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Non-letter 2019[edit]

A[edit]

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A 2017[edit]

• air rod - OneLook - Google "air rod" (Books • Groups • Scholar) flying rod (see below)
• Afro-rock, afro-rock
• African reference alphabet - OneLook - Google "African reference alphabet" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

A 2018[edit]

• ajudicate - OneLook - Google "ajudicate" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Ajudicate

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

• air was blue
• along those lines
• as the man says
• as-synthesized
• Abbey-Jack, someone from Neath
• all teed up
• AC Plonk — RAF speak — Aircraftman second class (AC2), the lowest rank in the RAF.
• air commode or air toilet (n.) Air Commodore - RAF speak - Lowest ranking of Their Airships, also Air Commode.
• 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.
• Ancora Imparo Still I am learning. Michelangelo at age 87.
• 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.
• Árpádian - adjective: of or pertaining to Árpád; noun: someone from the Árpád dynasty.
• Arse End Charlies — RAF speak — or arse end Charlie - rear gunners (also known as Tail End Charlies).
• Amenica (Gheg) from America (Tosk) {rhotacism} : true victorious, faith / truth win, truthful / faithful victory, security {אמן‎ / ܐܡܢ‎ / أمن‎ / ἀμήν (amḗn) + נכח‎ / ܢܟܚ‎ / نكح‎ / νίκη (níkē)}.

Ʃkyp‑tar (talk) 94.109.249.185 (talk) 22:55, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Is this an English word, or an Albanian one? Cnilep (talk) 08:17, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

A 2019[edit]

• Anisian - OneLook - Google "Anisian" (Books • Groups • Scholar): geologic stage
• along party lines - OneLook - Google "along party lines" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• no ragrets - OneLook - Google "no ragrets" (Books • Groups • Scholar) humorous (ie. deliberate) misspelling of "no regrets", usually in the context of tattoos
• assigned gender at birth, assigned gender, AGAB, birth-assigned gender

  Re Special:Diff/58263593: I'm having trouble finding enough citations for AGAB (see Citations:AGAB), and for the others, I'm not sure whether they're SOP or not. - -sche (discuss) 23:23, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

A 2020[edit]

• agunah A Jewish woman who can not remarry because her husband has not given her a get, according to Wikipedia from Hebrew עגונה.

B[edit]

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B 2017 and before[edit]

• 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)

  Contrary to the remark in the WP article, I think this may have originated as a trademark: it is nearly always found with both words capitalised. Equinox ◑ 14:32, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

• Bionade Bourgeoisie - OneLook - Google "Bionade Bourgeoisie" (Books • Groups • Scholar): found here; German hipsters more or less, named for a softdrink that supports organic farms.
• blue veils - OneLook - Google "blue veils" (Books • Groups • Scholar): some kind of old medical treatment, possibly used on the nose?
• boy off - OneLook - Google "boy off" (Books • Groups • Scholar), UK slang I think | Never heard of it; do you mean bog off?! Equinox ◑ 19:55, 4 November 2014 (UTC) - urban dictionary has it as a euphemism for bullshit, but hard to find any citations. Kiwima (talk) 19:58, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contemporary Slang claims that the expression comes from the adjective boyed, which in turn comes from the verb to boy [2]. (We have the verb but not the adjective.) Dbfirs 22:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

I feel like I've heard this before. Maybe a common misconstruction/misspelling/slang alternative of bog off? Philmonte101 (talk) 13:35, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

B 2018[edit]

• 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."
• 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
• bet on
• better to have loved/better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
• bevy of beauties

Common enough phrase, perhaps in allusion to this 1781 book of sonnets. But the phrase doesn't seem very idiomatic. See bevy (a group) and beauty (one who is beautiful). SoP, ne c'est pas? Cnilep (talk) 03:35, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

• beyond me/beyond
  • 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)
• big hairy deal/big, fat, hairy deal/big fucking deal/BFD
• bitten by the same bug
• boot it
• bottle drive
• bottle man
• bottom rung
• break into song
• 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.
• Berry or berry (US): Originating from blueberry, referring to the blue uniform most officers wear.

Green's Dictionary of Slang gives "police car" for berry, but suggests it comes from the red lights rather than the blue uniforms. I added that sense. Cnilep (talk) 05:19, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

• 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.
• Brocher -someone from Fraserburgh
• beat your time/beat one's time
• Bull Denim - in textiles - 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
• bang out- RAF speak - term used to describe the action taken by a jockey when his jet goes tits up and he has to eject.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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 2019[edit]

• bach - Welsh term of affection. Attestable in English too --Vealhurl (talk) 10:57, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
• 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.
• buster in a sense relating to an age or generation – Sheila Liming, "Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Print Dissent," pp. 138–9 (citing Stephen Duncombe, Notes from Underground [1997]): "This, however, is much more the result of the relationship between zines and specific, newly commodifiable cultural communities—be they punks, the Riot Grrrls of the early 1990s, or merely the generation of 'busters, x-ers, twentysomethings, etc.,' as they are variously labeled by Duncombe (131)—than the result of the media form itself."
  • Liming quotes Duncombe, who quotes Laura Zinn's "Move Over, Boomers: The Busters are Here", a 1992 article about Generation X. I'm not yet convinced, though, that this chain of references is sufficiently independent for WT:ATTEST. Cnilep (talk) 06:00, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
• 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.
• blowpipery - OneLook - Google "blowpipery" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - pertaining to a blowpipe. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:33, 27 August 2019 (UTC) -- This seems to appear in only one book (and is a noun, not an adj). Equinox ◑ 18:16, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
• Barkis is willin' - OneLook - Google "Barkis is willin'" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or ...willing); see [3] and [4]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:13, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

B 2020[edit]

• blabateur - OneLook - Google "blabateur" (Books • Groups • Scholar); see [5]. Most likely a portmanteau of "blabbermouth and "saboteur". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

C[edit]

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C 2017 and before[edit]

• 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)
• crown lease - OneLook - Google "crown lease" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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)
• city-beat - OneLook - Google "city-beat" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – "Like Dreiser, who also spent time as a city-beat journalist, Barnes anticipates the nostalgic strain in New York writing: it's always already over, she seems to say." (Bryan Waterman, "Epilogue: Nostalgia and Counter-nostalgia" in The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell and Bryan Waterman, Cambridge UP, 2010, p. 235.)

SOP - this is just an attributive form for city beat, which is a beat that covers the city. Kiwima (talk) 03:43, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

• city lights - OneLook - Google "city lights" (Books • Groups • Scholar) -- a common term for the aggregate of artificial lights seen at night. Twinsday (talk) 16:50, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
• clovergender - OneLook - Google "clovergender" (Books • Groups • Scholar) -- coined by Martin Shkreli to troll the LBGTQ community and challenge the granting of rights to transgender individuals by making an analogy for pedophilia. - at best a hotword, but one I suspect will not last a year Kiwima (talk) 02:38, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

It seems your prediction has come true -- no results past Feb 2017. I'd say no article. GeneralPericles (talk) 01:17, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/are-people-identifying-as-clovergender/ says updated 30 January 2018 though, and https://www.ajc.com/news/national/the-most-outrageous-things-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-has-ever-said-done/68JI85EScKwjwwJvXYsEYL/ came out September 2017 and http://instinctmagazine.com/post/martin-shkreli-sentenced-prison was March 2018. Perhaps we should reconsider if clovergendered is worth of a page. http://faktograf.hr/2017/11/22/istina-o-istanbulskoj-vigilare/ shows it's even made it into non-English news coverage. ScratchMarshall (talk) 01:59, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

• composition shingle - OneLook - Google "composition shingle" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

C 2018[edit]

• Canteen Cowboy - RAF speak - ladies' man
• cawnie - OneLook - Google "cawnie" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - obsolete unit of land area used in India.
• Chiefie or chieftie - RAF speak - Flight Sergeant in charge of a unit
• Clay Head, someone from Stoke-on-Trent
• cocamidopropyl - OneLook - Google "cocamidopropyl" (Books • Groups • Scholar), see also Cocamidopropyl betaine, Cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine. PseudoSkull (talk) 22:36, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
• cutter and paster - OneLook - Google "cutter and paster" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• Cobbler, person from Northants
• call tabs
• can help it
• card-carrying member We have card-carrying.
• catch a ride
• catch the wave
• catch you back
• caught looking
• charge it
• chicken in every pot
• choose sides
• choose up sides
• clean up one's plate
• click in
• clouds on the horizon
• clued in
• coming out of our ears
• coming out of your yin yang
• cong - OneLook - Google "cong" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - per Wikipedia, a form of ancient Chinese artifact, possibly ceramic or jade. Would appreciat a plural being included as well.
• 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
• cream you
• cross over Jordan
• cross over to the other side SOP: cross over to the other side.
• 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.

That's just a diminutive of cozzer. The entry would go at cozzie under an different etymology. Dbfirs 08:37, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

• Cardi, someone from Cardiganshire
• Coagie, someone from Dundee
• cap/slvWB - in textiles - cap sleeve
• CC - in textiles - Comments Client
• Chino cotton- in textiles - 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.
• Classic CO- in textiles - Dutch: ontwerp van een doorlopend dessin
• Co - in textiles - Cotton
• COJ - in textiles - carry over jeans
• coat protein
• cut-and-come-again
• cystine knot (See cystine knot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
• CTP - (Australia) Compulsory Third Party insurance
• China doll - OneLook - Google "China doll" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or china doll: Missing a sense it looks like. Quote from Allen Gregory episode 1 ("Pilot") - "Also, I wouldn't lose my mind if you decided to chew a stick of gum. Thanks for understanding the sitch, Gina, you're a china doll." Allen Gregory is here speaking to his teacher, Gina Winthrop, and she is not an Asian woman. I believe this would normally be a term of affection for any woman, but here Allen Gregory is using it sarcastically or ironically. (Also, cleanup note, one of these needs to be an altform of the other) PseudoSkull (talk) 23:53, 6 August 2018 (UTC) | Seems like a humorous extension of the usual "you're a doll", i.e. sweetheart. Equinox ◑ 13:48, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
• canso - OneLook - Google "canso" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see wikipedia:canso (song)

C 2019[edit]

• co-list - OneLook - Google "co-list" (Books • Groups • Scholar): "plans to co-list stocks on the Australian Stock Exchange"
• compzine - OneLook - Google "compzine" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – a compilation zine. "Compzines (compilations) are edited by an individual who includes other people's submissions and/or found text, art, and graphics." – Sandra Jeppesen, "DIY Zines and Direct-Action Activism", Alternative Media in Canada, edited by Kirsten Kozolanka, Patricia Mazepa and David Skinner, UBC Press, 2012, p. 266. -- But hard to find any other source meeting CFI; and the one you gave falls between use and mention. Equinox ◑ 19:10, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
• 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.
• cartographorium - OneLook - Google "cartographorium" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - map displaying room? map museum? --Octahedron80 (talk) 07:10, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
• cyberpastoral - OneLook - Google "cyberpastoral" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• cusa-grass - OneLook - Google "cusa-grass" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or cusa grass - OneLook - Google "cusa grass" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – seems to come up a fair bit in works by nineteenth-century British writers in India, but apparently no definitions online and no sense of what plant is being referred to

  cusa grass is apparently Desmostachya bipinnata (syn. Poa cynosuroides Retz.) See ইকৰা. DCDuring (talk) 21:08, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

• ct - UK spelling of [[kt] according to Wikpiedia
• Calcolithic - OneLook - Google "Calcolithic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - alternate name for the Copper Age (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcolithic), Neolithic has its own entry (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Neolithic)
• Cleckhuddersfax - OneLook - Google "Cleckhuddersfax" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - humorous name for an area of West Yorkshire
• Carnian - OneLook - Google "Carnian" (Books • Groups • Scholar): geologic stage

D[edit]

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D 2017 and before[edit]

• 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)
• domfem - OneLook - Google "domfem" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (related to femdom?)
• 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)
• Domicology - OneLook - Google "Domicology" (Books • Groups • Scholar) [dom-uh-kol-uh-jee] is the study of the economic, social, and environmental characteristics relating to the life cycle of the built environment. Comes from the Latin origin "domicile" and "ology." Currently used in academic setting, as a course available in the Urban and Regional Planning Program in the School of Planning, Design, and Construction at Michigan State University.

Every instance I've found so far was either (co)authored by Rex LaMore (a professor at Michigan State) or written about him. Cnilep (talk) 23:46, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

D 2018[edit]

• darning wool (Collins Dictionary has an entry for darning wool)
• Dürer grid - OneLook - Google "Dürer grid" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• data engineer - OneLook - Google "data engineer" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• dub down - OneLook - Google "dub down" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
  • w:Wall_of_Sound#Mono
• 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)
• do your own thing / do one's own thing
• dragged through a hedge backwards
• dragged through a knothole
• DD - in textiles - Delivery Date
• DTM - in textiles - Dye To Match
• 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 days of summer SOP: dog days of summer.
• dog me
• doggy doo
• don't get mad; get even
• don't get me wrong
• don't hand me that
• don't know the half of it
• don't know whether you're coming or going
• don't know which end is up
• don't make no nevermind
• done good
• done it all
  • done with it
• down home
• draw a sober breath
• draw attention to
• draw first blood
• draw their fire
• drive around
• drive standard
• drop a bundle
• drop charges
• drop it
• drop out of sight
• drop over
• duke's mixture
• deck -RAF speak - the ground
• Desert Lily or desert lily - RAF speak - urinal made from a tin can
• 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 [6], [7]
• DPCI, code used by Target; used as in "what's the DPCI? having trouble finding it." by Target shoppers [8] —This comment was unsigned. Short for department class and item: if only used at one chain of stores, is it dictionary-worthy? Equinox ◑ 15:45, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Maybe not; I guess we can't be expected to be a comprehensive list of initialisms &c. I wonder if there's any precedent for corporation-specific lemmas? Azertus (talk) 10:53, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

• 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 2019[edit]

• 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?
• dodine*: chemical compound; see Wikidata [9]
• Dyscravia - OneLook - Google "Dyscravia" (Books • Groups • Scholar) is a voicing substitution dysgraphia, i.e. a type of writing disorder in which the affected person confuses letters denoting sounds that differ in their voicing attribute (e.g. writing "dap" instead of "tap" or "tash" instead of "dash"). ref: [10] and [11] Compfreak7 (talk) 09:23, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
• dorsometacarpal - OneLook - Google "dorsometacarpal" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

E[edit]

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E 2017 and before[edit]

• eccentric target - OneLook - Google "eccentric target" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Looks SOP to me. Kiwima (talk) 01:05, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
• existential security - OneLook - Google "existential security" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• editor's note nodeservENTRY?(noalnonativz'lno..213.49.133.149 11:43, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
• eigenorganism - OneLook - Google "eigenorganism" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• eigenposition - OneLook - Google "eigenposition" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

E 2018[edit]

• ears pinned back
• easy time of it
• eat high off the hog --> high on the hog or live high on the hog We have high on the hog and high off the hog.
• 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)
• 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)
• Ea - in textiles - Elasthane
• Embro - in textiles - Embroidery
• Emmetism
• étale* and/or étale cohomology: see étale cohomology

E 2019[edit]

• echimyine: a member of genus Echimys (spiny tree-rats), or of the tribe Echimyini, etc.? what exactly?
• eracism: to support anti-racism?

F[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

F 2017 and before[edit]

• 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.
• fair share - OneLook - Google "fair share" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - SOP? Kiwima (talk) 20:28, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
• 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

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

• front loading: see front-load (makes more sense with hyphen)
• fug and fuzz - OneLook - Google "fug and fuzz" (Books • Groups • Scholar) [12]81.11.219.175 21:25, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
• 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"?
• flying rod - OneLook - Google "flying rod" (Books • Groups • Scholar) cryptid that is actually a flying insect
• fuck shaft - OneLook - Google "fuck shaft" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - SOP? Kiwima (talk) 00:01, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

F 2018[edit]

• 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)
• fall into a trap
• false move
• faster than a speeding bullet
• fate is sealed SOP
  • I don't see any existing meaning of sealed that would fit this phrase as sum-of-parts. To me it means "not able to be changed" as opposed to "closed with a seal" or "preventing entrance". -- Beland (talk) 22:52, 31 October 2018 (UTC) --- It's the verb seal with the meaning "guarantee". Kiwima (talk) 01:23, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
• faze out (transitive, i.e. faze somebody out)
• feeling bum SOP
  • If this means "feeling unhappy", then "unhappy" should probably be added to the adjective definitions of bum. -- Beland (talk) 21:14, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
• fickle finger of fate
• fifth business
• fill the gap
• fine-feathered friend
• firm hand
• firm market
• first crack at
• Florida green
• fool you
• for openers
• freeze on
• freeze wages
• from hand to mouth

Compare hand-to-mouth, hand to mouth

• frosty Friday
• fudge it SOP
  • fudge says this is a replacement for fuck, but we do have a separate entry for fuck it, implying "fudge it" should also have an entry. -- Beland (talk) 23:04, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
• full plate
• forget one's manners
• fancy stitch - in textiles - Stitch without function, just for detailing
• felled seam- in textiles - stitching seam by turning under or by folding together the seams of fabric. Purpose is to avoid rough edges
• Fnd - in textiles - Front Neck Drop
• French terry - in textiles - 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 or fully fashioned - in textiles - knitted to fit the shape of the body
• finger, or remove one's finger - RAF speak - to hurry up or pay attention
• fizzer - RAF speak - disciplinary charge
• 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.
• fax democracy - SOP or not? Azertus (talk) 00:17, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
• fitbit Borovi4ok (talk) 15:28, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

F 2019[edit]

• femalism - OneLook - Google "femalism" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see w:African feminism#Femalism
• ftx - OneLook - Google "ftx" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (adjective and noun for an AFAB non-binary trans person – cf. FtM. "I asked the interviewees to self-identify their gender instead of crossing m/f/x boxes and their diverse descriptions include butch, cisfemale, ftx, genderqueer, and transwoman." Nina Nijsten, "Write It Yourself?" p. 416.)
• 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)
• figurational – see w:figurational sociology
• 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).

G[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

G 2017 and before[edit]

• gendervague - OneLook - Google "gendervague" (Books • Groups • Scholar) coined by Lydia X. Z. Brown for an inseparability of gender identity and neurodiversity, but I can find no one else using the term. Kiwima (talk) 06:42, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
• general word - OneLook - Google "general word" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• genus inquirendum - OneLook - Google "genus inquirendum" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• get down on - OneLook - Google "get down on" (Books • Groups • Scholar) [13]

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". [14]
• 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) - [15] - 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 2018[edit]

• gas lantern - OneLook - Google "gas lantern" (Books • Groups • Scholar): portable, for camping use.
• gay death - OneLook - Google "gay death" (Books • Groups • Scholar): The loss of desirability(?) that supposedly happens to gay men when they turn 30.
• 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 lift
• get a shot at
• get a shot
• get good wood on
• get home
• get in deeper
• get in my face
• get in on it
• get in on the ground floor
• get mad
• 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 rolling
• get serious
• get something out of
• get the lay of the land
• get the wrinkles out
• get to it
• get up a head of steam
• get with it
• get your buns over here
• 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 an arm and a leg give an arm and a leg.
• give an inch = give them an inch and they'll take a mile ?
• 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 like stink (cf. like crazy?)
• go on about = go on about.
• go pound salt (= pound dirt, pound sand?)
• go tell your mother she wants you
• go to bat for — See go to bat. Cnilep (talk) 05:16, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
• go to hell in a handbasket
• 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
• grim reaper
• grinding halt
• groaty to the max
• ground me
• Group of Five
• Group of Seven
• grow a tail
• garment dyed or GD - in textiles, the dyeing of the final product
• gardening - RAF speak- sowing mines in water from a low height
• goolie chit - RAF speak - a scrap of cloth issued when flying over hostile territory offering a reward to the natives to return you to the nearest Allied unit unharmed
• ground wallah - RAF speak- an officer who did not fly
• groupie - RAF speak - Group Captain
• 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.

  I imagine this is a comparative of the adjective grouty, but I find no uses in Google Books. Sometimes the words in Scrabble are somewhat hypothetical. Equinox ◑ 01:21, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

  Possibly in these books? [16] Korg (talk) 14:17, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

• 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
• give you the axe -> give someone the axe
• 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
• garnish; the military sense, related to camouflaging, see e.g. commons:Page:"Garnish Nets Correctly" - NARA - 514018.tif
• get in there
• gama. : a tall coarse American grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) valuable for forage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gama

G 2019[edit]

• genrefication - OneLook - Google "genrefication" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - just a typo for gentrification?
• geotrauma - OneLook - Google "geotrauma" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• geozone: cf. biozone?
• global heating term now preferred by some sources over "global warming" and "climate change".[17][18][19] On en.wp it is currently a redirect to global warming.
• gowpin ([20]) - 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)

H[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

H 2017 and before[edit]

• Hæm - OneLook - Google "Hæm" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

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)
• harpaxophilia - OneLook - Google "harpaxophilia" (Books • Groups • Scholar) robbery fetish - looks like a dictionary-only word Kiwima (talk) 20:57, 12 May 2017 (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 2018[edit]

• 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'
• hellsite - OneLook - Google "hellsite" (Books • Groups • Scholar)- hellish website a la hellhole
• Haddie, - person from Aberdeen
• hardsub
• HBT or herringbone - in textiles - Herringbone Tape
• HDT - in textiles - Heavy Duty Tape
• Htg - hangtag
• HSP - in textiles - Highest shoulder point
• hang up or hang-up or hangup - RAF speak - Bomb failed to release.
• had a belt
• had enough
• had the bird
• half the battle
• hands are tied
• happy motoring
• hard at it
• hard stuff
• hate preacher - OneLook - Google "hate preacher" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• haul up on the carpet
• have it in one
• have one on me
• have the final say
• have to go some
• have a bird
• have a case of
• have a fix
• have a hitch in your getalong
• have a looksee
• have a smash
• heat is on
• heaven help us
• heavy day
• heavy duty
• heavy foot
• hell bent for election
• hemming and hahing - have hemming and hawing
• high sign
• 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?
• hit my funny bone / hit one's funny bone
• hitch in your getalong
• hokey Dinah
• hold everything
• hold out for
• hold one's mouth right
• hold one's mouth the right way
• holy pile
• honey bread: may be Danish and Norwegian; see honningbrød.
• hook up with
• hot number
• hot on the trail
• how are you fixed for
• how are you making out
• how does that grab you
• 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)
• hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid
• hyperconvergence, hyperconvergent, hyperconverged

H 2019[edit]

• hard seltzer - OneLook - Google "hard seltzer" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – alcoholic seltzer - see wikipedia:Hard seltzer)
• Holophone - OneLook - Google "Holophone" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• hyperadrenergic orthostatic hypotension - OneLook - Google "hyperadrenergic orthostatic hypotension" (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"
• hit a lick - OneLook - Google "hit a lick" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – To make money in a fast, illegal way, usually a robbery. I've heard this term in several hip hop songs, e.g. "Roc Boys" by Jay-Z and "A Tale of 2 Citiez" by J. Cole.

H 2020[edit]

• honor walk - OneLook - Google "honor walk" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - ritual in a hospital

I[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

I 2017 and before[edit]

• 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
• intestine war - OneLook - Google "intestine war" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - apparent synonym of civil war, as said in its entry. Is also a redirect on Wikipedia to "civil war". However, it may have a slightly different meaning, as this source from Books says "But if there were war to-day between two Australian colonies, that would not be intestine war in the sense in which the American civil war was intestine war." suggesting that intestine war may be more intense?

As I read "The present and future of the Australasian colonies" (1883) from which that quote comes, the author is arguing that Australasian colonies are separate from one another, notwithstanding their relationship with Britain. In other words, since Australia and, say, New Zealand are not intestine (“within a given country”), a war between them would not be civil war. Cnilep (talk) 00:54, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

• iodopropynyl - OneLook - Google "iodopropynyl" (Books • Groups • Scholar), see iodopropynyl butylcarbamate. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:57, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

I 2018[edit]

• 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 big way
• in a cold sweat
• 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 a snit
• in any way, shape or form
• in deep waters
• in full flight
• in his blood
• in hock
• in leaf
• in mind
• in the gutter
• in the hoosegow
• in the jug
• in the long haul
• in the Monford lane
• in the pipe five by five
• in the poorhouse
• in the road
• in the throes
• in tough
• in one's prime
• information leak
• inside story
• into hock
• into the sauce
• into the tank
• it ain't over till it's over
• it appears to me
• in my care / in someone's care
• in that vein
• invite someone over
• is you is, or is you ain't my baby
• it don't make no nevermind
• it goes with the territory
• it's a go
• it's a jungle out there
• it's a snap
• it's a toss-up
• it's a whole nother world out there ('nother with apostrophe?)
• it's a whole other world out there
• it's not a state secret

I 2019[edit]

• 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."
• idiopathic hypovolemia - OneLook - Google "idiopathic hypovolemia" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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)
• 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)

J[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

J 2019[edit]

• Jack Massey Welsh, a famous YouTuber.
• 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).

J 2018 and before[edit]

• Jack, someone from Swansea
• 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)
• jimminy crickets
• Joe Who
• jump in the lake
• jump in with both feet
• 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

K[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

K 2017 and before[edit]

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

K 2018[edit]

• Kirriemairian someone from Kirriemuir
• KRS - RAF speak - King's Regulations, the rules and regulations governing the Royal Air Force
• keep a lid on it
• keep someone honest
• kick the weed
• kill for
• kill oneself laughing
• kill the wabbit
• kiss the blarney stone
• knock 'em dead
• knock flat
• knock them down, drag them out
• knock you down a peg
• kratophany
• kratophanous

K 2019[edit]

• 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
• kill them with kindness - OneLook - Google "kill them with kindness" (Books • Groups • Scholar): an idiomatic phrase, as it does not mean killing people

  We have kill with kindness. DCDuring (talk) 17:45, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

  Make a redirect, then, as the entry you mention does not show up when searching for "kill them with kindness" (which is by far the more common usage). 173.88.246.138 11:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

  Ugh. Better idea: add a usex or citation containing the word "them", so it shows up in that search. Equinox ◑ 16:28, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

  Both good ideas. I've added both a redirect and a quotation that incldues the phrase with "them". - -sche (discuss) 23:16, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

• 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

L[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

L 2017 and before[edit]

• Ling - OneLook - Google "Ling" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or LING - OneLook - Google "LING" (Books • Groups • Scholar), the Norwegian resistance movement of WW2.
• LSTM - OneLook - Google "LSTM" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - long short-term memory. A term from current AI/deep learning.

L 2018[edit]

• Lingnan - OneLook - Google "Lingnan" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• lagom - OneLook - Google "lagom" (Books • Groups • Scholar) English borrowing from the Swedish, in a similar sense. — Paul G (talk) 18:25, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
• 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).
• Langtonian - someone from Kirkcaldy :
• Lobbygobbler, Leyther, someone from Leigh :
• L - in textiles - Ligne [note: size of button]
• l/s - in textiles - long sleeve
• loop tag - in textiles - a bartack which is 'loose' in the middle
• LMF - RAF speak - lack of moral fibre
• last chance for romance
• laundered money
• lay a trip
• lay the lumber
• lean times
• 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 a mother hawk
• 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
• Lutwidge. A surname that is also Lewis Carrol's real middle name.
• 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])
• lipidosome 'a fatty inclusion body of cytoplasm,' according to Merriam-Webster.

L 2019[edit]

• 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.
• lazar-room - OneLook - Google "lazar-room" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (e.g. Henry Ward Beecher, Seven Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects [1844], p. 157: "We are in a lazar-room; its air oppresses every sense; its sights confound our thoughts; its sounds pierce our ear; its stench repels us: it is full of diseases."}
• 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
• load module - OneLook - Google "load module" (Books • Groups • Scholar) [21]
• 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 2020[edit]

• lycosoid - OneLook - Google "lycosoid" (Books • Groups • Scholar), I think it means wolf spider; it might be a Latin term. I'm not really sure what it means; nothing found here: https://onelook.com/?w=lycosoid&ls=a. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22lycosoid%22 weakly implies that it means wolf spider; https://www.jstor.org/stable/23610234 strongly implies that it means wolf spider, and it seems to also imply that lycosid=lycosoid. Maybe <Lycosidae→lycosid=lycosoid> like how <Solifugae→solifugid=solpugid>.

M[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

M 2017 and before[edit]

• Madinat - OneLook - Google "Madinat" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or madinat^?). Used in tourist prospects as a class name ("Madinat Khalifa"); related pages: Medina and المدينة المنورة.
• mafting - OneLook - Google "mafting" (Books • Groups • Scholar) and its cousin mafted - OneLook - Google "mafted" (Books • Groups • Scholar). Yorkshire term for a temperature capable of making you feel hot, or just feeling very hot ("It's mafting in here", "I am mafted".) 84.92.90.18 15:18, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
• 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
• Manedjet - OneLook - Google "Manedjet" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - One of the two Egyptian solar barks, the Day-bark, the other being Meseket, the Night-bark
• many-splendored - OneLook - Google "many-splendored" (Books • Groups • Scholar) / many-splendored thing - OneLook - Google "many-splendored thing" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - common cliché ---> Tooironic 11:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
• marginal return - OneLook - Google "marginal return" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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)
• memory institution - OneLook - Google "memory institution" (Books • Groups • Scholar) a term of art for certain academic/library facilities.
• meningitis W - OneLook - Google "meningitis W" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• mental anguish<a.LEGAL(dunfelcomfy adinitmyslfthosumhow..
• 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
• Mexicanada - OneLook - Google "Mexicanada" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• MHS - OneLook - Google "MHS" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - an abbreviation of many high schools as well as many other...things. See MHS on Wikipedia for a nearly complete list of the non-school ones, and there are many schools, especially high schools, with this abbreviation. So much work. Philmonte101 (talk) 04:09, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
• michio - OneLook - Google "michio" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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....

M 2018[edit]

• Mac, someone from Scotland
• Manhattoes - OneLook - Google "Manhattoes" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
  • Special:WhatLinksHere/Manhattoes
• 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
• 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)
• manfant - OneLook - Google "manfant" (Books • Groups • Scholar) A man who behaves in an infantile manner. Blend of "man" and "infant" — Paul G (talk) 18:30, 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)
• minibus bill: in US politics; apparently a pun on omnibus adjective
• music-making - OneLook - Google "music-making" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• mumble rap - OneLook - Google "mumble rap" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• mind-buggering - OneLook - Google "mind-buggering" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
  • google:"mind-buggering+noise"
• m/b - in textiles - must be [note: this is not a polite way of communicating]
• moustache - in textiles - abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Whiskers)
• make a pass
• make a point of
• make every effort
• make mention
• make of it
• make bum hum
• make someone's hair stand on end
• make someone's head spin
• make someone's mouth water
• makes no difference
• mark a watershed
• match wits
• mean well
• 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
• more power to you
• more than welcome
• move one's ass
• 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)
• man in the middle / man-in-the-middle
• Man in the Moon / man in the moon
• mark for general proficiency - OneLook - Google "mark for general proficiency" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - I am told this is the English translation of Danish standpunktskarakter, i.e. a mark determined by teacher assessment of ordinary work, as opposed to given after an exam.__Gamren (talk) 21:41, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
• magico-Marxism

M 2019[edit]

• 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.
• 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])
• mitral valve prolapse dysautonomia - OneLook - Google "mitral valve prolapse dysautonomia" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• mujahida - OneLook - Google "mujahida" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or Mujahida - OneLook - Google "Mujahida" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – feminine form of mujahid. "It is said that Djamila Bouhired, the great Mujahida, who was adulted by all her people, no longer has the means to care for herself." – Houria Bouteldja, Whites, Jews and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love (Semiotext(e), 2017), p. 101. "They consider themselves each a mujahida, the female version of a mujahid..." – Asra Q. Nomani, "The Taliban's Ladies Auxiliary" (2001)
• mtx - OneLook - Google "mtx" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (adjective and noun for an AMAB non-binary trans person – cf. MtF)
• matrix clause - OneLook - Google "matrix clause" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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.
• marchansize - OneLook - Google "marchansize" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - found here [22]
• 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).
• megastructuralist - OneLook - Google "megastructuralist" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – a designer or advocate of megastructures? "Le Corbusier's boldness inites comparison with the work of such visionary megastructuralists as Paolo Soleri" (Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout [eds.], The City Reader, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2000, p. 336)
• model minority - OneLook - Google "model minority" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• multum in parvo - OneLook - Google "multum in parvo" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
  • w:model minority
• metamedial - OneLook - Google "metamedial" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• manuela - "The gramophone had to be wound manually with a large crank--popularly known as a manuela--that allowed the machine to function for about ten minutes, just long enough to play the two sides of one disk." Eli Maor, Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. xii-xiii).

N[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

N 2017 and before[edit]

• -nosis - OneLook - Google "-nosis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (= -osis?)
• no chill - OneLook - Google "no chill" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• nope rope - OneLook - Google "nope rope" (Books • Groups • Scholar): hiking slang for a snake
• 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 2018[edit]

• one's name is mud
• Napoleonfish - OneLook - Google "Napoleonfish" (Books • Groups • Scholar)- humphead wrasse
• natural high
• needle threader - OneLook - Google "needle threader" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• negative political commercial - OneLook - Google "negative political commercial" (Books • Groups • Scholar). __Gamren (talk) 18:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
• new game plus - OneLook - Google "new game plus" (Books • Groups • Scholar), NG+ - OneLook - Google "NG+" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (initialism), see New Game Plus. It's a gaming thing. PseudoSkull (talk) 18:23, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
• nickel - RAF speak - propaganda leaflets
• no business
• no chancy
• no qualms
• no question
• no rush
• noeud vital, nœud vital medical term for "vital node", [23]
• novelty act - OneLook - Google "novelty act" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

N 2019[edit]

• 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
• neurocirculatory asthenia - OneLook - Google "neurocirculatory asthenia" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• no cap – some kinda youth phrase
• neumorphism - OneLook - Google "neumorphism" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - graphic design hipsters have made a new word (very recently??? maybe a hot word)

O[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

O 2014-2017[edit]

• omegaverse - OneLook - Google "omegaverse" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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
  • Oil-blotting sheet and blotting sheet seem a bit SOP. Smuconlaw (talk) 10:14, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
  • And aburatorigami looks like a brand name. Kiwima (talk) 21:32, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
• oxopropanoic - OneLook - Google "oxopropanoic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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
• oversae - OneLook - Google "oversae" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

O 2018[edit]

• 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
• 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)
• Old Stone Age - OneLook - Google "Old Stone Age" (Books • Groups • Scholar) PseudoSkull (talk) 03:54, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
• open end spinning - in textiles - a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. This system is much less labour intensive and faster than ring spinning
• on approval
• on premise
• on even terms
• on the limp
• on the stand
• one born every minute
• one man's garbage is another man's art
• Othello phenomenon - OneLook - Google "Othello phenomenon" (Books • Groups • Scholar).
• over the hump
• overdo it
• orbitoidal: something in geology: see Salt Mountain Limestone

O 2019[edit]

P[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

P 2017 and before[edit]

• parabolic reflector - OneLook - Google "parabolic reflector" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - hits on OneLook, and there is a Wikipedia article ---> Tooironic 12:14, 12 June 2011 (UTC) Is this more than sum of parts as a reflector that is parabolic (shaped like a parabola)? RJFJR 19:55, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
• 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)
• piggostat - OneLook - Google "piggostat" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - device for immobilizing a child for chest x-rays - usually capitalized - brand name??? Kiwima (talk) 23:50, 25 July 2016 (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)
• palæocene - OneLook - Google "palæocene" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• Panacæa - OneLook - Google "Panacæa" (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.)
• 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
• periposeidon - OneLook - Google "periposeidon" (Books • Groups • Scholar) periapsis around Neptune
• periuranion - OneLook - Google "periuranion" (Books • Groups • Scholar) periapsis around Uranus
• 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
• Pepperette

If nothing else, could we find a quoted source of some kind to substantiate the phrase's usage? (just to have a place to start) Ozelot911 (talk) 14:37, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I heard it in the 1960s Outer Limits TV series. Can also be found in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 15:48, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

P 2018[edit]

• P = pockets, e.g. 5P garment?
• P's and Q's
• packet, to catch a packet - RAF speak - to be on the receiving end of offensive fire
• paid good money - see Macmillan Dictionary
• pain in the patootie
• paint a picture -- figurative sense? SoP?
• paint with the same brush
• 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
• paper over the cracks We have paper over
• papol in papolstān Old English for "pebble". Entry is essential since present entry links with "priest"!
• pay the shot
• pce - in textiles - Piece
• Penelopes (US): (slang) the police; coined by the SF Bay Area rap artist E-40.
• penguin - RAF speak - ground officers with no operational experience
• PES - polyester
• PfA - in textiles - Process for Approval
• pick up the pace
• 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 havoc with
• play it for all it's worth
• play on my heart strings / play on one's heart strings
• pliplino
• plonk - RAF speak - Aircraftman second class (AC2), the lowest rank in the RAF
• 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
• polioencephalitis: listed in Oxford
• pop your buttons
• posigrade (in several dictionaries; prett much opp. of retrograde)
• posth./posth (posthumous? or a Latin synonym thereof)
• 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
• P.I. or P:I: - in textiles - Proforma Invoice
• 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)
• proto - in textiles - sample before SMS to see the effect and reaction to fabrics artworks and treatments
• protocol analyzer (Special:WhatLinksHere/protocol analyzer) - in networking / technology. I've heard this term was coined by Hewlett-Packard, see also sniffer (networking sense)
• psychogeophysics – "Practitioners are continually reworking psychogeography and renaming it to suit their requirements and to differentiate what they do from each other. These nuances are very important to psychogeographers (psychogeophysics and cryptoforestry, to provide just two examples)." (Tina Richardson, "Introduction: A Wander Through the Scene of British Urban Walking," Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography, edited by Tina Richardson [Rowman & Littlefield, 2015], p. 18)
• 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)
  • w:Pull tab
• 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
• push the right buttons
• pussyfoot around SOP
• put 'em up
• put a bug in someone's ear
• put it
• put the heat on
• pxs - prices

P 2019[edit]

• pachychoroid - OneLook - Google "pachychoroid" (Books • Groups • Scholar) "Pachychoroid is a relatively novel concept describing a phenotype characterized by attenuation of the choriocapillaris overlying dilated choroidal veins, and associated with progressive retinal pigment epithelium dysfunction and neovascularization"— doi: 10.1038/s41433-018-0158-4
• 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.
• partial dysautonomia - OneLook - Google "partial dysautonomia" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• participance
• paughty - OneLook - Google "paughty" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Scottish dialect for proud, haughty. BigDom 10:14, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
• peaky blinder - OneLook - Google "peaky blinder" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - historical type of criminal
• pennies on the dollar - OneLook - Google "pennies on the dollar" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• perisexual - OneLook - Google "perisexual" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
  • Google Books & Scholar: 1. (sth. relating to male sexuality); 2. (sth. relating to medicine?)
  • Tumblr users have also coined perisex (“non-intersex”)?
• petrofiction - OneLook - Google "petrofiction" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• prickle bush [24][25] --Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:39, 10 December 2019 (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)
• P-lab - OneLook - Google "P-lab" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (or "P lab") New Zealand slang - home laboratory for making methamphetamine - see example and search (Note - that search link includes "NZ" for a more targeted search than the auto-generated link.) --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 23:29, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

  It seems P is slang for methamphetamine (though we may need that sense still at P), so this is a sum-of-parts term. Equinox ◑ 23:35, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

• Porygon - OneLook - Google "Porygon" (Books • Groups • Scholar)-Virtual Pokemon
• 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 2020[edit]

• preburn (verb and noun): to burn in advance? (of what?); or do some process in preparation for burning?!

Q[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Q 2019[edit]

• quisling-hearted (we have a red link to it at quisling)
• quisling-minded (we have a red link to it at quisling)

Q 2018[edit]

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

R[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

R 2017 and before[edit]

• ritzy glitzy - OneLook - Google "ritzy glitzy" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - an English reduplication meaning full of Glitz.
• retardican - OneLook - Google "retardican" (Books • Groups • Scholar), retardlican - OneLook - Google "retardlican" (Books • Groups • Scholar) or Retardlican - OneLook - Google "Retardlican" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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)

• rogue-to-the-rescue - [26]
• RAAF - OneLook - Google "RAAF" (Books • Groups • Scholar): used notably in reports of the Roswell incident in 1947. "Reserve army air force" perhaps, but is it official or just used locally.--Dmol (talk) 23:19, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
• reduced isolation: some kind of US school, sth to do with racial/economic minorities, affirmative action?
• 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)
        • rouanne, rouannette are also apparently (obsolete?) French for "a mark (for casks)": the above would seem to refer to animals escaping a cattle brand so that other farmers manage to claim them instead. Equinox ◑ 15:57, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
• rapid-cycle - OneLook - Google "rapid-cycle" (Books • Groups • Scholar) ways
• real GDP - OneLook - Google "real GDP" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

SoP? See the economics sense of real + GDP; generally contrasted with nominal GDP. Seems rather more encyclopedic than usual Wiktionary fare. Cnilep (talk) 06:12, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

• rule or ruin - OneLook - Google "rule or ruin" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

R 2018[edit]

• is R-18 sum of parts?
• rock-wallaby - OneLook - Google "rock-wallaby" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• rock wallaby - OneLook - Google "rock wallaby" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (Petrogale spp.)
• R.E. or RE - in textiles - Raw Essentials
• raise one's spirits
• ram down someone's throat
• rant and rave
• rap one's knuckles
• rattle on
• rattle sabres -- see sabre-rattling
• ream out
• reinjector: sth to do with fuel/engines? cf. injector
• rented lips
• retromodern - OneLook - Google "retromodern" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• retro-modern - OneLook - Google "retro-modern" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• retromodernism - OneLook - Google "retromodernism" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• retro-modernist - OneLook - Google "retro-modernist" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• ride herd
• ride his coattails
• ride the clutch
• ring the devil's doorbell - OneLook - Google "ring the devil's doorbell" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - masturbate, as a female. One cite:
  1. • 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.”

• right before one's eyes
• risky business
• rocks in your head
• 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
• run the risk
• Red Coat, someone from England - perhaps add a link to redcoat?
• rocker panel - OneLook - Google "rocker panel" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - (US English) car body panel along the bottom of each side under the doors - also just rocker (sense missing), British and Australian English sill (sense also missing)
• rolled R - OneLook - Google "rolled R" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

R 2019[edit]

• 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
• Rainbodacious:Something extravagant beyond mortal imagination visioned in a vivid spectrum of heroism, Combining both; every hue of the rainbow, and or Bodacious or Audaciou

- Skylar H., December 16 2019, 11:53

S[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

S 2017 and before[edit]

• saïm See Lard
• sagala (Philippine English)
• savarin -- a kind of yeasted ring cake. See https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asavarin
• scriptlessness - from: Baumeister, Roy, Sara Wotman, and Arlene Stillwell. “Unrequited Love: On Heartbreak, Anger, Guilt, Scriptlessness, and Humiliation.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 64, no. 3 (1993): 377–94.
• seek down - OneLook - Google "seek down" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• sentiotic - OneLook - Google "sentiotic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - coined by Fern (see Citations:sentiotic) but I can find no other uses besides people quoting Fern.
• sentiosis - OneLook - Google "sentiosis" (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)

• same shoe - I'm told it is a fairly common idiom, basically meaning "same thing", as in: "I would not buy this book." "Same shoe." (i.e. "Me neither.")
• Stellæ

See stellae, stella. Cnilep (talk) 06:01, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

• stenopæic
• think the sun shines out of someone's ass (could be bum, backside etc, and could be "act like","treat like", "as far as he's concerned" etc)
• sutorious — adjectives from the Latin sūtōrius (“of or belonging to a shoemaker or cobbler”)

Apparently sutorian is a variant of sutorial. There is a plant genus Sutorious and possibly some bird species, but I can't find the word used as an adjective. Cnilep (talk) 08:18, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

OED gives this as a variant of sutorial with one exemplar, Thomas Blount's Glossographia. Blount defines Sutorious (sutorius) as “belonging to a Shoomaker, or Sewer”. The word appears just after Sutor (“a Shoomaker, a Sewer”), which he notes is Latin. Sutorius does not appear in Blount's (1707) Glossographia Anglicana Nova. I haven't found other examples in English. I would say that sutorious is a Latin word, not sufficiently attested in English. Cnilep (talk) 02:17, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

• seed farm - a farm for the purpose of making seeds? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 19:31, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
• sopographical - all I can find are instances of prosopographical that have been hyphenated. Kiwima (talk) 01:08, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
• stop surface. Come across in a question about apodisation; found in one dict. without explanation. Josh L. (talk)
• snoliday - the celebration held by children when school is closed resulting from a winter storm.
• sphota: see Sphota: something in Indian linguistics, but what? - It is a word itself, an abstract sort of like a platonic ideal of a word, that is understood as a whole. However, I am not convinced this is an English word. All references I find italicize it, and usually spell it sphoṭa, not sphota. Kiwima (talk) 19:04, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
• staff notation - Sum of parts?
• 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)
• security hold - OneLook - Google "security hold" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – a hold put in place by police in the U.S. preventing the release of an autopsy report (L.A. Times); on investigation, it looks like it is just SOP - any hold put on something for security reasons. Kiwima (talk) 19:51, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
• spreeze - OneLook - Google "spreeze" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - apparently the Ethiopian version of yuanyang
• supousu - OneLook - Google "supousu" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - gender neutral form of waifu and husbando
• 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.
• school corporation - OneLook - Google "school corporation" (Books • Groups • Scholar) (school district is more common, not sure what the difference is, or if this is a legal term) DTLHS (talk) 00:34, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Isn't this SOP? Kiwima (talk) 22:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

• schweff: slang for a flirt or "mack", a man who is (or tries to be) good with the ladies? Is in Partridge's slang dictionary. Equinox ◑ 06:19, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

While Partridge emphasizes flirting, attestations on the web seem like comments on masculinity and social class – a bit like a (US) douchebag or a twit. [27], [28] Cnilep (talk) 04:19, 30 January 2018 (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)

• shlomo insult [29] -- derogotory term for Jew, but cannot find cites. Kiwima (talk) 22:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
• spatial planning -- Looks SOP to me. Kiwima (talk) 22:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
• spinning backfist - OneLook - Google "spinning backfist" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a type of punch/strike

Doesn't this seem sort of SoP? (Just saying that because I also found spinning kick. Could one find the definition of this term at spinning + backfist? Philmonte101 (talk) 04:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

• 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
• shiggaion - OneLook - Google "shiggaion" (Books • Groups • Scholar): a type of psalm; Biblical word of dubious meaning

I can only find two actual usages - one in the bible and one in a novel of the life of David - all else is just commentary on or speculation about the meaning of the word. This is not sufficient to meet our attestation criteria. Kiwima (talk) 02:31, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

• shrammy - OneLook - Google "shrammy" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — I think it means cold
• SJWtard - OneLook - Google "SJWtard" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

I can't find it in recent books. It is attested on the web, mainly from 2016-2017. There are currently entries for both SJW and -tard. Since the suffix is productive, there could be any number of similar terms with sporadic attestation. Cnilep (talk) 03:57, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

• 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
• 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)
• student club - OneLook - Google "student club" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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)
• sales plan - OneLook - Google "sales plan" (Books • Groups • Scholar) — something related to sales.
• shake roof - OneLook - Google "shake roof" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• substitution class - OneLook - Google "substitution class" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

S 2018[edit]

• saccus vasculosus - OneLook - Google "saccus vasculosus" (Books • Groups • Scholar) one of numerous sources on the web
• sacred moose
• sacronym - OneLook - Google "sacronym" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a name that comes from religious text

• Hmmm... doesn't seem attested to me. That's unfortunate; looks like an interesting entry if it exists. Can @Kiwima find any citations for this? PseudoSkull (talk) 02:42, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I looked and didn't find it either. Kiwima (talk) 03:21, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

• 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)
• Sand dancer, someone from ; South Shields
• 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
• say the word
• scar - in textiles - cut in panel stitched back together again
• scare the life out of
• scared out of my wits/scared witless
• scared spitless
• score to settle/have a score to settle
• scout's honor/scout's honour
• scrape off the ceiling
• scratch your head
• seen dead in/wouldn't be seen dead in
• seize the opportunity
• 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-...
• self-suckering: of plants: unlike verb sucker, seems to mean producing suckers, not destroying them
• sell the farm
• send a bouquet
• serious coin
• serve the purpose
• set out for
• set someone's mind at ease
• set someone's teeth on edge
• 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
• shagging wagon
• shaky ground
• sharp wit
• sharpen up
• schmolitics or shmolitics - as in "politics schmolitics"
• 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 the ropes
• show one's stuff
• shuck on down to the fraidy hole
• shuffle the chairs on the deck
• shuftie kite - RAF speak - reconnaissance aircraft
• 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)
• sing up a storm
• Single Jersey or single jersey - in textiles - 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.
• 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.
• sky isn't blue
• slice up
• slice off
• slice through
• slip a notch
• slow as a dead snail
• slow day
• slug of
• slv - sleeve
• smack dab in the middle
• smell oneself
• smithwright it
• smoke like a furnace
• smooth talker
• SMS- in textiles - salesmen sample
• Smurfs (Greece/Poland): Used in Greece and Poland. Because of the blue colour of police officers is like smurfs.
• snap a picture
• snap at
• Snippers or snipper (US): An African-American term used mostly in North America.
• snow them
• Snowdrops or snowdrops - RAF police
• so small you had to back out to change your mind
• s/off or strike off- in textiles - 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
• soft market
• software piracy
• solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
• some chick
• something borrowed, something blue
• something snapped
• soppes Archaic word found in historical cook books and medieval texts meaning bread that is soaked in potage, not the same as sippets. Root word is the verb sop.
• Soupie, someone from Welshpool
• spade work
• spathella - OneLook - Google "spathella" (Books • Groups • Scholar), spathelle, spathellule - botanical terms. BigDom 14:56, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
• speak highly of
• specularize (got noun specularization but no definition): used in literary criticism.
• spell disaster
• spend holidays
• spice of life
• spin crew
• spitting mad
• split a gut
• spoof - RAF speak a diversionary raid or operation
• spoogler - the spouse of an IT worker (specifically Google? cf. Xoogler, Noogler)
• spot of tea
• square deal
• s/s - in textiles - short sleeve
• SS - in textiles - Side Seam
• stand away
• stand to lose
• start a fire under him
• start with a bang
• 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 in my craw
• 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
• stretch the envelope
• strictly business
• strictly for the birds
• 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
• suck up to
• sucker for punishment
• suffer a setback
• 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)
• sure as hell
• SW- in textiles - Sweat
• Swansea Jack, someone from Swansea
• Swedistan - OneLook - Google "Swedistan" (Books • Groups • Scholar).__Gamren (talk) 10:00, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
• 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)
• schizocartography – Tina Richardson, "Developing Schizocartography: Formulating a Theoretical Methodology for a Walking Practice," Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography, edited by Tina Richardson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), pp. 181–193.

S 2019[edit]

• steps target: It relates to footsteps rather than stairs; it seems to be a health and fitness thing.
• spring*, summer*, winter*: nouns in fashion for people with certain hair colours and skin tones ("I'm a winter, so I wear such-and-such"); I've done autumn
• subproper in mathematics?
• surface lift, platter lift, button lift, platter pull: all synonyms of ski lift, apparently?
• steerer - OneLook - Google "steerer" (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.
• stephanokont
• 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?)
• sitout in wrestling
• subtendent - OneLook - Google "subtendent" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – Sheila Liming, "Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Print Dissent," p. 140: "In spite, though, of the logic of the 'network,' the subtendent rationalization for the structure of the Internet, blogs hail the effective reverse of this model: blogs are, in the words of Stodge.org blogger Randi Mooney, chiefly 'a form of vanity publishing ... the truth is that blogs consist of senseless teenage waffle. Adopting a blogger lifestyle is the literary equivalent of attaching tinselly-sprinkles to the handlebars of your bicycle' (qtd. in Lovink ix)."
• spot-clean - OneLook - Google "spot-clean" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• semiflint: sth about crops (s~ corn, s~ maize), and sth about land (s~ clay). Has plural semiflints.
• 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: [30] [31] [32]
• speculary - OneLook - Google "speculary" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey, "On Literature as an Ideological Form", in Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader, edited by Terry Eagleton and Drew Milne, Blackwell, 1996, p. 279: "The reflection, in dialectical materialism, is a 'reflection without a mirror'; in the history of philosophy this is the only effective destruction of the empiricist ideology which calls the relation of thought to the real a speculary (and therefore reversible) reflection."
• six up and half a dozen down - OneLook - Google "six up and half a dozen down" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• substantify - OneLook - Google "substantify" (Books • Groups • Scholar), substantified - OneLook - Google "substantified" (Books • Groups • Scholar), substantification - OneLook - Google "substantification" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – see Merriam-Webster. Shoshana Felman, in Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (Routledge, 1992), p. 53, has: "In the era of the Holocaust, of Hiroshima, of Vietnam—in the age of testimony—teaching, I would venture to suggest, must in turn testify, make something happen, and not just transmit a passive knowledge, pass on information that is preconceived, substantified, believed to be known in advance, misguidedly believed, that is, to be (exclusively) a given."
• 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.
• 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)
• Sitzprobe - (from German Sitzprobe) wikipedia
• slerp (computer graphics term, already have the related lerp) wikipedia
• spiked seltzer - OneLook - Google "spiked seltzer" (Books • Groups • Scholar) – alcoholic seltzer - see wikipedia:Hard seltzer)
• 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
• 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).

T[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

T 2016 and before[edit]

• tail risk hedging[33] - we have tail risk Kiwima (talk) 03:37, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
• tale of two hearts
• target eccentricity
• tax in kind = tax + in kind
• tector
• teen horror - a subgenre of horror movie.
• Terramara, Terremare (not sure if these deserve entries or not) - -sche (discuss) 20:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
• the other way, baseball again, hard to define accurately and not sure what the entry title should be, hence not making them myself. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:34, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
• there's method in madness - OneLook - Google "there's method in madness" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• three-sy,six-y Six-y football: Cheery Cherries hammer hapless Hull-Bournemouth ruined Mike Phelan's first game in permanent charge of Hull City, running rampant to secure a 6-1 victory.SOMANYGOAL/trys,3manmidfieldetc
• time-to-market (attributive form of time to market)
• torpedo tits

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

• trade line

T 2017[edit]

• tick check - OneLook - Google "tick check" (Books • Groups • Scholar) Might be SOP
• the fact that - OneLook - Google "the fact that" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - It's used to circumvent the fact that (;)) English doesn't allow an entire sentence to be used as a subject or object on its own under some circumstances (on the other hand, "he hated that they were so mean" seems fine for some reason), for example in

1. • 2008, Prøveoplæg Til Kulturfagene, Gyldendal Uddannelse →ISBN, page 171

     I kilde 3 finder du en kritik af, at indvandrere "systematisk" forskelsbehandles, ...

     In source 3, you will find a critique of the fact that immigrants are "systematically" discriminated against, ...

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

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

• testaceum - OneLook - Google "testaceum" (Books • Groups • Scholar), testacea
  • Can't find the singular in English, except in species names or Latin quotations/allusions, but I did find testacea. Cnilep (talk) 07:42, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
• torque teno virus - OneLook - Google "torque teno virus" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• thermotropic plant - OneLook - Google "thermotropic plant" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - sum of parts - see
  (deprecated template usage) thermotropic

T 2018[edit]

• tablemount - OneLook - Google "tablemount" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• tainopis - OneLook - Google "tainopis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - is this English? It is always italicized.
• thought reform - OneLook - Google "thought reform" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• talk too much and say too little
• transmed - OneLook - Google "transmed" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - short for transmedicalist
• tucute - OneLook - Google "tucute" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - a person who believes that one can be transgender without having gender dysphoria. The opposite of truscum.
• TC - in textiles - textile color
• Tnp top neck point - in textiles -
• TP - in textiles - textile paper
• take a boo
• take a load off your feet
• take a poke at
• take a round out of
• take a strip off
• take calls
• take care of business
• take chances
• take it and run
• take its course
• take one's head off - see bite someone's head off
• take one's place
• take oath
• take off, eh ??
• take on a new light
• take pains
• take part in
• take possession
• take risks
• take solace
• take the blame
• take the chill off
• take the flack
• take the pulse
• take the stage
• take up cudgels
• take up the slack
• take someone for all they've got
• take to court
• take-out restaurant
• taken for a ride
• taken in
• takeoff on
• talk away
• talk the leg off the lamb of God
• talk one's ear off
• talk one's head off
• tangle with
• tear around
• tell me another one
• tell me straight
• test someone's metal / test one's metal
• thanatopic: relating to thanatopsis
• that'll be the frosty Friday
• there's more than meets the eye
• there's not much to choose between them
• there's one born every minute
• think straight
• through the wringer
• throw a game
• throw a kiss
• throw a monkey wrench into the works
• throw insults
• throw for a bone (throw someone for a bone)
• tide turned
• tie into
• tied to one's mother's apron strings
• time on your hands
• time stands still
• time's a-wasting
• tip a few
• to be perfectly honest
• to heart
• to hell and gone
• to top it off
• too far gone
• too much cream on the pie
• total stranger
• tough bananas
• tough on me
• tough sledding
• tough tarts
• tough time of it
• tough times
• trash the place
• trickle-down economics
• try me
• try for size
• try one's darndest
• tube head
• tube him
• turf it
• turn the other way
• turn ugly
• 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)
• twig to that
• twist someone's words or twist words
• two for one
• two sides to every story
• two-fisted attack
• tail end Charlies - RAF speak - rear gunners (also known as Arse End Charlies)
• target for tonight - RAF speak - girlfriend
• twilights - RAF speak - WAAF underwear, light coloured, summer-weight
• twittomacy - Conducting diplomacy on Twitter
• teach an old dog new tricks
• that's stretching it
• try that on for size / try on for size / try for size
• transreason, transration – translation of wikipedia:Zaum
• tippy-tappy
• triolectics, triolectical – a concept in the work of Asger Jorn

The 2018[edit]

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 air was blue
• the ball's in your court // ball is in someone's court
• the be-all, end-all
• the best-laid plans of mice and men go oft astray
• the big 0
• The Big O
• the bigger they are the harder they fall
• the bottom fell out or bottom fell out
• the brush-off ("the" is mandatory?) [No it isn't DCDuring (talk) 23:43, 11 September 2018 (UTC)] brush-off
• the bum's rush / bum rush
• the burbs
• the crunch (a difficult situation or point) / crunch
• the day of the family farm
• the dickens you say
• 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 first pancake is always spoiled
• the goat (the Greatest Of All Time) / goat
• the going gets rough
• 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 [34]; also the how and the why - OneLook - Google "the how and the why" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• the in's and out's / in's and out's
• the in-crowd / in-crowd
• the inside story / inside story
• the joke is on you
• the knock against / knock against (a point against?)
• the last of it / last of it
• the lights are on but nobody's home / lights are on but noone's home
• the living daylights / living daylight
• the lowdown / lowdown (changes the meaning?)
• the makings of / has the makings of / makings of
• the odd one / the odd one out / odd one / odd one out
• the odds-on favorite / odds-on favorite
• the one that got away / one that got away
• the picture of health / picture of health
• the pit of my stomach / pit of one's stomach
• the price you have to pay / price one has to pay
• the rest is gravy or rest is gravy
• the root of the problem / root of the problem
• the runaround / runaround (changes meaning?)
• the shit hit the fan
• the sky isn't blue
• the sky will fall on your head (something unfortunate will happen, see Chicken Little)
• the spice of life / spice of life
• the straight dope
• the strong, silent type / strong, silent type
• the tender age of / tender age of
• the tide turned / tide turns
• the tip of the iceberg / tip of the iceburg
• the way I see it
• the way you hold your mouth
• the whole works / whole works(?)
• the wolf is at the door (poverty is near)
• the wolf knocking (reference to Three Little Pigs?)

T 2019[edit]

• Tabgach - OneLook - Google "Tabgach" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• tag group [35]
• tablestone - in archaeology, a large flat horizontal stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_stones#Crucuno
• technos (not a plural of techno, but Greek-derived): often discussed alongside the telos
• teeth (the verb needs to be added)

There is no verb to teeth in modern English (though Johnson's dictionary of 1755 had it). Do you mean teethe? Dbfirs 16:51, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

• the juice - OneLook - Google "the juice" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• thimble-rigger, thimble-riggers – alternative form of thimblerigger (e.g. "Thimble-riggers, Three-Card-Monte throwers and other sure-thing tricksters worked openly in the streets." – quoted in Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830–1870 [Yale University Press, 1982], pp. 7–8, Google suggests originally from a 1907 issue of the Greensboro Daily News)
• toluache – a plant from California
• 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)
• tokden - OneLook - Google "tokden" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - Appears in Khamtrul Rinpoche and is defined in Rigpa Wiki: Tokden
• 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
• traumatogenic - OneLook - Google "traumatogenic" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• Tournaisian - OneLook - Google "Tournaisian" (Books • Groups • Scholar): geologic stage

U[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

U 2018[edit]

• ulosis scar formation
• under oath

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

• under one's care / under someone's care
• under pressure
• ungatz (check the movie Lucky)
• untouchables (Scotland): A term often used in Scotland for a mobile squad of uniformed Police, term originates from the 1960s US TV series.
• uniramose
• up for sale
• up the wahoozey (a large amount, much more than is needed)
• up with
• Upper Paleolithic - OneLook - Google "Upper Paleolithic" (Books • Groups • Scholar) PseudoSkull (talk) 03:53, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
• usercode, probably close to synonymous with username

  I think this means code that runs in userspace, as opposed to kernel space, in operating systems that have that distinction. -- Beland (talk) 17:33, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

U 2019[edit]

• untimed exclusive - video games released exclusively for one or more platforms; see timed exclusive

V[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

V 2018 and before[edit]

• vegetable - RAF speak acoustic or magnetic mines
• vernetta - OneLook - Google "vernetta" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• Voccis - OneLook - Google "Voccis" (Books • Groups • Scholar) -- Game played on a tennis court (game plays like a mashup of volleyball and tennis)
• Vogie - OneLook - Google "Vogie" (Books • Groups • Scholar) -- the name? or perhaps vogie? Kiwima (talk) 19:15, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
• vowelist: someone holding some kind of belief (?) about the vowel points in Scripture

V 2019[edit]

• vacuum bottle a type of bottle related to the vacuum flask
• Vamei, a Pacific tropical cyclone, see also Tropical Storm Vamei.
• vasoregulatory asthenia - OneLook - Google "vasoregulatory asthenia" (Books • Groups • Scholar)

W[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

W 2012-2017[edit]

• whitile - Other dictionaries list this as a synonym for yaffle but I can find now usage. Kiwima (talk) 00:58, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
• whoopeeing up "The puritanical Gandhi was convinced that men and women should never make whoopee except for the express purpose of whoopeeing up some offspring." Based on a True Story, page 380. --- SoP from Whoopee as a verb meaning to make whoopee. Kiwima (talk) 02:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC) And/or a pun on whip up. Equinox ◑ 18:51, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
• withamit
• wolman
• work sharp - Said of a pregnant woman who experiences a burst of nervous energy in the 24 / 48 hours prior to the onset of labour. May also be used of a similar phenomenon in a woman just prior to the onset of menstruation. Southern England. Colloquial.
• worthy poor
• wumbo
• wurraluh
• white knight syndrome - OneLook - Google "white knight syndrome" (Books • Groups • Scholar)
• 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).
• White Terror: see White Terror: lots of historical senses (why are they all "white"?)
• witheld: Incorrect or archaic spelling of withheld.

Just a mis-spelling (and I hope you don't mind my dated spelling of misspelling (latest OED example is from 1898)) Dbfirs 16:47, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

W 2018[edit]

• 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.
• Wessie, someone from West Riding of Yorkshire
• Wire, someone from Warrington (after the local wire industry),
• wait a sec
• wait around
• walk down
• walk up
• watch over like a mother hawk SOP
  • Not sure this is a sum-of-parts phrase. How does a mother hawk watch? Attentively like any parent? Mindlessly like a bird? In some way specific to the species? I think this phrase means "intensely and protectively" which is only one of the possibilities. -- Beland (talk) 18:00, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
• water-cooler talk
• watershed mark
• wave the green flag to enthusiastically promote Ireland and its culture. Jingoistic nationalism.
• way with words
• (nuclear) weaponsman: s.o. responsible for nuclear weapons; former job in the US Navy. Perhaps broader senses too.
• well heeled We have well-heeled with a redirect from the unhyphenated form. Should it be a separate entry as an alternative form?
• well taken
• what in the name of heaven
• when it comes to
• where angels fear to tread
• where do they get off SOP
  • I'm not sure this is actually a sum-of-parts phrase. I think this means "why do they think they are allowed to [do something]", in which case I don't see a definition of get off that fits, and certainly in this case where is not asking for a physical place. I think the canonical form, though, would be where does someone get off? -- Beland (talk) 17:53, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
• white knuckles - we have white-knuckle
• who do you think you are
• whore blossom
• with all my heart
• with wings
• without a full deck
• without a word of a lie
• wonder of wonders
• woof your cookies
• word is good
• word is out
• worldly wise
• written in blood
• wipe that smile off your face / wipe that smile off one's face
• whiskers- in textiles - abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Moustache)
• way you hold your... (?)
• who said
• 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 2019[edit]

• Winterspeck - OneLook - Google "Winterspeck" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - German loanword, informally translates as "winter bacon"
• Who'er

Do you mean whoe'er? We needed that entry. Dbfirs 07:48, 3 July 2019 (UTC) Now added. Dbfirs 07:54, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

• write-what-where - OneLook - Google "write-what-where" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - {{lb|en|computer security}}
• 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).

X[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

X 2018[edit]

• X Generation (idiom)

This still lacks its own entry, but is now an alternative forms on Generation X Mcavoybickford (talk) 16:40, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

X 2019[edit]

Y[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Y 2012-2017[edit]

• yakoots: ?? Yakoots?? Or perhaps the Indian word for rubies, sapphires, and oriental topaz?
• yoon (Scottish neologism), pejorative shortening of "unionist". Seems to have been coined around the time of the 2014 Scotland independence referendum.
• young friend - OneLook - Google "young friend" (Books • Groups • Scholar) - paedophilia jargon for child partner
• youth academyENTITYidsay..81.11.206.31 13:23, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
• yush - OneLook - Google "yush" (Books • Groups • Scholar) yes

Y 2018[edit]

• Y/D: in textiles - yarn dyed, the dyeing of the yarn before weaving or knitting
• you have to be good to be lucky
• you need money to make money
• you're only as good as your last shift

Y 2019[edit]

• y’alls: alternate form of y’all’s
• Youster: (V) to fester
• yankie: H. L. Mencken claims that it is a Scotch word meaning "a gigantic falsehood". [36]

Not in big OED. Does anyone have a dictionary of Scottish slang? Dbfirs 07:42, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

The Scottish National Dictionary includes it as a diminutive of Scots yank (tremendous lie). I would not be surprised to find it in/called English, as the line between the languages is hazy. Cnilep (talk) 04:42, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

• yas, queen [37]

Z[edit]

Section: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Z 2015[edit]

• zweibein*, fünfbein, elfbein, vierbein, etc.; see Cartan formalism (physics)

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