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A-D[edit]
A[edit]
- accoutrement Citations
- acerbic
- aficionado Dictionary of spoken Spanish (1945), page 30
- air noun. 6. pretence that one is better than others
- aleatory
- anapestic
- antediluvian Citations
- antinomy
- aphorism
- apocrypha from Greek
- à propos / apropos
- artifice
- aspersion as in "casting of ~"
- au courant Citations
- audacity
- aureate
- auspice
- autoantonym Coined by Joseph T. Shipley in 1960?
- avarice
- avuncular
B[edit]
- barrier - "Barrier Treaty" in EB1911, "Barrier Beaches of the Atlantic Coast" in PSM, October 1890.
- bate as in "with bated breath" Definition is to abate. Why is defining term so closely related in spelling?
- beleaguer crossword clue for 1970's housewife on sitcom from New York Times (Jan 2008)
- belt and suspenders
- benison Citations
- bildungsroman - German a type of novel which traces the moral history of a main character.
- blunderbuss - add adj usage, Example "blunderbuss approach", quoting The Economist opinion piece on 2021-09-04
- bon mot Citations
- bon vivant person that lives a life filled with luxury.
- bougie
- briar (figurative)
- brouhaha A. find earliest English reference; B. look into disputed French etymology from Hebrew,
- brusk
C[edit]
- cabal
- caper 5. a crime
- cataclysmic "Revelentions of the Yosemite Valley" in PSM Vol 85, The evolution of worlds on page 44 by Lowell
- ceteris paribus Citations
- chaff
- cherub, plural cherubim
- cinéma vérité
- colossal From French, from Latin, from Greek!
- commensurate
- conflation
- connaître and connûmes - used as nous connûmes
- contretemps Citations
- copacetic (US slang), see backstory on origin
- corpuscular
- coxcomb
- coy - sense#4 pretending to be shy
- cromulent from Simpsons
- cur Citations From Middle English curre'.
- curr Citations akin to Icelandic kurr and kurra
- curt Citations
D[edit]
- daft
- deadpan - What is difference between 1st usage "Deliberately impassive" and 3rd "Impassive"?
- dénouement
- desideratum plural desiderata
- desolate
- didactic Citations
- diktat Citations
- disgruntled compared to upset. See differences with former frustrated and latter angry
- dote
- dragoon Citiations
E-L[edit]
E[edit]
- effete Citations
- elusive Citations
- éminence grise
- enervate Citations The Coming Race (1888) by Bulwer-Lytton: "dark memory, resting upon his conscience, served to augment his superstition and enervate the vigour of his resolves"; Persian letters 102 by Montesquieu: "You think that the arts enervate people, and are therefore the cause of the fall of empires. You speak of the fall of that of the ancient Persians, which was the result of their effeminacy"
- enfilade Citations mainly none military uses like in architecture; VIII. The Calton Hill in Edinbrgh (1914) by Stevenson
- epique Citations
- eradicate
- etiology or aetiology
- etymology defined and used at Wiktionary:Etymology
- exalt
- exculpation Citations added Scott's Ivanhoe on 24 Dec 2015
- ex nihilo out of nothing
- extirpate used by Willam F. Buckley, Jr. in intro to Amo, Amas, Amat and More by Euguen Ehrlich
F[edit]
- fabulist Mark Twain essay "Defense of Harriet Shelley"
- fait accompli Citations
- fastidious Citations +1 total 2
- fealty Citations
- fecundity Citations
- felicity Citations
- Fernweh German longing for far off places, far sickness
- fiat
- firebrand Christmas Fireside Stories (1923)
- fool's errand
- fore (interjection) used in golf
- forlorn
- frisson
- furtive
G[edit]
H[edit]
- haply Citations
- happenstance
- harangue Citations
- hayseed Citations N. American casual for unsophisticated
- heartstrings, 2nd meaning from 16th century; How closely related to German Gefühle?
- helmer w:film director as used in Variety (1995)
- higgledy-piggledy Citations
- high jinks (hijinx)
- hobby horse
- hoi polloi 1. common people 2. elite, see w:hoi polloi
- hoyden Citations already using WS for quotations
- hubbub Citations
- hubris Citations
- hyperbole Citations
I[edit]
J[edit]
- jettison
- Jubelcollagen in German jubilation collage meaning supportive speech or cheerleading with language. Is it related to effusive (überschwänglich) or gushing?
K[edit]
L[edit]
- laconic Citations Quote in “Letters CLV Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift”, in The works of Alexander Pope[1], volume 10, (Can we date this quote?), page 456
- lagniappe gift with purchase
- lapidary "if you need intelligent, lapidary prose in a hurry, is to ask a poet to do it" Lezard, Nicholas (2005 May 27) “War: the case against”, in The Guardian[2]
- Lehrerin Citations Lord Aton's Lectures on Modern History page 335.
- levee#Etymology_2 morning reception by a royal
- liminal
- Locofoco US political group in 1835-1840, name derived from locofoco (match)
- loquacious
- lost errand
- Luftschloss German unrealistic dream, air castle
M-Q[edit]
M[edit]
- magnanimity - John Morley (1887)
- marquee of a theater is not a marque
- mein
- mendacious
- mettle
- mien Citations
- muster as in pass muster
N[edit]
- neurodivergent from Tim K.'s blog 2021-Nov
- nidering Citations
- Niebuhrian Citations
- nobby ~ clothing, Mark Twain "Defense of Harriet Shelley"
- nudzh (or alt spelling noodge)
O[edit]
P[edit]
- palimpsest Citations
- panache
- parley
- parsimony Citations; parsimonious
- particulars not complicated, but not commonly used?
- patina
- pedant as in a categorization pedant, used in xkcd cartoon [https:／xkcd.com/2518/
- pelf Citations Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations page 53
- penultimate citation "Clausula" in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians; Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
- perfunctory Citations
- perseverate unknown sources
- persnickety or pernickety
- pestilence and figure Pestilence
- petulant "childishly irritable" differs from pétulant "exuberant, lively"
- philistine see Thomas Carlyle quote from Goethe
- philosophe intellectual of the 18th-century French Enlightenment
- pied noir find citation before 1977.
- pine v. Etymology 3
- pique
- pique Citations
- plenipotentiary from "Gorchakov" in EB1911
- poignant Citations
- prevarication Citations
- priggish from Howards End chapter 17
- probity
- propuh draft in Croatian
- prurient
- puckish from Nina Totenberg's summary of interview of Justice Breyer and his new book, NPR Morning Edition 2021-09-10
- puerile Citations missing quote from w:Thomas De Quincey French and English Manners used in the quotations on main entry
- putsch
Q[edit]
R - Z[edit]
R[edit]
- rabble-rouser or rabble rouser, needs citations, plus why two definitions different?
- rake(e3), rakehell
- rayonnement (in French)
- redound Citations
- reminiscence Citations
- remit (n.) scope Citations
- restive
- riposte Citations
- row 3rd usage as in a noisy disagreement
S[edit]
- sacrebleu "oh my heavens" is Bowdlerized form of sacre Dieu
- salacious Citations
- salacitriumvirateous
- sanguine
- scalawag related to "scamp"? Defined in Random House College, but not on wiktionary as of 2023-Nov
- scamp
- schadenfreude
- schmaltz 2. Excessively sentimental art or music
- scold Citations related to skáld
- scupper
- Selbstsucht "(self-seeking) involves a false secondary idea of disease (Sucht)" in On the Basis of Morality Part III.
- shantyman Citations
- shtick
- soham सोऽहम् meditation mantra "I am"
- stalwart
- steampunk
- strabismus Citations
- strident
- Sturm und Drang
- subterfuge
- succor
- supercilious Citations
- suspiro dual meanings in Portuguese referring to either a meringue dessert and to a sigh, the exaltation of relief or distress. (from Carin D.)
- suzerain Citations
- sybaritic Citations
- syllogism Citations, syllogize
T[edit]
- tacit
- taedium vitae
- temerity
- tempus fugit phrase used on grandfather clocks for "time flies"
- test of time
- torpor
- Torschlusspanik German gate shut panic
- trenchant Citations
- Treppenwitz German witty comeback too late, staircase joke
- tripe missing def for (Slang) false statements
- triumvirate Citations
- troglodyte
- trommel
- trope
- trothplight
- Trotskyist
- trundle Citations
- tzigane considered offensive by Romani people. At the same time, it may not be understood or meant as offensive by non-Romani people, from Byzantine Greek
U[edit]
V[edit]
- vainglorious
- varsel Old Norse for warning
- vice anglais
- vitriolic Citations
- vive la différence
- viz. and videlicet - "Start in Life", "Build a House - The Journal" from Robinson Crusoe
- voluble Citations
W[edit]
- wallow
- weasel in folklore different translations, see Lua error in Module:quote at line 2664: Parameter "no" is not used by this template.
- welter used by de Wall in Preface to The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance "language school in Shibuya, up the hill from the ~ of the fast food restaurants and discount electronics stores"
- Weltschmerz German despair or depression over state of the world
- woke Citations
- wont