Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/pre 2020

B

• blue veils - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: some kind of old medical treatment, possibly used on the nose?

  Blue veil, blue-white veil, or blue hue is associated with melanoma. A medical sense of veil may be needed. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:11, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

  Blue-white veil at NIH - that should get it into WT and at least a link on WP. Facts707 (talk) 05:14, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

• The Bay or bay (US): Slang term for Eastern Long Islanders. Derived from the Bay Constable and it is used when someone thinks it's a cop, but it's just the Constable.
• blue steel (US): A slang term used by officers to describe a robotic police aid (usually a bomb disarming or disposal robot), or a police-issue side arm.
• block and lock, kick and kill, shock and kill: strategies to treat HIV. Both should be placed in Category:English coordinated pairs

C

• comparison rate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, In Australian finance, some sort of all up cost for loans. (probably a specific formula for consumer loans including mortgages required by regulation for consumer protection)
• composition shingle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• call tabs

  Definition? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:29, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• civic guard, Civic Guard, civil guard, Civil Guard, Garde Civique (from French, refers to a specific militia)

  seems to refer generally to a citizen militia. So civic guard should be considered a non-specific English term.

• confusor in the field of mechanics and fluidics (may be used in conjunction with a diffuser). I was hoping for a clear definition here, because frankly, it confused me.
• crank issue

  Definition? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:46, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• cross over Jordan
• cozzes (UK): A term used in Great Britain in order to describe or talk about police officers.

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

Cozzes must be a plural of coz or cozz, not cozzie. Equinox ◑ 21:24, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

• coat protein
• contravert - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – probably most often a misspelling of controvert, but there seem to be legal and psychoanalytic uses (the relating to contraversion): see A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (1995), p. 219; Douglass J. Wilde, Jung's Personality Theory Quantified (2011), p. 82.

D

• dub down - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
  • w:Wall_of_Sound#Mono
• dB suffixes: some or all of them? (dBm is now defined, but not dBA)
• do-do nutters or The do-dos (US): Arises from the stereotype of police officers eating donuts.
• Dee-Dar - someone from Sheffield (refers to the original Sheffield pronunciation of "thee" and "tha". Often used by people from Barnsley)
• dragged through a knothole (or keyhole, or forty knotholes, sometimes + backwards, and sometimes with pulled for dragged): very stressed or very dishevelled
• do a dime
• do the town
• drop over
• duke's mixture
• dime-bar or dimebar – "Whether you call them dime-bars, energy vampires, lunch-outs, or whatever, it is undeniable that personal problems can often seriously hinder the effectiveness of a campaign." ("A Critique of Newbury," Do or Die 6 [1997]); see also [1], [2]
• dod-rot, dod-rotted – Philip Foner's introduction to We, the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence by Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman’s Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829–1975 (University of Illinois Press, 1976), p. 27, quotes a tract published in the Coast Seamen's Journal in 1894 that exhorts the reader to "comport yourself generally like a dod-rotted lunatic." See Merriam-Webster, Green's Dictionary of Slang.
• duke - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (Northern?) Irish slang. cf. Duke, 'Look. "Give us a duke at yer paper."' This meaning is not included in duke#Verb.
  • I found one use online, from someone who appears to be in Northern Ireland. "Game of Thrones is filmed here in NI (...) Will have to take a duke at your Instagram matey. Two more makes a muckle. Cnilep (talk) 00:55, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

• • Conceivably confusion or relation with deek. Equinox ◑ 16:24, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

E

• eigenposition - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Emmetism
• étale* and/or étale cohomology: see étale cohomology

F

• flying kilometer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Average speed measured over a distance of exactly one kilometer, where all intentional acceleration is performed before entering the measured mile, and all slowing is performed after leaving the measured area.
• flying mile - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Average speed measured over a distance of exactly one mile, where all intentional acceleration is performed before entering the measured mile, and all slowing is performed after leaving the measured area.
• foundation scholar - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• full-stop landing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• firm code - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / firmcode - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / firm-code - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - contrast hard code and soft code. Keith the Koala (talk) 15:04, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
• field quantity - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - is etymology from the same field as "electric field"? Or is it more like "a measurement in the field"?
• fragmentary hypothesis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, see Fragmentary hypothesis; one of three theories about the origin of religious texts. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:36, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
• faze out (transitive, i.e. faze somebody out)
• fifth business
• firm market
• freeze on
• fax democracy - SOP or not? Azertus (talk) 00:17, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
• fly by the nets - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or fly by the nets of - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – Elliot Murphy, Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature (Zero, 2014), p. 114: "By undermining certain 'big words,' Joyce – like the anarchists Orwell and Chomsky – correspondingly flies by the ideological nets of church and state." (though uses that having to do with the coiner James Joyce also seem commonplace enough)

G

• general word - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• get down on - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library [3]

See down: "With on, negative about, hostile to".

• get one's ships on - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - "Then, later, we would write long emails explaining everything, and why it was time for us to really get our ships on and he always respectfully declined". [4]
• Grand Mentor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library apparently a Chinese title.
• gas lantern - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: portable, for camping use.
• golden column - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library- kind of cactus
  • Most commonly given as Echinopsis spachiana; some sources assign this name to Weberbauerocereus johnsonii, though.
  • Seems to possibly be dictionary-only. Only found one citation in running text, and even that one is not optimal.
• The Gaver or Gavvers, gaver or gavver (UK/Roma): Alternatively Cockney rhyming slang for the police - unknown origin - London or Romany traveller slang for the police. Perhaps from 'garda'. www.garda.ie
• The Guards or gaurds (Ireland): Irish Police, from Garda Síochána; (Garda Síochána na hÉireann - Irish for "Guard(ians) of the Peace of Ireland").
• game one
• get good wood on (baseball) / good wood on it / maybe just good wood?
• glow on
• go by the boards
• going to the mountains
• goose it
• got a corner on
• grain belt
• Great One
• garage kept

H

• have one's hand in - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library- not sure. In an old MAD magazine feature, the retort to 'I have but one life to give for this country' is 'That's the problem with this nation. Everybody has their hand in'
• Haddie, - person from Aberdeen
• heat is on
• heaven help us
• heavy day
• heavy foot
• highly commended - (Mainly British/NZ/etc.) not awarded a prize but judged to be close to prize quality.
• hire on
• (be) one's own man?
• hokey Dinah
• hold one's mouth right
• hold one's mouth the right way
• holy pile
• honey bread: may be Danish and Norwegian; see honningbrød.
• hot number
• hyperconvergence, hyperconvergent

I

• Insular script - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, insular script, add the sense to insular, maybe Insular? Whichever of these entries deserve it. See Insular script. @Metaknowledge, Gormflaith PseudoSkull (talk) 07:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
• indoor soccer; arena soccer; minifootball; fast football; showball
• in full flight
• in leaf
• in tough
• it's a whole nother world out there ('nother with apostrophe?) / it's a whole other world out there
• inertial load - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation

J

• Jack, someone from Swansea

K

• klatskin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Krunka/krunka - the end piece or heel of a dish, esp. a bread or roast. Seems to come from Polish kromka and/or German krumm (or perhaps Low German krunkeln?); observed used among German, Polish, and Scandinavian American families.
• kill for
• kratophany
• kratophanous

L

• Lingnan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• lotheth - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Liouville's theorem: many senses at Wikipedia: Liouville's theorem
• lofi hip hop - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Lower Paleolithic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library PseudoSkull (talk) 03:54, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
• linguisticism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
  • assoc. with audism?
• lazies : Term used for police, but more often used for off-duty police officers.
• Lobbygobbler, Leyther, someone from Leigh :
• lay a trip
• lay the lumber
• lean times
• lesser lights
• like a dirty shirt
• like dog's breath
• like the devil
• line of authority
• little off
• live by
• living soul (any person)
• local yokel
• lunch-out – "Whether you call them dime-bars, energy vampires, lunch-outs, or whatever, it is undeniable that personal problems can often seriously hinder the effectiveness of a campaign." ("A Critique of Newbury," Do or Die 6 [1997])
• lam - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, lamm - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - part of (some) looms (one of these is an alternative spelling of the other)
• lien* in skateboarding, as in "lien air" or "lien-to-tail" (seen at madonna); apparently from Neil backwards, after Neil Blender
• loiterature - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – coined by Ross Chambers in his book of the same name, but now more widely used in literary criticism

M

• m-factor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: "movement, migration, mobility," especiaćlly understood as a phenomenon contributing to or defining the American national character (introduced by George W. Pierson in 1962 and used in historical scholarship as recently as 2012)
• male duct system - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - accessory reproductive organs that produce, mature, store, and transport sperm from the testes to the exterior
• mens et del - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library This appears on many maps and plans and is in all cases followed by a date: eg. mens et del 1884.

  Probably Latin rather than English, first part derived from mensuro (“measure”). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:50, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

  "mensuravit et delineavit"; see Wiktionary:Tea_room/2022/January#English/New_Latin_"mens._et_del."

• midpoint valuation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Mac, someone from Scotland
• medullomyoblastoma, "a variant of medulloblastoma with an aggressive course..." (from here).
• meningocele manque - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Member or member (Canada): Used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to refer to fellow Mounties in place of the usual "officer" or "constable" (or equivalent) in other police forces.
• Merry-Jack, Mera-Jack - someone from Camborne (Cornwall)
• Mickey Mouse, someone from Liverpool :
• make every effort
• match wits
• meet one's half way = meet halfway?
• mind bottling
• morasteen great stone in English per s:Surrey Archaeological Collections/Volume 1/The Kingston Morasteen
• magico-Marxism
• moderate#Verb - allow a post through to a mailing list; exercise the powers of a list moderator. See https://packages.debian.org/buster/listadmin for example. Also moderator, moderation, though these two can also refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum#Moderators which is a bit different. -- The verb can also refer to such forums. Equinox ◑ 08:11, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

O

• oil-blotting sheet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Librarys (also known as blotting sheet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Librarys?? - sheets used to remove oil secretions from the face (あぶらとり紙)
  • Oil-blotting sheet and blotting sheet seem a bit SOP. Smuconlaw (talk) 10:14, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
  • And aburatorigami looks like a brand name. Kiwima (talk) 21:32, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
• on approval
• on even terms
• on risk - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Believe this means that the insurer takes the risk (i.e. that the insurance has commenced), but not 100% certain. May be an addition to "risk" rather than a separate lemma. Example phrase: "the policy must be on risk from the date of completion". 94.3.249.236 22:22, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

P

• panning, abbreviation of panhandling – "Underwood documents in detail the routines of 'panning' (panhandling) and 'canning' (collecting cans), often pursued as methodically (with specific hours, techniques, and turf) as more legitimate work" – Susan Fraiman, Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins (Columbia University Press, 2017), p. 182.
• prickle bush [5][6] --Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:39, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

  Apparently any of several many species of shrubs growing in dry places in Australia.[7]. I grew up in America hearing pricker bush for barberry. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 17:53, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

• Proto-Oghuz, a protolanguage without a Wiktionary category or Wikipedia article, listed under Category:Old Anatolian Turkish language. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:02, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
• pixieing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – engaging in small-scale covert acts of ecotage (not sure whether the main entry should be at pixie as I can't find any uses of the infinitive)
• paramesangium - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - we have "paramesangial"
• parson-naturalist - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• pulse voltammetry - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Phæacian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Poë-bird - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, ¿¿¿Prosthemadera cincinnata??? or Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (See tui and parson bird.)
  • If created, this should be poe-bird, and defined as an alternate spelling of poebird. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:55, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
    • Seen in print in the 19th Century as Poë Bird[8][9] and Poë-bird[10]. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:04, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

      English vernacular names of macro-flora and -fauna were formerly commonly capitalized when they were used more or less as taxon names in lay literature. I haven't been adding them, just as I've tried to avoid hyphenated organism names unless more common than the unhyphenated versions. Does this need discussion? DCDuring (talk) 17:50, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

• præcaval - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library praecaval
• Prætexta - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Praetexta
• Prætorium - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Praetorium
• pandey - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• pickade - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – Word Spy says it's a blend of picket and blockade, but I can't find any uses in English. (Several mentions, though, possibly cribbed from Word Spy) There is also an apparent homograph in what appears to be Swedish or Norwegian. Cnilep (talk) 03:33, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
• perihadion - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library periapsis around Pluto. Has been used but may not meet CFI yet.
  • Started Citations:perihadion. No great citations yet.
• primae noctis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, comes up in Braveheart the film (in English). We have a Latin entry ius primae noctis. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:50, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
• public general - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library?
• pede claudo - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, italicized in my copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1961 print). Renard Migrant (talk) 16:28, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
  • The Latin pede claudo means “with (a) lame foot”, that is, “limping” (with the implication “slowly”). It’s a reference to the phrase pede poena claudo in Horace, Odes III.ii.32. In the Jekyll & Hyde context, the word poena (= punishment) is omitted, because it’s given in English: “punishment coming, pede claudo”. So I don’t think pede claudo qualifies for a Wiktionary entry (though pede poena claudo might qualify as a Latin proverb). --Zundark (talk) 15:33, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
• proto-Christian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• planetary phase
• paint a picture -- figurative sense? SoP?
• Pandu Hawaldar (India): Indian constabulary (and not officers) were recruited mostly from village areas. Pandu Ram was a common name in the villages.
  • Maybe foreign language
• pay the shot
• Penelopes (US): (slang) the police; coined by the SF Bay Area rap artist E-40.
• Purrer, someone from Wigan, a "pie-eater"
• pimple pole
• pinch an inch
• pinch to grow an inch
• pine float
• Plastics or plastics (Australia): Colloquial term used by Australian state police to refer to the Australian Federal Police.
  • Started Citations:plastics. Not sure if this should be plural/collective only, or at plastic with (chiefly in the plural). It's hard to find quotations because search results are masked by references to plastic material, even in a police context.
• plump full
• power to burn
• pressed open seam a seam that has two seam allowances that are each pressed flat at its own side of the seam
• pro-situ - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or pro-Situ - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (roughly meaning influenced by or aligned with the Situationist International)
• protocol analyzer (Special:WhatLinksHere/protocol analyzer) - in networking / technology. I've heard this term was coined by Hewlett-Packard, see also sniffer (networking sense)
• pull level Synonym with draw level but with the nuance of requiring effort. Seems common in football "The hosts pulled level after goals from Smyth and Fisher"
• pull tab - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
  • w:Pull tab
• purple hair See https://lwn.net/Articles/766699/#Comments (open-access on Oct. 11, 2018); a commenter says "I do not support your purple-hair version of Linux." which someone explains as "it's an obscure derogatory term with similar meaning to "SJW" or "feminist", occasionally used in such upstanding places as 4chan, referring to a stereotypical young woman with purple hair and a Tumblr account and socially liberal views." I could add it, but I'm having trouble finding usable cites
  • It's probably not limited to purple… *blue-hair and *pink-hair e.g. should exist too. — 69.120.64.15 06:59, 30 September 2020 (UTC) -- Yes, see Talk:bluehair. Equinox ◑ 09:48, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
• pxs - prices

R

• reinjector: sth to do with fuel/engines? cf. injector
• rented lips
• retromodernism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• retro-modernist - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• ride herd
• run a tab -- presumably meaning to run up a tab (e.g. bar bill): SoP? needs sense at run?
• royal commission - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - has two possible meanings, see the Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic (talk) 23:11, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
• raise one's hand against - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, lift one's hand against, raise a hand against, raise one's fist against, raise one's sword against, raise arms against, raise one's weapons against, raise weapons against. There can also be adjectives modifying some of the nouns. DCDuring TALK 19:21, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
• recognition of prior learning - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (RPL), prior learning assessment (PLA), prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) - see Wikipedia page ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
• ri - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Not sure what it means in "It has set up a ri people’s hospital in May last year, it being one of the up-to-date medical service centres for the people’s health promotion mushrooming across the country"- Fine Hospital in the Jaeryong Plain

Apparently Korean for "hamlet, village cluster", it is a unit of governance in the DPRK. Cnilep (talk) 02:54, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

• rapid-cycle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library ways
• rule or ruin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• r-bomb, R-bomb

  Several meanings. One related to BlackBerry Messenger. Others for words beginning with 'R": recesssion, racist. Recession might be citable. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:09, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

S

• saccus vasculosus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library one of numerous sources on the web
• sacred moose
• Sagaglalal- A character in a Washington State Native Tribe's mythology. Also known as She who Watches
• Samanean - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Sandgrounder or snuggle tooth, someone from Southport
• save one's ammunition - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• seka - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – see Hildred Geertz and Clifford Geertz, Kinship in Bali (University of Chicago Press, 1975), p. 30.

Geertz & Geertz call it a “term […] in Balinese” and use italics on first mention (p. 30). Is it attested as a loanword in English? There is no request page for Balinese, but I wonder if editors on Wiktionary:Requested entries (Indonesian) could help with the Balinese lemma? Cnilep (talk) 02:57, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

• self-adjust etymology prefix|en|self|adjust - hyphen necessary because one is not adjusting oneself
• self-adjuster
• self-suckering: of plants: unlike verb sucker, seems to mean producing suckers, not destroying them
• sell the farm
• Shades or shades (Ireland): Used in Ireland, from plainclothes Gardaí detectives from the 1970s who were recognisable as they commonly wore sunglasses. Common in Limerick.
• Shijing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a Chinese classic literary work
• shop-floor struggle
• short one

SOP? Maybe in reference to "drawing the short one"? 2804:1B0:1900:9266:79CC:5FEB:7398:8022 12:49, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

• sialoid in taxonomy: probably relates to the insect family Sialidae
  • Probably relates to the (proposed?) taxonomic group Sialoidea, which is within Megaloptera (or possibly equivalent to it?). Not sure how widely accepted it is. Sialidae would be a family within Sialoidea.
• sight-bill - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: "...centralise all the operations of commerce by means of a bank in which all the bills of exchange, drafts and sight-bills representing the bills and the invoices of merchants, will be received." (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Property Is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology [AK Press, 2011], p. 286)
• sit in judgement on
• six bits
• skins game
• slice through
• slip a notch
• smell oneself

What does this mean? 2804:1B0:1900:9266:79CC:5FEB:7398:8022 12:49, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

• Smurfs (Greece/Poland): Used in Greece and Poland. Because of the blue colour of police officers is like smurfs.
• Snippers or snipper (US): An African-American term used mostly in North America.
• Soupie, someone from Welshpool
• spathella - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, spathelle, spathellule - botanical terms. BigDom 14:56, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
• spin crew
• spoogler (or Spoogler?) - the spouse of an IT worker (specifically Google? cf. Xoogler, Noogler)
• stand away
• start a fire under
• stash - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library To keep (a new romantic partner) secret from one's friends and family. — Paul G (talk) 18:31, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
• statute-barred - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - another online dict defines it thus: adjective ENGLISH LAW (especially of a debt claim) no longer legally enforceable owing to a prescribed period of limitation having lapsed.
• Steely, Steel Boy, someone from Sheffield
• stick them up
• stink the joint out
• stop someone cold
• straight cash
• straw horse
• stretch the dollar
• strike up the band
• string a line
• suck eggs
• super mint
• Super Troopers or super trooper (US): Became a common name in Vermont for police in that state after the release of the movie Super Troopers.
• supplementary hypothesis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, see Supplementary hypothesis; one of three theories about the origin of religious texts. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:37, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
• Swansea Jack, someone from Swansea
• sweet wheat - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, a particular type of bread, probably synonymous with something else, such as honey wheat. It's one of the three main bread types used at my work, and it's a brown bread. PseudoSkull (talk) 00:09, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
• seek down - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• single-phase (adjective and verb) single-phased (adjective and verb)
• sweat and graft, graft and sweat. This is a straightforward application of the third definition of graft, but seeing that used to mean simple labor rather than corruption is unfamiliar to my eyes, and it seems like a special idiom. Question: is it specifically British?

Yes, both the American sense of corruption and the British sense of hard work for both noun and verb seem to have appeared independently in the 1850s. The British sense is cited from 1853 in the OED. I've only recently heard the American sense here in the UK. Dbfirs 18:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

• stop surface. Come across in a question about apodisation; found in one dict. without explanation. Josh L. (talk)
• sphota: see Sphota: something in Indian linguistics, but what? - It is a word itself, an abstract sort of like a platonic ideal of a word, that is understood as a whole. However, I am not convinced this is an English word. All references I find italicize it, and usually spell it sphoṭa, not sphota. Kiwima (talk) 19:04, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
• staff notation - Sum of parts?
• san jiao - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - San Jiao
• spreeze - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - apparently the Ethiopian version of yuanyang

  Seems to appear only in word lists so people can dump a Z in scrabble. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:28, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

• Sapiezoic : see the French Wiktionary entry -- protoneologism by one person. Kiwima (talk) 01:29, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
• savanna principle - the idea that the human brain has evolved to work well with only certain types of problems.

  Coined at https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.1130. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:47, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

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

While Partridge emphasizes flirting, attestations on the web seem like comments on masculinity and social class – a bit like a (US) douchebag or a twit. [11], [12] Cnilep (talk) 04:19, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

• semivagina - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - EXTREMELY rare, but found a few cites. Context: anatomy Philmonte101 (talk) 14:01, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

I can only find cites by one author (Alexander Macalister) - it seams to be some sort of sheath in the shoulder joint of an insect. Need cites by more authors. Kiwima (talk) 04:43, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Appears to be used enough to add, both in German and English, but I will need to read the papers to make sure they are all using it the same way. Archaic if not obsolete. One modern use appears to refer to a partially formed vagina. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:44, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

• shrammy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — I think it means cold
  • Started Citations:shrammy, but it seems very unlikely to be more than a hapax due to mistranslation from German and a phonological shift specific to Japanese. Apparently means muddy.
• Smt. - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — abbreviation for Shrimati or Shreemati, a term used to refer to a married women in various languages of India

  This is hard to search for because Shrimati is a name and smt is a technology. Got any references? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 23:36, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

• spit muffin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• signal tower - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a railway thing - The same as an interlocking tower?
• substitution class - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha - the proper name for the British overseas territory
• Saint Martin / Collectivity of Saint Martin - an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies in the Caribbean.
• similorer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - presumably, someone who works in similor; also plural, similorers. See s:Page:Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham.djvu/65: "Among the trades that have vanished altogether, are steelyard makers... saw-makers, ... tool-makers... and similorers, whatever they might have been." Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 22 August 2019 (UTC) Even your quoted dictionary says "similorers - whatever they might have been"; so they don't know. We won't attest this to Wikt standards I'm sure. You have to be careful with dictionaries: see use-mention distinction. Equinox ◑ 20:28, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

  Usage here: [13] ("Wright Adam, similorer, Constitution hill"); [14] ("at Birmingham, makers of anvils 5; augers 1... screws 27 ; similorer 1; snuffers 40"; also in [15], a parliamentary publication); [16] ("Simmons Thos. & Son, similorers of metals, 7 court, Lionel-st."); [17] ("Dewsbery Fred. similorer & silverer"). Also, Dictionary of Birmingham is a misnomer; it's not a dictionary. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:46, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

• sinking spell in medicine (an episode of bad feeling?)
• six up and half a dozen down - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• staffage -- (an extended meaning--artists' props used in paintings?) "The second part of Inspired by the East is dominated by nineteenth-century orientalist paintings. There is a symbiotic relationship between the paintings and the exotic artefacts, as orientalist painters habitually made collections of Islamic armour, weapons, woodwork, fabrics, pots and hookahs and they arranged and rearranged those objects in painting after painting in a somewhat indiscriminate fashion, so that one might find Albanian, Persian or even Indian objects featuring in Cairo street scenes. The exhibition includes photographs of the studios of Jean-Leon Gerome and of Frederick Arthur Bridgman which show that those places were cluttered with this sort of useful and evocative staffage." Robert Irwin, "Enthralled by the light" (London: The Times Literary Supplement, October 25, 2019, p. 20).
• subproper in mathematics?

T

• Terramara, Terremare (not sure if these deserve entries or not) - -sche (discuss) 20:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
• tick check - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Might be SOP
• torque teno virus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• take a boo
• take a round out of
• take a strip off
• take the stage
• throw for a bone (throw someone for a bone)
• tie in to
• tip a few
• (have a tough, etc.) time of it
• tube head
• transreason, transration – translation of wikipedia:Zaum
• the fat hit the fire / fat hit the fire / fat hits the fire -- but got the fat is in the fire
• the knock against / knock against (a point against?)
• the rest is gravy or rest is gravy
• the sky isn't blue
• the wolf knocking (reference to Three Little Pigs?)

U

• untouchables (Scotland): A term often used in Scotland for a mobile squad of uniformed Police, term originates from the 1960s US TV series.
• up with: opposite of down with?

W

• watershed mark
• wave the green flag to enthusiastically promote Ireland and its culture. Jingoistic nationalism.

  I think we'd be better off defining wave the flag generally. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:06, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

  Got flag-waving. Equinox ◑ 18:24, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

• white knight syndrome - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• white knuckles - we have white-knuckle
• word is good
• worthy poor
• written in blood
• wolf-pad - ??? (a carved foot on furniture?) "The sculptural ornamentation, in the grotesque figures and wolf-pads on the sarcophagus, shows the new influence of the Low Countries, that was by now making rapid encroachments upon English Renaissance design." James Lees-Milne, Tudor Renaissance (London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1951, p. 36).

  I think it's just a carved foot, wolf + pad, but I'm not certain of that. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:56, 15 August 2020 (UTC)