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  • -ificate suffix
  • -gamy
    Is this missing a sense? Something about fusion? e.g. sense two of exogamy. Also see zoogamy. 50 Xylophone Players talk 12:49, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
  • -n't've suffix, double contraction of "not have"
    It's not standard written English, but it is common in spoken English, and appears widely in books and news reports; there is an entry for wouldn't've, but it also appears as shouldn't've, oughtn't've, can't've, won't've, and probably a few more I'm forgetting at the moment. 70.164.58.44 16:54, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

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  • ben-room from while the soldiers, with their leader, occupied the ben-room and the only door-way | cf. Blanche McManus, Our Little Scotch Cousin: "There were only two rooms, but Auld Wullie asked them into the front one, which the country people call the 'ben room'..." Equinox 18:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC) It seems that "ben room" and "but room" are front and back rooms of a cottage; see existing entries for Scots ben and but. Equinox 15:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
May be different in McManus, but generally the ben-room is the interior room, not the front. OED for 'ben': inner, interior, as in ben end, ben room.
... might be the same, depending on the layout of the house? Dbfirs 13:27, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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OED: (a) A duty levied to compound for harbour dues, anchorage, and soundage. (b) A toll levied by the owner of a boom on its use for storing logs.
But 'boom' only attested w appropriate meaning in American English: A line of floating timber stretched across a river or round an area of water to retain floating logs. kwami 11:19, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
I may stand corrected if I remember my history correctly brehons were judges in Celtic societies. Other related terms include rí (the king), tuath (his "dominion" or whatever you will call it), Aos Dána (wise men, sometimes included women. This included the brehons along with filí [poets, singular file], druids and bards), deirbhfine (royal family from which the king was chosen from) 50 Xylophone Players talk 13:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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derecho - ( ENGLISH: NOUN: PRONUNCIATION: deh-RAY-cho) PLURAL: derochos) ETYMOLOGY: Coined by University of Iowa physics professor, Dr. Gustav Hinrichs in 1888 paper, from Spanish derecho meaning right, straight or direction.) Meteorological term for rare northern hemisphere weather system characterized by high velocity straight line winds extending over considerable distances and area, capable of spawning thunderstorms and tornado activity. SEE ALSO: Hinrichs, G., 1888: Tornadoes and derechos. Amer. Meteor. J., 5, 306-317, 341-349. About Derechos, part Of The Storm Prediction Center, NCEP, NWS, NOAA Web Site; Prepared by Robert H. Johns and Jeffry S. Evans (suggested definition submitted by chasjojobo,12 Sep 2009)

  • destroke Verb, seems to mean to shorten the stroke of an engine so it can be used in a different racing class. derate.
  • devil is missing reference to the phrase form "the devil you <verb>"—msh210℠ 18:26, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
  • diabotanum<(a plaster of herbs” according to the Dictionary of Early English by Joseph Twadell Shipley at http://www.google.co.uk/books?id=QHccAAAAMAAJ&q=dicacious&dq=dicacious&pgis=1)
  • diacaryon (a preparation of walnuts”; source as per diabotanum hereinbefore)
  • diacopraegia (a preparation of goat’s dung”; source as per diabotanum hereinbefore)
  • dido (in English; so far it is in Aragonese), as in "cut up (one's) didos (or didoes)"
  • DIMBY (Acronym for Definitely In My Back Yard; a phrase coined by Bob Scott of Capgemini to describe outsourcing for local government by transferring staff to locally based centres to keep employment in the locality)
  • discomgoogolation — A feeling of stress and anxiety suffered by people who are unable to use Google when the want to. Widely quoted in the media in the past couple of days (11,000 Google hits), clearly as the result of a press release. Quote: "Broadband has meant we have entered a culture of instant answers. [...] When people are unable to get online, discomgoogolation takes over." — Dr David Lewis, psychologist. Seems to be a nonce term (and a badly formed one as well; "com" is usually "con" before a "g", and surely that should be "google" in the middle - "discongooglation" would be a coinage that fits better with the usual rules of construction of English words) — whether it catches on we shall see. Possibly (my theory) modeled after discombobulation. — Paul G 16:34, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Yes, the odd m would appear to recall discombobulation, while the googol I'm sure is intentional—a faux Latin form of Google, from googol. kwami 19:19, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
  • distributive justice -- widely used in Political Science, Economics and Sociology literatures. See also, and compare to, "C 2008" request for commutative justice N2e 04:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC) See w:Distributive justice.
  • doctor of physic —This comment was unsigned. doctor + of + physics —This comment was unsigned. But it's not somebody with a physics degree; it's an archaic term (Chaucer?) for a physician (medical doctor). I think physic covers it, though. Equinox ◑ 16:40, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
  • dredge up - done and dusted - see dredge
  • dursen't - A form of durst, as in "I dursen't do that" => "I dare not do that". [6], [7], [8], [9], etc... Womble 03:43, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
    It should really be durstn't (no entry for that either), but the pronunciation is as you spell it and your spelling is common. Dbfirs 17:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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  • ee (not existing sense) Stereotypical exclamation in Northern England, esp Yorkshire. "Ee by gum!" etc. Equinox 23:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
  • e-fit -see entry and separate Wikipedia article for E-FIT Jonthescribbler 00:32, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Elsinoë -- in Webster's 3rd
  • Enron - This has entered the language now as a generic name for high-scale fraud/corruption.

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  • genogroup
  • get the jump on
  • give you the spill (or give one the spill): gossip? spiel? Equinox 22:29, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  • glamping Camping in luxury (blend of "glam" and "camping") — In Susie Dent's Words of the Year as quoted in the Daily Mail on 2 October 2008. — Paul G 15:58, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
  • glencambelly A phrase commonly used in Scotland to describe biased news reporting or an attack on a person being interviewed
  • globus major, globus minor
  • graffer slang for a graffiti artist? — Paul G 08:52, 27 August 2008 (UTC) Two or three such uses in Google Books; it actually seems more common in French, though ("les graffers graffeurs"). Equinox 22:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
  • grave dancing - added to the entry for grave as grave-dancing -Jonthescribbler 10:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
  • grey theory (a statistics method used to analyze data with incomplete information), like fuzzy logic; this could allude to a verbatim translation of the german idiom "Grau ist alle Theorie" which means that theory is rather boring as compared to hands on stuff. The idiom is commonly used to mark that closure is achieved for the theoretical stuff and that the practical application will follow. If the term is from a scientific article by a German, this term should be ignored by wiktionary.
    Definitely real, but no WP article so needs "fuzzy logic" fan to do the entry, IMO. DCDuring TALK 20:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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Here is yet another reference from durably archived media, this time from Foreign Policy Magazine, mentioning the widespread use of the phrase "going Galt" and extending that impact to India. N2e 04:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

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  • happer (needs English)
    From Etymology 2 of hap? Pingku 17:44, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
  • henology - from Greek, meaning a teaching or doctrine of unity, employed by Egil A. Wyller reading Plato and also used as a characterisation of Plotin's ontology - the term might require an encyclopedia article, but it's a word for the dictionary too. I don't know Greek and I'm not a native English speaker, so I'd rather have someone more competent write the entry.
  • highlining browsing of low lying branches by herbivores
  • Hollands - A kind of gin produced in Holland. Synonyms: geneva, Holland gin. Quote in Rip Van Winkle (1819): "He even ventured, when no eye was fixed upon him, to taste the beverage which he found had much of the flavor of excellent Hollands."
  • horkage - comes from hork

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Or browsing the 'net perhaps? 50 Xylophone Players talk 16:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

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  • jug*; jugg* (verb) to have sex with; US, 1965: "There were few women around the neighborhood that Jonny wanted to jugg and didn’t jugg, even if they were married." — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, 1965, Sex Slang, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, 2008, 0-415-37180-5, p97

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  • kankedort, an awkward situation —This comment was unsigned. e.g. Chaucer "Was Troylus nought [not] in a kankedort...?" Equinox 00:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
  • kegstand or keg stand, see http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/archive.php?today=630&comic=8 and w:Keg stand
  • Kiavah — The name of a wilderness area in Southern California, Need pronunciation for the article also please —w:User:Marcia Wright
  • Kindling or kindling, as a verb, may soon need a new verb sense: having read a book on a Kindle electronic reading device. I've run into expressions like "I just finished Kindling the book..." a couple of times in recent weeks. Google is beginning to show hits for this use of the verb, and not as lighting a fire. I suspect it doesn't yet meet criteria for inclusion but thought I'd list it here for someone who knows how to do a "part of speech" Google search better than I. N2e 17:25, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
  • kinnear - may belong on WT:LOP for all I know

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  • Mabonism Apparently an Internet-rare word relating in some fashion to the Welsh politician William "Mabon" Abraham. The way it is used online suggests the writers assume the readers know what it means, so it is probably more common in print.
  • mallum - seems to be Yorkshire/North of England slang for "brains"
  • mantella, Mantella (need English)
  • massage therapy including different techniques and types of therapeutic massage?
  • master of one's domain - popularized by Seinfeld
  • mediance
  • medianly
  • midnight run
  • momnesia "A pattern of mental confusion and forgetfulness that characterises a mother's first year after giving birth." (blend of "mom" and "amnesia") — In Susie Dent's Words of the Year as quoted in the Daily Mail on 2 October 2008. — Paul G 16:07, 4 October 2008 (UTC) Nothing in G.Books; most Web usages are self-conscious and many put it in quotation marks. Equinox 19:54, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Susie Dent (OED lexicographer) may have suggested it as an amusing neologism, but she hasn't included it in the OED, so she must not think that it will last! Dbfirs 07:16, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

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  • nethersken (house in a slum?) —This comment was unsigned.
  • neutral steer
  • nodosity "Nodosity of the joints was first distinguished from rheumatism and arthritis by Dr. Haygarth of Bath... This disease occurs principally in females somewhat advanced in years...it attacks the first joints of several fingers."[22]
  • nonebrity A person who enjoys celebrity status without anyone really understanding why. (blend of "non-" and "celebrity"). — In Susie Dent's Words of the Year as quoted in the Daily Mail on 2 October 2008. — Paul G 16:11, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Northwest Coast
  • NTG, Usenet initialism for "Not in This Group"
  • nunh-uh or nunh uh (interjection) (usually spelt huh-uh, without the n’s)—variant of uh-uh, nuh-uh. —Michael Z. 2008-08-08 14:56 z
  • nyabinghi - a ceremony of the Rastafari faith, incorporating singing and drumming

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Any of various Christian Churches limited in scope to a nation state. Contrast with state church.

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  • pandrogynous -- a relationship seen as being between two bodies for the same personality, rather than between two different people, including surgical changes to appear more like each other. 5/10/2008
  • Pantagruelism -- Apparently related to philosophy called the Pantagruel Code: "Social decency and good conduct show themselves most unmistakably in a readiness to spare others of shame and to preserve their dignity." source cited to a 1932 essay by the title of "Pantagruelism" by Albert Jay Nock, in Charles H. Hamilton (ed), The State of the Union: Essays on Social Criticism (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1991). I could not locate the essay online but found a wealth of mentions of the term on Google Books; see e.g., [23] The term was also cited to H.L Mencken Notes on Democracy 1926, pp. 172-175, and Minority Report (pp. 231, 233, 211). N2e 21:59, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Pantagruel is a character in an important early English novel. --Una Smith 03:21, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
  • paralogy (perhaps a primarily philosophical term?)
  • phthonos
  • Pirandellian - see Talk:Pirandellian
  • pitch off (see citations)
  • plagiosere, interrupted succession in an ecosystem.
  • planturous (adj) - in great quantities, abundant, found in Finnegans Wake, comes from French "plantureux fr(fr)" I think used when talking about a meal, or a curvy woman - see http://www.eldritchdark.com/forum/read.php?1,847,913
  • platform (noun) - as it applies to sports, esp. rugby: a sustained offensive thrust or momentum (?)
  • platoon#Verb Verb, sports? (already have the noun)
  • ploiter (to work to little purpose)
  • PO, synonym for "pissed of", to be PO'd
  • polish up: to remove tarnish, e.g., polish up silverware
  • poocher - could have a few definitions, not just someone who pooches
  • poolman
  • pork-barrel
  • post res (found it used in a wikipedia article on philosphy) Seems to be latin for "after the fact"
  • Pouria (پوریا in Persian) is a Persian given name for males. The name means "The Son of a Great Person" in Persian, since "Poor" means "Son", and "Ya" is the transformed form of "Baay" which means a great person or a boss, so that the phrase "Poorbaay" has been transformed to a single word, "Poorya", which is commonly spelled Pouria using the English alphabet. Perhaps: Pouria was the name of an Iranian wrestling champion and this is the oldest use of this name.
  • pragmatical: might not be the same as pragmatic. Equinox 12:59, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
  • preux chevalier, as used by Bertie Wooster - literally 'valiant knight' from the French, as in the P G Wodehouse quote: A true "preux chevalier" will always defend the honor of a lady. Another example of its use in English would validate - Jonthescribbler 11:44, 17 August 2009 (UTC) 11:43, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
  • pratter - not sure what it means, but it's mentioned at the entry for smatter - I'm sure I've heard this as a synonym of prattle, or as a portmanteau of prattle and patter, but I can't find proof. Dbfirs 00:11, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
  • Prelest -- anglicised word taken from Russian liturgy, coined in Early Fathers from the Philokalia (1954) by E. Kadloubovsky and G. E. H. Palmer.
  • preroll: see [24]
  • Presentism or presentism -- there are two Wikipedia articles on the subject Wikipedia:Presentism. Also think the adjective form presentist is needed. N2e 15:12, 6 May 2008 (UTC) Not the same as presenteeism — Paul G 16:21, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
  • proprietal
  • pro rata die
  • pudenda muliebria: Seems to mean female genitalia, but I cannot for life of me figure out if it simply means that, or if it means something more specific. Every use that I can find simply assumes that the reader understands it, but I can't find anywhere that defines it. I'm also going to post this on the Latin request page, as it is clearly of Latin origin, at the very least. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 06:19, 25 November 2008 (UTC) [It just translates from the Latin as 'the genitals of a woman' but is a prudish, pseudo-scientific phrase used to avoid offence in literary/religious texts - Jonthescribbler 11:58, 17 August 2009 (UTC)]
  • public square = public square Equinox 20:20, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
  • put to the knife: used for the active part of surgery, killing, genital mutilation and firing. Are these literal, euphemistic, or common enough to be idioms proper?
  • pwnzor

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As in the phrase pregnant with knowledge, perhaps, but not meaning knowledgeable on its own.
Perhaps knowledgable isn't the exact definition, but if you look at the fourth definition down here (adjective). See also the opening of Measure for Measure.

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  • QQ (Crying eyes,internet slang)
;_;? Ottre 09:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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  • recooperate seems to be recooper with the -ate suffix added, or a common mispelling of recuperate, if you don't believe it is right, do a google search for it or search on wikipedia, you will get results. WARNING: this one may gray the line of what IS and ISNT considered correct, so I suggest anyone who does an entry on it cite several sources of use.
  • refusable
  • retrosnub V. difficult to define! See [26] for an example.
  • roll (not in existing article): Something like rob or beat up, but what exactly? Google Books has e.g. "They mugged him and rolled him." Equinox 22:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC) Found 3 senses of roll.
  • revolutionary intransigence

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Sum of parts of two words/phrases/entries: straight (sense applying to a drink) and no chaser (something after a drink).

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A particular Christian Church supported by, and presumably also mutually influenced by, the state. Contrast with national church.

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  • tab-delimited - IT term, I think - found it here, have no idea what it means. Tooironic 01:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC) It means delimited (separated) by tab characters (the long spaces that your Tab key produces). So if you produce a computer file and you split up the separate data items with tabs (rather than, say, spaces or commas) then you have a tab-delimited file. Equinox ◑ 01:39, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
  • tack strip
  • take the waters
  • tapetum lucidum
  • Tartuan - relating to city Tartu (like Estonian, Russian etc)
  • tegu, Tegu
  • Texax Seems to be a fairly common alternative to Texas, more than just a accidental substition of the last letter but unsure of the origin. Origin probably from proximity of "x" to "s" on a QWERTY keyboard. DCDuring TALK 12:44, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
  • there we go (again) – idiom (cf. there you go) Wipe 17:35, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
  • thyreostatic
  • thyrostatic ; apparently not the same see nl:thyrostaticum
  • tinsmithing - tin-smithing - tin-smith (see tinsmith)
  • to begin with - an idiom or a set phrase; google:"to begin with" shows 8,030,000 hits. --Dan Polansky 17:33, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
  • toilé -- in Webster's 3rd
  • top board - chess term but used differently in Wikipedia's Bobby Fischer and Graveyard chess
  • topometry, measure of the posiion of objects on the surface of the earth.
  • total eclipse
  • transderivation
  • Türck’s column -- in Webster's 3rd
  • twist someone's mind
  • tyle - Apparently some sort of ritual guarding of the door in freemasonry. Referenced as part of a toast or perhaps a recognition phrase of brotherhood in Heinlein's 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land "admit them and tyle the door" when Freemasonry[30] was more well known. | Chambers has a sense for tile: "to secure against intrusion by placing a person at the door" (could you then "tile a door" rather than a building?) and Google Books has "tyle the door" in a masons' song. Equinox
  • ten o'clock scholar — Part of an old nursery rhyme, but I don't know its meaning because I don't know the full rhyme. 68.39.174.238 02:04, 24 November 2008 (UTC) A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar! / What makes you come so soon? / You used to come at ten o'clock, / But now you come at noon. So (if a set phrase) it's a scholar who arrives late at school. Equinox 19:46, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

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  • undo-plasty Surgery to rectify bodged cosmetic procedures (undo + -plasty). — In Susie Dent's Words of the Year as quoted in the Daily Mail on 2 October 2008. — Paul G 16:23, 4 October 2008 (UTC) I like this! Presumably a facetious alteration of endoplasty. There are 600+ results on Google, some from major newspapers, but so far they all seem to be self-consciously defining the term. I'd like to see it used casually before we add it. Equinox 22:34, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
  • up-side - see upside entry Jonthescribbler 01:01, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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To dislodge a fox from its hole; to come out of a hole/lair; to let hounds out of a kennel. kwami 06:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

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  • vanabode : to happily abide in a four wheeled box shaped vehicle providing transportation and housing —This comment was unsigned. It's the name of a book and a trademark; see vanabode.com. I can't believe it has entered general usage. Equinox ◑ 10:22, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
  • vagonotic believed to mean: to vary from measurement to measurement; an approach to measurement —This comment was unsigned.
    Sorry, but this doesn't seem to meet our criteria for inclusion. —RuakhTALK 19:33, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Valortim — inclusion of brand pending identification of 3 citable sources over 3 years; Definition: brand name of an anthrax antitoxin
    Citation 1: {{cite-magazine|year=2009|author=Carol Potera|title=[http://www.webcitation.org/5iWvj7Ppb PharmAthene Secures Biodefense Position]|magazine=Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News|text="...Valortim®, a fully human monoclonal antibody antitoxin designed to protect cells from damage by anthrax toxins."}}
  • varia lectio -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 08:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
  • vasodilative (synonym for vasodilatory?)
    Ι think yes. See [35], [36] and [37]
  • velocitized, velocitised
  • vers de société
  • versional in Bible scholarship
  • vertexal, vertexial (may both be non-standard)
  • vide supra - an elaborate expression for the mundane see above. - Just see above translated into Latin. Does it deserve a separate entry as an English expression, or should we just leave it as vide supra? Dbfirs 20:55, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
  • video vérité
  • villadom : suburban villas or their residents
  • vinew n: mould(iness). vb: to grow mouldy. (OED)
  • viperid - type of snake
  • vocoded: processed with vocoder? how?
  • voix céleste
  • vomit up (do you vomit blood, or vomit it up?) Mglovesfun (talk) 09:39, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

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  • water reticulation - used in the w:en:Valve
  • WAE (or wae?) -- in Webster's 3rd
  • warly - warily (Middle English) and warlike (Burns) (It was used here)
  • wank on - (slightly vulgar slang) to speak excessively or tediously babylon entry
  • wet up: to become wet, e.g., rain wets up the earth —This comment was unsigned. Although I'm lacking the proper information, I think you're confusing this phrase with something like "The sun dried up the Earth." I'm going by intuition that they used the preposition; "Up" in some relation to the process of evaporation, rather than something getting wet. Confirmation is needed. --121.217.244.237 11:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
  • whale away wale away (found on http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-crossbrowser/) Quoting the complete paragraph: "You do still have one other option: You can use a hosted service to do the testing for you. You supply the URL, and they show what that URL looks like on a variety of platforms. You lose the ability to really whale away on a site from your own test machine, but you get access to quite a broad array of platforms for very little cost—and sometimes for no cost at all."
    • This is also spelled wail away; it means to vehemently work on or attack something, close to a synonym of go to town -Speight 07:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
  • woon (English) Apparently (according to thefreedictionary.com) Webster 1913 defines it as 'dwelling', but it also appears to mean 'plenty' or 'abundance'. Obsolete. Likely usages are from Chaucer and Piers Plowman, but I haven't found anything but glossary entries. I tried g.b.c, but Woon is a common surname. :{ The 'dwelling' meaning is doubtless cognate with wone. The other seems likely to have another etymology. - Pingku 11:18, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
    See Talk:woon DCDuring TALK 19:44, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
  • woon Striking resemblance, in fact, exactly as spelled in the Afrikaans language or, when Webster's Dictionary 1913 is referenced, Cape Dutch in early 1900's. Referring to the verb - to live in, to stay in, to have its habitat or usual abode, in relation to a home, house, or residence. He now lives in his parents home - 'hy woon nou in sy ouers se huis'. Noun for "woon" is "woning" in the Afrikaans language i.e. house - where you recouperate, rest, can be yourself.--Francus 21:52, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

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  • xor#Conjunction probably only used in informal discussions by techies in technical discussion or to emphasise either-or nature of a choice: "Is it Bill xor Melinda?"

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  • zoot (something to do with illegal drugs. zooted may mean drugged).
    • I can't find evidence for zoot alone for drugs, just for zooted. There's certainly zoot suit as a valid entry, however. Where the name zoot suit came from, however, is probably not connected with drugs. --Jackofclubs 08:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
    • Erowid lists it as a slang term for PCP (phencyclidine, angel dust). Pingku 16:31, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

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