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  • 5P - in textiles - 5 Pocket

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  • anti-Gentile - OneLook - Google "anti-Gentile" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
    Isn't this POS or nah? -Xbony2 (talk) 02:16, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
    IMO yes: you can be anti-anything, and the hyphen clarifies how the word is constructed. Equinox ◑ 10:22, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
    Some languages don't use a hyphen for words like that, so the English entry could at least be a translation target. English too uses anti- without hyphen as if there is a suffix anti- (added without a -), e.g. anti- + historical = antihistorical, and a suffix anti-- (added with a -), e.g. anti-- + German = anti-German. anti-- is used for example for nationalities, because English capitalises such terms and e.g. antiGerman would traditionally be more than strange.
    As I said, "the hyphen clarifies how the word is constructed". Equinox ◑ 00:20, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
    @Equinox IIRC, previous consensus has allowed entries like that, for prefixes like "anti-", to exist with hyphens. I think the whole hyphen thing is ugly. I hate hyphens, but I'm not gonna say it doesn't belong. PseudoSkull (talk) 03:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Well that's stupid but create it, I guess. I refuse to. Equinox ◑ 21:20, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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  • This looks like a piece of code, and not an aspect of human language. Scratching the request. PseudoSkull (talk) 03:26, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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It seems like this could be a misspelling of adjudicate or abjudicate. But see [1]. Cnilep (talk) 03:21, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

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Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang claims that the expression comes from the adjective boyed, which in turn comes from the verb to boy [2]. (We have the verb but not the adjective.) Dbfirs 22:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
I feel like I've heard this before. Maybe a common misconstruction/misspelling/slang alternative of bog off? Philmonte101 (talk) 13:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
Can't find it anywhere else, though...Kiwima (talk) 18:39, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

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I've always taken beyond me as a variant of beyond my ken. We have beyond one's ken, but I'm not sure what to do about beyond one / beyond me. Free Dictionary has it from Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. OED Online has to be beyond a person as a sub-sense of beyond. Cnilep (talk) 06:06, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

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Every citation for this I find uses the phrase "ctesohedonic fallacy", and every one is from Appleton's Popular Science Monthly - it looks like a protoneologism to me. Kiwima (talk) 20:33, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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SOP - this is just an attributive form for city beat, which is a beat that covers the city. Kiwima (talk) 03:43, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
I believe it's a brand, or at least a service mark, for a line of toothpaste and related products. Cnilep (talk) 02:42, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
It seems your prediction has come true -- no results past Feb 2017. I'd say no article. GeneralPericles (talk) 01:17, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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Both catch up on and catch up with are mentioned at catch up. Cnilep (talk) 01:29, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

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See front "face up to; confront" + up intensifier, or front up.

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This one does not seem well attested; however, I was able to find quite a few attestations for autigender. Perhaps we could use that instead? GeneralPericles (talk) 01:33, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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Compare hand-to-mouth, hand to mouth
I think it would be creepy to fletcherize anything other than one's own food. Cnilep (talk) 05:30, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

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See down: "With on, negative about, hostile to".

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Could this be haem written with a ligature? That's the nearest thing I can find. Compare hæmoglobin. Cnilep (talk) 03:33, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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As I read "The present and future of the Australasian colonies" (1883) from which that quote comes, the author is arguing that Australasian colonies are separate from one another, notwithstanding their relationship with Britain. In other words, since Australia and, say, New Zealand are not intestine (“within a given country”), a war between them would not be civil war. Cnilep (talk) 00:54, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
  • improved ley - OneLook - Google "improved ley" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – something to do with agriculture: seemingly a vegetation type or a sort of pasture.
    • Example from "Hereford," in Breed Profiles Handbook:
      Hereford [cattle] prefers to graze varied unimproved pasture, in preference to an improved ley. [...] Non-fussy – willing to graze whatever is available, although will tend to select a varied herb rich sward in preference to an improved ley.
    • This seems to be a sum of parts. An improved ley is simply a ley (a field or meadow) which has been improved (artificed for agriculture). In the citation, "pasture" and "ley" are synonyms, so it refers to both improved and unimproved leys (pastures/fields). Nicole Sharp (talk) 09:44, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

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Appears to be a nonce borrowing from Korean. I can only find one book that uses it. The handful of English web hits seem either to be about Korea or to feature a mixture of English and (transliterated) Korean. Cnilep (talk) 00:26, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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  • Kichiku/kichiku - 鬼畜#Japaneseǀ鬼畜 - a rude or cruel, if a brutish person (basically a person who acts like a demon or beast - Not English - always appears in italics or scare quotes. Kiwima (talk) 23:19, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
  • Krunka/krunka - the end piece or heel of a dish, esp. a bread or roast. Seems to come from Polish kromka and/or German krumm (or perhaps Low German krunkeln?); observed used among German, Polish, and Scandinavian American families.

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I am not sure, I think anecdata is a less used cognitive term to disparage significance of the idea, google news search contents validates "lived experience". There are a lots of hits at google scholar.

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Possibly a one-off: The Little Book of Lykke is the follow-up to The Little Book of Hygge. Unlike hygge, I'm not seeing much uptake. Cnilep (talk) 02:07, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

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I don't know... Reading this, it seems like the term might be SOP. See Norway + model. PseudoSkull (talk) 03:08, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

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  • other duties as assigned*:
    • noun
    • in management (not sure what the purpose of this part of the entry relates to)
    • related to job description
    • I'm unclear how to 'force' it to be singular. The template is also changing assigned to assigneds
    • Here's my proposed definition: Flexible clause in job description that allows management to expand specified duties an employee is expected to perform. This is generally preferred by supervisors, and opposed by stronger unions.
  • oxopropanoic - OneLook - Google "oxopropanoic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

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I wouldn't be able to answer that without knowing what "right face" and "perfect right face" mean.__Gamren (talk) 17:38, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
  • police ambulance: probably an ambulance staffed by police, for e.g. violent or dangerous patients
If nothing else, could we find a quoted source of some kind to substantiate the phrase's usage? (just to have a place to start) Ozelot911 (talk) 14:37, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
I heard it in the 1960s Outer Limits TV series. Can also be found in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 15:48, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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In the name Coelophysis, the meaning as with a preposition has spread to a usage without a preposition; the name is a bahuvrihi which was probably intended to mean "having hollow processes (on its bones)".

In terms of its medical application as relating to bones, "-physis" can also mean "to grow." Specifically, as the term pertains to musculoskeletal medicine and orthopedics, "physis" refers to the region of a long bone between the epiphysis and the metaphysis, or in lay terminology, the "growth plate".

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  • Queen's Cowboys (Canada): Royal Canadian Mounted Police; in reference to the Stetson hats worn by RCMP members in ceremonial dress (red serge) and to the origin of the force where they were often the only representatives of the British Crown and later, the Canadian government, in rural parts of Canada.

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  • RAAF - OneLook - Google "RAAF" (Books • Groups • Scholar): used notably in reports of the Roswell incident in 1947. "Reserve army air force" perhaps, but is it official or just used locally.--Dmol (talk) 23:19, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
  • ravenette - a black haired teenage girl
  • reduced isolation: some kind of US school, sth to do with racial/economic minorities, affirmative action?
  • ride on(fe.s1'sDISABILITY<~peckin on,unfairlycriticize - SOP from sense of ride as "to nag or criticize". Kiwima (talk) 02:07, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
  • ri - OneLook - Google "ri" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Not sure what it means in "It has set up a ri people’s hospital in May last year, it being one of the up-to-date medical service centres for the people’s health promotion mushrooming across the country"- Fine Hospital in the Jaeryong Plain
Apparently Korean for "hamlet, village cluster", it is a unit of governance in the DPRK. Cnilep (talk) 02:54, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
  • rouanne
    • The OED entry for maverick quotes the Overland Monthy of August 1869 for a possible etymology:
      • One Maverick formerly owned such immense herds that many of his animals unavoidably escaped his rouanne in the spring, were taken up by his neighbors, branded and called ‘mavericks’.
        • Escaped his rouanne? It's French for the horse colour 'roan' and for the kind of compass you stick into the boy in front's bottom in a quiet maths class, but I can't see what it means here. --46.226.49.229 14:53, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
  • rapid-cycle - OneLook - Google "rapid-cycle" (Books • Groups • Scholar) ways
  • real GDP - OneLook - Google "real GDP" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
SoP? See the economics sense of real + GDP; generally contrasted with nominal GDP. Seems rather more encyclopedic than usual Wiktionary fare. Cnilep (talk) 06:12, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

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  • Saïtic - one of the branches of the Nile. Quote: Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus, 1844 : The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus. Other branches are the Tanitic (= Mendesian), Phatnitic, Phatnic or Phatmetic (=Bucolic), Heracleotic (=Canopic), Damietta (=Bucolic), and Rosetta (=Bolbitine).
  • same shoe - I'm told it is a fairly common idiom, basically meaning "same thing", as in: "I would not buy this book." "Same shoe." (i.e. "Me neither.")
  • Stellæ
See stellae, stella. Cnilep (talk) 06:01, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
  • stenopæic
  • think the sun shines out of someone's ass (could be bum, backside etc, and could be "act like","treat like", "as far as he's concerned" etc)
  • sutorious — adjectives from the Latin sūtōrius (“of or belonging to a shoemaker or cobbler”)
Apparently sutorian is a variant of sutorial. There is a plant genus Sutorious and possibly some bird species, but I can't find the word used as an adjective. Cnilep (talk) 08:18, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
OED gives this as a variant of sutorial with one exemplar, Thomas Blount's Glossographia. Blount defines Sutorious (sutorius) as “belonging to a Shoomaker, or Sewer”. The word appears just after Sutor (“a Shoomaker, a Sewer”), which he notes is Latin. Sutorius does not appear in Blount's (1707) Glossographia Anglicana Nova. I haven't found other examples in English. I would say that sutorious is a Latin word, not sufficiently attested in English. Cnilep (talk) 02:17, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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  • snoliday - the celebration held by children when school is closed resulting from a winter storm.
  • sphota: see Sphota: something in Indian linguistics, but what? - It is a word itself, an abstract sort of like a platonic ideal of a word, that is understood as a whole. However, I am not convinced this is an English word. All references I find italicize it, and usually spell it sphoṭa, not sphota. Kiwima (talk) 19:04, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
  • staff notation - Sum of parts?
  • strawmander
  • structural formant — I suspect this is not simply structural + formant

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Isn't this SOP? Kiwima (talk) 22:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
  • schweff: slang for a flirt or "mack", a man who is (or tries to be) good with the ladies? Is in Partridge's slang dictionary. Equinox ◑ 06:19, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
While Partridge emphasizes flirting, attestations on the web seem like comments on masculinity and social class – a bit like a (US) douchebag or a twit. [15], [16] Cnilep (talk) 04:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I can only find cites by one author (Alexander Macalister) - it seams to be some sort of sheath in the shoulder joint of an insect. Need cites by more authors. Kiwima (talk) 04:43, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
Doesn't this seem sort of SoP? (Just saying that because I also found spinning kick. Could one find the definition of this term at spinning + backfist? Philmonte101 (talk) 04:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Looks SOP to me - it is a club for swingers. Kiwima (talk) 22:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

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I can only find two actual usages - one in the bible and one in a novel of the life of David - all else is just commentary on or speculation about the meaning of the word. This is not sufficient to meet our attestation criteria. Kiwima (talk) 02:31, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
I can't find it in recent books. It is attested on the web, mainly from 2016-2017. There are currently entries for both SJW and -tard. Since the suffix is productive, there could be any number of similar terms with sporadic attestation. Cnilep (talk) 03:57, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Geertz & Geertz call it a “term […] in Balinese” and use italics on first mention (p. 30). Is it attested as a loanword in English? There is no request page for Balinese, but I wonder if editors on Wiktionary:Requested entries (Indonesian) could help with the Balinese lemma? Cnilep (talk) 02:57, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
  • Hmmm... doesn't seem attested to me. That's unfortunate; looks like an interesting entry if it exists. Can @Kiwima find any citations for this? PseudoSkull (talk) 02:42, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, I looked and didn't find it either. Kiwima (talk) 03:21, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

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See torpedo slang sense, “a large breast; breast with a large nipple”. Cnilep (talk) 01:33, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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    • 2008, Prøveoplæg Til Kulturfagene, Gyldendal Uddannelse →ISBN, page 171
      I kilde 3 finder du en kritik af, at indvandrere "systematisk" forskelsbehandles, ...
      In source 3, you will find a critique of the fact that immigrants are "systematically" discriminated against, ...

except the original author doesn't explicitly express that the fact that immigrants are systematically discriminated against is in fact a fact. I also do not know what POS to give it, if I were to make the entry.__Gamren (talk) 18:09, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

Feels SoP to me, since it's not always a fact ("I hate the idea that artists suffer more than anyone else"), and "the fact that X" can be used as a normal NP anywhere. Equinox ◑ 18:21, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

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This was previously deleted as SoP, but Collins, M-W, and Oxford each include it as an idiom or phrase. Cnilep (talk) 03:21, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

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  • weak point
  • whitile - Other dictionaries list this as a synonym for yaffle but I can find now usage. Kiwima (talk) 00:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
  • whoopeeing up "The puritanical Gandhi was convinced that men and women should never make whoopee except for the express purpose of whoopeeing up some offspring." Based on a True Story, page 380. --- SoP from Whoopee as a verb meaning to make whoopee. Kiwima (talk) 02:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC) And/or a pun on whip up. Equinox ◑ 18:51, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
  • withamit
  • withvine - alt form of withwine, but I can't find enough cites. Kiwima (talk) 02:58, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
  • woden
  • wolman
  • work sharp - Said of a pregnant woman who experiences a burst of nervous energy in the 24 / 48 hours prior to the onset of labour. May also be used of a similar phenomenon in a woman just prior to the onset of menstruation. Southern England. Colloquial.
  • worthy poor
  • wraster
Some computer languages (Java?) use it for a type of raster, and Wraster is a name, but otherwise this seems largely unattested. Cnilep (talk) 01:55, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

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Perhaps whoop ass should note that the verb can be either transitive (whoop your ass) or intransitive (whoop ass on those guys). Cnilep (talk) 02:30, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

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  • x is x, asserting the virtue of x (justice is justice, fair is fair, $20 is $20, love is love) -- Do people actually say it with "X"? If not, use Appendix:English snowclones.

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  • yakamilk: synonym of trumpeter (bird in the family Psophiidae), but I can't find sufficient cites.
  • yakoots: ?? Yakoots?? Or perhaps the Indian word for rubies, sapphires, and oriental topaz?
  • yeldrine
Webster 1913 suggests yeldrin or yeldrine, but I can't find any attestation with the final -e. Cnilep (talk) 02:25, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

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See yellowbelly, "Someone from Lincolnshire". Cnilep (talk) 02:00, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

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