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Appendix talk:Australian English vocabulary

See also Wikipedia's Australian English vocabulary talk page.

 * Archive I
 * Archive II
 * Archive III

 * Related discussion: w:Talk:Australian English

Hotel
What about the Australian meaning of Hotel as being a bar, pub, or pub including restaurant?

 * Many Australian pubs are indeed called an Hotel by their name, for example my local pub is the 'Lomond Hotel', it would be referred to as 'The Lomond'. Indeed some such hotels still maintain rooms above them. However, most do not, and retain their hotel name from days past. Hotel, certainly, is not an accepted slang term for 'pub'. Joe Austin-Crowe

 * Under traditional liquor licensing laws, hotels were permitted to serve alcohol adjacent to the food service area. The counter had to have a metal bar separating the food service section from the alcohol service section, this is in fact where the term a drinking "bar" originated. Although most Australian hotels comprised a combination of accommodation, food and drink service, many focused on the latter. Legally, and moreover in name, these hotels retained to some extent the characteristics of an accommodation hotel, despite the bar being their main or exclusive raison d'etre. When going to such a hotel, the purpose of drinking would be implicit, and not confused with one's fellows as seeking accommodation - Francois McGill.

 * No Australian would use "Hotel" in conversation with any of those meanings to refer to such an establishment. Let's suppose there's an establishment called the Captain Cook Hotel that includes a "front bar", a "back bar", and a restaurant (and optionally rooms for accommodation).  If going for a drink, locals would most likely say something like, "Are you going for a drink/bite after work?" "Yeah, I'm heading to the Captain Cook with a few mates."  Or, more likely, the name would be further shorted to something like "The Captain" or "The Cook" or "The Cap" or "The Cappie", etc.  If one or both interlocutors were rather unfamiliar with the place, they would likely use the full (formal) name.  If giving a vague answer, they'd say "a local pub", "a nearby restaurant", and so on — not "a hotel".  —DIV (1.145.2.202 09:58, 14 November 2022 (UTC))

Buckley's
The expression "You've got Buckley's" (or "You've got two chances; yours and Buckley's" and variants) meaning "You've got no chance" derives, so I understand, from an Australian department store called "Buckley's and Nunn's" as a form of rhyming slang; your chances are "none". I would appreciate confirmation (or otherwise) of this. Sbz5809 14:09, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * "Buckley's and none" may be a reference to the store, but it originated with "Buckley's chance", which is much older, see William Buckley (convict) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Buckley_%28convict%29. Grant65 | Talk 14:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the response, and, while I'm not disputing what you say, the page that you link says 'His name is often mistakenly associated with the traditional Australian phrase "Buckley's chance", which means "it's as good as impossible".' Sbz5809 14:34, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I've seen more than one thing describing both as possible and neither as certain. I don't think anything can be confirmed! —Felix the Cassowary 15:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Is it worth adding the expression anyway, giving the etymology as "uncertain"? Sbz5809 15:30, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Most certainly! "Buckley's" really should be in this page! —Felix the Cassowary 01:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, according to Fred Ludowyk of the The Australian National Dictionary Centre there is a slight chance (not Buckley's :-) that the term originated as a reference to the convict, but no one knows for sure. Ludowyk offers stronger support for the idea that it originated with Buckley's Store (acquired by Crumpton Nunn in 1853). Grant65 | Talk 04:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
 * However, the Macquarie Dictionary (4th ed, 2005), p. 192, states: " ? from William Buckley, influenced by the pun on the name of the Melbourne department store Buckley and Nunn." Which seems slightly more positive about the William Buckley etymology. The "?" seems to mean "unknown" or "uncertain" in Macquarie entries. Grant65 | Talk 18:07, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Bailey
Apparently, according to the Metroid Page, the word bailey is an English or Australian English term for swimwear. I'ver personally never heard of this, can anyone confirm? Riff 13:14, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Personally never heard of it used anywhere in Australia. I use bathers but have heard of togs etc. Frances76 03:16, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I belive they refer to the old style bathers when u had to covour up at the beach 1900's, 1920's, 3 you get the drify mate's. Enlil Ninlil 05:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Never, ever heard of it. —DIV (1.145.2.202 09:59, 14 November 2022 (UTC))

Sprog
As well as meaning 'child', 'sprog' meant 'semen', at least in my highschool - one meaning probably derived from the other - same for 'spunk' maybe. Is it OK if I make the addition? Adambrowne666 11:27, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I can't recall if "sprog" also means "semen", however, it seems that some people have equated sprog with semen:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sprog

Whether these people are in Australia is not known though. Frances76 03:20, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Yep, that's what it meant when I was at high school. Add it by all means. --Jimp 03:46, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Gonk?
Never heard that one before - what part of Aus is it used in?Adambrowne666 20:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Heard of it, although as a NZer I can't for the life of me at the moment recall what it means exactly. Mathmo 00:04, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I was raised in Western Australia - where they are widely known, but in Victoria they certainly are unheard of.

A Gonk is a carnival or show prize similar to a pet rock in its triviality. It is a small hairy toy that looks similar to the character 'Cousin It' from 'The Adams Family' television show.

The toy is often brightly coloured, such as pink, has glued-on goggle-eyes and sometimes felt feet, depending on whether it is to adorn one's desk or to be hung up.

Their lifecycle is as follows: They are purchased or 'won', then are placed prominently for approximately 24 hours - such items seem to live for about a day generally - and then somehow disappear, or more likely, 'are disappeared' by maternal rationalists.

Joe Austin-Crowe

Wank/wanker
Are these terms Australian slang (wank = masturbate & wanker = pretentious tool)? 203.214.74.36 13:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Looks like the term was British originally, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wanker

Yer its Aussie, used a lot for idiots or friends alike. Enlil Ninlil 05:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Ummm. No, it is not Australian. It is from the UK. Used commonly in Aust, but it is UK slang. Asa01 07:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC) :: Agree with that. the term was almost unknown here until relatively Albatross2147 05:51, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Granted, though wanker is so deeply ingrained in Australian slang that it would seem wrong to leave it off. Actually it'd probbably fall in the list of the most insulting things you can call another aussie. Het

Barry Humphries' Contributions to the Vernacular
Should we mention that quite a few expressions were invented by Barry Humphries in his Bazza Mackenzie strips? I'm pretty sure the Map of Tasmania was one of his - and there are lots of others - heaps of euphemisms for vomiting, for example. Adambrowne666 08:18, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Larrikin
(the following moved from top of page, added by 210.215.125.76) a larikin is not relbelious a larikn is a joker or sky larking i wood know as im a aussie

 * From the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Slang: noun 1. a mischievous young person. 2. a good-natured but independent or wild-spirited person, usually having little regard for authority, accepted values, etc. 3.  Obsolete a petty criminal or thug, especially as a member of a street gang; a hoodlum: larrikins of the push. [British dialect (Warwickshire and Worcestershire) larrikan mischievous youth]
 * Natgoo 12:16, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Ass
"The North American spelling and pronunciation of ass is also used." claims the article. I've never seen nor heard this. An ass is a donkey. Jimp 03:17, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Well practically all US slang gets used in Australia to some degree - it comes from all the US films and TV we have been dominated by for decades - that does not mean all instances of US terms being sometimes used here need to be listed in this article. Asa01 04:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

 * In Australian English the standard pronunciation is /a:s/ (note that Aussie English in non-rhotic), not the common US /æs/. Australian youth is currently adopting much North American slang, for example skanky ho, bro, and homie. But "arse" has a long history in Australia and has many slang uses the map to North American slang uses.  Some compound using "arse" that originated in North American English have recently been adopted in Australian youth cutlure - as "asswipe" = dickhead.  However, even though this word can be found in print spelt "asswipe", Australians will still say /a:swaIp/ ("arse-wipe"), unless they are consciously mimicking US pronunciation.

 * If ass is slang then so to is dat and wat for that and what, ass is basically a shorter for of arse used for informal messages or text.

 * There is nothing to stop anyone pronouncing a-s-s exactly the same way as arse ("ahse" insread of "airss" or whatever). However you spell it, the fact remains that few Australians pronounce it the same way as Americans. Grant65 | Talk 09:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * This is definitely occasionally used in Australia, by people too timid to speak properly, and unaware of the foolishness of swapping to US English to refer to an arse. Let's face it:  "ass" is no longer a euphemism, it's US English for the bum. 1.145.2.202 10:04, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Belting the bishop
slang for masturbating? or not. i dunno.

Australians are not that imaginative when describing 'wanking' - it is more like an extract from 'Rogers Profanisaurus', published by the makers of 'Viz' adult comic. Joe Austin-Crowe

Is "shits me" Aussie slang?
My bf is from NZ and we both live in Melbourne. He tells me off for saying "shits me" because it's Aussie slang and he doesn't like it(snob!). It hadn't occured to me that it was, I'm from NZ too but I've been in Australia a long time. Is it of Australian origin and only used in Australia? Or is it a British borrowing (which I'd just presumed)?

Also, is Woop Woop a real place or is my flatmate pulling my leg ^u^ Kitty 10:06, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Your flatmate is pulling your leg if they're telling you it's real, although it was a town in the film Welcome to Woop Woop. The real-life equivalent is the 'back of Bourke'. 'Shits me' is indeed Australian (along with the variants 'gives me the shits' and 'shits me to tears'). These aren't known in Britain, except as used by Aussies afaik - I've had to explain myself several times when I've used such terms with my Brit colleagues. It may have come from elsewhere, but a quick google shows it's used predominantly by Aussies. Natgoo 10:03, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks Natgoo Kitty 10:06, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

A few clarifications
G'day all. Just a few points to bring up.

Acko - is this an Australia wide term or region specific? I've never heard it before, although I have often heard the word "prang" used instead ("I pranged my car / was in a bad prang"). Again could be an individual state thing.

Bree cake - come on - Big Brother terms in Aust. English vocab? Again have never heard this one used anywhere by anyone and I very much doubt it is used Australia wide.

Pregger - has anyon heard this used as a singular, as it's denoted here? Is it more Australian to say "she's preggers", rather than "there goes a preggger"?

Cheers guys. Citizen D 01:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

 * This list is full of words that are non-Australian in origin, are obscure and rare, and are recent and restricted to small sub-cultures... and worst of all, none of the words are verified. Clobber (clothing) is NOT Australian slang! Ripped meaning stoned was used to mean just that in 1970 US film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which was using already outdated slang at that time for camp effect. I doubt that Russ Meyer was checking Aussie language when he penned that dialogue! I'd delete a good deal of this list but I just know that any deletions will just be reverted. Asa01 08:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * No, please do give the list a good cleaning. A lot of words are added by anonymous users with no verification beyond personal usage, and they don't realise they're using slang from the US or UK. Just be careful not to remove too much, otherwise you probably will be reverted like you said. Imroy 09:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Gander
Since when was Gander as "Australian" term, and why is it specifically listed here? The wikipedia DAB page listing it doesn't define it as an Aust term. Asa01 19:37, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Shelia
So I noticed that 'sheila' had twice been misspelt 'shelia' and rectified the problem. ??? Come on, shelia? I'm wondering if the person responsible (whoever they are) has ever even heard the word 'sheila' pronounced...anyway, wasn't lending the article much credibility...peace--210.211.104.94 09:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Dodgy
I'm not entirely sure that "dodgy" can be called an Australian-English word, as the exact same word is japanese for doesn't work (ie the same meaning as the "australia" word). I'm well aware that the word is in wide spread use in Australia, but I'm almost entirely certain that this word is Japanese (and therefore probably not eligible for inclusion in this list), but I was wondering if anyone could confirm this? Nicwright 07:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * dodgy does NOT mean does not work. Mathmo 00:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * i agree it does not mean it doesnt work. i believe it refers more the overall quality of the product/event not being of a high standard --Dan027 02:43, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the root-word is the older British slang usage of dodge, meaning a scam or plot The first place I heard "dodgy" was on British TV shows of the early 1980s which were popular in Australia, such as Minder. It's difficult to see a Japanese influence on this and dodgy is definitely not Australian in origin. Grant65 | Talk 12:59, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * First time I ever heard dodgy was in the early 1980s, when UK TV Minder became popular. Dodgy was known then as UK slang; now it is common in Aust. But that does not make it Aust slang. Asa01 05:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Dodgy is indeed originally British slang, but it has been used in Australia since at least the 1970s (Lance Peters, "The Dirty Half-Mile", 1979 (1989), II. xix. 188 - meaning shady, of disreputable character). It has been very common in Australian English since the 1980s. There is a famous Oz comedy duo called the "Dodgy Brothers". Certainly nothing to do with Japanese.

Billy
billy is also another term for bong, ive never heard it referenced in any other language, surely this is aussie

Declining Use

I wanted to say i think this page needs a serious update. shitloads of the words are nearly non-existent in normal conversation nowadays, and ive picked out many words in the nearly extinct section that are used alot more than they are made out144.139.143.202 09:34, 7 October 2006 (UTC)saammyyy

have heard this used a lot for bong. other Aussie bong terms: honga, Bill, beuge (pronounced be-you-ge), gatie (short for Gatorade bottle) and Springer.

krakcrook 05:02, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
ah me and thunder from downunda just made a kouple of like edits added words and stuff we use in our aussy lifehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Krakcrook talk about some stuuf editin pges. Thudna from downunda im a true blue aussie i use slang and i suprised that u have missed alot of words The Thunda From Downunda 05:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Splits
I'm in the process of splitting the article up into various smaller ones. We're down to 44 kilobytes. Jimp 08:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Excessive examples
It seems this article is full of examples of these words in use. Few of these examples add anything to the reader's understanding of the words. I've removed a number of them. Here they are.

 * "What an absolute bag!"
 * "I've just bought a beaut new car."
 * "They were having a blue."
 * "Hey mate, can I bludge a smoke?"
 * "I bludged 5th period last week!"
 * "The price of fuel nowadays is bloody outrageous!"
 * "That's a bodged paint job."
 * "This computer is cactus."
 * "I am feeling a bit crook after that curry"
 * "That's a bit crook that they sacked you, Jim."
 * "I'm really crook at you now mate."
 * "After her mother died, she was totally devo."
 * "What a devo."
 * "Mum's gunna be crook that the window's broken." – "Well, der!"
 * "Boonie is a dead set legend."
 * "Do you know where I put that doover?"
 * "Stevo went feral and punched a cop."
 * "I'm running flat out."
 * "I've got fuck-all beer left mate."
 * "The lions have fuck-all chance of winning this season."
 * "The lazy bludgers done three fifths of fuck-all."
 * "That's one fugly dog you've got."
 * "He's a gun footballer."
 * "That was a gun match."
 * "I can't go out, I have heaps of homework."
 * "I was heaps pissed last night."
 * "I've got to jet off mate."
 * "He was being pez."
 * "We piss-farted around for a couple of hours at the beach."
 * "Stop piss-farting around and do your work."
 * "I'm going to piss off soon"
 * "This coffee's piss-weak."
 * "That engine's piss-weak."
 * "That was a piss-weak decision."
 * "The engine's ratshit."
 * "I'm going to the ripper's tonight."
 * "What a rip-snorta."
 * "The engine is rough as guts, mate."
 * "This road is rough as guts."
 * "Five minutes after the rain started I was completely satched."
 * "I made some conversation, scabbed a fag, and then left."
 * "He's a bit scabby."
 * "My car's buggered." "Just a gasket, mate. She'll be right."
 * "Cough up, Bill — it's your shout"
 * "Let's go for a coffee: my shout".
 * "That was a stella show."
 * "I'll go to Fred's place and have a stickybeak around the back."
 * "That food looks a bit sus."
 * "I finally sussed out the crossword" = "I finally worked out the crossword."
 * "I sussed out that James was smoking marijuana." = "I found out that James was smoking marijuana."
 * "Don't worry, I've got it all sussed out."
 * Person A - "What do we do to tall poppies?", Person B - "We cut off their heads."
 * "Dude, I'm a bit toey!"
 * Bloke A: "That Nicole Kidman's a top lookin' sheila." Bloke B: "Too right she is mate."
 * "out past woop-woop"
 * Luke passes a maths exam and yells "Yeah bebe."
 * "You were absolutely off your titties last night. What did you drink?"
 * "We're heading down the pub for a piss-up."
 * "Piss-up at Jack's place tonight!"
 * "He's really mungin' that burger!"
 * "Wing us a smoke, mate."
 * "What natio are you mate?"
 * "We had to go bush bashing through the park to get to Mick's place."
 * "What a ripper of a goal that was."
 * "Check out the size of that donk, it's massive!!"

I've also removed the following hidden commentary from emu bob.

 * Was in common use in late 60's and early 70's. I suspect it would still be used, unless contract cleaners have taken over such things (eg. private security guards have replaced much of the guard duty on exterior gates). Someone with recent military experience can advise. If not used today please move to expired section. ADD: totally in use through my school-days in 80s/ early 90s (Natgoo)

Australian Colloquial Slang
I've tagged Australian Colloquial Slang for a merger here. All that article is is a piss-poor version of this one (crappily formatted & poorly named). The bulk of the article is duplication of stuff which already exists elsewhere. It should never have been created in the first place. Jimp 05:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC) Done. Jimp 07:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

 * :-) 1.145.2.202 10:08, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

To 'hang shit'
Is there a criteria for inclusion new phrases have to meet, or can we just bung them in? Hanging shit's had currency with Australian youth for years now. 60.224.65.29 08:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure there are criteria but it don't reckon that these have stopped people in the past from just bunging stuff in. (Of course, much of this past was when the list was residing at Wikipedia with slightly different criteria for inclusion.) Jimp 00:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Familiar
I'm from New Jersey and am extremely familiar with as if, bang (Smosh uses this a lot), cranky, bee's knees, nah, no sweat, okey-dokey, perv (think Home Alone 2), scab (non-union worker), shotgun, sick, sweet, and wing, and pretty familiar with aggro, beef, cat's pajamas, docket, no worries, reckon, righto, shitfaced, spew, true blue, whinge, and youse.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 23:29, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

RFM discussion: March 2017–November 2022

 * See

Beef
I would have thought "beef" was US English slang adopted into Australia, no? —DIV (1.145.2.202 09:36, 14 November 2022 (UTC))

c'arn
See C'arn the pies – and sauce - The Sydney Morning Herald and Means the same thing as carn, that is Australian slang for 'come on', especially at AFL matches.. —DIV (1.145.2.202 09:51, 14 November 2022 (UTC))


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aureate

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) Golden in color or shine.
 * 2) * 14th–15th century,, A Balade in Commendation of Our Lady, lines 12–14:
 * O wynd of grace, now blowe into my saile, / O auriat lycour of Clyo, for to wryte / Mi penne enspire of that I wold endyte.
 * 1)  Of language: characterized by the use of (excessively) ornamental or grandiose terms, often of Latin or French origin.
 * 1)  Of language: characterized by the use of (excessively) ornamental or grandiose terms, often of Latin or French origin.
 * 1)  Of language: characterized by the use of (excessively) ornamental or grandiose terms, often of Latin or French origin.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:

title: aureate


text:
-ification

Etymology
From (ending on words generally borrowed whole from Old French), from, in turn from , a noun ending related to the supine ending -ficātum of first-conjugation verbs ending in -ficō (English ), derived from compounding with.

Suffix

 * 1) The process of becoming.

Usage notes
Occurs in words of French or Latin origin, but also productive, instead of expected *-ifation, from + ; compare.

Related terms

Translations

 * Afrikaans: -ifikasie, -fikasie, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Albanian: -ifikim, -fikim
 * Asturian: -ificación, -ficación
 * Basque: -ifikazio, -fikazio
 * Belarusian: -ыфіка́цыя, -фіка́цыя
 * Bulgarian: -ифика́ция, -фика́ция
 * Catalan: -ificació, -ficació
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 化
 * Hakka: 化
 * Hokkien: 化
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: -ifikace, -fikace
 * Danish: -ifikation, -fikation, -ificering, -ficering
 * Dutch: -ificatie, -ficatie, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Finnish: -ifikaatio, -fikaatio, -ifiointi, -fiointi
 * French: ,
 * Galician: -ificación, -ficación
 * Georgian: -იფიკაცია, -ფიკაცია
 * German: -ifikation, -fikation, -ifizierung, -fizierung
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ־יפִיקַצְיָה, ־פִיקַצְיָה
 * Hungarian: -ifikáció, -fikáció
 * Indonesian: -ifikasi, -fikasi
 * Italian: -ificazione, -ficazione
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: -화(化)
 * Latvian: -ifikācija, -ifikācija
 * Lithuanian: -ifikacija, -ifikacija
 * Macedonian: -ификација, -фикација
 * Norman: -ificâtion
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: -ifikasjon, -fikasjon, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Nynorsk: -ifikasjon, -fikasjon, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Occitan: -ificacion, -ficacion
 * Polish: -yfikacja, -fikacja
 * Portuguese: -ificação, -ficação
 * Romanian: -ificare, -ficare
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: -ифика́ција, -фика́ција
 * Roman: -ifikácija,-fikácija
 * Slovak: -ifikácia, -fikácia
 * Slovene: -ifikacija, -fikacija
 * Spanish: -ificación, -ficación
 * Swedish: -ifikation, -fikation, -ifiering, -fiering
 * Tagalog: -ipikasyon -pikasyon
 * Turkish: -ifikasyon, -fikasyon
 * Ukrainian: -ифіка́ція, -фіка́ція
 * Vietnamese: (化)
 * Yiddish: ־יפֿיקאַציע, ־פֿיקאַציע, ־יפֿיצירונג, ־פֿיצירונג

Etymology
, in turn borrowed from, a noun ending related to the supine ending of first-conjugation verbs ending in.

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text:
-에서

Etymology
From, equivalent to. Compare,. The second element is from the infinitive of the verb.

Particle

 * 1)  from
 * 2)  from
 * 3) in, inside, at, on
 * 1)  from
 * 2) in, inside, at, on
 * 1) in, inside, at, on
 * 1) in, inside, at, on

Usage notes

 * is only used with inanimates.

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Talk:aureate

Other uses
Aureate can also refer to
 * flowery, grandiose and rhetorical style
 * the studio of Hans Isler, an Aurovilian painter and glass artist from Switzerland now in southern India
 * a breed or sub-breed of golden retrievers bred in Chino Hills, California, USA
 * a spyware system developed by Steve Gibson

title: Talk:aureate


text:
찾다

Verb

 * 1) to search, to look for
 * 2) to find
 * Original English texts from 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * 1) to visit
 * 2)  to withdraw
 * 1) to visit
 * 2)  to withdraw

Usage notes
In the present tense, used to mean “to look for”, and often used with or an adverb of manner such as  and. This can imply a successful search, i.e. “to find”, especially in the past tense, and this sense is often used with an adverb of result such as or.

title: 찾다


text:
너무

Etymology
from Middle Korean +, but now perceived as a single morpheme.

Adverb

 * 1)  too, excessively
 * 2)  so, very, extremely

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text:
производство

Noun

 * 1) production, manufacture

Noun

 * 1) production, manufacture

Noun

 * 1) production, manufacture
 * 2) plant, works, factory

title: производство


text:
perspicio

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to see through something
 * 2) to perceive or discern clearly

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text:
нечего

Etymology
From or another case form of.

Predicative

 * 1) there is nothing
 * 2) there is no need, it is no use
 * 1) there is no need, it is no use

Usage notes

 * Prepositions are inserted between and the form of : не́ для чего, не́ к чему, не́ с чем.

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lugubris

Etymology
From the root of via  or, built on a neuter s-stem noun / with change of sr→br (compare , ). Sen 2015 identifies the ending as the suffix, making the original formation , with subsequent dissimilation of l...l to l...r. An alternative theory derives it from *lūge-blis, with the same dissimilation.

Adjective

 * 1) of or pertaining to mourning
 * 2) that causes mourning, disastrous; pitiable
 * 3) mournful, doleful, plaintive
 * 4) gloomy, sinister, mean
 * 1) mournful, doleful, plaintive
 * 2) gloomy, sinister, mean

title: lugubris


text: Category:Honduran Spanish

title: Category:Honduran Spanish


text:
가락지빵

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  donut

title: 가락지빵


text:
негде

Etymology
. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Predicative

 * 1) there is no place

Adverb

 * 1)  somewhere

Adverb

 * 1) somewhere

title: негде


text:
Roman candles

Noun

 * , a type of firework.

title: Roman candles


text:
некогда

Etymology
From.

Predicative

 * 1) there is no time

Adverb

 * 1) in the old days, in former times, formerly, once

title: некогда


text:
некуда

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) there is nowhere

Adverb

 * 1) somewhere

Usage notes
Indicates movement, as apposed to e.g. /.

title: некуда


text:
некого

Etymology
From or another case form of.

Predicative

 * 1) there is no one

title: некого


text:
dividende

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) dividend

title: dividende


text:
bonable

Alternative forms

 * boneable

Adjective

 * 1)  Able to be or worthy of being boned; sexually attractive.
 * 2) * 2006 September 7, Jason Lammers, “Re: [horrog] Re: g banger sister”,, Google groups
 * if we put all our own bits of information together we might get a clearer picture.
 * I heard she's pretty bonable! How about you guys. Does she have a fat rack?
 * if we put all our own bits of information together we might get a clearer picture.
 * I heard she's pretty bonable! How about you guys. Does she have a fat rack?

title: bonable


text:
spento

Adjective

 * 1) out (lamp etc.)
 * 2) off; turned off (light, machine, etc.)
 * 3) dull or faded
 * 4) extinct (volcano)
 * 5) lifeless (person)
 * 6) muffled (sound)

title: spento


text:
diviseur

Etymology
From divisor.

Noun

 * 1)  divisor

Adjective

 * 1) dividing

title: diviseur


text: spengo

title: spengo


text: spensi

title: spensi


text: spensero

title: spensero


text: spenga

title: spenga


text: spengano

title: spengano


text:
lametta

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Thin wire or foil made of brass, gold or silver; now especially thin strips of metallic foil used as Christmas decoration.

Translations

 * Catalan: ,
 * Danish: lametta
 * German:
 * Polish:, łańcuch choinkowy

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) razor blade

title: lametta


text:
土耳古

Etymology
The kanji are, with 「」 from.

title: 土耳古


text:
speso

Etymology
From. Parallel to Esperanto, by analogy with voicing pairs such as /.

Noun

 * 1)  An obsolete Esperanto international unit of currency used by a few banks before World War I, equal to 1⁄1000 of a.
 * 2)  A modern unit of currency of the Civita Banko of the Esperanta Civito (Esperanto Polity), with a value fixed at eighty Swiss francs.
 * 3) A generic term for national units of currency. Thus usona speso 'US dollar', turka speso 'Turkish lira'.

Derived terms

 * (a hundredth of a speso, sense 2)
 * (a hundredth of a speso, sense 2)
 * (a hundredth of a speso, sense 2)

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) spent

title: speso


text: spesi

title: spesi


text:
spese

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) expense, spending, expenditure

title: spese


text: spesero

title: spesero


text:
spinto

Noun

 * 1)  A soprano or tenor voice of a weight between lyric and dramatic, capable of handling large musical climaxes in opera at moderate intervals.

Etymology
, past participle of, from Latin +.

Adjective

 * 1) pushed, driven, led
 * 2) risqué, raunchy
 * 3) high (vacuum)

title: spinto


text: spinsi

title: spinsi


text: spinse

title: spinse


text: spinsero

title: spinsero


text:
chat échaudé craint l'eau froide

Etymology
lit. 'a scalded cat fears cold water', i.e. it becomes overly cautious.

Proverb

 * 1) once bitten, twice shy

title: chat échaudé craint l'eau froide


text:
Metall

Etymology
From, from (14th century).

Noun

 * 1) metal
 * 2)  metal

Noun

 * 1) metal

title: Metall


text:
stendere

Etymology
From, whence also Italian (a borrowed doublet).

Verb

 * 1) to stretch out (one's arms, etc.)
 * 2) to spread (a table, etc.)
 * 3) to hang out (washing)
 * 4) to roll out (pasta)
 * 5) to floor (a person, with a blow)
 * 6) to draw up

title: stendere


text:
steso

Etymology
From. .

title: steso


text: översätt

title: översätt


text: stesi

title: stesi


text: stese

title: stese


text:
ciné

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  cinema; movie theater

title: ciné


text: stesero

title: stesero


text:
Talk:زمین‌شناسی

Word division
This word must be written as one word, without any spaces. Over the past five years or so since people began typing Persian on the Internet, some people have been putting a space in the word, but this is only because they do not know how to keep the letters from combining as in Arabic, or because of Internet software limitations. The code that keeps the letters separate is & #x200c;. It is this quality that makes Persian so difficult for Arabs, because this behaviour is impossible in Arabic. But this word, like many other Persian compound words, is correctly written without spaces. —Stephen 17:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:زمین‌شناسی


text:
successo

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) success
 * 2) hit (record)
 * 3) bestseller (book)

title: successo


text: succeduto

title: succeduto


text: successi

title: successi


text:
successe

Noun

 * 1) outcome, result

title: successe


text: successero

title: successero


text:
adjectif

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) adjective

Noun

 * 1) adjective

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  adjective

title: adjectif


text:
ucciso

Etymology
From the verb, occisus.

Noun

 * 1) victim (killed person)
 * 2)  the dead

title: ucciso


text:
technological unemployment

Noun

 * 1) Unemployment caused by technological advances. This includes machines and software substituting for human labor, advances in efficiency negating the need for friction-based jobs, and increased data availability undermining professions that rely on information asymmetry.

Translations

 * French: chômage technologique
 * Georgian: ტექნოლოგიური უმუშევრობა
 * Romanian: șomaj tehnologic

title: technological unemployment


text:
Genetiker

Noun

 * 1) geneticist

title: Genetiker


text:
aficionada

Noun

 * 1)  A devoted female admirer; a female aficionado.
 * 2)  A lesser aficionado;

title: aficionada


text:
soulful

Adjective

 * 1) Full of emotion and vigor.
 * 2) Full of soul.

Noun

 * 1) Enough to fill one's soul.

title: soulful


text:
soulfully

Adverb

 * 1) In a soulful manner.

title: soulfully


text:
soulfulness

Noun

 * 1) The state of being soulful.

title: soulfulness


text:
technophobe

Noun

 * 1) Somebody who suffers from technophobia; somebody afraid of new technology.

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) technophobic technology-fearing

title: technophobe


text:
playlet

Noun

 * 1) A short play.

Translations

 * Hungarian:
 * Tagalog: dula-dulaan
 * Ukrainian:

title: playlet


text:
żoċċ

Noun

 * : penis, prick, cock

title: żoċċ


text:
vinti

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) twenty

Numeral

 * 1) twenty

Etymology
From.

Numeral

 * 1)  twenty (20)

Numeral

 * 1) twenty

Etymology
From, from , from ,. Compare 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) twenty

Adjective

 * 1) twentieth

title: vinti


text:
Jadon

Proper noun

 * 1)  of Biblical origin. Taken into regular use the 1990s, apparently seen as a variant of the more popular Jayden.
 * And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
 * And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

title: Jadon


text:
看管

Verb

 * 1) to look after; to take care of; to attend to
 * 2) to guard; to watch over; to keep watch
 * 1) to guard; to watch over; to keep watch
 * 1) to guard; to watch over; to keep watch

Synonyms

title: 看管


text:
Talk:revue

A revue isn't necessarily a parody. It's simply a collection of songs and sketches, which often have a unifying theme - either similar subjects (for instance, Naked Boys Singing!), or one composer and/or lyricist (such as And The World Goes 'Round). DrGaellon 20:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:revue


text:
chimalli

Noun

 * 1) Shield.
 * 2) desgranador.

Noun

 * 1) Shield.
 * Adarga o rodela. chimalli.
 * 1) * ibid., f. 113r.
 * Eſcudo. chimalli.quauhchimalli.
 * Eſcudo. chimalli.quauhchimalli.

title: chimalli


text: 儿歌

title: 儿歌


text:
metztli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Noun

 * 1) leg

Noun

 * 1) thigh

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month
 * 1) month

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) moon
 * 2) month

Etymology 2
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) leg

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)   menstruation
 * 1)   menstruation
 * 1)   menstruation

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) moon

title: metztli


text: 儿女

title: 儿女


text:
in mitl in chimalli

Etymology
A difrasismo. From +.

Noun

 * 1) they are the arrow and the shield; war, warfare.
 * 2) battle
 * 1) battle
 * 1) battle

Synonyms

 * yāōyōtl

title: in mitl in chimalli


text:
副詞

Noun

 * 1)  adverb

Noun

 * 1)  adverb

title: 副詞


text:
接続詞

Noun

 * 1)  conjunction

title: 接続詞


text:
感動詞

Noun

 * 1)  interjection

title: 感動詞


text:
ilhuicaatl

Noun

 * 1) ocean

Etymology
Equivalent to, because ocean water appears to meet the sky in the horizon.

Noun

 * 1) sea, ocean
 * 2) * 16c, Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, vol. 3. f. 223r. col. 1.
 * […] llamase tan bien ylhuicaatl / que quiere dezir agua, que se iunto / conel cielo. Porque los antiguos habi / tadores deſta tierra, pensauan que / elcielo se iunta conel agua enlamar, como ſi fuese una casa, queel agua / ſon las paredes : yel cielo eſta sobre / las. Y poreſto llaman alamar ylhui / caatl, como si dixesen, agua que se / iunta con el cielo […]
 * […] it [the sea] is also called ylhuicaatl, which means "water that joined with the sky", because the ancient inhabitants of this land thought that the sky joined the water in the sea, as if it were a house, where the water is the walls and the sky is above them, and because of this they call the sea ylhuicaatl, as if saying "water that joins with the sky" […]

Synonyms

 * huey ātl

Derived terms

 * ilhuicaātēntli

title: ilhuicaatl


text:
助動詞

Noun

 * 1)  auxiliary verb

Noun

 * 1)  an auxiliary verb
 * 2)  a class of  that attach to  to add additional grammatical functions, such as tense, aspects, mood, evidentiality, etc.; strictly speaking, they must have verb-like inflection; broadly speaking, they include forms with adjective-like inflection and uninflected particles

title: 助動詞


text: Category:nci:Geography

title: Category:nci:Geography


text:
連体詞

Etymology
Compound of.

First cited to a text from 1937.

Noun

 * 1)   an adnominal

title: 連体詞


text:
синдром

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , from and.

Noun

 * 1) syndrome

Noun

 * 1) syndrome

Etymology
From, from , from and.

Noun

 * 1)  syndrome complex of symptoms

Noun

 * 1) syndrome

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) syndrome

title: синдром


text:
itzcuauhtli

Etymology
ītztli "obsidian" + cuāuhtli "eagle"

Noun

 * 1) Golden eagle,.

title: itzcuauhtli


text: приобретённый

title: приобретённый


text:
izhuatl

Noun

 * 1) Leaf.

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) leaf.

title: izhuatl


text:
иммунодефицит

Noun

 * 1) immunodeficiency

title: иммунодефицит


text:
どの

Adnominal

 * 1) which .. ? (interrogative demonstrative); what .. ? (one out of the available choices)

Usage notes

 * The hiragana spelling is preferred to the kanji spelling, which is rarely used.

Related terms

 * : this
 * : that (nearby)
 * : that (far off)
 * : where
 * : which
 * : which

title: どの


text:
Talk:aurate

Aurate on NPR puzzle 2006-12-03
Will Shortz used aurate as a clue word for the on-air puzzle on 2006-12-03. Will defined "aurate" as "containing gold." That does not match the definition given here. Perhaps Will was thinking of "aureate."

The puzzle was to add a double letter to make a common eight-letter word. The answer for the clue AURATE was ACCURATE.

Rrenner 22:32, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:aurate


text:
auric acid

Noun

 * 1)  The compound, HAuO2, formed from the hydrated oxide Au(OH)3 as a brown powder

title: auric acid


text: philtra

title: philtra


text:
nahualli

Noun

 * 1) sorcerer

Derived terms

 * huitzitzilnāhualli
 * nāhuallōtl

title: nahualli


text:
ultramarathon

Noun

 * 1) A running race over a distance longer than 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yard), the length of a standard marathon.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 超級馬拉松
 * Czech: ultramaraton
 * Finnish: ultrajuoksu, ultramaraton
 * Hungarian: ultramaraton
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 울트라마라톤

title: ultramarathon


text:
elephantitis

Etymology
By confusion with.

title: elephantitis


text:
filtrum

Etymology
(see 🇨🇬), ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1)  philtrum

Etymology
Borrowed from, likely altered by.

Noun

 * 1)  felt
 * 2)  sieve cloth, filter

title: filtrum


text:
nenetl

Noun

 * 1) vulva.

Noun

 * 1) doll
 * 2) idol
 * 3) vulva
 * 1) idol
 * 2) vulva
 * 1) vulva

title: nenetl


text:
nohpalli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Prickly pear cactus; nopal.

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) prickly pear cactus, nopal

title: nohpalli


text: nopalli

title: nopalli


text:
ocuilin

Noun

 * 1) worm

Noun

 * 1) worm

Derived terms

 * chihchīlocuilin
 * citlālocuilin
 * īxocuilin
 * ocuillazōlli
 * ocuilxōchitl
 * tlālocuilin
 * xōchioculin
 * ocuillazōlli
 * ocuilxōchitl
 * tlālocuilin
 * xōchioculin
 * ocuillazōlli
 * ocuilxōchitl
 * tlālocuilin
 * xōchioculin

title: ocuilin


text:
omitl

Noun

 * 1) bone.

Noun

 * : bone.

Noun

 * 1) Bone.

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) bone.

title: omitl


text: Category:nci:Skeleton

title: Category:nci:Skeleton


text:
ozomahtli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) monkey

Noun

 * 1) it is a monkey.
 * 2) * Idem, f. 174v.
 * Mona animal conocido.  oçumatli.quauhchimal.
 * A monkey, a known animal. oçumatli. quauhchimal.
 * 1) * Idem, f. 76r. col. 1.
 * Oçumatli. mico, o ximia.
 * Oçumatli. a monkey, or a female simian.
 * Oçumatli. mico, o ximia.
 * Oçumatli. a monkey, or a female simian.

 * 1) it is the eleventh day sign of the Aztec, corresponding to this animal.
 * 2) * 16C, Codex Magliabechiano, f. 12v.
 * çe Vçumatli / q̃ quiere. dezir / Vna mona.
 * çe Vçumatli. which means “one monkey”.

title: ozomahtli


text:
otztli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A pregnant woman.

title: otztli


text:
olli

Noun

 * 1) latex sap of the rubber tree

Noun

 * 1) dimension, extent

title: olli


text:
quarter-century

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A period of twenty-five years.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kvaronjarcento
 * Estonian: veerandsajand
 * French: quart de siècle
 * German: Vierteljahrhundtert
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: štvrťstoročie

title: quarter-century


text:
papalotl

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) butterfly.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * : butterfly
 * : comet

Alternative forms

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) butterfly

Derived terms

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) butterfly.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Butterfly

Noun

 * 1) butterfly.

Noun

 * 1) butterfly.

Noun

 * 1) butterfly.

Noun

 * 1) butterfly.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Butterfly.

title: papalotl


text:
authigenic

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Generated where it is found or observed.

Translations

 * French: authigène
 * Italian: autigeno

title: authigenic


text:
不安

Adjective

 * 1) uneasy; disturbed; restless; anxious
 * 2) unstable; volatile; turbulent; variable
 * 3)  sorry

Synonyms

Adjective

 * 1) anxious, uneasy
 * 2) insecure

Noun

 * 1) anxiety; uneasiness
 * 2) unrest
 * 1) unrest
 * 1) unrest
 * 1) unrest

title: 不安


text:
Braden

Etymology
Anglicised from an surname, from a personal name meaning "salmon".

title: Braden


text:
diff EQ

Noun

 * 1)  A differential equation.
 * 2)  A college course in differential equations, usually as part of a standardized calculus curriculum.
 * Are you taking diff EQ this semester?

title: diff EQ


text:
ordinary differential equation

Noun

 * 1)  An equation involving the derivatives of a function of only one independent variable.

Translations

 * Catalan: equació diferencial ordinària
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 常微分方程
 * Hokkien: 常微分方程
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: ordinara diferenciala ekvacio
 * Finnish: tavallinen differentiaaliyhtälö
 * French: équation différentielle ordinaire
 * German: gewöhnliche Differentialgleichung
 * Indonesian: persamaan diferensial biasa
 * Italian: equazione differenziale ordinaria
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 상미분방정식
 * Latin: aequātiō differentiālis ōrdināria
 * Malay: persamaan pembezaan biasa
 * Polish: równanie różniczkowe zwyczajne
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian: obična diferencijalna jednadžba
 * Spanish: ecuación diferencial ordinaria
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: karaniwang tingiring tumbasan
 * Thai: สมการเชิงอนุพันธ์สามัญ
 * Vietnamese: phương trình vi phân thường

title: ordinary differential equation


text:
melty

Adjective

 * 1) Having a high tendency to melt.
 * 2) In the state of being melted.
 * 1) In the state of being melted.

title: melty


text:
tecpatl

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Stone knife

Etymology
Equivalent to tetl "stone" + *icpatl "top" (compare icpactli "top", icpalli "high-backed seat") according to Andrews (2003).

Noun

 * 1) it is flint.
 * 2) it is a flint knife
 * 3) it is a fint knife motif, especially when worn as an adornment.
 * 4) it is the eighteenth day sign of the Aztec, represented by a stylized, red and white lanceolate flint knife.
 * 5) * 16th c., Codex Magliabechiano, represented by a stylized flint knife.
 * "nci"

- çe tec patl. ques vna piedra. de pedernal a figura de hierro cõ que ellos sacrificauã

title: tecpatl


text:
teocuitlatentetl

Etymology
teōcuitlatl "gold" + tēntetl "lip plug"

Noun

 * 1) Lip plug made of gold.

title: teocuitlatentetl


text:
tlahtli

Noun

 * 1) Uncle.

title: tlahtli


text:
ciseau

Etymology
,, from < , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) chisel
 * 2) sculpture
 * 3)  scissors
 * 4) scissor kick
 * 1) scissor kick

title: ciseau


text:
マンション

Etymology
Borrowed from. The term gained currency in the latter half of the 1950s, used to lend an air of luxury to high-density residential development projects.

Note that while English most commonly means “large house”, it is also occasionally used to mean “luxurious apartment”, and this latter usage was borrowed into Japanese.

Noun

 * 1) a condominium
 * 2) an apartment building
 * 3) a large apartment; a large flat

Usage notes

 * The term contrasts with  in that the former is more commonly a condominium as a flat or apartment that is owned as a piece of real estate, whereas the latter is more commonly a flat or apartment that is rented or leased.

Derived terms

 * : a high-end condominium
 * : a high-class condominium

title: マンション


text:
tlemoyotl

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) spark

Derived terms

 * tlemōyōnextli

title: tlemoyotl


text: vinoh

title: vinoh


text: Category:nci:Beverages

title: Category:nci:Beverages


text:
tzapatl

Noun

 * 1)  dwarf

Noun

 * 1) Dwarf.

title: tzapatl


text:
tlohtli

Noun

 * 1) hawk

Noun

 * 1) Hawk.

title: tlohtli


text:
아파트

Etymology
From, which is an abbreviation of.

Noun

 * 1) apartment building, block of flats
 * 2) an apartment, a flat

title: 아파트


text:
tzacualli

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A pyramid.

title: tzacualli


text:
Talk:shyster

Wikipedia Edit History
This page was Transwikied from Wikipedia. Below is the edit history for the Wikipedia article. The online dictionaries I've consulted specify the word's origin in medieval German, not Yiddish. I'd like to see more proof of its derivation in Yiddish before I'd include this here as fact. Richards1052 07:08, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Time: 2005-03-14T23:16:09Z - By: w:User:63.225.174.87
 * Time: 2005-03-14T23:16:50Z - By: w:User:63.225.174.87
 * Time: 2005-03-14T23:17:51Z - By: w:User:63.225.174.87
 * Time: 2005-03-14T23:21:18Z - By: w:User:Noogz
 * Time: 2005-03-14T23:47:43Z - By: w:User:63.225.174.87
 * Time: 2005-03-14T23:48:52Z - By: w:User:63.225.174.87 - Comment: /* Noun */
 * Time: 2005-03-15T02:53:49Z - By: w:User:24.18.59.229 - Comment: /* Adjective */

Comments
Though I speak or have spoken conversationally four foreign languages, I hardly qualify as an expert in any of them.

However, during my three-year military tour in Germany during the Cold War, I had considerable association with German citizens, as I had taken German Language courses in college.

With regard to this particular word, the origin of the English word was given to me as derived from the German word scheiss for "excrement" (common origin of English "sh*t") plus a fusion of the German suffix (not the English one of the same meaning) "-ster" as in schuhster, which is a variant of schuhmacher meaning "shoe-shop", "shoe seller" or "shoe peddler", rather than an actual "maker" of shoes.

I was informed that the combination of scheiss and the German suffix -ster became the Yiddish slang variant of scheiss-ster from which the later English version of "shyster" was derived...being the actual English equivalent pronunciation of the supposed German/Yiddish-origin word scheiss-ster.

However, it must be remebered that my sources were taken from the common venacular, and from German usage in daily conversation, and can hardly be taken as authoritative.

P.S. I am also conversant with many Spanish, Russian and Japanese obscenities. It is one of the first vocabularies one develops when one goes native in a foreign culture. They largely result from ones own ignorance of the local customs. —This.

title: Talk:shyster


text:
xihuitl

Noun

 * 1) Year

Noun

 * 1) year

Noun

 * 1) grass
 * 2) turquoise

Noun

 * 1) comet

Etymology 1
Cognate to 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) grass

Etymology 2
Cognate to 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) year

title: xihuitl


text:
devil's food cake

Noun

 * 1) A particularly rich form of chocolate cake.

title: devil's food cake


text: devil's food cakes

title: devil's food cakes


text:
xolopihtli

Noun

 * 1) clown.

Noun

 * 1) a fool; an idiot

title: xolopihtli


text:
辛い

Etymology 1
From. First attested in the  of 720. From.

Adjective

 * 1) spicy hot
 * 2) salty
 * 3)  bitter, not sweet
 * 4) harsh
 * 1)  bitter, not sweet
 * 2) harsh

Etymology 2
From. First attested in the  of 720.

Adjective

 * 1) painful

Suffix

 * 1) difficult to, hard to

Usage notes
Attaches to the continuative form of a verb. Inflects like an -i adjective. Usually spelled in hiragana, with the kanji spelling usually reserved for formal contexts.

title: 辛い


text:
幸い

Etymology 1
→ →  →  →

Derived from sakiwai below.

More often spelled as with the final  to indicate the reading.

Adjective

 * 1) very fortunate and happy, especially as bestowed by gods, spirits, buddhas, or other entities
 * 2) favorable, ideal

Adverb

 * 1) fortunately, luckily, happily

Usage notes
When used as an adverb without a particle, this term usually comes at the start of the sentence. It also appears used with adverbial particles and, or, perhaps more commonly, in an adverbial construction as 幸なことに.

Noun

 * 1) very good fortune and happiness, especially as bestowed by gods, spirits, buddhas, or other entities
 * 2) an occurrence of good luck or good fortune
 * 3)  the tail and back fins of a carp or other fish, as used in cooking

Etymology 2
→ →  →

The of verb, itself a compound of.

More often spelled as with the final  to indicate the reading.

Noun

 * 1)  an occurrence of good luck or good fortune
 * 2)  good luck or good fortune itself

Usage notes
Obsolete in modern Japanese, replaced by saiwai above.

Etymology 3
→ →  →

The of verb, itself a compound of.

More often spelled as with the final  to indicate the reading.

Noun

 * 1)  an occurrence of good luck or good fortune
 * 2)  good luck or good fortune itself

Usage notes
Obsolete in modern Japanese, replaced by saiwai above. In historical Japanese, sachiwai appears to be a rarer variant of sakiwai above.

title: 幸い


text:
xihxicuin

Noun

 * 1) a glutton

title: xihxicuin


text:
xihxicuinyotl

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Gluttony.

title: xihxicuinyotl


text:
xinachtli

Noun

 * : seed

Noun

 * 1) Seed.

title: xinachtli


text:
烏有

Etymology
Literally “not-have”; a fictional character in.

Noun

 * 1)  nonexistent person or thing; naught; nothing

Etymology
Ultimately from. May be a, considering that this is first cited in Japanese to a text from 1375.

Although this compound may appear to literally parse out to +, the  character was also used phonetically in Chinese with a separate sense of  or.

Noun

 * 1)  nonexistence, nothing

Idioms

 * : to return something to nothingness
 * : to consign something to nothingness

title: 烏有


text:
tlatlatziniliztli

Etymology
tlatlatzīni "to thunder" + -liztli

Noun

 * 1) thunder

title: tlatlatziniliztli


text:
Talk:도둑

Hmmm this one looks like it should be Sino-Korean but doesn't seem to be... Yahoo dictionary doesn't give any hanja. Kappa 02:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Concur, have removed the category after checking several dictionaries. -- Visviva 11:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

title: Talk:도둑


text:
Caxtillan

Proper noun

 * 1) Spain.

Etymology
From, reinterpreted as containing the locative suffix.

Derived terms

 * (attested as )
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * (attested as )
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * (attested as )
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * (attested as )
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl
 * Caxtīllān xōnacatl

title: Caxtillan


text:
Castillan

Proper noun

 * 1) Spain.

Proper noun

 * 1) Castilian native of Castile

title: Castillan


text:
全然

Adverb

 * 1) completely; entirely; utterly

Etymology
Borrowed from written in the early 1800s from, a genre using more colloquial styles, initially with furigana indicating a reading of.

First cited to a text from 1823, with the reading became more common starting from the late 1890s.

Adverb

 * 1)  (not) at all (with negative verb)
 * 2)   totally, completely (with affirmative verb)
 * 1)   totally, completely (with affirmative verb)
 * 1)   totally, completely (with affirmative verb)
 * 1)   totally, completely (with affirmative verb)
 * 1)   totally, completely (with affirmative verb)
 * 1)   totally, completely (with affirmative verb)
 * 1)   totally, completely (with affirmative verb)

title: 全然


text:
caxtiltecatl

Noun

 * 1) Spaniard, Spanish people.

Etymology
Caxtīllān "Spain" + -tēcatl

Noun

 * 1) A Spaniard.

title: caxtiltecatl


text: castiltecatl

title: castiltecatl


text:
cepayahuitl

Noun

 * 1) snow.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Snow.

title: cepayahuitl


text: ytztli

title: ytztli


text:
User talk:AEuSoes1

Please do not delete SAMPA pronunciations; we want SAMPA on all pages, even if the IPA is present. SAMPA displayes with a simplified character set, and therefore works in more browsers. --EncycloPetey 03:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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Transliterations
The template does not display the letters we use for Arabic transliteration properly. The template that works is. This is what we use here. —Stephen 17:09, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The characters show up fine on my computer but I do see a difference. I thought IPAchar was for IPA.  Thanks for letting me know.  Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 23:24, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Arabic transcription
Hi. No I don't think there is. So let's do one. I think it is better to follow Stephen's transcription, as it is used in most of the existing entries. Hakeem.gadi 07:04, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

title: User talk:AEuSoes1


text:
ihhuitl

Noun

 * 1) Small feathers; down.
 * 2) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Yuitl, pluma, niuiuh.

title: ihhuitl


text: ihuitl

title: ihuitl


text: yuitl

title: yuitl


text:
ihtetl

Noun

 * 1) belly

title: ihtetl


text: ytetl

title: ytetl


text: ihtitl

title: ihtitl


text:
Al-Andalus

Etymology
From, see for more.

title: Al-Andalus


text: itetl

title: itetl


text: ititl

title: ititl


text:
Rhymes:English/ɛləp

Pronunciation
/-ɛləp/

Three syllables

 * develop
 * envelop

title: Rhymes:English/ɛləp


text:
ihtacatl

Noun

 * 1) provisions
 * 2) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Ytacatl, despensa de camino, nitac.

title: ihtacatl


text: itacatl

title: itacatl


text: ytacatl

title: ytacatl


text:
ihpotoctli

Noun

 * 1) vapor; exhalation
 * 2) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Ypotoctli, vaho, o exalacion, nipotoc.

title: ihpotoctli


text: ipotoctli

title: ipotoctli


text: ypotoctli

title: ypotoctli


text: çahumerio

title: çahumerio


text:
catcall

Etymology 1
Mid-17th c., from the resemblance to cats' nocturnal cries. From.

Noun

 * 1) A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
 * 2) A shout, whistle, or comment of a harassingly sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
 * 3)  A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: buuaus, ,
 * German:, Schmähruf, , Auspfeifen, Ausbuhen
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: whistle,  shout
 * Swedish:

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, viheltely ,
 * German: Hinterherpfeifen
 * Hungarian: (oda)füttyentés, füttyögetés, füttyögés, kőművesfütty (nők után), utánafütyülés
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To make such an exclamation.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, освирквам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hungarian: (oda)füttyent,, (nők után)
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: whistle,  shout
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
Short for change availability or type +.

Noun

 * 1)  In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.

title: catcall


text:
ihiyotl

Noun

 * 1) breath
 * 2) exertion; suffering
 * 3) * c. 1609, Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18r
 * "nci"
 * 1) * c. 1609, Tezozomoc, Chimalpahin, Cronica mexicayotl, f. 18r
 * "nci"

- yn oncan yn ihiyotl machoco (where suffering came to be known)

title: ihiyotl


text: yhiyutl

title: yhiyutl


text:
爽やか

Adjective

 * 1) refreshing, fresh, invigorating
 * 2) clear, distinct (voice, etc.)
 * 3) fluent, flowing, eloquent
 * 1) fluent, flowing, eloquent

Noun

 * 1) invigoration
 * 2) eloquence
 * 3) clarity

title: 爽やか


text:
ichtli

Pronunciation
Karttunen (1983) writes īchtli; Andrews (2003) writes ichtli; Lockhart (2001) writes īchtli, but says "The long i is not certain."

Noun

 * 1) Maguey fiber.
 * 2) A thread of maguey fiber.
 * 3) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Ychtli, hilo de maguei, nich, nochhui, vel nichhui.

title: ichtli


text: ychtli

title: ychtli


text:
始まる

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to begin

title: 始まる


text:
始める

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to begin, start, initiate
 * 2)  to set up, create, establish, found
 * 3)  to start doing, begin
 * 1)  to start doing, begin
 * 1)  to start doing, begin

title: 始める


text:
ixcuahmolli

Noun

 * 1) eyebrow

title: ixcuahmolli


text: yxquamulli

title: yxquamulli


text:
huehuetl

Noun

 * 1) An ancient Mesoamerican percussion instrument, an upright tubular drum made from a wooden body opened at the bottom that stands on three legs cut from its base, with skin stretched over the top, and played by hand or with a mallet.

Noun

 * 1) huehuetl
 * 2) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- ueuetl, atabal, noueueuh, mi atabal.

title: huehuetl


text:
ueuetl

Noun

 * 1) drum

Noun

 * 1) drum

title: ueuetl


text: Category:nci:Musical instruments

title: Category:nci:Musical instruments


text: Category:nci:Music

title: Category:nci:Music


text: Category:nci:Sound

title: Category:nci:Sound


text: Category:nci:Communication

title: Category:nci:Communication


text: Category:nci:Art

title: Category:nci:Art


text:
義理チョコ

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Valentine's Day chocolate given as a gift out of courtesy or a sense of duty

title: 義理チョコ


text:
ixtelolohtli

Noun

 * 1) eyeball

title: ixtelolohtli


text: ixtelolotli

title: ixtelolotli


text: yxtelolotli

title: yxtelolotli


text:
machtli

Noun

 * 1) a nephew or niece of an uncle
 * 2) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Machtli, nomach, mi sobrino.

title: machtli


text: yaoyutl

title: yaoyutl


text:
taoyutl

Noun

 * 1) Mistake for yaoyutl.

title: taoyutl


text:
ilhuicatl

Noun

 * 1) sky

Etymology
Cf. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) sky
 * 2) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Ylhuicatl, cielo.

title: ilhuicatl


text: ylhuicatl

title: ylhuicatl


text:
Talk:坠

Why no wikilink?
Why is the character 土 not wikilinked under the "Han character" section? It was in the old format. Please fix template because it is preferable and makes it easier to have the radicals wikilinked. 69.81.154.24 04:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

title: Talk:坠


text:
ayotl

Noun

 * 1) turtle.
 * 2) A great bean.

Alternative forms

Noun

 * 1) turtle.
 * 2) A stew.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) turtle; tortoise
 * 2) * 1547, Andrés de Olmos, Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana, ed. by Rémi Siméon (1875)
 * "nci"

- Ayutl, tortuga, nayuuh.

Noun

 * 1) soup; stew

Noun

 * 1) turtle.

Noun

 * 1) turtle

Noun

 * 1) turtle.

title: ayotl


text:
ayutl

Noun
(plural ayume)

 * : turtle

title: ayutl


text:
Talk:笛

Wikilinking of radical
The radical 竹 appears not to be linked here, as it was in the last version of the entry. This is problematic. Please correct this. 69.81.154.24 05:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

 * They could be linked by modifying the template; an issue is that the radical index pages have not been reviewed. Attempting to link it in the individual entry will break when it is linked in the template. Robert Ullmann 06:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Needs etymology
Needs etymology/graphical significance. 24.29.238.60 11:03, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Etymology added. I have no idea what "graphical significance" would mean in this context.  -- Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 06:38, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Also "bue" in Japanese?
Can this also be read as "bue" (ぶえ) in Japanese? 24.29.228.33 20:09, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Yes. Such voiced pronunciations are called rendaku, and since this only occurs in certain compounds, voiced forms are not included in term entry pages.  See the page on rendaku for an explanation of this phenomenon.

Readings
Heya, re: , I think the JA WT entry is wrong. See also the Kotobank page, which doesn't categorize the readings, but it also doesn't list any じゃく; then there's Daijirin over at Weblio, which specifically describes ちゃく as the 呉音. What are your thoughts? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 05:03, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

 * It comes down to the Middle Chinese. has the initial rime . However, there is a second pronunciation . Now which is which... ～ POKéTalker（═◉═） 20:42, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I see that the Min Nan: Hokkien pronunciations for start with, and if memory serves, many Japanese on'yomi are closer to Min Nan that to the other dialects.  Hakka pronunciations also start with , and they appear to be just inland of Hokkien speakers.  Dunno if that's of any help.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 23:56, 17 September 2020 (UTC)
 * not helping, to be honest. Either the Middle Chinese initial rime which has a variant teŋH and definitions “Encampment mansion”, “forehead”, etc. lacks additional information. The MC module would have added this reading . Otherwise, the Daijirin reading of chaku as go-on is incorrect (or misleading) and contradicts the rime tables. Take your pick. ～ POKéTalker（═◉═） 21:48, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
 * @POKéTalker -- Hmm, ya, a pickle. I had a look in my dead-tree copy of Nelson's, but that only lists the single on'yomi of teki.  (Nelson's unfortunately doesn't aim for comprehensive reading coverage.)  I'm happy to let this sit until we can confirm.  It's no biggie either way, I just want to be sure we're not propagating misinformation.  :)  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 18:30, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:笛


text:
cow-orker

Etymology
Deliberate corruption of, perhaps in imitation of pronunciation errors in early text-to-speech software.

Noun

 * 1)  co-worker
 * 2) * 1998, cluelessnewbie, Re: I give up on alt.slack, ,
 * At this point, my cow-orker got real pissed off and firmly and courageously said: Hey, as a result of channeling, I discovered I used to be a cow in a previous lifetime.
 * At this point, my cow-orker got real pissed off and firmly and courageously said: Hey, as a result of channeling, I discovered I used to be a cow in a previous lifetime.

title: cow-orker


text:
co-worker

Etymology
From.

title: co-worker