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- acid-ash - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the acid-ash hypothesis posits that various ailments are caused by an excessively acidic diet. An acid-ash diet is one that avoids acidic foods.
- Citations:acid ash, Citations:acid-ash, Citations:alkaline ash, Citations:alkaline-ash
- Note that "An acid-ash diet is one that avoids acidic foods." is exactly the opposite of what the term originally meant. This misinterpretation seems to be spread by the English Wikipedia and is only attestable in various pop diet books that have apparently copied from WP's list of synonyms from the opening line of Alkaline diet. I'm not even gonna bother trying to correct them; getting changes to stick on Wikipedia is hopeless.
- adduce - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library mathematical logic or philosophical meaning
- Adventtide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Adventide, Advent-tide as attestable
- Africanistics - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- algotheca - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (Related to or repository of) algae. See , , . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
- alphabet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — (especially attributive) the LGBT community
- amil - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, a-mil - short for amillennialist (adjective or noun)
- amorphus globosus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — birth defect in cattle where the calf is a blob-shape.
- amphibologism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - most notably used by Thomas Jefferson. Also here in a commentary on Jefferson (but not a direct quote). This use is completely independent.
- Anadoli - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - archaic form of Anatolia, e.g. ,
- animal instinct - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- associate diploma - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- assburger - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- archviz - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — architectural visualization (which we haven’t got either, but it’s arguably SOP). Often written ArchViz.
- arrow loop - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - architectural element of a castle; possibly a synonym of arrowslit
- Ashina - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a tribe and the ruling dynasty of the Göktürks
- apadydoe - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Daith piercing
- awhit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a jot, a point, (a small amount); only add if attestable
- a/l - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - abbreviation -- Beland (talk) 02:36, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
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- baker - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library in the (QAnon) sense, e.g. see , . Possibly also an additional QAnon-specific sense of the verb bake.
- ball of wax - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; whole ball of wax already exists but other usages such as "another ball of wax" suggest the shorter form needs its own entry
- BAMEH - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - acronym for "Black, Asian and multiple ethnic heritage", used by the Metropolitan Police (UK): . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
- bandform - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - in electronic filters
- Bankset - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: a notable and popular solar panel for the rails way with press and references all over the internet
- battleboarding - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- beadstring - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - some old gastroenterological implement?
- bellcast - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - not the cast from which a bell is made - it's a term in architecture
- bifurcation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - legal sense, splitting proceedings into separate parts for deciding liability vs. damages
- big log - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - this term appears on several websites dicussing the meaning of the title of the Robert Plant song 'Big log' - apparently 'big log' is a slang term meaning 'long journey'.
- Bipolar Express - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Cited: Citations:bipolar express
- But you can talk about "the X express" for almost any X, suggesting a quick route to get into a situation or state. Perhaps a generic sense at express, using these citations? Equinox ◑ 00:56, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
- But 'bipolar express' is specifically a pun on the title of the children's book (and movie) Polar Express, and seems to not follow general 'X express' usage. 70.172.194.25 06:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
- The citations most definitely lead me to the same conclusion: it's a special case. Much as if there were (hypothetically) a disorder called "gedi", people might sarcastically say that they're awaiting the "Return of the Gedi". Not sure if that's a good enough reason to include. It's a little bit like Nipplegate. —DIV (1.145.119.99 07:01, 22 September 2022 (UTC))
- I tried searching for "the autism express" and there wasn't much (just one book title repeated over and over). "The depression express" had a bit more. "The OCD express" had almost nothing. But there is no doubt something special about the pun with "bipolar". As for whether or not that's enough to merit an entry, I'm not sure. To appropriate the name of another psychological condition, it may be borderline. But this is even used in several books and websites, not just Usenet, which IMO lends it some potential credibility. If someone were to create this I wouldn't nominate it for RfD. (I wasn't the one who added the request.) 70.172.194.25 19:10, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
- Birrimian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: maybe a geological era? We have Birimian but it may not be the same.
- blackout box - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (two meanings)
- Blue Juice - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: (Possibly a generic trademark) The disinfecting liquid used on portable toilets (airplanes, trains, "porta-potties", etc.) DASL51984 (talk) 17:55, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
- body armour - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - it's in a few proper dictionaries so not just SOP
- body roll - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a dance move where the body is moved in an undulatory-type movement
- boneshave - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - hip-rheumatism
- borderer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - new sense, a group related to the Scotch-Irish, i.e. people who lived on the Scottish-English border who then settled in Ireland and America; only add if well-attested (it is used this way in at least one book, but that might be idiosyncratic), and if sufficiently lexicalized to not just fall under a use of sense 1
- both-and - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, both/and - coordinate term of either-or, either/or. | How would you use this in a sentence?! Equinox ◑ 18:50, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
- These searches may be revealing: , . 70.172.194.25 18:55, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
- boustrophedon numbering - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see boustrophedon (should at least be mentioned on the latter). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:24, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
- brass rail bar - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library A now-old-fashioned type of bar (liquor establishment).
- the Bridegroom - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - title for Jesus in Christianity? only add if citable
- building and loan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, US synonym of UK building society. The plural "building and loans" is also attested.
- bumper case
- buy me dinner first - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library humorous response to something that could be interpreted as a proposition. Often "at least buy me dinner first", "could you at least buy me dinner first", "only if you buy me dinner first" (if the thing being responded to is a grammatical request), etc.
- bromitic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, as in a "bromitic temperament" Google Books search
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- cardiac asthma - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- casheird - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (appar. obsolete form of cashiered)
- carnac - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - apparently an obsolete word for a mahout or elephant-driver; compare French cornac
- Caucasiform - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a (probably dated/obsolete) phenotype
- chaff hole - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library "a small hole about three feet square in the back wall of the kiln to admit wind to clean the corn." , , and here.
- cheevs - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or chievs - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - short for (game) achievements
- cherry ripe - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library A fruit-seller's call and an old term for a woman, perhaps especially a virgin ready to be deflowered. Also various arguably encyclopedic meanings that we may wish to include like a song, novel, film, painting, numbers station and a chocolate bar. Perhaps also a Hobson-Jobson of Centuripe. Also cherry pipe, rhyming slang for cherry ripe with the meaning woman
- Chien-tao - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (where is this?) - used in a declassified CIA document that makes controversial claims about Kim Il-sung ()
- Chine-collé - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or chine-collé, Chine collé/ chine collé) - art material and/ or technique; see , , w:Chine-collé, c:Category:Chine-collé prints. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:25, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- church-and-kingism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or "church and kingism") - in A Century of Birmingham Life, p13, . Possibly also needs an entry at kingism. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:46, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- columnation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library I came up with this term in my mind in a publishing/typesetting sense, where it would be a coordinate term of pagination/foliation.
- On Google Books, it looks like this sense is attestable, but there are other technical senses that are even more common.
- If you made it up, we can't include it. But see columniation for an architecture sense. Equinox ◑ 11:56, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
- It's not like a protologism. I came up with it on my own, but when I checked GBooks it existed, and that's why I added it here. See:
- "More fortunate was a double index Passavanti provided to two major types of material in the sermons; despite the fact that the references are keyed to the pagination and columnation of the original manuscript, these have withstood the vicissitudes of reproduction intact."
- "When viewed as a collection of pages, the document has properties relating to its pagination and layout such as page margins, page number and header / footer style, columnation, and orientation."
- "Even the ubiquitous 24x80 terminal presents numerous layout possibilities, since it supports columnation, justification, hyphenation, tables, and highlighting."
- Of course, this is not the only meaning of the word. There are others that come up on Google Books, apparently technical, but I don't know how to define them.
- There are even more hits that use the form columniation in this typesetting sense (which we don't have), thanks for that. columnation looks like the less common variant.
- comprador's account - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or compradore's account - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Comstockish - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - uncommon but meets CFI; compare Comstockism
- coremata - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (usually plural; singular corema) - signaling structures present in lepidopteran males; apparently from κόρημᾰ (kórēmă, “broom”)
- correspondence chess - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - if deemed not SOP
- claim check - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library "A ticket or receipt used to collect an item that has been deposited or is being held somewhere." "The Free Dictionary"
- craftship - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library noun, seems to have at least 2 senses?
- crink - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library verb
- coupeau - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library in heraldry
- catgender (mentioned in UK news early 2022 due to appearing in a controversial gender advice document for staff at Bristol University)
- cobyric acid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- cobyrinic acid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- chikari - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library in Hindustani music
- chremamorphism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - noun - describing a living thing by using the qualities of an object; the opposite of personification (one example of attestation)
- cudrang - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- cabinet-level - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- copen - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library from Merriam-Webster, so we’d need a usable source: a variable color averaging a moderate blue that is redder, lighter, and stronger than pompadour, bluebird, azurite blue, or Dresden blue and greener, lighter, and stronger than luster blue
- care farm - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library care farming - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, care farmer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- cattle rake - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Place of passage for cattle; drove road. Used on old OS maps of Scotland; see images discussion and sources in this Twitter thread, and note rake#Etymology 3. Also sheep rake. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:25, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- croeseid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- change out - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the verb counterpart of changeout
- cyph - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (New York, New Jersey) noun, a cannabis-smoking session; verb (less common), to smoke cannabis. Citable from Twitter. Probably shortened from cypher, cipher (“the path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking”).
- collective self - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library -It might also fill the vacuum in (Buddhism) the greater self 大我 Flāvidus (talk) 17:47, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
- Coriscus - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- clear aligner - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - see Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Clear_aligners
- Some crypto- terms worht having
- corroding care - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- daygame - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or day game) - in the (seduction community) sense
- daymaker - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - something that makes a person's day. (She gave me ten thousand dollars. It was a daymaker.)
- dbl. ch. - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; maybe "dbl ch"; short for double check
- death drop - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a pose popular in drag.
- delirium furlosum - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (Latin) A type of madness, brought on by speed. See ; Engines and Men, p.49. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:40, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
- delocutive - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - type of word formation
- dog-leech - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - check whether citable with space, hyphen, and/or as one word; check whether citable under the definition "dog doctor", "quack/crackpot", or both. also with leach.
- double-story a - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the lowercase A written a, as opposed to ɑ
- down like syndrome - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - used in rap music by Eminem and Rhymefest, also in at least one book. Seems like it can be used as an intensifier for any meaning of "down". In the rap lyrics it's used in the context of get down (probably the sense "enjoy oneself"/dance/etc.), but in the book it's used in the context of bring down, i.e. "make sad". I also found some uses online using it in the sense of "accepting" or "committed", e.g. "I'm down like syndrome". Cf. Down syndrome.
- dual-license - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (verb, also check whether hyphen or space is more common) - maybe this is not SOP because of WT:FRIEDEGG; it specifically refers to releasing an entire project under the disjunction of two licenses, instead of e.g. releasing part of it under one and part under the other
- dihydroauroglaucin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - related to auroglaucin no doubt Notusbutthem (talk) 23:59, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
- de fide credenda, de fide tenenda: in Catholicism: things "believed" (dogma) vs. things "held" (doctrine), though both considered infallible
- devilshine - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — apparently from Old English dēofolscīn. Hythonia (talk) 15:47, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
- datapalooza - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – the Health Datapalooza but also used more widely
- dressership - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- definist - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - definist fallacy
- definist fallacy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - definist fallacy
- do the work: something woke?
- Usage example?
- From a tweet: "We keep doing the work. We keep going. We keep demanding that this country bends toward justice." Very easy to find more, in context of Black Lives etc.
- Diarbeck - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - historic name for Diyar Bakr (a region of Mesopotamia); may also have been used for the city of Diyarbakır
- dis. ch. - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; maybe "dis ch"; short for discovered check
- downmarket - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, also down-market - new sense as a noun. E.g. search "in downmarkets" on Google Books.
- dotcommunism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or dot-communism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- diff - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - In team games, people sometimes say "tank diff", "dps diff" etc. to criticize the people playing these roles. It's somewhat new and I'm pretty sure it originated in the game Overwatch. Refs: , . I don't feel like this usage is adequately covered by the simple clipping meaning of diff. Doesn't seem to be citable off of durably archived media but online-only sources are also fine now since the vote. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 13:34, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
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- ecofear - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – e.g. in Timalsina 2021, Baindur 2021
- eda - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (only if it can be attested as an English word) — from Hebrew עֵדָה (eda). Technically means religious congregation, as in e.g. Ashkenazi or Mizrahi, but has been extended in contemporary usage to refer to Israeli Jewish ethnicities/nationalities of origin like Polish Jew, Yemenite Jew, Ethiopian Jew, etc. The plural would be edot if following Hebrew or edas if anglicized. The singular might occur as edah as well.
- EIV - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - exercise induced vasculitis
- elite controller - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- endemic syphilis - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library appears in medical dictionaries, more specific that syphilis that is endemic
- endogenic system - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / endo - a person with multiple personality disorder, or something in the same ballpark. But is it citable from durably archived sources?
- ennichi - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Japanese festival day and type of fair held on that day (two separate definitions, both cited at Citations:ennichi
- e.p. - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; maybe "e. p.", "ep.", or other variations; short for en passant (maybe Translingual?)
- Epiphanytide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Epiphany-tide
- epistemic trespasser - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- equidial - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library days and nights of equal length
- eurobuck - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - used in net slang for euro, possibly originates from Cyberpunk 2020 role playing game from 1990s
- evercirculator - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (also 'evercircular', and each may be hyphenated) group letter-writing practice
- Experience - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a Puritan given name, possibly a reference to Romans 5:4 KJV
- ex relatione - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- eyelash extension - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - not SOP as doesn't actually extend the lash Dunderdool (talk) 20:23, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
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- gallbush - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: A plant, hard to identify from sources. "It derives its name from its berries turning water black, like the galls of an oak." Mentioned by (and usually in reference to the writings of) a Virginia colonist called William Byrd (whose spelling and hyphenation may have differed; I couldn't find his actual source in GBooks). One book says that Byrd mistakenly thought it was a buckthorn whereas it is actually Ilex coriacea. There is also "bay-gall bush", which may be the same thing, or not.
- get after it - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, "This is the old Stardust Roller Rink. When we were teenagers in the late 80s, this was where everybody went to get after it on Friday nights. Lots of first kisses and first crushes and last dances happened where that pile of rubble is.
- give it the beans - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- goals - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - as an interjection. I heard a television commercial where a person just says "goals!" The meaning may not be obvious, and I think it has to be plural. It has a decidedly different meaning than if a sportscaster were to shout "goal!" during a match. I've also encountered "X goals" as an interjection (e.g. "relationship goals"). | We have squad goal (perhaps mostly seen in plural). Equinox ◑ 10:57, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
- godan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (adj.) — One of the two main types of verb in Japanese (the other being ichidan). See the Wikipedia entry Japanese godan and ichidan verbs. From Japanese 五段. (The same word, also from 五段, is used as a synonym of 5-dan in martial arts and the game of go, and probably in shogi too.)
- goop - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (noun, new sense) - anything viewed as overly sentimental (compare goopy)
- gospodin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library that page here mentions romanian and serbo-croatian, but not *Russian*? Not Russian? Rather lot of literature read in translation from Russian, and that's the only places I've ever seen the word, not S-C
- We have господи́н (gospodín), but we could add an English entry if it is used as a loanword in English. Citations:gospodin
- geosemiotics - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- geoliterature - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – used in Gilles Deleuze and more broadly, cf. geophilosophy
- Gibson ring press - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Device for securing a Gibson ring in position. See . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:53, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
- gliroid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - various sources mention 'gliroid mammals'
- This is presumably something to do with the clade Glires.
- golfer's rash - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - nickname for a form of vasculitis
- goof plate - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- godsplain - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - 1 godsplain in Google Groups, 1 godsplains in Google Books and a handful for godsplaining (more often as Godsplaining) in multiple sources
- geotheory - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- ice-creeper - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, ice creeper, icecreeper. Probably refers to a creeper, sense 4 ("A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping"), specifically for use in icy environments. It occurs unhyphenated in at least three sources, so WT:COALMINE applies. , , (p. 32, col. 1, I checked the original typesetting).
- ichidan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a type of verb in Japanese
- idealism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, idealist - view in Christian eschatology
- implacement - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (and implace, implaced, etc.) – a concept in the philosophy of Edward S. Casey
- in corpore - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – a type of decision? See Feudalism by Paul Vinogradoff (1924) Cambridge Medieval History, volume 3, pp. 458-484 which reads "the members of the tribunal could pronounce the decision in corpore, and in this case the option for the dissatisfied party was to fight them all."
- interdasting - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- into the long grass - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - deliberately tries to lose the issue as a matter getting attention - The politician kicked his concerns about road safety into the long grass.
- iqta - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - some Islamic tax thing
- irascent - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library becoming enraged/angry
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- lance - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (shogi) piece
- latitudinarian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - 1) relating to/member of a specific 17th century Anglican theological movement, which appears to not be the same as just being tolerant; 2) relating to/proponent of a specific philosophical view in epistemology (we have a corresponding sense at latitudinarianism already).
- lead ship; lead boat (also called name ship; class leader) in the military/nautical world
- legal guaranteeism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (sometimes simply guaranteeism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library) – in jurisprudence, the idea of law as primarily a guarantor of rights
- lethal aid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- light language - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, facially resembles speaking in tongues
- limb difference - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - euphemistic? Politically correct? Having less than four complete limbs Zumbacool (talk) 19:24, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- line shack - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - about: ranching (cabin) "line rider", aircraft carrier (plane captain) "flight line". "A squadron’s line shack consists primarily of airmen new to the squadron who begin with little or no on-the-job training. Also known as plane captains, the line shack plays a key role in a squadron’s operational effectiveness, as they wear several hats throughout the launch and recovery process."
- Lingnan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the area of China south of the Nanling Mountains, covering the modern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan as well as modern northern Vietnam
- lipfire - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library in guns
- listeners in - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (archaic) The audience of radio programme. Also "listeners-in", and the singular equivalents. See for example, press sources quoted in en:wikisource:The Gospel by Wireless/Press and Radio Times usage. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:11, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
- locomotiveman - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - original form of locoman; a railway engineman; plural "locomotivemen". In Engines and Men, p. 230. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:04, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
- long bank - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a friend in the UK says this means a "bench", but I cannot verify this, so it may be slang or regional
- lookers in - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (archaic) The audience of television programmes. Also "lookers-in" (see "listeners in", above). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:11, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
- loose - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (chess) sense, meaning 'undefended'
- Lung-ching - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (a location in "Chien-tao"; where is this?) - used in a declassified CIA document that makes controversial claims about Kim Il-sung ()
- launch code - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - in computers and military
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- market fish - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Seems to sometimes refer to fish not worth identifying, but also to distinguish from fish used for stocking ponds and streams; may refer to fish to be sold in fresh-fish markets vs "cannery fish" (ie fish sold to a cannery, perhaps under contract or under a fixed price offered by the cannery. I have seen instances where these and other classes ("bottomfish", "shellfish") of caught fish (or seafood more generally) are distinguished by the species in the catch. "Fresh fish" seems to exclude "cannery fish" and "shellfish", but include "market fish".
- market for lemons - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, maybe also lemon market - a specific kind of market with information asymmetry, resulting in the market being filled with lemons (i.e., low-quality products). Named after the famous econ paper "The Market for Lemons". One could argue that it's SOP ("market" + "lemon", i.e. low-quality good), but I think the part about the specific mechanism of information asymmetry refutes that.
- market name - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Also about fish. "Official" names for species of fish, possibly including many species. May be regulated by governmental agencies.
- maso - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - masochist, , , also on Usenet
- media-shy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Meirion - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - given name. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:18, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
- meroditerpenoid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: some sort of chemical, probably related to (a subset of?) meroterpenoid.
- microstutter - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- microtopia - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – a small-scale utopia, possibly especially in the thought of Nicolas Bourriaud
- midtrib - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- minus tick - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - possibly same as downtick (finance)
- miospore - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - in geology
- monkey puzzle - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - is this also the name of a butterfly, Rathinda amor? Most of the relevant hits are mentions, but some on seem decent; check whether this is citable.
- monk mode - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- monkey-paw - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - medical term for an alteration in the appearance of one's hand after a serious nerve lesion. The Free Dictionary.
- hold a monkey's paw - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — Both of these seem to mean "to act naively" or something. Can cites be found? PseudoSkull (talk) 20:34, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- mother and baby home - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - an institution, usually run by nuns, for single mothers to give birth. Subject of a major controversy recently
- moving pieces - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (usually plural) - having many "moving pieces" = being complicated. Pretty common idiom. Is the singular attested?
- m/l - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - abbreviation -- Beland (talk) 02:36, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
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- nanitic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a type of worker ant
- nano-onion - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Artificial carbon molecular structure
- neckstock - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library some type of military attire
- needle spiking - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- nemotypical - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library in butterflies
- neoreaction - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or neo-reaction: a far-right ideology
- neuroexpansive - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – similar to neurodivergent, possibly quite recently coined
- NFT bro - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – similar to cryptobro, but for NFTs
- nipster - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- nocmig - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (or noc-mig): Portmanteau of nocturnal migration, primarily in birds. Nocmig: A beginner's guide,, , .
- not today, Satan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - A phrase that seems to have lots of meanings, from an expression of having overcome a hard challenge, to one of being stressed. It might be hard to define an exact meaning of this one.
- no u - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- noseborer - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a person or tool which pierces the nose. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:02, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
- Nubi - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - the Ugandan Nubians, as well as an Arabic creole spoken thereby.
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- painted woman - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, painted lady - does this mean promiscuous woman, as Collins, Dictionary.com, and Word Reference claim? is it tied to these specific nouns? some of the search results for "you painted woman"/"women" may be this sense, although hopefully we can find something better and less ambiguous
- palynotheca - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (related to or repository of) pollen; palynology. See , . Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
- palindrome - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library A musical term of uncertain meaning, see the YouTube video entitled “Machaut Rondeau 14, “Ma fin est ma commencement” (crab canon over a palindrome) by YouTuber Jordan Alexander Key. | Isn't it just a musical phrase that sounds the same backwards and forwards? Equinox ◑ 22:00, 7 October 2022 (UTC) | Not really, as it doesn’t sound the same 56 seconds in, when it’s played backwards, as it does at the very beginning when it’s played forwards - indeed that would be impossible as the notes are different. It seems to just mean that the music sounds tuneful when played forwards or backwards, so it seems to be equivalent to the phrase crab canon but just used redundantly in the title to the YT video. Perhaps it’s just a nonce coinage or I’m missing something obvious though. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 00:56, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
- pancalism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (Philosophy) Given as the one-word definition of Romanian pancalism and French pancalisme. Morphologically, this should have something to do with the relation of "everything" to "beauty". It also has a specific meaning in the writings of James Mark Baldwin that is hard for anyone without a background in philosophy to fully understand.
- parking inspector - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — (Australia, NZ) A person who issues tickets for parking violations. There are various synonyms, e.g. traffic warden, parking attendant. Feel free to remove if deemed SOP.
- paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- parvkingdom - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — seems to be a categorisation below kingdom in biological nomenclature/taxonomoy, cf. subkingdom & infrakingdom. Examples of useage: and .
- passing of the peace - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - part of the liturgy of many Christian denominations; also forms like pass the peace, peace-passing, etc., not sure what lemma(s) should be created
- payment processor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- pea wet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or possibly pey wet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Lancastrian delicacy
- peace - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or maybe capitalized as Peace - i.e., the passing of the peace as part of Christian liturgy; example: "During the Peace, Brian made a special effort to approach me and shake my hand"
- Pentecostide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, Pentecost-tide
- personnelling - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - staffing. In "Final Report of the Northwest Territory Celebration Commission" (1938). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:41, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
- Petertide - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Petit-Beurre - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a kind of a cracker, the word used by Huxley as petite beurres (plural).
- phytogeomorphology - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- pike eel - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- pantone - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - mentioned in the wikipedia article on the US flag
- pinsticker - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - has a few meanings
- pivot word - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- play for laughs - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - to turn (something usually serious) into a joke
- PLT - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Programming language theory
- plus tick - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - same as uptick (finance)?
- poethics - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- political theater - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library / I count at least three definitions
- pop top - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (sometimes hyphenated as pop-top) — the tab on top of certain beverage cans, possibly synonymous with what Commons calls a "ring-pull tab"; also has other meanings, e.g. something related to camper vans
- posttrib - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, post-trib, postrib - short for posttribulation(ist); see which forms and parts of speech are attested
- posttribulation - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, post-tribulation - compare pretribulation, which we have
- poultripital - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library pollotarian?
- prayer veiling - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, prayer veil - something some Christians (e.g., Mennonite women) wear, but maybe also a term in other religions. SOP?
- premil - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, pre-mil - short for premillennial (Christian sense), both adjective and noun
- press-shy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- pressure drop - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Presumably intended in analogous sense to voltage drop. If the latter isn't included, then nor should the former. Or if one is, then both should be.
- Pretty Fanny's way - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library Phrase from the poem An Elegy, to an Old Beauty, which was for a while in use as a term of slang; see 112 Days' Hard Labour, , . It was even used in Parliament. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:39, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
- prewrath - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- prop force - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Mentioned in Boris Johnson's resignation speech, "prop force detectives who never leak"
- Pte Ltd - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (Singapore) Private Limited company - not sure if it's same or different than Pty Ltd
- pull-down resistor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library w:Pull-down resistor
- pull-up resistor - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library w:Pull-up resistor
- puppyguard - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Putinjugend - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and variations – derogatory nickname for pro-Kremlin youth organizations such as w:Nashi (youth movement), w:Young Guard of United Russia, and w:Walking Together.
- pull forward - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- Sabellianist - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - noun and adjective
- same hat - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - apparently recent slang for "me too" (but maybe not citable?)
- sandskiing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — forms with hyphen or space seem more common so maybe this should be an alt form, but the single word exists too (, ) and 100% ensures this is not SOP, per WT:COALMINE.
- scala naturae - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- schollard - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - corruption of "scholar"; an educated person (archaic)
- schoolboy pin - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — a wrestling move involving sitting on the opponent; but got schoolgirl pin
- sentition - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - an organism's evaluative response to external stimulus
- sexual communism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Shearjashub - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a male given name, from a minor Old Testament figure that may not even exist depending on the grammatical interpretation of the Biblical passage in question
- she shoots, she scores - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - feminine equivalent of he shoots, he scores. maybe also with they?
- shildrake - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - archaic spelling of sheldrake? , , , (in the noun phrase "cormorant shildrake"; not sure what species that is)
- sheep rake - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library per "cattle rake", above. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
- shoelatchet - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - if attestable. Occurs in KJV Genesis 14:23, but in the transcription given here it is given as 'shoe latchet'.
- shitnic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: Citations:shitnic, more on Usenet. No idea what it means though.
- Apparent misspelling of shitnik; see -nik. Hence a "shitty" or bad person. Equinox ◑ 15:08, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- shopan - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - among the Aleut. See quotes.
- short-arm - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - penis - see https://en.wikipedia.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Short-arm_inspection
- showpony - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- showponying - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- shuppon - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - found in Cumbrian dialect without definition, seems to mean barn. Sounds like a cognate of Schuppen.
- sidewalk shed - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - similar to scaffolding
- Sierra Leone nigger - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a dated term for some kind of rubber material (more easily searchable on Google Books in the plural)
- Or maybe this is SOP and we need to add a sense to nigger to cover this.
- simplify - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, simplification - (chess) sense, but only add if distinct enough from general usage (I think it plausibly is specific enough to be)
- simultaneous exhibition - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - seems idiomatic. I don't think it's obvious from the parts. We already have simul, which is an abbreviation for this.
- slimepit - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - if attestable. Occurs in KJV Genesis 14:10, although in the original 1611 version it was hyphenated as 'slime-pits'.
- skuke - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Westport, MA and Sakonnet Peninsula RI slang for a summer resident, usually from NY etc.
- SNWDP - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — South-to-North Water Diversion Project (in China). Not sure of the rules on abbreviations, but I notice CDC is in.
- sobriety tag - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- soil-transmitted - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library & ground-transmitted v. air-transmitted. Sum of parts though? Also see airborne, waterborne, soilborne, bloodborne, sexually transmitted.
- Solethu - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - Khosa given name, I'd love to know the pronunciation.
- speech code - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Spotify model - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library in agile software development PseudoSkull (talk) 14:21, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
- Spenglerianism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; see Spenglerian
- spider bag - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: heroin slang
- spiggotys - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library alt pl of spiggoty?
- spiky - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and possibly also spike — something related to high church/Catholic-leaning Anglicans
- Stantonian - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (sometimes "Old Stantonian"): somebody from a Stanton school/college/university? Which one(s)?
- stooth - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, stoothing - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, etc. See https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/583938/where-does-the-word-stoothing-come-from-is-it-used-in-any-other-contexts-apart
- subjectalism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and subjectalist - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – terms in the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux
- System 1 - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library and System 2 - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, in the psychological sense.
- second doubts - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a surprisingly common mutant form of second thoughts.
- something of - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - "to some degree"
- spiral roundabout - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- steephead - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- stack - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - term in ultimate frisbee
- static factory - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - in programming
- stroke someone's ego
- substantive due process - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - not SOP, has specific legal meaning
- superfluous - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (chess) sense (e.g. "superfluous knights")
- sweep (verb and possibly noun) in cryptocurrency transactions; also sweep the floor (something to do with a price floor, i.e. minimum price)
- symchthonic - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – a concept in Donna Haraway's thought, from sym- + chthonic
- spy camera - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- s/l - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - abbreviation -- Beland (talk) 02:36, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
- self-trolling - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
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- taffy pull - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; similar or synonymous terms apparently include candy pull, candy breaking, molasses pull
- talking stage - dating lingo
- take (something) into one's (own) hands or something similar- see Merriam-Webster's entry. cf. take matters into one's own hands
- Tartaria - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - probably archaic or dated for Tartary
- teaching elder - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - specific term (not SOP), used in Presbyterianism
- teamocracy - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- temporoparietal junction and its acronym TPJ (for the former, a Finnish article should be linked in the translations: temporoparietaalinen liitos)
- tertius gaudens - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - (sociology, coined or popularized by Georg Simmel, from Latin) the third who rejoices; a member of a triad who benefits from conflict between the other two
- tertius iungens - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - a more recent term: the third who joins, brings the other two together. I think coined by Obstfeld.
- Teshenas disease - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library (Encephalomyelitis enzootica suum), some rare pig disease.
- tetradism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or Tetradism - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – various theological/philosophical meanings
- the Second Go - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - The Second World War. Appears in Endeavour S5E2 ‘Cartouche’. Can ‘The First Go’ refer to the First World War?
- touch pitch - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - something idiomatic; Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 13:1 KJV, also used by Shakespeare. Part of the longer proverb "He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled" (and numerous variations)
- TradFi - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- transcorporeality - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – associated with the work of Stacy Alaimo but also used more broadly
- transecology - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – Jackson Jesse Nash, "“I Am Not Returning Home”: A Transgender Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation", p. 3: "Criticism exploring the ways in which trans bodies and trans issues interact with the environment has recently become known as transecology."
- trichotillometry - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library: apparently a nonce word in the title of a single academic paper on nutrition
- trolldar - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — troll + -dar
- troubleshootability - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Turcomania - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - archaic; based on descriptions (e.g. , ), sounds like the area encompassed Greater Armenia; but Wikipedia redirects Turcomania to Turkmenistan, with no explanation
- two-dollar broker - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- tagup - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library PseudoSkull (talk) 15:57, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
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- wandies - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library or maybe wandi, a type of Italian pastry. Term apparently only used in Rhode Island. See Citations:wandi.
- washashore - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library
- Warshington, D.C. - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - not sure if the derogatory meaning is citable (, ), but there's definitely a citable pronunciation spelling sense out there.
- wheel chock - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - looks a bit SOP but other dictionaries including Webster's include it
- whiteman - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - , , , etc. (I originally encountered it in the wild in , but that's not a good citation.)
- winter wonderland - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library – OED; not sum of parts
- womblecock / womble cock
- working as intended - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library; can be literal or euphemism for software that has been purposefully disabled
- WTFU - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - A hashtag circulating on YouTube targeting YouTube's copyright procedures being extremely vulnerable to bogus claims.
- wunderkid - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - A partial calque of German Wunderkind, apparently half-way between the unadapted borrowing wunderkind and its English calque wonderkid. Or maybe just a misspelling of the former, not sure.
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- yalla - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library, or perhaps specifically the collocation 'yalla-bye' — Arabic-derived phrase. The variant 'yalla-bye' is said upon departing in contemporary Israel and Palestine, maybe other places in the Middle East, including in English contexts (compare ciao, aloha, etc.)
- yee yee - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library — Attributed by many sites to bumpkins or redneck culture, perhaps related to yee (yes)? PseudoSkull (talk) 17:53, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
- Y-fold: some kind of packaging, used on video games, etc., something like shrink-wrap?? Add to Category:English terms derived from the shape of letters.
- yoi - OneLook - Google (Books • Groups • Scholar) - WP Library - new sense: an exclamation; see The Morning is Breaking. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:07, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
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