Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)
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edit- We have 1-h TL FM. Along the same lines we could also have 10-h TL FM, 100-h TL FM, and 1,000-h TL FM / 1000-h TL FM. (Seemingly only attested with these numbers).
- 5D chess - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - verb, after the game 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel; past tense 5D chessed or 5D chess'd
- I am interested in seeing a fuller coverage of plate tectonics and submarine features like plates themselves (Philippine Sea Plate, Scotia Plate), oil fields (Chengbei, I have no list of these), trenches (Manila Trench, Mariana Trench), ridges (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise), and similar (James Shoal, Darwin Mounds) etc. This kind of work will be mostly based in academic literature. I hope to see a more adequate system of categories developed. To show you how woefully inadequate Wiktionary is at this time (2022), I just today created Mid-Atlantic Ridge and dumped it into Category:Oceanography and Category:Places. See List of submarine topographical features, List of reefs --Geographyinitiative (talk) 21:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
- You're so dramatic, Joggy! There's a perfectly decent project for these... Wikipedia Demonicallt (talk) 00:48, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- And Wiktionary. CitationsFreak (talk) 17:27, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
- Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/Drugs -- needs sorting, some cutie pharmaceuticals
- 68686 - Nazi or Satanist number slang of some kind used on several Kellersynth albums.
- 1390 and 1352 - Nazi number slang according to ADL, but not to find in any else place.
- It's a reference to FBI crime statistics that Black people , as they say, "constitute 13 percent of the population but commit 52 [I've also heard 56] percent of all [violent, sometimes this part is omitted] crime. Used usually to paint Black people as disproportionately criminal. Other forms may be "13/52", "1356", or "13/56". This might help https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1352-1390. ScribeYearling (talk) 22:20, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
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- a fronte - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- adorasexy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - slang term for "cute and sexually attractive"
- argumentum ad illegalum - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also argumentum ad penalum, ad scelestum, ad carcerum, and ad criminalum, a logical fallacy that says that if something is illegal it means it is immoral and or anti-ethical no matter what.
- argumentum ad legalum - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also argumentum ad codexum, ad constitutium, ad iutistium, and ad lexum a logical fallacy that says if something is legal it means it is moral and or ethical no matter what.
- arrage - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library variant of average orache arris and arrearage[1]
- akohekohe - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library bird
- alauahio - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library bird
- angel ladder - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library beams of light piercing clouds, sometimes called Jacob's ladder or angel's ladder
- ankle-high - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- any given Sunday - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - phrase used to call to attention the amount of variation in American football games. See this search
- as a matter of facts - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - common mistake for as a matter of fact - millions of Google hits
- as suppose to - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, as supposed to - surprisingly common eggcorns for as opposed to
- Asrah levitation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- attack rate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- babuji - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, also babu ji, baboojee (and probably other variants) - form of address in Indian English; see babu
- balani - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (new sense) - sea urchins (see [1], [2], [3]). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:49, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- I suspect that is barnacles (perhaps genus Balanus or family Balanidae) rather than sea urchins. OED includes a short quote at acorn from 1755: "Sea Acorns, Balani." Cnilep (talk) 03:55, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- Bannisdale Formation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - type of rock; see entry in the British Geological Survey Lexicon of Named Rock Units. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:30, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- Bannisdale Slates - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - alt name for Bannisdale Formation (see above; [4]) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:30, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- be back - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- banjee - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - https://genius.com/Beyonce-jolene-lyrics
- behemotic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - rare variant of behemothic; Google Books has two hits, both from 1976: "[...] of Erebos no longer hides the behemotic goat's and horse's hooves." and "A breadwinner was killed at night at a dam construction site when the driver of a noisy, behemotic "paydozer" or earth-moving machine ran over him because it had a 48 x 20 foot blind spot to the rear when reversing."
- bernieria bird
- bethanization - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - might be trademarked?
- BFBVFS - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library = big fiery ball visible from space - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - an irreversibly corrupted game file or a crashed computer. Originated on The Sims 2 fan community "More Awesome Than You" Estreyeria (talk) 18:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- big if true - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a sarcastic response to either a wild claim ("I saw bigfoot", "big if true") or something trivially obvious ("Obama is black", "big if true")
- bill padding - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- blister pearl - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - irregularly formed type of pearl
- boisted - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED5403, see also boist possibly related
- bootying - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - looting booty, but also from bootying down
- Botni - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - some Scandinavian area. See Ostrobothnia et al Fond of sanddunes (talk) 22:48, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- box close - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, box sale - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - something in the car dealer biz
- boymom - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a mother of one or more sons. I typically see it used with a connotation that she is overly attached to them and perceives them as more desirable than daughters.
- Literally every usage I have found references Ruth Whippman, author of the book BoyMom (2024). But the word allegedly existed as a hashtag on TikTok before the book was written. Cnilep (talk) 03:44, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- binge out - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- bundy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - we have bundy off/bundy on Denazz (talk) 12:59, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
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- caffra - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (in plant taxonomy) an offensive slur. See [5], [6]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:23, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- caneva - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library "canvas like wool" OED has one quote[2]
- Caradoc (new sense), a geological term, see w:Caradoc Series; en:wikisource:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/245, et seq. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:19, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- chevvu - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - See Citations:chevvu, of Gems and Gemology by Robert M. Shipley, and of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Volumes 1-11 page 53. Heyandwhoa (talk) 20:47, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- chickle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- chilia - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library bird
- chlorisation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a chemical process. Also the greening of potatoes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:00, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- chlorized - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library from the above (same source). Presumably also chlorised. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:24, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- cocquette - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library bird
- collar number - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- contourf - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (used in atmospheric science)
- cordonbleu - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library bird
- cornucopianism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- cotarnin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library variant of cotarnine
- cotula - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- countersemitism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library "Euphemism" for antisemitism. Used in online Nazi spaces. Nominally defined as "in opposition to Jewish interests".
- coffee badging - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- cervical groove - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - zoology:mentioned in omostegite
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- defensive lineman - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - American football position
- Delta-9 - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or delta-9 - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - THC
- diazeuxis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Ancient Greek musicology and logic; see “diazeuxis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC..
- direct commission - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- disc warming - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Flat Earth slang for global warming
- dispersal notice - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- diversity statement - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Seems SOP to me. ScribeYearling (talk) 22:23, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- IMHO this phrase's meaning is not obvious from it's constituent words. (diversity of what? Who states to whom?) Apokrif (talk) 03:40, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Seems SOP to me. ScribeYearling (talk) 22:23, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- doomsday fish - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- down the Swannee - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- emergency passport - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Emplonge - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- estavelle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- evertebrated - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Alt. form of evertebrate. See wikisource:en:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/140. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:49, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
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- fakezine - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - as in "['Just do it' is] so mindlessly cool, it could be the motto for our twenty-something fakezine!] from https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dark-age CitationsFreak (talk) 06:04, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- fall into one's hands - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library ―Biolongvistul (talk) 14:57, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- finger abacus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- fire-eye bird
- first at-bat - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - literal and idiomatic senses
- flax brake - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- SoP? See brake#Etymology 4. Cnilep (talk) 06:32, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
- flope - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- flurryingly - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - just 3 citations on Google Books
- focus Friday - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Focus Friday - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- football's coming home
- forebitter — shanty for leisure hours
- fortress mentality
- friend of the court - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library ―Biolongvistul (talk) 16:23, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- furu - a fake guru, see for example Urban Dictionary
- fuzzy matching
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- Geomalia - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library bird genus => Translingual entry exists
- GEVO - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- give a dog a bad name and hang him - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Give a dog a bad name and hang him on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- glasswing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- glow-in-the-dark - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library -adj. Looks vaguely idiomaticPhacromallus (talk) 20:40, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- glycemic control - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- god ray meaning sunbeam often in computer graphics
- goin'st - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- gon'st - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- gon'sta - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- goods and chattels - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Collins Cambridge Merriam-Webster
- googoltriplex - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library See Citations:googoltriplex. - the number 10 raised to the power of one googolduplex
- grand-scale - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (and consider 'grandscale' and 'grand scale' as alternatives?)
- grantish - the type of jargon used in grant applications, similar to legalese. - i.e. grantspeak
- graytail / greytail -- a bird
- grosbeak-canary bird
- groundhunter bird
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- half-relief - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - art. mezzo-rilievo (old?) synonym. mezzorilievo Italian
- hard ask - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library -- tough ask - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library -- big ask - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Hashir - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- hawkfly - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — appears in the University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh language as a translation of pry'r crëyr and according to General Aspects Of Commercial Gardening (1913), it refers to hoverflies of the genus Scaeva, but isn't clear on whether they are a specific species within the genus.
- HFY - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — acronym of "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!"; (Internet, Reddit, neologism) HFY is a story/series that takes a “human element” in either humanity or an “other” (race/species or object) that exists in a “setting” (future or other world/universe) with varying levels of culture, technology, society and history that help show in some shape or form the potential good or bad for humanity’s race/culture.[3].
- higher animal - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- harrier-hawk
- heleia
- hemispingus
- he that has an ill name is half hanged, he that hath an ill-name is half-hanged - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Give a dog a bad name and hang him on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- hilium - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library 1) part of the lung 2) (by analogy?) a feature in plant pathology; see here. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:57, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
- hock-a-loogie
- hylia
- I found a use and two mentions, all with initial capital letter, of Hylia(s) to refer to family Hyliidae or to Hylia prasina, the green hylia. See Citations:hylia. Cnilep (talk) 08:54, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- hyphaeresis
- housing stock - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- hit the floor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — for example, "Hit the floor babe, disco ain't dead, and neither am I!"
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- inesculate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - ? See en:wikisource:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/345 (line 3; "The two latter [geological] deposits inesculate"). Presumably esculate is the opposite. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:16, 27 July 2024 (UTC)
- inspection copy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- intellectual bankruptcy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- intellectually bankrupt - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - We do have moral bankruptcy and morally bankrupt, though. सौम्य (talk) 01:55, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- interactive teller machine - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Also check ITM. Heyandwhoa (talk) 01:19, 6 February 2024 (UTC) - Citations:interactive teller machine
- interrenal gland - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - fish organ. Probs same as interrenal body (archaic?) P. Sovjunk (talk) 09:36, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- interstitial webpage - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Irian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - old Irish tribe??? P. Sovjunk (talk) 20:32, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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- jack - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - another word for a jacket, rather than specifically one for a padded jacket that forms part of a suit of armour. This appears in the etymology of the Yola word jock and in the copyrighted name of a brand of packable plastic raincoat/anorak/cagoule ('jack in a pack').
- jack socket - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - sounded redundant when I heard it but gets pretty decent hits and is in the OED
- Janiveer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Old (probably dialectical) term for January (maybe from (Old) French janvier). There are many hits on Google Books, but most seem to be quotations of the same few old proverbs.
- Jarovian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Joetard - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Plenty of citations can be found on Twitter and Reddit. Compare Trumptard and Obamatard.
- jump the whale - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – appears in the screenplay to Advice & Consent
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- Kanjal - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Keuper - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library A type of rock (in geology). See w:Keuper. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:59, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- King of Rock n Roll - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Koasek: some Native American tribe? see Cowasuck, and Koasek Abenaki Tribe (which says they aren't the same, though some other sources might disagree?)
- KrashDE - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - 4chan slang for KDE
- Kripke structure - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Kovacsics - a surname from Hungarian
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- landlord special - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – tongue-in-cheek phrase, used to mock perceived poor repair work performed by landlords on rental properties
- leaflute - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Citations:leaflute
- leave to appeal - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- legal absolutism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the idea that the laws are absolute and that the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial are absolute and can do whatever they want. A good example are liberal democracy supporters who defend elected governments and the supposed "will of majority" at all costs. Like defending Javier Milei, Tarcisio de Freitas, Lula da Silva, Zelensky, Netanyahu, Trump, and Biden at the same time.
- legal relativism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also legal particularism or legal contigency theory, it states the law is relative and that everything depends regarding the law and the three powers. Mainly if it is about the three powers on liberal democracy.
- leiomano - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - shark-toothed club used by various Polynesian cultures.
- letterboxy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - something oblong-shaped like a letterbox shape.
- letter of concern - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- lie to the Holy Spirit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library/lying to the Holy Spirit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - I think this may be a special type of sin in some Christian contexts and it might not be SOP because it doesn't seem to describe a person literally making a dishonest comment to the Holy Spirit directly --Geographyinitiative (talk) 06:28, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
- life sign - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - science fiction concept? SOP? --Geographyinitiative (talk) 12:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- lights are green - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / the lights are green - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — something to do with smoking marijuana, AFAIK. Other possible sense: the go-ahead/approval is given—DIV (1.145.19.119 10:42, 17 February 2024 (UTC))
- light stand - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Used in Maya Fey Protection Squad radio drama version of Turnabout: An Ace Attorney Musical, describing the fragile object that the killer broke by accident. The broken object, depicted with graphics from the Ace Attorney game, is partly visible here. – b_jonas 17:04, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Literaturstreit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / literaturstreit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — In German, literally means a literary dispute. I think it needs to be a public, in-writing debate conducted over time in order to qualify? Thmazing (talk) 16:46, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- little slice of heaven - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / little slice of paradise - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a home --96.230.234.108 20:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
- living off the land - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - See [7]. Heyandwhoa (talk) 23:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- LOTL - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - See "living off the land" above. Heyandwhoa (talk) 23:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- lucha libre - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - style of wrestling practised by luchadors; also called lucha - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- leafworker - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- longbill - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- lay ghosts - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - for example: https://llewellyn.com/journal/article/3188
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- Maasym - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library. Official name of a star, recognized by the International Astronomical Union.
- malbranicin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- maldoc - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- marine layer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a type of fog
- market rate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Márohu - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library. Official name of a star, recognized by the International Astronomical Union.
- master warrant officer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- medical sergeant - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- MEDINT - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- megawatt smile - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - fig. maybe megawatt needs a subsense
- meliphaga - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- mesia - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- Mexican turnover - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (card magic)
- millillion - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library See Citations:millillion - 103003.
- The citations do not give a consistent definition by my reading. Variously also 10000001000 = 106000 as well as 106005 (being "6006 digits or figures") or 10000001001 = 106006 (being "1001 periods"). —DIV (1.145.112.83 11:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC))
- Misool - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library an Indonesian island, formally spelled Mysol or Misol
- modal companion - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- muroplast - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- microcollision - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (small impact)
- microgliomatosis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – A medical condition
- minla - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- minus world - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- mohoau - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- moorchat - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- Moorditch - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - filthy channel between Bishopsgate and Cripplegate, London (from Shakespeare) (also used in "The Fantastic Imagination" by George MacDonald in the sense of chaotic/nebulous)
- myiagra - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
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- Nagel point - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library of a triangle
- nechaevism, nechaevshchina: Named after Sergey Nechayev
- neurohumoural - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — alternative spelling of neurohumoral. —DIV
- nimisin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: Seems to mean "protologism" in Toki Pona; probably not an English word though.
- no-makeup makeup - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- noninfarction - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library. Also hyphenated as non-infarction. Absence of infarction; alternatively derived from noninfarct. —DIV
- nose in the air: (with one's ~; have one's ~) being disdainful, uppity, stuck up
- not in my backyard - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- not a soul - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library ―Biolongvistul (talk) 14:57, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- Sounds quite like SoP to me, but perhaps justified by the existence of not a one ...although that entry itself may be queried as potentially SoP (@JMGN). These phrases seem to form a general pattern (not a whisper, not a cloud, not a tree, ...), and we certainly wouldn't want an entry for every instance. —DIV (1.145.103.0 11:35, 9 July 2024 (UTC))
- neula - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library wp has an entry for it --87.116.132.229 20:37, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
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- onymization - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - process when common nouns become proper nouns
- odedi - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- offensive lineman - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - American football position
- oleato - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a coffee drink that incorporates olive oil
- Olivia Hill rule - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- oolert - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - English dialect word for an owl. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:29, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- Olympic flag - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- oont (new sense): a mole (particularly Talpa europaea) in several English-midlands dialects (Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, at least). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:22, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
- operenium - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Part of a moss. See en:wikisource:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/256. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- orthoteny - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- OSX - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library -- alt form of OS X --96.230.232.131 05:38, 8 August 2024 (UTC)
- oxy-hydrogen microscope - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - "The oxy-hydrogen microscope, which projected microscopic subjects onto a screen using limelight, magnifying lenses, and a magic lantern, entertained audiences from 1825 through the first decades of cinema. ... The oxy-hydrogen microscope combined technologies of the microscope (magnification), oxy-hydrogen lamp (illumination), and magic lantern (projection). With its powerful light, it enabled large public screenings, outstripping any similar technology." ([8]); [9];Midland Naturalist, 1:112. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:58, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Also oxy-hydrogen lamp. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:58, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- oxylabes - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
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- pattern noticer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Far-right and neo-nazi slang, referring to noticing "patterns" related to conspiracy theories.
- A little more information about this slang term here.
- I feel like this could be added as either a specific definition or a usage note for noticer. Netizen3102 (talk) 02:55, 22 August 2024 (UTC)
- pluritative - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Term in Mongolic linguistics
- polyglycoprotein - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and/or poly-glycoprotein — presumably a polymerised form of glycoprotein.
- papier poudré - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (cosmetic) apparently powdered absorbent paper used to remove oil from the skin. In The Handmaid's Tale, chapter 15, 6th page.
- parisoma - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- peak moment - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- petronia - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- peucedramus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- Pevek - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - An Arctic port town in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
- phytotelmonous - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (animal description; see this paper)
- picathartes - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- pink clouding - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a term used in addiction recovery
- Pizza Meter - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- porchscapes - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- porpicide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- preemptive framing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- primary forest - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library synonym for old-growth forest
- purity culture - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - I know of two definitions, one referring to a specific 90s-onward movement discussed on the purity culture wikipedia page, and one a more general term used in feminist discourse referring to the cultural importance placed on keeping (mostly) women sexually "pure", ideas like "damaged goods" or the motivations behind many honor killings.
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- quad - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Possibly a missing meaning of Secondary Security Screening Selection, see here: After approaching security, the TSA agent who scanned our boarding passes asked us to step aside while he radioed his supervisor. “We got a quad,” he said. Hythonia (talk) 17:12, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
- I suspect the missing sense is not specifically "Secondary Security Screening Selection", but more generally "a set of four" (quadruplet sense 1), in this case four Ss in the phrase. Alternatively, perhaps it started out that way but has subsequently become lexicalized with the more specific meaning. Cnilep (talk) 03:43, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
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- rainwater goods - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (Found via Google): "Rainwater goods is a loose term for all products installed on the exterior of a building to protect it from the rain. This includes continuous spouting, downpipes and rainwater heads."
- raised seal - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- redenotes - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library to denote again
- rejection therapy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library -SOP? Demonicallt (talk) 00:15, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
- Renner complex - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library genetics term
- restockpile - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- roofplasty - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- rail-babbler - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- rockchat - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- rap session - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – MW, AHD
- red-eye flight - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the sense is already covered in red-eye - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, but the term "red-eye flight" seems to be more in use. Also the Wikipedia article uses this term.
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- Salt coffee - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Sandyback - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Various meanings - a breed of pig from Tamworth (apparently also called a 'Tam') and by extension a native of Tamworth or a supporter of their football (soccer) team. Also an Australian stingray (sandyback stingaree).
- semibisexual - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- several times over - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library unSOP??? P. Sovjunk (talk) 01:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'd say this is SOP. There's multiple times over, many times over, etc.
- S/T - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library abbreviation of self-titled; sometimes used in place of the name of a self-titled album --96.230.234.108 04:29, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
- SAFE - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner, an alternate term for a SANE or a similar examiner that is not a nurse
- scarce commodity - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a term in economics for a good for which demand outstrips supply; possibly not SOP, as it doesn't necessarily apply to things which are conventionally considered "scarce"
- scround - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - alternate spelling of sqround per wiki:squround
- see if I care - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- sericornis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- session cookie - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- shabeh - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - torture method
- shag on a rock - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- shared ownership - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- shits in giggles - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - reasonably common eggcorn these days of shits and giggles
- shoot a line - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and shoot someone a lineGreens slang
- shotgun statement - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- shrike-flycatcher - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- siva - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- skyan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - sky blue + cyan | Doesn't seem to meet WT:CFI.
- skerry - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library New sense (in geology); as in "a crystalline calcareous red sandy matrix, associated with red marl and 'skerry.'", in en:wikisource:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/37. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:43, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- sniff back - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- snipefly - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- solidosity - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — complement of porosity; (noun) fraction of the volume of a multiphase material that is solid. —DIV
- soundshell - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and/or sound shell - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - similar to bandshell - possibly predominantly Australia and New Zealand usage
- spontaneous generationist - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - an adherent of the theory of spontaneous generation. See en:wikisource:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/250. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:22, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- square-gaiting - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — in trekking, "moving the right foot and right pole forward together", and similarly in dancing for same arm with same leg; for horses, something to do with their footwork (both right legs forward together?), contrasted with trotting. Sometimes as a single unhyphenated word, sometimes as two separate words. —DIV
- squart - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- squround - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - alternate spelling of sqround per wiki:squround
- squeap - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- sports game - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- step on me - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- I would consider this hyperbolic but nonetheless SOP. Equivalent to saying "kill me now" when bored or embarrassed.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 10:54, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
- streetlight effect - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- stretchflation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- stroganina - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- structured literacy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- stuff one's gut - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- suckerlet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - small sucker; esp. in Nat. Hist. See wikisource:en:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/140. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:56, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- sulfacarbamide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — a chemical. —DIV
- sungem - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (bird)
- swap chain - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — In computer graphics, a series of virtual framebuffers used by a graphics card. Wikipedia entry: Swap chain
- swapchain - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — Alternate spelling of swap chain. Wikipedia entry: Swap chain
- Szlonzok - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Szlonzokian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library See Tomasz Kamusella. 2004. The Szlonzokian Ethnolect in the Context of German and Polish Nationalisms (pp. 19–39). Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. No 1. London: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. →DOI The Szlonzoks and their Language: Between Germany, Poland and Szlonzokian Nationalism -- Comment: The historian Tomasz Kamusella has used the words Szlonzok = Upper Silesian, Slunzak = Teschen Silesian. They don't seem to have caught on beyond his own usage. Equinox ◑ 18:27, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
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- t-spin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (move in Tetris)
- taggles - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library "follows in a train"
- task failed successfully - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- tattleware - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- tent-trailer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- teretistris - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (genus of birds, Cuban warblers)
- thique - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library song by Beyonce. It'll become a word proper soon P. Sovjunk (talk) 09:20, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
- thirst bait - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - probably a synonym of thirst trap
- through a glass darkly - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - From 1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV). It's used as an adverb with verbs like "to see", "to peer", "to glimpse" etc. (e.g. "to see through a glass darkly"), usually to mean "to have a poor understanding". Attestable alternative forms: through the glass darkly, in a glass darkly, through the looking glass darkly, through a looking glass darkly. Wikipedia: through a glass darkly - Citations:through a glass darkly, Citations:through the glass darkly.
- thrush-tanager - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (the rosy thrush-tanager or rose-breasted thrush-tanager, Rhodinocichla rosea)
- Thyone (new sense) scientific and common name for a genus of sea-cucumber, e.g the "Common Thyone", in en:Wikisource:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/31. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:09, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Timoric - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- TISP - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Used in retail, specifically magazine sales.
- tonic-clonic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - clonicotonic
- towbody - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (an airborne or underwater towed device; towfish seems to be a synonym in the underwater case) - DREP has designed and built a specialised towbody for helicopter tests of a superconducting magnetic gradiometer mounted in a vertical dewar. The towbody is essentially a vertical cylinder with tail fins: i.e. the flow of air is perpendicular to the cylinder axis. The design is discussed in detail in an Airworthiness Report which is attached as an Appendix. The Appendix includes structural calculations and towbody response to aerodynamic forces. The report summarizes the data recorded during a flight trial of the towbody and compares to the predicted towbody behaviour. The principal result of the trial was the appearance of a pitching instability at 60 knots. The instability is discussed and recommendations are made for towbody modifications to eliminate it. - Hopkin, D.; and Wilson, H. ; Design and Test of a Towbody for an airborne SQUID gradiometer, Defence Research Establishment Pacific, Victoria (BC) Technical Memorandum DREP-TM-92-44, 1992
The depressor allows the user to bring a sonar towbody within an optimum altitude above the seabed. Although lower tow speeds also assist in lowering a towfish, speeds below 1–1.5 knots may produce towbody instability such as kiting and yaw resulting in data distortions. - "Sonar Glossary - D.", www.reson.com, 2011 - trailer tent - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- trapa - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library "Buffalo-nut of China"
- Tremadoc - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library relating to Tremadocian. See en:Wikisource:Page:Midland naturalist (IA midlandnaturalis01lond).pdf/245 et seq. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:48, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- trusted flagger - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Typen-Platten - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or "Typen Platten") - a kind of microscope slide with diatoms mounted in a grid ([10], [11], [12]. Midland Naturalist, 1 p182) Originally German; marketed as "Möller's Typen-platten", after its inventor. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:31, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
- tyrant-manakin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (saffron-crested tyrant-manakin or saffron-crested neopelma, Neopelma chrysocephalum; Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin or Serra do Mar neopelma or Serra tyrant-manakin, Neopelma chrysolophum; Wied's tyrant-manakin, Neopelma aurifrons; pale-bellied tyrant-manakin or pale-bellied neopelma, Neopelma pallescens; sulphur-bellied tyrant-manakin or sulphur-bellied neopelma, Neopelma sulphureiventer; dwarf tyrant-manakin or dwarf tyranneutes, Tyranneutes stolzmanni; tiny tyrant-manakin or tiny tyranneutes, Tyranneutes virescens; cinnamon manakin-tyrant or cinnamon neopipo, Neopipo cinnamomea)
- topocide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- underture - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — This neologism (a back-formed antonym to “overture”) has been used by Blood, Sweet and Tears on a 1968 album w:Child Is Father to the Man and a year later by the Who on Tommy.
- ula-ai-hawane bird
- upper room - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — "He's lucky cause that last kick would have sent him to the upper room" at first I thought it was a synonym for heaven but I guess it's a Christianity term different from heaven.
- urethralization - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - some kind of medical procedure
- urinary leash - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- user menu - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Uúba - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library. Official name of a star, recognized by the International Astronomical Union.
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- VBA stomping - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- vi coactus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
"constrained by force", "having been forced", the signer was under duress (placed before signature), abbr: VC, V.C. vi coactus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Also see coercion (law). - video rental - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library video rental shop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- vividness effect - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Vonnegut - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- well temperament - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- woollyneck bird
- wren-babbler bird
- wren-spinetail bird
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- xanadu - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library somber green color Wd-Ryan (talk) 03:12, 31 March 2024 (UTC) - @Wd-Ryan: Sounds pretty suspicious, like something that would be invented just for "list of colours for every letter of the alphabet": where did you hear of it? Equinox ◑ 19:55, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
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- yama - concept in Yoga, see Wikipedia article yamas
- yellowbrow bird
- yellownape bird
- yepa Something in Nigerian English. :/
- you-know-whom — Example at Early Lessons, Parents Assistant, Frank, Rosamond, Harry and Lucy by Maria Edgeworth (page 516) (albeit unhyphenated). I suspect there would also be some instances used tongue-in-cheek, but the cited example appears completely sober. Several other occurrences online are discussions of grammar (hence not valid for attestation). —DIV
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Specialized jargon or slang
editMilitary
editThere are dictionaries of military slang which can confirm these, but at least one genuine use should be identified before a term is created.
- garnish; the military sense, related to camouflaging, see e.g. commons:Page:"Garnish Nets Correctly" - NARA - 514018.tif
- hang up or hang-up or hangup - RAF speak - Bomb failed to release.
- Trident Board (USN SEAL examination panel)
Textiles
editThese were originally added under the appropriate letters, but require similar specialized knowledge or research.
- CC - Comments Client
- Classic CO- Dutch: ontwerp van een doorlopend dessin
- Ea - Elasthane
- loop tag - a bartack which is 'loose' in the middle
- moustache - abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Whiskers)
- open end spinning - a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. This system is much less labour intensive and faster than ring spinning
- R.E. or RE - Raw Essentials
- Single Jersey or single jersey - Single knit fabrics and jersey knits are light to medium weight fabrics with flat vertical ribs on the right side and dominant horizontal lines on the wrong side. Fabric stretches from 20 to 25% across the grain.
- SW- Sweat
- whiskers- abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Moustache)
Abbreviations listed in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
editAbbreviated titles and designations
editA.R.I.B.A. Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. B.LL. Bachelor of Laws. C.I.E. Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire. C.M. Chirurgiae Magister, Master in Surgery. C.M.G. Companion of St Michael and St George. D.Lit., Litt. D. Doctor of Literature. D.S.W. Doctor of Social Work. Ebor. Eboracensis of York.2 F.F.P.S. Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow) F.G.S. Fellow of the Geological Society. F.K.Q.C.P.I. Fellow of King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. F.L.S. Fellow of the Linnaean Society. F.P.S. Fellow of the Philological Society. F.R.A.S. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. F.R C.P. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. F.R.C.P.E. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. F.R.C.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. F.R.G.S. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society F.R.H.S. Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society F.R.Hist.Soc. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society F.R.I.B.A. Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects F.R.S. Fellow of the w:Royal Society F.R.S.A. Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce F.R.S.E. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh F.S.A. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries F.S.S. Fellow of the Statistical Society F.Z.S. Fellow of the Zoological Society G.C.B. Knight Grand Cross of the Bath G.C.H. Knight Grand Cross of Hanover G.C.I.E. Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire G.C.M.G. Knight Grand Cross of St Michael and St George G.C.S.I. Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India G.C.V.O. Knight Grand Commander of the Victorian Order J.U.D. w:Juris utriusque Doctor, Doctor of Civil and Canon Law K.C.M.G. Knight Commander of St Michael and St George K.C.S.I. Knight Commander of the Star of India K.C.V.O. Knight Commander of the Victorian Order L.A.H. Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Hall L.C.C. London County Council, or Councillor L.C.J. Lord Chief Justice L.L.A. w:Lady Literate in Arts LL.B. Legum Baccalaureus, Bachelor of Laws LL.D. Legum Doctor, Doctor of Laws L.R.C.P. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians L.R.C.S. Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons L.S.A. Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Society M.Inst.C.E. Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers M.R.C.P. Member of the Royal College of Physicians M.R.C.S. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons M.R.I.A. Member of the Royal Irish Academy M.V.O. Member of the Victorian Order R. & I. Rex et Imperator Reg. Prof. Regius Professor R.M. Royal Marines, Resident Magistrate S.S.C. Solicitor before the Supreme Courts of Scotland S.T.L. Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus, Licentiate of Sacred Theology S.T.P. Sacrosanctae Theologiae Professor, Professor of Sacred Theology V.G. Vicar-General V.S. Veterinary Surgeon W.S. Writer to the Signet [in Scotland] Equivalent to Attorney
Abbreviations denoting moneys, weights, and measures
editbar. barrel. bus. bushel. c. (or cub.) ft. &c. cubic foot,&c. dr. drachm or dram. na. nail. po. pole. q. quadrans, farthing.
Miscellaneous abbreviations
editA.E.I.O.U. Austriae est imperare orbi universo,5 or Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan. C. or Cap. (Caput), Chapter. Cr. Creditor. D.G. Dei gratia, By the grace of God. Dr. Debtor. Fo. or Fol. Folio. Inf. Infra, Below. k.t.l. Greek kai ta loipa, Et caetera, and the rest. L. or Lib. Liber, Book. Mem. Memento, Remember, Memorandum. O.S.B. Ordo Sancti Benedicti (Benedictines). Q., Qu., or Qy. Query; Question. q.d. Quasi dicat, As if he should say: as much as to say. q.s. or quant. suff. Quantum sufficit, As much as is sufficient. R. or @. Recipe, Take. sp. Sine prole, Without offspring.
Pet bird abbreviations
editShould be citable from Usenet.
See [13] for the list. (Was going to copy it here verbatim with links, but decided not to, since that might be a copyright violation.)
References and notes
editThis section is meant to assist in the production of definitions by providing supporting citations. Wherever possible, please keep supporting evidence with the entries it is meant to be supporting.
- ^ https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=arrage
- ^ “caneva, n”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1888.
- ^ r/hfy on Reddit