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jot

verb
1. write (something) quickly.

noun
1. a very small amount.

Origin
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fizgig
noun
  1. archaic
    a silly or flirtatious young woman.

  2. archaic
    a kind of small firework  or munition

  3. informal•Australian
    a police informer
Origin
early 16th century: probably from fizz + obsolete gig "flighty girl"
 
Dona Ferentes said:
fizgig
noun
  1. archaic
    a silly or flirtatious young woman.

  2. archaic
    a kind of small firework  or munition

  3. informal•Australian
    a police informer
Origin
early 16th century: probably from fizz + obsolete gig "flighty girl"
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@Dona Ferentes I know "Fizgig" as someone who's name can't be recalled. ie "you know, fizgig" or someone who is being stupid.
This goes back to my primary school days all those years ago.
 
sycophant
· noun
  1. a person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.
Origin
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mid 16th century (denoting an informer): from French sycophante, or via Latin from Greek sukophantēs ‘informer’, from sukon ‘fig’ + phainein ‘to show’
 
prosopography
noun
  1. a description of a person's social and family connections, career, etc., or a collection of such descriptions.
    • the study of prosopographies, especially as an aspect of the study of Greek and Roman history
Origin
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dingbat
noun
  1. informal•North American
    a stupid or eccentric person.
  2. informal•Australian
    delusions or feelings of unease, particularly those induced by delerium tremens.
  3. a  typographical device other than a letter or  number (such as an asterisk), used to signal divisions in text or to replace letters in a euphemistically presented vulgar word

 
magsman
noun
  1. a confidence trickster
    • a person who likes telling stories; a raconteur.
Origin - early 19th century: from English dialect mag ‘prattle’ + man.

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effluxion
noun

1. Law
the expiration of a limited-time agreement or contract.

2. end of a period or term due to the natural passage of time, rather than any specific event or action.

3. archaic
the action of flowing out.

Origin
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protean
adjective
  1. tending or able to change frequently or easily
    • able to do many different things; versatile.

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Origin
Proteus was a disagreeable and unpredictable Greek god who, when asked difficult questions that he didn’t like, changed his shape and became something else altogether.
 
omnium gatherum
noun
  1. a collection of miscellaneous people or things.
Origin: early 16th century: mock Latin
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wodge
noun
informal•British
  1. a large piece or amount of something.
Origin
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numinous
adjective
  1. having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.

Origin
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démarche
noun
  1. a political step or initiative.
Origin - mid 17th century: French, from démarcher ; ‘take steps’.
 
While not wishing to intrude on the more literary minded, I'd just like to say that while at toilet, a number two if you insist on knowing I was reading from the only book in that dunny's library The concise Oxford dictionary of English etymology 1994 by TF Hoad and I came upon the word

below

It's origin is from be-low and it did not exist before the 16th Century AD. I thought it a fascinating fact which I needed to share.

gg

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hoist
verb
  1. raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys
    • raise or haul up.
noun
  1. an act of raising or lifting something.
    • an apparatus for lifting or raising something.
    • an act of increasing something.
  2. the part of a flag nearest the staff.
  3. a group of flags raised as a signal.

Origin
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"Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase's meaning is that a bomb-maker is blown ("hoist", the past tense of "hoise") off the ground by his own bomb ("petard"), and indicates an ironic reversal or poetic justice.

In modern vernacular usage of the idiom, the preposition "with" is commonly exchanged for a different preposition, particularly "by" (i.e. "hoist by his own petard") or "on", the implication being that the bomb has rolled back and the unfortunate bomb-maker has trodden on it by accident.

Prepositions other than "by" and the original "with" are not widely accepted and may be seen as erroneous or even nonsensical in the correct context of the phrase
 
Dona Ferentes said:
hoist
verb
  1. raise (something) by means of ropes and pulleys
    • raise or haul up.
noun
  1. an act of raising or lifting something.
    • an apparatus for lifting or raising something.
    • an act of increasing something.
  2. the part of a flag nearest the staff.
  3. a group of flags raised as a signal.

Origin
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"Hoist with his own petard" is a phrase from a speech in Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase's meaning is that a bomb-maker is blown ("hoist", the past tense of "hoise") off the ground by his own bomb ("petard"), and indicates an ironic reversal or poetic justice.

In modern vernacular usage of the idiom, the preposition "with" is commonly exchanged for a different preposition, particularly "by" (i.e. "hoist by his own petard") or "on", the implication being that the bomb has rolled back and the unfortunate bomb-maker has trodden on it by accident.

Prepositions other than "by" and the original "with" are not widely accepted and may be seen as erroneous or even nonsensical in the correct context of the phrase
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Hoist the mainsail and away.
 
stratagem
noun
  1. a plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end.
    • archaic
      skill in devising plans or schemes; cunning.
Origin
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