Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/2020

A

• abstract away - 1. (transitive) To generalize concepts or their application by using abstraction into a more usable form. 2. (transitive, by extension) To ignore, to omit.
• anatomical pathology and anatomic pathology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_pathology
• action of account = writ of account: following definition is from a old dictionary. Chambers or Webster??? (Law): a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account -Cowell

  I think these old causes of action should appear in the single word form without action of, so it is account where the definition should appear. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 21:00, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

• at its worst - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, at one's worst - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - it's in other dictionaries [1] and the fact that it's often used wrongly suggests it's idiomatic — hippietrail (talk) 09:42, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
• AM/FM - science fiction/engineering term distinguishing "actual machines" from "fucking magic" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs&t=110 Oktbar (talk) 09:36, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

B

• bird-bolt
• boifriend - more than just a cute spelling of boyfriend

C

• Cakalak - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - slang for North Carolina: misspelling? see existing North Cackalack, North Cackalacky
• Cert. Hon. - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• Charlie Chan mustache, Charlie Chan moustache (since we have Nehru jacket, Fu Manchu mustache etc.)
• corn chandler – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corn%20chandler — this looks NISOP to me. Kiwima (talk) 20:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
  • "Corn" as meaning "grain" does not strike my American ears as a common usage. Seems to meet the in hospital test. Opencooper (talk) 18:56, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
• conner - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, [new sense] in the sense used in "two ale conners, two flesh conners" (source); note that we already have Conner, "An English occupational surname from Middle English connere, cunnere 'inspector (of weighs and measures)'". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:23, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

  We have aleconner. Equinox ◑ 18:28, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

  Note use as "ale conner", in the example cited above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:55, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

  While ale conner has been created (thank you), flesh conner has not, and this sense has not been added to conner, so I have restored this entry. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:42, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

  Andy: it seems "wine conner" exists too (dunno whether single word or hyphenated). But I wish you would help doing the research and adding cited entries rather than sitting jealously on requests that might take years to fulfil. Equinox ◑ 02:41, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

  "sitting jealously"? Nope. You've either mistaken me for someone else, or failed to assume good faith. As for wishing I would do some research, not only have I provided a source, above, but please see my replies to you, on this page, under "frienemyship" (research provided 12 August; still awaiting your response to my comment of 19 August) and "QID" (research provided 19 October 2020 - one year ago today - still awaiting your response). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:04, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

• culture bearer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• complex financial instrument - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or just complex instrument.__Gamren (talk) 18:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

D

• defensive end - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library in American football
• demob chart - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• distorian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

  It's out there (blend of distort + historian) but not durably recorded. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

  Citations:distorian

• degragate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - just heard this new cousin of degradate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library on Youtube a couple of times: youtu.be/NYxLBhOgwYg?t=614 and it gets about 20,000 Google Hits. — This unsigned comment was added by Hippietrail (talk • contribs) at 23:32, 15 May 2020 (UTC). Doubt this meets CFI. Equinox ◑ 06:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

  I wish, but unless we have finally upped the minimum number of durably archived independent uses to something more sensible than three over a year, here's a sampling of twenty-eight years worth of dumb from web and print:

  • Slash: But it's real cool. You know, I'm not gonna sit there and degragate... degradate – whatever the word is like (laughs). (origin?) - 1992 - [2]
  • The main concern is that routing a signal through multiple switches could degragate data as the cummulative (sic) impedance of the switches becomes prohibitive. - 2003 - [3] (made it to print!)
  • Organic Melt™ deicer is an environmentally safe, agricultural-based product made with degragated sugar beets - 2013 - [4]
  • I have been trying to learn, teach and implement agricultural practices that aggregate our precious resources rather than degragate them. (with its antonym!) - 2014 - [5]
  • I had a HDD failure and a degragated RAID5. - 2016 - [6]
  • Degragated Mouse Control and Key Input - 2017 - [7]
  • Aboriginal people were called and still get called the N-word as a way to racially degragate. - 2018 - [8]
  • On this one, the wifi signal is crappy and degragates as you use it more. - 2019 - [9]
  • The PAPD degragated that woman’s human right for safety and protection. - 2019 - [10]
  • Aspartate can be degragated to NH4, CO2, and H2O to produce ATP energy by its carbons entering the TCA cycle. - [11]
  • The bottom line is – words empower people, inspire people, educate people, but can even degragate and sterotype (sic) people. - [12]
  • My question is why do the plasmid with insert is fully degragated by EcoR-1.? - [13]

  — hippietrail (talk) 06:39, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

• The racial examples seem to be confused with segregate (or even just typos, since S is next to D). Equinox ◑ 10:41, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

  Actually I'd say one was probably influenced by denigrate, which could actually be part of where degradate/degragate came from. In the one that mentions aboriginal people, we didn't really have racial segregation here in Australia and it's certainly not part of the conversation on race relations here so I'd say that writer was also searching for a word meaning to disparage, to belittle, etc. These are all similar to degrade in the same way that people justify the blurring of deprecate and depreciate for instance. — hippietrail (talk) 23:14, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

  I'd posit these forms might also be influenced by derogatory, whose rare verb form derogate is very similar to them. — hippietrail (talk) 00:59, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

• depression nap - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• dogter - blend of dog and daughter; I have seen it used non-durably and it may not meet CFI

  Added some Usenet uses to Citations:dogter, but I'm not convinced it passes.

• dud - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library as a verb - There's some evidence dudded exists on Usenet. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:06, 31 May 2020 (UTC) Two meanings of dudded: (1) in the sense of explosives failing to explode, (2) Australian slang = ripped off. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
• draughtage - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also the alternative spelling draftage - BigDom 19:44, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
• desk research verb

F

• fallism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or Fallism or #Fallism) – see [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]
• fidian, fidianism - occasional uses, usually in compounds, discussing Christianity 17th - 19th centuries
• fop - as a verb, to fool or trick? "Finally, after being prodded to some extent by his wife, he asked me coolly but amiably enough, to come again, and the next thing I knew, I was alone in the sleigh, like someone who has been fopped, like someone whom a man bent on revenge first likes to play an insulting trick on, driving through the cold, white, starry night to the station." Arthur Schnitzler (tr. Catherine Hutter), My Youth in Vienna (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. 219).
• Fox News effect? appears in a few books etc.; possibly related to the study that found watching FN makes one less politically aware than watching nothing at all.

  Originally and mainly about introduction of Fox News increasing Republican votes, but I have heard the suggested sense too. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:35, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

G

• Gidget
• gadger - a man, possibly derived from cockney or romani (compare gachó in Caló) -- see gadje and its many alt forms
• gim or kim - edible seaweed, from Korean 김 (gim), unclear if it is truly an English word
• glossophile, glottophile
• go for your tea (go for one's tea?) - possibly IRA slang, found ie. in song "Kinky Boots": to get killed, to be murdered. Also in Farlex dictionary.
• good hair - see w:Good hair
• gruffy A Somerset adjective ('gruffy ground') meaning 'land made uneven or hummocky through ancient mining'. Not in OED. See [19]

H

• High Tang - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see Tang poetry#High Tang
• hot sketch
• Humpty-Dumpty show - "For a year or so [the Crosby Opera House in Chicago] housed lavish productions of opera with the finest singers of the day, but somehow the enterprise fell on evil ways, and before many years had passed it was given over to Humpty-Dumpty shows, families of bell ringers, trained animals, acrobats, and pantomimes." John Tasker Howard, Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1931, p. 283).

I

• interinanimation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• iso-polyphony - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• IR blaster - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, infrared blaster - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
  • Wikipedia, etc. specifically mention the replication of TV remote signals. Is this necessary?
  • In addition, it is described as a 'small device' while also being a part of mobile phones. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 22:05, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

L

• lead around by the nose - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - note, not the same as lead by the nose
• living Buddha - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• lubber's line common synonym for 'lubber line' (See the recursive definition in OED)
• land - missing computing/software sense of verb "to land"; see [20] [21] [22] Hftf (talk) 00:49, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

M

• mabouya - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - also an evil spirit in some belief system?
• mother-die — alt forms mother-dee, motherdee, motherdie; refers to various types of plant; see A dictionary for English plant names, Garlands, Conkers, and Mother-Die, etc.

N

• nightlock - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Archaic, noun and verb form for closing up a house at night. Present in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941).

O

• old school tie - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – see w:school tie#As a metaphor
• on stilts – very[23]; one at Citations:wokelette and need a couple more
• owlhoot – term associated with Westerns referring to an outlaw. See OED sense 3. Compare: owl hoot trail

P

• paleosceptic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – a Brexit term – something like "a politician, usually of the Conservative Party (UK), who was a Eurosceptic before the 2016 EU referendum"?
• pea-stick a long stake or branch upon which garden peas are trained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_Locke_Weems#Cherry-tree_anecdote
• physician of record - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• plight one's troth - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• pneumatosaccus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – some marine animal body part?
• polyideism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library PseudoSkull (talk) 09:25, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
• prisposoblenets - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library cited in two large publications in 2020, Russian word prisposoblenets (приспособленец) defined in NPR book review: 'Between Two Fires' Asks: At What Point Are We Responsible For Our Actions? and referenced by The Atlantic: History Will Judge the Complicit as "a person skilled in the act of compromise and adaptation, who intuitively understands what is expected of him and adjusts his beliefs and conduct accordingly"
• protoiereus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - English term for πρωτοιερεύς
• piezoelectrets - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
  • ferroelectrets - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• placer mining - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

Q

• quabble (Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History, Routledge, 1992, p. 63: "I do forget them before the next appointment, and my patient and I sink back into the routine of everyday quabble."
• quantitas intrinseca - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a term related to rhythm

R

• ristle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - part of an ard (plough) that serves a similar purpose as the coulter in other kinds of ploughs — surjection ⟨??⟩ 18:03, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
• riskbreaker - found in sentence "Ah, a riskbreaker... a royal guard dog!" - - - - Rapidim (talk) 09:32, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
• ronde-bosse - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
• ranahan – top cowboy. shortened to "ranny". [24] [25] [26]

S

• saddle-goose - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library a fool
• Safaite: apparently not an ethnicon; possibly just someone who spoke Safaitic?
• Sakya
• Sarfus (from wikipedia)
• shadow rank (British special forces)
• sick unto death - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - form of sickness unto death
• silver stain - "In the early fourteenth century, the invention of silver stain transformed stained glass colors and techniques. This yellow pigment with a silver compound base was applied to the exterior surface of the glass and fixed there. During the firing, it penetrated the glass and altered the color: if the glass was white, it became yellow; if it was already blue or red, it became green or orange." - Michel Pastoureau, tr. Jody Gladding, Yellow: The History of a Color (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 147)
• slice - adjective sense used to describe mathematical knots[27]
• straight pipe: An exhaust setup on a vehicle where all mufflers (silencers) and emission control devices have been removed.
• self-projecting - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library

T

• tabernacle - (an additional meaning: a niche containing a religious figure on the outside of a building?) "[The palace] is also known as the Casa dell' Angelo because of a fine Gothic relief of an angel in a tabernacle on its façade." Alastair Grieve, Whistler's Venice (New Haven: Yale University, 2000, p. 97).
• Taghanic - applied to events during the Givetian stage of the Devonian period, possibly a mass extinction
• -tariat - suffix apparently derived from proletariat; possibly used enough to be considered productive (chattertariat, twittertariat)
• throw out one's back - very common phrase, surprised we don't have it, not sure what exactly it means.
• Tolstoy - Internet slang meaning to go on at great length like a Russian novelist, or a noun addressing a person who does, or a description of an overly-long message; needs citations
• toreutes from Greek τορευτής, Latin tŏreuta, ae, m., = τορευτής, one who makes embossed work, a chaser, graver, Plin. 35, 8, 34, § 54. https://logeion.uchicago.edu/toreuta. Findable in the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, 1876 Edition: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Imperial_Dictionary_of_Universal_Biography_Volume_1.pdf/102 and https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Imperial_Dictionary_of_Universal_Biography_Volume_1.pdf/223. Klarm768 (talk) 12:10, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

  I'm hesitant to say this has become an English word as opposed to a transliteration of a Greek word. It's mostly in dictionaries. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:38, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

• thilled (source) - see thill. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:56, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
  • Also thill-horse (source). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:56, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
    • "thill-horse" is used by in some editions of The Merchant of Venice (Act 2, Scene 2; discussed here; and in this footnote); and by Laurence Sterne in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Wikisource has several other uses, as well as for thill horse. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:00, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
  • I can find it in an old dictionary[28] but I can't find enough uses outside a dictionary to add it. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:22, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
    • "Here, the bulls and cows waited beside the big slow Belgians thilled and yoked as if to pull a painted plow out of a book of hours" at [29]; "Thilled Centennial Swivel Plow" at [30]; "short-thilled forked plough" at [31]. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:18, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
• transconduct - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (Stefano Harney, "Hapticality in the Undercommons," in The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics, 2015, p. 176: "This is our work today. We take inventories of ourselves for components not the whole. We produce lean efforts to transconduct. We look to overcome constraints.")
• tunrak - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or Tunrak - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - No Wikipedia article, seems to be an alleged type of Eskimo (possibly Inuit) spirit. I say alleged because it's not mentioned in very many books. Could it possibly be an alternative form or corruption of something else? PseudoSkull (talk) 18:07, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
• this ain't it - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Often followed by chief. Checkmark-speak, said when something is offensive.__Gamren (talk) 21:17, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

U

• up or up at - John McWhorter says in AAVE if you are up at somebody's house it's a place you go often. (What Language Is pp. 128-130)

V

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

  1) Study of planet Venus; 2) related to wine; 3) study of veins, often with venography, images of veins, e.g. of the legs. Facts707 (talk) 20:30, 30 May 2021 (UTC)

• visible minority ethnic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or Visible minority ethnicity). Different from the Canadian government's "visible minority". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:44, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

  Feels like a sum of visible minority ethnic. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:45, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

  We have got visible minority. Equinox ◑ 00:52, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

W

• Weber's law - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Weber-Fechner law - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - psychological terms PseudoSkull (talk) 07:23, 15 December 2020 (UTC)