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Im Archiv findet man folgende Begriffe (etymologisch) diskutiert.
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September 2008 Archives
- Terms with Numbers: 40 winks; eighty-six; paint-by-numbers; the 400; 23 skidoo (pie wagon); ninety-nine; quaver (demiquaver, semidemiquaver, hemisemidemiquaver, quasihemisemidemiquaver)
- Learning New Words: peloton; tawse; Sitzfleisch; repechage; cloisonné; electronic ink; ruched
- Portmanteau ("Blend") Words: splog; squiggle; galumph; blither; mocktail; cyborg; sexile
- Personalities: loquacious; garrulous; voluble; scapegrace; misocapnist; crepe-hanger; pillock (haver)
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August 2008 Archives
- Painterly Terms: impasto; craquelure; cleavage; (line/reline (moating, weave impression); aqueous cleaning; pentimento; inpainting (overpainting, raked)
- Shade and Shadow: Tenebrism (chiaroscuro); sombrero (somber, ranchero); skiamachy; ascian (harmattan, amphiscian, Periscian); squirrel; umbra (penumbra); gnomon (skiagraphy)
- Eponyms Once Again: silhouette; Barbie doll; klieg light; ritzy; Raffles; Zelig; Icarusian
- Gulliver's Travels and other Swiftisms: Lilliputian; Big-endian; Brobdingnagian (unit bias); senectitude; Laputan; ad infinitum
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July 2008 Archives
- US Independence Day: unremitting; manumission; John Hancock; consanguinity; hackneyed; sufferance; Benedict Arnold
- Speeches and Orations: philippic; soapbox; jeremiad; panegyric; epilogue; homily; declamation (soliloquy)
- Ancient Metal Elements (metaphorically): silver tongued; tin god; iron curtain; copper-bottomed; quicksilver; lead-foot; gold star
- Lingo of Corporate Takeovers: golden parachute; pac man defense; staggered board; greenmail; poison pill; white knight
- Oxymorons: tender offer; pianoforte; sophomore (sophomoric, sophomania); oxymoron; black gold; neoconservative (idiot savant); preposterous
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June 2008 Archives
- 2008 Scrips Spelling Bee: tralatitious; guerdon; diener; piacular; torii; senectitude; tonneau
- Knitting Lingo: knit (purl); Stockinette or Stocking Stitch (Garter Stitch, Ribbing); tinking (frogging); felting (spit-splice); stash (stash enhancement, stash diving, souvenir stash); UFO (BUFO, FO, WIP, SIP, KIP, KAL, LYS); cast-on (cast-off / bind-off)
- Newspapers give less-obscure words: doughty (herpetologist); pandit; neuron (synapse); to kneecap; Manichean; erstwhile; miscreant
- Words better known as negatives: exorable; evitable; vincible; regardful; corrigible (ruly); maculate (immaculate); gainly (gain, ungainly)
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May 2008 Archives
- Of Politics and Politicians: reptilian; prevaricate; Punch and Judy show; bombastic; Grand Guignol; logrolling; earmarks (earmarking)
- More Short Words: skep; knurl (knurling); cadge; plage; lido; ween (prate); ret; scutch
- Beer, Glorious Beer: brewster; spile (shive); gastropub; rathskeller; estaminet; beer pong; malt
- Glacial Geology: esker; cirque (cwm); kame; drumlin; sérac (crevasse); fjord; tarn
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April 2008 Archives
- Psychology Words: parapraxis; fugue; syntonic; neurasthenia; folie à deux; conation; Munchausen syndrome (factitious disorder, hypochondria, malingering)
- Noble Eponyms: yarborough; mithridatism; orrery; Tupperware; pompadour; mausoleum; Solomon
- Book: The Physician: coracle; metheglin (infuse, physick, cathartic); haysel; swath; hawk (as a verb, to hawk); aquiline (shagreen); rood
- Mistaken Science: cataract; viper; remora; carotid; ether (Ethernet); toadstool; pituitary
- Animals as Metaphor: owlish; leonine (Leonine verse); struthionine; albatross; ursine; waspish; coltish
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March 2008 Archives
- Fossil Words: kith and kin; hem and haw; hue and cry; dribs and drabs; spick and span; kit and caboodle; nook and cranny
- More surviving fossils: whelm; hoar (hoarfrost, hoary); fangled as in newfangled); fettle (as in fine fettle); cahoots; woebegone; short shrift
- Archaic Words: lief; arrant; eftsoons; thorp (betide); whoreson (umbustious); hight (hostler, ostler, palfrey); clepe
- Para-words: paraphernalia; parable; paraplegia; paranoia; paraschite; parody
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February 2008 Archives
- Pregnancy, from Z to A: zygote (ectopic); chloasma; tocology; enceinte; gravid; midwife toad; parturient (parturition)
- Logic, Reasoning and Thought: maieutic (Socratic, hebamic); chop logic; paralogism; sophism; induction; dialectic; hypercorrection
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January 2008 Archives
- Making and Using Words: neologism (inter alia); hapax legomenon; bahuvrihi; sniglet; inkhorn terms; meme; back-formation; portmanteau word (portmanteau)
- The Sorcerer, by Gilbert and Sullivan: clarion (clarion call, knell, lay); escutcheon; comely; tush (pule); navvy; necromancy (nativity, puffery); nosology; philology
- Eponyms again: Zamboni; Beretta (magazine, biretta); Jacuzzi (derringer); Quasimodo; axel; salchow; lutz
- It’s a jungle out there!: lionize; porcelain; catspaw; cat; lapdog; gallium; boustrophedon
- Short words (and similar doublets): shoat/stoat (ermine); muzzy/mazy; smelt/spelt; scruff/scurf (pendulous); quirt; tope; swale/sward
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December 2007 Archives
- Bodily Conditions: borborygm; eructation; suppurate (bubo, bubonic); bruxism; somnolent; blain (chilblain)
- Kinds of People: janissary; voluble; endomorphic; younker; fashionista; reactionary; misoneism; naïf
- Professions from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: summoner; reeve; canon (yeoman); manciple; haberdasher; franklin; pardoner
- What's new?: neophyte; neoteric; apophoret; neoteny; Hogmanay; qualtagh
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November 2007 Archives
- freerice.com: sastruga; parhelion (sun-dog, paraselene, moon dog); rampike (rampick); fauteuil (piedmont); caracole; lucarne; gosport (slipstream, tandem)
- Eponyms once again: Tommy Atkins; jerrican; BVDs; jaegers; Haussmannize; guyot; Mickey Finn; horsmandering
- Book: The Sea: haulm; cackhanded; strangury; lour; etiolate; apotropaic; unctuous
- About face: sclera; sinciput (spalpeen); nares; edentate; tragus; saccade; philtrum
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October 2007 Archives
- Disagreeable Sorts: vulgarian; lickspittle; Grobian (parricide); clodhopper; fussbudget; curmudgeon; Sassenach
- What's our theme?: temulent; escarpment; kinesthesia (proprioception); agnate; mystagogue; internaut; nolens volens
- Interesting Etymologies: redingote (dingo); sabot (sabotage); demijohn; étui/etwee (huswife); ostracize
- Book: Extraordinary Popular Delusions: vis et armis; venial; pottage; sylph; undine; auditory; immure; endue; indue; circumjacent; gambol; rick; evolution; stultify; purloin; grimoire; prognosticate; irrefragable; coeval; diablerie; list of mancy words
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September 2007 Archives
- Tasty Words: bonne bouche, ambrosia, nectar, gustable, sapid, viands, kickshaw
- Overeating: guttle, fress, trencherman, edacious (suppurate), hork, gourmandize, raven; ravin (trencher)
- New Beasts in OED: puppy-dog eyes, bunny slope, chili dog (chili), hamster wheel, bird-dog, puffin crossing, sick puppy
- Rip Van Winkle: weathercock (cockerel), obsequious, curtain lecture (malleable, ductile, pliant), assiduity, gallligaskins, alacrity (clamber), phlegm, Babylonish
- Domineering Women: petticoat government, harpy, termagant, virago, branks, cucking stool (trebucket), Xanthippe, harridan
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August 2007 Archives
- Collections and collectors: exonumia, cartophily, scriptophily, deltiology, rariora (Wundercammer), ephemera, phillumenist, philography (chirography)
- Specific "collective" nouns: kindle, clowder, murmuration, warren, giggle, gaggle, skein
- Collections of Writings: Festschrift, gazetteer, onomasticon, prosopography, florilegium, sottise, sottisier, analects (chrestomathy), anthology, corpus
- Savory Collectives - E pluribus unum: smorgasbord, farrago, mishmash, olio, olla-podrida, potpourri, salmagundi, hodgepodge
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July 2007 Archives
- Monk words: monkish, cappuccino, lubber (abbey-lubber), banoffi pie, chartreuse, mulligan, mulligan stew or mulligan, whirling dervish
- Animating Adjectives: piquant (pique, pike¹, pike², turnpike), frenetic, obstreperous, mordant, salubrious, timorous, strident
- What's Our Theme?: jalousie, milquetoast, vinaceous (cerulean), loudhailer, sternutation (aeolipyle), autocide, praseodymium
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June 2007 Archives
- Words from Folk Etymology: wedlock, helpmate, sweetheart, lapwing, bridegroom, stark-naked, maidenhead
- Antiquated Words - Oddballs Only: catchpole; catchpoll, pismire, pissant, toad-eater, gandermooner, feague, stirrup-cup (deoch an doris)
- Eponyms from Shakespeare: Caliban, Dogberry, benedict, Othello, Romeo, Prospero
- Words with Religious Connection: imprimatur, voodoo, orthodoxy, votary, Jesuitical, hassock, ahimsa
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May 2007 Archives
- More Game/Sport Words: crapshoot, debonair, bandy-legged, well-heeled, stymie, screwball, hat trick
- Words of the Theater: greenroom, claque, proscenium (terrane), histrionic, wing it, dramaturg
- Words from Arabic: hagira, loofah, minaret (masjid), giaour, dura mater (pia mater, arachnoid mater, meninges), feinghee, kismet
- 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee: coryza, Schuhplattler, tournure, genizah, punaise, Belial, calenture
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April 2007 Archives
- Coined Words: halitosis, blurb, ecdysiast, cromulent, dorgi, agnostic, scofflaw
- Laws, Principles, and Rules: Murphy’s Law, Morton’s Fork, Parkinson's Law, Gresham’s law, Pareto Principle (80/20 rule), GIGO, Peter Principle
- Short Words: lek, ort, pyx (antiphon), erg, oda, nob, vig
- Words from Games: taw, roquet, chukka (conk), pelota, cesta, oche, muleta, squidger, squop
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March 2007 Archives
- People You Know: deipnosophist, dandiprat, wowser, neophyte, war horse, dotard, leman
- People you may know, chevalier d'industrie, femme fatale, enfant terrible, mouton enragé, bon vivant, éminence grisé, idiot savant
- Occupations Surviving as Surnames: chandler, cooper, webster, wainwright, granger, mercer, fletcher
- Eponyms from Surnames from Occupations: mercerize, Fletcherize (stonking), Grangerize, lister (listerine), mesmerize, napier, Napier's Bones (Gunter's scale), bowdler (bowdlerize), shepardize
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February 2007 Archives
- Action words: verbs: asperse, bloviate, racket, scud, insidiate, thrum, eruct
- The Vulgar Tongue: raphe, rantallion, ithyphallic, karezza, fiesty, manustupration, onanism
- Eponyms again: priapic, procrustean, Jonah, Goliath, negus, sandwich
- Miscellaneous Words: labile, percipient, wabbit, agalaxy, soporific, divagate, tzigane, zeitgeber
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January 2007 Archives
- Types of Writing: amphigory, tushery, prolix, aphoristic, apothegm, sententious, gnomic
- Colo(u)rful Words: purple prose, silver-tongued, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, white paper, blue book, green card, white noise
- Words from the Crimean War: thin red line, balaclava, cardigan, mamelon, Nightingale, raglan, anabasis, katabasis
- Obscure Water-Words: anadromous (grilse), catadromous, phreatic, vadose, bilge, sparge, clepsydra, natant, aspergill; aspergillum, aspersorium
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December 2006 Archives
- Phrases from Latin: mutatis mutandis, mea culpa, ceteris paribus, caveat emptor, sine qua non, vox populi, de gustibus
- Graphic Words: tachygraphy, chirography, cacography, dittography, haplography, pantograph (heodolite), agraphia, steganography
- Eponyms from Literature: Svengali, Faustian, Chicken Little, trilby, fedora, grandfather clock, waldo
- Words from Heinlein: obstipate, hypergolic, caltrop, hemocyanin, lettre de cachet, heterodyne, atavism, contretemps, legerdemain
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November 2006 Archives
- Dirksenian Prose, rheum, sesquipedalian, diapason, grandiloquence, Chautauqua, rapscallionry, floriated
- Egyptology: ankh (caduceus, sistrum), scarab, shabti, faience, natron (desiccate), Rosetta Stone, cartouche
- More toponyms: canopic (viscera), bialy, arras, doolally, K Street (parsimonious, metonymy), Beltway, limousine
- One Day; One Newspaper: mecca, iconic, nascent, nonagenarian (fête), cognitive dissonance, kowtow, infographics
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October 2006 Archives
- Hiding and Secrecy: camarilla, doggo, in camera, latitation (sub rosa), priest's hole, star chamber
- Words of War and Revolt: palace revolution, dragoon (importunate), casus belli, sortie, jihad, polemology, antebellum
- More Words of War: banzai attack; banzai charge, brevet, Maginot line, Kulturkampf, Kriegspiel, cantonment, saber rattling
- Toponyms: zabernism, Trojan horse, troy, Sodom, jodhpurs, panama hat, baldachin
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September 2006 Archives
- Eponyms from the Ancient Greeks: apollo, Icarian, daedal, solon, pyrrhonism, Apollonian, Dionysian (fatuous), Zoilus, Zoilist (flyter)
- Vibrant Verbs: simper, divagate, wamble, calumniate (obloquy), sunder, obnubilate, roister
- Words of Double Meaning: confabulate (dowager), talus, vamp, slough, tump, mead, isinglass (bung)
- The French Revolution: tumbrel, bastille (oubliette), sans culotte, ancien régime, franc-tireur, tricolor
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August 2006 Archives
- Insulting Words: excerebrose, recreant, poltroon (omadhaun), subdolous, benighted, slubberdegullion
- Sensory Words: hircine (hirsute), treacly, empyreumatic, alliaceous, toothsome, sialagogue, formication
- Words from Wordcraft's "Bluffing Game": slub, rhytiscopia, ningimmer, impignorate
- Words of Art: putto, abbozzo, maulstick; mahlstick, chiaroscuro, giclée, lithograph, serigraphy, stipple, contrapposto
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July 2006 Archives
- Fireworks: chrysanthemum shell (peony shell); shell, ground burst (gerb); maroon; hummer, whizzer; tourbillion; brocade, kamuro
- Geography Words: graticule (shikari); cartogram, cartographer, choropleth; grabben, horst; orographic; moraine; swidden; prorupt
- Words from Hawaiian: humuhumunukunukuapuaa; lanai; wahine; ukulele, luau; haole; muumuu; lei, haku
- Volcano Words: aa, pahoehoe; lahar; solfatara (apoplexy); fumarole (magma); caldera; tephra
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June 2006 Archives
- Words from our board: digital shoplifting; captcha (bot); whomperjawed; heiligenschein (glory); POSSLQ, hypergamy; swive; godemiche, olisbos
- Spanish Land-word Loanwords: bolson (bivouac); sierra; llano; paramo (puna); cuesta; arroyo (hogback); cay
- Words from Spanish: camarilla; salver (morocco); vaquero, buckaroo; duende; vamoose; sympatico; quinella, perfecta, trifecta
- F-word thoughts: flibbertigibbet; foofaraw (mano-a-mano); fustilugs (scullion, rampallian); farrago; furbelow; flocculent; flubdub, flapdoodle
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May 2006 Archives
- Terms from Horse Racing: across the board; dark horse; hands down; get one's goat; shoo-in; also-ran - a loser in a race or contest; front runner
- Akeelah and the Bee: plexure; trouvaille; miscible; ratiocinate; terete; graveolent; semelfactive Roscian - eponym: eminent as an actor (or actress)
- Eponyms: Roscian; thespian; Mutt and Jeff; Oscar; oersted; tontine; tomcat (crib)
- Toponyms: tabby (taffeta); tarantula, tarantism, tarantella; artesian; Stepford; solferino; magenta; Boston fern; tuxedo (pugilist, round-heels)
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April 2006 Archives
- From the poems of Guy W. Carryl: lacerate, coping, pungent; epithet, bric-à-brac, vulpine; dolce far niente, flippant, torpid; terrapin, expeditious, unction; Tartarean, phillippic; mordacious, pugnacious, rapacious; barrow; objet d'art, borough, shire
- One Week of the Newspaper: Gresham's Law; alluvial, quantitate; rentier; Zukunftsangst; cosset; perdurable, perdure; anthropic, anthropic principle
- Time for More Time: vespertine; postprandial; matutinal; antejentacular; crepuscular; aurorean; nudiustertian; sennight
- Words of Deception and Trickery: fourberie; chicane; chouse; obreptitious; tregetry, legerdemain
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March 2006 Archives
- Astronomy terms, and metaphor: black hole; apogee (orthography); meteoric; nutation; light year (billion); nebula; constellation
- False Starts and New Beginnings: apron; alligator; jade; munition (ammunition); metanalysis; rass; eke (nickname); umpire (noumpere); precocious (apricot)
- Eponyms - outrageous and/or obscure: Athanasian wench (quicunque vult); hooch; isabelline; Mahernia (Quisqualis); phryne
- Basketball terms used figuratively: jump ball; slam dunk; full-court press; tip-off; airball; fast-break; nothing but net
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February 2006 Archives
- In Honour of Charles Dickens: bumbledom (beadle, choleric); Tapleyism; gamp; Scrooge; Chadband; podsnap; Dolly Varden
- Terms of Wordplay: wellerism; Tom Swiftie (croaker); lipogram; ludic; rebus; cruciverbalist; rhopalic
- Peculiar Newfoundland English: dwy (twy, dally); spell; yaffle; crannick; gowithy (withy); bakeapple (whortleberries); droke
- The Color Black: black; blackjack (truncheon); necromancy; blackwash (whitewash); blackshirt; Ebonics; black sheep; melancholy; touchstone
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January 2006 Archives
- Eponyms from World War II: Lord Haw Haw (Spenglerian); Maginot line; Luger (jackboot); Toyko Rose; K-ration (climactic); Garand (Browning machine gun); Rosie the Riveter
- Lazy People: layabout; chairwarmer; dabster (dab); faineant; fainéant (faineant deity); sluggard; goldbrick; lollygagger
- Antedating the OED: majorette; drum majorette; manhandling; mail slot; man-hating (misogyny, misandry); mass market; mass of maneuver; mass producer
- Waters of the World: lacustrine; riparian (riverine, riprap, gabion); pelagic (cetacean); palustrine (paludal); neritic (bathyal, abysmal, hadal, continental slope, benthic/benthonic, bathypelagic); estuarial (kelt, limnology, oceanography, oceanology)
- "Untranslatable" Words from German: Korinthenkacker; Feierabend; fisselig; Drachenfutter (propitiate); Radfahrer; Schlimmbesserung (marmoreal); Papierkrieg
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December 2005 Archives
- The Dominant Animals: Insects: entomology; metamorphosis; chiten (integument); insectifuge; blattoid (bdelloid); lepidoptera; imago
- Anti-Black Discrimination: redlining; underground railroad; grandfather clause (to grandfather); DWB (FWM); Beulah Land; blockbusting; restrictive covenant; Jim Crow
- More Christmas-Carol Words: cloven; gladsome; swathe, swaddle (snath, snathe or snead); to pine; babel; roundelay (rondelle, rondel, rondeau, rondel)
- Odd and Amusing Scientific Names: draculin; manxane (manxine; triskelion); cummingtonite (polymorphism); cristane (crissum; cloaca; skatole; cubane; cadaverine; putrescine); erotic acid; methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosyl- (etc.)
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November 2005 Archives
- Toponyms: toponym; New York minute; Bronx cheer (Goldilocks economy); serendipity (buckyball, fullerene, buckytube; buckminsterfullerene); wailing wall; denim (jeans, levis, serge; twill, Genoa); sherry
- Toponyms from heavenly places: cockaigne; Elysium; tempean; Eden; tranquillityite; Shangri-La; ***
- Thanksgiving: non nobis; beatitude; minerval; benison; gramercy; hosanna/hosannah
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October 2005 Archives
- Words of Fakeitude or Error: esquivalience; ghost word; obsidian; Lucifer; gruntled (demerit); copyright trap (honeytoken, canary trap)
- Boo! for Halloween: bugaboo; boomerang kid; calaboose; boomslang; boohai; booboisie; boobocracy; boot hill
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September 2005 Archives
- Horticulture words: umbrage (umbrageous); sprigging; allelopathy; espalier; tilth; cultivar (monoculture); geophyte (bulb, basal plate; corm; turnicate, imbricate; tuber; rhizome); (alchemy, sport, witches’ broom, topophysis)
- Words of Railroading: deadhead; jerkwater; intermodal; wye; brownie points; featherbedding; dead man's switch/
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July 2005 Archives
- Common Words missing from OED: mixed message; dual-use technology; podcast; red state or blue state; bris; treasury bond (T-bond)
- Unpleasant Places: Dogpatch; slough of despond (slough); aceldama (intestine); Hooverville; take to the woodshed (or 'to woodshed'); ghetto
- Political Leaders as Eponyms: jimson weed (mow); Queen Anne's lace; quisling; Nero; Molotov cocktail; Fabian; draconian
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June 2005 Archives
- 'Hard words' from "River Horse": incarnadine; anadromous; palliate; cheval-de-frise; surreptitious; chandler (chandlery); vinegaroon
- Less-known meanings of familiar words: fluke; clock; secular; sublime (or sublimate); anorexic; sophisticate; riddle
- Weather words: heat island; pluvial (chott/shott, playa, sabkha, kavir); incus (bontide); graupel (couloir); isobar (isopiestic); undercast
- Eating and Drinking: comestible; Barmecide feast (barmecide); borborygmi (abomasum, rumen, reticulum, omasum (manyplies, psalterium); amuse-bouche (amuse-gueule); degustation (degust); smellfeast; shot-clog; curate's egg
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May 2005 Archives
- "Colors of Spring" - and others: gamboge; cerulean; vermilion; coquelicot (nidgetty); virescent; primrose; purpure
- Incommodating Eponyms: twiss; fontange; Oliver's skull; sacheverell; furphy; crapper
- Words of the Law: specific performance; bright-line rule; safe harbor; stare decisis; fiduciary; standing; amicus curiae
- The issue of using "Hard Words": rebarbative; fulgurous (obloquy, contumely); vertiginous (elegiac, mememto mori); satrap; nugatory; jactitation (jactant); antinomian (halakah)
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April 2005 Archives
- Two for the Price of One: captious; pica (pied, magpie, pie); fustian (fusty); palladian; trepan; wattle (wattle and daub); frottage
- Eyesight, used figuratively: lyncean; purblind; strabismus; inveigle; tunnel vision; scotoma; myopic
- Papal Election: scrutineer; conclave; consistory; plinth; novendial (novennial, novena); papabile; lapidary
- Terms from French: louche; sobriquet; cap-a-pie; soubrette; beau ideal; volte face; amour propre
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March 2005 Archives
- Stupidity: unasinous
- Words OED has only from other Dictionaries: epulose; queme; nexility; spermologist; antipelargy; furfuration; testiculose (cromulent)
- Saints Preservèd: Lazy Lawrence; petrel; tawdry; shoddy; samphire (odds and sods); magdalen; magdalene; maudlin; tantony; bedlam; barmy
- "Untranslatable" Foreign Words: mamihlapinatapei; saudade; gezellig; pochemuchka; kloshar; ilunga
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February 2005 Archives
- Book Words: bibliophile; vade mecum; polyglot; escritoire; marginalia; frontlist, midlist, backlist
- "Bell" Words: belgard; beldam; campanology; gavial; bellwether; cloche; belvedere
- Government and Rule: thalassocracy; malversation; immobilism; kleptocracy; misprision; ptochocracy
- Jane Austen #3: superannuated; sedulous; (ossify, assiduous); puppyism; self-consequence; importunate; imaginist; tremulous
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January 2005 Archives
- Tsunamis and related words: shallow-water wave; tsunami; ring of fire; bathemetric
- From an old joke: mutable; beddable (bedabble);
- Eponyms (non-character) from writings: Baedeker; Boswell; roorback; pasquinade; yapp binding; machiavellian; Knickerbocker
- Etymologies in the Sky: moon; meteoroid; meteor; meteorite; cosmos (cosmology)
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December 2004 Archives
- High-powered Positives: refulgent; gracile (gracillent; hominid); munificent; foudroyant; puissant; lissom; coruscating
- Jane Austen, revisited: sportive; nuncheon; dissentient; valetudinarian; behindhand; missish; postilion
- Lesser-Known Counterparts of Familiar Words: inhume; numerate (innumerate); ubiety, nullibiety (ubication, nullibicity); trepid (timorous); underwhelm; antapology; estivate;
- Wintry words: hibernal; boreal (ceviche); algid (marmoreal, marmorean); frore; rime, rimy
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November 2004 Archives
- Words of Election and Voting: psephology; October surprise; soft money; if-by-whiskey speech; yellow dog democrat (yellow dog; yellow-dog contract; blue dog democrat)
- Abecedarian Insults: caitiff; stocious; callow; losel; (lorel); mawkish; (hardscrabble); vixen; blatherskite
- Words from Chess: check; endgame (scacchic); pawn; checkmate (in extremis); gambit; stalemate; zugzwang
- The Common Man: hoi polloi; demos; third estate; proletarian (proletariat); plebeian; lumpenproletariat; lumpen
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October 2004 Archives
- Spelling Bee Words: spoliator; haruspex; troche (pastille); smaragdine; lyceum (lycée); pococurante; eudaemonic (eudaemonism; eucatastrophe)
- I'll Do That for You: succedaneum; stalking horse; ringer; locum (locum tenens); catspaw; scapegoat; whipping boy; fall guy; paranymph
- Jane Austen Words (part 1): verdure; collation; repine; raillery; moiety; outré; obtrude
- Odd and Curious Beasties: gillygaloo; galoopus bird; luferlang; goofus bird; goofang; sandhill perch; upland trout; squonk; rubberado; augerino
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September 2004 Archives
- Terms of International Relations: uti possidetis, balkanized (narrowcasting), Munich, frogmarch, prisoner of war, illegal combatant (unlawful combatant), casus belli
- Bizarre etymologies: nimrod, dupe, indri, dumbbell, grapefruit, gunsel, bizarre
- Confusing Doublets, redux: solecism/solipsism, egoism/egotism, incommensurable/commensurate/commensal, venial/venal (venery¹, venery²), perspicuous/perspicacious , obscurant/obscurantist, hebetic/hebetude
- Lifestyles, "On the street where you live": easy street, Park Avenue, Queer Street, Tobacco Road, skid row, Main Street, Acacia Avenue
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August 2004 Archives
- "-asterous" Pejoratives: poetaster, medicaster, grammaticaster, politicaster, witticaster (witling), philosophaster, criticaster, theologaster
- Ethnic slurs of the Classical Greeks: boeotian, sybarite, abderian, solecism, laconic, sardonic, corinthian
- Words from Italian: irredentist (irredenta), dolce vita, inamorata (inamorato), peccadillo, punctilio, sotto voce, tramontane
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July 2004 Archives
- Terms from Mathematics: circular argument, elliptical, parabola (parable), hyperbole, exponential, fractal, iff
- Uplifting Eponyms: tadoma, cinchona, braille, quassia, pasteurize, lazaretto, guillotine, stovaine, plimsoll line
- Guess the theme: crapulous, interbastation, titubate, infucation, jaculate, turdine, schist
- Varieties of Written Works: roman à clef, hagiography, short-short (flash fiction), chrestomathy, bildungsroman (entwicklungsroman), think piece, feuilleton
(E?)(L?) http://wordcraft.infopop.cc/Archives/2004-6-Jun.htm
June 2004 Archives
- The body, especially joints: noop; uvula; popliteal; paxwax; blype; racklettes; anconeal; olecranon
- The press reflects on Reagan: acolyte; talisman; nascent; hegemony; clerisy; reaganomics
- Have You Ever Met People Like This? polymath (paradigm); mossback; mendicant; gamin (gamine); flaneur (flaneuse; flânerie) (wastrel); latitudinarian; karoshi
- Terms of Illogic: amphibology/amphiboly (delphic); equivocation; ad hominem argument; tu quoque; ipse dixit; post hoc; false dilemma; begging the question
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May 2004 Archives:
- Eponyms of Women: bloomers; Johnny Appleseed; magdalen; Alice blue; Shirley Temple; catherine wheel; Thatcherism
- From the Securities Markets: IPO; underwriter; Chinese wall; random walk; dead cat bounce; Dutch auction
- "Dutch" Phrases: Dutch treat; Dutch reckoning; Dutch widow; Dutch wife; Dutch courage; Dutch defense; Dutch comfort
- Not Azygous: Shy Spouse-words: azygous; cisatlantic; ullage (bunghole); pecunious; dystopia (edenic, roseate); nocent; clement
- The body, especially joints: noop; uvula; popliteal; paxwax; blype; racklettes; anconeal; olecranon
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April 2004 Archives:
- Interesting Etymologies: dirge; enthusiasm; midwife; shambles, sunbeam; fizzle; trivial
- Shakesperean Words: cantle (pommel); pickthank; foison; lenity (bawcock); chuck (seel); runagate; gleek; gall
- The Art of the Book: portalan (rhumb line; loxodrome); codex; codex; repoussé; colophon; psalter (illuminate); vellum; minature [noun]
- Words that made me laugh: mooreeffoc; kinnikinnik (palindrome); muckender; Pogglethrope; poppycock; panjandrum; grand panjandrum; pettifoggery
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March 2004 Archives:
- Martha Stewart Words: eponymous (epynomic); pandemic; bacchanalia; conflate; turpitude; doyene (diva); verdure
- Caesar Words: caesarism; cognomen (agnomen, prænomen, nomen); rubicon; double comparative (double superlative); princeps (facile princeps; primus inter pares) caesar cipher (cipher; code; substitution cipher); triumvirate
- Ineffectual People, from Yiddish: schlemiel (schlimazel); klutz (plonk); schmendrick; shlepper; nebbish; schnook; schmo
- Blowing in the Winds: eolian (aeolian); ventifact; williwaw; eluvium (elute; elutriate; effluvium; alluvium; allivion); windrow; spindrift; anabatic (katabatic)
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February 2004 Archives:
- Horse Words: capriole; chevalet; bidet; harridan; crock; caparison
- More Horse Words: spavined; tacky; gambol (gambado); desultory; tattersall; cozen
- Horse Sense: Terms of logic: Hobson's choice; negative pregnant; induction (deduction); Ockham's razor; fuzzy logic; enthymeme; sorites; slippery slope
- Characters from Greek Myth: protean; promethean; Orphean; syphilis; pandora's box; rhadamanthine;
- psaphonic
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January 2004 Archives:
- Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to Work We Go: moirologist; tachygrapher; accoucheuse/accoucheur; visagiste
- Pronunciations / Mispronunciations: cacoepy (orthoepy); sigmatism; epenthesis (troilism); hirrient; lambdacism (lallation); mouillé, rhotacism (pararhotacism; paralambdacism)
- Words from the Comic Strips: wimpy; worrywart; dagwood; jeep; zilch; goon; yellow journalism
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December 2003 Archives
- Science concepts: Hawthorne effect; synesthesia; Laffer curve; alpha male; hormesis
- Words from Ogden Nash: afflatus; abattoir (mead); prognathous (bathos); guerdon; samaritan; gossoon; punctilio
- Double-Dactyl Words: antepenultimate; tergiversate; teleology; supralapsarian; infralapsarian (logomachy); historiography; plenipotentiary
- "BBC words": Boisterous Bumptious Coinages: sockdolager; hornswoggle; skedaddle; discombobulate; scalawag; lollygag (rambunctious); absquatulate
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November 2003 Archives
- Gallic Words: démarche; idée fixe; moue; tête-à-tête; jeunesse dorée; dégagé; passe-partout
- The body, especially digits: dactylion; tragus; thenar; gular/gula; lunula; oxter (oxter pipes); minimus
- Eponyms of Americans: Annie Oakley; John Hancock; Shermanesque; mae west; derringer; foley; sousaphone
- Confusing doublets: indict-indite; cervine-cervisial; exigent-exiguous; fulgurate-fuliginous; risorial-rasorial (gibbet); congener-congeries-conger; antinomy-antimony
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October 2003 Archives
- The Seven Deadly Sins: superbia-orgulous; ira-oxythymous-irascible; gulosity; luxuria-lenocinant; acedia
- Words from Baseball: goose egg; charley horse; cat-bird seat; ballpark (ballpark figure); rain check; hot stove league; switch-hitter
- It's about time: hesternal; yestreen; quotidian-diurnal-circadian; hebdomadal; lustrum; sempiternal; bimester
- Words from Dorothy Parker: lodestar; gyve; sapience; fardel; extemporanea; leal; quondam
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September 2003 Archives
- Eponyms from Drama: dundrearies; lothario; scaramouche; Mickey Mouse; shylock; thrasonical; ignoramus
- Euphonious Words: asphodel; cerulean; cuspidor; gossamer; numinous; vellicate; mellifluous
- Verbs: Let's have some action!: pullulate; nettle; jugulate; truckle; deracinate; flummox (gumshoe); periclitate
- Morgan words: morgen; fata morgana; homorganic; morganatic; morganite; morgan; morganize
- Swords: spathe; foible–forte; claymore mine (skean-dhu or sgian-dhu); gladiate-ensiform-xiphoid; swashbuckler; seif dune; sword of Damocles
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August 2003 Archives
- For your aMUSEment: Parnassus; uranic (chthonic); cliometrics; terpsichorean; euterpean (concinnity, diapason); calliopean; thalian
- Sounds of Nature: poppling; psithurism; tintinnabulation; ting; crepitate; sough (beck); croodle
- Seeing Red: rubric (rubricate, red-letter day); red tide; cherry pick; red-pencil (blue pencil); roborant (roberate); erythrism (albinism, leucism, melanism, xanthism, Flavism, vitiligo)
- Words from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado: equipoise; minion; ablution; condign; tocsin; effulgent; pooh-bah
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July 2003 Archives
- People and how words affect them: gobemouche; dehort; quidnunc; philodox; shanachie
- Deletions from Webster's Collegiate: strobotron; straw boss, legman; nephoscope; skibob; frutescent
- Words from The Da Vinci Code: entresol, transmogrify (pagan, villain); scotoma (gaorgoyle); tadger-todger (heretic); effigy; hermaphrodite; oculus; Baphomet
- Signs of the Times: pilcrow; virgule (diagonal, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus); macron-breve-diacritical mark; octothorpe; guillemets; grammalogue
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June 2003 Archives
- Animal words: dewlap; caudal-acaudal-scut; nidify-nidificate-nidicolous-niding; chirr; stridulate; epizootic-murrain-epizoic
- More Phrases from French: billet-doux; amour propre; soi-disant; raison d'etre; bete noire; bon vivant; au courant
- Cooking Terms: sweating; granita; spoom, wasabi; quahob; ramp; ganache; brut
- Bromatology - more food words: deaconing; albedo; runnels; gemel; bromatology; funistrada; sneeze guard; semese; eupeptic (dyspeptic)
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May 2003 Archives
- "Iraq words" - Q without U: Q-boat (Q-ship); qiviut (qintar, qepiq, sheqel); qoph (qaf, velar, velum); qiana; qwerty; pinyin
- Bible stories: shunamitism; abishag; alcedama; pharisee; jehu; simony
- Oration: Types of Speeches: jeremiad; peroration; stemwinder; panegyric; tub-thumping; demegoric; histrionic
- Individuals' Relation to Society: ubuntu; apartheid; manuduction; syntality; marplot; ostracize; sodality
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April 2003 Archives
- Words from the News: tendentious; apocalyptic; kneecap; recuse; nickel-and-dime; vituperation; de facto; jihad
- Words from Astrology: saturnine; lunacy (lunatic fringe); mercurial; siriasis; dismal; opposition; influenza (influence)
- Unusual Eponyms: burke; boycott; ucalegon; grimthorpe; heisenbug (Bohr bug, mandelbug, schroedinbug); pooter; Murphy game
- Tuchman's The First Salute: argosy; odious; rectitude; inveterate; sagacity; welter; hegemony; machination; abjure; obdurate; imbue; enmity; vainglorious; canny
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March 2003 Archives
- Pleasant Conversation: eutrapely; persifleur-persiflage-quiz; causerie-causeur-causeuse; phatic; subtlist-subtilism; birkie; bridgebuilder
- Epi- Words: epigone; epicenter; epicure; epicene; epiphany; epicrisis; epithet
- A Hodge-Podge of Reduplicatives: higgledy-piggledy; niminy-piminy; namby-pamby; tuppenny-ha'penny; jiggery-pokery; hunky-dory; hugger-mugger
- Words of the War: billet; cadre; frag; hydrophobic; inveigh; hubris; atavistic
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February 2003 Archives
- Characters from Charles Dickens: pecksniffian; Micawber; Gradgrind; Fagin; Turveydrop; Uriah Heep; Pickwickian
- Love: cingulomania; typhlobasia; forepleasure; noeclexis; sphallolalia; limerance; vernalagnia-vernorexia
- Love gang agley (gone awry): imparlibidinous; anteric; synechthry; anagapesis; liffy; artamesia; amplexus
- Unexpected etymologies from animals: steward; pavilion; recalcitrant; halcyon; bugle; butcher; canopy; easel; pedigree; auspicious
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January 2003 Archives
- Mythical Places: Valhalla; Ultima Thule; Gotham; Arcadia; Timbuktu; cloud-cuckoo-land; Xanadu
- Common Food Names with Interesting Stories: Jerusalem artichoke; turkey; lobster Newburg; corn; hot dog; sundae
- Words from US Football: end run; political football; punt; quarterback; moving the goal posts; Monday morning quarterback
- Weird and Wonderful Words: fleer; handsel; gallimaufry; mundungus; wamble; moil (marge)
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December 2002 Archives
- Counterpart Words, Female and Male: anile; cicisbeo; tarassis; sororal; andropause; muliebrity; yonic
- Words from "Pirates of Pergamon": parthenian; sapphism; chakra (chakram); ebullient; ululate; omphalos (omphaloskepsis); antipodes
- How did Language Arise? bow-wow theory; ding-dong theory (echoic, onomatopoetic, onomatopoeia); ha-ha theory; ba-ba; sing-song; pooh-pooh; you-he-ho; ma-ma; pa-pa
- Phrases from Latin: ex cathedra; Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?; vox populi; in flagrante delicto; rara avis; e pluribus unum
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November 2002 Archives
- All the world's a stage ... : pule; hobbledehoy; aesthete (aestheticize); irascible; pontificate; senescent; edentate; glabrous
- Water-metaphor Words: slough; limpid; wellhead-wellspring; quagmire; antediluvian; niveous
- German Lingo Of Mental States: sprachgefühl; Anshauung; weltanshauung; schadenfreude; gemütlich; weltschmerz; Fahrvergnügen; katzenjammer; torschlusspanik
(E?)(L?) http://wordcraft.infopop.cc/Archives/2002-10-Oct.htm
October 2002 Archives
- Words that Sound Dirty - But Aren't: titivate; cunctation; decoction; pricket; cockshy; assize; testaceous
- Words from The Raven by E. A. Poe: craven; mien; pallid; obeisance; censer; nepenthe; surcease
- The Colors of Fall: filemot; brunneous; festucine; castaneous; ferruginous; pavonine; eau de nil; caesious; glaucous
- Things That Go Bump In The Night: walpurgisnacht; doppelganger; chichevache bicorne (dungavenhooter); eldritch; bodach; pandemonium; cockatrice (basilisk, three-tailed bavalorus); arcanum (famulus, hodag, jackalope); necromancy (langsuir); phantasmagoria (lycanthrope)
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September 2002 Archives
- Phrases from French: je ne sais quois; savoir faire; bon mot; qui vive; beau monde; sangfroid
- Anniversary of 9/11/2001: annus mirabilis (annus horribilis); nescient; ineffable; lachrymose; meliorism
- This thing must have a name!: finial (harp); pintle; escutcheon; gnomon; ferrule; keeper (billet); aglet (grommet); plunger; zarf (culacino)
- Words from Characters in Homer's Iliad: stentorian; myrmidon; Cassandra; nestor; hector; chimerical (chimera); thersitical
- Words from Russian Politics: stakhanovite; samizdat; apparatchik; glasnost; gulag; bolshevik
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July-Aug. 2002 Archives
- Words from Yiddish: golum; Miss MacKenzie; chacham; tsatske; mensh
- Words from Politics: gerrymander; mugwump; jingoism; carpetbagger; watergate; know-nothings
- Personalities from Literature: Panglossian; Ozymandian; munchkin; Horatio Alger; Simon Legree; Pollyanna
- Words for funny uses of words: malaprop; spoonerism; mondegreen; rodomontade
- Gilbert and Sullivan: Battle of the Sexes: quiddity; incubus; abjure; chary; popinjay; philtre
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