis, Cardinal Bourne，頁 311:


halva

源自希伯來語 חלווה (khalvá) ← 羅馬尼亞語 halva ← 鄂圖曼土耳其語 حلوا (helva) ← 波斯語 حلوا (halvâ) ← 阿拉伯語 حَلْوَى (ḥalwā)。

Just before Christmas, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, sent the White House a box of holiday gifts with a pointed political message. Inside were items (body lotion, halvah, olive oil) produced in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

2016年January26日，Eyal Press，“When ‘Made In Israel’ Is a Human Rights Abuse”, in The New York Times:


hangi

借自毛利語 hāngi。

杭伊，新西蘭毛利人的一種菜式，將食物包好後放入地灶，用石頭烘烤。

He glanced at the formal setting in front of him, wishing he could be at a marae eating hangi right now.


harman

I Frisky Moll, with my rum coll, / Wou'd Grub in a bowzing ken; / But ere for the scran he had tipt the cole, / The Harman he came in.

1724，“Frisky Moll's Song”, in Musa Pedestris，出版於 1896，頁 41:

I pray you now send me some dub, / A bottle or two to the needy. / I beg you won't bring it yourself, / The harman is at the Old-Bailey; / I'd rather you'd send it behalf, / For, if they twig you they'll nail you.

1765，“A Song in High Life”, in The Merry Medley，卷 1, London: W. Hoggard，頁 35:


hazan

hazzan的另一種寫法

When George Washington was inaugurated in New York in April 1789, Gershom Seixas, the hazan of Shearith Israel, was listed among the city’s clergymen (there were 14 in New York at the time) — a sign of acceptance and respect.

2007年October7日，Jon Meacham，“A Nation of Christians Is Not a Christian Nation”, in New York Times:


benzodiazepine

同類詞：barbiturate

That week we were in the desert I couldn't sleep—perhaps a couple of hours each night at the most even with a steady intake of benzodiazepine.

2023，Bret Easton Ellis，章號 1, in The Shards:


hirs

（第三人稱單數代詞）的。hir的名詞性物主代詞。參見his，hers。

S/he leaned forward and, to Selar's surprise, took the doctor's hand firmly between hirs.

1997年July1日，David, Peter，Star Trek New Frontier (Book 1)，Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

She saw that Burgoyne was hefting hirs experimentally, sweeping it through the air. S/he twirled it around a few times, swung it back and forth.

2000，David, Peter，Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #2)，Simon & Schuster, →ISBN，頁 157:

Ze takes my right hand in hirs and folds it into a fist.

2006年March22日，Feinberg, Leslie，Drag King Dreams，New York: Carroll & Graf, →ISBN, →LCCN, :Template:LCC，頁 205:


hir

第三人稱單數賓格代詞，性別中性。參見him，her。

But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.

1988，Jeffrey Carver，From a Changeling Star，New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL，頁 232:

I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.

1996 June，Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure，New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, :Template:LCC，頁 10:

Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir.

1997年December18日，Kate Bornstein，My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely，London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, :Template:LCC，頁 130:

T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir. "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."

2000年August29日，Peter David，Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #10)，Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL，頁 137:


hir

hir的。第三人稱單數所有格代詞，性別中性。參見his，hers。

It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.

1996 June，Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure，New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, :Template:LCC，頁 13:

The player playing hir character in a MUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides, hir imagination, and hir social and communicative skills.

2002，Frank Schaap，The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality，Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OL，頁 32:

The garment covered hir dual genitals, but hir slightly rounded breasts and smooth shoulders were revealed.

2003，Susan Wright，Slave Trade (Slave Trade Trilogy #1)，Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL，頁 17:

"It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaining hir very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment to hir would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result of hir other X chromosome's having accidentally fallen into the trash on its way down from heaven.

2011年March29日，Jody Norton，“Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature”, in Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature，University of Michigan, →ISBN, :Template:LCC，頁 305:

Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

2011年May19日，Ken Wickham，The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant，CreateSpace, →ISBN，頁 7:


hoon

來源不明，原是一種辱罵語。最早見於Capricornia (1938) ，是由澳大利亞作家Xavier Herbert (1901–1984) 所用；1941年 Herbert 在信中說他年輕時聽到過這個詞。

(澳大利亞、新西蘭):Template:貶 小流氓 （自20世紀30年代）

'You flash hoon,' he went on, 'Kiddin' you're white, eh?[…].'

1938，Xavier Herbert，Capricornia: A Novel，Sydney: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC:

(澳大利亞、新西蘭) 開訂製車輛的街頭賽車手；開車不講理的人 （自20世紀80年代）

Police have impounded an average of 10 cars a day since hoon laws were introduced by the State Government in June 2006. Hoon related offences include burnouts, doughnuts, drag racing, repeated driving while disqualified and high-level speeding. Offences are detailed in section 84C of the Road Safety Act 1986.

2008年July30日，“Hoon Laws”, in Victoria Police，存檔自the original on 2009-05-15:

The hoons piled out of the wreck brimming with righteous road rage, and were settling to the task of beating the shit out of Wozza, Mutton and the hapless wheelman when they discovered the plastic bag.

2009，Damien Broderick，Rory Barnes，I'm Dying Here: A Comedy of Bad Manners，New York, N.Y.: Point Blank, →ISBN，頁 29:

[T]here is an overwhelming sense of youth as a social group with nowhere to go and nothing to do. […] Predictably, this has produced a series of strategies among young people through which to counter the boredom and frustration they often experience. One of the more spectacular – and illegal – examples of this is "hooning" (a localized term for dangerous driving) by young males. […] [H]oons transform the quiet, often sleepy streets of neighborhoods on the Gold Coast into playscapes of their own. […] Equally salient in the context of the present discussion is the random night-time appropriation by hoons of particular streets and neighborhoods on the Gold Coast in which to enact the collective rituals that give the hoon culture both internal cohesion and local notoriety.

2012，Sarah Baker，Andy Bennett，Patricia Wise，“Living ‘The Strip’: Negotiating Neighborhood, Community, and Identity on Australia's Gold Coast”, in Habitus of the Hood，Bristol, Chicago, Ill.: Intellect, →ISBN，頁s 109–110:

(澳大利亞、新西蘭) 方式 （自20世紀80年代）

The stars of Happytime Murders give Kiwi slang a hoon

2018年August28日，“stars give kiwi slang a hoon”, in The Rock (radio station):

Havin' a hoon on TVNZ's new OnDemand platform

2015年February13日，“TVNZ OnDemand platform”, in TVNZ Ondemand:


hoon

hoons (third-person singular present)
hooning (present participle)
hooned (past participle)

(澳大利亞、新西蘭) 做出粗魯的行為

[…] you've hooned off – it's fair to say hooned off – at quite a high speed.

2003，Western Australian Reports: Authorized Law Reports of the Supreme Court of Western Australia，卷 28, Sydney: Published for the Council of Law Reporting of Western Australia by Butterworths, →ISSN，頁 249:

Cruising, hooning and street machining all involve the social use of public space where young people can exert agency by independently engaging with their surroundings. Young people use public space to meet their needs, and not always in the way a specific space was designed for. One example is that an industrial area may be used as a prime site for hooning and street racers to congregate because it is less frequently under the gaze of authorities.

2012，Rob White，“The Making, Shaking and Taking of Public Spaces”, in The Problem of Pleasure: Leisure, Tourism and Crime，Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

Any Smokey in his Pig-pen within fifty kilometres had hooned up and down the streets towards the chase, sirens and tyres screaming, whether they could get into the actual pursuit or not, and all the criminals were glued to their TV's for the endless repeats of the demise of the gunmen in a mid-air ball of fire, […]

2015年November20日，Jim Ore，Crime is Everywhere (Solaris Saga; 4)，Worcestershire: C. Bosley Publishing, →ISBN，頁 244:


hoon

All this time, every night, and sometimes most of each night, the hooning whistling of the Room was intolerable. It was as if an intelligence there knew that steps were being taken against it, and piped and hooned in a sort of mad, mocking contempt.

1910, William Hope Hodgson, “The Whistling Room”, in The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 34617117, page 606; republished in Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913, OCLC 13117415:

Black flashing storms, the lowings and bellowings of the old sanded forest, the whistling and hooning of nameless birds, the lonesome moons, the weird fifteen-foot stone dwellers of the Old Priory, soft grassy slopes on which lovers lay, […]

1966，Christina Stead，Dark Places of the Heart，New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →OCLC，頁 278:

Zeven let loose a hooning howl of approval.

2012，Traci Harding，The Light-Field (Triad of Being; book 3)，Sydney: HarperCollins, →ISBN:


hoon

借自閩南語 分 (hun) (官話 分 (fēn))。參見fen。

英屬亞洲殖民地的一種計量鴉片的重量單位，約等於0.378125克。

This abovementioned Chandoo or prepared opium for smoking is retailed by them [the East India Company] at 5 pice per hoon, equal to 8000 Spanish dollars per chest, and on the opposite or Queda shore the hoon is sold at 6 pice or 9,600 dollars, […]

1838，N[athaniel] Wallich，“XVII.—A Few Brief Notices on the State of the Population of Prince of Wales' Island, and of the Price at which Opium is Retailed in that Colony”, in Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India，卷 I, Calcutta: Re-printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Circular Road, →OCLC，頁 57:

Visited in company with the agent of the Opium farmer 4 Opium shops, found them filled with Chinese except one which had in addition 7 Malays and natives of India. Amongst these were 3 tailors; one woman 30 years old, was there smoking her pipe,—she had been in the habit of doing so for 3 years at the rate of 3 hoons daily,—before she commenced the habit of smoking had children but none since,—thinks that it is owing to the bad habit,—would like much to give up but is frightened.

1848 January，R. Little，“On the Habitual Use of Opium in Singapore”, in The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia，卷 II, 期 I, Singapore: Printed at the Mission Press, →OCLC，頁 23:

Examined thirty-one men. Their average consumption was six hoons. The greatest daily consumption by one man was fifteen hoons; the smallest, two. The average number of years they had been addicted to the smoking of opium was seven years and some odd months.

1860，A chaplain in H. M. Indian Service [pseudonym; James Aberigh Mackay]，“An Explanation of the Peiho Massacre”, in From London to Lucknow: With Memoranda of Mutinies, Marches, Flights, Fights, and Conversations. To which is Added, An Opium-smuggler's Explanation of the Peiho Massacre. By a Chaplain in H. M. Indian Service. In Two Volumes，卷 II, London: James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street, →OCLC，頁 553:

Chinese Catty = 1.33 lb (605 g) / = 16 Tahil (liang or tael). / 1 Tahil = 10 Chee (chandu measures) / = 100 Hoon (fen).

1999，Carl A. Trocki，“Weights and Measures”, in Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade 1750–1950，Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN，頁 x:

The average smoker used only four hoons, leaving him 36 hoons, nearly half an ounce, to sell on the black market.

2005，Derek Mackay，“Retail Monopoly”, in Eastern Customs: The Customs Service in British Malaya and the Hunt for Opium，London: The Radcliffe Press, →ISBN，頁 141:


hoon

借自印地語 हून (hūn) ← 梵語 हून (hūna)。

The plaintiff in his plaint states, that the first and second defendants' elder brother, Soobbiya Shetty, on the 8th Ashweeja Bahoola of the year Veya, mortgaged to him, for 2½ hoons, his two slaves, viz. a female Dher, named Honnoo, and a male Pardeshey, together with their offspring, and made them over to him; that while they were in his possession, Soobba Shetty died, and the first and the second defendants succeeding to his (Soobba Shetty's) property, they further executed a document to him for hoons 4-8-12, on account of a balance against themselves of rice, &c., making a total mortgage on the slaves of hoons 7-3-12.

1835年July29日，“Decree Passed by the Barcoor Moonsif, in Original Cause, No. 126 of 1835, on the 29th July 1835: Hossamunay Manddawanna Shetty, residing in the Hondady Village, and Brumawhar Mogany, in the Barcoor Talook, versus Sheevy Shetty, his younger brother, Honniya, both nephews of Hossamunay Pomma Shetty, and younger brothers of Soobbiya Shetty, residing in the said Hondady Village, and Bennaycoodra Krooshna Shetty”, in Slavery (East Indies). Return to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons Dated 22 April 1841;—for, Copy of the Despatch from the Governor-General of India in Council to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, Dated the 8th Day of February 1841 (No. 3), with the Report from the Indian Law Commissioners, dated the 15th Day of January 1841, and its Appendix Enclosed in that Despatch, on the Subject of Slavery in the East Indies，[London]: Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 出版於 26 April 1841, →OCLC, appendix IX，頁 505:


osteria

And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.

2015年August13日，Robert Draper，“In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites”, in New York Times:


superman

仿譯自德語 Übermensch；托马斯·康门，和super + man。德语词是由尼采在其1883年的著作《查拉图斯特拉如是说（Also sprach Zarathustra）》中提出，并由爱尔兰剧作家萧伯纳在1903年剧作《凡人與超人1909年翻译尼采著作时提出本词。有的学者认为本词并不对应 Übermensch，应使用德语词或overman。
“有超能力的人”一义是由DC漫画角色超人普及，其最早登场是1938年6月的Action Comics #1。

He worked like a superman to single-handedly complete the project on time.

[page 113] The idea of superman is as old as the world. Through all the centuries, through hundreds of centuries of its history, humanity has lived with the idea of superman. Sayings and legends of all ancient peoples are full of images of a superman. Heroes of myths, Titans, demi-gods, Prometheus, who brought fire from heaven; prophets, messiahs and saints of all religions; heroes of fairy tales and epic songs, knights who rescue captive princesses, awake sleeping beauties, vanquish dragons, and fight giants and ogres—all these are images of a superman. […] [page 114] People dreamt of, or remembered times long past when their life was governed by supermen, who struggled against evil, upheld justice and acted as mediators between men and the Deity, governing them according to the will of the Deity, giving them laws, bringing them commandments.

1931，P[yotr] D[emianovich] Ouspensky，R[eginald] R. Merton, transl.，“Superman”, in A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion, and Art，New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC，頁s 113–114:

I had a vision of what the ideal man should be. I wanted someone whose income combined with mine could afford us a family, an apartment, a car, and all the travel, luxury, and fun we could possibly tolerate. I wanted a Superman.

2010 August，A[lex] E[chevarria] Roman，章號 25, in The Superman Project: A Chico Santana Mystery，New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN，頁 218:

What type of human weakness might a being of unfathomable power—a superman—inadvertently expose to the keen analytic mind of an avenging dark knight? Would he discover that a superhuman being who cannot be overcome, who is loved and adored by most, and who awes the commoner, desires to be overcome?

2016，Patrick J. Reider，“How Batman Cowed a God”, in Batman, Superman, and Philosophy: Badass or Boyscout? (Popular Culture and Philosophy; 100)，Chicago, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Company, →ISBN:

Early in Crime and Punishment, [Rodion] Raskolnikov has become obsessed with the notion that he himself is a "superman." Therefore, he thinks, he is not subject to the laws that govern ordinary people. […] However, his indecision and confusion throughout the novel indicate that he is not a superman. Moreover, in the course of the novel, [Fyodor] Dostoyevsky seeks to prove that there is no such thing as a superman. Dostoyevsky believes that every human life is precious, and no one is entitled to kill.

2016，A Study Guide for Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” (Novels for Students)，Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale; Cengage Learning, →ISBN:


hulusi

源自漢語 葫蘆絲／葫芦丝

The hulusi, also known as a poleweng, baihongliao or bilangdao, is a two or three pipe free reed from southern China played by the Dai, A'chang, De'ang and Wa people.

2010，Randy Raine-Reusch，Play the World: The 101 World Instrument Primer，頁 68:


menacer

Like a frightened deer Pan-at-lee cast a single startled look at these menacers of her freedom and leaped quickly toward the bushes in an effort to escape […]

1921，Edgar Rice Burroughs，Tarzan the Terrible:


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:


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)
saltiest (superlative)

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.


suzerain

源自法語 suzerain，sus (“上”) (源自拉丁語 sursum) + souverain (參見英語 sovereign)。

Suzerainty is a term which was originally used for the relation between the feudal lord and his vassal; the lord was said to be the suzerain of the vassal, and at that time suzerainty was a term of Constitutional Law only. With the disappearance of the feudal system, suzerainty of this kind likewise disappeared. Modern suzerainty involves only a few rights of the suzerain State over the vassal State which can be called constitutional rights. The rights of the suzerain State over the vassal are principally international rights, of whatever they may consist.

1920–1921，L[assa Francis Lawrence] Oppenheim，International Law: A Treatise，第3rd版, 卷 I (Peace), London, New York, N.Y.: Longman, Green and Co.，頁 162:

The origin of these conflicts is to be sought in the position which Rome acquired about 275 b.c. as suzerain and protector of all Italy.

1911，1911 Encyclopædia Britannica，卷 22, Punic Wars，頁 649:


signifier

If commentators have concurred on the characterization of Reagan as a synecdoche, they have also noted his status as a signifier.

2008，Diane Rubenstein，This is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary:


inviter

While the buyer of such an item wants a sui generis gift to impress a weekend-in-the-Hamptons inviter, how about sending that sum to the Fresh Air Fund in the hosts’ name so a child can enjoy country life, too?

2009年July30日，“For a Real Connection”, in New York Times:


izba

借自俄語 изба́ (izbá)。

From the doctor's I flitted over to a travel agency, obtained maps and booklets, studied them, learned that on the mountainside above Cedarn there were two or three clusters of cabins, rushed my order to the Cedarn Post Office, and a few days later had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.


approx

approx.的另一種拼寫法

[…] place the pan into a hot oven 175 degrees approx 5 minutes until the top has been cooked.

2009年January23日，Achim Herterich，“Cooking tips, recipes with eggs”, in Herald Sun:


adzuki

借自日語 小豆 (azuki)。

Adzukis need 118 days to start bearing.

2003，Carla Emery，The Encyclopedia of Country Living，第9th ed.版, →ISBN，頁 289:


agitprop

源自俄語 агитпро́п (agitpróp)，源自отде́л агитации и пропаганды (otdél agitacii i propagandy)。

/ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/

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

/ˈædʒətˌpɹɑp/

:Template:不可數 宣傳鼓动（多指共產黨人）

The letter was pure puffery, probably written by some clerk in North Korea's agitprop bureau, but Trump loved it.

2020年June23日，John Bolton，The Room Where It Happened, →ISBN，頁 96:


amok

源自葡萄牙語 amouco ← 馬來語 amuk (“大肆殺人”)。
英語中最早出現於16世紀，1516年描寫馬來西亞、爪哇人的《The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their Inhabitants》。

more amok (comparative)
most amok (superlative)

一般用於短語run amok。

I […] might have run ‘amok’ against society; but I preferred that society should run ‘amok’ against me.”


time and tide wait for no man

figura etymologica – time和tide分別派生自原始日耳曼語 *tīmô和*tīdiz，這兩個來源上有關聯。

"And now", said Daniel, looking at his watch, "as time and tide wait for no man, my trusty partner, and as I am ready for starting, bag and baggage, at the gate below, let me say a last word".

1857，Charles Dickens，章號 22, in Little Dorrit:

"Do you not think, my dear lad, that you had better begin? Time and tide, as you are aware, wait for no man".

1903，P. G. Wodehouse，“Work”, in Tales of St. Austin's:


kast

源自荷蘭語 kast ← 中古荷蘭語 caste (“箱子”) ← 古高地德語 kasto ← 原始日耳曼語 *kazą。參見chest。

18-19世紀紐約和新澤西的荷蘭人製作的一種傳統碗櫃

At Clifford A. Wallach tramp art rules absolutely, most unusually in a large cupboard that has the mass of a Dutch kast armoire and is painted light green.

2007年January19日，Roberta Smith，“Decorative Tradition, Laced With Bursts of Eccentricity”, in New York Times:

The exhibition includes the kinds of Dutch furnishings that might have been found in 17th- century estates: pewter plates, silver bowls, brass candlesticks, Dutch tiles, Bible boxes, Delft jars and Dutch cupboards, called kasts.

2009年July3日，Wendy Moonan，“Exploring Dutch Legacy 400 Years After Hudson”, in New York Times:


blam

:Template:網(非正式) 在博客發送的垃圾信息

[…] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy

To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.

2014，Nicolae Sfetcu，Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:


blud

倫敦移民俚語，源自牙買加。

(倫敦移民俚語) 對男性的非正式稱呼。

Nowadays all of my shows sold out / Headline tour, yeah blud, sold out

I heard your mixtape, blud it was garbage […] Blud, I don't know why you mentioned my name

2016，“Punk (Chipmunk Diss)”, 演出者 Yungen:


scion

源自中古英語 sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion ← 古法語 cion, ciun, cyon, sion ← 古法蘭克語 *kīþō, *kīþ ← 原始日耳曼語 *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“發芽”) ← 原始印歐語 *geye (“劈開，發芽”)，參見古英語 ċīþ (“嫩芽，萌芽，嫩枝”), 古撒克遜語 kīth (“嫩芽，萌芽”), 古高地德語 kīdi (“嫩芽，萌芽”)。對比法語 scion, 皮卡第語 chion,chit。

No senate seats in council for the dead; no scion of a time-honoured dynasty pants to rule over the inhabitants of a charnel house; the general's hand is cold, and the soldier has his untimely grave dug in his native fields, unhonoured, though in youth.

1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1:

Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.

1956，Delano Ames，章號 9, in Crime out of Mind:

It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.

1966, Sholem Aleichem, An Early Passover, Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24:

He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?

1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 72:


distancing

If you were apprehensive, you were in the good company of Dylan aficionados still grappling with the trickster mystique of the 66-year-old singer-songwriter who see the Pulitzer as another chapter in his complicated history with the establishment, an ongoing dance of distancings and détentes.

2008年April13日，Dave Itzkoff，“Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?”, in New York Times:


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”)。

more surgical (comparative)
most surgical (superlative)

/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:


suki

借自他加祿語 suki，來自泉漳話 主客 (chú-kheh，“常客”)。

Near the opposite end of the suki continuum, the "subjective" pole, are special suki.

1973，William G. Davis，Social Relations in a Philippine Market: Self-interest and Subjectivity, →ISBN，頁 230:

Frequent buyers in a particular store become the suki, so that with this kind of a relationship, the marketgoer gets an extra treat, like obtaining more tomatoes for the price of a kilo.

2007，Isabel S. Panopio, Realidad Santico Rolda，Society & Culture, →ISBN，頁 216:

The suki relationship in the Philippines, a credit/marketing linkage, is often assumed to be exploitative of the fisher.

2011，Robert S. Pomeroy, Neil Andrew，Small-scale Fisheries Management, →ISBN，頁 169:


suki

借自日語 隙(すき) (suki)。

This gluing is "stoppage," and every stoppage means giving an advantage to the enemy, which is a suki.

1959，Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki，Zen and Japanese culture，頁 143:

When you receive a strike, it is because there is a suki. Your opponent draws your attention to your weak spots, and you endeavor to ensure that you do not receive a strike in the same place again.

1997，Hiroshi Ozawa，Kendo: The Definitive Guide, →ISBN，頁 20:

Often, though, a suki to the chest will cause the sword to become lodged between bone and cartilage making it very difficult to quickly remove.

2006，Kevin L. Seiler, Donald J. Seller，Karate-do, →ISBN，頁 61:


kawaii

借自日語 可愛い, かわいい (kawaī)。

more kawaii (comparative)
most kawaii (superlative)

(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:


kawaii

借自日語 可愛い, かわいい (kawaī)。

kawaiiness

(一般指日本文化、ACG) 可愛

(一般指日本文化、ACG) 可愛


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。

more tech-savvy (comparative)
most tech-savvy (superlative)

(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:


anemic

more anemic (comparative)
most anemic (superlative)

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:


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:


bruh

[…] in adolescence, and still more in youth, it is no less certain that the bruh is both good-natured and intelligent.

1838，James Rennie，The Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums and Lemurs:


trespass

External infrastructure issues such as severe weather and trespass caused 17.1% of [train] cancellations, [...].

2019年December18日，Andrew Roden，“New measurements reveal improvement in punctuality”, in Rail，頁 24:

Network Rail has produced a free downloadable comic highlighting the consequences of railway trespass. Between March 23 and April 26, there were 1,024 trespass incidents on the railway. [...] it is based on the company's award-winning safety film 18, which shows the dangers of trespass, especially around electrified lines.

2020年June17日，“Stop & Examine”, in Rail，頁 71:

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

「要知道，你們如果饒恕別人的過犯，你們的天父也會饒恕你們。你們如果不饒恕別人，你們的父也不會饒恕你們的過犯。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:14–15:


trespass

源自古法語 trespasser，tres- (“越，過”) + passer (“通過”)。

trespasses (third-person singular present)
trespassing (present participle)
trespassed (past participle)

transgress

(現代罕見) 違法；做錯事

宣佈某人因到他人土地上而犯非法侵入罪

The dean trespassed the streaker from his university.

The entire police force has in effect been trespassed from a Wellington property to stop officers checking whether a heavy-sleeping offender is complying with an overnight bail curfew.

2012年June21日，Greg O'Connor，“Criminal trespasses police officers”, in Stuff:


trespasser

The human is a land animal, not an aquatic one, and he is therefore a trespasser in the water.

1983，Richard Ellis，The Book of Sharks，Knopf, →ISBN，頁 16:


YouTube

源自you + tube (“電視”，北美口語)，指使用者（你，“you”）可在該網站上載自己的電視（“tube”）內容。

None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,[…]

这并不是说学术图书馆应该将他们的网站变成视频分享网站或社交媒体，而我们的用户社区将在其中创建所有内容， […]

2007，Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank，Academic librarianship by design:

There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.

人们在上面发布了各种各样的东西——有些很有趣，有些实际上可以作为学习或商业的模板……它有点像一个文档共享网站。

可在線觀看的視頻（尤指發佈在視頻分享網站上者）

Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,[…]

而这个视频的内容是，一个孩子正尝试只用脚弹吉他，演奏曲目“Radar Love”， […]

Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?

不久之前，有人在网上发布了你们两人打架的视频。你们的音乐合作是如何展开的？

2009 March，Valerie McQueen，“Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver:


YouTube

YouTubes (third-person singular present)
YouTubing (present participle)
YouTubed (past participle)

將視頻上載到YouTube上

The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.

这场革命将不会被电视转播。（相反，）它将被上传到 YouTube 上。

2007年February5日，“Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited:

在YouTube上搜尋及觀看視頻

Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.

搜索结果显示，他是一名流行歌手。我上 YouTube 看了他（的一些视频），里面传出的是另一个令人毛骨悚然、感到恐怖至极的痛苦嚎叫。

2015年April21日，Bob Jones，“Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle:

If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.
如果你不认识我，那就上 YouTube 搜我，因为马上全世界都会知道我的名字。

2017 Sammy Guevara Impact Wrestling July 20


fella

(非正式、美國南部) 對男性的稱呼。

By the third go-around, the essence of what I wrote was, "And the same to you, fella!" I am glad that our relationship has survived that exchange.

1997，Donald Meichenbaum，“Discussion”, in The Evolution of Psychotherapy: The Third Conference，頁 90:

Am I right, fellas?


exceed

源自中古英語 exceden ← 古法語 exceder ← 拉丁語 excedō (“超過”)，ex- (“出，前”) + cedō (“走”)；參見cede 、accede等。

exceeds (third-person singular present)
exceeding (present participle)
exceeded (past participle)

Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.

约1603–1604年，威廉·莎士比亚，“The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奥赛罗]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (第一对开本)，伦敦: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

Your password cannot exceed eight characters.

您的密碼字數不得超過8個字符。


human being

He began to reflect that in a few Minutes he might possibly deprive a human Being of Life, or might lose his own.

1749，Henry Fielding，The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling，卷 III, VII xiv:


nihonium

源自日語 日本 (Nihon) + -ium。2016年IUPAC因日本理化学研究所發現該元素而以日本的國名來命名。

Japanese scientists behind the discovery of element 113, the first atomic element found in Asia - indeed, the first found outside Europe or the United States - have dubbed it "nihonium" after the Japanese-language name for their country.

2016年June9日，“First element discovered in Asia named 'nihonium', after Japan”, in Reuters:


downing

In several recent helicopter downings, the attackers used a variety of weapons[…].

2007年February18日，Michael R. Gordon，“Planning Seen in Iraqi Attacks on U.S. Copters”, in New York Times:


drop dead

`My parents would drop dead if they knew,' she said.

1965，James Holledge，What Makes a Call Girl?，London: Horwitz Publications，頁 90:


transexual

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

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


copernicium

Copernicus + -ium，以Nicolaus Copernicus（尼古拉斯·哥白尼）命名

kōpərnĭsʹēəm

Copernicium is one of a group of superheavy elements made artificially in a particle accelerator by colliding ions into a heavymetal target; and, like the other superheavy elements, it is radioactive and decays very quickly.

2013，Eric Scerri，30-Second Elements, →ISBN:


death toll

Food, clothing, bedding, and fire, were supplied in sufficient proportions to maintain life and health; and the three years of severe suffering passed over the cotton districts without any sensible increase of disease, and without increasing the frequency of the death toll.

1866，John Watts，The Facts of the Cotton Famine，頁 232:

Fascinated by the fact that the death toll of this singular storm was the fifth highest on record as regards overall effects/death tolls for a natural disaster in the United States in the 20th century […]

2011，Angela Mason，Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado:


death knell

The sound was the stroke of a bell from the tower of East Endelstow Church. . . . The death-knell of an inhabitant of the eastern parish was being tolled.

1873，Thomas Hardy，章號 25, in A Pair of Blue Eyes:

Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death-knell.

1890，Ambrose Bierce，章號 1, in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge:

The thought was a death-knell to Helen's last hope.

1901，Upton Sinclair，章號 10, in King Midas:

"It is the death knell of an orchestra if it doesn't have its own home," he says.

2004, Jamie James, "The Rise of a Musical Superpower," Time, 28 June:

A rupture would represent a death knell for the West and would harm the US worker.

2018，Michael Cottakis – LSE，“Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, in LSE's blog:


parkour

parkours (third-person singular present)
parkouring (present participle)
parkoured (past participle)

They had parkoured seven roofs, clambered down a mango tree, and crossed over the bridge in the back of a donkey cart, unnoticed even by the driver.

2009年October19日，Stephen Davies，Hacking Timbuktu，Andersen Press, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 24:

The daring Ukrainian can be found on his website dangling off of tall buildings with one hand, scaling bridges and parkouring through urban landscapes in search of a personal thrill.

2013年March25日，Aaron Lindberg，“Death Defying Photos Of Mustang Wanted”, in Fstoppers:


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:


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)。

more astronomical (comparative)
most astronomical (superlative)

/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March18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:


konak

源自鄂圖曼土耳其語 قوناق (konak，“宅邸，客棧”)。

奧斯曼帝國時期土耳其官員的宅邸

It was a small pretty town with four minarets and one campanile and the Pasha's konak sprawling across the foothills.

2006，Thomas Pynchon，Against the Day，Vintage, 出版於 2007，頁 943:


épicier

A Parisian épicier may be always known by his physical exterior, by his dress, his phraseology, his gait, or a certain ostentatiousness of manner, which the prying eye of the caricaturist will not fail to mark and make the most of.


krokodil

源自俄語 крокоди́л (krokodíl，“鱷魚”)，指其對皮膚的破壞性作用。crocodile 的同源對似詞。

But other synthetic drugs, such the ones known in the streets as bath salts, now dominate the market in Russia, while the most common sign of krokodil is the quiet devastation it has left behind.


thank

源自中古英語 thank ← 古英語 þanc (“想法，感謝，滿足”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *þankaz (“想法，回憶，感謝”) ← 原始印歐語 *tong-, *teng- (“想”)。與薩特弗里斯蘭語 Tonk, 西弗里斯蘭語 tank, 荷蘭語 dank, 低地德語 Dank, 德語 Dank, 丹麥語 tak, 瑞典語 tack, 法羅語 tøkk, 冰島語 þökk同源。與thought有關。

If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.

如果你們只善待那些善待你們的人，難道有什麼可稱讚的嗎？連罪人也這樣做。

1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 6:33:


thank

源自中古英語 thanken, thankien ← 古英語 þancian, þoncian (“感謝”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *þankōną (“感謝”) ← 原始日耳曼語 *þankaz (“想法，感謝”) ← 原始印歐語 *teng- (“想，感覺”)。與薩特弗里斯蘭語 tonkje (“感謝”), 西弗里斯蘭語 tanke (“感謝”), 荷蘭語 danken (“感謝”), 低地德語 danken (“感謝”), 德語 danken (“感謝”), 丹麥語 takke (“感謝”), 瑞典語 tacka (“感謝”), 冰島語 þakka (“感謝”)同源。與thought有關。

thanks (third-person singular present)
thanking (present participle)
thanked (past participle)

She thanked him for the lift.

她對他載她一程表示感謝。

The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion now thanked the Good Witch earnestly for her kindness; and Dorothy exclaimed: […]
#*:: 稻草人、鐵皮樵夫和獅子由衷地感激甘琳達的善良。多蘿茜大聲說： […]

1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23

I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

We can thank global warming for this weather.

我們可以把這樣的天氣歸咎於全球變暖。

But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. By the time we reached the house we were thanking our stars she had come. Mrs. Cooke came out from under the port-cochere to welcome her.

1898，Winston Churchill，章號 5, in The Celebrity:


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:


laika

源自俄語 ла́йка (lájka)。

Q—The Russians picked a laika to occupy the space capsule. Do you think a dachshund would have been a wiser choice?


lakin

可能源自古諾爾斯語 leika。

And the gay lakin, mistress Fitton, mount and cry O, and his dainty birdsnies, lady Penelope Rich, a clean quality woman is suited for a player, and the punks of the bankside, a penny a time.

1922 February，James Joyce，“[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses，Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]，頁 193:


meh

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

more meh (comparative)
most meh (superlative)

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):


meh

表示漠不關心，不在乎或缺乏興趣。

“What do you want for dinner?” — “Meh. I’m not really hungry.”

“晚飯你想要吃什麼？” — “嗯。我還不是很餓。”

“That film was awesome!” — “Meh. I’ve seen better.”

“那部電影很好看啊！” — “哦，我看過比這還好的。”

Marge: [weaving on a loom] “Hi Bart, I’m weaving on a loom!”
Bart: “Meh”.

1995年March19日，“Lisa’s Wedding”, in The Simpsons:

Scientists say that while the public may think of the moon as a problem solved and a bit retro – the place astronauts visited a half-dozen times way back before Watergate and then abandoned with a giant "meh" from mankind – in fact, lunar studies is a vibrant enterprise that is yielding a wealth of surprises.

2014年September7日，Natalie Angier，“The Moon comes around again [print version: Revisiting a moon that still has secrets to reveal: Supermoon revives interest in its violent origins and hidden face, International New York Times, 10 September 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:


spades

黑桃作為最大花色的紙牌遊戲

Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.

2019，Colson Whitehead，The Nickel Boys，Fleet，頁 57:


unsplit

unsplits (third-person singular present)
unsplitting (present participle)
unsplit (past participle)

Like it or not, we are in a motor age and we can no more turn back the clock than we can unsplit the atom.

To unsplit the split, click on the View Menu buttons and choose Unsplit Left/Right (v6.2) or Unsplit Main (v6.3).

2012，Lee Lanier，Digital Compositing with Nuke:


trimethylphosphine

In this work, phosphorous-doped single-walled carbon nanotubes have been synthesized by the thermal decomposition of trimethylphosphine using a high-vacuum chemical vapor deposition method.

2016，Georgina Ruiz-Soria, Toma Susi, Markus Sauer, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Thomas Pichler, Paola Ayala，“On the bonding environment of phosphorus in purified doped single-walled carbon nanotubes”, in Carbon，卷 81，頁s 91-95:


autist

Most autists are not artists, as most artists are not autists; but in the chance of their coming together […] there must, I think, be an interaction between the two, so that the art takes on some of the strengths and weaknesses of autism […]

1995，Oliver Sacks，An Anthropologist on Mars:

Like children and animals, autists have relatively rudimentary conceptual lives.

2011，W M Bernstein，A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis:


sexist

more sexist (comparative)
most sexist (superlative)

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:


ignorer

THESE days it seems to me, a passionate ignorer of football, that all anyone can talk about around here are the Green Bay Packers.

2008年January20日，Lauren Fox，“Political Football”, in New York Times:


rin

繼承自中古英語 rinnen，來自古英語 rinnan (“跑”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *rinnaną (“跑”)。run參見更多資訊。

rins (third-person singular present)
rinning (present participle)
ran (past)
run (past participle)

"Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it.[…]."

1836，Allan Cunningham，Lord Roldan，卷 1, John Macrone，頁 314:

O! gin I were where Gadie^([the name of a rivulet]) rins,

a. 1846，John Imlah，“Where Gadie rins”, in The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II，Harper & Brothers, 出版於 1876，頁 211:

I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a man rin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away he rinned, and my mawther rinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, and rinned and rinned; at laest she rinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"

1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas], Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3,


stoicism

Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.

2012年May24日，Nathan Rabin，“Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:


louche

more louche (comparative)
most louche (superlative)

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:


louche

louches (third-person singular present)
louching (present participle)
louched (past participle)

將酒精飲料（如烏佐酒，苦艾酒）與水混合，因生成茴腦導致酒變渾濁（乌佐效应）。

Certain anise-flavored drinks have developed a mystique based on the exotic appearance of louching.

In distillation, the first few liters of absinthe to come out of the still are called the head; the last few liters are the tail. The head and tail don't have enough alcohol to keep the oils in suspension, so the absinthe comes out of the still louched.

2010，Paul Owens，Paul Nathan，Dave Herlong，The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails，New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN:


Brexit

Britain + exit 組成的混成詞，類推自 Grexit。
根據牛津英語詞典，最早的使用記錄是在2012年5月15日，由 Peter Wilding 在 Euractiv 的一篇部落格文章中發表，標題為「Stumbling towards the Brexit」，與2012年2月6日創造的 Grexit 作類比。

Unless a clear view is pushed that Britain must lead in Europe at the very least to achieve the completion of the single market then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit.

除非人们明确认识到英国必须至少在欧洲发挥领导作用以实现单一市场的完成，否则“希腊退出欧元区”之后可能会出现另一个令人悲伤的词——“英国脱欧”。

2012年May15日，Peter Wilding，“Stumbling towards the Brexit [蹒跚走向英国脱欧]”, in EurActiv，存檔自the original on 2016-06-24:

The business community began to take the idea of Brexit seriously. Three major American banks, the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, revealed they were working on contingency plans to relocate from London to Dublin […]

商界开始认真考虑英国脱欧。美国三大银行——美国银行、花旗银行和摩根士丹利透露，它们正在制定从伦敦迁往都柏林的应急计划 […]

2015，Denis MacShane，Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe [英国脱欧：英国将如何脱离欧洲]，London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN，頁 6:

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the early hours when results from Newcastle and Sunderland showed better than expected returns for the Brexit camp. A surprise victory for a Brexit in Swansea, which was expected to vote to Remain, did little to dampen concerns despite Scotland overwhelmingly backing staying in the Union.

英国投票决定脱离欧盟后，戴维·卡梅伦辞去首相一职。此前，留欧派一直信心满满，直到凌晨纽卡斯尔和桑德兰的投票结果显示，脱欧派的选情好于预期。斯旺西原本预计会投票支持留欧，但出人意料地支持脱欧，尽管苏格兰绝大多数人支持留在欧盟，但斯旺西的脱欧派却意外获胜，这无助于缓解担忧。

2016年June24日，Kate McCann，“EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns after UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit [欧盟公投直播：英国脱欧震惊世界，卡梅伦辞职]”, in The Daily Telegraph，存檔自the original on 2016-06-24:

The pensions of British Eurocrats are shaping up to be one of the most politically poisonous points in the UK’s Brexit talks, as the EU and London prepare to clash over liabilities running to several billion euros.

随着欧盟和伦敦准备就高达数十亿欧元的债务问题发生冲突，英国原欧盟官员的养老金问题有望成为英国脱欧谈判中最具“政治毒性”的议题之一。

2016年August1日，Alex Barker, Jim Brunsden，“Eurocrats’ pensions shape up to be flashpoint in Brexit talks [欧盟官员养老金有望成为脱欧谈判焦点]”, in The Financial Times，London:

We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit.

我们必须消除脱欧造成的不确定性。

2017年June19日，Michel Barnier，“Brexit Negotiations: David Davis says ‘Promising Start’ Made [英国脱欧谈判：大卫·戴维斯称“开局良好”]”, in BBC News:

[Donald] Tusk said: “Our agreement will not make trade between the UK and the EU frictionless or smoother. It will make it more complicated and costly than today, for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.”

[唐纳德]图斯克表示：“我们的协议不会让英国和欧盟之间的贸易变得顺畅。它将使我们所有人之间的贸易比现在更加复杂和昂贵。这就是脱欧的本质。”

2018年March7日，Daniel Boffey, Jennifer Rankin，“EU scorns UK’s ‘pick and mix’ approach to trade post-Brexit [欧盟蔑视英国脱欧后“挑三拣四”的贸易方式]”, in The Guardian，London:

Meanwhile, The Sunday Times revealed that civil servants had warned of a “Doomsday Brexit” if no agreement is reached, creating shortages of medicine, fuel and food.

与此同时，《星期日泰晤士报》披露，公务员警告称，如果不能达成协议，英国将迎来“世界末日脱欧”，从而导致药品、燃料和食物短缺。

2018年June5日，“Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong [英国脱欧民意调查显示，创纪录数量的选民认为脱欧决定是错误的]”, in The Independent，London:

“It’s all incredibly unhelpful and what we need to do now is to get closer with our European partners and work out what a realistic, pragmatic Brexit is that works for both sides, the EU and ourselves.”

“这一切都无济于事，我们现在需要做的是与我们的欧洲伙伴更加紧密地联系在一起，并找出一个对双方、对欧盟和我们都有利而务实的脱欧方案。”

2018年June23日，“Brexit: Theresa May ‘not bluffing’ in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says [英国脱欧：保守党大臣利亚姆·福克斯称，特蕾莎·梅威胁无协议脱欧“并非虚张声势”]”, in The Independent，London:

A further referendum is not just a way for voters to decide whether to incur the economic and social cost of a final Brexit deal.

再次公投不仅仅是选民决定是否承担最终脱欧协议的经济和社会成本的一种方式。

2019年March5日，David Miliband，“As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one [担任外交大臣期间，我反对留欧公投。现在我支持]”, in The Guardian:

The EESC also considers that the €5.4 billion reserve will not be sufficient to mitigate the negative effects of Brexit and asks the co-legislators to increase the proposed ceiling.

欧洲经济和社会委员会还认为，54亿欧元的储备不足以减轻英国脱欧带来的负面影响，并要求共同立法者提高拟议的上限。

2021 November，Christiaan van Lierop，European Parliamentary Research Service:

Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc’s asylum scheme.

由于英国已退出欧盟的庇护计划，脱欧也使得英国将移民遣返回欧盟变得更加困难。

2021年December2日，“Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling [Frontex 飞机抵达法国北部协助打击人口走私]”, in Euronews，源於 AFP:

Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

由于英国脱欧，许多渡轮公司现在从爱尔兰直达欧盟大陆，绕过菲什加德等英国港口，这对交通产生了影响。

2022年November16日，Paul Bigland，“From rural branches to high-speed arteries [从乡村支线到高速干线]”, in RAIL，期 970，頁 52:

Even the BBC, long prevaricating on the issue, has started properly reporting the Brexit catastrophe, particularly its impact on the cost of living, NHS staff shortages and projections of weak future economic growth.

就连长期在脱欧问题上含糊其辞的英国广播公司，也开始正确报道脱欧灾难，特别是其对生活成本、国民保健服务人员短缺以及未来经济增长疲软预测的影响。

2023年February2日，Andrew Adonis，“Sooner or later, re-entry to the customs union and single market is inevitable [迟早，重新加入关税同盟和单一市场是不可避免的]”, in Prospect:

Biden’s irritation with London’s inability to solve its “Irish question” after Brexit has also played a role.

拜登对英国脱欧后伦敦无法解决“爱尔兰问题”的恼怒也起到了一定作用。

2023年August7日，Jo Harper，“UK–US: What’s happened to their free trade deal? [英国 - 美国：他们的自由贸易协定发生了什么？]”, in Deutsche Welle:

The mayor of London has urged EU citizens to “choose London” over other European cities, promising to make the UK capital a better place to live and work despite Brexit.

伦敦市长敦促欧盟公民“选择伦敦”而不是其他欧洲城市，并承诺尽管英国脱欧，但仍将使英国首都成为一个更好的生活和工作场所。

2023年October6日，Heather Stewart，“‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit [“选择伦敦”：萨迪克·汗加大力度吸引英国脱欧后的欧盟公民]”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The Brexit referendum seemingly heralded such a moment but other than the negative sentiment of leave, the more positive agenda of what to do with the UK’s newfound status has been found wanting.

英国脱欧公投似乎预示着这一时刻的到来，但除了脱欧的负面情绪外，对于如何更积极地处理英国新地位的议程却被发现存在不足。

2023年November3日，Tim Olivier，“Brexit: a critical juncture in the UK’s international relations? [英国脱欧：英国国际关系的关键时刻？]”, in UK in a Changing Europe:

The Brits have been uniquely incompetent in wallowing in narcissistic irrelevance ever since the Brexit vote. They’ve refused to admit that the only path forward for them is a crippling deal with the United States that will give them access to the NAFTA system but at the cost of any kind of economic sovereignty.

自英国脱欧公投以来，英国人一直沉溺于自恋的无足轻重状态，表现得极为无能。他们拒绝承认，他们唯一的出路是与美国达成一项艰难的协议，这将使他们能够进入北美自由贸易协定体系，但代价是牺牲任何形式的经济主权。

2023年November23日，Peter Zeihan，“Ireland Needs a New Game Plan || Peter Zeihan”, in Zeihan on Geopolitics，源於 YouTube, 2:55–3:14:

Brussels has warned the UK that it must fully apply the existing Brexit deals on EU citizens and Northern Ireland before it will entertain a reset in the relationship with London.

布鲁塞尔警告英国，它必须全面执行针对欧盟公民和北爱尔兰的现有脱欧协议，然后才会考虑重启与伦敦的关系。

2024年August1日，Lisa O'Carroll，“UK must apply existing Brexit deals before any reset in relations, says EU [欧盟称英国必须在重启关系前执行现有的脱欧协议]”, in The Guardian:


Brexit

Brexits (third-person singular present)
Brexiting (present participle)
Brexited (past participle)

Brexiting the EU, not leaving Europe

2015，Stefano Francesco Fugazzi，Brexit?, →ISBN，頁 27:

[Nigel] Farage recalls: What was clear from that polling was that in June 2015 the most trusted person in the country on whether to Brexit or not to Brexit was David Cameron.

[奈杰尔]法拉奇回忆道：从那次民意调查中可以清楚看出，2015年6月，在是否脱欧问题上，英国民众最信任的人是戴维·卡梅伦。

2016，Owen Bennet，章號 10, in The Brexit Club: The Inside Story of the Leave Campaign’s Shock Victory, →ISBN:

Parisiens I had talked to were universally disgusted: with David Cameron, for holding the vote; with the British, for Brexiting; […]

与我交谈过的巴黎人普遍感到厌恶：对戴维·卡梅伦举行公投感到厌恶；对英国人脱欧感到厌恶； […]

2016，Maureen Dowd，“Unconventional Conventions”, in The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics, →ISBN:


maken

And emõges his familiares theſe wordes folowyng were muche in his mouthe: The damyſelles of Perſia maken ſore yies.

1542，Eraſmus of Roterodame，“The Saiynges of Alexander the Greate”, in Nicolas Vdall（譯者）, Apothegmes […] ，頁 197:

To whom no ſhare in armes and cheualree, / They doe impart, ne maken memoree[…]

1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，“Book III, Canto II”, in 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1，頁 410:

All these Starres maken one hundred and eight, / Bright and conſpicuous without deceite.

1606，Nathaniel Baxter，Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, containing all Philosophie:


over the moon

(熟語) 十分高興，樂翻天

Winemakers are over the moon to be able to showcase the individual nuances within their vineyards.

2003年December14日，Kate Drake，“Champagne Supernova”, in Time，存檔自the original on 2012-03-29:


mali

借自印地語 माली (mālī，“園丁”) ← 梵語 माली (mālī，“做花環者；花藝師；園丁”)，源自माला (mālā，“花環，花圈，花冠”)。

(印度，南亞) 南亞一類種姓，傳統職業是園藝方面；園丁 （自18世紀）

I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.

1871年November29日，“Cachar: Further Correspondence on the Subject of the Looshai Raids and the Consequent Hostilities (in Continuation of Paper, No. 398, of 1871)”, in Accounts and Papers: Thirty-six Volumes，卷s X (East India—continued), [London]: Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 出版於 28 May 1872, →OCLC，頁 301:


matryoshka

源自俄語 матрёшка (matrjóška)源自人名Матрёна (Matrjóna) ← Матрона (Matrona)，源自拉丁語 mātrōna。

matryoshkas (plural)
matryoshki (plural)

/ˌmætɹɪˈɒʃkə/

/ˌmɑtɹiˈoʊʃkə/

Russian doll

俄羅斯套娃 （自20世紀）

俄羅斯套娃 （自20世紀）

The past is not only a foreign country that we half knew existed; it is hiding another concealed country behind it, and behind that one, another, and another – like a set of Russian matryoshki, in which larger dolls conceal smaller.

2011，Norman Davies，Vanished Kingdoms，Penguin，頁 35:


skerry

源自設得蘭、奧克尼低地蘇格蘭語 skerry，源自古諾爾斯語 sker (參見丹麥語 skær、書面挪威語 skjær)。

礁，岩，嶼；小型石質島嶼，漲潮時可能被淹沒

The Seal (phoca vitulina, Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of selchy, is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries, where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].

1805，George Barry，History of the Orkney Islands，頁 322:

Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries, then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.

1997，Bernard Scudder, transl.，Egil's Saga，Penguin Books，頁 46:

The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry, finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.

2000，Jeremy Gaskell，Who Killed the Great Auk?，Oxford University Press，頁 20:


meister

源自德語 Meister (“專業人士，大師；冠軍”)，源自古高地德語 meistar ← 拉丁語 magister。參見master，mister，magister，maestro。

The designated leaders so far include superstars like Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate, and Eric Lander, genome meister.

2009年January20日，Natalie Angier，“In ‘Geek Chic’ and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women inTimes”, in (請指定書籍名或刊物名):


merch

His playful point of view on youthful American sportswear, expressed in boxy mohair jackets with graphic resin bubble buttons and tomboy T-shirt dresses in superfine chiffon as bright as tangerine sorbet, is backed up with what stores would describe as the merch: easy scoop-neck cashmere sweaters in a mix of colors, lightweight T-shirts and sheared mink Army caps.

2007年February15日，Eric Wilson，“Babes in Label Land”, in New York Times:


ee

(蘇格蘭、英格蘭北部、古舊用法) 眼；同eye。

[…] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]


ee

(英格蘭北部) 同eh。

Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad. […]

1975, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, The Werewolf and the Vampire

'Ee by gum lass we've seen nought of thee this many a long year, thou's a sight for sore eyes,' he said planting a kiss firmly on Mum's cheek...

2008，Mavis Crawley，The Rolling Stone: Based on the True Story of My Life:


eight pack

You could be one of those genetically gifted individuals who has the potential to show off an eight-pack instead of a six.

2006，David Zinczenko，The Abs Diet，頁 263:


pay attention

pays attention (third-person singular present)
paying attention (present participle)
paid attention (past participle)

I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.

1913，Joseph C. Lincoln，章號 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

Please pay attention to the danger signs.


tweet

擬聲詞。對比twitter。

[Ignatz, dropping Officer Pupp's police whistle into the lake:] The fishes will have lots of fun tweeting tweets on it.

1934年April7日，George Herriman，Krazy Kat，Saturday, comic strip, →ISBN，頁 104:

推文；在社交平台推特上發佈的帖子

Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.

2007年April22日，Jason Pontin，“Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune:

For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.

2008，Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May，Universal Design for Web Applications:

A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]

2008，Chris Seibold，Big Book of Apple Hacks:

He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.

2023年August3日，Kristen Holmes，The Lead with Jake Tapper，CNN:


tweet

擬聲詞。對比twitter。

tweets (third-person singular present)
tweeting (present participle)
tweeted (past)
twote (past)
tweeted (past participle)
twoten (past participle)

In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.

2012年April19日，Josh Halliday，“Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:

Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

2017 Jan 25, BBC World Service, "Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'", http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38740717 (Retrieved 2017-01-25)


national anthem

With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

2011年November10日，Jeremy Wilson，“tEngland Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:


anthem

源自中古英語 anteme ← 古英語 antefn, antefen, 古法語 antiene, anteine, anteivne，源自拉丁語 antiphōna ← 古希臘語 ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna)，ἀντί (antí，“對”) + φωνή (phōnḗ，“聲音”)。對比antiphon和ant'em。

In May 2000, they even finally cracked the UK top ten when they teamed up with Paul Van Dyk on the trance anthem "The Riddle"...

2003，Peter Buckley，The rough guide to rock:


aks

源自古英語 axian (“問”)；參見ax。

aks (third-person singular present)
akses (third-person singular present)
aksing (present participle)
aksed (past participle)

(多見於西非、非裔美國人、倫敦移民口音) 問

Another thing, kid, don't aks me no more questions tonight.

2004，Larry Dean Hamilton，A Gathering of Angels，頁 132:


arp

"The arp can be applied to instruments by inserting it as a MIDI effect before your synth of choice."

2014年June4日，Bruce Aisher，“COMPLEX ARPS”, in Attack，存檔自the original on 2018-09-16:


arp

All through the prayer he made little arp! arp! noises like a baby seal.

2001, Ruth Bell Graham, Blessings for a mother's day

"ARP, ARP, ARP." George turned and saw the seal waddling down their side of the river.

2002，Larry Mehelic，Searching for Blue-Eyed Trout:

Usually when I speak about arp [address resolution protocol], at least one person in the audience acts like a seal and shouts, "Arp, arp, arp!"

2003，Chris Wolf，Troubleshooting Microsoft technologies:


precrastinate

precrastinates (third-person singular present)
precrastinating (present participle)
precrastinated (past participle)

It can also “precrastinate,” that is, engage in a series of tasks too early, in a way that results in serious and unnecessary burdens and costs.

2015，Cass R. Sunstein，Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice, →ISBN，頁 12:

You know me. I never procrastinate. I do the opposite. I precrastinate.

2015，Joseph Muratore，Rise of a Terrorist, →ISBN:

Because of the general application of precrastination, it was picked up by the media (eg, Richtel, 2014) and even led to the suggestion that people who precrastinate sacrifice creativity because they don't leave enough time for incubation (Grant, 2016).

2019 February，Lisa R. Fournier, Emily Coder, Clark Kogan, Nisha Raghunath, Ezana Taddese, David A. Rosenbaum，“Which task will we choose first? Precrastination and cognitive load in task ordering”, in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics，卷 81, 號 2:


tacitly

more tacitly (comparative)
most tacitly (superlative)

Your failure to object to the request resulted in you tacitly approving the change.

你沒有反對該請求，導致你默認同意該變更。

The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.

1856，Mrs. William Busk，Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268，卷 IV, London: Hookham and Sons, →OCLC，頁 294:

The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.

2012，James Lambert，“Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes，頁 306:


yokan

“Homemade yokan. You must be quite special to this girl,” he teased. “She's just one of many,” I laughed. Matsu picked up one of the rectangular red bean cakes and put it entirely into his mouth.

“自己手工做的羊羹。你在这个女孩心中的地位一定很特别，”他调侃道。“她只是众多人中的一个，”我笑道。松拿起一块长方形的红豆糕，把它一整个放进嘴里。

2008，Gail Tsukiyama，The Samurai's Garden，頁 61:


naw

源自低地蘇格蘭語 naw, naa, na ← 中古英語 na ← 古英語 nā (“不，從不”)。參見no。

'Naw, hen, sorry. Ye're too young for us. Come back when you've got a couple mair years under yer belt, eh?'


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:


nerf

源自玩具品牌 Nerf 。

nerfs (third-person singular present)
nerfing (present participle)
nerfed (past participle)

gimp

對角色、武器、技能等的削弱

Tesla nerfs Autopilot in Europe due to new regulations

2019年May17日，Fred Lambert，Electrek, retrieved 2019-05-19:


credit card

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.

2013年June1日，“End of the peer show”, in The Economist，卷 407, 期 8838，頁 71:


panada

源自西班牙語 panada、意大利語 panata。

平淡而有營養的東西 （18–19世紀）

He paid his Debts, call'd in some single Acquaintance, told him he was dying & drove away that Panada Conversation which Friends think proper to administer at Sick Bed-Sides, with becoming Steadiness.

[They] swallow, without flinching, all the theological panada with which she may think fit to cram them.

1822，Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, section 12.12:


onigiri

The sprawling multipage menu offers cleanly executed dishes meant to accompany the sake, including standards like boiled edamame, and the filling rice balls called onigiri that you would expect at any izakaya, or Japanese pub.

2007年January28日，“Island Within an Island”, in New York Times:


Kelantan

吉蘭丹州，馬來西亞西部州份

Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.

1958，Anthony Burgess，The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy)，出版於 1972，頁 292:


chinky

I've had a Chinky, a Chic Murray and, afore ye came tae collect me, I had some fuckin' fancy Italian pasta dish. It was pure dead brilliant, by the way!

2013，Harry Morris，Yer Never Gonnae Believe It:


not yet

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

（农村太阳能发电厂）计划对工业或其他重度电力用户几乎没有帮助。太阳能也不像电网那样便宜。尽管如此，电灯应该迅速在印度村庄普及。当国家电网遭受下一次大停电时，就像2012年7月数亿人陷入黑暗時，可以在村庄里寻找到一丝光。

2013年July20日，“Out of the gloom”, in 經濟學人，卷 408, 期 8845:


mouche

They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.

The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.

1921，Elizabeth Douglas Van Buren，Figurative terra-cotta revetments in etruria and Latium: in the VI. and V. centuries B.C.，頁 9:

In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.

2006, Linda M. Scott, Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Macmillan (ISBN 9781403971340), page 203:


buying

[…] Reckonings of all and every his Dealings, Doings, Buyings and Sellings and Employments, touching and concerning the Premises […]

1707, A General Discourse of Commerce (page 126)

"He's hanging back to make an excuse of going to town for the spring buying, and it won't do."

1930，Norman Lindsay，Redheap，Sydney: Ure Smith, 出版於 1965，頁 37:


teek

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

The Teek forests, from whence the marine yard at Bombay are furnished with that excellent species of ship timber, lie along the western side of the Gaut Mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, on the north and north-east of Basseen; the numerous rivulets that descend from thence affording water-carriage for the timber. I cannot close this account, without remarking the unpardonable negligence we are guilty of, in delaying to build Teek ships of war for the use of the Indians seas.

1794–95，Proceedings Relative to Ships Tendered for the Service of the United East-India Company, from the Twenty-sixth of March, 1794, to the Sixth of January, 1795:, Extract from Major Rennel's Memoir，頁 885:


teek

She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?

2011，Nate Kenyon，StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN，頁 140:


teek

teeks (third-person singular present)
teeking (present participle)
teeked (past participle)

Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room.

1957年April18日，Robert Silverberg，“Hidden Talent”, in Worlds of If，頁 27:


noms

Forget overpriced noms

2008，Kaiser Kuo，The Insider's Guide to Beijing 2005-2006:

With these culinary heavy hitters, you can be sure the winning dishes will truly represent the highest quality of airport noms!

2019年November8日，“Enjoy These Delicious Cooking Classes Led By Top Chefs & More At KULinary 2019”, in SAYS:


afront

These four came all afront, and mainly thrust / at me. I made me no more ado, but took all their seven / points in my target, thus!

a. 1597，莎士比亞 威廉，亨利四世 (第一部), 第2場，第4幕，行s 195–197:


mosquito net

Child-trouble widened her brown eyes as she turned them on the shrouded figure stiffly outlined by the sheet, now partly screened by the mosquito-net.

1907，Barbara Baynton，Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton)，St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 出版於 1980，頁 127:

In the room the mosquito net was down, ghost-grey in the falling light.

房間裡蚊帳已經放下，在燈的照射下顯出如同幽靈一般的灰色。

1959，Anthony Burgess，Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy)，出版於 1972，頁 505:


Ursprache

/ˈʊəspɹɑːkə/

/ˈuːɹʃpɹaːxə/

I had lost him. He might have been speaking Ursprache, for all that I understood.


hu

human 的截斷形式。，最早於2003年由埃默里大學的米哈伊爾·愛潑斯坦教授使用。

Hu is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in hus solutions of each and all a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural.

2002年January3日，Bryan T. McMahon，引 Sasha Newborn, “A terrible book”, in The Ponchatoula Times，頁 7:

When the lecturer arrives, hu will be speaking on the topic of anonymity.

2003年October14日，Mikhail Epstein，“"Hu," from "human," as a gender-neutral pronoun”, in (Usenet), message-ID <f732cdb7.0310141153.6c715df8@posting.google.com>:

It's the vice-president's job to support the president and take hus place when hu is away.

2007年November29日，Mikhail Epstein，“hu”, in International Society for Universal Dialog:

Maybe, but if his/herstory's any guide, hu has hu work cut out for hu.

2008 March，Christoph Hitz，“Hu, Me?”, in Mother Jones, →ISSN:

One of his favorite metaphors for the historian, drawn from the "Preface" to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, likens hu to the owl of Minerva, whose flight at dusk provided the setting for mature reflection on the day that had passed.

2006，Perry Anderson with Burgess, Glenn, The Political Imagination in History: Essays Concerning J.G.A. Pocock，Owlworks, →ISBN，頁 175:

Now, however, the editorial writer has a new weapon in hu arsenal.

2006年October1日，“He said, she said, hu said”, in Los Angeles Times:

If hu doesn't do hu homework, I will fail hu.

2006年November17日，Rob Kyff，“Hu Joins Heesh As Neutral Pronoun”, in Hartford Courant:


aa

源自夏威夷語 ʻaʻā。

渣塊熔岩。對比pahoehoe. （自19世紀）

We...saw ‘pahoihoi’ or solid lava forming, and also ‘aa’ or clinkers.

1859, R. C. Haskell, American journal of science and arts, series XXVIII

Cooling and solidification frequently takes a different course [...] in lava flows, producing the clinker-like ‘aa’ lava.

1944，Charles A. Cotton，Volcanoes as landscape forms:

Both pahoehoe and aa lava flows are common on the upper slopes of Mauna Loa with a preponderance of aa flows found at the lower elevations.
結殼熔岩和渣塊熔岩在冒納羅亞火山的高處都常見，而渣塊熔岩，在較低的海拔處更多。

1981, Hilo Lava Flood Control: Environmental Impact Statement, page 194:


nuclear weapon

Even if they managed to strike Japan, the United States or South Korea with nuclear weapons — a big if, given that they do not have a reliable delivery system — they could not save themselves from ultimate defeat.

即使他們設法用核武器襲擊日本、美國或韓國——考慮到他們沒有可靠的運載系統，這是一個很大的假設——他們也無法避免最終的失敗。

2013年April9日，Andrei Lankov，“Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:


eek

ecaf (“臉”) 的截斷形式。，源自face的倒序。

How bona to vada your eek!

Though she's a bimbo bit of hard, / she’s royal and tart. And girl, you know / vadaing her eek is always bona.

2015年October12日，Adam Lowe，“Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:


mabele

Locusts do not touch mabele, and therefore there is no excuse for not putting in more.

1901年April26日，“District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record，卷 4, 期 4，頁 102:


manti

源自土耳其語 mantı或鄂圖曼土耳其語 مانطی。

一種土耳其和中亞式的肉餡餃子

Crowding the table were miniature, hand-formed lamb dumplings called manti; flaky pastries, called boreks, filled with wild greens; and an elaborate paste of chicken, wheat and pistachios called keskek.

2007年December5日，Melissa Clark，“When It Looks at You, It’s Done”, in New York Times:


acrobatically

more acrobatically (comparative)
most acrobatically (superlative)

Stephane Sessegnon levelled before half-time, acrobatically volleying in Zenden's corner from four yards.

2011年May14日，Peter Scrivener，“Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport:


olema

the land of Egypt was ruled by a Sultan endowed with justice and generosity, one who loved the pious poor and companied with the Olema and learned men

1885，Sir Richard Burton，The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 20:


omi

可能借自意大利語 uomo。

Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.

1967，Kenneth Horne，Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne)，季数 3, 集数 12:

Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.

1997，James Gardiner，Who's a Pretty Boy Then?，頁 123:


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:


Jaffa

借自阿拉伯語 يَافَا (yāfā)，借自聖經希伯來語 יָפוֹ (yāfō)。

They were together, at the flicks on Saturday night, eating Jaffas and smiling at each other occasionally in the dark.