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Non-letter 2021Edit
- 503 - internet - some error message, e.g. the page 503'd Oxlade2000 (talk) 21:22, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
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Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
A 2018 and beforeEdit
- Afro-rock, afro-rock
- as the man says
- Abbey-Jack, someone from Neath
A 2020Edit
- Aaaaba - OneLook - Google "Aaaaba" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- ablech
- Looks like a Scrabble-only word. Got a definition and published use? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:57, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
- abaged - verb, abrogated? canceled? pierced? From the Tale of Nur Al-Din Ali in the Tales From the 1001 Nights translated by Sir Richard Burton "Then he took her to his embrace and found her a pearl unpierced, and abaged her virginity and had joyance of her youth in his virility..."
- abstract away - 1. (transitive) To generalize concepts or their application by using abstraction into a more usable form. 2. (transitive, by extension) To ignore, to omit.
- anatomical pathology and anatomic pathology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_pathology
- another story - or a whole nother story.
- another think coming (phrase) - (some people say "another thing coming", I know I certainly do. So you can show that as a variant.)
- Saying think for thing is a stereotypical German pronunciation; k and g are almost the same sound. This isn't a variation we would add unless it appears frequently in writing. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 10:40, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- Atlassian - Metaphorically world-supporting, of an effort, role, or action. See Herculean. — Do you have any evidence for this? The adjective for Atlas is Atlantean. "Atlassian" is a software brand name or something. Equinox ◑ 17:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
- alternative fund, alternative investment -- we only have alternative investment fund
- apparison -- same meaning as apparition and appearance.
- It's rare enough that I am inclined to dismiss it as an error by non-native English speakers, e.g. Spanish speakers who want a word like aparición. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 11:25, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- action of account = writ of account: following definition is from a old dictionary. Chambers or Webster??? (Law): a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account -Cowell
- I think these old causes of action should appear in the single word form without action of, so it is account where the definition should appear. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 21:00, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
- appisode [2]
- Need to see if this is a trademark. It is usually capitalized. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:59, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
- at its worst - OneLook - Google "at its worst" (Books • Groups • Scholar), at one's worst - OneLook - Google "at one's worst" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - it's in other dictionaries [3] and the fact that it's often used wrongly suggests it's idiomatic — hippietrail (talk) 09:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
- AM/FM - science fiction/engineering term distinguishing "actual machines" from "fucking magic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs&t=110 Oktbar (talk) 09:36, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- Aurangzeb - OneLook - Google "Aurangzeb" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
A 2021Edit
- accra - OneLook - Google "accra" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a Haitian fritter
- as mute as mice - Alternative to as quiet as a mouse from Wuthering Heights.
- akpon - OneLook - Google "akpon" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a cantor of the Orisha faith originating with the Yoruba people of Nigeria
- atrapalliate - verb meaning to weaken regrettably, apparently from atra+palliate. First coined by Orson Scott Card in his book Children of the Fleet.
- audioactive: see look-and-say sequence
- absolute comparative - there is already absolute superlative, this is very similar.
- absolute veto - used in a political context in some countries
- aber- - Prefix for a lot of place names, especially in the British isles, celtic root ‘elveos’.
- administrative court - OneLook - Google "administrative court" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- administrative tribunal - OneLook - Google "administrative tribunal" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- anacolouthistic - OneLook - Google "anacolouthistic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- ass burger - OneLook - Google "ass burger" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- assburger - OneLook - Google "assburger" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- agibber – see https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/1375073040334262278
- Afra-American - OneLook - Google "Afra-American" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – occasionally seen feminine form of Afro-American
- apteroid - OneLook - Google "apteroid" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - "the converse of pterygoid"; coined in Aerial Flight, Volume 1 - Aerodynamics, by Frederick Lanchester (1907) p. 394. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:53, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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B 2017Edit
- bachelor griller - OneLook - Google "bachelor griller" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — I have added an article on this at EN:WP but it could do with a DICDEF and I don't have dictionaries with me. The term seems to be at least 100 years old in UK English but seems to be uncommon in the United States. SimonTrew (talk) 09:58, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
- blue veils - OneLook - Google "blue veils" (Books • Groups • Scholar): some kind of old medical treatment, possibly used on the nose?
- Blue veil, blue-white veil, or blue hue is associated with melanoma. A medical sense of veil may be needed. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:11, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
B 2018Edit
- big duh - OneLook - Google "big duh" (Books • Groups • Scholar): Synonym of no duh with an element of snarkiness. Example: Watson pointed out that the sun came up that morning. Sherlock was in a bad mood, and rudely commented, "Big duh."
- I'm not sure the connotations differ, but in my experience it's a rare word so hard to tell. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- business rule - OneLook - Google "business rule" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Bluemogganer, Blue-Tooner, person from ; Peterhead
- beat round the ears
- beat them off with a stick (or a shitty stick) how an excessively attractive person repels the unwanted attention of the opposite sex
- A comment on stackexchange[4] points out that you need to add an element of necessity, "if she wears that top she's going to have to beat them off with a stick." Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:05, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- bet on
- beyond me = beyond ("not within the comprehension of") one
- 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)
- "beyond my understanding", AIUI. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:16, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
- Whatever the etymology, beyond#Preposition now has the relevant definition in most dictionaries. It is as if there is a space of concepts or propositions and one or one's mind is defined by what of that space one comprehends. It might be that it is a space of high dimensionality, but concepts and/or propositions in each dimension are ranked in comprehensibility. DCDuring (talk) 02:46, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
- big hairy deal/big, fat, hairy deal/big fucking deal/BFD See deal#Etymology 2 Noun def. 6. Could use more usage examples and possibly rewording. DCDuring (talk) 02:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
- boot it
- bottle man
- The Bay or bay (US): Slang term for Eastern Long Islanders. Derived from the Bay Constable and it is used when someone thinks it's a cop, but it's just the Constable.
- blue steel (US): A slang term used by officers to describe a robotic police aid (usually a bomb disarming or disposal robot), or a police-issue side arm.
- boxer briefs (Greece): Greek slang. Refers to the police car.
- beat your time/beat one's time
- body control module - a type of automotive computer
- block and lock, kick and kill, shock and kill: strategies to treat HIV. Both should be placed in Category:English coordinated pairs
B 2019Edit
- banana roll— a common alternative name for the Chinese pastry known as “banana cakes”. Colloquially it’s an alternative form of “banana fold”, and actually the most commonly used version. ImKindaABigDeal (talk) 04:07, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
- backbarrow as used in old British place names. There used to be a Backbarrowbridge, Manchester, England, which I found in my genealogical research. There still exists a Backbarrow, and a Backbarrow Bridge in the Lakes region. I was wondering what a backbarrow, or back barrow, is. (I know what a bridge is!)
- break the wheel as an expression probably started off in Game of Thrones, but it is branching out. Is probably a hot word already.
- butter woman, butta woman (“light-skinned prostitute from Santo Domingo, implied to be infected with HIV”), found in My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
- brazy - a slang word used in hip hop and rap, a blend of Blood and crazy, as in The Bloods gang from Los Angeles.
- Barkis is willin' - OneLook - Google "Barkis is willin'" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or ...willing); see [5] and [6]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:13, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
B 2020Edit
- bird-bolt
- bitcoin maximalist or bitcoin maximalism -- the term has been used since c. 2014 to describe a particular sort of thinking in the emerging blockchain (often, pejorative, but I'm not certain); there are over 300,000 hits on google, over 8500 hits on google restricted to just "news" sources. By 2019 it had come to have at least two senses, with the second taken on somewhat explicitly by some subset of the group(s) previously described by the less-flattering term. (both are described here in Jan 2019: A Conflict of Crypto Visions) The term relates to the field of blockchain, cryptocurrency, web3 or "Web 3.0", or technology more generally.
- blabateur - OneLook - Google "blabateur" (Books • Groups • Scholar); see [7]. Most likely a portmanteau of "blabbermouth and "saboteur". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
- Blang - OneLook - Google "Blang" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a Palaungic-speaking ethnic group in Yunnan province, China, as well as Burma and Thailand
- boifriend - more than just a cute spelling of boyfriend
- boom shakalaka an exclamation especially associated with basketball
- bury your gays - OneLook - Google "bury your gays" (Books • Groups • Scholar) trope
B 2021Edit
- bread and roses - OneLook - Google "bread and roses" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- breakway, as used in this article about Australia: Coober Pedy: "sunset on the breakways"
- (astronomy) blanet, (from wikipedia) A blanet is a member of a hypothetical class of exoplanets that orbits black holes
- Looks like one group got some attention by putting out a press release last summer. Doesn't meet CFI yet. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 19:55, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
- buran, burani. A vegetable dish of the Middle East. Persian بورانی and Ottoman Turkish بورانی.
- This appears to exist already as borani--but maybe alternate spellings are warranted if commonly used? Em-as-in-emily (talk) 22:47, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
- blue waffle - OneLook - Google "blue waffle" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Bounevialle - a surname, most famously for the singer Dido
- bat - OneLook - Google "bat" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (new sense; also batt - OneLook - Google "batt" (Books • Groups • Scholar)): "a margin of land within the tide mark of floods or of the spring tides." [8], [9]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:51, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- beewashing - OneLook - Google "beewashing" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or bee-washing - OneLook - Google "bee-washing" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
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Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
C 2018 and beforeEdit
- comparison rate - OneLook - Google "comparison rate" (Books • Groups • Scholar), In Australian finance, some sort of all up cost for loans. (probably a specific formula for consumer loans including mortgages required by regulation for consumer protection)
- come 'ed - OneLook - Google "come 'ed" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Scouse for come on#Interjection, need a proper Scouser to confirm the spelling
- Charmyne - OneLook - Google "Charmyne" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- composition shingle - OneLook - Google "composition shingle" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Clay Head, someone from Stoke-on-Trent
- cutter and paster - OneLook - Google "cutter and paster" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- call tabs
- Definition? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:29, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- can help it
- catch you back
- caught looking
- Generally a sum of parts. The baseball sense could be idiomatic. Any others? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- charge it
- choose up sides
- civic guard, Civic Guard, civil guard, Civil Guard, Garde Civique (from French, refers to a specific militia)
- seems to refer generally to a citizen militia. So civic guard should be considered a non-specific English term.
- clean up one's plate
- click in
- Definition? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- clouds on the horizon
- clued in
- coming out of your yin yang
- Is this a synonym of coming out of your ears? We have yin-yang as slang for vagina so it does have a literal meaning. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:28, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- contract out on
- confusor in the field of mechanics and fluidics (may be used in conjunction with a diffuser). I was hoping for a clear definition here, because frankly, it confused me.
- crack the line-up
- crack this case
- crack under the strain
- crank issue
- Definition? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- cream you
- Definition? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- cross over Jordan
- cup runneth over
- cut in on
- cut it a little fine
- cut rate
- cut to ribbons
- cozzes (UK): A term used in Great Britain in order to describe or talk about police officers.
- Coagie, someone from Dundee
- coat protein
- cut-and-come-again
- cystine knot (See cystine knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
C 2019Edit
- contravert - OneLook - Google "contravert" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – probably most often a misspelling of controvert, but there seem to be legal and psychoanalytic uses (the relating to contraversion): see A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (1995), p. 219; Douglass J. Wilde, Jung's Personality Theory Quantified (2011), p. 82.
- Carnian - OneLook - Google "Carnian" (Books • Groups • Scholar): geologic stage
C 2020Edit
- cachavirus - Canine chapparvovirus
- Chapparvovirus and cachavirus may be Translingual as the formal name of a virus genus and species. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 10:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
- Cakalak - OneLook - Google "Cakalak" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - slang for North Carolina: misspelling? see existing North Cackalack, North Cackalacky
- cartopinography: the study of pins used in maps
- chattertariat - OneLook - Google "chattertariat" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - “According to numerous polls and a general consensus among the chattertariat, the Republican Party is set to sweep this year’s midterm congressional elections”
- Clearly exists, but maybe not durably.
- Charlie Chan mustache, Charlie Chan moustache (since we have Nehru jacket, Fu Manchu mustache etc.)
- Chosen Race - sarcastic derogatory term for the Jews. Orwell quotes people using the term in everyday life in his day and age, and the tone seems like a perfect fit for /pol/.
- chronosynclastically infundibulated - OneLook - Google "chronosynclastically infundibulated" (Books • Groups • Scholar) / chronosynclastic - OneLook - Google "chronosynclastic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) / chronosynclastically - OneLook - Google "chronosynclastically" (Books • Groups • Scholar) @Lambiam PseudoSkull (talk) 00:48, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
- A quick look did not find any uses independent of Vonnegut. Perhaps you could go back in time and create some? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:10, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- conflict thesis
- corn chandler – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corn%20chandler — this looks NISOP to me. Kiwima (talk) 20:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- "Corn" as meaning "grain" does not strike my American ears as a common usage. Seems to meet the in hospital test. Opencooper (talk) 18:56, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- "conner", in the sense used in "two ale conners, two flesh conners" (source); note that we already have Conner, "An English occupational surname from Middle English connere, cunnere 'inspector (of weighs and measures)'". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:23, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- culture bearer - OneLook - Google "culture bearer" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- complex financial instrument - OneLook - Google "complex financial instrument" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or just complex instrument.__Gamren (talk) 18:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
C 2021Edit
- called everything but a child of God - OneLook - Google "called everything but a child of God" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- cold wallet - OneLook - Google "cold wallet" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - cryptocurrency
- color: additional sense, used as in "can you give some color on this?" being a request for information or details (but with connotations I'm not certain about.)
- This is the figurative sense, currently 7, "richness of expression", as used in color commentator. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:53, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- crepusculæ - "Griggs dragged open the parched door, and wound his way up and up [the tower stairs] through the spiders and other crepusculæ." Short story, "The Wine-dark Sea", by Robert Aickman. (probably related to crepuscular)
- crike - a shortening of cricothyrotomy, a type of surgery. e.g. "she performed an emergency crike"
- cleeker - OneLook - Google "cleeker" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see plural "cleekers", in [10], [11], [12]; note that we have cleek, whose sense "a large hook" seems to be related, per [13]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:23, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- cleeking - OneLook - Google "cleeking" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - new sense as above, and see [14], [15]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:23, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- cultural desert - OneLook - Google "cultural desert" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Continental Blockade - OneLook - Google "Continental Blockade" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see w:Continental System - Sarilho1 (talk) 10:27, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Continental System - OneLook - Google "Continental System" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - same as above - Sarilho1 (talk) 10:27, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- cut loss - OneLook - Google "cut loss" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - in stock and crypto trading ―Rex Aurōrum「Disputātiō」 06:11, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
- costulation - OneLook - Google "costulation" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - this is a word in zoology, but I'm not sure how to actually define it, see [16] and [17]
- chelatively - OneLook - Google "chelatively" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - chemistry, see chelation
- cryptolinguist - OneLook - Google "cryptolinguist" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- cryptomathematician - OneLook - Google "cryptomathematician" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- code grinder - OneLook - Google "code grinder" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- crackalacking, crack-a-lacking, crackalackin', crack-a-lackin'
- celestial kingdom - OneLook - Google "celestial kingdom" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (note also the capitalized version in Latter-day Saint theology)
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 2, chapter 19
- She flitted through the rooms, like a good spirit, dispatched from the celestial kingdom, to illumine our dark hour with alien splendor.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 2, chapter 19
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Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
D 2017Edit
- Dutch rudder - OneLook - Google "Dutch rudder" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a sex act. Used in Zack and Miri Make a Porno and at least once on Usenet. I'm not sure if a third citation can be found. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 22:51, 31 January 2015 (UTC) -- also a type of rudder Kiwima (talk) 00:13, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
- My impression was it was made up as an in-joke not meaning anything in particular, but that's an old memory. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 19:57, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- duke - OneLook - Google "duke" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (Northern?) Irish slang. cf. Duke, 'Look. "Give us a duke at yer paper."' This meaning is not included in duke#Verb.
- I found one use online, from someone who appears to be in Northern Ireland. "Game of Thrones is filmed here in NI (...) Will have to take a duke at your Instagram matey. Two more makes a muckle. Cnilep (talk) 00:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
D 2018Edit
- Dürer grid - OneLook - Google "Dürer grid" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- dub down - OneLook - Google "dub down" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- dB suffixes: some or all of them? (dBm is now defined, but not dBA)
- do-do nutters or The do-dos (US): Arises from the stereotype of police officers eating donuts.
- doughnut shop (US): Because the stereotypical cop will be seen eating donuts.
- Dingle, person from Barnsley
- Donkey Lasher, person from Blackpool
- Darrener - someone from Darwen
- Dee-Dar - someone from Sheffield (refers to the original Sheffield pronunciation of "thee" and "tha". Often used by people from Barnsley)
- dragged through a knothole
- darn it
- darn right – See darn#Etymology 1. Darn it, darn my luck, and darn right all seem like SoP minced oaths to me. But compare dammit, damn right. Cnilep (talk) 04:25, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- dead axle (in Wikipedia; synonym: lazy axle)
- deke you
- deked out of his jock
- dingle you
- dining on ashes
- dirty thirties
- do a 180
- do a dime
- do the town
- dog me
- don't get mad; get even
- don't know the half of it
- done good
- done it all
- down home
- draw a sober breath
- draw their fire
- drop out of sight
- drop over
- duke's mixture
- dutching - a betting or gambling technique in which several outcomes are backed and the winnings will still be the same
- Duesey (alternate form of doozy)
- dime-bar or dimebar – "Whether you call them dime-bars, energy vampires, lunch-outs, or whatever, it is undeniable that personal problems can often seriously hinder the effectiveness of a campaign." ("A Critique of Newbury," Do or Die 6 [1997]); see also [18], [19]
- dod-rot, dod-rotted – Philip Foner's introduction to We, the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence by Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman’s Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829–1975 (University of Illinois Press, 1976), p. 27, quotes a tract published in the Coast Seamen's Journal in 1894 that exhorts the reader to "comport yourself generally like a dod-rotted lunatic." See Merriam-Webster, Green's Dictionary of Slang.
D 2019Edit
- devocracy - OneLook - Google "devocracy" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - the linkage of development with good-governance goals
- dinger - OneLook - Google "dinger" (Books • Groups • Scholar) reportedly "stolen car, hot car"
- distance line, penetration line, cave line, guide line: something used in diving, apparently?
- dorsometacarpal - OneLook - Google "dorsometacarpal" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
D 2020Edit
- daisugi - OneLook - Google "daisugi" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a plant growing technique, from Japanese 台杉
- Dalbergia odorifera - OneLook - Google "Dalbergia odorifera" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a rare Asian hardwood
- defensive end - OneLook - Google "defensive end" (Books • Groups • Scholar) in American football
- demob chart - OneLook - Google "demob chart" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- distorian - OneLook - Google "distorian" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- It's out there (blend of distort + historian) but not durably recorded. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- degragate - OneLook - Google "degragate" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - just heard this new cousin of degradate - OneLook - Google "degradate" (Books • Groups • Scholar) on Youtube a couple of times: youtu.be/NYxLBhOgwYg?t=614 and it gets about 20,000 Google Hits. —This unsigned comment was added by Hippietrail (talk • contribs) at 23:32, 15 May 2020 (UTC). Doubt this meets CFI. Equinox ◑ 06:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
- I wish, but unless we have finally upped the minimum number of durably archived independent uses to something more sensible than three over a year, here's a sampling of twenty-eight years worth of dumb from web and print:
- Slash: But it's real cool. You know, I'm not gonna sit there and degragate... degradate – whatever the word is like (laughs). (origin?) - 1992 - [20]
- The main concern is that routing a signal through multiple switches could degragate data as the cummulative (sic) impedance of the switches becomes prohibitive. - 2003 - [21] (made it to print!)
- Organic Melt™ deicer is an environmentally safe, agricultural-based product made with degragated sugar beets - 2013 - [22]
- I have been trying to learn, teach and implement agricultural practices that aggregate our precious resources rather than degragate them. (with its antonym!) - 2014 - [23]
- I had a HDD failure and a degragated RAID5. - 2016 - [24]
- Degragated Mouse Control and Key Input - 2017 - [25]
- Aboriginal people were called and still get called the N-word as a way to racially degragate. - 2018 - [26]
- On this one, the wifi signal is crappy and degragates as you use it more. - 2019 - [27]
- The PAPD degragated that woman’s human right for safety and protection. - 2019 - [28]
- Aspartate can be degragated to NH4, CO2, and H2O to produce ATP energy by its carbons entering the TCA cycle. - [29]
- The bottom line is – words empower people, inspire people, educate people, but can even degragate and sterotype (sic) people. - [30]
- My question is why do the plasmid with insert is fully degragated by EcoR-1.? - [31]
- — hippietrail (talk) 06:39, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- I wish, but unless we have finally upped the minimum number of durably archived independent uses to something more sensible than three over a year, here's a sampling of twenty-eight years worth of dumb from web and print:
- The racial examples seem to be confused with segregate (or even just typos, since S is next to D). Equinox ◑ 10:41, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- Actually I'd say one was probably influenced by denigrate, which could actually be part of where degradate/degragate came from. In the one that mentions aboriginal people, we didn't really have racial segregation here in Australia and it's certainly not part of the conversation on race relations here so I'd say that writer was also searching for a word meaning to disparage, to belittle, etc. These are all similar to degrade in the same way that people justify the blurring of deprecate and depreciate for instance. — hippietrail (talk) 23:14, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- I'd posit these forms might also be influenced by derogatory, whose rare verb form derogate is very similar to them. — hippietrail (talk) 00:59, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
- The racial examples seem to be confused with segregate (or even just typos, since S is next to D). Equinox ◑ 10:41, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- depression nap - OneLook - Google "depression nap" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- dogter - blend of dog and daughter; I have seen it used non-durably and it may not meet CFI
- dud - OneLook - Google "dud" (Books • Groups • Scholar) as a verb - There's some evidence dudded exists on Usenet. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:06, 31 May 2020 (UTC) Two meanings of dudded: (1) in the sense of explosives failing to explode, (2) Australian slang = ripped off. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
- don't touch that dial - used to be sum of parts, but not any more
- draughtage - OneLook - Google "draughtage" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - also the alternative spelling draftage - BigDom 19:44, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
- Don Juanism and Don Juan syndrome - "a non-clinical term for the desire, in a man, to have sex with many different female partners". Has a Wikipedia page. Supevan (talk) 18:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
- desk research verb
D 2021Edit
- drag kid
- desk pop - OneLook - Google "desk pop" (Books • Groups • Scholar) in modern common usage but not sum of parts. (Urban Dict says "act of firing your weapon into the air while sitting down at your desk")
- defrostee - OneLook - Google "defrostee" (Books • Groups • Scholar) /
- dropdate - OneLook - Google "dropdate" (Books • Groups • Scholar) / drop date - OneLook - Google "drop date" (Books • Groups • Scholar): the date something is released, especially in media, eg an album or movie -- note we do have drop#Verb sense 27, "to enter public distribution"
- despite of - OneLook - Google "despite of" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - very common error mixing despite and in spite of — 110.145.69.217 07:23, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
- days of grace - OneLook - Google "days of grace" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- dependencist - OneLook - Google "dependencist" (Books • Groups • Scholar): something to do with political dependency: a supporter of? a critic of?
- dark empath - OneLook - Google "dark empath" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- to disconcentrate - OneLook - Google "disconcentrate" (Books • Groups • Scholar), disconcentrated - OneLook - Google "disconcentrated" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - seems to be a new word circulating with a few thousand Google hits and an UB entry. Looks like an illiterate antonym for concentrate(d) but seems to be defined as being similar to distracted but less jolting...
- dammy - OneLook - Google "dammy" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - there's another sense out there apart from the interjection, possibly just "resembling a dam" Yellow is the colour (talk) 14:19, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
- dip turn - OneLook - Google "dip turn" (Books • Groups • Scholar) and dip spin - OneLook - Google "dip spin" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - from pole dancing
- DNAzyme - OneLook - Google "DNAzyme" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
EEdit
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E 2018 and beforeEdit
- eigenposition - OneLook - Google "eigenposition" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- ears pinned back
- easy time of it
- ever-moving - OneLook - Google "ever-moving" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – passed a discussion at RFD/E, the conclusion being that the entry should be created. — SGconlaw (talk) 14:49, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- For reference, the discussion is archived at the unpredictable location Talk:all-pervading. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- ever-varying - OneLook - Google "ever-varying" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – passed a discussion at RFD/E, the conclusion being that the entry should be created. — SGconlaw (talk) 14:49, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- For reference, the discussion is archived at the unpredictable location Talk:all-pervading. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:31, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- Emmetism
- étale* and/or étale cohomology: see étale cohomology
- evenstar, seems like a Tolkienism (epithet of Arwen), but in occasional use outside his work; not sure how to define; refers back to but not apparently inherited from euensterre; not sure if its meaning is really evening star in the sense we know it or just a poetic fantasy term — Mnemosientje (t · c) 12:50, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
E 2020Edit
- economy class
- exophonic: adjective, in poetry or literature in general. Seems to mean writing in your non-native language
- eurojank: A video game "genre", consisting of games (usually categorized otherwise as a RPG or a Simulation) whose high ambitions also leads to large numbers of bugs (thus "jank"); usually associated with developers from Eastern Europe (thus "euro")
- electoralist: might be a supporter of electoralism, but seems to mean something else.
- evertebrate alternate form of invertebrate; https://www.wordnik.com/words/evertebrate
- Looks like ESL to me, largely from Scandinavian authors. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:07, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- Eddystone - OneLook - Google "Eddystone" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see w:Eddystone, name of a few places. PseudoSkull (talk) 01:38, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
E 2021Edit
- edscottite - OneLook - Google "edscottite" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- erradicacy (noun form of erratic)
- epithetism (translation of the French épithétisme, a term coined by the French grammarian Pierre Fontanier to designate a figure of style that imitates an epithet, that is, a collection of words that serve the same function as a single-word epithet)
- etymonym (synonym of paronym). Not sure if it's citeable and may be a calque of Russian. Thadh (talk) 08:27, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
FEdit
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F 2017 and beforeEdit
- flying kilometer - OneLook - Google "flying kilometer" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Average speed measured over a distance of exactly one kilometer, where all intentional acceleration is performed before entering the measured mile, and all slowing is performed after leaving the measured area.
- flying mile - OneLook - Google "flying mile" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Average speed measured over a distance of exactly one mile, where all intentional acceleration is performed before entering the measured mile, and all slowing is performed after leaving the measured area.
- foundation scholar - OneLook - Google "foundation scholar" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- full-stop landing - OneLook - Google "full-stop landing" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- firm code - OneLook - Google "firm code" (Books • Groups • Scholar) / firmcode - OneLook - Google "firmcode" (Books • Groups • Scholar) / firm-code - OneLook - Google "firm-code" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - contrast hard code and soft code. Keith the Koala (talk) 15:04, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- friction burn - OneLook - Google "friction burn" (Books • Groups • Scholar), sum of parts? See also carpet burn, rug burn - OneLook - Google "rug burn" (Books • Groups • Scholar). Renard Migrant (talk) 21:49, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
- five on the money - OneLook - Google "five on the money" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - phrase meaning superlative or best in class.
- financial adviser or financial advisor
- front it up - OneLook - Google "front it up" (Books • Groups • Scholar) He said: "Leicester are where they are because they've had a fantastic season and because their manager has managed skilfully and sensibly, but also because they previously had someone in charge who was able to front it up and make tough decisions when they needed to be made. I know how pivotal the work I did was for them to be in the situation they're in now." https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/bitter-nigel-pearson-demands-credit-123924027.html
- fug and fuzz - OneLook - Google "fug and fuzz" (Books • Groups • Scholar) [32]81.11.219.175 21:25, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
- fünfbein -- follows zweibein, dreibein, vierbein. These go to 11 (elfbein).
- field quantity - OneLook - Google "field quantity" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - is etymology from the same field as "electric field"? Or is it more like "a measurement in the field"?
F 2018Edit
- fragmentary hypothesis - OneLook - Google "fragmentary hypothesis" (Books • Groups • Scholar), see Fragmentary hypothesis; one of three theories about the origin of religious texts. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:36, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- fresh hell - OneLook - Google "fresh hell" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- faze out (transitive, i.e. faze somebody out)
- fickle finger of fate
- fifth business
- fill the gap
- fine-feathered friend
- firm hand
- firm market
- first crack at
- Florida green: paint colour for cars? seems to be a light bluish-green, like mint green
- freeze on
- frosty Friday, or frosty Friday in July: a day that will never come?
- forget one's manners
- fax democracy - SOP or not? Azertus (talk) 00:17, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
F 2019Edit
- femalism - OneLook - Google "femalism" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see w:African feminism#Femalism
- Seems to be a very squishy concept embedded within the feminist movement. Used enough to be worth adding if it can be defined (I don't trust Wikipedia on this sort of thing). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 11:35, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- fly by the nets - OneLook - Google "fly by the nets" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or fly by the nets of - OneLook - Google "fly by the nets of" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – Elliot Murphy, Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature (Zero, 2014), p. 114: "By undermining certain 'big words,' Joyce – like the anarchists Orwell and Chomsky – correspondingly flies by the ideological nets of church and state." (though uses that having to do with the coiner James Joyce also seem commonplace enough)
- fit and finish: in carpentry: please also add Category:English coordinated pairs
- Flinch - (a card game of some sort, perhaps also called by some other name?) "For entertainment [the 20th-century Shakers] played the card game Flinch and listened to the Victrola." Stephen J. Stein, The Shaker Experience in America (New Haven and London: Yale University, 1992, p. 270).
F 2020Edit
- faggon - OneLook - Google "faggon" (Books • Groups • Scholar), an obscure Cornish/English word for a large baked bun- can we verify this?
- Not in Wright's dictionary of dialectical words 1700-1900.
- fallism - OneLook - Google "fallism" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or Fallism or #Fallism) – see [33], [34], [35], [36], [37]
- fechavirus - Feline chaphamaparvovirus
- fez – It's often said on the internet that fez was 1970s slang (or gay slang) for a condom, making Steely Dan's line "never gonna do it without the fez on" a double entendre. I have seen no reliable evidence. The city of Condom in France used to make fezes so there are spurius colocations.
- fidian, fidianism - occasional uses, usually in compounds, discussing Christianity 17th - 19th centuries
- first-ever - OneLook - Google "first-ever" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- flutter-tonguing - OneLook - Google "flutter-tonguing" (Books • Groups • Scholar), flutter tongue - a special tremolo-like technique used on wind instruments
- fop - as a verb, to fool or trick? "Finally, after being prodded to some extent by his wife, he asked me coolly but amiably enough, to come again, and the next thing I knew, I was alone in the sleigh, like someone who has been fopped, like someone whom a man bent on revenge first likes to play an insulting trick on, driving through the cold, white, starry night to the station." Arthur Schnitzler (tr. Catherine Hutter), My Youth in Vienna (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. 219).
- Fox News effect? appears in a few books etc.; possibly related to the study that found watching FN makes one less politically aware than watching nothing at all.
- Originally and mainly about introduction of Fox News increasing Republican votes, but I have heard the suggested sense too. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:35, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
- fruits of one's labor - OneLook - Google "fruits of one's labor" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- forest ranger - OneLook - Google "forest ranger" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Fire Island - OneLook - Google "Fire Island" (Books • Groups • Scholar) see w:Fire Island PseudoSkull (talk) 06:32, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
F 2021Edit
- fan kick - OneLook - Google "fan kick" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - from pole dancing
- five-by-five - missing definition about the basketball term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-double#Five-by-five
- FICINT
- fapstinence
GEdit
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G 2017 and beforeEdit
- general word - OneLook - Google "general word" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- get down on - OneLook - Google "get down on" (Books • Groups • Scholar) [38]
- See down: "With on, negative about, hostile to".
- get one's ships on - OneLook - Google "get one's ships on" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - "Then, later, we would write long emails explaining everything, and why it was time for us to really get our ships on and he always respectfully declined". [39]
- girk - OneLook - Google "girk" (Books • Groups • Scholar) From the context where this word was encountered by me, one could maybe guess the meaning, or maybe that's not so clear to me after all, and the etymology might prove interesting to find out in any case ... This word appeared in the following quote from Richard Mulcaster (_Elementarie_ = 1582: 156): "The polysyllab therefor for the chief girk of his sound riseth upon the third syllab from the end, as the bisyllab doth of the second."
- glyd ring - OneLook - Google "glyd ring" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - [40] - looks like a brand name???
- Grand Mentor - OneLook - Google "Grand Mentor" (Books • Groups • Scholar) apparently a Chinese title.
- grovvy - OneLook - Google "grovvy" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or grovvie - OneLook - Google "grovvie" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - some kind of military slang?
G 2018Edit
- gas lantern - OneLook - Google "gas lantern" (Books • Groups • Scholar): portable, for camping use.
- Gestetner - OneLook - Google "Gestetner" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - as a verb
- Gestetnering - OneLook - Google "Gestetnering" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- golden column - OneLook - Google "golden column" (Books • Groups • Scholar)- kind of cactus
- The Gaver or Gavvers, gaver or gavver (UK/Roma): Alternatively Cockney rhyming slang for the police - unknown origin - London or Romany traveller slang for the police. Perhaps from 'garda'. www.garda.ie
- The Guards or gaurds (Ireland): Irish Police, from Garda Síochána; (Garda Síochána na hÉireann - Irish for "Guard(ians) of the Peace of Ireland").
- Gallach - someone from Caithness
- game for anything
- game one
- garage kept
- geezer gap
- get a bang out of
- get a fix on
- get a hold of
- get a laugh
- get a shot at
- get a shot
- get good wood on Definition? -Andrew (talk) 13:10, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- get home
- get in deeper
- get in on it
- get in on the ground floor
- get off to a good start
- get off your soap box
- get on my good side
- get on with it
- get on your horse
- get out of my face
- get out of the road
- get right or get something right (OED)
- get serious
- get something out of
- get the lay of the land
- get the wrinkles out
- get up a head of steam
- get with it
- get your buns over here
- This is a sum of parts if we define buns better. I understand it it to mean the same as ass (“one's self or person, chiefly their body”) in this context. (John McWhorter calls ass a pronoun when used this way.) Vox Sciurorum (talk) 10:16, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
- get your ears pinned back
- get your knuckles rapped
- get your mind around
- get yours
- getting on in years
- ghost of a chance
- give a little
- give it all you've got
- give it the once-over
- give it to him
- give your best
- give your word
- glow on
- glowing terms
- gnashing of teeth
- go all-out
- go around with
- go at a good clip
- go by the boards
- go down for the third time
- go for a spin
- go tell your mother she wants you
- go to trouble
- God bless the Duke of Argyle
- God rest his soul
- going great guns
- going to the mountains
- good for a loan
- good wood on it
- goose it
- got a corner on
- got it bad
- got it coming
- got it in for (cf. have it in for)
- got no business
- got what it takes
- got you cornered
- got your number
- grain belt
- greasy kid's stuff
- Great One
- great shakes
- Great White Hope
- Greek to me
- grill you
- grinding halt
- ground me
- Group of Five
- Group of Seven
- groutier - New Zealander Nigel Richards won his fourth world Scrabble championship this week, scoring 68 points with the winning word “groutier.” Richards has won 2,758 of the 3,602 competitive Scrabble games he’s played (a 77% win rate). In addition to his 4 World Champion Scrabble wins, he’s won French Scrabble twice — despite not speaking the language. See dictionary.com definition.
- golden silk orb-weaver (golden silk orb-weaver, genus Nephila - a type of spider
- gumpf - slang - random content or text; accumulated junk
- get off a few good ones
- get the monkey off one's back
- get to the root of the problem
- get your attention -> get someone's attention
- get your head out of the clouds -> get one's head out of the clouds
- give you a boost -> give someone a boost
- grinning like a bushel basketful of possum heads
- guard is down / let one's guard down
- garage kept
- gynopara (pl. gynoparae): a stage in the complicated aphid life cycle; compare virginopara
- gama. : a tall coarse American grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) valuable for forage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gama
G 2019Edit
- geozone: cf. biozone?
- gowpin ([42]) - Cockney, possibly pronunciation spelling. Probably some part of a chest.__Gamren (talk) 18:32, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
- grenado (an additional meaning: a decorative architectural feature of some sort?) "There exists at Blickling a rough drawing, signed 'Robert Lemyng', for a garden banqueting house (97), much in the style of the house (and incidentally reproducing details from Serlio like the crowning grenado) upon which he has addressed notes to Sir Henry Hobart, showing that he expected his client to modify it." James Lees-Milne, Tudor Renaissance (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1951, p. 107). - I think that must be a "pineapple finial" SemperBlotto (talk) 06:17, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
- Godwillings - OneLook - Google "Godwillings" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see definition on s:Page:Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham.djvu/102. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:47, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
G 2020Edit
- Gidget
- gadger - a man, possibly derived from cockney or romani (compare gachó in Caló)
gentleman's sweep- I suspect from this usage that it's a sports term referring to a playoff series in which the losing team won one game. I don't know if it applies only to series of a certain length or (etc).- I don't recognize the combination, but I recognize the use of the possessive of gentleman (“any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man”) to refer to a polite way of doing something. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 10:29, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
- Added usage note at gentleman. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:11, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
get to the chopper- A phrase uttered by W:Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Predator, other forms: get to the choppa, get to da chopper, etcetera. —This unsigned comment was added by 125.167.119.164 (talk) at 02:53, 18 November 2020 (UTC). Why would a dictionary include a sentence from a film? Does it have wider meaning? Equinox ◑ 05:17, 18 November 2020 (UTC)- gim or kim - edible seaweed, from Korean 김 (gim), unclear if it is truly an English word
- girlchik - female version of boychik
- globohomo, usually negative reference to "globalized-homogenized" Western culture.
- glossophile, glottophile
- go for your tea - possibly IRA slang, found ie. in song "Kinky Boots": to get killed, to be murdered. Also in Farlex dictionary.
- golden egg – OED. Usage examples: [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] (credit to Marcus Richert elsewhere for surfacing these)
- good hair - see w:Good hair
- googolplexianite - OneLook - Google "googolplexianite" (Books • Groups • Scholar) googolplexianite
greedy algorithm- see w:Greedy algorithm -- Already covered at greedy, isn't it? "This algorithm is a greedy one" etc.: the two words can occur apart. Equinox ◑ 19:07, 29 April 2020 (UTC)- gruffy A Somerset adjective ('gruffy ground') meaning 'land made uneven or hummocky through ancient mining'. Not in OED. See [49]
- gothrom - (a gothic romance novel--might be coined) "But out in the woods of Cornwall, New York, reading a deeply, deeply creepy story under the stars with these gothrom fans, it occurred to me that maybe I should just embrace the truly horrible." Avi Steinberg, The Happily Ever After: A Memoir of an Unlikely Romance Novelist (New York: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2020, p. 95).
G 2021Edit
- Gedge slot - OneLook - Google "Gedge slot" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or gedge slot - OneLook - Google "gedge slot" (Books • Groups • Scholar)) - see [50], [51]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:29, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
- guard*: MISSING noun and verb in bridge (and other trick-taking card games?): you can guard a suit, or you can hold a card that is a guard. WP says "a holding that prevents an opponent from taking a trick or tricks". Equinox ◑ 01:48, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- guffin : noun, old-fashioned pejorative from the 1800s means bohunkus, gaby, nincompoop, and hammerhead. Derogatory remark used extensively many of in the books of PG Wodehouse from 1930 to 1960 with internal explanations. See Jeeves in the Offing, Chapter 5, PG Wodehouse. http://www.vb-tech.co.za/ebooks/Wodehouse%20PG%20-%20Jeeves%20in%20the%20Offing%20-%20GE.pdf
- gulpin (plural gulpins) [Short story, "Death of a Parish Priest" by Bernard MacLaverty, 1987, "I'm going home to a houseful of gulpins who claim they don't know where the kettle is."]
- green jobfish 'Aprion virescens', is a species of snapper
- geomelophagia - the urge to eat raw potatoes, it is mentioned in the Pica (disorder) Wikipedia article
- grievance studies
- gamakinesis - OneLook - Google "gamakinesis" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
HEdit
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H 2017 and beforeEdit
- 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)
- habit of mind - OneLook - Google "habit of mind" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - appears to be an idiomatic set phrase ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:48, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
- heelpalm - OneLook - Google "heelpalm" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — alt form of heel-palm ?
- hepeat - OneLook - Google "hepeat" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – Of a man, to repeat and claim as one's own a woman's earlier suggestion that was disregarded. Blend of "he" and "repeat". — Paul G (talk) 18:23, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
- historical precedent - OneLook - Google "historical precedent" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - in law and logic
- hold a brief (for); hold no brief (for); from legal language; means sth like to support or endorse, or tolerate? — this is covered under brief. Kiwima (talk) 00:53, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
H 2018Edit
- have one's hand in - OneLook - Google "have one's hand in" (Books • Groups • Scholar)- not sure. In an old MAD magazine feature, the retort to 'I have but one life to give for this country' is 'That's the problem with this nation. Everybody has their hand in'
- Haddie, - person from Aberdeen
- hardsub
- Htg - hangtag
- had a belt
- had the bird
- half the battle
- hands are tied
- See Wiktionary:Requests_for_moves,_mergers_and_splits#have_one's_hands_tied. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:17, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- happy motoring
- hard at it
- hard stuff
- haul up on the carpet
- Possibly redundant with on the carpet. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:22, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- have it in one
- have to go some
- have a bird
- have a hitch in your getalong
- have a smash
- heat is on
- heaven help us
- heavy day
- heavy duty
- heavy foot
- hemming and hahing - have hemming and hawing
- highly commended - (Mainly British/NZ/etc.) not awarded a prize but judged to be close to prize quality.
- hire on
- (be) one's own man?
- hitch in your getalong
- hokey Dinah
- hold everything
- hold one's mouth right
- hold one's mouth the right way
- holy pile
- honey bread: may be Danish and Norwegian; see honningbrød.
- hot number
- hot on the trail
- how are you fixed for
- how goes the battle
- hungry thirties (the 1930s, referring to poverty induced by the Great Depression)
- husbro - OneLook - Google "husbro" (Books • Groups • Scholar) husband + bro, because there aren't enough terms derived from bro already.__Gamren (talk) 19:25, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
- hyperconvergence, hyperconvergent, hyperconverged
H 2019Edit
- Holophone - OneLook - Google "Holophone" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Heineken - OneLook - Google "Heineken" (Books • Groups • Scholar) as an adjective, i.e. the modified noun "reaches the parts" the similar members of it class "cannot reach"
H 2020Edit
- hardware - Missing noun sense as in awards, trophies, medals; see Merriam-Webster definition 3
- healthquarters - "It was in this church [of San Jose] the missionaries gave the Indians their first artistic training; today it is used as the public healthquarters of the City of Mexico ...." Mary Gordon Holway, Art of the Old World in New Spain and the Mission Days of Alta California (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1922, p. 44).
- here for it - (just Twitter slang?) enthusiatic towards something
- High Tang - OneLook - Google "High Tang" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see Tang poetry#High Tang
- hot sketch
- Humpty-Dumpty show - "For a year or so [the Crosby Opera House in Chicago] housed lavish productions of opera with the finest singers of the day, but somehow the enterprise fell on evil ways, and before many years had passed it was given over to Humpty-Dumpty shows, families of bell ringers, trained animals, acrobats, and pantomimes." John Tasker Howard, Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1931, p. 283).
- hypergrace - "God's super-abounding favor. Grace that is hyper or super-abounding. The limitless grace of an extreme God known for his immeasurable love." Romans 5: 17,20.
- The uses I found were all spaced or hyphenated. Hyper-grace is a sum of parts. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:33, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
hummerless- Describing some type of silencing mechanism in firearms.- Sonofcawdrey (talk) 22:05, 29 May 2020 (UTC)- Scan error for hammerless? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:24, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- holophrasticity - the property of being holophrastic
H 2021Edit
- hydronephroureter - "... describes the dilation of the entire upper urinary tract (both the renal pelvicalyceal system and the ureter)."
- hydrogen borate - OneLook - Google "hydrogen borate" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a synonym for boric acid
- hyponoia - OneLook - Google "hyponoia" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- higherness - OneLook - Google "higherness" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- And because in this article and others he didn't make his obeisances to the higherness of the traditional arts, he ran into the sort of disapproval that movies get. (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker, 1973)
- HIV controller - OneLook - Google "HIV controller" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- hype beast - OneLook - Google "hype beast" (Books • Groups • Scholar) and *hype artist - OneLook - Google "hype artist" (Books • Groups • Scholar). Here's a citation for the latter: "The movie isn't show-biz enough; it's so busy with travail that it never gets any hype going—though Bruce was a hype artist. (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker, 1974)
IEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
I 2017 and beforeEdit
- in copula - OneLook - Google "in copula" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- "during copulation" (more precisely, "in the copulated state") seems to be the only reasonably non-occasional collocation. Staszek Lem (talk) 01:13, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
- inertial load - OneLook - Google "inertial load" (Books • Groups • Scholar) see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation
- Italo-Hellenic - OneLook - Google "Italo-Hellenic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- I am that I am - OneLook - Google "I am that I am" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (Exodus 3:14)
- if only the czar knew - OneLook - Google "if only the czar knew" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- in-country - definition
I 2018Edit
- Insular script - OneLook - Google "Insular script" (Books • Groups • Scholar), insular script, add the sense to insular, maybe Insular? Whichever of these entries deserve it. See Insular script. @Metaknowledge, Gormflaith PseudoSkull (talk) 07:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
- indoor soccer; arena soccer; minifootball; fast football; showball
- if you're born to hang, you won't drown
- if you're not with us you're against us
- impulse, also means stimulus afaik? Like "All these impulses left me a bit confused". Alexis Jazz (talk) 02:14, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- in a bad way
- in a jam - OneLook - Google "in a jam" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (links) - derivative term according to idioms.thefreedictionary.com: "jammed up" (see §J 2018)
- in any way, shape or form
- in deep waters
- in full flight
- in leaf
- in mind
- in the gutter
- in the long haul
- in the Monford lane
in the pipe five by five- This is in the pipe + five by five and I think it is a sum of parts. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 11:19, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
- in the throes
- in tough
- inside story
- into hock
- is you is, or is you ain't my baby
- it's a go
- it's a jungle out there
- it's a whole nother world out there ('nother with apostrophe?)
- it's a whole other world out there
I 2019Edit
- identitary - OneLook - Google "identitary" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – e.g. Juan Duchesne Winter (2010), "Literary Communism, a Manifesto of the Rearguard," Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 19(3), p. 231: "We have considered the unmoored, outer national palenques, the malungo alliances and Saramaka activism as instances of these pluralities, not as identitary, self-enclosed communities, which they may also be."
- I'll get my coat. I haven't seen the TV show mentioned, but have heard the phrase many a time. --Pious Eterino (talk) 17:07, 13 July 2019 (UTC) -- See existing IGMC for explanation.
- inforg - OneLook - Google "inforg" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see w:inforg
- interactionstrong - OneLook - Google "interactionstrong" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- interactionweak - OneLook - Google "interactionweak" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- irritable heart - OneLook - Google "irritable heart" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- isolatitude - OneLook - Google "isolatitude" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
I 2020Edit
- institutional memory - OneLook - Google "institutional memory" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- interinanimation - OneLook - Google "interinanimation" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- inapropro - OneLook - Google "inapropro" (Books • Groups • Scholar), inappropro - OneLook - Google "inappropro" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- -- (informal, mildly childish?) inappropriate (sexual)
- may lack durable cites
- in faith whereof - OneLook - Google "in faith whereof" (Books • Groups • Scholar) See whereof.
- in testimony whereof - OneLook - Google "in testimony whereof" (Books • Groups • Scholar) See whereof.
- in witness whereof - OneLook - Google "in witness whereof" (Books • Groups • Scholar) See whereof.
- Hello @DCDuring, I cannot find anything about these officialese set phrases used in documents, protocols, contracts and such in whereof. I think they need to have their own entry here. The German equivalent has its own already (see zu Urkund dessen). — Caligari ƆɐƀïиϠႵ 13:09, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
- But it's the same use of "whereof" as anywhere else, e.g. "I needed some money, in hope whereof I asked my friend for a loan". Equinox ◑ 14:02, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Equinox: Indeed, it is. I'm just wondering whether these phrases as a whole are perfectly understandable even outside of officialese use? I mean I interpret them in this officialese context as "in affirmation of the aforementioned" [the undersigned plenipotentiaries … have signed this Protocol (or something similar)]. — Caligari ƆɐƀïиϠႵ 08:50, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
- "Whereof" is not at all a conversational word: you would generally only expect to encounter it in legalese such as contracts and patents. But insofar as "whereof" is understood, yes, I don't think these phrases are special. Equinox ◑ 21:23, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- You should heed Equinox. He knows whereof he speaks. DCDuring (talk) 05:50, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Equinox: Indeed, it is. I'm just wondering whether these phrases as a whole are perfectly understandable even outside of officialese use? I mean I interpret them in this officialese context as "in affirmation of the aforementioned" [the undersigned plenipotentiaries … have signed this Protocol (or something similar)]. — Caligari ƆɐƀïиϠႵ 08:50, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
- But it's the same use of "whereof" as anywhere else, e.g. "I needed some money, in hope whereof I asked my friend for a loan". Equinox ◑ 14:02, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
- Hello @DCDuring, I cannot find anything about these officialese set phrases used in documents, protocols, contracts and such in whereof. I think they need to have their own entry here. The German equivalent has its own already (see zu Urkund dessen). — Caligari ƆɐƀïиϠႵ 13:09, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
- incusative - OneLook - Google "incusative" (Books • Groups • Scholar). Slightly archaic and historical engineering term used to mean an object that must be incused (see incuse) into another, e.g. "NAIL [Girth - 3mm, Height - 8mm, Headwidth - 2mm, Incusative]"
- if any - OneLook - Google "if any" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Borovi4ok (talk) 12:01, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
- iso-polyphony - OneLook - Google "iso-polyphony" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- it takes a village - OneLook - Google "it takes a village" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- idelible - OneLook - Google "idelible" (Books • Groups • Scholar), also [52]. A misspelling of "indelible" or an obsolete spelling? --37.11.121.212 12:58, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- I think the modern uses are misspellings. Not sure about the 19th Century uses. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:28, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- IR blaster - OneLook - Google "IR blaster" (Books • Groups • Scholar), infrared blaster - OneLook - Google "infrared blaster" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Wikipedia, etc. specifically mention the replication of TV remote signals. Is this necessary?
- In addition, it is described as a 'small device' while also being a part of mobile phones. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 22:05, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- Irreecha - a holiday in Ethiopia, maybe not really an English word
I 2021Edit
- Indian pony per: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Indian%20pony
- idea dinner – where hedge fund managers will discuss stocks, market trends, etc. — [53] [54] [55] [56]
JEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
J 2019 and beforeEdit
- Jack, someone from Swansea
- jackass (another meaning--a type of bootleg liquor) "As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'" Richard Mendelson, From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, p. 82). "By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy ...." Vivienne Sosnowski, When the Rivers Ran Red: An Amazing Story of Courage and Triumph in America's Wine Country (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p. 110).
- Jacks or jacks (UK/Australia): A common term used for police in the UK and Australia, derived from "John Darme" a joking Anglicization of "gendarme" (French for police officer) and then - per common usage - John becomes Jack (or, in this case, the plural "Jacks").
- jammed up - OneLook - Google "jammed up" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (links) - from "in a jam" (see §I 2018) according to https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/jammed+up. 2004 definition which states that it's about legal or police problems: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jammed%20up. More reliable source attributing it to US, 1973: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English (2008).
- Jezoid (Jesoid)
- Joe Who
- jump out of one's skin
- jump box - OneLook - Google "jump box" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - used for jump-starting cars instead of using a 2nd car. But also in computing; see jump box.
J 2020Edit
- Jorge Jorge as an English name pronounced like George.
- Jodiebot - OneLook - Google "Jodiebot" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - derogatory Internet slang used by people who dislike Jodie Whittaker's portrayal of the Thirteenth Doctor for those who do (also JodieBot, Jbot, J-bot)
- is this likely to pass CFI? Plenty of online uses.
J 2021Edit
- Jõgeva - A town in Estonia, Europe
- judicial restraint
KEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
K 2018Edit
- klatskin - OneLook - Google "klatskin" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Kraton - OneLook - Google "Kraton" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Indonesian (and used in english) - word for palace in Java in Indonesia sats (talk) 14:17, 5 May 2016 (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.
- kitchen-fender - OneLook - Google "kitchen-fender" (Books • Groups • Scholar) found in The American Language by H. L. Mencken.Pelirojopajaro (talk) 18:12, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
- kick the weed
- kill for
- kill oneself laughing
- kill the wabbit
- kiss the blarney stone
- knock flat
- knock them down, drag them out
- kratophany
- kratophanous
K 2019Edit
- Karnian - OneLook - Google "Karnian" (Books • Groups • Scholar): alternative spelling of Carnian
- Khebud - OneLook - Google "Khebud" (Books • Groups • Scholar): a former region of Central Asia (Uzbekistan), known as 曹国 in Chinese
- kitchen tunk - OneLook - Google "kitchen tunk" (Books • Groups • Scholar): a New England term meaning an informal gathering, usually featuring traditional music and social dance, usually held in private homes from which the furniture has been cleared
K 2020Edit
- Kedoshim Apparently "Holy Ones" plural; an English loan word from Hebrew
- kandi; kandi kid —This comment was unsigned. - I've created candy kid; the k seems like a quirky misspelling, too rare for inclusion?
K 2021Edit
- Terms from Ray Birdwhistell's kinesics: allokine, kine*, kinemorph, parakinesic, parakinesics
- kick there is a sense I've seen for a glue (cyanoacrylate glue in particular) setting that I don't see in the kick entry
- Kimbundu (w:Kimbundu) - Bantu language spoken in Angola
- Kobani - OneLook - Google "Kobani" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - city in Syria
LEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
L 2018Edit
- Lingnan - OneLook - Google "Lingnan" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- lotheth - OneLook - Google "lotheth" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- lykke - OneLook - Google "lykke" (Books • Groups • Scholar) English borrowing from the Danish or Norwegian, in the same sense. — Paul G (talk) 18:25, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
- 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)
- Leonardesque - OneLook - Google "Leonardesque" (Books • Groups • Scholar), with the two distinct meaning of "Leonardo da Vinci's" and "Leonardo-style" (at leats in the italian word, check carefully on English sources)
- Liouville's theorem: many senses at Wikipedia: Liouville's theorem
- lofi hip hop - OneLook - Google "lofi hip hop" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Lower Paleolithic - OneLook - Google "Lower Paleolithic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) PseudoSkull (talk) 03:54, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
- linguisticism - OneLook - Google "linguisticism" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- assoc. with audism?
- lazies : Term used for police, but more often used for off-duty police officers.
- lump (Greece): A Greek slang. Refers to a police car, because of their roof beacons (Greek Police cars don't have light bars).
- Lobbygobbler, Leyther, someone from Leigh :
- last chance for romance
- lay a trip
- lay the lumber
- lean times
- lacreme (French word and a modeling agency)
- learn one's place
- leave hanging
- leave the door open
- leave well alone - OneLook - Google "leave well alone" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- led to believe
- lesser lights
- let it all hang out
- let one
- level the playing field
- lie down on the job
- life is not all guns and roses
- ligma (internet slang for "Lick my balls")
- like a dirty shirt
- like a hot potato
- like dog's breath
- like the devil
- line of authority
- little off
- live by
- local yokel
- look high and low
- Lotus Land
- Love Bug
- Lovers' Leap
- look up a dead horse's ass
- lunch-out – "Whether you call them dime-bars, energy vampires, lunch-outs, or whatever, it is undeniable that personal problems can often seriously hinder the effectiveness of a campaign." ("A Critique of Newbury," Do or Die 6 [1997])
L 2019Edit
- lam - OneLook - Google "lam" (Books • Groups • Scholar), lamm - OneLook - Google "lamm" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - part of (some) looms (one of these is an alternative spelling of the other)
- land shrimp (land shrimp (See cave cricket) (plural same?): some kind of edible creepy-crawly, possibly pill bug or woodlouse? Probably informal/humorous.
- lenticulocapsular - OneLook - Google "lenticulocapsular" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- lien* in skateboarding, as in "lien air" or "lien-to-tail" (seen at madonna); apparently from Neil backwards, after Neil Blender
- loiterature - OneLook - Google "loiterature" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – coined by Ross Chambers in his book of the same name, but now more widely used in literary criticism
L 2020Edit
- liberandu - Said by Urban Dictionary[57] to be the Indian version of libtard. Seen on Reddit[58] and in article comments[59].
- liensman - OneLook - Google "liensman" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - synonym of vassal. Darylgolden (talk) 01:55, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
- light bread - OneLook - Google "light bread" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - southern U.S. vernacular for regular bread (as opposed to cornbread)
- lineatim - (line by line?) "The two editions of 1576 resemble each other paginatim but not always lineatim ...." Colin Clair, A History of Printing in Britain (London: Cassell, 1965, p. 97).
- It's a Latin word, linea + -tim, linearly. English uses are rare. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 10:41, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
- lyrical miracle - A rapper that excessively rhymes multi-syllabic words
- lead around by the nose - OneLook - Google "lead around by the nose" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - note, not the same as lead by the nose
- living Buddha - OneLook - Google "living Buddha" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- long COVID - chronic condition suffered by some following infection with coronavirus — Paul G (talk) 05:58, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
- lookership - OneLook - Google "lookership" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- like a g - like a gangster? Currently being used at least two ads on British TV — Paul G (talk) 05:58, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
- lubber's line common synonym for 'lubber line' (See the recursive definition in OED)
- land - missing computing/software sense of verb "to land"; see [60] [61] [62] Hftf (talk) 00:49, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
- also missing "succeed" sense as in "the joke landed"; see [63]
L 2021Edit
- latchstring is always out - OneLook - Google "latchstring is always out" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - idiom
- level-peg - OneLook - Google "level-peg" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - verb, from British English
- Lindy effect - OneLook - Google "Lindy effect" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- lingam massage - OneLook - Google "lingam massage" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - certainly not lingam + massage
MEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
M 2017 and beforeEdit
- make one's own - OneLook - Google "make one's own" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - as in "I'll make this job my own"
- male duct system - OneLook - Google "male duct system" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - accessory reproductive organs that produce, mature, store, and transport sperm from the testes to the exterior
- means of labor - OneLook - Google "means of labor" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see Wikipedia entry ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:35, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
- meanspo - OneLook - Google "meanspo" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- It's a real thing, 'mean inspiration' to lose weight, but the durable instances feel more like mentions. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:42, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- meningitis W - OneLook - Google "meningitis W" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- mens et del - OneLook - Google "mens et del" (Books • Groups • Scholar) This appears on many maps and plans and is in all cases followed by a date: eg. mens et del 1884.
- Probably Latin rather than English, first part derived from mensuro (“measure”). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:50, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Mexicanada - OneLook - Google "Mexicanada" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Seems to be a Spanish word, not appearing in print in English outside of restaurant names. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- michio - OneLook - Google "michio" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Can't find this word. Meaning or context? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:24, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- midpoint valuation - OneLook - Google "midpoint valuation" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- muzzlefuck - OneLook - Google "muzzlefuck" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - oral sex in the furry subculture - but finding cites....
- Indeed. What I found was characters swearing at their guns (... muzzle. "Fuck!") Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:47, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
M 2018Edit
- Mac, someone from Scotland
- medullomyoblastoma, "a variant of medulloblastoma with an aggressive course..." (from here).
- max-fac, some kind of customs plan the UK government is advocating as part of the Brexit — has been in the news a lot in May 2018 and would show up in internet searches: it's short for maximum facilitation
- I don't think this one lasted a full year. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
- manel - OneLook - Google "manel" (Books • Groups • Scholar) A panel on a television programme, etc, that consists solely of men. Blend of "man" and "panel" — Paul G (talk) 18:29, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
- Moonraker, someone from Swindon or Wiltshire
- meningocele manque - OneLook - Google "meningocele manque" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Member or member (Canada): Used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to refer to fellow Mounties in place of the usual "officer" or "constable" (or equivalent) in other police forces.
- Merry-Jack, Mera-Jack - someone from Camborne (Cornwall)
- mex - OneLook - Google "mex" (Books • Groups • Scholar), see Appendix:Lojban/mi'i, uses a definition with "mex operator". What is this? PseudoSkull (talk) 02:41, 4 April 2018 (UTC) MEX (mekso in Lojban) is apparently a little-used "mathematics subgrammar" in Lojban, allowing you to do things like apply execution order to parts of phrases, as with (1+2)*3 vs. 1+(2*3) in maths. Equinox ◑ 15:08, 7 April 2018 (UTC)
- Mickey Mouse, someone from Liverpool :
- microbadge - OneLook - Google "microbadge" (Books • Groups • Scholar) : It is both an icon identifying a player characteristic or achievement on a gamer site, and some sort of electronic tagging for security reasons. But I cannot find sufficient cites for either definition. Kiwima (talk) 01:22, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
- make every effort
- make mention
- make of it
- make someone's head spin
- match wits
- meet one's half way = meet halfway?
- method to the madness
- milk it
- mind bottling
- monkey off one's back
- morasteen great stone in English per s:Surrey Archaeological Collections/Volume 1/The Kingston Morasteen
- muonology - OneLook - Google "muonology" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Use of muons in archaeology. Recently used in major study of Egyptian pyramids.--Dmol (talk) 01:49, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
- The word hasn't caught on. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:13, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- magico-Marxism
- moderate#Verb - allow a post through to a mailing list; exercise the powers of a list moderator. See https://packages.debian.org/buster/listadmin for example. Also moderator, moderation, though these two can also refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum#Moderators which is a bit different. -- The verb can also refer to such forums. Equinox ◑ 08:11, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
M 2019Edit
- m-factor - OneLook - Google "m-factor" (Books • Groups • Scholar): "movement, migration, mobility," especiaćlly understood as a phenomenon contributing to or defining the American national character (introduced by George W. Pierson in 1962 and used in historical scholarship as recently as 2012)
- MacDonaldization - OneLook - Google "MacDonaldization" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or Macdonaldization - OneLook - Google "Macdonaldization" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – alternate form of McDonaldization; see Anindita Datta, "MacDonaldization of Gender in Urban India: A Tentative Exploration" (2005)
- manufacture of consent - OneLook - Google "manufacture of consent" (Books • Groups • Scholar) In Oxford, doi:10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100132197. Used as verb or noun.
- DOI doesn't work for me. Is there a non-sum of parts meaning? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:18, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Vox Sciurorum I do not know, but I think that this is the intended link: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100132197. İʟᴀᴡᴀ–Kᴀᴛᴀᴋᴀ (talk) (edits) 22:40, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- DOI doesn't work for me. Is there a non-sum of parts meaning? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:18, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- microanalysis - OneLook - Google "microanalysis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) in a sociological sense, associated with Erving Goffman and microsociology (see Heather Love, "Close Reading and Thin Description" [2013])
- meekered - OneLook - Google "meekered" (Books • Groups • Scholar) 1. to be thwarted in the attempt to drive sheep, the consequence being to receive a low score or be disqualified; 2. to be outmaneuvered by a packet of sheep, The Herald Times, 23 August 2016.
- Mosammat - OneLook - Google "Mosammat" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - used in definition of Mst.
- monocyesis - OneLook - Google "monocyesis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — a pregnancy with a single fetus. Jeffrey Beall (talk) 11:54, 30 September 2019 (UTC).
- multum in parvo - OneLook - Google "multum in parvo" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (see mipmap?)
- metamedial - OneLook - Google "metamedial" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
M 2020Edit
- mabouya - OneLook - Google "mabouya" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - also an evil spirit in some belief system?
- magic satchel - OneLook - Google "magic satchel" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - type of fictional container whose capacity exceeds its outside appearance; the relevant Dungeons & Dragons item is known as a bag of holding; hammerspace is a similar concept but does not necessarily involve a container of any visible extent
- Mellida - a name
- metalist - a worker in metals, possibly similar to a machinist though that isn't metal specific. (“Metalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metalist. Accessed 27 Nov. 2020.) AreThree (talk) 19:09, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
- Mexican squirrel -- slang for iguana, possibly not durably attested
- militaire - (a man in the army? or more broadly, a military person?) "There hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is very quiet regarding it when you desire him to unbosom. I am continually lost at the absence of blowing and blowers among these old-young American militaires." John Harmon McElroy, ed., The Sacrificial Years: A Chronicle of Walt Whitman's Experiences in the Civil War (Boston: David R. Godine, 1999, p. 29).
- mondet - OneLook - Google "mondet" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - an abbreviation for "monetary determination" used in some institutions (at the very least on Michigan's unemployment website). eg. "You have received an updated mondet in your list of correspondences."
- Seems to be only Michigan unemployment. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:24, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- to moon about - (1) to idle around. (2) to yearn for, or grieve over someone or something [idioms.thefreedictionary.com https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/moon+about]
- See moon (“to be infatuated with someone”). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 09:59, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
- mother-die — alt forms mother-dee, motherdee, motherdie; refers to various types of plant; see A dictionary for English plant names, Garlands, Conkers, and Mother-Die, etc.
- malgré lui – English term from French meaning "in spite of him/herself" (M-W; Collins)
- monoideic - OneLook - Google "monoideic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) as in monoideism, polyideism - OneLook - Google "polyideism" (Books • Groups • Scholar), polyideic - OneLook - Google "polyideic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) PseudoSkull (talk) 09:25, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- monoxylic - OneLook - Google "monoxylic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
M 2021Edit
- Marta - OneLook - Google "Marta" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - common enough for English girls
- mass incident - OneLook - Google "mass incident" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - English version of 群體性事件, the Chinese government's euphemism for public protests
- Mecano - OneLook - Google "Mecano" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - A person from Mecca, according to Wikipedia
- midwit - OneLook - Google "midwit" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- mumble jumble - OneLook - Google "mumble jumble" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
NEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
N 2017 and beforeEdit
- -nosis - OneLook - Google "-nosis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (= -osis?)
- no chill - OneLook - Google "no chill" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
Norway model (in the context of Brexit)
- 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)
- nature versus nurture - OneLook - Google "nature versus nurture" (Books • Groups • Scholar) variously, an issue, debate, controversy, fallacy
- next store - OneLook - Google "next store" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — common misspelling for next door
- Norte Chico civilization - OneLook - Google "Norte Chico civilization" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- now you've done it - OneLook - Google "now you've done it" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (= you've done it now!; now you've/he's/she's gone and done it! ...)
N 2018Edit
- one's name is mud
- needle threader - OneLook - Google "needle threader" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- no business
- no chancy
- no question
- novelty act - OneLook - Google "novelty act" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
N 2019Edit
- nanchatte - fake, "just kidding" in Japanese; a cheap version of a real seifuku, used in cosplay and other otaku activities; see w:Uniform_fetishism#Schoolgirl_uniform
- From what I've seen, doesn't meet criteria for an English word (yet). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:21, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
N 2020Edit
- neopastoral - OneLook - Google "neopastoral" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- neopastoralism - OneLook - Google "neopastoralism" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- neopastoralist - OneLook - Google "neopastoralist" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- neuroenchantment - OneLook - Google "neuroenchantment" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- nightlock - OneLook - Google "nightlock" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Archaic, noun and verb form for closing up a house at night. Present in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941).
- niveau - (an English meaning: level of quality?) "Schirach, like many others, believed that the niveau of state-approved painting was dismal ...." Jonathan Petropoulos, Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, p. 185).
- NMD - OneLook - Google "NMD" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (short for #NotMyDoctor, hashtag used by people who disliked the idea of the Doctor from Doctor Who being played by a woman when Jodie Whittaker was announced as the Thirteenth Doctor), used to mean people with a toxic dislike of Jodie Whittaker's Doctor Who
- nontraditional student - OneLook - Google "nontraditional student" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- w:nontraditional student
- —Suzukaze-c (talk) 08:14, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
- neck gaiter - OneLook - Google "neck gaiter" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- nation-state - OneLook - Google "nation-state" (Books • Groups • Scholar) adj., in relation to hacking. "backed by a nation-state", I think. I don't know why it matters that the state is a nation state, or why it's constantly emphasized.__Gamren (talk) 12:07, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Gamren: I think this phrase is used because state in American English is ambiguous. State usually means delstat (one of the 50 states) but can mean stat (an independent country). People who write "backed by a nation-state" do not mean a state that is also a nation. They mean any foreign state. I will need to collect citations before adding a second sense. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:42, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
N 2021Edit
OEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
O 2018 and beforeEdit
- obook - OneLook - Google "obook" (Books • Groups • Scholar), short for online book, used by some publishers, e.g. Oxford UP and Wiley, similar to web-book/webbook
- oil-blotting sheet - OneLook - Google "oil-blotting sheet" (Books • Groups • Scholar)s (also known as blotting sheet - OneLook - Google "blotting sheet" (Books • Groups • Scholar)s?? and aburatorigami - OneLook - Google "aburatorigami" (Books • Groups • Scholar)?) - sheets used to remove oil secretions from the face
- on approval
- on premise = on-prem maybe?
- on even terms
- on risk - OneLook - Google "on risk" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Believe this means that the insurer takes the risk (i.e. that the insurance has commenced), but not 100% certain. May be an addition to "risk" rather than a separate lemma. Example phrase: "the policy must be on risk from the date of completion". 94.3.249.236 22:22, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
- to order about, to order around - intransitive
- on the limp
- on the stand
- one man's garbage is another man's art
- Rare form of one man's trash is another man's treasure, may be too rare to add. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:14, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
- oodle: described as a mix of a poodle and another breed of dog in Cambridge online dictionary
Othello phenomenon - OneLook - Google "Othello phenomenon" (Books • Groups • Scholar): appears to have no fixed specific meaning- over the hump
- oversae - OneLook - Google "oversae" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- oxopropanoic - OneLook - Google "oxopropanoic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- oxt - OneLook - Google "oxt" (Books • Groups • Scholar) see oxtweekend.com - a useful protoneologism, but I can't find any actual uses. Kiwima (talk) 01:43, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
O 2020Edit
- old school tie - OneLook - Google "old school tie" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see w:school tie#As a metaphor
- on stilts – very[64]; one at Citations:wokelette and need a couple more
- ooga booga, oogabooga - interjection, imitation of African speech.
- Started Citations:ooga booga. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:15, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
- orite – mostly online; abbreviated form of "oh, right" acknowledging a reminder of a shared point of discussion.
- overfall – (another meaning--some kind of clothing?) "A later example [of an Athenian terracotta doll] in Oxford (1929-461) has the colour preserved; the overfall hangs from the breasts in folds, which are outlined in violet on the white slip." T.B.L. Webster, Greek Terracottas (Penguin Books, 1950, p. 18). -- This would appear to be part of a garment that hangs so as to cover a lower part, like the Greek apotygma. Equinox ◑ 06:42, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
- owlhoot – term associated with Westerns referring to an outlaw. See OED sense 3. Compare: owl hoot trail
O 2021Edit
- off year (noun) as in off-year election in US politics
- ovoviviparousness - OneLook - Google "ovoviviparousness" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- OPFOR - OneLook - Google "OPFOR" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- opportunity makes a thief - OneLook - Google "opportunity makes a thief" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
PEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
P 2017 and beforeEdit
- paramesangium - OneLook - Google "paramesangium" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - we have "paramesangial"
- parson-naturalist - OneLook - Google "parson-naturalist" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- pay way - OneLook - Google "pay way" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - or pay someone's way - OneLook - Google "pay someone's way" (Books • Groups • Scholar) ---> Tooironic 10:25, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
- public indecency - OneLook - Google "public indecency" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - legal term ---> Tooironic 13:08, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
- pulse voltammetry - OneLook - Google "pulse voltammetry" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Phæacian - OneLook - Google "Phæacian" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Poë-bird - OneLook - Google "Poë-bird" (Books • Groups • Scholar), ¿¿¿Prosthemadera cincinnata??? or Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (See tui and parson bird.)
- If created, this should be poe-bird, and defined as an alternate spelling of poebird. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:55, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
- Seen in print in the 19th Century as Poë Bird[65][66] and Poë-bird[67]. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:04, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- If created, this should be poe-bird, and defined as an alternate spelling of poebird. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:55, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
- Pœcile - OneLook - Google "Pœcile" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Poecile
- præcaval - OneLook - Google "præcaval" (Books • Groups • Scholar) praecaval
- Prætexta - OneLook - Google "Prætexta" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Praetexta
- Prætorium - OneLook - Google "Prætorium" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Praetorium
- pandey - OneLook - Google "pandey" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- pickade - OneLook - Google "pickade" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – Word Spy says it's a blend of picket and blockade, but I can't find any uses in English. (Several mentions, though, possibly cribbed from Word Spy) There is also an apparent homograph in what appears to be Swedish or Norwegian. Cnilep (talk) 03:33, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
- perihadion - OneLook - Google "perihadion" (Books • Groups • Scholar) periapsis around Pluto. Has been used but may not meet CFI yet.
- periposeidon - OneLook - Google "periposeidon" (Books • Groups • Scholar) periapsis around Neptune
- No usable uses. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:48, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
- primae noctis - OneLook - Google "primae noctis" (Books • Groups • Scholar), comes up in Braveheart the film (in English). We have a Latin entry ius primae noctis. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:50, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
- public general - OneLook - Google "public general" (Books • Groups • Scholar)?
- pygg - OneLook - Google "pygg" (Books • Groups • Scholar) see Wikipedia entry - Is this a hoax? I can find nothing about this so-called pygg clay except modern explanations of supposed "piggy bank" etymology. Equinox ◑ 15:07, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
- It's not a hoax, but a folk etymology. The original 1450 spelling of the container (and hence the clay) is cited as "pygg" in the OED, but they suggest that this was just the skin of the pig used as a container, before such containers started being made of clay (in the West).
- Palumboism - OneLook - Google "Palumboism" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - seems to be a certain informal disorder among bodybuilders losing muscle mass but with large bellies later in their careers - named after Dave Palumbo.
- pede claudo - OneLook - Google "pede claudo" (Books • Groups • Scholar), italicized in my copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1961 print). Renard Migrant (talk) 16:28, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
- proto-Christian - OneLook - Google "proto-Christian" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Parapanamerican -sport competitions for the disabled competing throughout the Americas.
- planetary phase
- police ambulance: probably an ambulance staffed by police, for e.g. violent or dangerous patients
P 2018Edit
- paint a picture -- figurative sense? SoP?
- Pandu Hawaldar (India): Indian constabulary (and not officers) were recruited mostly from village areas. Pandu Ram was a common name in the villages.
- Maybe foreign language
- pay the shot
- Penelopes (US): (slang) the police; coined by the SF Bay Area rap artist E-40.
- PES - polyester
- Pie-Eater, Purrer, someone from Wigan
- pigtail (US): A slang term used when a police officer stops you or picks you up. "I picked up a pigtail"
- pimple pole
- pin a rose on your nose
- pinch an inch
- pinch to grow an inch
- pine float
- Plain Brown Wrapper (US): Most commonly used by truck drivers over the CB radio, in reference to unmarked vehicles and plainclothes police officers, usually of local or state jurisdictions.
- Plastics or plastics (Australia): Colloquial term used by Australian state police to refer to the Australian Federal Police.
- play a big part
- play a mean game
- play it for all it's worth
- play on my heart strings / play on one's heart strings
- pliplino
- plump full
- Po or po (US): A term used commonly by North American youth and rap artists. (compare Po-po)
- pocket Hercules
- pocket of resistance
- point a finger at
- pop your buttons
- power to burn
- preferred number
- Pressed Open Seam or pressed open seam a seam that has two seam allowances that are each pressed flat at its own side of the seam
- primaxial
- pro-situ - OneLook - Google "pro-situ" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or pro-Situ - OneLook - Google "pro-Situ" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (roughly meaning influenced by or aligned with the Situationist International)
- protocol analyzer (Special:WhatLinksHere/protocol analyzer) - in networking / technology. I've heard this term was coined by Hewlett-Packard, see also sniffer (networking sense)
- pull for
- pull level Synonym with draw level but with the nuance of requiring effort. Seems common in football "The hosts pulled level after goals from Smyth and Fisher"
- pull tab - OneLook - Google "pull tab" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- purple hair See https://lwn.net/Articles/766699/#Comments (open-access on Oct. 11, 2018); a commenter says "I do not support your purple-hair version of Linux." which someone explains as "it's an obscure derogatory term with similar meaning to "SJW" or "feminist", occasionally used in such upstanding places as 4chan, referring to a stereotypical young woman with purple hair and a Tumblr account and socially liberal views." I could add it, but I'm having trouble finding usable cites
- It's probably not limited to purple… *blue-hair and *pink-hair e.g. should exist too. — 69.120.64.15 06:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
- push the right buttons
- put 'em up
- put it
- put the heat on
- pxs - prices
P 2019Edit
- panning, abbreviation of panhandling – "Underwood documents in detail the routines of 'panning' (panhandling) and 'canning' (collecting cans), often pursued as methodically (with specific hours, techniques, and turf) as more legitimate work" – Susan Fraiman, Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins (Columbia University Press, 2017), p. 182.
- paughty - OneLook - Google "paughty" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Scottish dialect for proud, haughty. BigDom 10:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- pennies on the dollar - OneLook - Google "pennies on the dollar" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- prickle bush [68][69] --Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:39, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
- Apparently any of several many species of shrubs growing in dry places in Australia.[70]. I grew up in America hearing pricker bush for barberry. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:53, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Proto-Oghuz, a protolanguage without a Wiktionary category or Wikipedia article, listed under Category:Old Anatolian Turkish language. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:02, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
- pixieing - OneLook - Google "pixieing" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – engaging in small-scale covert acts of ecotage (not sure whether the main entry should be at pixie as I can't find any uses of the infinitive)
P 2020Edit
- paleosceptic - OneLook - Google "paleosceptic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – a Brexit term – something like "a politician, usually of the Conservative Party (UK), who was a Eurosceptic before the 2016 EU referendum"?
- panmnesia - OneLook - Google "panmnesia" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – (previously deleted; see the talk page) supposed to be the opposite of amnesia, with pan- instead of a-, meaning more or less "the ability to remember everything". The word seems to have somewhat of a cult following, being used on numerous personal blogs, in YouTube videos, and within superhero/comic fandoms (along with some more fringe communities like this, and recent new-age spiritual movements). A primary reason for its deletion was that it is almost never used, only mentioned, which I don't dispute. (Many of its occurrences are either a definition or a mention of it as an example of a quirky word with silent ⟨m⟩, as here.) Its supposed pronunciation as /ˌpænˈniʒə/ is supported by Webster.
- parciante - OneLook - Google "parciante" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – as seen in user:HippieBot/Entries in Encarta online not in Wiktionary/pac-par, file:International Symposiun, Integrated Management of Watersheds for Multiple Use - March 26-30, 1990, Morelia, Mexico = Simposio Internacional- Manejo Integrado de Cuencas para Uso Multiple (IA CAT91946719).pdf, file:VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION- UTILIZING INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY (IA gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-114hhrg99388).pdf, file:CURRENT PUBLIC LANDS, FORESTS, AND MINING BILLS (IA gov.gpo.fdsys.CHRG-113shrg88886).pdf, and file:Congressional Record Volume 165, Issue 023, 2019-02-06.pdf (the last two are duplicate uses); also wikidata:Q97819689 (from wiktionary:requested entries (Spanish)#P since it is left untranslated in English prose
- preburn (verb and noun): to burn in advance? (of what?); or do some process in preparation for burning?!
- pea-stick a long stake or branch upon which garden peas are trained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Locke_Weems#Cherry-tree_anecdote
- phobiaphobia - OneLook - Google "phobiaphobia" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide - OneLook - Google "phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - similar to phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase
- physician of record - OneLook - Google "physician of record" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- plight one's troth - OneLook - Google "plight one's troth" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- pneumatosaccus - OneLook - Google "pneumatosaccus" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – some marine animal body part?
- prisposoblenets - OneLook - Google "prisposoblenets" (Books • Groups • Scholar) cited in two large publications in 2020, Russian word prisposoblenets (приспособленец) defined in NPR book review: 'Between Two Fires' Asks: At What Point Are We Responsible For Our Actions? and referenced by The Atlantic: History Will Judge the Complicit as "a person skilled in the act of compromise and adaptation, who intuitively understands what is expected of him and adjusts his beliefs and conduct accordingly"
- polydiegetic - OneLook - Google "polydiegetic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) e.g. John Kraniauskas: "it dramatizes ... crime as a complex practice which it conceives formally and compositionally, through its narrative loops and cycles of accumulation (which constitutes in turn the TV series’ polydiegetic, segmented architecture)"
- plot point - OneLook - Google "plot point" (Books • Groups • Scholar), "a significant event within a plot that spins the action around in another direction" (according to the corresponding Wikipedia article)
- pow day - OneLook - Google "pow day" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- protozooid - OneLook - Google "protozooid" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – also something in marine biology
- printed circuit - OneLook - Google "printed circuit" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - in most reputable dictionaries. (interestingly, printed circuit board - OneLook - Google "printed circuit board" (Books • Groups • Scholar) is not.
- phantosmic - OneLook - Google "phantosmic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - related to phantosmia. Also: [71]
- protoiereus - OneLook - Google "protoiereus" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - English term for πρωτοιερεύς
- piezoelectrets - OneLook - Google "piezoelectrets" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- protolingual - OneLook - Google "protolingual" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — adj, probably proto- + lingual, related to protolanguage
- play of the game - OneLook - Google "play of the game" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - an especially notable performance in a sport or video game.
- pycnoxylic - OneLook - Google "pycnoxylic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- placer mining - OneLook - Google "placer mining" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
P 2021Edit
- piyut - OneLook - Google "piyut" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a Jewish liturgical poem (needs English)
- pulsant - OneLook - Google "pulsant" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - pulsing?
- potatoe-land - OneLook - Google "potatoe-land" (Books • Groups • Scholar) --- from Mary Shelley's The Last Man:
- A great part of these grounds had been given to cultivation, and strips of potatoe-land and corn were scattered here and there.
- Seems to be just descriptive, land being used for potatoes. A 20th century use is "There is considerable good potato land adjacent to Frazier."[72] Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- A great part of these grounds had been given to cultivation, and strips of potatoe-land and corn were scattered here and there.
- Pleiadian - OneLook - Google "Pleiadian" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - from Pleiades
- pepega - slang, means roughly retard, but more politically correct.
- precivilized - OneLook - Google "precivilized" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - someone created a Russian entry which lists this as the translation User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 13:41, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
- proxy statement - OneLook - Google "proxy statement" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see w:Proxy statement
- phascolarctine: adj. describing certain mammals: koalas, ringtails, ...? cf. phascolarctid
- preemptorally - OneLook - Google "preemptorally" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - adverb form of preemptory, may be similar to preemptively and peremptorily, the latter of which may be intended in some cites, also peremptory seems to be used in challenging witnesses before they can be seated on a jury.
- partial calque - it's in the Glossary
- protonotary apostolic
- prelusion (prĭ-lo͞o′zhən) A prelude or introduction. [Latin praelūsiō, praelūsiōn-, from praelūsus, past participle of praelūdere, to play beforehand; see prelude.]
- pour encourager les autres – MW OED
- plant-based, plantbased, plant based - in reference to vegan/vegetarian diets, something (food) that is based on plants instead of animal products
QEdit
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Q 2020Edit
- quabble (Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History, Routledge, 1992, p. 63: "I do forget them before the next appointment, and my patient and I sink back into the routine of everyday quabble."
- quantitas intrinseca - OneLook - Google "quantitas intrinseca" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a term related to rhythm
- QID: noun; countable. "Q-identifier"; The unique, persistent, identifier for a concept, and the item or record describing it, in Wikidata. Comprises a positive integer, prefixed by the upper-case letter "Q". First use 2012. N.B. new sense for existing entry Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:52, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
- We don't usually include self-referential wiki stuff since it isn't attestable by our own rules. Equinox ◑ 08:21, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
- External sources: [73], [74], [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], [80], [81], [82], [83], [84]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
- We don't usually include self-referential wiki stuff since it isn't attestable by our own rules. Equinox ◑ 08:21, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
- quarandine (a type of apple, perhaps with another name?) "In the orchard all attempts to maintain respectability had been abandoned; nettles and rank grass grew high around the fruit trees. One of these grew the most delicious little round pears; from another we used to pick lovely little red apples called quarandines." Quentin Bell, in Quentin Bell & Virginia Nicholson, Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997, p. 126).
REdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
R 2017 and beforeEdit
- ritzy glitzy - OneLook - Google "ritzy glitzy" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - an English reduplication meaning full of Glitz.
- royal commission - OneLook - Google "royal commission" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - has two possible meanings, see the Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic (talk) 23:11, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
- raise one's hand against - OneLook - Google "raise one's hand against" (Books • Groups • Scholar), lift one's hand against, raise a hand against, raise one's fist against, raise one's sword against, raise arms against, raise one's weapons against, raise weapons against. There can also be adjectives modifying some of the nouns. DCDuring TALK 19:21, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- recognition of prior learning - OneLook - Google "recognition of prior learning" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (RPL), prior learning assessment (PLA), prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
- redpill - OneLook - Google "redpill" (Books • Groups • Scholar): (in reference to The Matrix film where taking this pill shows the true reality beneath the simulated virtual world) used in some fringe Internet communities, e.g. men's rights activists where (I think) you are a "redpill" if you have rejected feminism and "woken up" to alternatives?
- Shouldn't it be "red pill?" WikiWinters (talk) 03:42, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
- In the film it would be, but I think it's a single word when used as I described. I will stress that I'm not a member of these communities and have only seen it in passing. Equinox ◑ 03:46, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
- This? WikiWinters (talk) 14:03, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
- In the film it would be, but I think it's a single word when used as I described. I will stress that I'm not a member of these communities and have only seen it in passing. Equinox ◑ 03:46, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
- Shouldn't it be "red pill?" WikiWinters (talk) 03:42, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
- rogue-to-the-rescue - [85]
- 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 Monthly 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)
- 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’.
- The OED entry for maverick quotes the Overland Monthly of August 1869 for a possible etymology:
- rapid-cycle - OneLook - Google "rapid-cycle" (Books • Groups • Scholar) ways
- rule or ruin - OneLook - Google "rule or ruin" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
R 2018Edit
- is R-18 sum of parts?
- What does it mean? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:07, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- "Restricted 18" (i.e. rated R or "adults only"). See: R18, Television content rating system, [86].
- rock-wallaby - OneLook - Google "rock-wallaby" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- rock wallaby - OneLook - Google "rock wallaby" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (Petrogale spp.)
- raise one's spirits
- ram down someone's throat
- rant and rave
- rap one's knuckles
- rattle on
- reinjector: sth to do with fuel/engines? cf. injector
- rented lips
- retromodernism - OneLook - Google "retromodernism" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- retro-modernist - OneLook - Google "retro-modernist" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- ride herd
- ride the clutch
- ring the devil's doorbell - OneLook - Google "ring the devil's doorbell" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - masturbate, as a female. One cite:
- 2017, Robert J. Crane, Unearthed, Ostiagard Press
- “Because we talked about it on the playground,” Molly quipped, “right after we discussed what happens when you ring the devil's doorbell.”
- 2017, Robert J. Crane, Unearthed, Ostiagard Press
- right before one's eyes
- risky business
- rocks socks or rock socks -- do you mean rock someone's socks?
- rough going
- rough time of it
- rough time
- row of beans
- run a tab
- run roughshod
- Red Coat, someone from England - perhaps add a link to redcoat?
- rolled R - OneLook - Google "rolled R" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
R 2019Edit
- roper in - OneLook - Google "roper in" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – "To keep a steady stream of suckers coming to their tables, many houses employed 'steerers' or 'ropers in,' 'men of considerable address' who 'make a flashy genteel appearance, very impressive and taking with greenhorns.'" – Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830–1870, Yale University Press, 1982, p. 8, quoting Herbert Asbury, Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1930, p. 160. (Collins also has "one who tries to lure people into a gambling house" for roper.)
- rapid-response or rapid response. Possibly non-SOP --I learned some phrases (talk) 11:54, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
- running word (in corpus linguistics); it's probably similar to this sense of token (a single example/instance/occurrence of a given word form ["type"] in a text), but it might not be the same.
- r-bomb, R-bomb
- Several meanings. One related to BlackBerry Messenger. Others for words beginning with 'R": recesssion, racist. Recession might be citable. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:09, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
R 2020Edit
- reliquiaries - OneLook - Google "reliquiaries" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Plural of "Reliquary", a container for religious relics.
- rumping - "It had always been possible to indicate disapproval either by the monarch turning his back to someone (when George II did this it was described as 'rumping') or excluding them altogether from the royal drawing room." Clarissa Campbell Orr, Mrs Delany: A Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019, p. 275).
- remanant - OneLook - Google "remanant" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - I heard this as a nonstandard pronunciation of remnant but it turns out to also be an English word. We only have a French entry. Seems to be another or related word to remanance.
- retintabulation - OneLook - Google "retintabulation " (Books • Groups • Scholar) - (source). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:33, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Appears to have been used only once, in Walks in the Black Country and its green border-land[87]. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:41, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- ristle - OneLook - Google "ristle" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - part of an ard (plough) that serves a similar purpose as the coulter in other kinds of ploughs — surjection ⟨??⟩ 18:03, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
- riskbreaker - found in sentence "Ah, a riskbreaker... a royal guard dog!" - - - - Rapidim (talk) 09:32, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
- ronde-bosse - OneLook - Google "ronde-bosse" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- rubber band AI - typical racing video game teminology. ToThAc (talk) 23:47, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- ranahan – top cowboy. shortened to "ranny". [88] [89] [90]
R 2021Edit
- RASC - OneLook - Google "RASC" (Books • Groups • Scholar): - [91]
- ratiomorphic - OneLook - Google "ratiomorphic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see Oxford Dictionary of Psychology
- relictuous - OneLook - Google "relictuous" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- rhaeb - OneLook - Google "rhaeb" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — some kinda male mallard noise apparently
- rump session - OneLook - Google "rump session" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- rigid-frame bridge - OneLook - Google "rigid-frame bridge" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - where you also find related terms like single span bridge, v-shaped and batter-post
- reline - OneLook - Google "reline" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - (noun) an ionic mixture (See this article)
- rhabdophobia - OneLook - Google "rhabdophobia" (Books • Groups • Scholar): fear of criticism or physical punishment (rhabdo- = rod, i.e. a cane for beating); mainly in word lists; may not meet CFI
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S 2017 and beforeEdit
- saïm See Lard
- sagala (Philippine English)
- 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.")
- seek down - OneLook - Google "seek down" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- single-phase (adjective and verb) single-phased (adjective and verb)
- snapling, Appears to be an Israeli slang word for “rappelling” or “canyoning”
- sweat and graft, graft and sweat. This is a straightforward application of the third definition of graft, but seeing that used to mean simple labor rather than corruption is unfamiliar to my eyes, and it seems like a special idiom. Question: is it specifically British?
- Yes, both the American sense of corruption and the British sense of hard work for both noun and verb seem to have appeared independently in the 1850s. The British sense is cited from 1853 in the OED. I've only recently heard the American sense here in the UK. Dbfirs 18:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
- Stellæ
- 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)
- 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)
- stop surface. Come across in a question about apodisation; found in one dict. without explanation. Josh L. (talk)
- 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?
- san jiao - OneLook - Google "san jiao" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - San Jiao
- scrublord - OneLook - Google "scrublord" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - pejorative bit of internet slang for someone who tries to enforce their own version of how things should be done. - can't find durable citations, though Kiwima (talk) 03:30, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
- spreeze - OneLook - Google "spreeze" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - apparently the Ethiopian version of yuanyang
- Seems to appear only in word lists so people can dump a Z in scrabble. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- supousu - OneLook - Google "supousu" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - gender neutral form of waifu and husbando
- I found one use of the word apparently in this sense, on a forum and not durable. Also in one list of porn SEO keywords, a mention. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- Sapiezoic : see the French Wiktionary entry -- protoneologism by one person. Kiwima (talk) 01:29, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
- savanna principle - the idea that the human brain has evolved to work well with only certain types of problems.
- Coined at https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.1130. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:47, 2 August 2020 (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)
- semivagina - OneLook - Google "semivagina" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - EXTREMELY rare, but found a few cites. Context: anatomy Philmonte101 (talk) 14:01, 31 July 2016 (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)
- Appears to be used enough to add, both in German and English, but I will need to read the papers to make sure they are all using it the same way. Archaic if not obsolete. One modern use appears to refer to a partially formed vagina. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:44, 2 August 2020 (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)
- shlomo insult [94] -- derogotory term for Jew, but cannot find cites. Kiwima (talk) 22:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
- Sounds like a common practice of picking an ethnic-sounding name as a sort of collective noun (Shlomo in this case). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:05, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- stubbify
- sarcoline - OneLook - Google "sarcoline" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - flesh-colored
- Semyon - OneLook - Google "Semyon" (Books • Groups • Scholar) A person's name.
- shtickle - OneLook - Google "shtickle" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – also shtikle, schtickle, schtikel, schtikle, shtikel, shtikl
- Shatuo - OneLook - Google "Shatuo" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — a Turkic tribe that influenced northern Chinese politics in the late 9th and 10th centuries
- shrammy - OneLook - Google "shrammy" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — I think it means cold
- skyfish - OneLook - Google "skyfish" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - flying rods (see above)
- Smt. - OneLook - Google "Smt." (Books • Groups • Scholar) — abbreviation for Shrimati or Shreemati, a term used to refer to a married women in various languages of India
- This is hard to search for because Shrimati is a name and smt is a technology. Got any references? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:36, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- spit muffin - OneLook - Google "spit muffin" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- strasher - OneLook - Google "strasher" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — verb, strashering, strashered, from Yiddish סטראשער, meaning to give someone the business, threaten, intimidate. Yiddish example: strasher mir nisht (don't threaten me} —Stephen (Talk) 09:21, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Stephen G. Brown Can you think of any other spellings? Not seeing any examples online. DTLHS (talk) 06:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
- I'm sure that strasher is correct. סטראשער (strasher) could be written is slightly different ways, since there are two esses in Yiddish, and at least one diacritic could be used. I believe a big problem with such words is that colloquial Yiddish tends not to be written, and English words adopted from Yiddish also tend not to be written. I've heard strasher and strashering being used in English (this woman was talking to another woman whose married name was Strasser, and she thought that was so funny), but I had little luck googling. Probably can't be sufficiently verified online. —Stephen (Talk) 10:26, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
- @Stephen G. Brown Can you think of any other spellings? Not seeing any examples online. DTLHS (talk) 06:33, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
- startword - OneLook - Google "startword" (Books • Groups • Scholar)* in BDSM, said to start an activity; compare safeword.
- says what - OneLook - Google "says what" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Seen on this xkcd.__Gamren (talk) 12:51, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
- signal tower - OneLook - Google "signal tower" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Sul Tasto (Musical Term)
- spa cuisine - OneLook - Google "spa cuisine" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- spiced beef - OneLook - Google "spiced beef" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Is this any more specific than beef with spices? If not, sum of parts. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:03, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- shake roof - OneLook - Google "shake roof" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- substitution class - OneLook - Google "substitution class" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
S 2018Edit
- saccus vasculosus - OneLook - Google "saccus vasculosus" (Books • Groups • Scholar) one of numerous sources on the web
- sacred moose
- safeda - OneLook - Google "safeda" (Books • Groups • Scholar)- type of tree
- Sagaglalal- A character in a Washington State Native Tribe's mythology. Also known as She who Watches
- saibara - OneLook - Google "saibara" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a genre of Japanese court song
- Samanean - OneLook - Google "Samanean" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Sandgronian, person from Blackpool
- That would be "Sand Grown 'Un " Dbfirs 08:17, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- Sandgrounder or snuggle tooth, someone from Southport
- save a bundle
- save one's ammunition - OneLook - Google "save one's ammunition" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- saw sawdust
- say jump...how high
- scare the life out of
- scared out of my wits/scared witless
- scout's honor/scout's honour
- seka - OneLook - Google "seka" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see Hildred Geertz and Clifford Geertz, Kinship in Bali (University of Chicago Press, 1975), p. 30.
- 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)
- self-administer - OneLook - Google "self-administer" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- self-adjust etymology prefix|en|self|adjust - hyphen necessary because one is not adjusting oneself
- self-adjusted
- self-adjuster
- self-adjustment
- self-controlling - OneLook - Google "self-controlling" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- self-controls - OneLook - Google "self-controls" (Books • Groups • Scholar) plural
- self-monitor - OneLook - Google "self-monitor" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- self-regulate - OneLook - Google "self-regulate" (Books • Groups • Scholar) ... and lots of other self-...
- Most if not all of these are hyphenated sums of parts. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:01, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- self-suckering: of plants: unlike verb sucker, seems to mean producing suckers, not destroying them
- sell the farm
- send a bouquet
- serve the purpose
- set out for
- seven come eleven
- Shades or shades (Ireland): Used in Ireland, from plainclothes Gardaí detectives from the 1970s who were recognisable as they commonly wore sunglasses. Common in Limerick.
- shadow of one's former self
- shaky ground
- sharpen up
- Shijing - OneLook - Google "Shijing" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a Chinese classic literary work
- shoes like boats
- shoot it out
- shop-floor struggle
- short one
- shove down someone's throat
- show promise
- show one's stuff
- shuck on down to the fraidy hole
- shuffle the chairs on the deck
- sialoid in taxonomy: probably relates to the insect family Sialidae
- sick building
- sick of
- sick to death
- sight-bill - OneLook - Google "sight-bill" (Books • Groups • Scholar): "...centralise all the operations of commerce by means of a bank in which all the bills of exchange, drafts and sight-bills representing the bills and the invoices of merchants, will be received." (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Property Is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology [AK Press, 2011], p. 286)
- sit in judgement on
- six bits
- skin virgin
- skins game
- skrt - OneLook - Google "skrt" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - A slang word for the sound of rubber wheels when drifting.
- slice through
- slip a notch
- smack dab in the middle
- smell oneself
- smithwright it - apparently a slang term for throw it out, but I can't find any uses. Kiwima (talk) 23:57, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
- Smurfs (Greece/Poland): Used in Greece and Poland. Because of the blue colour of police officers is like smurfs.
- snap at
- Snippers or snipper (US): An African-American term used mostly in North America.
- so small you had to back out to change your mind
- soft market
- solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
- some chick
something borrowed, something blueSOP- Soupie, someone from Welshpool
- spathella - OneLook - Google "spathella" (Books • Groups • Scholar), spathelle, spathellule - botanical terms. BigDom 14:56, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
- spend holidays
- spin crew
- spitting mad
- spoogler (or Spoogler?) - the spouse of an IT worker (specifically Google? cf. Xoogler, Noogler)
- square deal
- stand away
- start a fire under
- stash - OneLook - Google "stash" (Books • Groups • Scholar) To keep (a new romantic partner) secret from one's friends and family. — Paul G (talk) 18:31, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
- statute-barred - OneLook - Google "statute-barred" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - another online dict defines it thus: adjective ENGLISH LAW (especially of a debt claim) no longer legally enforceable owing to a prescribed period of limitation having lapsed.
- Steely, Steel Boy, someone from Sheffield
- stick them up
- stink the joint out
- stone unturned/not leave a stone unturned
- stop someone cold
- straight cash
- straight dope
- straw horse
- stretch the dollar
- strike up the band
- strike someone's fancy
- string a line
- struggle meal - OneLook - Google "struggle meal" (Books • Groups • Scholar).__Gamren (talk) 14:19, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- suck eggs
- sucker for punishment
- super mint
- Super Troopers or super trooper (US): Became a common name in Vermont for police in that state after the release of the movie Super Troopers.
- supplementary hypothesis - OneLook - Google "supplementary hypothesis" (Books • Groups • Scholar), see Supplementary hypothesis; one of three theories about the origin of religious texts. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:37, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
- Swansea Jack, someone from Swansea
- Sweeney or sweeney (UK): Cockney rhyming slang for the Flying Squad, from Sweeney Todd, inspiring the television series The Sweeney, (see also Heavy).
- sweet wheat - OneLook - Google "sweet wheat" (Books • Groups • Scholar), a particular type of bread, probably synonymous with something else, such as honey wheat. It's one of the three main bread types used at my work, and it's a brown bread. PseudoSkull (talk) 00:09, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
S 2019Edit
- subproper in mathematics?
- surface lift: synonym of ski lift, apparently?
- system parameter - OneLook - Google "system parameter" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Sibyllinus, -a, -um: A latin adjective meaning "sibylline". See https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/adjective/7802/
- sinking spell in medicine (an episode of bad feeling?)
- sense of direction - OneLook - Google "sense of direction" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Collins, Westers, and Oxford online dictionaries all have entries, the first two having two senses: [95] [96] [97]
- six up and half a dozen down - OneLook - Google "six up and half a dozen down" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Saint Martin / Collectivity of Saint Martin - an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies in the Caribbean.
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha - the proper name for the British overseas territory
- slide into one's DMs - OneLook - Google "slide into one's DMs" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Or perhaps his/her, your. Something about transitioning an online conversation from public to private? Just need to yeet this right into the dictionary according to the high-schoolers I was observing in the wild.
- There are many ways to talk about about taking a conversation to DM (direct message). Is this another? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 09:33, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- similorer - OneLook - Google "similorer" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - presumably, someone who works in similor; also plural, similorers. See s:Page:Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham.djvu/65: "Among the trades that have vanished altogether, are steelyard makers... saw-makers, ... tool-makers... and similorers, whatever they might have been." Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
- spray foam, it has a Wikipedia article but it's still not clear whether it's a broader concept than or the same as expanding foam; it's probably broader than PU foam, PUR foam or polyurethane foam as the former can be made from polyisocyanurate as well, not only polyurethane, according to this WP article.
- sana all - OneLook - Google "sana all" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (Philippines)
- spowe - OneLook - Google "spowe" (Books • Groups • Scholar) / sporl - OneLook - Google "sporl" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Species of bird, probably a Black-tailed Godwit; see: "The identity of the bird known locally in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Norfolk, United Kingdom, as the Spowe", F. Cooke and T. R. Birkhead, Archives of Natural History , 44(1), pp. 118–121
- One of several or many old bird names that aren't used in a way that meets criteria for inclusion. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 09:37, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- staffage -- (an extended meaning--artists' props used in paintings?) "The second part of Inspired by the East is dominated by nineteenth-century orientalist paintings. There is a symbiotic relationship between the paintings and the exotic artefacts, as orientalist painters habitually made collections of Islamic armour, weapons, woodwork, fabrics, pots and hookahs and they arranged and rearranged those objects in painting after painting in a somewhat indiscriminate fashion, so that one might find Albanian, Persian or even Indian objects featuring in Cairo street scenes. The exhibition includes photographs of the studios of Jean-Leon Gerome and of Frederick Arthur Bridgman which show that those places were cluttered with this sort of useful and evocative staffage." Robert Irwin, "Enthralled by the light" (London: The Times Literary Supplement, October 25, 2019, p. 20).
S 2020Edit
- saddle-goose - OneLook - Google "saddle-goose" (Books • Groups • Scholar) a fool
- Safaite: apparently not an ethnicon; possibly just someone who spoke Safaitic?
- Sakya
- sapiocracy - A form of government in which the most intelligent are given the most powerful positions.
- Sarfus (from wikipedia)
- savings and loan association, in French caisse d’épargne
- self-attention (in AI systems etc.) e.g. [98]
- shadow acne - OneLook - Google "shadow acne" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- -- something in computer 3d image rendering —Suzukaze-c (talk) 08:47, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
- shadow rank (British special forces)
- shelter in place - corona-word (predates this quite a bit)
- Sum of parts? Meaning is variable. Vox Sciurorum (talk)
- sick unto death - OneLook - Google "sick unto death" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - form of sickness unto death
- Shipageddon - Refers to the negative impacts of dramatically increased eCommerce penetration resulting in overtaxed logistics networks and slow or limited package delivery; originally coined by Scot Wingo
- silver stain - "In the early fourteenth century, the invention of silver stain transformed stained glass colors and techniques. This yellow pigment with a silver compound base was applied to the exterior surface of the glass and fixed there. During the firing, it penetrated the glass and altered the color: if the glass was white, it became yellow; if it was already blue or red, it became green or orange." - Michel Pastoureau, tr. Jody Gladding, Yellow: The History of a Color (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 147)
- since Skippy was a pup; common slang from mid20th c., primarily African American?
- slice - adjective sense used to describe mathematical knots[99]
- snap out of it - OneLook - Google "snap out of it" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- sonoral - (pertaining to sound?) "I draw on an array of contemporary written, visual, and sonoral sources, as well as the very rich work in history and other scholarly disciplines." - Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, p. 4)
- spheroidization — metallurgical term?
- spirituelle - (noun) "By her teen years, [Ada Clare] considered herself a 'spirituelle,' a term often used (before the advent of Bohemian) to describe a woman who had led a free and easy life in pursuit of art." - Justin Martin, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2014, p. 65)
- straight pipe: An exhaust setup on a vehicle where all mufflers (silencers) and emission control devices have been removed.
- stick-slip - OneLook - Google "stick-slip" (Books • Groups • Scholar), alt. stick slip — surjection ⟨??⟩ 19:39, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- Sununu - OneLook - Google "Sununu" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a surname
- social gathering - OneLook - Google "social gathering" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- social function - OneLook - Google "social function" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- spolvero* needs English; relates to historical Italian art, some kind of pouncing with soot?
- schediaphilia - OneLook - Google "schediaphilia" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Being attracted to animated characters (toonophilia).
- self-projecting - OneLook - Google "self-projecting" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
S 2021Edit
- sailray - type of skate; the species Rajella lintea
- salad shaker: what is it, what are you shaking and why? Presumably not a McDonald's trademark, although they sell them...?
- sarpat or sarpat grass: an Indian grass, possibly munja (not sure)
- schnorr - Borrowed from German schnorren. To scrounge, sponge, cadge 2021 March 7, Martin Pengelly, “'Talk to me': Molly Jong-Fast on podcasting in the new abnormal”, in The Guardian[100]:
- I’m very good at schnorring people into doing things for me. I’m very able to just endlessly schnorr people.
- spectacled warbler - a species of warbler (Curruca conspicillata)
- sit-down meal
- sociolx - OneLook - Google "sociolx" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - abbreviation for sociolinguistics
- surf torture
- sour on - to lose interest or start having a bad opinion about something
- stiltwalking - OneLook - Google "stiltwalking" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- stilt-walking - OneLook - Google "stilt-walking" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- syncretion
- sputnik — the 2020/2021 Russian covid vaccine
- skycrane - OneLook - Google "skycrane" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or "sky crane") - a flying crane; see, for example, Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane and much coverage of NASA's Perseverance rover. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:14, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- scientology (see Talk:Scientology)
- snitch-tag -- to tag the subject of a social media post in a comment below.
- sniz - female genitalia, see https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sniz
- STEMlord - OneLook - Google "STEMlord" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- stroddle - OneLook - Google "stroddle" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - obsolete word #* 1603, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois in Chapman: they make him Stroddle enough, stroot, and look bigg, and gape
- saharize - (to make like desert dwellers?) "There is a feeling, by this criterion, that too close contact with a culture born of the desert tended (to use Emerson's apt image) to saharize the Persian spirit, which discovered its full expanse of powers only through the medium of its native speech." A.J. Arberry, "Persian Literature," in A.J. Arberry, ed., The Legacy of Persia (Oxford, 1953, p. 207).
- shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations – https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100502580
- shability - OneLook - Google "shability" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a Chinglish noun derived from 傻屄 describing describing one's crassness
- successor science(s): (as far as I can tell) proposed disciplines that would blend traditional science with subjectivity/emotion/etc., proposed by some feminists
TEdit
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T 2017 and beforeEdit
- tale of two hearts
- tector
- Terramara, Terremare (not sure if these deserve entries or not) - -sche (discuss) 20:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
- tick check - OneLook - Google "tick check" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Might be SOP
- torque teno virus - OneLook - Google "torque teno virus" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
T 2018Edit
- tainopis - OneLook - Google "tainopis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - is this English? It is always italicized.
- talk too much and say too little
- transmed - OneLook - Google "transmed" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - short for transmedicalist
- take a boo
- take a poke at
- take a round out of
- take a strip off
- take it and run
- take its course
- take one's place
- take oath
- take on a new light
- take part in
- take the blame
- take the chill off
- take the pulse
- take the stage
- take up cudgels
- take someone for all they've got
- takeoff on
- talk away
- talk the leg off the lamb of God
- talk one's head off
- that'll be the frosty Friday
- there's not much to choose between them
- think straight
- through the wringer
- throw for a bone (throw someone for a bone)
- tie into
- time's a-wasting
- tip a few
- to be perfectly honest
- to heart
- to hell and gone
- to top it off
- too far gone
- tough on me
- tough time of it
- tough times
- tube head
- tube him
- turf it
- turn the other way
- = look the other way? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:21, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- twice-borrowed -Is it strict synonym of reborrowing? Found at Category:Greek twice-borrowed terms. Is it a term for Hellenogenous words (classical compounds, etc) that come back to Greek? sarri.greek (talk) 05:32, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
- two sides to every story
- two-fisted attack
- twittomacy - Conducting diplomacy on Twitter
- This one never really took off. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:21, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- teach an old dog new tricks
- transreason, transration – translation of wikipedia:Zaum
- tippy-tappy
- triolectics, triolectical – a concept in the work of Asger Jorn
- I couldn't find enough independent uses to add these. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:21, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
The 2018Edit
In some cases adding "the" definitely changes the meaning (like "underground" meaning below-ground generally vs. "the underground" meaning the subway). In some cases it does not, and the core word or phrase is all that's needed. It's unclear to me in which cases usage notes should be added to the core word or phrase vs. creating a separate entry, and in which cases redirects should be created. These were all previously at Appendix:English idioms; I weeded out the ones that were obviously not needed. -- Beland (talk) 08:24, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
- Consider Both London and Moscow have undergrounds. I can't name a city with more than 5 million in population that shouldn't have an underground. Different determiners (including the "zero" determiner), different referents, same semantics for the noun. The performs its normal function of specifying the most salient (eg, local) instance of the noun it determines. In London "the underground" refers to all or part of their system. There may be some instances where the makes some other semantic change, but I am sure those instances are rare. DCDuring (talk) 23:22, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- Examples are the finger and the man. Such cases are rare indeed. --Lambiam 15:30, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
- In addition, do you suggest that we have separate entries for attributive use of the nouns whenever such use is attested, even though the noun's semantics are the same? DCDuring (talk) 23:43, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
- I'm not from the UK, so I'm not confident in my ability to judge correct usage. Those examples sound plausible, so then underground probably covers it. It currently lists "underground" in the sense of the stuff below the surface of the Earth as an adjective, so that would explain why using "the" restricts the meaning to "subway" or "secret organization". For "secret organization" there's just a note that "the" is usually used with the noun, and that seems sufficient to me. I'll drop it from this todo list. As for the other listings, I think we need to think through them on a case-by-case basis to see how firmly attatched to "the" they are, and whether this justifies a separate listing, usage note, or neither. -- Beland (talk) 18:23, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
- the best-laid plans of mice and men go oft astray
- Exists as the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Is this a common variant? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:06, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
- the bigger they are the harder they fall
- the day of the family farm
- the end-all, be-all / end-all, be-all
- the fat hit the fire / fat hit the fire / fat hits the fire
- the fickle finger of fate / fickle finger of fate
- The Great One
- The Great White Hope / Great White Hope
- The Group of Seven / Group of Seven / G7
- the handwriting is on the wall
- the hard way / hard way
- the heat is on
- the how and why - OneLook - Google "the how and why" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - in [101]; also the how and the why - OneLook - Google "the how and the why" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- the inside story
- the joke is on you
- the knock against / knock against (a point against?)
- the lights are on but nobody's home / lights are on but noone's home
- odd one / odd one out
- odds-on favorite
- the one that got away
- picture of health: should be a sense at picture if not already covered
- pit of one's stomach
- the rest is gravy or rest is gravy
- the sky isn't blue
- the sky will fall on your head (something unfortunate will happen, see Chicken Little)
- the tide turns
- This is a sum of tide (“tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current”) and turn. The existence of turn the tide does argue for including it anyway. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:25, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
- the way you hold your mouth
- whole works(?)
- the wolf is at the door (poverty is near)
- the wolf knocking (reference to Three Little Pigs?)
T 2019Edit
- tag group [102]
- technos (not a plural of techno, but Greek-derived): often discussed alongside the telos
- I can't find enough uses. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:14, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- tourista - slang term for traveller's diarrhea in Latin countries.
- translocal in a non-mathematical sense, e.g. Kate Eichhorn, "Sites Unseen: Ethnographic Research in a Textual Community", Qualitative Studies in Education 14.4 (2001), p. 568: "In the following account of ethnographic research carried out in the context of a textual community, I demonstrate how 'translocal phenomena,' which I understand to include diasporic communities and communities that emerge in relation to the mass media and electronic communications, do not entirely evade classical methods of participant observation as some ethnographers have assumed."
- tropism in the second sense given by Merriam-Webster. "Women's liberation, when it is extolled by men, can in no way be extolled by men, can in no way be explained by a pro-women tropism, but more conclusively by the complex of indigeneity, shared by colonial power and seeking to hoist itself up to the level of the so-called norms of the colonized." Houria Bouteldja, Whites, Jews and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love (Semiotext(e), 2017), p. 82.
- threadly - OneLook - Google "threadly" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Occurring once every thread (modeled on daily, monthly), as in "threadly reminder that ...".__Gamren (talk) 18:22, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
- tropical month (synonym periodic month, no definition yet); see Wikipedia; it's ~27.3 days but needs an astronomical explanation; compare tropical year
- tourist police - might not be as POS as you might first assume. wikipedia only offers a disambig page
- tourist spot
- Tournaisian - OneLook - Google "Tournaisian" (Books • Groups • Scholar): geologic stage
T 2020Edit
- tabernacle - (an additional meaning: a niche containing a religious figure on the outside of a building?) "[The palace] is also known as the Casa dell' Angelo because of a fine Gothic relief of an angel in a tabernacle on its façade." Alastair Grieve, Whistler's Venice (New Haven: Yale University, 2000, p. 97).
- tacticool - mocking variation on the craze for "tactical" things
- Taghanic - applied to events during the Givetian stage of the Devonian period, possibly a mass extinction
- -tariat - suffix apparently derived from proletariat; possibly used enough to be considered productive (chattertariat, twittertariat)
- taungya - OneLook - Google "taungya" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a form of forestry originating in Burma
- tekina - OneLook - Google "tekina" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a teacher of the Taino people
- throw out one's back - very common phrase, surprised we don't have it, not sure what exactly it means.
- Tolstoy - Internet slang meaning to go on at great length like a Russian novelist, or a noun addressing a person who does, or a description of an overly-long message; needs citations
- toreutes from Greek τορευτής, Latin tŏreuta, ae, m., = τορευτής, one who makes embossed work, a chaser, graver, Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 54. https://logeion.uchicago.edu/toreuta. Findable in the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, 1876 Edition: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Imperial_Dictionary_of_Universal_Biography_Volume_1.pdf/102 and https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Imperial_Dictionary_of_Universal_Biography_Volume_1.pdf/223. Klarm768 (talk) 12:10, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
- I'm hesitant to say this has become an English word as opposed to a transliteration of a Greek word. It's mostly in dictionaries. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:38, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- Torquay pottery - OneLook - Google "Torquay pottery" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see w:Torquay pottery. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:41, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Torquay ware - OneLook - Google "Torquay ware" (Books • Groups • Scholar) synonym for the above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:42, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Seems to be sum-of-parts, it's just pottery from Torquay.__Gamren (talk) 23:26, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- No, it's a specific type; see w:Torquay pottery (as noted), and sources cited there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:29, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
- Seems to be sum-of-parts, it's just pottery from Torquay.__Gamren (talk) 23:26, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Torquay ware - OneLook - Google "Torquay ware" (Books • Groups • Scholar) synonym for the above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:42, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Trump virus: synonym for COVID-19, and reaction to Chinese virus; Let’s Call It Trumpvirus (NYT, but also in others)
- It doesn't seem to be catching on in citable sources. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:33, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- take-all - plant disease, see take-all
- threadmill - OneLook - Google "threadmill" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - an eggcorn of treadmill. At first glance it looks like it could just be a misspelling, but it's disproportionately common in the term euphemism threadmill - OneLook - Google "euphemism threadmill" (Books • Groups • Scholar). Apparently it's been around since least a decade.
- Are such obvious errors worth having? I think not. Note we have the correct euphemism treadmill. Equinox ◑ 23:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
- Well that would require a change to a policy that's stood for how long? Over a decade at least. We specifically include common misspellings and we certainly have other entries for eggcorns as this is not just a misspelling. And unless I'm missing something mistake entries don't require a higher number of durably archived examples than regular words do, which has long been just three. I for one am totally open to changing any of those policies, or clarifying them if the current ones don't draw a line for terms like this. Please feel free to begin a discussion on the appropriate page. — hippietrail (talk) 06:08, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
- Are such obvious errors worth having? I think not. Note we have the correct euphemism treadmill. Equinox ◑ 23:52, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
- tripundra - see tripundra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- I'm not sure this is an English word yet. Often in italics, and sometimes rendered Tripuṇḍra with dots. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:12, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
- thilled (source) - see thill. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:56, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- Also thill-horse (source). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:56, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- I can find it in an old dictionary[103] but I can't find enough uses outside a dictionary to add it. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:22, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- topmore - OneLook - Google "topmore" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (source). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:21, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- I don't see any other uses of topmore. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:17, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- tachuri - OneLook - Google "tachuri" (Books • Groups • Scholar) a cute bird —This unsigned comment was added by Daleusher (talk • contribs) at 18:42, 30 August 2020 (UTC). - Tachuris is a genus with one species (Tachuris rubrigastra, the "many-colored rush tyrant"), but then we have bearded tachuri (Polystictus pectoralis) and grey-backed tachuri (Polystictus superciliaris)... hmm. Equinox ◑ 23:53, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
- There is another taxonomic name associated with "tachuri": Hemitriccus nidipendulus. Note the Portuguese name. Also A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names Jobling (1991) has:
- transconduct - OneLook - Google "transconduct" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (Stefano Harney, "Hapticality in the Undercommons," in The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics, 2015, p. 176: "This is our work today. We take inventories of ourselves for components not the whole. We produce lean efforts to transconduct. We look to overcome constraints.")
- Ticonderoga: additional sense? Site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
- trust the process - OneLook - Google "trust the process" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- tableturner - ?? (noun) "Akhnaton was the sworn enemy of the tableturners of his day, and the tricks of priestcraft, the stage effects of religiosity, were anathema to his pure mind." Arthur Weigall, The Life and Times of Akhnaton: Pharaoh of Egypt (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923, p. 175).
- tunrak - OneLook - Google "tunrak" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or Tunrak - OneLook - Google "Tunrak" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - No Wikipedia article, seems to be an alleged type of Eskimo (possibly Inuit) spirit. I say alleged because it's not mentioned in very many books. Could it possibly be an alternative form or corruption of something else? PseudoSkull (talk) 18:07, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
- this ain't it - OneLook - Google "this ain't it" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Often followed by chief. Checkmark-speak, said when something is offensive.__Gamren (talk) 21:17, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- talent community - OneLook - Google "talent community" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- talent community —Suzukaze-c (talk) 04:00, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
T 2021Edit
- treat nickels like manhole covers - idiom
- tea boat: can't work it out; some kind of big saucer used in Chinese tea-brewing to catch overspill??
- touiza - OneLook - Google "touiza" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or tweeza - OneLook - Google "tweeza" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or tiwizi - OneLook - Google "tiwizi" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — Wikipedia Tweeza — the practice of providing work parties for community projects, in Sufi Algeria.— Pingkudimmi 02:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- tendony - [Short story, 'Across the street' by Bernard MacLaverty, Irish Times, 1985, - "She was in her bare feet and Mr Keogh noticed that they were big and tendony."]
- thrive off something: seems SoP to me Equinox ◑ 12:53, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
- tagliabue
- theatre of the absurd - a style of theatre, see Wikipedia
- thermosalient
- taphomorph – (paleobiology, fossils) "morphological variants [of a taxon] attributable to preservation" – My source:[1]. I assume it comes from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “grave”) + -morph, like taphonomy.
- thecogen - technical term in insect cytology. Something to do with the developmental biology of bristles (setae). Coordinate term of tormogen and trichogen.
- transpolitical - OneLook - Google "transpolitical" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- tricolette - OneLook - Google "tricolette" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - see here for example PseudoSkull (talk) 00:24, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
UEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
U 2018Edit
- under one's care / under someone's care
- ungatz (check the movie Lucky)
- This is dialectical Italian slang.[104][105] Uses I found[106][107] are in italics as a foreign word, also as un gatz. I added it to the Italian requests page. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:50, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- Comment on Italian requests page: "This strikes me as a possible Italian American derivation from Southern Italian dialect, similar to Neapolitan nu cazzo and 'u cazzo respectively." So it's in between languages. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:40, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
- This is dialectical Italian slang.[104][105] Uses I found[106][107] are in italics as a foreign word, also as un gatz. I added it to the Italian requests page. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:50, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- untouchables (Scotland): A term often used in Scotland for a mobile squad of uniformed Police, term originates from the 1960s US TV series.
- up for sale
- up the wahoozey (a large amount, much more than is needed)
- up with
- usercode, probably close to synonymous with username
U 2019Edit
- untimed exclusive - video games released exclusively for one or more platforms; see timed exclusive
U 2020Edit
- -uceus, -ucea, -uceum
- up or up at - John McWhorter says in AAVE if you are up at somebody's house it's a place you go often. (What Language Is pp. 128-130)
- underlevered - Donald Trump used this word seemingly to mean underleveraged in the October 15, 2020 townhall.
- He's not the only one[108] but at first glance it's too rare to include. It may have a life in oral finance that doesn't reach the written world. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:23, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
U 2021Edit
- Upsalite - OneLook - Google "Upsalite" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- Urak Lawoi' - a language of Thailand for which we already have at least a good few words defined, so it'd be nice if someone could create an entry for it.
VEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
V 2019 and beforeEdit
- Voccis - OneLook - Google "Voccis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) -- Game played on a tennis court (game plays like a mashup of volleyball and tennis)
- Can't find any uses independent of an organization promoting it. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:16, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- vowelist: someone holding some kind of belief (?) about the vowel points in Scripture
- Vamei, a Pacific tropical cyclone, see also Tropical Storm Vamei.
- The storm is probably not worth a definition, but it could come in as a given name if it is one. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:25, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
V 2020Edit
- venology - OneLook - Google "venology" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- visible minority ethnic - OneLook - Google "visible minority ethnic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or Visible minority ethnicity). Different from the Canadian government's "visible minority". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:44, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
- Feels like a sum of visible minority ethnic. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:45, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- vaguepost - OneLook - Google "vaguepost" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - (internet slang) - perhaps like vaguebook, vagueblog?
- va fangool - OneLook - Google "va fangool" (Books • Groups • Scholar) -- supposedly a Neapolitan swear-word, used in America by Italian immigrants.__Gamren (talk) 00:21, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
V 2021Edit
- vetocracy, a dysfunctional system of governance also described on wikipedia, see too this Scott Alexander post RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 19:08, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
- vinylcyclopropane, as in vinylcyclopropane rearrangement; @SemperBlotto
WEdit
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W 2018 and beforeEdit
- w/mm - OneLook - Google "w/mm" (Books • Groups • Scholar) I found this on a bag of hot cocoa mix. PseudoSkull (talk) 22:52, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
- Was it a durably-archived bag? --106 for now (talk) 12:08, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
- whoop-whoop (US): Used across the American South & New York City in reference to a patrol car's siren.
- woolly-back (UK); derogatory, used by plain-clothes officers in reference to the Uniformed branch. Got woolly back, check sense.
- The hyphenated form does not seem to be adequately attested (needs 3 durable uses, not mentions). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:44, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
- weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning - OneLook - Google "weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (Psalm 30:5b NIV).
- 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)
- walk down
- Example? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:27, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- walk up
- Same as walk-up? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:27, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- water-cooler talk
- watershed mark
- wave the green flag to enthusiastically promote Ireland and its culture. Jingoistic nationalism.
- I think we'd be better off defining wave the flag generally. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:06, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- well taken
- what in the name of heaven (= in heaven's name)
- where angels fear to tread
- white knight syndrome - OneLook - Google "white knight syndrome" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- white knuckles - we have white-knuckle
- White Terror: see White Terror: lots of historical senses (why are they all "white"?)
- whore blossom
- Not much used outside of Urban Dictionary. Got any good citations? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:25, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- without a full deck
- Variation on play with a full deck? We probably can't list them all. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- without a word of a lie
- wonder of wonders
- word is good
- 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.
- worldly wise
- worthy poor
- written in blood
- wipe that smile off your face / wipe that smile off one's face
- Wob – abbreviation of Wobbly ("In any case, old Wobs like Frank Little would remind us, there's more to the festival of the oppressed than art sessions and anarchist club meetings." Jeff Ferrell, Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy, Palgrave, 2001, p. 201.)
W 2019Edit
- Winterspeck - OneLook - Google "Winterspeck" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - German loanword, informally translates as "winter bacon"
- write-what-where - OneLook - Google "write-what-where" (Books • Groups • Scholar) -
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- wolf-pad - ??? (a carved foot on furniture?) "The sculptural ornamentation, in the grotesque figures and wolf-pads on the sarcophagus, shows the new influence of the Low Countries, that was by now making rapid encroachments upon English Renaissance design." James Lees-Milne, Tudor Renaissance (London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1951, p. 36).
- I think it's just a carved foot, wolf + pad, but I'm not certain of that. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:56, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
W 2020Edit
- wagstart - OneLook - Google "wagstart" (Books • Groups • Scholar), a bird; old name for a wagtail (c/f redstart. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Do you have any examples outside of passages like "the wagtail, formerly known as the wagstart"? The word start used to be highly variable in spelling (stert, steort, and more). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:38, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- See "The Oxford Book of British Bird Names", Page 161: [109]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:54, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
- Do you have any examples outside of passages like "the wagtail, formerly known as the wagstart"? The word start used to be highly variable in spelling (stert, steort, and more). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:38, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- washstart - OneLook - Google "washstart" (Books • Groups • Scholar), a bird; old name for a wagtail (c/f redstart. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:16, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- water block (see water block): a water-cooling component in a computer system? the WP article is awful.
- white is right. Expression used to describe the concept of white supremacy, usually to parody it but not necessarily
- This doesn't seem more than sum of parts. Sample quotation: For people of color, the racial identity development process is influenced by the internalization of societal attitudes that suggest “white is right” and “black is wrong.” Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:32, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- wishcast/wishcasting: wish + forecast(ing). A brilliant little word. I don't have time right now to see if it is in broad enough use to deserve an entry, but here's the example I found
- 2020: "What Did They Think Would Happen?" by Sarah Longwell, The Bulwark
- We have an incurious narcissist of a president who was warned over and over by his advisors about an imminent pandemic. He ignored them. Then he engaged in “one day it will just disappear” wishcasting instead of spearheading a coordinated federal response.
- wokelette - Citations:wokelette; needs a couple more
- writ of account: following definition is from a old dictionary. Chambers or Webster??? (Law): a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account -Cowell
- work it: sth one would say to a stripper, etc.: sort of "do your thing!", approving
- Is this a sense of the verb work we should add instead? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:41, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- I didn't find any uses. They may have been hidden by many uses of the noun. Got any examples? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:38, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
- A search like this might be helpful. Thmazing (talk) 17:14, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weber's law - OneLook - Google "Weber's law" (Books • Groups • Scholar), Weber-Fechner law - OneLook - Google "Weber-Fechner law" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - psychological terms PseudoSkull (talk) 07:23, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
W 2021Edit
- wellerman - OneLook - Google "wellerman" (Books • Groups • Scholar), wellermen - OneLook - Google "wellermen" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- whamola - OneLook - Google "whamola" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- white-telephone - OneLook - Google "white-telephone" (Books • Groups • Scholar) "Astaire and Rogers were fortunate: they embodied the swing-music, white-telephone, streamlined era before the Second World War, when frivolousness wasn't decadent, and when adolescents dreamed that 'going out' was dressing up and becoming part of a beautiful world of top hats and silver lamé." (New Yorker, 1972)
- Window of Opportunity - A period of time when certain actions must be performed, or else the desired outcome will not be realized. For instance: "The stormy weather reduced the window of opportunity to complete the project before opening day."
- wokery - OneLook - Google "wokery" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
- wireperson - OneLook - Google "wireperson" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (saw it in some movie credits)
XEdit
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X 2021Edit
- XLR: a type of microphone (apparently short for "X connector, locking connector, rubber boot")
YEdit
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Y 2018 and beforeEdit
- yush - OneLook - Google "yush" (Books • Groups • Scholar) yes
- see also yesh —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 05:52, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
- Good any good examples? I find some people talking about yush but nothing to convince me it's common enough to add. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:13, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
Y 2020Edit
- ybet: obsolete past form of "beat": https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-dark-art-of-playing-world-class-scrabble
- The dictionary I checked says ybete is a form of beat and ybet is a form of beet. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 11:18, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- yo sentence-final emphatic particle in AAVE, discussed in various places by John McWhorter[110]
yuzarlik(presumably borrowed from Turkmen), a type of grass [111]- Not being used as an English word yet, only as a transcription of a Turkic word üzerlik or yuzarlık. See tea room discussion. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:25, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
- ...or üzärlik. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 21:33, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
ZEdit
Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Þ U V W X Y Z
Z 2021Edit
- Zaklohpakap: a Mayan language (obsolete name?), possibly what is now called Mamaindê
- zhuangbility - OneLook - Google "zhuangbility" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a Chinglish slang derived from 裝屄 describing describing one's pretentiousness
Specialized jargon or slangEdit
MilitaryEdit
There are dictionaries of military slang which can confirm these, but at least one genuine use should be identified before a term is created.
- airships, Their (n.) - RAF speak — officers of Air Commodore rank and above. Float serenely at high altitude, buffeted by assorted winds and oblivious to the implications of, and confusion caused by, the edicts following their astral deliberations. Presumably in imitation of their worships. If citable the lemma would be at airship. 2 cites so far. DCDuring (talk) 02:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
- Anvil or anvil — RAF speak — the sound-proofed, darkened box that Scopies sit in, staring at a screen that looks like it’s playing a Sinclair ZX81 game, apparently to warn of any incoming Bogies.
- Arse End Charlies — RAF speak — or arse end Charlie - rear gunners (also known as Tail End Charlies).
- bennied- RAF speak - used during tour of Falkland Islands. To have to remain in FI after date due to leave, usually due to replacement unavailability. (Cf. Benny sense of Falkland Islander.)
- bind- RAF speak - not a nice job
- binder- RAF speak - someone complaining
- binding- RAF speak - complaining
- black-outs- RAF speak - knickers worn by the WAAF, navy-blue winter-weights
- body snatcher - RAF speak - stretcher bearer
- boomerang- RAF speak - aircraft returned early due to snag (RAF Bomber Command)
- Chiefie or chieftie - RAF speak - Flight Sergeant in charge of a unit
- Looks like a general diminutive form of chief. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:55, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
- deck -RAF speak - the ground
- Desert Lily or desert lily - RAF speak - urinal made from a tin can
- finger, or remove one's finger - RAF speak - to hurry up or pay attention
- flaming Onions (caps??) - RAF speak - anti-aircraft tracer
- flannel - RAF speak - to avoid the truth
- fine adjustment tool - RAF speak - A hammer that is used by Techies.
- gardening - RAF speak- sowing mines in water from a low height
- garnish; the military sense, related to camouflaging, see e.g. commons:Page:"Garnish Nets Correctly" - NARA - 514018.tif
- ground wallah - RAF speak- an officer who did not fly
- groupie - RAF speak - Group Captain
- hang up or hang-up or hangup - RAF speak - Bomb failed to release.
- KRS - RAF speak - King's Regulations, the rules and regulations governing the Royal Air Force
- LMF - RAF speak - lack of moral fibre
- nickel - RAF speak - propaganda leaflets
- packet, to catch a packet - RAF speak - to be on the receiving end of offensive fire
- penguin - RAF speak - ground officers with no operational experience
- shuftie kite - RAF speak - reconnaissance aircraft
- Snowdrops or snowdrops - RAF police
- spoof - RAF speak a diversionary raid or operation
- twilights - RAF speak - WAAF underwear, light coloured, summer-weight
- vegetable - RAF speak acoustic or magnetic mines
TextilesEdit
These were originally added under the appropriate letters, but require similar specialized knowledge or research.
- bull denim - a 3x1 twill weave piece dyed fabric, made from coarse yarns. Weights can vary from 9 ozs/sq yard up to the standard 14 ozs/sq yard. Bull Denim is essentially a denim without indigo
- cap/slvWB - cap sleeve
- CC - Comments Client
- Chino cotton- a twill (left hand) weave. Combined two-ply warp and filling. Has a sheen that remains. Fabric was purchased in China (thus the name) by the U.S. Army for uniforms. Originally used for army cloth in England many years before and dyed olive-drab. Fabric is mercerized and sanforized. Washs and wears extremely well with a minimum of care.
- Looks like the same thing as chino
- Classic CO- Dutch: ontwerp van een doorlopend dessin
- Co - Cotton
- COJ - carry over jeans
- DD - Delivery Date
- DTM - Dye To Match
- Ea - Elasthane
- embro - Embroidery
- fancy stitch - Stitch without function, just for detailing
- felled seam- stitching seam by turning under or by folding together the seams of fabric. Purpose is to avoid rough edges
- Fnd - Front Neck Drop
- French terry - a variety of terry (or toweling) fabric, which is identified by its uncut looped pile. French terry cloth only has the highly absorbent looped pile on one side of the fabric; the other side is flat and smooth. It can be woven from different kinds of threads and can be stretch or non-stretch.
- fully fashioned - knitted to fit the shape of the body
- garment dyed or GD - in textiles, the dyeing of the final product
- HBT or herringbone - Herringbone Tape
- HDT - Heavy Duty Tape
- HSP - Highest shoulder point
- L - Ligne [note: size of button]
- l/s - long sleeve
- loop tag - a bartack which is 'loose' in the middle
- m/b - must be [note: this is not a polite way of communicating]
- 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
- PfA - Process for Approval
- P.I. or P:I: - Proforma Invoice
- proto - sample before SMS to see the effect and reaction to fabrics artworks and treatments
- R.E. or RE - Raw Essentials
- scar - cut in panel stitched back together again
- 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.
- SMS- salesmen sample
- s/off or strike off- a full sized cropped section taken from the overall image/artwork. It’s produced on the same material with the same finishing as the final product. It provides you with an exact sample of the final product
- s/s - short sleeve
- SS - Side Seam
- SW- Sweat
- TC - textile color
- Tnp top neck point -
- TP - textile paper
- whiskers- abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Moustache)
- Y/D: in textiles - yarn dyed, the dyeing of the yarn before weaving or knitting
References and notesEdit
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