text:
caress

Etymology
From, from , from , from , akin to 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
 * 2) A gentle stroking or rubbing.
 * 1) A gentle stroking or rubbing.
 * 1) A gentle stroking or rubbing.

Translations

 * Belarusian: ла́ска
 * Bikol Central:
 * Dutch:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: ла́ска
 * Welsh: llawch

 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: милувка
 * Dutch:
 * Galician:, caricia
 * German: Streicheln
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔφαψις, ψαῦσμα
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Welsh:, llawch

Verb

 * 1)  To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.
 * 2)  To affect as if with a caress.
 * 1)  To affect as if with a caress.
 * 1)  To affect as if with a caress.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: لَاطَفَ
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: oxşamaq,, nəvaziş etmək, nazlamaq, sığal çəkmək, sığallamaq,
 * Belarusian: ла́шчыць, пе́сціць, галубі́ць, гла́дзіць
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , pohladit
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: intimumi,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , , afagar,
 * Gallurese: carignà, accaritzà
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: हाथ फेरना,, , प्यार करना, लाड़ करना, लाड़ लड़ाना,
 * Hungarian:,  , ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: muirnigh, slíoc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 매만지다,
 * Kumyk: аявламакъ
 * Latin: palpō, mulceō, contrectō
 * Latvian: glāstīt
 * Luxembourgish: heemelen
 * Macedonian: милува, гали, мази
 * Maori: mori, morimori
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: accaritziai, carignai
 * Logudorese: accarissiare, carignare
 * Sassarese: carignà, imbirrià
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ми̏ловати
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: hladiť
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:, เชย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ласка́ти, пе́стити, пести́ти, пе́стувати, голу́бити, милува́ти, гла́дити
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, llochi

title: caress


text: ESCB

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title: ESCB


text:
fondle

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) To touch or stroke lovingly.
 * 2) To grasp.
 * 1) To grasp.
 * 1) To grasp.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: لَاطَفَ, رَبَتَ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: afagar,, ,
 * German: ,
 * Irish: muirnigh
 * Italian:, avvinghiarsi
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: subigitō, contrectō
 * Maori: mori, takamori, whakatākohekohe
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: crkljati
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, kela med
 * Telugu:
 * Welsh: llochi

Noun

 * 1) A caress.

title: fondle


text:
titillate

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) To stimulate or excite sensually

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:, vzrušit,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:

title: titillate


text:
laundry list

Noun

 * 1)   Originally, a list of articles of clothing that had been sent to be laundered.
 * 2) * 1920, Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts, First Edition, The Girl Scouts, Inc., page 126:
 * Learn how to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home.
 * 1)   A long and often tedious list of items.
 * 2)   An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff.
 * 3)  An equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé.
 * 1)   An unrealistic list of skills, qualifications and experiences, as demanded by employers when hiring staff.
 * 2)  An equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé.
 * 1)  An equally unrealistic skill set claimed by a candidate on a résumé.

title: laundry list


text:
pertinent

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , present participle of , from +.

Noun

 * 1)  A right that attaches to land, in Scots law.

Adjective

 * 1) Important with regard to (a subject or matter); pertaining; relevant.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:pertinent

Translations

 * Bulgarian: уместен, подходящ
 * Catalan: pertinent
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 相關
 * Czech:, , , , ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: laŭtema
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, , , , in diesem Zusammenhang Bedeutung habend
 * Greek:, συναφής με ένα θέμα
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 当てはまる
 * Manx: bentynagh
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: príslušný,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) relevant,

Etymology
(first attested circa 1300), borrowed from.

Adjective

 * 1) ; relevant
 * 2) judicious; justified
 * 1) judicious; justified

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) relevant

title: pertinent


text:
insinuate

Etymology
From, from +.

Verb

 * 1) To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
 * 2)  To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
 * 3) * 1728-1729,, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
 * Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks
 * 1)  To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
 * 1)  To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
 * 2) * 1728-1729,, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
 * Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks
 * 1)  To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
 * 1)  To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.

Translations

 * Arabic: لَمَّحَ, أَلْمَحَ, أَشَارَ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: iparinig, magparinig, paringgan

 * Arabic: تسحّب, تسلل
 * Bulgarian: прокрадвам се
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:

 * Arabic: اِنْدَسّ
 * Czech: vetřít se, vlichotit se, protlačit se
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: sich einschmeicheln, sich einschleichen
 * Polish: przypochlebiać się
 * Russian: заи́скивать пе́ред, сниска́ть (чью-нибу́дь) ми́лость

title: insinuate


text:
rifled slug

Noun

 * 1) A shotgun cartridge having only a single projectile, with oblique grooves on the projectile causing it to spin and thus increasing accuracy.

title: rifled slug


text:
demure

Etymology
From, , of formation, but probably from  (Modern French ) from. The "de-" is "of", as in "of maturity".

Pronunciation

 * Distinguish from pronunciation of demur
 * Distinguish from pronunciation of demur
 * Distinguish from pronunciation of demur
 * Distinguish from pronunciation of demur
 * Distinguish from pronunciation of demur

Adjective

 * 1)  Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.
 * 2) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
 * 1) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
 * 1) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
 * 1) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
 * 1) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
 * 1) Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.

Translations

 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ostýchavý
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Estonian: tagasihoidlik
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: თავმდაბალი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Ingrian: häpelikäs
 * Irish: stuama
 * Italian: ,
 * Kazakh: сыпайы, сабырлы, ұстамды
 * Korean: 얌전하다,
 * Middle English: demure, mure
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: stuama
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To look demurely.

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) grave, serious, modest

Etymology 2
From,.

Noun

 * 1)  delay, waiting, stay

title: demure


text:
encompass

Alternative forms

 * incompass

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Verb

 * 1)  To form a circle around; to encircle.
 * 2)  To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
 * 3)  To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
 * This book on English grammar encompasses all irregular verbs.
 * 1)  To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
 * Drake encompassed the globe.
 * 1)  To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
 * Drake encompassed the globe.
 * Drake encompassed the globe.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: გარშემოვლება
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: περικυκλώ
 * Irish: timpeallaigh
 * Italian:
 * Middle English: compassen
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: omfatte
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: fevna um
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გარშემორტყმა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: περιέχω
 * Icelandic: felast
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Middle English: encompassen, compassen
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: omfatta
 * Old English: bebūgan
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: omfatte,, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ampleksi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * Georgian: მოიცავს, მოცვა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Middle English: compassen
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, inneholde, inkludere
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,

title: encompass


text:
incite

Etymology
, from, from + , frequentative of.

Verb

 * 1)  To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.

Translations

 * Arabic: حَرَّضَ, حَضَّ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 煽起
 * Czech: podněcovat, navádět,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: inciti
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Galician: incinir, imbelicar, bezar, demerxer, enfoutar,, , enxibar, estrizar, isar, istar, enridar, , envizcar
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐρεθίζω, ὄρνυμι
 * Hebrew: שלהב,
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Irish: spreag, fadaigh, dreasaigh
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kapampangan: sulsul
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
 * Latin: incitō
 * Maori: whakakā, tuata, akiaki, ueue, whakatari
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: bǣdan
 * Ottoman Turkish: دورتمك, كوروكلمك
 * Persian: انگیزاندن,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: hatarichiy
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: चोदति
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: sulsol
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: підбу́рювати, підбу́рити
 * Vietnamese:

title: incite


text:
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text:
lantern

Etymology
(13th century), via from, itself a corruption of  (see , ) by influence of. The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare 🇨🇬 to hang at the lamppost. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
 * 2)  Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
 * 3)  An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
 * 4)  A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
 * 5)  A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
 * the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
 * 1)  A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
 * 2)  A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
 * 3)  A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
 * 4)  A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
 * 5)  Aristotle's lantern
 * 1)  A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
 * 2)  Aristotle's lantern

Translations

 * Albanian:, luqerë
 * Aleut: funaarix̂
 * Alutiiq: fanaʀuq
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: فانوس
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: fənər
 * Belarusian: ліхта́р
 * Bengali: লণ্ঠন,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: дэнлүү
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: ocōcallōtl, tlāhuīlcalli
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lanterne
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: lanterno
 * Estonian: latern
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ფარანი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌼𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, फ़ानूस,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: fonari
 * Irish: laindéar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (also: ), ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: шам, фонарь
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 등롱,
 * Kyrgyz: фонарь, панар
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, lampas
 * Latvian: laterna
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: фенер
 * Malay:, lentera
 * Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩᠯᡠ
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lanterne
 * Nynorsk: lanterne
 * Old East Slavic: фонарь
 * Ottoman Turkish: فنر, فانوس
 * Pashto:, لاټين
 * Pennsylvania German: Lutzer, Ladann
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Latoarn
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lòchran, lanntair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фѐњер
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: lucerna, lampáš
 * Slovene: laterna,
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, fanusi
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, โคมไฟ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: fener
 * Ukrainian: ліхта́р
 * Urdu: لالٹین, فانوس
 * Uyghur: پانار
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: llusern
 * Zhuang: daengloengz

 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To furnish with a lantern.
 * to lantern a lighthouse

Adjective

 * 1) Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern.

title: lantern


text:
minge

Etymology 1
From, from , probably from. .

Alternate etymology: from the, synecdochically used to describe the organ through an associated function (possibly ironically or euphemistically).

Noun

 * 1)  The pubic hair and vulva.

Etymology 2
Probably corrupted from.

Etymology 3
From, , from. More at.

Etymology
, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) ball (especially a soft one)

title: minge


text:
TVE

Proper noun

 * , the public broadcasting network of Spain

title: TVE


text:
-all

Usage notes
If the root word contained  l, the variant -ar was often used instead. Sometimes both forms were found: linear, lineall.

Etymology
.

Etymology
From.

title: -all


text: McGuffin

title: McGuffin


text:
orientēšanās sports

Noun

 * 1) orienteering racing through unfamiliar countryside with map and compass

title: orientēšanās sports


text:
Aldebaran

Etymology
From, named so because it follows the Pleiades.

Proper noun

 * 1)  One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth.

Translations

 * Arabic: اَلدَّبَرَان
 * Armenian: Ալդեբարան
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 畢宿五
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: Aldebaran
 * Dutch: Aldebaran
 * Esperanto: Aldebarano
 * Estonian: Aldebaran
 * Finnish: Aldebaran
 * French:
 * Georgian: ალდებარანი
 * German:
 * Greek: Αλδεβαράν
 * Ancient Greek: Λαμπαδίας
 * Hebrew: אלדברן
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic: Aldebaran
 * Indonesian: Aldebaran
 * Italian: Aldebaran
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ^알데바란
 * Latin: Aldebaran
 * Latvian: Aldebarans
 * Lithuanian: Aldebaranas
 * Malay: Aldebaran
 * Maltese: Dabrani
 * Maori: Taumata-kuku, Whetū-kura
 * Navajo: sǫʼ ahótsʼiʼí
 * Norwegian: Aldebaran
 * Persian:, پسیگ, دیده گاو
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Aldebarã, Aldebaran
 * Romanian: Aldebaran
 * Russian: Альдебара́н
 * Scottish Gaelic: Aibhseag
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Алдебаран
 * Roman: Aldebaran
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: Aldebaran
 * Thai: ดาวอัลดิบาแรน
 * Turkish: Aldebaran
 * Ukrainian: Альдебаран
 * Vietnamese: Aldebaran

Proper noun

 * 1)  Aldebaran

Etymology
From (because it follows the Pleiades).

Etymology
.

title: Aldebaran


text:
사람

Etymology
,.

From earlier,. The word is in the same source.

The Middle Korean form,, is analyzed as a derived substantive of with  (> modern ), and thus literally meant "one who is alive". It is no longer perceived as a derived noun by modern speakers. .

Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) human being, person
 * 2)  a person
 * 1)  a person
 * 1)  a person
 * 1)  a person
 * 1)  a person

title: 사람


text:
Talk:செழியன்

This seems to be a romanization of a Tamil word or personal name or both, without any Tamil script. It needs to be moved to its primary script and clarified. — Hippietrail 23:21, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Done (but not by me). Mglovesfun (talk) 11:28, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * However, now we have the Tamil script, but the romanisation has disappeared. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 11:30, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

title: Talk:செழியன்


text:
Talk:debunk

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups: — Hippietrail 23:57, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * debunked: net.math - Apr 11 1982, 4:02 am by G:cl
 * (subject line) Newcombe's paradox debunked (maybe)
 * debunking: net.misc - Apr 15 1982, 1:08 pm by dadlaA!st
 * Randi, along with Martin Gardner and a few other rationalists are involved in the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP); whose sole aim in life seems to be the debunking of all forms of pseudo-science.
 * debunk: net.aviation - Aug 7 1982, 11:50 pm by rabbit!wo
 * Certainly, no one connected with the aviation industry is going to try to debunk this mythology.
 * debunks: net.misc - Feb 23 1983, 1:09 am by nmtvax!gw
 * Randi debunks him so thoroughly you almost feel sorry for him.

title: Talk:debunk


text:
Talk:spoof

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups: — Hippietrail 00:15, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * spoof (noun): fa.sf-lovers - 11 May 1981 0657-EDT by Roger H. Goun
 * The following is a spoof on, what is known at M.I.T. as, the "Baker House Purity Test."
 * spoofs (verb): fa.sf-lovers - 10 Jun 1981 0613-PDT by GEOFF at SRI-CSL
 * Already, 200,000 copies of the $2.95 book published by Clarkson N. Potter Inc. of New York are in print, pushing it well past the "cat books" it spoofs.
 * spoofs (noun): net.sf-lovers - 20 Feb 1983 by brunix
 * Now I don't know who PJF's agent is, and I don't know what politics may have occurred between Vonnegut and PJF or whomever, but it does look odd to me that VotHS would be the only one of several spoofs that PJF kept his name off of.
 * spoofing: net.religion - 13 Mar 1983 by uw-june
 * Does anyone know anything about the flat earth society? Are they sincere, spoofing or some of each?
 * spoofed: net.movies - 1 Jun 1984 by Tom Almy
 * Of course, High Anxiety is the definitive spoof (?) since the entire move spoofed Hitchcock's movies.
 * spoof's (incorrect plural): soc.culture.indian - 15 Jul 1992 by Arun Simha
 * Who can forget the AD-ZAPP competitions which had those great spoof's I can remember only some; (PUERILE STUFF AHEAD...YOU ARE WARNED)
 * spoof's (noun): alt.tv.mst3k - 1 Mar 1994 by Wolff "Iguana" Dobson
 * The spoof's material was written entirely by Wolff Dobson, and you're welcome to reproduce it as much as you'd like, only if you're planning to profit from it, call CC first and me second.

Relation to poof?

 * concerning this edit that you made, what's the etymological relation between spoof and ? I'm not really seeing it. — SGconlaw (talk) 22:56, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

earlier than 1889
Here's an example from 1887, although it may not fit into our senses exactly. DTLHS (talk) 01:50, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Also 1888. DTLHS (talk) 02:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * : perhaps have a look at the OED 1st edition online (see the links at ) and see if that sense (or those senses) are mentioned? — SGconlaw (talk) 09:52, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Adjective is a bit dubious
Seems like attributive use of the noun. You cannot use it predicatively, for example (*"this claim is spoof"). Equinox ◑ 08:47, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

title: Talk:spoof


text:
spoof

Etymology 1

Coined by the English comedian Arthur Roberts (1852–1933) in 1884 as the name of a card game involving deception and nonsense.

Noun

 * 1)  An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank.
 * 2)  A light parody.
 * 3)  A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
 * 4)  Nonsense.
 * 1)  A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held.
 * 2)  Nonsense.
 * 1)  Nonsense.
 * 1)  Nonsense.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, , bedotterij
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Indonesian: plesetan
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: (in fixed phrases)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1) Fake, hoax.

Verb

 * 1)  To gently satirize.
 * 2)  To deceive.
 * 3)  To falsify.
 * 1)  To deceive.
 * 2)  To falsify.
 * 1)  To falsify.
 * 1)  To falsify.
 * 1)  To falsify.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, spooffata
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
en; perhaps imitative of the spurting of a viscous liquid. Compare, , ,.

Noun

 * 1)  Semen.

Synonyms

 * , spooge, cum, jizz, jizzum, jism, gism, nut, junk
 * See Thesaurus:semen

Verb

 * 1)  To ejaculate, to come.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:ejaculate

title: spoof


text:
sear

Etymology 1
From, , , from , , from , from , from (also reconstructed as ).

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Homeric 🇨🇬. .

Adjective

 * 1) Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.

Etymology 2
From, , from , from ; compare also 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬. See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
 * 2) To wither; to dry up.
 * 3)  To make callous or insensible.
 * 4)  To mark permanently, as if by burning.
 * 1) To wither; to dry up.
 * 2)  To make callous or insensible.
 * 3)  To mark permanently, as if by burning.
 * 1)  To make callous or insensible.
 * 2)  To mark permanently, as if by burning.
 * 1)  To make callous or insensible.
 * 2)  To mark permanently, as if by burning.

Derived terms

 * reverse-sear

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: brune
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , , ,
 * German: ausbrennen,, scharf anbraten, ausdörren, , ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Italian:, , fare passare al salto
 * Maori: hūhunu, hunuhunu
 * Occitan:, , , , ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: داغلامق
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Noun

 * 1) A scar produced by searing
 * 2) Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

Translations

 * Czech: spálenina, ožeh
 * Finnish: paloarpi, palanut kohta, kärventymä
 * Maori: kutiwera
 * Russian:

 * French:
 * German: Abzugsstück, Fangklinke
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, spänntand
 * Ukrainian: шептало

Etymology
Variant of the synonym, from.

Adjective

 * 1) eastern, east

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) painful

title: sear


text:
kiss-up

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  One who flatters a supervisor, or superior, in order to get special attention
 * Joe got that promotion because he was a kiss-up, not because he knew the job.

title: kiss-up


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finching

Noun

 * 1) A dorsal line or stripe in cattle markings
 * 2) The sport of hunting of finches
 * 3) * 2004, The Dutch Historical-Geographical Journal, magazine issue 22 :
 * The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite.
 * 1) the sport of competitive finch display
 * The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite.
 * 1) the sport of competitive finch display

title: finching


text:
fat-ass

Noun

 * 1)  A rotund, overweight, or obese person.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:fat person

Translations

 * Afrikaans: vetsak
 * Azerbaijani: yekəgöt
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: χοντροκώλης,
 * Italian: culone
 * Macedonian: дебелогазец
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

title: fat-ass


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pleb

Etymology
A and, sometimes also understood as a  from.

Noun

 * 1) A commoner, a member of the lower class of a society.
 * 2)  A common person, an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
 * 3)  A freshman cadet at a military academy.
 * 1)  A freshman cadet at a military academy.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: просто́люд, простолю́ддя ,

Adjective

 * 1) Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
 * 2)  Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.

title: pleb


text:
Jacky Howe

Etymology
After the gun shearer John Robert (“Jacky” or “Jackie”) Howe, who in 1890 set a long-standing world record by shearing 321 sheep in 7 hours 40 minutes. He is said to have worn a shirt with the sleeves cut off.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of blue sleeveless shirt worn by sheep shearers and labourers.
 * 2) * 1949, Ruth Park, Poor Man's Orange, in 2010, The Harp in the South Trilogy, Penguin, |%22Jackie+Howes%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k56OT_GrBMe5iQf03aXJDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Jackie%20Howe%22|%22Jackie%20Howes%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page,
 * He had finished his tea and was sitting in his Jackie Howe, which is a singlet with the sleeves out of it, and called after a famous shearer of the blade days.
 * He had finished his tea and was sitting in his Jackie Howe, which is a singlet with the sleeves out of it, and called after a famous shearer of the blade days.

title: Jacky Howe


text:
Talk:data mining

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups: — Hippietrail 01:23, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * data mining: news.announce.conferences - Sep 25 1991, 10:22 pm by Sharma Chakravarthy
 * In addition, it is vital to keep on top of developing themes, like the changes brought about by new technologies: object oriented programmming, optical storage and data mining.
 * data-mining: bionet.software - Oct 19 1992, 2:43 am by Jeremy Parsons
 * Together, the ICAtools are a useful and flexible package for both the data-mining and the quality control of large DNA sequencing projects.
 * datamining (nonstandard sense?): alt.conspiracy.jfk - Nov 8 1993, 5:26 pm by Paul Collacchi
 * FAA asserts that CE399 hit JBC's wrist at 1100/fps. How do they know? I suggest that they "threw" bullets at cadaver wrist until they got one to look better than CE399. Datamining. Did it hit backward? Did it damage the wrist the way CE399 was alleged to hit JBC. Did it tumble? If FAA did NOT replicate the entire event then on what basis do they claim the 1100/fps? Datamining.
 * datamining: comp.databases.theory - Oct 28 1994, 8:51 am by Joe Hellerstein
 * (topic line) Things that are hard to do in SQL (datamining?)
 * Is this a kind of "datamining", in that we are trying to (a) uncover regularities in the data and then (b) find the exceptions?

title: Talk:data mining


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transpose

Etymology 1
From, from , from , perfect passive participle of , from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
 * 2)  To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
 * 3)  To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
 * 4)  To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
 * 5)  To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
 * 6)  To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
 * 1)  To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.

Synonyms

 * ,, , swap over, swap round, ; See also Thesaurus:switch

Translations

 * Asturian: tresponer
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: vaihtaa paikkaa, sekoittaa keskenään
 * French:
 * Galician: traspoñer, traspór
 * German:, , die Reihenfolge ändern
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: сме́ни, про́мени, пре́фрли
 * Maori: wehe, tau whakawhiti
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: ,

 * Catalan:
 * Czech: transponovat
 * Esperanto: transponi
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: trasporre
 * Macedonian: транспони́ра
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: transponi
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: пре́несе
 * Maori: tauwhakawhiti
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: cambiar de miembro,

 * Czech: transponovat
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: trasporre

 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Created by transposing a specified matrix.

Noun

 * 1)  The resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.

Etymology 2
From the verb.

Noun

 * 1)  The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.

Translations

 * Esperanto: transpono
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: Transponierte
 * Icelandic: bylta, bylt fylki
 * Italian:
 * Spanish: matriz traspuesta
 * Swedish: ,

title: transpose