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dotterel: "A small plover with a brown streaked back and a chestnut or buff belly with black below, breeding in mountainous areas and in the tundra", Middle English: from dote (so named because it is easily caught) + -rel. Compare with dodo.
shinty: "A Scottish twelve-a-side game resembling hockey, played with curved sticks and taller goalposts and derived from the Irish game of hurling", Mid 18th century (earlier as shinny): apparently from the cry shin ye, shin you, shin t' ye, used in the game, of unknown origin; compare with shinny².
né: "Originally called; born (used before the name by which a man was originally known)", 1930s: French, literally 'born', masculine past participle of naître; compare with née.
gloop: "Sloppy or sticky semi-fluid matter, typically something unpleasant", 1960s: the letters gl, o, and p are said to be symbolic of semi-liquid matter (compare with glop).
begad: "Used to express surprise or for emphasis", Late 16th century: altered form; compare with bedad and gad².
kafir (1): "A person who is not a Muslim (used chiefly by Muslims)", From Arabic kāfir 'infidel, unbeliever'. Compare with Kaffir.
weeny: "Tiny", Late 18th century: from wee¹, on the pattern of tiny; compare with teeny.
ka-ching: "Used to represent the sound of a cash register, especially with reference to making money", Imitative; compare with ching.
catholicon: "A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases; a panacea", Late Middle English: medieval Latin, from Greek dia katholikōn 'made of general ingredients': compare with diacatholicon.
jungli: "Uncultured; wild", From jungle + the suffix -i (as in Hindi); compare with Hindi janglī.
nawab: "A native governor during the time of the Mogul empire", From Urdu nawwāb, variant of Arabic nuwwāb, plural (used as singular) of nā'ib 'deputy'; compare with nabob.
milord: "Used to address or refer to an English nobleman", Early 17th century: via French from English my lord; compare with milady.
goolie: "A testicle", 1930s (in sense 1): apparently of Indian origin; compare with Hindi golī 'bullet, ball, pill'. sense 2 is possibly from an Aboriginal language of New South Wales.
prise: "Use force in order to move, move apart, or open (something)", Late 17th century: from dialect prise 'lever', from Old French prise 'grasp, taking hold'. Compare with pry².
escalope: "A thin slice of meat without any bone, typically a special cut of veal from the leg that is coated, fried, and served in a sauce", French; compare with escallop and scallop.
conservatoire: "A college for the study of classical music or other arts, typically in the continental European tradition", Late 18th century: French, from Italian conservatorio, from late Latin conservatorium, from conservare 'to preserve' (see conserve). Compare with conservatory.
judder: "(Especially of something mechanical) shake and vibrate rapidly and with force", 1930s: imitative; compare with shudder.
Mrs: "The title used before a surname or full name to address or refer to a married woman without a higher or honorific or professional title", Early 17th century: abbreviation of mistress; compare with missus.
claggy: "Tending to form clots; sticky", Late 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Danish klag 'sticky mud'.
alliaceous: "Relating to or denoting plants of a group that comprises the onions and other alliums", Late 18th century: from Latin allium 'garlic' + -aceous; compare with the modern Latin taxonomic family name Alliaceae.
terce: "A service forming part of the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church, traditionally said (or chanted) at the third hour of the day (i.e. 9 a.m.)", Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin tertia, feminine of tertius 'third'. Compare with tierce.
milady: "Used to address or refer to an English noblewoman or great lady", Late 18th century: via French from English my lady; compare with milord.
tick-tock: "The sound of a large clock ticking", Mid 19th century: imitative; compare with tick¹.
Hellene: "An ancient Greek", From Greek Hellēn 'a Greek'. Compare with Hellen.
skelf: "A splinter or sliver of wood", Late Middle English (in the sense 'shelf'): probably from Middle Low German schelf; compare with shelf¹. sense 1 dates from the early 17th century.
spitchcock: "An eel that has been split and grilled or fried", Late 15th century: of unknown origin; compare with spatchcock.
ammoniacal: "Of or containing ammonia", Mid 18th century: from Middle English ammoniac, via Old French from Latin ammoniacus. This represented the Greek word ammōniakos 'of Ammon', used as a name for the salt and gum obtained near the temple of Jupiter Ammon at Siwa in Egypt. Compare with sal ammoniac.
Mr: "A title used before a surname or full name to address or refer to a man without a higher or honorific or professional title", Late Middle English: originally an abbreviation of master¹; compare with mister¹.
ruck (1): "A loose scrum formed around a player with the ball on the ground", Middle English (in the sense 'stack of fuel, heap'): apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian ruke 'heap of hay'.
mike (1): "A microphone", 1920s: abbreviation; compare with mic.
parcener: "A person who shares with others in the inheritance of an undivided estate or in the rights to it", Middle English: via Anglo-Norman French from Latin partitio(n-) 'partition' + -er¹: compare with partner.
ruddle: "another term for reddle", Late Middle English: related to obsolete rud 'red colour' and red; compare with raddle.
raddle: "another term for reddle", Early 16th century: related to red; compare with ruddle.
bo-peep: "A quick look", Early 16th century (originally denoting a game of hiding and reappearing): from bo, an exclamation intended to startle someone (compare with boo¹) + the verb peep¹. The current sense dates from the 1940s.
intinction: "The action of dipping the bread in the wine at a Eucharist so that a communicant receives both together", Mid 16th century: from late Latin intinctio(n-), from Latin intingere, from in- 'into' + tingere 'dip'. The word originally denoted the general action of dipping, especially into something coloured; compare with tinge. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.
improbity: "Lack of honesty and moral integrity", Late 16th century: from Latin improbitas, from improbus 'wicked', from in- 'not' + probus 'good'. Compare with probity.
bilberry: "A small dark blue edible berry", Late 16th century: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare with Danish bøllebær. More blue from Middle English:The English blue and French bleu are ultimately the same word, which goes back to ancient Germanic and is related to the blae- in blaeberry (Middle English), a Scottish and northern English name for the bilberry (late 16th century). Blue occurs in a number of phrases, in particular those relating either to depression and melancholy or to the blue of the sky, as in out of the blue, ‘as a total surprise’. See also bolt. Something occurring once in a blue moon is something very rare. A blue moon sounds fanciful but it is a phenomenon that does occur occasionally, due to large amounts of dust or smoke in the atmosphere. A particularly Australian use of blue is as a humorous nickname for a red-haired person. This is first recorded in 1932, although bluey is earlier, from 1906.Depression or melancholy have always been around, but no one called these feelings the blues until the mid 18th century, although people have been feeling blue since as early as the 1580s. The blues was a contraction of blue devils, which were originally baleful demons punishing sinners. In the 18th century people fancifully imagined them to be behind depression, and later also to be the apparitions seen by alcoholics in delirium tremens. The first printed record of the name of the melancholic music style is in the ‘Memphis Blues’ of 1912, by the American musician W. C. Handy, who later set up his own music-publishing house and transcribed many traditional blues. Its later development, rhythm and blues, appeared in the 1930s.Obscene or smutty material has been known as blue since the mid 19th century. The link may be the blue gowns that prostitutes used to wear in prison, or the blue pencil traditionally used by censors.Blue-chip shares are considered to be a reliable investment, though less secure than gilt-edged stock (used since the later 19th century for government stock, and earlier to suggest excellent quality). Blue chips are high-value counters used in the game of poker. In America a blue-collar worker (mid 20th century) is someone who works in a manual trade, especially in industry, as opposed to a white-collar worker (early 20th century) in the cleaner environment of an office. A blueprint (late 19th century) gets its name from a process in which prints were composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground. See also murder
boscage: "A mass of trees or shrubs", Late Middle English: from Old French; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to bush¹. Compare with bocage.