Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)

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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.

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• We have 1-h TL FM. Along the same lines we could also have 10-h TL FM, 100-h TL FM, and 1,000-h TL FM / 1000-h TL FM. (Seemingly only attested with these numbers).

• 50's progression - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a chord progression, I-vi-IV-V.
  • Cited: Citations:'50s progression (most common), Citations:50s progression, Citations:50's progression
  • Also cited Citations:ice cream changes and Citations:doo-wop progression, which are synonymous.
  • Also see '50s progression.

• I am interested in seeing a fuller coverage of plate tectonics and submarine features like plates themselves (Philippine Sea Plate, Scotia Plate), oil fields (Chengbei, I have no list of these), trenches (Manila Trench, Mariana Trench), ridges (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise), and similar (James Shoal, Darwin Mounds) etc. This kind of work will be mostly based in academic literature. I hope to see a more adequate system of categories developed. To show you how woefully inadequate Wiktionary is at this time (2022), I just today created Mid-Atlantic Ridge and dumped it into Category:Oceanography and Category:Places. See List of submarine topographical features, List of reefs --Geographyinitiative (talk) 21:35, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

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• absement - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• abhorrentation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Achilles number - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Achilles' number - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library- see w:Achilles number
• æsh - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the traditional name for the æ ligature, mentioned on the Wikipedia article Æ "its traditional name in English is still ash, or æsh if the ligature is included"
• Ash Wednesday - a rare cocktail
• a-mah - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (spelling uncertain) ~IPA^(key): /ˈʌ mɑː/ — (young children's slang, especially in school, Melbourne, 1980's)(interjection) expressing (mild) disapproval and foreshadowing that the 'target' person is likely to get into trouble from e.g. the teacher. Sample usage: A-mah! You're in trouble now, Daniel — you broke the teacher's chalk. I'm going to tell on you! Note: I do not think that this is closely related to existing senses of amah or um, ah.
  • Spelled um-mah: "some kid was like 'um-mah I'm dobbing on you'" [1]
  • Spelled ummmah: "Ok time travel back to the 80s :) // I went to a few schools and remember kids saying 'ummmah' when trouble was a brewing. // I was talking about it with my wife recently, and we both remember it. My kids think I'm nuts, so the saying is long gone. :)"; "We used to say it specifically when someone was going to get dobbed on." [2]
  • ah ma / uh ah / um mah / am uhh / ummaa "Asking here in the wider Australian community as I originally thought this saying was local, but I've had Victorians and people from New South Wales say they have heard it (I'm from Queensland) // When I was younger, I recall we used to say "ahh mah" whenever someone did something bad. (The "mah" sound was normally drawn out). I haven't heard it in years, until a kid said it when her mother dropped a bowl and shattered it. // I remember using it when someone was in trouble or as an "oh no"." "In welsh primary school in the early 80s we’d say ‘am uhh’." [3]. The spelling ummaa is referenced to [4]

So pronunciation could alternatively be ~IPA^(key): /ˈʌm mɑː/.

In my British infant/junior schools in the '80s, there was the wide-eyed "ummmmm, I'm telling!" if you saw somebody else do something bad, and were threatening to tell the teacher. See this Reddit discussion: [5]. I also previously mentioned this on Talk:um. Equinox ◑ 14:47, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the contribution.

At that Reddit discussion, which is initiated with the spelling om, there are then several variations mentioned, including "Um⁵ er⁶ in Leicestershire!" and "Ours was so stretched out it was basically “om-muh-ne³r⁷”".

///NOTE: Wiktionary's hyperactive security measures are preventing me from quoting verbatim: please read the superscripted letters as if they appeared the superscripted number of times. E.g. the "m" appears five times on Reddit.///

I would imagine for attestation it might possibly be mentioned in published diaries/memoires or children's books. With who-knows-what spelling. But actively searching for it seems to be a difficult task. More like to just keep an eye out in case it crops up.

—DIV (1.145.32.254 12:44, 6 March 2023 (UTC))

• Ames window - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - optical illusion
• analog horror - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - horror film with a lo-tech aesthetic
• Anglo-Chinese - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - refers to a type of school in Hong Kong that uses English as the medium of instruction; note that "Anglo-Chinese School" seems to be a commonly found name for schools taught in English with ethnic Chinese students in and around South East Asia.

  2013, Rumjahn Hoosain, Psycholinguistic Implications for Linguistic Relativity: A Case Study of Chinese, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 74:

  It was after this examination that individual pupils proceeded to Anglo-Chinese or Chinese secondary schools, mainly depending on parental choice.

  2010, Liying Cheng, Andy Curtis, English Language Assessment and the Chinese Learner, Routledge, →ISBN, page 63:

  In general, Syllabus A was designed for Chinese secondary school students and Syllabus B for Anglo-Chinese school students.

  2002, Ting-Hong Wong, Hegemonies Compared: State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 146:

  Also, since the prewar period, there had been a small but steady flow of students from the Anglo-Chinese schools in Hong Kong to universities in China.

• auxiliary motor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• axle-seal - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• all big guns - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library military term. A plan to move a planet-fortress close to another planet-fortress is referred to as following the "all big guns doctrine". Wikipedia page redirects to dreadnought.__Gamren (talk) 01:24, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
• Angermannic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - mentioned as a descendant language in various Old Norse Entries, see slyðra as an example

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• bababooey - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• backerboard - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, backer board - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Barr limestone - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a type of rock, named for its type locality, Great Barr. in "On the Occurrence of Caradoc Sandstone at Great Barr, South Staffordshire", by Joseph Beete Jukes; [6]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:43, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
• basketball shorts - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• battery box - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• battery charger - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library SOP?
• biglobose - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Existing entry is Italian. Used in botany. What part of a plant does it apply to: flower, seed, or...? DCDuring (talk) 16:06, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
• biovalorization - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Functional Proteins from Biovalorization of Peanut Meal
• bite one's nails - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Figuratively, to worry or fret over something. We have English nail biter, but no corresponding verb terms. See also chew on one's nails.
• bitsa - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the same as bitzer, but check whether citable ([7], [8]). There is also a sense related to motorcycles; does that also apply to bitzer?
• black landing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library noun and verb. Seems to refer to illegal trawling; possibly specific to Shetland, as I came across it in an episode of Shetland.
• boggle eyed - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / boggle-eyed - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library [1963 usage: He stood there boggle eyed.]
• borrie - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library/borry - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or borie - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library/bory - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library?), rhyming with lorry — a turd (in the literal sense); children's playground slang from Melbourne in the 1980's. A few entries in the Urban Dictionary for borry or Borrie at Urban Dictionary at [9], including "Regional Australian slang word for shit." "in 1924, Edwin Fullarton Borrie became Melbourne's first drains engineer, earning him the legacy of naming rights for a Lake Borrie - The wetlands in the middle of the infamous Werribee sewage treatment plant. He also earned the honour of becoming synonomous with shit." The latter is partially validated at [10]: "On returning to the Board of Works, he gave his attention to extending the sewerage system and to planning for growth." I also note another entry in Urban Dictionary at [11], as boris (singular).
• buffalo trace - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library A trackway (trace) formed by the migration of Buffalo ([12]; [13]). The source of several United States place names (see Buffalo Trace). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:32, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

If trace has this sense, wouldn't that make this term SOP? (a trace made by buffalo?)--Simplificationalizer (talk) 01:23, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

• betacist - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - mentioned in the context of Catalan/Valencian
• bye-wash - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, byewash - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - synonymous with by-wash?

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• caducted property - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - property without heirs/successors
• CapEx - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - abbreviation for capital expenditure
• caramboxin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• charge character - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• chew on one's nails - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Figuratively, to worry or fret over something. We have English nail biter, but no corresponding verb terms. See also bite one's nails.
• chip damage - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• chloroatranorin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - some chemical
• chrestic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library See Citations:chrestic - I'm not sure about the 1928 cite though, which is a snippet view on GoogleBooks, or the definition.
  • I added two mentions, one a definition from Century Dictionary (1896). By the way, the 1928 source includes chrematistic activity, which the Century Dictionary suggests is the study of economics, so chrestic courses in that sentence might be an error. Cnilep (talk) 02:27, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
    • Thanks for that, I missed the dictionary reference (though it is a mention and the definition is somewhat confusing) but the Bentham quote seems a little dubious as he seems to be using the word catastatico-chrestic, or catastaticochrestic with a line break, rather than chrestic itself (similar to the way it appears as a suffix in achrestic and polychrestic). You're probably right about the iffy nature of the 1928 cite though. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:36, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
      • FWIW, I looked through a loong list of "physiurgics" in Bentham's Chrestomathia, but couldn't find chrestic physiurgics nor catastatico-chrestic anything. Cnilep (talk) 01:19, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
• clerk of the works - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see clerk of the works
  • clerk of works - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library is the more common form (at least in the UK), and is the title to which the above Wikipedia link redirects. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:42, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
• clock onto - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - seems to mean something like "to record data on a device", uses are computer sciencey and too detailed for me to grok. 2601:154:180:97C0:5D7D:540D:245B:9EC6
• clue up - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library There's a nautical meaning I can't figure out. | Probably same as clew nautical verb sense. Equinox ◑ 20:51, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
• clyack - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - possibly also attestable in scots.
• cocaine decor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - 80s interior design style. See Citations:cocaine_decor
• conflict theory - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• conjugation (“declension, inflection of nouns etc.)”) - attestable? colloquial it occurs (as in WT:RFVN#retinopathia)
• coordinate plane - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Common math term. I'm quite surprised we don't have it.
• core plug - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• collateral clearance - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• certificate of conformity - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• circuit split - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: w:circuit split
• contract breaker - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• contact point - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• cooling water - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• cursed ratio - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library 52% to 48%, the result of the UK's Brexit referendum - often referenced on Twitter, may be difficult to cite elsewhere
• come from away - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / come-from-away - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – Canadian English; Macmillan; "Should the term 'come from away' be banned?"; "Should We Still be Saying 'Come-from-Away'?"; see also: from away
• clicksquatter - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Something on websites, where a thing happens when you click anywhere.__Gamren (talk) 14:08, 30 May 2023 (UTC) Can't be found even in Google Web search. Equinox ◑ 14:13, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

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• daily build - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - probably not SOP, as it's semantically limited to a very specific type of build; nightly build is a synonym
• dealgan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - type of Gaelic spindle
• decausativise - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, decausativize - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• decausativisation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, decausativization - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

These seem to be fairly well attested in specialist literature, but it will take a braver person than me to attempt a gloss that doesn't confuse decausativisation with anticausativisation. Cnilep (talk) 06:22, 7 June 2023 (UTC)

• devil in one's eyes - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - not sure what it means. Used in phrases like "to have the devil in one's eyes" and "to see the devil in someone's eyes"
• devil's fingers - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - various plants and fungi
• devil's lane - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - parallel boundary fences https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/devils-lane/ ; earliest 1872? https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_End_of_the_World/SqkEAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22devil%27s+lane%22&pg=PA27&printsec=frontcover
• disoperative - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - sort of opposite of cooperative?
• discovery - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - chess sense, when moving one piece out of the way uncovers an attack by another piece on an enemy piece (often a check, but I've seen it used in other cases). Even though it's arguably covered by "An act of uncovering or revealing something", it's a pretty specific meaning. Searching for "rook discoveries" or "bishop discoveries" on Google Books may help to isolate uses of this sense.
• doctoral advisor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• drive someone to drink - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/drive+me+to+drink

This seems pretty SOP. drive sense 12, drink sense 3. --Simplificationalizer (talk) 22:21, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

• drop spindle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - spinning tool
• do one's homework - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Doomsday Clock - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• double lesson - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or double period - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - two consecutive lessons/periods that are both the same subject
• distributor rotor arm - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• draining filter - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term

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• eager (verb): eagering - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, eagered - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library "to be eager to", probably nonstandard
• earwards - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (also 'earward') - towards the ear (e.g. speech/utterance so directed).

1. • 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 210:

     I comforted her with readings from this Aquinas because he says it's good for you. And I said, tenderly earwards, heads on the pillow, that from manure, lilies grow.

• economic gardening - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• ECT - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - abbreviation of eternal/endless conscious torment, a view of the nature of Hell
• eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (adjective) very good, very fine.
• eks dee - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - alt sp of XD - "Haha people have emotions so funny eks dee"
• elephant test - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Eser - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Russian эсер, a person from PSR in Tsarist Russia and early Soviet Russia. Also, left Eser, terrorist Eser (?) (a person from the autonomous battle wing of PSR), March Eser and Ukrainian Eser (a person from USRP)
• esculate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Alt. form of esculent; see [14]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:20, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
• etoki - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• exhaust tip - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• enbug - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
  • エンバグ
• Eugenean - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - noun: a person from Eugene, Oregon; adjective: of or relating to Eugene, Oregon; alternative spelling of Eugenian; you can find numerous web documents under both Eugenean and Eugenian; see for example: https://www.eugene-or.gov/2885/, https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/55310/, https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/38749/, all from the City of Eugene
• ex-dividend date - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, ex date - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see ex dividend date ex dividend, ex- + dividend

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• fanzone - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - area for fans
• Fargoverse - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and/or fargoverse (about a movie and a TV series)
• flash Harry - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - an ostentatious man (possibly Scottish)
• flatcake - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• footstalk - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; new sense: a flagellum; see. for example Oxley, Frederick (1884) On Protospongia pedicellata, a new compound infusorian, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, pp.530-532. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:12, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• foot-stalk - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - alt. form of footstalk. In "Note On a Thecated Rotifer from Sutton Park, Midland Naturalist, 1:317. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:12, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
• fuck it up - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - used as a call of encouragement, but I'm not sure the actual sense.

2016, “Who Sexy I'm Sexy”, performed by Big Will:

Jersey fuck it up right now/B-More fuck it up right now/DC fuck it up right now/Philly fuck it up right now

• flurb

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• gay baby jail - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, referring to an actual ad-hoc "jail" used to confine e.g. a pet (examples: [15], [16]); a fictional location (often depicted in fanart) in which a character or person is confined (examples: [17], [18], [19]); or a synonym for a softlock (examples: [20], [21]). Analogous to horny jail.
• general-in-chief - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / general in chief
• ghost bullet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - untraceable ammunition with no serial number, often homemade or antique, and sometimes sold on the black market; compare ghost gun
• great vein - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the large vein under the chin / on the neck, close to the Adam's apple. the large vein cut when slitting one's throat

1997, Globe Fearon, Prentice Hall Choices in Literature, Globe Fearon, →ISBN:

A little more lather here under the chin, on the Adam's apple, right near the great vein. How hot it is! Torres must be sweating just as I am.

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• Haskell - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - This was apparently the old name for the Hi-Point firearms company[22]. It appears here[23] and could well be worth an entry if we find two other decent citations - I created Citations:Haskell, though the fact that the citation is in Jamaican Creole rather than pure English might complicate matters.
• haul short - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library something nautical [24], [25], [26], [27] (note the last one applies it, I think, to a sail, not a boat). My best guess was "to anchor in shallow water" or something similar, but I don't see clear proof of that. It's hard to google cuz of all the uses of "short-haul" shipping. (Numbix talk)
• hemiquinonoid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• highlarious - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - humorous form of hilarious
• hobbock - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a kind of a pail

Apparently a pail with two handles; see w:de:Hobbock. I've seen a few mentions in English (though mostly German-language contexts), but will keep looking for actual usage. Cnilep (talk) 06:10, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Citations:hobbock

• honour school - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – seems to have an idiomatic meaning in British English
• How does one spell relief? - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library -- reference to that Rolaids commercial. The "expected" answer would be R-O-L-A-I-D-S. Most often in 2nd person ("How do you..."), but is also in 1st person, and there's a cite in 3rd person in an 80s issue of Word Ways, mentioning some famous singer. Have no clue how to spell this term.
• hypotypical - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: seems to be used only to describe ovaries, maybe guinea-pig ovaries! (but compare hypertypical and see hypo- prefix)
• hydraulic suspension - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term

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• ignition cable - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• Illyrism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library former nationalistic movement
• injection pump - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term
• interdasting - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (corruption of interesting)
• intragnizent - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (corruption of intransigent)
• Izuna drop - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

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• job well done - possibly not SOP... Van Man Fan (talk) 19:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

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• keyed alike - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and keyed to differ - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library whether multiple locks can use the same key
• khoriz - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - filling for gata
• Kvenland - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

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• lophose
• light bill - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – another term for "electricity bill", stemming from the fact that early home electrification was done for the purposes of electric lighting; usage examples: "To Pay your Water & Light bill click…"; Dancing to Pay the Light Bill (book title); How much will my light bill go up?; Miami-Dade CAHSD provides light bill assistance to eligible households; It paid my whole light bill for this month; Light Bill Assistance; You’ve got another month to pay the Light Bill in New Orleans.
• let's have it - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - British slang?

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• MA63 - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Malaysian English, term related to an agreement between the government of Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak. The 63 is from the year of the agreement, 1963. PulauKakatua19 (talk) 07:38, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
• membership (verb) membershipping - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library membershipped - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• microcystin-LR - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — a variety of microcystin, as per wikipedia:Microcystin-LR. (I would add it, but not sure of the best way. —DIV)
• menstrual disc - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• milk before meat - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a strategy where advocates of an ideology present their most palatable points first and leave out the controversial bits, described e.g. here and also in plenty of durably archived sources. From 1 Corinthians 3:2.

• money-monger - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also moneymonger - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - A dealer in money; a usurer.

• mooring cell - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a nautical term for a type of mooring for boats usually metal wrapped and filled with earth, concrete, or other solid object often used by barges. examples of use - https://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/Portals/38/docs/navigation/charts/Charts%20141%20153%20GreenupPool.pdf, http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784482612.018, https://www.radioiowa.com/2021/03/16/dot-putting-money-into-mississippi-river-mooring-for-barges/. Related terms mooring.
• Medelpadian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - supposed language mentioned in several Old Norse entries, such as Old Norse troða
• musical chairs effect - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

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• nawmean - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, naw mean - "know what I mean?"
• nightly build - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - synonym of daily build (requested above)
• nonvert - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - someone who "converts" to irreligion (only add if citable).
• Nordic model - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - two senses, an economic system and an approach to legislating prostitution.
• not saying much - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - not a big deal
• Nilandian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - language mentioned in Old Norse valtr

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• omni-considerate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Considering many points of view and synthesizing a new inclusive perspective.
• old hunting ground - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – besides the literal meaning, also has an idiomatic sense referring to a location one frequented in the past:
  • "I jumped in the car [and drove] to Farringdon, a familiar and old hunting ground of mine" [28]
  • "David Jason on [sitcom] Open All Hours: 'It was very emotional to return to the old hunting ground'" [29]
  • "Jason Bourne is forced to take action and return to his old hunting ground of Asia" [30]
• on one's bullshit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (often specifically "back on one's bullshit"): engaging in recognizable idiosyncratic behaviors, typically those that are perceived as harmful to oneself or others. Sometimes used humorously, and sometimes used in a positive sense to suggest self-actualization. See definitions at [31] and discussion at [32]. See usages at [33], [34], [35].

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• Palestinism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - might have multiple meanings; something related to, but apparently not identical to, Zionism (esp. if you restrict search results to pre-1948), or (in more modern use) support for Arab Palestinians. I’m not sure though.
• Panamic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - in the name of several marine organisms found off the pacific coast of central america.
• paroptic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Citations:paroptic
• pentaphthong - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a vowel combination involving five vowels
• phi body - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a specific object in microbiology, named after the Greek letter phi due to its shape (ellipsoid + rod/filament)
• phonaton - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a phonological concept in (heterodox?) linguistics

  Not just a typo for phonation?

• pin curl - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• pkaila - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, bkaila - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, pkeila - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, a Jewish Tunisian spinach stew used as a condiment.
• political operative - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• pondery - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - rare, meaning ponderous? [36], [37], [38], [39]
• pre-concealer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or preconcealer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - something in cosmetics. JJ72 Bassist (talk) 23:07, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
• prelest - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - in Eastern Orthodoxy, borrowed from Russian прелесть (prelestʹ); only add if enough convincing non-italicized uses exist, e.g. [40], [41], [42], [43]
• Priestly - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - of or pertaining to the Priestly source (P). When capitalized in Biblical criticism it almost always refers to the P source. E.g., "Priestly theology", "Priestly view", "Priestly language". When lowercase it's less clear (for an example where a distinction based on capitalization is made, see the first two sentences on this page). But maybe this could just be added as a sense of priestly. I considered also adding Priestly source as a requested entry, but that could potentially be seen as SOP. I can also find things like Priestly author, Priestly writer, etc. Not sure.
• prodistant - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - surprisingly well-attested obsolete variant of Protestant, and not just as a pronunciation spelling. check which capitalization(s) and part(s) of speech (noun vs. adj) are attested though. [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53], etc. (there are more)
• progressive calisthenics - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Purimic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• putt from the rough - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - seems to mean (1) do things the hard way and (2) (a) have anal sex (b) be a gay male, but I'm not sure. Also not sure what the literal meaning in golf is.
• Pythag - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - short for Pythagoras theorem

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• rasgueo - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• ratchet strap - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• relational - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - as used in our labels in, eg, some Polish entries, strongly reminiscent of attributive in "attributive noun".
• rescue buoy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - distinct from life buoy, as it seems to be more substantial
• renom - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - verb: to renominate, noun?: renominee?
• Rev'd - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - reverend, examples: [54], [55]
• Robmanians - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - noun: (slang) slur about Romanian people, implying they steal things. Usually used (generally ironically) by Balkan or Eastern European subreddits (e.g. r/balkans_irl or 2visegrad4u)
• running total - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, rolling total - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, rolling sum - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see running total

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• sacra - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - new sense(s); [56], [57], [58], [59], [60]
• saleable area - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• scragfight - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library example here
• sea plantain - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a kind of plant, scientific name Plantago maritima
• sealed class - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• sex sells - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - marketing adage. Removed without discussion by User:Van Man Fan as SOP but I don't think it is.
• should on oneself - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - to unnecessarily impose judgment on oneself with a "should" statement.
• Shunnamite, Shunammite, Shunam
• six-best seller (popular in the 1920s?)
• skeeter - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - An annoying or unlikeable person, especially a child. No doubt this term came about from people comparing such people to mosquitoes and the capitalised form Skeeter is easily found on GoogleBooks and at Skeeter but apparently the small-case form exists too. It's mentioned in the quote I've just added to skeet (Newfoundland insult).
• skeester - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - An American insult that is a possible origin of the Newfoundland word skeet (along with skite and skeeter). Perhaps it is itself related to skeeter and skeezer?
• Slavic draw - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - archery technique
• sloppy shoulders - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see urban dict

There’s only one definition for this on urban dict and 3 for ‘slopey shoulders’ which seems to be the main term with a similar meaning. This, and variants like ‘slopey shouldered’, seems to be used to mean weak/lazy/cowardly/feminine/buck-passing about men and seems to stem from various ‘trans investigators’ (or ‘transvestigators’) on Twitter/YouTube/TikTok who make wild claims that various female celebrities are actually male transexuals. It is apparently chiefly a British (especially Scottish) insult judging by Twitter but I’ve never heard it said IRL. Perhaps it originated in postings from the original YouTube and TikTok channels of the Northern English YouTuber who currently posts on YT on the channel called ‘Trans Investigator Backup’? —-Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:36, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

• sparmer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - some kind of bed-cloth. "[if] it were not cut already for the sparmer of a bed they should have it", Walter Ralegh (father of the admiral), 1549, speaking about a cope which he had stolen from the church of St. Sidwell at Exeter (The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy, pp. 488, 489).
• spensive - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - pronunciation spelling/reduction of "expensive", sometimes also 'spensive. Citable from Usenet (possibly even books, at least for the form with the apostrophe).
• spoilerage - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• supramoral - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - e.g. [61]
• surveillance detection route
• side-on - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library blazing omission, guys... So much so that I didn't even add it with a lazy {{rfdef}} for Kiwima (talk • contribs) to do. We should be ashamed. Van Man Fan (talk) 19:50, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
• starve the beast - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - political strategy
• strongly-worded - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - this is euphemistic, right? no one would speak of a "strongly-worded letter of recommendation".
• subway shirt - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• sweep second hand - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a technical term for a type of second hand on a clock face that seems to have more than one definition.
• service book - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a car term / religious book
• the struggle is real (ironic when dealing with minor problems): mentioned all over Google
• synaphe - a note connecting two tetrachords
• suspended congress - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a sex position, see Urban Dictionary

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• take someone over one's knee - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - e.g. search Google Books for "take (him/you) over (my/the) knee". Idiomatic (for corporal punishment, or discipline in general)? In some cases the subsequent action (e.g., spanking) is not stated explicitly, so it wouldn't be clear what was implied without specific cultural knowledge. | Compare OTK. Equinox ◑ 15:27, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

It's certainly idiomatic but someone can 'put/bend/throw/have/turn/place/drape someone over their knee' too, or 'earn a trip over their knee', or get or go[62] over their knee, so perhaps it belongs at 'over one's knee' instead? --Overlordnat1 (talk) 22:46, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

• tallow-catch - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - found in Shakespeare and the OED
• tamga - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see тамга and bumerke. Same as пас (pas) (?) in Komi Zyrian, also тисте.
• tang - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the part of an implement inside or forming part of the handle, see the Wikipedia article Tang (tools) This will be etymology 5.

It seems to me that this is already covered in Etymology 1. To quote:

A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part. // The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle. // (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. // The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.

(Incidentally, I think the numbering could have grouped all of those together.) —DIV (1.145.63.208 11:42, 25 May 2023 (UTC))

• tape dispenser - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• tax band - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• tender mercies - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• tetraphthong - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a vowel combination involving four vowels
• thecated - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - alt. form of thecate; the state of having a theca. In "Note On a Thecated Rotifer from Sutton Park, Midland Naturalist, 1:317. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:51, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
• there enlies - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - is this eggcorn/malapropism worthy of an entry? Citations:there enlies.
• three-legs-of-the-stoolism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, three legged stoolism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library may be nonce?
• tiger stripe - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - cited in the sense of "stretch mark"; this seems to have other idiomatic meanings on Google Books/Scholar/Groups too
• tombola / tom bowler (spelling uncertain/varies); pronunciation as tom-BOWL-a. tombola marbles - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — a medium-sized marble. Slang in Australia (and beyond) circa 1950's to 1980's; I can vouch for usage in Victoria in the 1980's, from my memory being about 1.75 times the diameter of a regular marble (contra see linked discussion). I suspect there are quite a few words from marbles (along with other childhood slang, especially dated/obsolete slang) that have not been included in WT as yet (I have previously raised umm-maahhh/amah/etc.). Resources are available online, e.g. Mental Floss goes over some U.S. slang. I seem to recall the small, plain marbles being called duds, I think cat's eyes is a common one, I believe there was a type called a galaxy that had an opaque speckled exterior, there were semi-mirrored marbles whose name I forget, and the largest marbles' names I'm a bit hazy on, but I seem to vaguely recall them being named giant, super-giant, etc. The Macquarie discussion mentions birdcage, which brings to my mind a clear marble with a simple pattern of brightly coloured streamers running like the longitudes on a globe (i.e. meridians) just beneath the surface (contra [63]). —DIV (1.145.63.208 11:57, 23 May 2023 (UTC))

(Or was dud an alternative name for a basic, small cat's eye marble?) —DIV (1.145.63.208 11:36, 25 May 2023 (UTC))

• toonie - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - possibly specific to Charlestown, Boston, MA; a gentrifier, as opposed to a townie (an established working-class resident), example
• tourist card - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• toxant - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library As seen here (1888), here (1966) or here (1982).
• train (verb) new sense: to be delayed by a railway train that has stopped over a crossing, blocking a road or footpath. In [64]: "The problem has become so endemic in Hammond that getting “trained,” or stalled at crossings, has become a verb.". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:00, 27 April 2023 (UTC) | Comment: if you are "getting trained", that's the passive: so it doesn't mean "to be delayed" but rather "to delay". Equinox ◑ 21:20, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
• transmodulator - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• turned ankle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - could refer to a twisted and thus sprained ankle or a "nicely turned ankle" (dated), a shapely, attractive ankle | No, it's not right to create a "turned ankle" entry for the phrase "nicely turned ankle": it's not parsed that way. Equinox ◑ 16:14, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
• tubbal - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• tut - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - This is part of a beer barrel attached to a shive but it's hard to find a clear definition and durable and fully relevant sources to cite. There was a branded chain of pubs, part of the larger Greene King chain, which had the faux-traditional name 'Tut 'N' Shive' (such as the one I used to drink in in Kenilworth that the locals called 'The Tut' long after it had changed it's name back to the original one of 'The Bear and Ragged Staff') but most of these have changed name or closed since. The Daily Mail claimed in 2011 that there were 14 pubs with this name[65]. Apparently in Doncaster, there still is a pub with this name though (the original one?) and until very recently there still were in Leeds and Cardiff (they still appear as open in a Google Maps search!). See Citations:tut.

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• um-mah etc. — see request at a-mah.
• unipectinated - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see pectinated. In George Vernon Hudson (1928), The butterflies and moths of New Zealand p.134. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:44, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
• unkindest cut of all - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• USB drop attack
• Upper identity See http://sam.gov.tr/pdf/perceptions/Volume-IX/autumn-2004/Hasan-Ulusoy4.pdf . I think this means a common shared aspect of a cultural identity that sort of has "slots" to be modified at a local level. Pretty sure that this as "upper ontology" will have a common source... but that's going to be hard to prove 80.235.87.231 14:50, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

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• vegan straightedge - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• vegetare - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - verb, to be vegetarian, to adhere to a vegetarian diet. Found two independent examples so far: [66], [67]. Only create if at least one more turns up.
  • Thought I had found one [68], but I'm not sure if it's the same sense. What do you think? Cnilep (talk) 07:21, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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• weaponized incompetence - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - The behavior of purposefully executing a task or duty poorly to appear as incompetent.
• weigh boat - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• welch plug - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / Welch plug - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• whale eye - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a term used by dog trainers to describe a dog's body language when the whites of the dog's eyes (the sclera) are visible, as the dog turns its head away from something but still keeps its eyes on it; this behavior is often considered to be an indicator of anxiety
• whatever helps you sleep at night - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - implies that the person spoken to is deluded so as to avoid feeling guilt, embarrassment, dread, etc.
• wifi egg - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - seems to be mostly East Asian usage (South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore)?
• wind deflector - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - on a car
• write with one hand - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - overly/unnecessarily horny writing

I've heard "type with one hand" as well, with the same sense, mutatis mutandis, and "draw with one hand" seems right around the corner. Perhaps this would fit better at with one hand? Still not entirely on board. --Simplificationalizer (talk) 22:39, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

• wulver - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - mythological wolf-like creature from Shetland folklore
• W^X - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

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• xvx - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

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Yoxing - Hiccupping/Hiccoughing

Looks like a variant of yexing.

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• zoink - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, zoinked - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, zoink out - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, zoinked out - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (make/become) delirious from drug use, among other meanings. I got some usenet quotes from the first chronological page of results on Groups - you could keep going to find more.

Perhaps a blend/portmanteau of zonk and yoink? --Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Specialized jargon or slang

Military

There are dictionaries of military slang which can confirm these, but at least one genuine use should be identified before a term is created.

• Anvil or anvil — RAF speak — the sound-proofed, darkened box that Scopies sit in, staring at a screen that looks like it’s playing a Sinclair ZX81 game, apparently to warn of any incoming Bogies.
• bennied - RAF speak - used during tour of Falkland Islands. To have to remain in FI after date due to leave, usually due to replacement unavailability. (Cf. Benny sense of Falkland Islander.)
• bind - RAF speak - not a nice job
• binder - RAF speak - someone complaining
• binding - RAF speak - complaining
• black-outs- RAF speak - knickers worn by the WAAF, navy-blue winter-weights
  • and twilights - RAF speak - WAAF underwear, light coloured, summer-weight
    • Cited: Citations:twilights
• gardening - RAF speak- sowing mines in water from a low height
• garnish; the military sense, related to camouflaging, see e.g. commons:Page:"Garnish Nets Correctly" - NARA - 514018.tif
• hang up or hang-up or hangup - RAF speak - Bomb failed to release.
• KRS - RAF speak - King's Regulations, the rules and regulations governing the Royal Air Force
• spoof - RAF speak a diversionary raid or operation
• Trident Board (USN SEAL examination panel)
• vegetable - RAF speak acoustic or magnetic mines

Textiles

These were originally added under the appropriate letters, but require similar specialized knowledge or research.

• bull denim - a 3x1 twill weave piece dyed fabric, made from coarse yarns. Weights can vary from 9 ozs/sq yard up to the standard 14 ozs/sq yard. Bull Denim is essentially a denim without indigo
• CC - Comments Client
• Classic CO- Dutch: ontwerp van een doorlopend dessin
• Co - Cotton
• COJ - carry over jeans
• Ea - Elasthane
  • elastane? —DIV (1.145.80.173 12:01, 25 July 2022 (UTC))
• L - Ligne [note: size of button]
• l/s - long sleeve
• loop tag - a bartack which is 'loose' in the middle
• m/b - must be [note: this is not a polite way of communicating]
• moustache - abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Whiskers)
• open end spinning - a technology for creating yarn without using a spindle. This system is much less labour intensive and faster than ring spinning
• PfA - Process for Approval
• P.I. or P:I: - Proforma Invoice
• proto - sample before SMS to see the effect and reaction to fabrics artworks and treatments
• R.E. or RE - Raw Essentials
• Single Jersey or single jersey - Single knit fabrics and jersey knits are light to medium weight fabrics with flat vertical ribs on the right side and dominant horizontal lines on the wrong side. Fabric stretches from 20 to 25% across the grain.
• s/off or strike off- a full sized cropped section taken from the overall image/artwork. It’s produced on the same material with the same finishing as the final product. It provides you with an exact sample of the final product
• s/s - short sleeve
• SS - Side Seam
• SW- Sweat
• TC - textile color
• TP - textile paper
• whiskers- abrasion of lines to imitate pre-worn garment (a.k.a Moustache)

Pet bird abbreviations

Should be citable from Usenet.

See [69] for the list. (Was going to copy it here verbatim with links, but decided not to, since that might be a copyright violation.)

References and notes

This section is meant to assist in the production of definitions by providing supporting citations. Wherever possible, please keep supporting evidence with the entries it is meant to be supporting.