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- burrow (v.)




- c. 1600, "to place in a burrow, from burrow (n.). Figuratively (such as to burrow (one's) head) by 1862. Intransitive sense, "to bore one's way into, penetrate" is from 1610s, originally figurative (literal sense, of animals, attested by 1771). Related: Burrowed; borrowing.
- chop (v.2)




- "shift quickly," 1530s, earlier "to bargain" (early 15c.), ultimately from Old English ceapian "to bargain" (see cheap); here with a sense of "changing back and forth," probably from common expressions such as to chop and change "barter." To chop logic is recorded from 1570s. Related: Chopped; chopping.
- shanghai (v.)




- "to drug a man unconscious and ship him as a sailor," 1854, American English, from the practice of kidnapping to fill the crews of ships making extended voyages, such as to the Chinese seaport of Shanghai.
- paralinguistics




- "The branch of linguistics which studies non-phonemic aspects of speech, such as tone of voice, tempo, etc.; non-phonemic characteristics of communication; paralanguage", 1950s; earliest use found in Archibald Anderson Hill (b. 1902). From para- + linguistic: see quot. 1958.