John Cross

Welcome to my user page. I am editing using my real name. I enjoy adding missing English language entries to Wiktionary. I like to think I am a generalist. I take the view that Wiktionary should strive to provide a definition for any terms that are in common use, including place name, road names, codes, retronyms etc. I am an inclusionist. I am generally against the use of redirects (in the main space). In my view, each alternative spelling should get its own entry however short.

I have noted some areas of interest below but almost every entry has multiple contributors.

I have done quite a bit of work on reduplications.

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Archaic words

added: acatry - begrumpled - blanscue - clewkin - dungmixen - Hallantide - halster - hamron - hoggan-bag - scurrick - whoam

to add: crowd-barrow - shilders

Democracy, government and politics

added: alternative vote - another place - Borda count - gerrymandering - Lord High Chancellor Order of Council - single transferable vote - the other place - voting system - Your Excellency

to add: objective historian - in his place

213 Offices in total per Hansard 1803–2005. I am not sure each of these is worth a separate entry so I have only made the ones I think do deserve an entry into links.

/UK offices to add

Law

added: Anor - contra proferentum - Henry VIII clause - hostis humani generis (enemy of all mankind) - McLibel - moron in a hurry - nobile officium - Order of Council - ordre public (en) - rent seck - rocket docket - sugar bowl - swollen assets theory - trial de novo - unconscionability - universal jurisdiction - warrant canary

to add: - dilatory defence - objective historian - slothful executor - statute-barred - step into the shoes of - King's evidence

Numerical

added: 0800 number - one hundred thousand - big fat zero - 1992 - throtteen - trilliard - Five-bar gate tally (unsupported at the time) to add: 0000 - grade of flour

Category:English terms containing Roman numerals

Letter-shaped

/letter-shaped - D-ring - H-beam - K-tool - Y-splitter

Shapes

added: cone-shaped - hexahex - leaf-shaped - ring-shaped

Currency codes

Added: SVC - XSU - XTS - XUA - ZMW

E numbers

Added: E243 - E392 - E407a - E423 - E425 - E426 - E427 - E468 - E469 - E470a - E470b - E479b - E499 - E514 - E515 - E516 - E914 - E960 - E961 - E964 - E969 - E1203 - E1205 - E1206 - E1207 - E1208 - E1209 - E1451 -E1519 - E1517 - E1521

Land and locations

added: Bollington, conterminous United States, island of Ireland To do: British Islands.

Legal doublets

Occupations

Added: bat worker - chicken farmer - pig farmer - little piecer - Lord High Chancellor - nurse auxiliary - sheep farmer - bathman

Adjectives after the noun

Added: corporation aggregate - rent seck

Richard Nixon and China!

Nixon in China - Nixon to China - Nixon goes to China - only Nixon could go to China - it took Nixon to go to China

Reduplication

I created categories: Category:English reduplicated coordinated triples and Category:English words containing three consecutive instances of the same letter and I have also done quite a lot of work on the category now called: Category:English reduplicated coordinated pairs.

Added: better and better - elbow to elbow - inch by inch - going, going, gone - putt-putt

To add (possibly): age to age - ashes to ashes - closer and closer - drop by drop - gram for gram - hour by hour - house to house - line by line - me, me, me - measure for measure - minute by minute - minute to minute - month by month - month-on-month - month-to-month - on and on and on - oi oi oi ( a chant response) - period-on-period - point by point - pole to pole - week by week - week-to-week - wheel-to-wheel - quarter-on-quarter - quarter-to-quarter - strength to strength - year after year.

Retronyms

business partner - over the board - mechanical mouse

Similes

free as the wind - gentle as a lamb - grave as a judge - smooth as butter - smooth as oil - wise as an owl

Tautophrases

a deal is a deal - it ain't over till it's over

Category:English tautophrases

Time

added: ancient times - H1 - H2 - Q1 - Q2 - Q3 - Q4

Curious and unusual

bow-legged wi' brass - moron in a hurry

Additional senses

another place (in the Houses of Parliament)
antithesis (in philosophy)
bow (part of a pair of scissors)
fleuron (in typography)
one o'clock (a dandelion)
Ors ('others' used in case citations)
mane (part of naval sword)
second (in dueling)
shoulder (part of a key)
sugar bowl (the legal maxim)

Others

added: cable station - Cross - good enough - limiting factor - midnight snack - pers. comm. - pipe up - pump room (more modern sense) - radial - rain stopped play - repayable - Thin Red Line - two-wheeled - value for money - Zumeendar

to add: (if criteria are met) as if by chance -as if one owns the place - barrer (non-SI unit & also shoe manufacturer?) - beast royal - business or pleasure - coach station - cliquet option - crumb of comfort - ice and slice - just married - shot dead - turn an ankle - Barnardisation

to check: aspidomancy predicting future by sitting in a drawn circle, cephaleonomancy predicting future by boiling a donkey's head, chresmomancy predicting future by 'ravings of lunatics'. criobolium (ritual slaughter of a ram)

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