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Latest revision as of 22:20, 2 August 2012 See also: Missing entries (300,000) See also: the Tea Room, where you can post the definition of a word you're trying to find, and hopefully someone will help you find it. 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 [edit] Generated list from newspapers As of 2009-08-25 edit - Lists checked: 1355 - Unique missing words: 15531 Words on the Hotlist are in bold; words on Robert Ullmann's Missing list are in italics. [edit] Non-letter 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 [edit] Non-letter 2010 [edit] Non-letter 2011 - ▼ - Translingual. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:42, 27 May 2012 (UTC) Not a "word in a language". Seems to serve only as a triangle symbol. Equinox ◑ 01:41, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Non-letter 2012 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 [edit] A 2010 [edit] A 2011 - Acolite (need English sections) - no you mean acolyte? - also acolite (substance used in dentistry)
- adolescent egocentrism — related to personal fable and imaginary audience
- acceed You probably mean "accede", to agree, to assent, or to enter into an office, e,g, acceding to the governorship
- æcirn (Needs [Modern] English) = æcern OE for acorn
- ædility, ægemony, æger, ægirite, ægrotat, æneid, æolic, æolipyle, æolipile, æolist, æolistic, æonial, æquoreal, ærarian, ærugo, æschynite, æsculapian, æsulapius, æsculetin, æsthesics, æsthesodic, æsthesodic, æstheticist, æstive, æstuate, æstuation, æstuous, æsture, æthiops mineral, æthogen, æviternal, æviternity, ævum (all from SOED)
- Ælfric, Æthelbert, Æthelred (all from MQD)
- æolis, ærugite (from Appendix:Words that may be spelled with a ligature)
- affectionado
- agnogenic
- agrocenosis
- aîné (Needs English)
- alcoholic beverage - might be SoP, but there are many hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 06:57, 12 October 2011 (UTC) failed RfD 9/13/2010, All OneLook hits derive from WordNet. DCDuring TALK 20:16, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- Al-fayyūm, El-faiyûm
- American breakfast - used in hotel rates and not just in America.
- Ampère's rule
- añu (needs English)
- antibody mediated response
- antiphilosophy, antiphilosopher, antiphilosophical
- appellation contrôlée (needs English)
- Aragón (needs English)
- Århus (needs English)
- arne-morwe ("early morn")
- Artemisium: see w:Artemisium; the name of a Greek place. Josh L.[1]
- Athenæum
- autoredox
[edit] A 2012 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 [edit] B 2010 - balance of power - the parliamentary concept ---> Tooironic 12:49, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- Bakhdhi (from the Avesta Vendidad: "The fourth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the beautiful Bakhdhi with high-lifted banner.")
- break build or break-build (snooker)
- break builder or break-builder (snooker)
- bring it up short (or bring up short ?)
- broken society — Paul G 17:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
- A society which is broken, isn't it? Mglovesfun (talk) 13:20, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- No, this is a recent coinage by the UK prime minister and has a specific sense. — Paul G (talk) 10:43, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure he just meant that society is broken, various political commentators are debating what that means, but nevertheless it's a society which is broken. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:35, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
[edit] B 2011 -
- There are thousands of Google Books hits. — Ungoliant (Falai) 19:48, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
- As far as I can see, in Google Books it is found only as an error by non-native speakers (judging by the authors' "foreign"-looking names). So should be marked nonstandard with a usage note, as we've done with other "mostly non-native error" words. Equinox ◑ 15:48, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- I wonder if it comes from حَبيبيw:Habibi? The ending would be wrong for a women in Arabic, but it might have lost that distinction in the transition to Urdu. Chuck Entz 07:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- is this really an English word independent of crème? The only places I see it alone online are references to crème brûlée with some other word substituted for "crème" as a play on words.Chuck Entz 07:45, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] B 2012 - bar shot
- barfmail
- barod
- bathroom scales - probably idiomatic ---> Tooironic (talk) 23:19, 29 February 2012 (UTC) How is this possibly idiomatic? Equinox ◑ 11:30, 24 April 2012 - see Google images search for these and "scales"; they are obviously not actually scales. (UTC)
- Interesting, but if you go to the chemist's, those things you can weigh yourself on there are also scales, aren't they, but not in a bathroom. Missing sense at scales?
- I think this could well be idiomatic if bathroom scales denotes a style of scales, no matter where they are used. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:40, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
- beehacker
- beersicle
- before someone's time, such as "the Beatles were before my time". Mglovesfun (talk) 19:36, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- As this tends to be used with a possessive pronoun, I think this should probably be before one's time. — Paul G (talk) 10:50, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- behalfism
- bidtype
- bigature
- binner, numerous Scots/Irish dialectal senses missing
- biofraud
- bionomics
- bioprivacy
- biostitute
- bisoness, obsolete spelling of business... Serious bisoness!
- bitcom
- bitlegging
- black dog, common metaphor for depression
- blankity
- bluenoser, Person born or from Nova Scotia.
- We already have bluenose. Is this the same.--Dmol (talk) 09:02, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
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 [edit] C 2010 - cab off the rank - Aussie slang, often preceded by "next" or "first", not sure of its exact idiomatic meaning ---> Tooironic 09:16, 4 November 2010 (UTC) Just a metaphor IMO. "next/first one in line for something".
- cadet corps or corps of cadets --AivoK 09:40, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- Canaving
- Castrist see castriste, Mglovesfun (talk) 11:00, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
- catch wind/caught wind
- like or want (some) cheese with one's whine
- chestpad - protection for the chest.
- circle of life
- civic registration
- civic registry
- code of ethics
- concertive control: This word has been sourced from an electronic journal in 'Performance Improvement Quarterly' by Gregory C. Petty, Doo Hun Lim, Seung Won Yoon, and Johnny Fontan, who wrote the publication, titled, "The Effect of Self-Directed Work Teams on Work Ethic" [Vol. 21, No. 2, 2008]. Here's the direct quote:
- "Concertive control and assimilation are two important notions of the sociotechnical systems that conceptualize the central concepts of the self-directed work team. First, Tompkins and Cheney (1985) described concertive control as a form of organizational control that arises in accordance with the dominant ideologies in the organization. In concertive working environment, team members have discretion over such decisions as methods of work, task schedules, and assignment of members to different tasks (Cummings, 1978)." (Petty et al. 2008, p. 51)
- According to Randy Hodson, who reviewed James Barker's book "The Discipline of Teamwork: Participation and Concertive Control" for The American Journal of Sociology (Vol. 105, No. 6, pp.1770-1772), he states, and I quote, "Barker coins the term "concertive control" to describe the self-disciplining nature of teams. The term denotes workers acting in concert with each other to control their own behavior. Concertive control is the successor to previous forms of control based on direct supervision, technology, or bureaucracy. Barker argues that this new form of control is the tightest and most effective yet."
- Based on the writing by Hodson, one could assume that Barker coined this term, but Barker's book was published only in 1999, while my first quotation indicates that Tompkins and Cheney (1985) and Cummings (1978) have spoken about these terms prior. So etymology will also need to be clarified. Eug.galeotti 16:47, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
[edit] C 2011 - camp it up
- Candidatus (with a capital letter) A taxonomic category; see: A sample definition in a book in Google Books. A marker of some kind of provisional status as species. See w:Candidatus,
 Candidatus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Candidatus - canon* (missing sense): a cut or preparation of meat? I've seen "beef canon" and "canon of lamb" on menus (perhaps an alternate spelling of "cannon", as in cannon bone)
- canopy mark - something involving Roman numerals in classical Latin text.
- caritive, as in caritive case
- castle rail -- part of the frame of a car located by the sill / rocker panel, possibly British
- catchmark [discussed on lanuagehat http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004385.php]
- cauligenous, cauligerous (synonyms, I think)
- chank / chanking - hits on Google Books ---> Tooironic 06:57, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- chint
- choke chain / choker chain - the type of leash ---> Tooironic 12:50, 18 September 2011 (UTC) choker, choker collar
- civil liberties - as a synonym of civil rights ---> Tooironic 12:03, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
- churnalizing, churnalize, churnalising, churnalise, etc
- coaster brake - see w:Bicycle brake#Coaster brakes
- coadd, coaddition
- cocking* - as a synonym for fucking ---> Tooironic 11:57, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
- cock-pushup - the act of laying down on one's stomach and supporting one's weight solely with one's penis through use of the erectile muscle. Doesn't look attestable DCDuring TALK 02:27, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
- colorification
- come it/come it with, commonly don't come it with me UK, apparently
- comeouter, comeouterism in US political history
- comprize
- conceed
- concize
- consciousness raising / consciousness-raising - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic 12:22, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- cool, calm and collected - a common set phrase ---> Tooironic 01:21, 12 October 2011 (UTC) Common, but why and how would we define this? Equinox ◑ 16:14, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
- Coolin From a poem by James Stevens "The Coolin" (Supposedly from the Irish chúilfhionn, meaning "long hair")
- confination
- courve - a non-Jewish woman; a shiksa ([1]? [2])
- cranio- See Special:WhatLinksHere/cranio-
- crassamentum
- crazymaker, crazymaking in many pop-psychology books
- cyclon -- a kind of Australian aboriginal artefact similar to a churinga / tjurunga
- capiution - legal term
[edit] C 2012 - cabbage head cabbage head at OneLook Dictionary Search - plenty of hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic (talk) 05:30, 23 July 2012 (UTC) there are many derogatory Noun head terms. This is one. DCDuring TALK 02:44, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
- cardiac massage cardiac massage at OneLook Dictionary Search, surely not merely a 'massage of a cardiac nature'. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:06, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- chartered accountant chartered accountant at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Claymate - Claymate at OneLook Dictionary Search - Google "Claymate" (Books • Groups • Scholar • News Archive)- cf. Belieber
- cake plate cake plate at OneLook Dictionary Search Just the Food Lexicon
- Cablinasian Cablinasian at OneLook Dictionary Search: Tiger Woods neologism, describing his race: Caucasian, Black, Indian, and Asian
- canaving - conniving, connive
- cander => candor cander at OneLook Dictionary Search
- captify - captify at OneLook Dictionary Search - Google "captify" (Books • Groups • Scholar • News Archive)
- carnatic — or also "karnatic" as in "Carnatic Wars" in India in the 18th century. I wonder what the etymology is of it.
- cartozoology - the study of animals whose outline appears paradigmatically in the streetscape on the city map, especially with regard to the physical signs of animal presence in the corresponding terrain.[2]
- chamlight
- chartbeat
- cheapuccino
- chiclet, see chiclet keyboard and chicklet
- chikni
- Chuanqiandian
- churnover
- civionics
- clear error - clear error at OneLook Dictionary Search - Google "clear error" (Books • Groups • Scholar • News Archive) - legal term
- clickback
- clustiness
- cocain
- cohesive device - probably idiomatic ---> Tooironic (talk) 21:12, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
- coion (analytical chemistry)
- collabulary
- coloanal
- colopexy
- colotomy
- colovesicular
- cominal - archaic form of communal, ie unanimous (see Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book IV, Chap XXV: "And then they helped up their father, and so by cominal assent promised to Sir Marhaus never to be foes unto King Arthur"
- compcierge
- compunications
- Comstockian
- consenting adult - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:24, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
- cookprint
- copyfighter
- cosmophobia
- cotton ball
- could be - as a response. short for "it (what you said) could be true". Seems idiomatic in this use. | Not so sure: "Will he be there tonight?" "Might be."/"Should be." Equinox ◑ 18:59, 30 June 2012 (UTC) me neither, but it would be good in a phrase book. DCDuring TALK 19:56, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- counterpropagandize
- coventurer, co-venturer
- crapitalist, see crapitalism
- crawlies
- crittercam
- crocodiling
- crwd see "List of Pangrams", "Perfect Pangrams in English (26 letters)", "Without abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, initialisms, proper nouns or Roman numerals".
- curbsider
- curosia, English sense. "This is the thirteenth of the Curiosa marked as sent to Mr Chamberlain..."[3]
- cyberbalkanization
- cybotage
- cyburban
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 [edit] D 2010 - dapple shade
- datamart
- dead-ender
- dechrome
- deculture, deculturation, deculturize, related to deculturization
- defemination, defeminated
- dépeçage#English - dépeçage at OneLook Dictionary Search - Google "dépeçage" (Books • Groups • Scholar • News Archive) needs English as per w:Dépeçage
- deposition - verb sense Mglovesfun (talk) 23:21, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
- derealization
- diachroneity - mostly in geology. contrasts with synchroneity, which seems to lack a sense that explains the contrasting use.
- diaconiology: something related to religion?
- diandry
- diatopic: (phonetics) perhaps the pragmatic variation in pronunciation (as contrasted with diachronic variation).
- dikaryon, dikaryotic
- diriment, diriment impediment, and associated terms w:Diriment impediment. See dirempt.
- director's loan, business jargon
- disorganic - disorganised. see Citations:disorganic
- distinguo (bluelinked due to Italian; used in 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee)
- distractionary - little on OneLook, decent number of hits on Google Books ---> Tooironic 12:49, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- ditrigonal (of polyhedra)
- dog salon a salon for grooming dogs (dog groomer; grooming salon)
- domain sharding (a well-known practice to improve application performance Excerpt from ISBN-13: 978-0596522308)
- done with == done#Adjective + with
- dorsi- - prefix
- down and dirty
- dory bar - a gold bar made from melted down gold items
- double threat / double threater
- douche chill
- down by law
- downdraw (noun and verb: downdraws, downdrawing, downdrawn); and updraw
- down-fault - geology
- downthrow, downthrown - geology
- dry matter
- dry rub, dry-rub - dominos
- drying oil
- dull-headed
- dum vivimus vivamus - directly from Latin? meaning something along the lines of "while we live, let us live"
[edit] D 2011 - deacon's bench: furniture
- Debye-Hückel theory
- dechticaetiative
- defencive
- dégagé (needs English) [?I would have said that this was just a French word used in code-switching? Is there usage as an English word?] Dbfirs 07:26, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
- démodé (needs English) [as above] Dbfirs 07:26, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
- deramp vb: two senses? as in "phase deramping function" and "deramp the loads so we could truck them the rest of the way"
- despize
- développé (needs English)
- devoré (needs English)
- Diegueño (needs English)
- dipswitch
- dielectricum
- discoursal - apparently an uncommon adjective form of discourse ---> Tooironic 03:06, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- dispred, disspread—Alternate spellings of dispread
- distingué (needs English)
- distinguée (needs English)
- divertisement - not to be confused with divertissement (short entertainment between acts). Amusement, recreation, and divert/diversion are offered by some, but it should be more thoroughly explained, especially with "diversion." Is it simply a distraction or can it have a physical implication? etc.
- doodie head - enough hits on Google Books to justify an entry ---> Tooironic 08:46, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Dōm-bōc
- donnée (needs English)
- don't worry - a useful phrase for the phrasebook.
- dorsad
- dos-à-dos (needs English)
- double-spacing - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 02:57, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- drain fly
- drap, Bad, Rubbish, Not very good. English Slang, originating from the West Country, now commonly heard in London, Liverpool and parts of Athens
- drap d'été
- dreamlining: nothing much in Google Books; protologism?
- drilling rig - drilling rig at OneLook Dictionary Search, possibly as Category:English non-idiomatic translation targets --Anatoli 10:31, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
- drill rig - drill rig at OneLook Dictionary Search
- dropped off canvas, which appears to be used when a character no longer physically appears in a series (see w:Special:Search/Dropped off canvas)
- The sense in the quotations seems to be verbal rather than adjectival, so this should probably be given as drop off canvas or drop off the canvas. — Paul G (talk) 10:56, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- dull-headed
- dum - Encarta says South Asia : steamed: cooked by steaming [< Hindi dam], also a word without meaning, as in "dum da dum dum" --Porelmundo 10:49, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
- dyæsthesia
- downvalue
- dyspirational: Antonym of aspirational
[edit] D 2012 - dadding
- deconstitutionalization
- defictionalization
- dejab
- demall
- demotheatrics
- demotivational and related terms, as in the Internet memes, which as far as I know, have nothing to do with 'demotivation' in the usual sense. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:48, 21 April 2012 (UTC) I think it's the same sense; what do you think it is? Equinox ◑ 00:55, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
- demutualize
- developed country, developing country and undeveloped country - I don't think these are SoPs ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:43, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- diabology
- digifeiter
- directronic
- disattention
- disc golf - it's in English Wikipedia and here as flugdisko S a g a C i t y (talk) 17:10, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- dolorimeter
- don't even think about it
- doomsdate
- double trap - a shooting event, it is in the Olympics
- downager
- downaging
- dragfooted
- drailing
- dramaticomusical - one citation on Citations:dramaticomusical
- drinkfest
- drinking horn - had a wikipedia article and is the normal English term for the Georgian ყანწი
- drowning chain - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic (talk) 22:48, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
- duck decoy - (+ sense for decoy) see Wikipedia page Jcwf (talk) 23:52, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
- dumbsizing
- duppie
- dysrationalia
- diabolist, someone who practises diabolo. Not sure about attestability or I would add it myself. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
- dwarf wall - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:23, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- dunderfuck
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 [edit] E 2010 - eat, drink and be merry (SoP?) No. It has proverbial force, both as is and especially in eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die/eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die.
- ecotopic: adj perh related to ecotope? (or mispelling of ectopic? probably the former)
- edge-case, edge case
- eigenvariety
- electronic engineering —This comment was unsigned.
- (Isn't this more commonly electrical engineering?) —This comment was unsigned.
- No, they're not quite synonymous; see e.g. google books:"electrical and electronic engineering". (I don't know if they both warrant entries, though.) —RuakhTALK 17:24, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
- eleutherarch
- embrithopod
- empodia
- equiprimordiality (Ursprünglichkeit), from Hegel's philosophy
- ere long - before, shortly. See Citations:ere long - sum of parts? —This comment was unsigned. Hardly, given that it is mentioned and defined in ere in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913 (underneath)
- And erelong? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:09, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
- executionist (see google books:"executionist") —RuakhTALK 23:04, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
- executive officer - see also chief executive officer ---> Tooironic 07:03, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- exoterics "It was a revolution grounded in exoterics, which may account in some part from the general air of naivety and improvision which surrounds it." [4] Thryduulf (talk) 17:58, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
[edit] E 2011 - easy for someone to say, as in "easy for you to say!"
- Probably should be that's easy for someone to say as that's the form it almost always appears in. — Paul G (talk) 10:59, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- eco-unfriendly - hits on Google Books ---> Tooironic 04:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- electrofunk: all right, let's stop being coy about this and say what the hell it is. Wikipedia clearly doesn't know. Equinox ◑ 02:17, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
- empractical in linguistics
- emprize
- enarmes — a medieval weapon detail (see w:enarmes and here: "Enarmes: The straps on the back of a knight's shield.(*)"; no more sources found; I'm interested in some pronunciation)
- energic
- enfranchize [Well I would regard this as a mis-spelling, but it seems to be used occasionally. Is it common in the USA?] Dbfirs 07:46, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
- ensuant following or accompanying as a consequence thereof
- entrable
- eonothem, used to define eonotem
- ephaptic – used in Slashdot article "Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire"
- erathem, linked to in eratem
- especialisation/especialization
- especialise/especialize
- eternalise
- ethnoventionist
- euhymenium
- euphemism treadmill
- ever-loving as in "I beat the ever-loving X out of Y" (about 87 results in google books for "beat the ever-loving")
- except for; except for at OneLook Dictionary Search
- executive summary - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 05:23, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
- expository preaching - see w:Expository preaching
[edit] E 2012 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 [edit] F 2010 - fair is fair
- The idiom is fair's fair. — Paul G (talk) 11:00, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- fal-lal or fallal
- fargard (from the Avesta Vendidad)
- fargle (apparently American dialect?) Tooironic 10:36, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- fashional
- fenderberg - (n.) Any large glacial deposit that forms on the inside of a vehicle's fender during the winter snow season
- Feodorovian
- filtertip/filter tip (cigarette)
- film at eleven/film at 11/film at 11:00 — see w:Film at 11. —RuakhTALK 23:13, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- fishbelly
- fitchet
- flash-spinning (encountered in trying to determine if the commercial material Tyvek is a textile or not -- see http://www.inda.org/flash-spun.html, which has "A modified spunlaid technology in which a polymer/solvent solution is extruded under conditions that rapid solvent evaporation at the spinneret occurs. The individual filaments are disrupted into a highly fibrillar form and are collected on a moving screen to form a web."
- flavour saver / flavor saver (has multiple slang meanings) ---> Tooironic 09:06, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
- flip the script - hip hop derived phrase, means to make a reversal
- floating timeline (floating timeline). Mglovesfun (talk) 13:06, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
- folie de grandeur - delusions of grandeur, megalomania
- folk language
- footwoman
- for the best
- Fordism and Fordist (see Wikipedia for more info) Tooironic 03:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC). This is an established social sciences technical term.--达伟 11:13, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- forend (apparently a part of the stock in a firearm)
- foster-son or foster son, foster-daughter etc. mainly for the purpose of translations. Jakeybean 17:27, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- freat--85.228.20.226 19:33, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- free and clear
- free-wheeling, freewheeling, free wheeling - adj
- fruitset
- funipendulous: hanging from or like rope? worthy of execution by hanging? cf. filipendulous
- full skirt - noun: just adjective full + clothing noun skirt?
- Finali - model
[edit] F 2011 - fabulacy
- fagtard
- false-flag: "false-flag attack"
- fanstuff
- feal and divot or perhaps fuel, feal, and divot: see [5]. SOP??—msh210℠ (talk) 18:00, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- feat* - Apparently it also can mean a "dangling curl of hair"? [6] ---> Tooironic 07:09, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- feature story - see Wikipedia article ---> Tooironic 15:06, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- ferlie Scottish English "wonder". See ferly.
- fightclub - I've seen this used outside of the movie ---> Tooironic 07:35, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- final club → w:final club /my edition Josh L. 16:14, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
- first rodeo - American slang; most commonly used in the phrase "this isn't my first rodeo" ---> Tooironic 12:03, 17 March 2011 (UTC) See also been to the rodeo. DCDuring TALK 02:21, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- fixure#English - earlier form of fixture
- flag up
- flammed 1944, Rex Stout, Not Quite Dead Enough, ISBN 0553261096, pg 128, "That flammed me."
- flash grenade
- flashpackers - "older backpackers with bigger budgets", as from http://www.travelmole.com/stories/1128782.php Eug.galeotti 23:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
-
- Even the wikipedia page on backpacking has the word listed. Eug.galeotti (talk) 07:55, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
- floricide
- flossy - American Urban Slang usage. Multiple references. See Fergie "Bougie" reference (lyrics of song Glamorous).
- flow-on / flow-on effect - pretty common expression ---> Tooironic 06:21, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
- fly high - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 22:24, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
- focusing screen - a thing in used in photography
- folk religion - as distinct from religion ---> Tooironic 21:31, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
- footpeg: part of a motorbike?
- forma mentis: used on some pedia pages, also in German: "An die bisherige Kultur, die "forma mentis" des Umgangs mit Kapital und die Grundmechanismen des internationalen Finanzsystems…"
- In Latin, forma mentis would mean "form of the mind", so "frame of mind"?
- foundation scholar
- four to the floor, four-to-the-floor: w:Four-on-the-floor
- franchize
- fraud squad - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 13:48, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- freeze over - common phrasal verb, like freeze out ---> Tooironic 12:00, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- freeze up - common phrasal verb, like freeze out ---> Tooironic 12:00, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- from the heart - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 04:35, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- frontstage/front-stage/front stage: seems to deserve its own entry to me, in comparison to backstage
- froth at the mouth - not sure if this is idiomatic, but there are plenty of hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 14:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC) Also foam at the mouth
- full sentence
- full swing
- funicity (has a science or social science meaning or meanings - -sche 21:51, 17 February 2011 (UTC))
- fuser
- fuzznut
- Führerprinzip (needs English)
[edit] F 2012 - fatal instinct
- fetial - http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2012/01/04.html
- facebase
- facies antonina
- facies bovina
- facies dolorosa
- fáinne (needs English) Faröelite Fátima Fernando Póo Fès fête champêtre (needs English) filé (needs English) flânerie (needs English) flâneur (needs English) fléchette (needs English) Fräulein (needs English) frisé (needs English) Fröbel führer (needs English) Fürth (needs English)
- family (as in crime family or Mafia family) -- isn't this existing sense " A group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom."? -- custom = crime
- Maybe it should be a subsense of that sense? - -sche (discuss) 19:47, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- Members of two different Mafia families are related by custom (= crime), but are not in the same family. Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV 19:54, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- Okay, but members of any one family are related by that single family's crime customs (which might be wearing a certain ring or killing enemies in a certain way). How would you define it? Equinox ◑ 00:50, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
- fampool
- farmageddon
- farmscraper
- fastpacking
- fastigiated
- fastigiation
- featurism
- feedblitz
- femaleist
- fibershed
- filecard => file card - file card at OneLook Dictionary Search - Google "file card" (Books • Groups • Scholar • News Archive) in the sense of "a paperboard card for filing" rather than "card for a file (tool)"
- financialisation
- fine-dyspersated - geological term?
- fiscal transfer - from what I've read, seems to be idiomatic ---> Tooironic (talk) 15:45, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
- fishweb
- flashpacker
- fleshwriter
- flexplace
- floortime
- flop sweat
- flotsametrics
- fluffragette
- folding poem
- foliologist
- foodcourt
- forelash
- four-speed
- franglophone
- freeconomics
- freestream
- fremish - "To shudder. Of the ranks in an army: To waver." - [7] (requires an OED account to access).
- Frenchiness
- freshmore
- frequentive - actually used on Wiktionary, etymology term.
- friendfeed
- friendsourcing
- fritlag
- frog's march
- frontfire
- frontrunneritis
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 [edit] G 2010 - Gedenkschrift, see en:Festschrift (memorial publication in academia, from the German).
- gha: A letter in a lot of scripts, e.g. U+0A98 GUJARATI LETTER GHA
- But it's not a letter; each script has a letter independently named gha. Citations on this would be useful.--Prosfilaes 07:37, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- gimbal lock
- gold-collar - if you can make sense of the Wikpedia page I'll shout you a beer. ---> Tooironic 08:57, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
- good to the last drop (or possibly to the last drop if it takes other adjs)
- goose: I feel like a goose walked over my grave, as in http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1810
- The general form would be feel like a goose walked over one's grave. — Paul G (talk) 11:02, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- go with God
- got someone's back ("I've got your back"); infinitive is have someone's back but no other form seems to be used
- grammatical number
- grand bargain
- grand old man (something like a doyen; the most senior exponent of a particular field)
- grand opening
- graphetic, graphetics
- grog shop
- grogan see http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/grogan
- grow the beard intransitive verb "informal: to show a marked improvement in quality" (in new edition of Collins Dictionary) — Paul G 08:45, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- guard hair(s) (nat.) apparently the opposite of the undercoat?
- guardband in microchips: see w:Guard band
- guilty as charged
- gumgum from troll science
- gyrostabilized
- Good in the Hood
- Grenz zone, in histopathology
[edit] G 2011 - Gahan given name
- gearjammer
- genetic marker
- gentle or simple (dated), used in e.g. Thomas Hardy, something like "of any kind whatsoever"; also gentle and simple
- get-out (US slang) e.g. tired as all get-out, crowded as all get-out (very tired, very crowded) * See as all get-out Chuck Entz (talk) 06:09, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- get past
- ghost-riding: Ghost-riding, see Questionable Content 1874 for a quote
- giantdom - relating to fictional giants, and being very large, and to stars
- gid - Disease in sheep caused by tapeworm
- gidji a common term in Australian English (esp., WA) for a w:Hawaiian sling-like underwater projectile fishing spear that is the eponym of the 2010 film, The Gidji, starring prolific Aussie television actor, Blake Davis. It comes from a Noongar (southwest WA) word, meaning "hunting spear". Warmest Regards, :)—thecurran Speak your mind my past 05:02, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
- give at the office - common excuse for those who do not wish to donate ---> Tooironic 23:33, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
- go a bundle on: 1990, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, Corgi, p.310: Hell did not go a bundle on failures. See the free dictionary
- go out with a bang
- God bless - said by Christians, e.g., "Thank you, and God bless." ---> Tooironic 00:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Truncated form of God bless you popularized by Red Skelton on his 1960s US television programme
- goomba
- "[Mundine] tried to ambush us with their hangers-on and goombas but I'm not going to back down from anyone." [8]
- grand opening - w:Grand opening
- grandcousin
- granny gear - the lowest gear on a bicycle
- granther - old man; grandfather
- grave-goods, grave goods
- gross indecency - legal term ---> Tooironic 12:50, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
- gumptious
- gutter rhyme
- gyrosensor
[edit] G 2012 - galère (needs English) gardaí Gaspé Gaspé Peninsula gefüllte fish, gefülte fish gemütlichkeit Göta Canal Göttingen (needs English) Grand Pré Guaporé
- gazundering
- gecekondular
- genarian
- geolocalisation, geolocalization
- geolocalise, geolocalize
- geolocate
- geomythology
- Geriatrophile
- get ahead of oneself
- gigaburger
- giraffiti
- give me strength: in exasperation, like good grief
- globish
- globitarian
- globophobe
- glowboy
- gork
- graybar
- greenscamming
- grimp see "List of Pangrams", "Perfect Pangrams in English (26 letters)", "Without abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, initialisms, proper nouns or Roman numerals".
- gut-shot
- gynobibliophobia
- Gyrwas — w:Gyrwas. A toponym of Britain's: pronunciation needed. Lincoln Josh (talk)
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 [edit] H 2010 - hand, baseball sense: [9]
- hard man
- hate on - American dialect ---> Tooironic 01:23, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
- headworks - device at diversion point of a waterway
- heatseeker - both the projectile and commercial jargon meaning ---> Tooironic 12:40, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
- heigho - more commonly heigh-ho, or heigh ho (see Disney's Snow White & Seven Dwarfs) -Jonthescribbler 15:44, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
- heterosex, homosex*
- high church, High Church
- High Church is more common for that style of Anglicanism.
- (of the) highest order SoP
- hire car Jakeybean 20:45, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
- hit it - like, "turn on that song!" or "start performing!" ---> Tooironic 10:26, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
- hold good
- hold in check
- home and hosed
- honeyfugle, honeyfuggle, honey fugle, honey-fugle
- hoochy koochy - type of dance (slang), see OneLook ---> Tooironic 23:31, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
- horsebrush
- hydroscience
[edit] H 2011 - Hankyung: a Korean province(?) — w:Hankyung. Josh L.
- Hasaean Source: BBC-Languages-Other-Arabic-10_facts... Also found on Wiki-Answers*.
- heads I win tails you lose
- heat paste
- heat sink compound
- heat sink paste
- heat transfer compound
- heavens to Betsy
- hecatontagon, synonym for hectagon
- helm port, the hole in a sailing ship's counter through which the rudder stock passes 98.151.132.233 06:51, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- Heuristic task analysis
- hide the salami - Yet another phrase for sexual intercourse.
- high-center or high-centre - To get a vehicle stuck in such a way that the drive wheels are ineffective.
- high context culture / low context culture - see their respective Wikipedia articles ---> Tooironic 06:06, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- high time - plenty of hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 04:33, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- HIV/AIDS - set term, idiomatic? ---> Tooironic 10:27, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
- hold to account - should be idiomatic ---> Tooironic 03:33, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- honorand: the recipient of some type of honor.
- hoppus foot, hoppus ton: measures of timber
- horn timber, A heavy longitudinal timber that angles upward from the stern to support the underside of the fantail.
- horse and hattock
- hotlips, a word explained here and there.
- hotplugging: in computing, might be plugging in a device when the computer is turned on (USB-style)
- huffier (noun) some kind of boatman
- hussif (noun) - a pocket sewing-kit: cf. housewife, huswife
- hypoventilate - i.e. to suffer from hypoventilation; seems attestable via GoogleBooks ---> Tooironic 15:03, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
- hyper-injunction A "hyper-injunction" is similar to a super-injunction but also includes an order that the injunction must not be discussed with members of Parliament,
- hyperlinear
- hysterodynamic
[edit] H 2012 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 [edit] I 2010 - ice skater effect/ice-skater effect - apparently what caused the Earth's day to become shorter, after the quake in Chile. --Rising Sun talk? 23:01, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- iconograph - Derived term of iconography? Plenty of hits on OneLook and has its own Wikipedia page. ---> Tooironic 14:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
- I'll be bound
- illutible
- influency
- in mind; to have something in mind - probably deserves its own entry Tooironic 23:55, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- infant capsule a type of reversible and detachable baby car seat that can also be carried around while not in a vehicle - here Jamesjiao → T◊C 06:00, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
- Inglewood- City in southern California, considered to be part of Los Angeles.
- inner strength, inner-strength
- inorite - slang for "I know right"? ---> Tooironic 05:14, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
- intermediary metabolism
- intrigo (plural intrighi or intrigoes) — obsolete in first sense (= "intrigue") and rare in the second ("the plot of a play"); from the homographic Italian; also spelt intriego and intriguo in the seventeenth century; pronounced /ɪnˈtɹiːgəʊ/; listed in the OED
- invitation to treat / invitation to bargain - has a legal meaning, see Wikipedia ---> Tooironic 21:10, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
- ipsisexual - a platonic relationship with a person of the same sex (contrast with homosexual).
- it's your turn - another useful Phrasebook entry ---> Tooironic 09:17, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
- I was gonna say - worthy of a Phrasebook entry as a kind of interjection used when one is surprised by what someone else has said ---> Tooironic 13:36, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
[edit] I 2011 - ideapreneur one who is a radical inventor of change, who instigates original ideas that add value and which are sustainable commercially.
- ideo-political - hits on Google Books ---> Tooironic 01:04, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
- ideotype - q.v. Wikipedia
- immunoturbidimetry
- imprecize
- in all probability - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 00:15, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
- inbetwixt
- incident room – used on Time Team
- incize
- inconnexed
- inconnexion
- in copula
- incumbre
- Is this a supposed British English form of "incumber"? "Encumber" is spelled "-er" in British English as well as in American English. — Paul G (talk) 11:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- ineddicated found in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- in doing so: sounds non-SOP to me —This comment was unsigned. Not to me. Equinox ◑ 10:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
- ingendre
- initiatively - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 01:34, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
- in keeping with
- in miniature - hits on OneLook - seems to be a set phrase ---> Tooironic 07:35, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- in-state and/or in-state tuition - relates to the United States educational phenomenon where tuition at a university is lower for those students who have legal residence in the state where the university resides
- institutionality - many hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 04:15, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
- institutional memory
- intermodalism
- in that case - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 23:04, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
- in the club - apparently has some slang meanings ---> Tooironic 01:34, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
- in the process - SOP? --Rockpilot 09:01, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- in this way - not SoP, it has a pragmatic and cohesive function in formal writing ---> Tooironic 06:31, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
- investigative journalism - this is includeable I think, see the Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic 09:40, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- Ionizer - do you mean ionizer?
- ironing table - idiomatic, I reckon ---> Tooironic 23:58, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
- iron rice bowl - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic 00:00, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
- isoflux
- is this thing on - common phrase, and probably has meaning beyond its parts in some situations ---> Tooironic 13:40, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- in one's own words, SoP? I doubt it. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:17, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
[edit] I 2012 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 [edit] J 2011 [edit] J 2012 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 [edit] K 2010 - Khyber: e.g., w:Khyber, w:Khyber Pass, & "The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was worst affected. At least 1,600 people were killed," from w:2010 Pakistan floods#0 via w:Main Page. Right now it redirects to the derogatory khyber. Warmest Regards, :)—thecurran Speak your mind my past 13:23, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- kind regards, kindest regards - as a letter ending - SoP, surely? Jonthescribbler 16:13, 4 May 2010 (UTC) I would have thought so, but we have e.g. best regards. Equinox ◑ 20:27, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
- king of the jungle - see also king of beasts ---> Tooironic 06:59, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- Queen's shilling (please also create redirects: King's shilling, Queen's shilling)
- The standard usage is King's shilling for the UK voluntary enlistment bonus.
[edit] K 2011 [edit] K 2012 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 [edit] L 2010 - last stand - in french baroud d'honneur --Felonia 10:20, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
- lauriminodiproprionate
- lay it on
- lay to heart-to feel deeply, to consider earnestly, see Citations:lay to heart and lay in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- leaf vegetable
- leapfrogger
- leptomorphic
- let the dog see the rabbit
- Lib-Con adjective; same as Con-Lib (see section C 2010 above) (in new edition of Collins Dictionary) — Paul G 08:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- life or death
- lithontriptic as per s:Page:A Compendium of Irish Biography.djvu/46 last section
- little person (i.e. a dwarf) ---> Tooironic 10:30, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
- Is the euphemism still current?
- live on stock
- loadout
- lock-out
- locus ceruleus
- looks like rain - Great potential as Phrasebook entry. ---> Tooironic 13:08, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- Agreed, but give it in its standard form it looks like rain rather than this non-standard form. — Paul G (talk) 11:12, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- look-up
- lose one's mess
- loverboy (needs English) / lovergirl
- low church, Low Church
- low posture
- low profile, low-profile
[edit] L 2011 - ladybro: a female pal, as in the comment on this comic
- Lasallian, pertaining to the "Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools" - a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and now based in Rome.
- latest scream
- lean burn / lean-burn - see the Wikipedia article ---> Tooironic 14:13, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- lemon yellow - heaps of hits on OneLook - I'd do it myself but I suck at colour-entries ---> Tooironic 13:31, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- less so - well, we have more so... ---> Tooironic 14:25, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
- lesser mortal
- lethetic - frequently in the collocation "lethetic reading"
- let's be having you: stereotypical British policeman utterance of some kind
- litster - An old female occupation, see the first paragraph of chapter 9 of this: [11] 76.117.247.55 01:35, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
- look at you - as in, "Well, Mr Successful Businessman, look at you!" ---> Tooironic 09:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- live fast
- lost in translation - can't believe we don't have this ---> Tooironic 02:49, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
- love machine
- low-class
- ludacris: as in this comic, ridiculous? Or is it a reference to the Rapper w:Ludacris? Probably a pun on ludicrous.
- lush worker, a type of criminal
- lush roll, to beat up (and rob?) a drunk
[edit] L 2012 - La Coruña lævo-rotatory lançado Landsmål (needs English) langue d'oïl Lapsus linguæ La Tène café latte, caffé late Le Châtelier's principle Leclanché cell Leucorrhœa Léopoldville Lérida
- lampshade - verb
- latron (< Latin latrō, latrōn- = mercenary, highwayman, brigand) = (obsolete) robber, brigand, plunderer
- latronage (< latron, above) = (obsolete, rare) robbery, brigandage
- lazyload
- leadite
- Lefebvrite
- leftrail
- legal document - lots of hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic (talk) 01:06, 18 May 2012 (UTC) - presumably any document that is legal (has force of law) i.e. SOP
- lexicurious
- libtard
- lichyard
- lick and a promise
- lightscape
- light sleeper / heavy sleeper - hits on OneLook and probably idiomatic ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:50, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- life-affirming - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic (talk) 11:32, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
- linstock
- logicker
- loop tape - also figurative?
- lozel noun
- Lorraine Franconian - I don't know if this blog is like a Lorraine Franconian dictionary. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 02:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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 [edit] M 2010 - maladive
- (the) material world = the world that is material (made of matter) Equinox ◑ 13:14, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
- maxterm, cf. minterm
- med — auxiliary verb, presumably dialectal, seemingly meaning something like "might" (?), occurring a bunch of times in Jude the Obscure. —RuakhTALK 02:03, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- mediobasal
- menarcheal, menarchial, menarchal - alternate spellings
- mercid: lazy?
- met*, mets*? = (informal) metastases, e.g. [12]
- metacontext, metacontextual
- metaculture, metacultural
- metrotard - New York slang, according to this website. ---> Tooironic 23:21, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- migisecond - 1/5th of a second, or 200 milliseconds
- milk money
- mishigas: Jewish for craziness/tomfoolery?
- mission* - apparently there is another verb sense meaning to go somewhere - my South African friend used it - perhaps SA slang? ---> Tooironic 07:35, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
- mixed business -- (Australia) a shop similar to or identical to a milk bar, general store, convenience store etc...
- moksha*
- Molon labe. From ancient Greek, appears widely used in English today, in many forms from book titles to statements of political theory. Wikipedia even has an article on the topic: Wikipedia:Molon labe -- N2e 00:32, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
- mono no aware ("lacrimæ rerum") — from the Japanese 物の哀れ (もの の あわれ, mono no aware); see w:Mono no aware. —This comment was unsigned. I'm not convinced that this generally-italicised phrase is English. Equinox ◑ 15:56, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
- mookie, mooky - slang, [13] [14]
- mooreeffoc
- morcheeba - apparently slang for "marijuana" or something. It's also the name of a band ---> Tooironic 13:59, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
- more power to you - common phrase with idiomatic force ---> Tooironic 21:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
- Mouru (from the Avesta Vendidad: "The third of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the strong, holy Mouru.")
- Mstislav: transliteration of a (Russian?) name / Yes, Russian has it. Does Wiktionary need human names' entries? Josh L.
- mucoepidermoid
- multi-homed
- multipetalled, multipetaled: many petals? but does any flower just have one?
- multiplinary
- muscoid, "mosslike"? "muscoid flies" ?
- Wikipedia says: "Schizophora is a section of true flies containing 78 families, which are collectively referred to as muscoids, even though - technically - the term "muscoid" should be limited to flies in the superfamily Muscoidea; this is an example of informal, historical usage persisting in the vernacular". Pingku 02:41, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
[edit] M 2011 - madbrain/madbraine "here you must often tymes take in good parte, euen the stripes of dronkardes, and madbraines," Erasmus Of the yong man and the euill disposed woman (1568)
- Madinat (or madinat?). Used in tourist prospects as a class name ("Madinat Khalifa"); related pages: Medina and المدينة المنورة.
- make windows into men's souls - used by the Queen. Means 'to lie'? Adamd1008 15:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
- malefice Antonym of benefice.
- ma non troppo - apparently means "too much"/"excessively" in music ---> Tooironic 12:36, 3 September 2011 (UTC) I thought it meant "but not too much" Fugyoo 05:27, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah it means "but not too much" —JakeybeanTALK 05:33, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- manouche - a type of "Gypsy jazz" pioneered by Django Reinhardt
- many-splendored / many-splendored thing - common cliché ---> Tooironic 11:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- match the drapes as in the questions does the carpet match the drapes, does the rug match the drapes (also match the curtains - meaning "is their pubic hair the same colour as the hair on their head"? Fugyoo 05:29, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
- mean square - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 10:38, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- memapsin
- metacondition
- metacriterion, pl. metacriteria
- metatypical
- mezzanine: maybe some economic sense: mezzanine capital, mezzanine finance, etc.
- micjigger - (Noun) A non-specific slang term for any generic object used when in dire need of a word to describe it.
- microfragrance (originally trademark)
- micropile -- (needs English) 1. A type of pile used in building/construction. 2. Opening in the seed coat which allows water to enter. 3. An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.
- middot - the symbol ·, punt volat in Catalan
- might is right - idiom/proverb ---> Tooironic 12:26, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- misfortunately
- Moldovenism -- a political term used to refer to the support and promotion of the Moldovan identity and Moldovan culture.
- mono-fracture, from McLuhan's "Understanding Media": "To a much greater degree than Roman slavery, the specialism of mechanized industry and market organization has faced Western man with the challenge of manufacture by mono-fracture, or the tackling of all things and operations one-bit-at-a-time."
- monsoon bucket -- specialised bucket suspended on a cable carried by a helicopter to deliver water for aerial firefighting
- Morgaine as in w:Morgan le Fay, mainly because I do not know how to pronounce it. Also other persons from the Arthur saga: Igraine, Gawaine, Gwenhwyfar, Gwydion, Gorlois, Agravaine, Niniane, Viviane, Taliesin, Uwaine
- moth fly
- motor skill - see Wikipedia article ---> Tooironic 03:21, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
- move forward - figurative meaning ---> Tooironic 21:39, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- moving violation - see w:Moving violation
- muffin pan - now I'm hungry ---> Tooironic 12:47, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- multicover (maths)
- muscle confusion - approach to strength training
- Musnad or musnad Something about Semitic, Phoenician, or proto-Semitic alphabets. Sources: BBC-Languages-Other-Arabic-10_facts.. and some w:Musnad.
- Mx, gender-neutral honorific that replaces "Mr" or "Ms" (per Wikipedia)
- mycobiota
- mythization
- MFP
- methylimidazole, also 4-methylimidazole?
[edit] M 2012 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 [edit] N 2010 - nailed on
- naked licensing
- nation sack US black dialect Memphis TN. Apparently same as mojo bag, gris-gris, toby, conjure bag, conjure hand. DARE would help on this.
- neck pillow - hardly SoP ---> Tooironic 05:44, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
- needle-exchange programme / needle and syringe program (NSP) / syringe exchange program (SEP) (see Wikipedia)
- neo-sophist revival of sophism, the school which believes logic to be just another persuasive technique, based on moral relativism
- neuroweapon
- neustonic
- newbuilding (cf. newbuild) as relates to ships Haus 08:36, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
- new politics singular noun: new politics consensual politics promised by the Con-Lib coalition (in new edition of Collins Dictionary) — Paul G 08:53, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- newsflow: saw it in the Telegraph. Is in lots of books.
- newsjournal or news-journal or news journal
- news story - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 12:42, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
- nexion - a type of gate, in esoteric literature [15]
- nibble (verb), nibble bidding: bidding in small increments?
- Niebuhrian
- Nisaya (from the Avesta Vendidad: "The fifth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was Nisaya....")
- nival*
- nod-down
- no names, no pack drill
- nonummy A word used in dummy text, likely derived from Latin nonnumquam, meaning "sometimes," which appears in the original text from which it originates. Weetbixkid 17:04, 9 October 2010 (UTC) Not English.
- nortel as in a fragment of *nortelrye, the famed Hapax legomenon of Chaucer's, which means 'education' but is derived from 'nortel', and would today be transcribed 'nortelry' (like Rival - Rivalry, Cheval - Chivalry, or Sophist - Sophistry)
- nuttage on Rocky Horror episode of Glee, oblique reference to scrotum
[edit] N 2011 - nasosinusal
- nasosinusitis - medical term, hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 08:20, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
- national flower / floral emblem - see Wikipedia ---> Tooironic 23:49, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
- neepery
- negative priming
- nervous twitch - doesn't look SOP
- next thing / next thing I know / next thing you know - really tricky to define the word boundaries here ---> Tooironic 06:38, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
- nitrocarburization, nitrocarburize
- nobody bats 1.000, in reference to baseball, have heard it figuratively and non-baseball playing nations find it a mystery (like us in the UK). Mglovesfun (talk) 12:48, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
- Should be nobody bats 1000. "1.000" means "one" in English-speaking countries, not one thousand, which is "1,000". —
Paul G (talk) 11:17, 25 March 2012 (UTC) -
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- In baseball, 1.000 is pronounced "a thousand", just as 0.300 is pronounced "three hundred". Mglovesfun (talk) 11:20, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- noid - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 06:45, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- noize
- Northern (the capitalized version, please clarify when its used, and if capitalization is correct in, for example: Northern shoveler Mutante 13:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
- not for worlds, e.g. "I wouldn't miss it for worlds"
- not know one is born, as in "kids today don't know they're born" (are they foolish? spoiled? demanding?)
- nutritarian - a person who strives for more micronutrients per calorie in their diet
[edit] N 2012 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 [edit] O 2010 - oasify
- obesque
- off festival: I think it's a sort of secondary festival formed by unofficial events around a main (e.g. music) festival. Equinox ◑ 20:20, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
- oi oi, oy oy? UK slang thing, perhaps like ahoy or aha or here we go. e.g. seen in a sitcom: "Oi oi, tequila slammers!" (on them being delivered to the table)
- That's oi oi. ---> Tooironic 09:45, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
- But it's spoken as a single phrase, like chop chop or hear hear, and doesn't mean the same as oi (which is usually just a rude cry for attention). Equinox ◑ 11:08, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
- Here's an example (at 0:25). 81.142.107.230 12:06, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
- one's blood is up (not sure if this is best title; e.g. "his blood was up")
- ooyah: an interjection
- open-cut / open-pit (as in open-cut mine, open-pit mine, open-cut mining, open-pit mining, etc) ---> Tooironic 10:45, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
- oophore
- oral historian
- organic intellectual — See w:Antonio Gramsci#Intellectuals and education.
- osseo-
- ostrich policy
- to be out at heels or out at the heels - to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight (from heel in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
- outbaking (not just baking more or better than)
- outfitting* (noun) and plural outfittings: I think it's like "fitting out" a ship, etc. with furnishings or equipment, but may also be clothes; possibly dated. Equinox ◑ 01:05, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
- overaccumulation
- overcurrent
- over-reactive
- ox gets gored as in "Whose ox gets gored." -- seems a common English idiom and yet one I could not find in the Wiktionary list of English idioms. N2e 20:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
[edit] O 2011 - O clip
- odograph, alternate term for « odometer », cited in OED and AMHER (frequently found in WWI literature), also spelled (probably from French): « odographe » Charvex 07:06, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
- of one's word - e.g. "he's a man of his word" ---> Tooironic 12:12, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
- Omegaverse
- on someone's part - e.g. "This was bad taste on his part." ---> Tooironic 11:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
- on the side - heaps of hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 01:31, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
- open call, open-call
- open one's eyes, open someone's eyes - literal and figurative meanings. See also eye-opener
- out ground, in cricket, a home ground that is not the club's main home ground
[edit] O 2012 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 [edit] P 2010 - paenungulate
- paid time off (PTO) sum of parts? Mglovesfun (talk) 18:34, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
- pancake - type of juggling throw. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:58, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
- paracord
- pararesonance
- paraurethral (cf. periurethral)
- parenetic
- parent teacher organization, parent teacher organisation (PTO) sum of parts? Mglovesfun (talk) 18:34, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
- partial out - used in statistical analyses. see here.--AivoK 14:53, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- pave one's way
- paved-over, paved over
- pentroof
- phallalogical - means more than just "related to the study of the phallus" --Felonia 18:03, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
- phasis - phase; see Citations:phasis and phasis in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- photobomb
- physiatry
- physical rehabilitation
- pick and choose
- Pickwickian, from Dickens' comic novel Pickwick Papers
- piner - needs English. Something to do with pine trees, for sure. --Rising Sun talk? 20:56, 18 February 2010 (UTC) Someone who pines (mopes)?
- place setting (along with table setting) ---> Tooironic 15:18, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
- plague-spot-a token of something incurable, see Citations:plague-spot and plague in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- planetar -English missing, should be easy --Rising Sun talk? contributions 01:53, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
- pledgeable, pledgeability
- Plimptonesque: George Plimpton or another?
- George is the notable P. in writing. Varlaam (talk) 17:32, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- pluginisation, pluginization
- podshaver, pod shaver -- maker of hand-made cricket bats
- podshaving, pod shaving -- the art of making hand-made cricket bats
- point person (noun)
- poled - as in "poled thin film"
- poliad pertaining to a polis?
- poochie
- pool spray SOP? I doubt it, but if so, we're missing that sense of each component
- postanesthetic /"postanaesthetic"? Josh L.
- postformation
- postmenarcheal, postmenarchial, postmenarchal - alternative spellings
- power takeoff, power take-off (PTO)
- premenarcheal, premenarchial, premenarchal - alternative spellings
- premontane
- prerun: noun and verb (in manufacturing processes)
- to prick up (one's ears)
- probanda
- probly short version for probably but longer than prolly pronounced prob-ly
- progressible
- proximity operations - widely used in spaceflight for two craft which rendezvous in space and then do something more over time; not clear on what that something is.
- prurient interest - a US legal term of art
- pseudepigraph, pseudepigraphy, pseudepigrapha, pseudepigraphon, pseudepigraphum
- pseudo-digraph
- pseudoepitheliomatous
- pubic boot
- pulvino
- pulvinated
- pump room
[edit] P 2011 - Pampooties
- Palaeologan
- Paleno
- paleoart
- Panadol - a drug trademark, but commonly used in Australia as a generic term for paracetamol ---> Tooironic 08:41, 22 July 2011 (UTC) I have added panadol (lower-case letter seems to show genericide); it's hard to tell whether upper-case uses are referring to the brand or not. Equinox ◑ 11:21, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
- panic in the sense "So she made the millet, the panic, the wheat and the beans the seed for the dry fields, and the rice she made the seed for the water-fields." from Shinto: The Way of the Gods See w:Panicum.
- parabolic reflector - 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)
- parallel parking
- paradize
- pasimology — en.Wikipedia contains; 1 dictionary result.
- patristic anthology
- pavement as a verb, from whence pavemented and pavementing
- pay way - or pay someone's way ---> Tooironic 10:25, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
- personality cult
- personal use / personal-use - might have legal/idiomatic application ---> Tooironic 00:17, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
- photoconjunctivitis
- pickleable - seems to be a technical term used in IT ---> Tooironic 10:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- piece to camera - see Wikipedia entry ---> Tooironic 12:34, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
- piezoceramic
- plain-spoken
- play the victim - probably idiomatic ---> Tooironic 09:58, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
- pleiomeric
- plerematic / pleromatic (word, term, expression, etc) - apparently a translation of 实词 (a content-based word, as opposed to one with purely a grammatical function) ---> Tooironic 11:46, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
- plunge bath
- plunge pool
- plutogenic hits on google books, something to do with chemistry related to plutonium. RJFJR 19:53, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
- poisoned chalice - lots of hits on Google Books as an idiomatic phrase - poison chalice seems attestable, though it is a less common variant ---> Tooironic 01:53, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
- police brutality - possibly a set phrase or idiom. See Wikipedia page for more info ---> Tooironic 12:44, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- polonaize (Is this a misspelling of polonaise? RJFJR 19:58, 23 October 2011 (UTC))
- poon tree -- Calophyllum
- powerboard - see Wikipedia for more info ---> Tooironic 05:58, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- practize
- premize
- press into
- price flexing
- prince consort,princess consort
- principal dancer / principal - can't believe we don't have this ---> Tooironic 11:09, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
- problem solving - see Wikipedia ---> Tooironic 06:57, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
- programmed obsolescence - See Programmed obsolescence and planned obsolescence
- promice
- promize
- propaganda war - apparently has a specific meaning in journalism contexts ---> Tooironic 02:40, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
- prostate cancer - common type of cancer ---> Tooironic 12:21, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
- psychosensorial
- public enemy number one = public enemy + number + one
-
- I don't think this conforms to a policy (I forgot which one, it's on the tip of my tounge!) An editor since 8.28.2011. 06:54, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
[edit] P 2012 - pack train - a line of pack animals
- Pæan Pæon, pæon País Vasco (needs English) Palæocene, palæocene Panacæa Pasiphaë Pátmos pattée Pêche Melba Périgueux pétillant (needs English) Phæacian Phœbe Phœenix Pietà (needs English) piña cloth piñon jay piraña (needs English) pisé (needs English) più (needs English) plissé (needs English) Podestà Poë-bird Pœcile Pouilly-Fuissé Pouilly-Fumé pousse-café (needs English) præcaval Prænomen Præternatural Prætexta Prætorian Prætorium Précieuse prêt-à-porter procès-verbal (needs English) Provençale ptomaïne
- pain d'épice - was wanting to add a French entry, but cannot think of an English translation. Isn't it just pain d'épice? Mglovesfun (talk) 11:56, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- pakayakulangun — specific epithet of new frog species Cophixalus pakayakulangun, from Kuuku Ya'u language [17] (English / Translingual / Latin / Kuuku Ya'u), "belonging amongst the boulders"
- pandey
- pan-Scandinavian
- paperazzi
- paradessence
- paraeducator
- parahawking
- params
- passface
- passthought
- Paultard/paultard
- pay packet - wages sealed in an envelope to be given to the wage earner
- penturban
- permissivist
- pet - adj, e.g. pet project
- petrobolos (pl. petroboloi) Ancient type of catapult.
- PFIGS - a business acronym standing for Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Spanish. These are the common languages that English applications and video games are translated into. A similar acronym is EFIGS. JohnnyMrNinja (talk) 07:02, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
- pharmer
- philanthropreneur
- photo booth - box where you get passport photos, drop in a few coins
- photolurker
- photomarathon
- phrasemonger
- pickade
- pick your battles - common phrase/proverb ---> Tooironic (talk) 11:50, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
- PIPA / PROTECT IP Act - Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act.
- PIPA yes, but surely we don't want the names of individual acts; they're not words or idioms. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:57, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- I think "PROTECT IP Act" is as much as an initialism as PIPA, GFDL, NIRA, ERISA, etc. "Preventing Real Online..." is just the name of that individual act as an explanation for the potential article. --87.217.184.43 01:00
- placemaking
- placeshift
- plantgating
- plantibody
- plunderphonics
- plusone
- podcatching
- podjacking
- polyattentiveness
- polyfidelity
- poofery - seems attestable according to Google Books. See also wankery. ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:03, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
- poonam
- poopology
- popsical
- populuxe
- pornopatch
- portafuel
- positifpolitics
- postcentral (anatomy, as in postcentral gyrus, postcentral sulcus)
- potrepreneur
- prebituary
- precrimination
- predictionary
- pregaming
- prematted
- prevenge
- previvor
- privatopia
- pro-oxidant, prooxidant - [18]
- pseudoextinction
- psychache
- pull out of thin air = pull + out of thin air
- punditariat
- punditeer
- put one's house in order
- pygmalionism
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 [edit] Q 2010 - quarter-deck or quarter deck
- quasiessential
- quasiidentity and the algebraic meaning of identity
- quhat, quhen, quhich, quhere, quho, quhow, quhile: very old (Scots?) forms of what, when, which, where, who, how, while
[edit] Q 2011 - Queen Bee - a very early unmanned aircraft, (see http://www.captainnevillesflyingcircus.org.uk/page16.htm ) reputedly the origin of the word drone as applied to aircraft
- Encyclopedic, but may be useful in the etymology of queen bee if verified. — Paul G (talk) 11:24, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- quomodocunquize - it means to make money through any means possible (is in the OED apparently)
- It is indeed the OED (second edition), but it is an obsolete nonce word appearing only as "quomodocunquizing" in a single quotation from 1652, so it's questionable whether this is Wiktionary material. — Paul G (talk) 11:24, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- quyght
[edit] Q 2012 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 [edit] R 2010 [edit] R 2011 - raize
- ramifiable
- rat bastard, slang phrase possibly pejorative? "You rat bastard...." (yes pejorative Fugyoo 13:47, 11 September 2011 (UTC))
- redown - this link is interesting [19]
- re-entrable
- reflex camera
- refresher course - know what it is, but difficult to define
- registered post - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic 05:09, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
- reharling: some kind of repair/maintenance to a building. In Thomas Hardy and others.
- Reiki (w)
- remize
- renanthera
- Rendulic
- research and development - lots of hits on OneLook and a Wikipedia page - needs to link with the abbreviations R and D and R&D ---> Tooironic 13:38, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
- retro-engineering / retro-engineer - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic 13:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- reversation
- rich as Croesus - relatively common simile ---> Tooironic 03:44, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
- Right Hand Rule
- right there and then - probably an idiom ---> Tooironic 02:16, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
- right to know - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 07:41, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
- riviera: Needs English section. --Mat200 08:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
- Rooneyesque
- roorback - "[A] damaging lie made publicly known for political effect", according to [20] ---> Tooironic 07:10, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- rosc, "... verse portions are in the so-called rosc, a measure distinguished by no stanzaic form and no rhyme, but by alliteration and a 'certain laconic and oracular diction'" s:Folk-Lore. Volume 4/Celtic Myth and Saga. Report of Research during the years 1892 and 1893#368
- [A] rose between two thorns (a woman sitting between two men)
- run dry - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 06:50, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
[edit] R 2012 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 [edit] S 2010 - s/t or S/T - self titled
- Sada (from the Avesta Vendidad)
- same shit, different day - see also SSDD ---> Tooironic 22:10, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- sand painting
- sandpainting
- sapphire file
- schooligan (noun; blend of "school" and "hooligan") a person of school age who engages in public disorder (in new edition of Collins Dictionary) — Paul G 08:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
- schpeel: form of spiel with sch-? (Looks like either a misspelling or a respelling based on the pronunciation in the absence of knowledge of the actual spelling or German spelling rules. — Paul G 08:55, 30 October 2010 (UTC))[21] offers a definition as Jewish slang.
- scoto- or skoto- Pertaining to darkness, antonymic of photo-. Like scotic derived from skotos. Appear in words like scotoperiod/skotoperiod or skotomorphogenesis.
- sea louse
- secessionism
- sedeprivationism
- seedset
- seed spitter - slang for penis, according to Partridge ---> Tooironic 14:16, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
- see here! look here! listen here! (angrily, to get attention) Do they deserve entries? Equinox ◑ 18:48, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
- see-safe - apparently an agreement to seel goods on sale or return ---> Tooironic 03:44, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
- self-affine
- self-affinity
- self-obsession -- Contributions/79.217.197.107 04:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
- set to rights - to put in good order; to adjust
- short-six Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter Two: "In the meantime Mr. Pecksniff, having received from a sharp angle in the bottom step but one, that sort of knock on the head which lights up, for the patient's entertainment, an imaginary general illumination of very bright short-sixes, lay placidly staring at his own street door." Apparently refers to a particular size of candle - three paragraphs later: "... Mr. Pecksniff, being in the act of extinguishing the candles before mentioned pretty rapidly ..." Also, Short Sixes: Stories to Be Read While the Candle Burns, by H. C. Bunne Church candles seem to be available in size 6s (short six?) or medium 6, but I have no idea what sizes these might be. —This comment was unsigned. Probably inches. Equinox ◑ 18:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC) On further research, it appears that the standard 'short six' is 7/8 inches in diameter by 8 inches in length. Smaller numbers are larger sizes. Ray 01:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- I don't know the candle size, but a short-six was a type of cigar in the USA in the 1800s, possibly deriving from the candle size? Dbfirs 01:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- sideshadowing
- sile - Verb. To rain, exceedingly heavily and constantly. From Swedish or other Scandinavian "sile", to sieve, descriptive of the way heavy rain falls. Because of its Scandinavian origin, it is used mainly in the North and Mid-East areas of England, and Southern Scotland. Used in the present or past progressive tense, coupled with the adverb "down". Example: It's siling down outside."
- single-celled
- sinkijon - Korean weaponry; see quote at hwacha.--Prosfilaes 06:42, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
- situatedness
- siphunculi
- skunt - American dialect? ---> Tooironic 05:33, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
- smuddering
- smother crop
- so close but yet so far: isn't it so close and yet so far?
- soggy biscuit / soggy Sao / ookie cookie / limp biscuit
- sogo shosha - From Japanese, see its Wikipedia page. ---> Tooironic 11:50, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
- something of ("he's something of a genius") and perhaps somewhat of (but that might be ungrammatical)
- sounds like a plan
- spacelight
- spear In the sense of "broccoli spears"
- speed wrench, speedwrench
- sphacelate
- spoken word (more than just a word that is spoken) Tooironic 01:20, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
- Sprachbund (see w:Sprachbund) ---> Tooironic 12:21, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
- standard operating procedure / standing operating procedure (see Wikipedia page) ---> Tooironic 05:06, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
- stay back
- stempost
- stick up one's ass / stick up one's arse
- stimulus package
- streetwalls architectural feature; Court case
- straight-pull (Bolt action rifles)
- stuff around - common slang in Australia ---> Tooironic 23:31, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
- sugar tits (not a sexist nickname but artificial teats formerly used like a pacifier)
- Sughdha (from the Avesta Vendidad: "The second of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the plain which the Sughdhas inhabit.")
- sulphurflower
[edit] S 2011 - salary packaging / salary sacrifice - see Wikipedia ---> Tooironic 04:34, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
- salt pork
- Samian ware
- sanctions-busting / sanctions busting - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 12:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
- sandwich bar: apparently a shop so not covered by any sense at bar
- sandification - sparse hits on Google Books ---> Tooironic 09:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- sandify - rare hits on Google Books, not sure of meaning ---> Tooironic 09:43, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- sanitational - Pertinent to / a conjugate of sanitation. --129.130.99.86 00:25, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
- satellite TV / satellite television - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic 21:36, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
- Sauvignon Blanc - can't believe we don't have this ---> Tooironic 12:19, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- screaming meemies - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 11:32, 8 May 2011 (UTC) Cf. Screaming Meemie Equinox ◑ 21:10, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
- scrum-diddly-umptious - is it a word? sparse hits on Google Books ---> Tooironic 03:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
- "diddly" could be inserted into lots of words as a nonsense filler; I don't see how we could list them all. Unless this one has some special status... 86.181.170.34 03:51, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- sea snail
- security clearance - lots of hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 12:48, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- see in the sense of 'I'll see if I can solve the problem'. I don't see how that's matched with any present definition, or at least if it is, it's not very clear. Cf other dictionaries which may have over 20 definitions for the verb where we have 7.
- see about
- segment -- missing linguistics sense
- self-concept / self-conception - relatively common, hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 01:51, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- self-censure - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 14:11, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
- self-medicate - can't believe we don't have this ---> Tooironic 00:58, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- self-proclaiming
- self-reinforcing - I think it has two meanings - one is "positive feedback", the other is the adjective meaning "sustaining itself" or something similar :| ---> Tooironic 13:07, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
- semi-homemade
- semiperipheries Nicoleta 01:46, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- "On the one hand, this inland region exported foodstuffs to other peripheries and semiperipheries of the western hemisphere, those areas that specialized in cash crops for consumption by the core." (Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South: "Introduction" 2, 2003)
- semiproletariat Nicoleta 01:23, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- "Because control over land, the primary factor of production, was denied to them, the unpropertied majority of the white Appalachian population was transformed into an agricultural semiproletariat." (Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South: "Slavery and Poor Whites in the Mountain South" 156, 2003)
- set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the Devil - proverb ---> Tooironic 12:24, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- seven shades of shit —This comment was unsigned. The form varies though. Consider these from books: "We saw him kick seven shades out of a dog this afternoon"; "I beat seven shades of crap out of them"; "An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her". Equinox ◑ 14:37, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
- serranid
- sheetboard: packaging type?
- shitty stick: Not sure if this should have an individal entry or be part of an expression. My attempt to add it was deleted with a scornful comment, and the deleter declined to explain his or her reasons.
- shopsteading, shopstead, shopsteader
- shrillingly - it's a word, I think ---> Tooironic 05:55, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- sidecast, side cast? in fishing
- sidechannel: class of computer security vulnerability that "goes around the side", e.g. detecting keypresses by means of phone's accelerometer instead of via keyboard/touchscreen
- sideline reporter: an Americanism that I think I can work out but would prefer an expert definition S a g a C i t y 14:28, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
- single-phase (adjective and verb) single-phased (adjective and verb)
- skyjack* but as a noun, a kind of platform on a scissor jack to get workers into high places. Possibly named for a company that produced them. Need a definitive citation or I'd have added it. RJFJR 21:32, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
- slang phrase - I've seen this word from Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage. It's like somebody's an Einstein if smart or, in the case of the book, a Henry for being a coward. (I think; I had to read it in high school.) --Lo Ximiendo 02:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
- slave catcher Nicoleta 04:15, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- slave to the wage - Hits on Google Books, and not just from the Placebo song [22] ---> Tooironic 08:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
- sliding window
- slug bug: w:slug bug
- Slurvian
- snowflaked, snowflaking (or verb): see Snowflake schema
- so as See so's
- sofic: adjective in mathematics
- sorediate
- sort of thing - surprised we don't have this but not sure how to define it ---> Tooironic 11:49, 27 March 2011 (UTC) = kind of thing
- Southern Ohlone
- spacio-, combining form of space, I think? Mglovesfun (talk) 23:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
- spatulation
- speaking of which - was deleted, maybe unfairly
- special pleading - a type of spurious argument (e.g. see WP)
- specifier: linguistics/grammar sense missing. [23] —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 04:35, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
- spit feathers: means "to be parched/thirsty" but not sure about the POS. BigDom 11:20, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
- splattergun (and cf. scattergun as in scattergun approach)
- squabblesome: I've just used this in the sense of 'prone to squabble' then wondered if I'd made it up then discovered I hadn't. S a g a C i t y 16:11, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
- Sridevi (given name): Indian, Tamil name, from the name of one of the forms of Lakshmi
- Is it an English-language name though? ---> Tooironic 03:01, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
- stairhall, stair hall
- state honors No. plural of "state hono(u)r" - sum of parts - an hono(u)r bestowed by the state. SemperBlotto 11:51, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not so sure. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:39, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
- statistical noise
- statutory authority - Australian concept, see Wikipedia ---> Tooironic 02:39, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
- statutory exclusion [24]
- stellar day
- stirrup cup
- stockgirl, stockwoman (compare stockman, stockboy)
- streptodornase
- subdermatoglyphic - The longest English word that does not use any letter twice, it contains all the letters except fjknqvwxz. Means "pertaining to the underlying layer of skin that defines the fingerprints," according to a superficial Google search. 70.162.119.243 10:33, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- subrack: something to do with rack-mounted computer equipment
- suck the air out of (also "suck all the air out of") metaphorical usage recently become common in US at least. "To deprive another of what it needs to exist or thrive"?
- surprisation (rare)
- superjump in mathematics, related to hyperjump
- superliminal:(su'per-lim'in-al), adj. 1. Opposite of subliminal. That which rises above the limit or threshold. 2. Ideas or perceptions above the conscious level. I.E. that which imposes itself on the conscious mind as opposed to thoughts or stimuli not fully perceived. 3. That which is fully understood or appreciated. 4. Beyond the limit or limits.
- super-primate / superprimate - seems to be attestable on GoogleBooks ---> Tooironic 10:28, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
- suring "Roof Collapse - Certainly one of the more common causes of injury within coal mines, it's easy to understand why these collapses happen when you realize that you are creating tunnels underground, possibly miles under heavy earth. Roof bolters are responsible for suring up ceilings alongside the thick beams that arch the tunnels themselves, but these devices are never foolproof. " [25]
- Interesting. Is it a legitimate term specific to mining? Is it a mistaken hearing/spelling of "shoring"? DCDuring TALK 21:12, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- See sure up
- There's lots of hits for "suring" mining on Google Books, but the one's I looked at were all "mea- suring" and similar misscans, or about the city Suring.--Prosfilaes 22:01, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, shorely it's just a mistake for "shoring"? 86.181.170.34 03:45, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- swinging dick
- Cracked.com "...discoveries in science, medicine, astronomy and technology that made them the biggest swinging dick on the planet for several centuries"
- No Country For Old Men (film)" And by anybody I mean any swingin' dick"
- swingtail and tailswing (aviation? parts of aeroplanes?)
- switched on - adjective; hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 13:10, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
- swit swoo: onomatopoetic for wistling? See Scary Go Round
- Smarta
[edit] S 2012 - spinnaker pole
- Saarbrücken (needs English) Saint-Léonard salade niçoise (needs English) salchichón (needs English)Salé San Cristóbal San Miguel de Tucumán Santería São Miguel Sapræmia Schrödinger equation Seborrhœa Sécateur semé (needs English) Semée, Seméed señor (needs English) señora (needs English) Septæmia Sept-Îles Sèvres Sidi-bel-Abbès Sjælland (needs English) Skåne (needs English) sociétaire société anonyme sommité sons bouchés sorbetière (Needs English) sorré soufrière Soufrière Soufrière Hills soulé (needs English) soupé Spätlese (needs English) spätzle Spiræa Stellæ St-Émilion Stenopæic St.-Étienne St.-Lô succès d'estime succès de scandale succès fou Supernovæ suprême (needs English) suprême sauce
- sautoir
- saved by the bell - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:03, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
- semitendinosus, semimembranosus: muscles in the leg
- sneakage and sweepage*: related to motion of gases
- salescritter
- schooling age - this may be a set phrase, though I'm not sure - supposedly it refers to the age when children start school in a given country ---> Tooironic (talk) 23:04, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
- scopal - related to scope
- searchscope
- set to rights - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic (talk) 13:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC) They were redirects to right, but to rights is sufficiently archaic to seem idiomatic. DCDuring TALK 02:10, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
- sewist
- shedista
- shnovel
- shoeicide
- shorticulture
- shortline railroad - described in English wikipedia
- showroomed
- Showzen - as in Wonder Showzen
- shruggism
- sicky, google books:"sicky baby". May not be used with other nouns. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:34, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- sightjogging
- sisbertize
- slideware
- slivercasting
- slowflation
- slumland
- slurvian
- smack bang/smack-bang - as in "smack bang in the middle of the festival season" - here, "smack bang" seems to be an idiom/fixed phrase - there are hits on OneLook as well ---> Tooironic (talk) 05:30, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
- smartifact
- smartsizing
- smexting
- smudger
- sneakerization
- snortometer
- socius (pl. socii; historical: states in "permanent" military alliance with Rome)
- soliterraneous
- something nasty in the woodshed
- songlifting
- sonic boom as a verb. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:34, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
- sonify
- sonopuncture
- Southern Oscillation
- spillback
- splinternet
- splott
- splurchandising
- sportianity
- springspotter
- stand to gain
- Looks like stand to gain to me. ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:07, 18 June 2012 (UTC) if only we had the right sense of stand. DCDuring TALK 01:50, 21 July 2012 (UTC), which sense is now added. DCDuring TALK 02:02, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
- stegocephalous, stegocephalic, stegocephalid(s)
- stoplifting
- storylining
- storylist
- streamies
- styleable / stylable (as in CSS styles)
- stylometrician
- subelements
- surfacy = characterized by surface rather then depth
- suicide attack
- think the sun shines out of someone's ass (could be bum, backside etc
Snickle noun, and could be "act like","treat like", "as far as he's concerned" etc) 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 [edit] T 2010 - table setting (along with place setting) ---> Tooironic 15:19, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
- tailcup
- take leave, not take one's leave
- take to the next level
- talking monkey (not just literally, also to describe someone who unexpectedly has some kind of talent) Tooironic 09:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- taqiyah - a skullcap worn by Muslim men —This comment was unsigned. or is it a spelling of w:Taqiyya? —This comment was unsigned. It came from w:Taqiyah (cap) —This comment was unsigned. Google Books doesn't seem to support this sense.
- telerecording, telerecorded
- teletron - apparently it's a synonym for picture tube/kinescope ---> Tooironic 07:22, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
- ten-percenter/tenpercenter/percenter: political flyer sent out by British MPs? something else? An (entertainment) agent is one sense. DCDuring TALK 14:11, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
- territ: "For a coach or draught horse, the tubes are carried by a territ on the collar."
- tetanise, tetanize
- that'll learn 'em.
- there's plenty more where that came from
- thises and thats
- this too shall pass - as made famous by the awesome video by OK Go. --Rising Sun talk? contributions 04:17, 27 March 2010 (UTC) As cool as that video is, I'm afraid this is SoP. ---> Tooironic 11:17, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
- throw up in one's mouth
- thyrotropin
- tight whites
- tilt-up (or tilt up?) (SOP?), type of construction/building: google books:"tilt up house|home|building|construction", w:tilt up.—msh210℠ (talk) 17:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
- time to market
- to one's credit - not sure if this is an idiom or SoP ---> Tooironic 12:47, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
- TTTT or To Tell The Truth
- Tömösváry organ
- tormogen
- town centre / town center
- transmarginal
- treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen
- tribikos: ancient oil distillation device?
- trichogen
- tri-une: three in one? (a vocal harmony, a religious Trinity?)
- We already have triune Chuck Entz 06:38, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] T 2011 - third space - from this [26] article
- tallit katan - Jewish undergarment; see the Wikipedia article ---> Tooironic 14:25, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
- teleocratic, teleocracy
- tenancy in common - technical term in law; plenty of hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 08:38, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
- teretiform
- thatch rake - a specific type of rake
- that was then, this is now - I'm not sure if this counts as SoP. 67.164.60.27 23:18, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
- the customer is always right
- thelygeny
- the reality is - we have the thing is, so why not this common cliche? ---> Tooironic 00:11, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
- thermal compound
- thermal gel
- thermal grease
- this, that and the other
- thromboglobulin
- thyromental
- tiger in one's tank (from an old Esso petrol slogan): is a person with this energetic, enraged, speedy...? I think mostly "energetic", with a dollop of masculine aggression. DCDuring TALK 18:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- tilt-yard, tiltyard, tilt yard
- time to market / time-to-market (attributive) / TTM (initialism) - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic 05:35, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
- toeier than a Roman sandal -- see also toey as a Roman sandal -- Facts707 13:38, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
- too clever by half
- torchiere, torchière
- torii -- gate at a Japanese shinto shrine
- totara -- a New Zealand conifer used for building and furniture
- toxify
- transmotivation
- trials and tribulations - probably includeable as a common cliché - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 06:34, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
- T-top or T-bar - see w:T-top
- turnpike gate, turnpikegate
[edit] T 2012 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 [edit] U 2010 [edit] U 2011 [edit] U 2012 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 [edit] V 2010 [edit] V 2011 [edit] V 2012 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 [edit] W 2010 [edit] W 2011 - war footing: seems to be a set-phrase.
- well-established - hits on OneLook ---> Tooironic 05:58, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
- well wishes, well-wishes[29]
- wepene -- Middle English, apparently.--Prosfilaes 08:07, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- what the deuce - surprised we don't have this ---> Tooironic 02:19, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
- what's the good word or good word: informal greeting like "how are you"
- when the balloon goes up - a nice idiom, meaning the same as when the shit hits the fan??? --Rockpilot 21:55, 14 September 2011 (UTC) * Not quite. See balloon goes up
- wide-angle converter
- wired into - a phrasal verb, apparently, meaning "interested in" ---> Tooironic 06:14, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- wonderwall - looks like their are hits on Google Books that are not just about the Oasis song ---> Tooironic 11:47, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
- wordology - gets Google Books hit, but I don't know if they support any definition Mglovesfun (talk) 16:31, 20 January 2011 (UTC) - mostly capitalised (website? blog? commercial game?) SemperBlotto 16:36, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
- working-class tragedy
- work unit / danwei - see Wikipedia entry ---> Tooironic 10:00, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
- wracked his brains
- Misspelling (or, apparently, now considered a variant spelling) – see "rack one's brain". — Cheers, JackLee –talk– 18:17, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
- write the book (on) - be an expert in something
- wheelbench
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