quword 趣词
Word Origins Dictionary
- hid (v.)




- past tense and alternative past participle of hide (v.1).
How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there
Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?
Aye, a sweet kiss -- you see your mighty woes.
[Keats, "Lamia"]
- quip (n.)




- 1530s, variant of quippy in same sense (1510s), perhaps from Latin quippe "indeed, of course, as you see, naturally, obviously" (used sarcastically), from quid "what" (neuter of pronoun quis "who;" see who), and compare quibble (n.)) + emphatic particle -pe.
- shufty (n.)




- also shufti "a look, a glance," 1943, from Arabic shufti "have you seen?"
- wysiwyg




- 1982, computer programmer's acronym from what you see is what you get.