| aggiornamento | A process of modernization of the policies and institutions of the Roman… | 1962 | Go To Quotation |
| automobilia | Things relating to motor vehicles; spec. collectable objects associated with motor vehicles or the history of motoring. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| autozoom | A facility on a camera which automatically adjusts the focal length of a zoom lens; spec.… | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| Barnumize | To exhibit with a lavish display of puffing advertisements. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| blahs | Depression, despondency, low condition, esp. of spirits. Usu. the blahs. | 1969 | Go To Quotation |
| creepy-peepy | A portable television camera used for close-up shots on location. Cf. peepie-creepie n. | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| drum-majorette | A female drum-major (drum-major n. 1c); a girl who leads or takes part in a parade or the like, twirling a baton, etc. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| drunkery | A place to get drunk in; a contemptuous appellation of a public-house or drink-shop. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| dumpster diving | The practice of searching through a rubbish container (esp. a dumpster or skip) for food, items of value, etc. | 1983 | Go To Quotation |
| edgily | In an edgy manner; irritably, testily. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| egoistry | = egoism n. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| Emmy | A statuette awarded to an outstanding television programme or performer by the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| empiricist | One who follows empirical methods. | 1712 | Go To Quotation |
| esoterism | The holding of esoteric doctrines; the habit of regarding knowledge as the property of the few. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| exegetist | = exegete n. 2. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| fad | A crotchety rule of action; a peculiar notion as to the right way of doing something… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| gingall | A heavy musket fired from a rest; or a light gun mounted on a swivel, sometimes on a carriage. Used in China and India. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| grey market | Any unofficial or unorthodox trading (usu. of items which are scarce or in great… | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| guided | Directed or led by guidance; spec. of a tour: accompanied by a guide, having a guide in charge. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| hot-rodding | The modification of a motor vehicle to provide additional power and speed. Also: the action of driving a hot rod. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| Hypospray | The proprietary name of a kind of jet injector (see jet n. 1). | 1947 | Go To Quotation |
| irrationalism | A system of belief or action that disregards or contradicts rational principles; irrationality. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| irrigatorial | Relating to irrigation. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| jetting | Travel in a jet plane. Also jetting about. | 1969 | Go To Quotation |
| killer-diller | = killer n. 7. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| know-all-about-it | attrib. Knowing, or appearing to know, all about something; = know-all adj. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| Marlboro Man | The American cowboy character used in advertising campaigns for Marlboro… | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| megastructure | A massively large construction or complex, esp. one consisting of many buildings. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| mêlée | A battle or engagement at close quarters, a hand-to-hand fight; a skirmish; a confused… | 1647 | Go To Quotation |
| me-tooism | The practice of adopting or imitating a policy successfully or popularly proposed by… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| micropulverize | trans. To reduce to a powder or dust of very small particles. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| mordida | In Mexico and elsewhere in Spanish America: a bribe, an illegal exaction. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| moviegoing | Designating a person who goes to the cinema, esp. regularly. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| multimanned | Of a spacecraft, space mission, etc.: manned by more than one person. | 1961 | Go To Quotation |
| needle park | A public area in a city, usually with trees, bushes, benches, etc., where drug addicts gather. | 1965 | Go To Quotation |
| occident | trans. To turn or direct towards the west; to place (a church) with the chancel at the western end. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| officialize | intr. To do official work. Obs. rare. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| paratrooper | A soldier trained to be dropped from an aircraft by parachute; = paratroop n. | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| Parkinsonism | The principle or doctrine reflected in Parkinson's law; an instance of this. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| petroleum | trans. To treat with petroleum. | 1916 | Go To Quotation |
| photo-reportage | = photojournalism n.; (also) a report that uses photographs (rare). | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| plonked | Intoxicated, drunk. Also with up. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| plunk | A large sum; a fortune. Obs. rare. | 1767 | Go To Quotation |
| polemician | = polemicist n. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| Pop | Usu. in pl. A concert of popular classical music (see popular adj. 4b). | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| pop tart | A (usually female) pop star regarded as having a sexually provocative image. | 1984 | Go To Quotation |
| Poujadism | The political philosophy and methods advocated in France during the 1950s by Pierre Poujade… | 1955 | Go To Quotation |
| psychedelically | In a psychedelic manner. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| psychedelicize | trans. To make psychedelic. | 1966 | Go To Quotation |
| pythonize | intr. To make a prediction, to prophesy. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| quattuorvirate | A group or body of four men; esp. a powerful or ruling group; = quadrumvirate n. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| reconstructiveness | The fact or quality of being reconstructive. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| r'n'r | = rock 'n' roll n. | 1955 | Go To Quotation |
| schlump | A dull-witted, slow, or slovenly person; a slob; a fool. Freq. used as a term of affectionate abuse. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| schmo | An idiot, a fool. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| scrawly | Badly or untidily written; irregularly designed. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| scrawny | Lean, scraggy. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| sectiuncle | A small section. | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| see-through | Of a fabric or (usu. woman's) garment. | 1950 | Go To Quotation |
| shigram | A kind of hack gharry, or palankin-carriage. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| shuddery | Characterized by or causing shuddering; ‘creepy’. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| sitcom | Abbreviation of situation comedy n. at situation n. Compounds. | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| skateboard | A narrow platform mounted on roller-skate wheels, on which the rider coasts along, usu.… | 1964 | Go To Quotation |
| skin-pop | intr. To inject a drug, typically a narcotic, subcutaneously, as opposed to intravenously. Cf. mainline v. 1, skin-popping n. | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| smasheroo | A great success. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| State Council | (The title of) the highest administrative and executive body of a communist country; esp. that of the People's Republic of China. | 1956 | Go To Quotation |
| strippeuse | A (female) performer of strip-tease. | 1939 | Go To Quotation |
| supervillain | An extremely villainous person; spec. a fictional character with superhuman powers in a comic strip, film, etc. | 1912 | Go To Quotation |
| teleprompter | An electronic device, placed out of range of the television or cinematographic camera… | 1951 | Go To Quotation |
| throw-back | An arrest or reverse in a course or progress; a check, set-back, relapse. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| tinfoil hat | As worn at a party, celebration, etc. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| tom-tom | To perform on a tom-tom or drum; transf. to play in a monotonous way, to ‘drum’, ‘strum’. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| unaccidented | (un- prefix 9.) | 1740 | Go To Quotation |
| unbirdlimed | (un- prefix 8 and un- prefix 8.) | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| uncast | (un- prefix 3.) | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| unfervency | (un- prefix 12.) | 1787 | Go To Quotation |
| unisex | Of, pertaining to, or characterized by a style (of dress, appearance, etc.) that is… | 1968 | Go To Quotation |
| unmatchably | (< prec., or un- prefix 11.) | 1603 | Go To Quotation |
| unsettledness | The quality or condition of being unsettled. | 1619 | Go To Quotation |
| welfarism | The principles or policies associated with a welfare state; also = welfare-statism n. at welfare state n. Derivatives. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| williwaw | A sailor's (whaler's, etc.) name for a sudden violent squall, orig. in the Straits of Magellan. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| Wissenschaft | (The systematic pursuit of) knowledge; learning, scholarship; science. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
