Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)/2020

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  • defensive end - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library in American football
  • demob chart - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library
  • distorian - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library
    It's out there (blend of distort + historian) but not durably recorded. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 22:20, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Citations:distorian
  • degragate - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library - just heard this new cousin of degradate - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library on Youtube a couple of times: youtu.be/NYxLBhOgwYg?t=614 and it gets about 20,000 Google Hits. — This unsigned comment was added by Hippietrail (talkcontribs) at 23:32, 15 May 2020 (UTC). Doubt this meets CFI. Equinox 06:02, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    I wish, but unless we have finally upped the minimum number of durably archived independent uses to something more sensible than three over a year, here's a sampling of twenty-eight years worth of dumb from web and print:
    • Slash: But it's real cool. You know, I'm not gonna sit there and degragate... degradate – whatever the word is like (laughs). (origin?) - 1992 - [2]
    • The main concern is that routing a signal through multiple switches could degragate data as the cummulative (sic) impedance of the switches becomes prohibitive. - 2003 - [3] (made it to print!)
    • Organic Melt™ deicer is an environmentally safe, agricultural-based product made with degragated sugar beets - 2013 - [4]
    • I have been trying to learn, teach and implement agricultural practices that aggregate our precious resources rather than degragate them. (with its antonym!) - 2014 - [5]
    • I had a HDD failure and a degragated RAID5. - 2016 - [6]
    • Degragated Mouse Control and Key Input - 2017 - [7]
    • Aboriginal people were called and still get called the N-word as a way to racially degragate. - 2018 - [8]
    • On this one, the wifi signal is crappy and degragates as you use it more. - 2019 - [9]
    • The PAPD degragated that woman’s human right for safety and protection. - 2019 - [10]
    • Aspartate can be degragated to NH4, CO2, and H2O to produce ATP energy by its carbons entering the TCA cycle. - [11]
    • The bottom line is – words empower people, inspire people, educate people, but can even degragate and sterotype (sic) people. - [12]
    • My question is why do the plasmid with insert is fully degragated by EcoR-1.? - [13]
    hippietrail (talk) 06:39, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • fallism - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library (or Fallism or #Fallism) – see [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]
  • fidian, fidianism - occasional uses, usually in compounds, discussing Christianity 17th - 19th centuries
  • fop - as a verb, to fool or trick? "Finally, after being prodded to some extent by his wife, he asked me coolly but amiably enough, to come again, and the next thing I knew, I was alone in the sleigh, like someone who has been fopped, like someone whom a man bent on revenge first likes to play an insulting trick on, driving through the cold, white, starry night to the station." Arthur Schnitzler (tr. Catherine Hutter), My Youth in Vienna (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, p. 219).
  • Fox News effect? appears in a few books etc.; possibly related to the study that found watching FN makes one less politically aware than watching nothing at all.
    Originally and mainly about introduction of Fox News increasing Republican votes, but I have heard the suggested sense too. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:35, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Gidget
  • gadger - a man, possibly derived from cockney or romani (compare gachó in Caló) -- see gadje and its many alt forms
  • gim or kim - edible seaweed, from Korean (gim), unclear if it is truly an English word
  • glossophile, glottophile
  • go for your tea (go for one's tea?) - possibly IRA slang, found ie. in song "Kinky Boots": to get killed, to be murdered. Also in Farlex dictionary.
  • good hair - see w:Good hair
  • gruffy A Somerset adjective ('gruffy ground') meaning 'land made uneven or hummocky through ancient mining'. Not in OED. See [19]

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  • High Tang - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library - see Tang poetry#High Tang
  • hot sketch
  • Humpty-Dumpty show - "For a year or so [the Crosby Opera House in Chicago] housed lavish productions of opera with the finest singers of the day, but somehow the enterprise fell on evil ways, and before many years had passed it was given over to Humpty-Dumpty shows, families of bell ringers, trained animals, acrobats, and pantomimes." John Tasker Howard, Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1931, p. 283).

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  • quabble (Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History, Routledge, 1992, p. 63: "I do forget them before the next appointment, and my patient and I sink back into the routine of everyday quabble."
  • quantitas intrinseca - OneLook - Google (BooksGroupsScholar) - WP Library - a term related to rhythm

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  • up or up at - John McWhorter says in AAVE if you are up at somebody's house it's a place you go often. (What Language Is pp. 128-130)

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