Index

A, XXI.3

as in heal, XII.1

scarlet, for Alcohol, XXIX.4

as standard concert pitch (440 Hz), XXVI.2

a, III.3.367, IV.3.547, VI.4

plus glottal stop, XXX.3

a-, I.3

-a, II.3.167, II.3.168, XIII.3

æ ́(OEng.), XI.3

aa (lava), XXIV.1

aa (stream), XXXI.2

aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-ca-chew, XXVII.4

aaaaah!, XXI.2

aaaa-qui, XXVII.4.8

aaatshoum, XXVII.4.8

AACR (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules), XXXI.3, XXXI.3

"Aaf-a-lik...onward," XXXI.2.15

aah'd, V.2

AAHOOGA, XIV.4

aale (Lincs dial.), XXXI.2

aardijkskundeonderwijs, VI.3.916

aardkunde (Dutch), X.2

aardolie (Dutch), X.2

aardrijkskunde (Dutch), X.2

aardvark, XXXI.4

aardvarken (Dutch), XIX.1

Aaron, Henry, V.2

Aaronic Priesthood (Mormon), XXIII.2

Aaron's beard, XXIV.1

AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), XVI.3, XXIX.3

AAS (Aitakute Aitakute Shigata ga nai) (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

ab, XXIV.1

Ab, XX.2

aba, XX.2

aback, XXIII.3

abacus, XXVI.2, XXVII.1, XXXI.4

abaft, XXVII.3

äbān/abani/*afi/äpān/api/api/apóy/ofn/yop, XX.1.5

abandoned woman, VIII.3

an abandonment of confidantes, XXIII.1

abaNtu, II.3.180

abasement flat, XXIV.3

abashedness, XXVI.1

abate, XI.4

Abate, Frank

"Affiant Saith Further Nought," XXX.2.25–27

"Unraveling the American Place-Name Cover," XIX.1.23, XVIII.2

abba, dabba, doo, I.1, I.2

Abba-Dabba Honeymoon, I.2

abbess, VIII.3, X.1, XXVIII.2

abbey, VI.2

Abbey, Sydney, XX.2

"I, Madam? I'm Adam," XIII.4.5

abbiccì, XXVII.3.21

Abbott and Costello, XXVI.3

Abbott "Webster's" dictionary, XXVII.3

"Abbreviation" (Espy), XXIV.3

abbreviations, XV.1

orthographic, through signs, XXX.3

Abbreviations Dictionary (Wachal, ed. Kleinedler), XXIV.4

Abbreviaturis Hebraicis (Buxtors), XIX.3

ABC, II.1.96

ABC ("Alphabet net"), XXX.1

ABC art, XV.1

ABCs, XXVI.2, XXVIII.4

abdomen, vs. belly, X.2

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, II.1.90

Abdul the Damned, VI.4

abeam, XX.3, XXIII.3, XXIV.1

"Abecedary Musings" (Fischer), XXIX.4

Abednego, XIX.1, XXXI.1, XXXI.1

Abel, II.3.195

Ab(e)naki, IX.1.7, X.3, XIX.2

aber, II.2.135

Aberamenthooulerthexanaxethreluoothnemareba, XIX.1.1

Aberdeen, II.2.135

Aberfeldie/Abergeldie, II.2.135

Abericus gentylis, II.3.195

aber (Welsh/Gaelic), X.2, X.2

ābhāq, XXVI.2.27–28

ab (Heb.), XXX.2

abhorredntimidated, XXIII.3

Abigail, III.3.374, VIII.2

ability vs. capacity, XXX.4

Abingdon, XIX.3

ablative of means, and magic words, XXX.2

ablaut, X.4, XXVI.4

Able Mamzer (Yd.), X.2

Able was I ere I saw Elba, XI.3

ablui, XXVI.3.3

ablution

stationery, II.3.158

ablution(s), XIX.4, XXVI.3

abo, III.4.401

abode, II.4.223

abogado pair, V.2

"ab-o-lutions," VI.4.972. See also ablution

A-bomb, XXIX.4

abominable no-man, XX.1

"The Abominable Versatility of -ize" (Davidson), XX.1

Abootty, O., XXIII.2, XXIV.1

"A Billingsgate in Kerala," XXI.4.20–21

Aboriginal, as etymological tag, XX.4

aborigine, III.4.401

aborigine/aboriginal, XXX.4

Aborigines, Australian, III.2.301, III.4.401, XIX.3, XXIII.3

Dharuk words in English, XXIII.1

abort/-ion, XI.4, XVI.3

about, II.4.218, III.3.366, XII.3, XX.4, XXIII.3

about-facetiousness, XXIV.3

about-preface, XXIV.3

about the same time, III.3.366

above-board, XIII.2

abox, XXIII.3

Abplanalp, Robert, XXIX.4

abracadabra, XIX.1, XXVI.2, XXX.2, XXX.2, XXX.2

XXX.2

Abracadabra Alakazam (Dorleac), XXX.2

Abraham, Richard D., I.2

Abraham's bosom, go/gathered to, IX.1.2, XXX.1

Abra Kadabra magic kit, XXX.2

Abrams, D. David, Madeline, and Marty, XXXI.1

Abrams, Donna, V.4

abrans (Corn.), XIX.3

abrant (Bret.), XIX.3

Abraxas, XXX.2

mouse pad and teddy bear, XXX.2

abrecock(e), XXIV.1

abricot, XII.1

abridged, V.1

abrigo la esperanza, XIX.3.35

âbru (Farsi), XIX.3

-abrum (Lat.), IX.1.1

absconding/abscondition/abscondment, VI.1

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, XIX.4

absentee, II.2.119

absent-minded, XXIX.4

absinthe, XXII.1

Absit omen, XXVII.4.9

absogoddamnlutely, XXX.2

Absolutely Free (Mothers of Invention), XXIV.3

absolute peach, XXVIII.3

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, XIX.4

abso-not-lycock-a-diddly-doo-doo, XXX.2

abso-Pygmalion-lutely, I.1, I.2

absoschmuckinglutely, XXIX.4

abstemious, III.1.283

abstract, IV.3.547

abstruse, IV.3.547

Abu-Dhabi, I.2

A buen hambre no hay pan duro (ni falta salsa ninguna), XXIII.2.12

Abu Ghraib, XXXI.4

abu jahja (Ar.), IX.1.2

abukumalite (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

aburachan seed, IX.1.9

aburagiri (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

aburamuchi, IV.2.508

Ab Urbe Condita (Livy), XXVI.3

abuse, X.1

"Abusing the King's English" (Sebastian), XIX.1

abusio, V.4.767

abussu, IX.3.2

abut, III.2.301

abyad (Ar.), XXXI.1

abysmal, XII.3

abyss, XIV.3

Acad (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), XXX.1

Académie, XXI.2.8

Académie Française, III.1.269

Academy, XXVIII.2

Academy Awards, XXX.1, XXX.1

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, XXX.1

Acadiens, XI.3

acajou, XX.1

acarine, IV.1.457

acarophobia, X.1

Accadian (Akkadian), XIX.1

Accelerated Pacification Campaign, XXVII.3

accent, XII.4

accent aigu (Fr.), XXIII.1.1

Accent (car), XXXI.4

accent grave (Fr.), XXIII.1.1

accents, IV.2.476

accept, XXXI.4

acceptable, IV.1.463

acceptable flawed writing, XIX.4

access/accessible, XXI.2, XXVII.2

accessary vs. accessory, XXX.4

Accident Prune Pie, IV.2.492

-accio, XIX.2

acciones (financial), XXIV.4

accipitrid, IV.3.539

accipitrine, III.3.376, IV.3.539

acclimatization, III.2.297

accommodation, XIV.4

collar, XIV.4

accomplice, V.2

accomplished, IV.4.566

accordant (Cajun), XI.3

*accordia, XXIX.4

according to Hoyle, XII.3

accordionated, XXIII.2

accosts, 12, X.4, X.4

account, VIII.1, VIII.1

account executive, V.2

accumulator, I.2

Accurist, XXI.3

accused, V.2

AC-DC, XIII.4

ace, III.1.280, X.3, XII.3

-aceae, IV.3.439

acecray outcray, XV.2

acedia, IX.3.10

Ace, Goodman, III.2.334, XXIII.4

ace in the hole, XII.3

Ace, Jane, III.2.334, XIX.3, XIX.3, XXIII.4

Aces, IV.1.476

acetabulum, VI.1.805

ace up one's sleeve, XII.3

Ach, IV.2.476

a-cha, XXVII.4

a-chachoo, XXVII.4

Ach away

on, XXX.3

up, and lie down, XXX.3

Achebe, Chinua, XXIV.4

ache/cache, XIII.2

acheilous/acheirous, III.1.283

Achernar, V.3

aches and pains, II.4.220, IV.4.571

acheter chat en poche, III.3.356

À cheval donné on ne regarde pas aux dents, XIX.2.7

Achillea, XXIV.1

Achilles, XXIV.1

Achilles tendon, XI.3

achitamon, XXVI.3.27

Achomawi, XIX.2

achondroplasia, XXXI.4

achoo/a-choo/achu, IV.3.541, XXVII.4

achterdeur (Dutch), XXVIII.4

Achtgroschenjunge, XXIII.1.14, XXIII.3

Acht haben, XXIII.1.14

acid, II.1.88, XXVIII.3

indigestion, II.2.110

on, put the, XXI.1

rain, XVI.3

vs. acidic, XXVII.2

acidhead, V.4

ack-ack, VIII.1

Acker, Fabian, XXIV.3, XXIV.4, XXVI.4, XXX.1

ackers, XXIX.4, XXIX.4

acknowledge

and confess, V.4

the corn, XXX.4

acleistous, III.1.283

a-cockbill, XXIII.3

Acoma, XIX.2

aconitum, XI.2

acorn, XIX.2

acoustic, II.3.188

acousticophobia, X.1

acquiesce, III.3.366

acquisition, XVI.3

acrasin, XV.1, XVI.1

acre, XI.4, XXIII.1

vs. Acre, X.1

acreman, XXIII.1

acrimonious, XII.4

acritochromancy, XIV.3

acromicke, XI.2

acronym, I.4, XV.1, XXIII.1, XXIII.4

acronymania, IX.4.1

acronyms, XVIII.4, XXIII.3

car name, XXXI.4

corporate, XXX.2

in light verse, XXX.2

medical syndrome, XXX.1

in place names, XIII.3, XIII.3

redundancy and, XXIX.3

of '90s, XXIV.2

Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary, II.1.96, XXIII.3

acrophobia, X.1

across, II.2.147

the border, XXIII.4

across-the-board, V.4, V.4

*Across Words (proposed game), XXXI.3

acrylic, IV.2.504

act, IV.2.504

and deed, IV.4.571

it out, V.4

acte, XXX.2.23

Acteon, XXIX.4, XXIX.4

ACTH, II.1.96

-acticum, IV.4.575

The Acting President (Schieffer and Gates), XX.3

action-adventure, XXVII.3

action(s), XXVII.3

dog show parlance, XXXI.3

to prevent the killing of Jews, XXVII.3

speak louder than words, XIX.4

actions (Fr., financial), XXIV.4

active, XXI.3

active self-defense, XXVII.3

activist, XXVII.3

activity, X.3

actual, IX.1.4

actuel, IX.1.4

açucar, VI.4.968

Acura (car), XXXI.4

-acute, XVI.1

acutely dull, XIV.2

acutely unaware, XIV.2

acuti, IX.3.2

acuwomen, XXIV.3

'ad, XXI.3

Adagia (Erasmus), XIX.3

adagio, XXVIII.3

Adair, Gilbert, XXIX.3, XXIX.3, XXIX.3

adamance, VI.1

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, XXIX.3

adamant, VI.1, XXVII.2

Adam's apple, IX.3.23

Adams, Douglas, XXXI.1

Adams, Gerry/Jerry, XX.4

Adams, Henry Brooks, XXI.3

Adams, Jacqueline, XIX.4

Adams, Jennifer Westerhaus, XXX.4

Adams, John, V.3

Adams, Mary, V.3

Adams, Michael, XXIX.4

"Lexical Property Rights," XXX.4.1–8

"Slayer Slang (Part 1)", XXIV.3

"Slayer Slang (Part 2)", XXIV.4

Adams, Myron, X.4

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, X.4, X.4, X.4

Adamson, Kathleen, II.2.135, III.4.427

adanthoplex, IV.1.461

adapt, V.2

adaptation, III.2.297

Adar and Second Adar, XXIV.2

ad aspera per astra, XXVIII.4.17, XXVIII.4

addable, XXXI.3

ADD (attention deficit disorder), XXVI.3

addendum, XXI.2

adder, IX.1.2

adder's meat, XX.3

addict, X.1

Addison, Joseph, II.3.162, IV.2.487, XXVI.4

Addison, William, VI.4

"Additional 'Odd Couples'" (Henley), VII.3

addition to the family, XXVII.2

addle-brained, XVI.4

addled, XVI.4

addle( )pate(d), IV.2.492, X.1, XVI.4, XXX.3

add on block, XX.4

address, X.1

adduce/deduce, XXI.2

add up/down, XV.4

Ade, George, II.4.210

Adelung of Brunswick, and daughter, XXX.4

adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate, XV.1

adflation, II.2.110

Adhafera, V.3

adherent, II.2.120

Adhesiveness (in phrenology), XXX.4, XXX.4

ad hoc (Lat.), XII.4

ad hominem, XII.4.3

ad hominem (Lat.), XII.4

adieu, XXII.1.7, XXIV.1

ad infinitum (Lat.), XII.4, XXXI.2

adipose tissue, XXVI.3

adipsia, XIV.3

adir-azi, III.1.267

Adirondack (tribe name), XIX.2

adjaib, III.3.355

adjectivals, III.2.298

adjective clause, XVI.4

adjectives, XXVI.1

comparatives and superlatives of, XVIII.4

mistaken for adverbs, XXX.3

Adjust-O-Mat, X.4

àdl, XII.3.1

adlay, III.1.262

Adler, Curtis, XXIX.4, XXIX.4

ad lib, VI.2, XIII.3, XXIII.3

ad litteram (Lat.), IV.3.528

administered, XXVIII.4

administrivia, II.2.110

admirable, XII.3

admiral, XII.2, XXVI.3

admiration, X.2

admire/like, X.1

'adn't, XXI.3

adobe, XVI.4

Adois, IV.2.487

adolescenturate, I.1, XI.2

Adolph, XII.3

Adonai, XXVIII.4

Adone do! (Sussex), XIX.4

adopt, V.2

vs. adapt, XXIII.3

adorable, XXI.3

ADP, XV.1, XVI.1

ad-pub, XXX.1

adrenocorticotropic hormone, II.1.96

Adriane, to do an, XXX.1

adrift, XXIII.3, XXVI.2

adroit, XXIV.4

adr-u, II.4.267

ADS, XXVI.3

adsuki bean, IX.1.9

adult, V.2

adult:adultery::infant:*infantry, XXX.1

Adult books, V.2

adulterator/adulterer, XVI.3

adultery, XV.1

ad usum delphini, III.2.312

ad valorem, XI.2

advection, IX.3.14

advenire, XIII.2

Advent, XIII.2

advent (game), XXIII.1

*adventine, XXXI.3

adventitious, XXXI.3

adventive, XXXI.3

adventure, XXVII.3

Adventures of Barry McKenzie (Humphries and Garland), XXIII.3

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), IV.3.531, XII.3

adventuress, VIII.3

Adventuring Among Words, X.2

adverb-adjective, X.3, X.3

adverb-adverb, X.3, X.3

adverb clause, XVI.4

adverb-noun, X.3, X.3

adverbs, misuse of, XXX.1

adverb-verb, X.3, X.3

adversaries, a know of, XXIII.1

adversary-turned-beau, XXIX.4

adversative asyndeton, V.4

adverse, V.2

adverse to/averse to, IX.4.5

advertisement(s), II.2.144, X.4, X.4, XII.4

copywriters' excesses, VII.4

for Happy Families, XXII.1.10–11

silly English in, XXVI.1

Advertising Council, VI.2

advertising inflation, II.2.110

Advertising & Selling, XXI.1

advice from a thousand men, XXI.1

advisee, X.3

advisor, XXXI.2

ADVIZ4U, XIV.4

advocate, XXI.2

"advocates for," VI.2.845

adzuki bean, IX.1.9

Aeacus, XXVIII.1

AEIOU, III.1.283

aelurophobia, X.1

*aend, I.2

Aeneid (Virgil), I.4

aequalitatem, III.2.319

aequeosalinocal-calinoceraceoalu-minosocuprevitriolic, II.1.88

aequus, III.2.319

aerial, I.2

Aerio (car), XXXI.4

aerious, III.2.332

aero-, VI.4

aerobatics, XX.4

aeronautic slang, in-flight, XXIV.1

aerophobia, X.1

Aerosmith, V.1.658

Aerosmith (band), XXIV.2

Aertex shirt, XIV.3

aertoercken (Dutch), XIX.1

aes, XXIV.1

Aesop, XXX.4, XXX.4

aesthetic, III.2.318, XX.1

aesthetic movement, XIX.1

aeternus, XXIV.4

A falta de pan, buenas son tortas (Sp.), XXIII.2.12

affability, X.2

affaire, XXX.2.23

affairs/affaires, IX.4.8

affect, V.2, X.1

affect/effect, XXVIII.2

affection, IX.1.6

affectious, III.1.283

affective function (in phrenology), XXX.4

Affen Zucker geben, seinem (Gn.), XXIII.1.14

*affiancer, XXXI.3

affiant, XXX.2

"Affiant Saith Further Nought" (Abate), XXX.2

affils, TV, XXX.1

affinity, V.2

affirmative, 11, IX.1.6, XXIV.1

affirmative action, IV.1.467, XXVIII.1

"affirmative action," IV.1.467

affordable housing, XXX.2

affordable quality, XXVI.2

affording, 12, X.4, X.4

Afgetrokken, IV.3.547

afghan/Afghan/afghani, XIV.4, XV.4, XXIX.3

Afia (Ibibio), XIX.1

afictionado, XXIV.3

afkicken, VI.3.917

afon, II.4.241

afong, XXVI.1, XXVI.2

afraid, XXIV.4

A-frame, XXVI.2

A-frame cabins, XXVIII.4

a-freakin'-men, XXIX.4

African, II.3.178, XXIV.2

African(-)American, 10, XVIII.4, XXI.3, XXIV.2, XXIV.4

"African Appellations: To Z or not to Z" (Bernard), XXI.3

African cane, III.1.262

Africanity, XV.1

African millet, III.1.262

African Religion and Philosophy (Mbiti), XXVI.4

African royal death euphemisms, XXIII.3

Afrikaans, XIX.4

Afrikaners, XXIV.2, XXIV.2

Afro-American, XXIV.2

The Afro-American, XXI.3.10

Afro-Creole, IV.4.582

afro(disiac), X.1

Afrophile, XV.1

after, III.3.366

After Babel, 125, II.2.124 (review), VI.2

Afterduft (surname), XXIX.4

After (German), XI.4

Aftergeruch (surname), XXIX.4

After (Gn.), XXX.2

"After Hue and Cry, Crayola Will Scrap Color 'Indian Red'" *(Wall Street

Journal),* XXIV.4.11

*afterism, XXX.3

after shave, I.4, II.2.150

after thoughtlessness, XXIV.3

after-witted, IV.4.577

afterword, X.2

after you, my dear Alphonse—no, after you, Gaston, IV.3.543. See also

Alphonse and Gaston

ag, XXVIII.4

again, V.3, VI.1

"Again and Ageyn and Agane," V.3.719, VI.1

againe/agane/agayn(e)/age(i/y)n, V.3, VI.1

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Bernstein),

XXIV.4

agape, IX.3.10, XII.4

Agapemone, XIX.2

aga saga, XXIX.4

agate, XIII.3

a-gate calvin', XII.3

"Agatha Christie's Works Are Not Legal Fictions" (Hirschberg), XIV.4

Agathois, XII.1

Agathotopia, VI.2

Agde, XII.1

-age, IV.4.575, XXIV.4

aged, X.1

ageism, XII.4

agencies, XIV.1

agenda, XIX.3, XX.3, XXI.1, XXI.2

agenda (Lat.), XX.1

agent-principal relationship, VIII.1

agents, XVI.4

Age of Aquarius, XV.1, XVI.1

Age of the Decline of the Subjunctive, V.2

ageplay, XXIV.3

"age promotion," II.3.170

agglomerations, III.2.298

agglutination, VII.2, VII.3

aggravate, II.3.190, IV.4.576, X.3

aggregate of, III.3.366

aggregation, XXIV.4

aggression, XX.3, XXVI.1

aggressive, VIII.1

Aggressive Driver High Crash Area, XXIX.4

aggressiveness/aggression, XVI.3

aggro, VI.4

agile, XII.2

aging/ageing, XX.1, XXI.3

agitato, XXVIII.3

agitato/bewegt, XXVIII.3.16

Agnes Allen's Law, IV.1.452

Agni, VI.4

agnogenic, XI.3

agnomination, XI.3

agnostic, X.2, XIV.3

Agnus Dei, XXVIII.4

ago, XI.4, XXXI.1

ago (Lat.), XXXI.1

agotataki (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

agree, III.3.366

"agree in principle for creating," VI.2.845

agreement

noun-pronoun, failure of, XXXI.1

subject-predicate, failure of, XXXI.1

Agreement in Number, V.2

Agricola, E., XIX.3

agricultural life, XXII.1

agricultural pursuits, XIX.3

agricultural terms, XXII.1

aguacate, X.1.1

Agua Fria River, VI.4

Agua fria y pan caliente, nunca hicieron buen ventre, XXIII.2.12

ague/vague/Prague, XIII.2

ah, XX.2, XX.2, XXVII.4, XXVII.4

ah (Thai), XXXI.4

"Ah! Ah! Elle est bien bonne! (Ha ha, that's a good one!)" (Fischer),

XXVI.1

ah-chee, XXVII.4

ah-choo, XXVII.4

AHD. See American Heritage Dictionary

Ahem, XX.2, XXI.2

*Ahem! A Cross-Cultural Study of the Signifying Throat-Clear

(Little-Hörss), reviewed, XXXI.1

ah, go on, XXVII.2

ahhhhh!, XXI.2

Ah, I speak a swell rime, XXX.1

"ah just," III.4.423

ahmar (Ar.), XXXI.1

Ahmed Akbar, XI.4

ahmer kibrit (Turk.), VIII.2

a-hole, XXIV.2

-aholic, XVI.1

aholicism, III.4.419

a-holt, IV.3.531

ahoy, XXIII.3

ahpchkhee, XXVII.4.8

Ahriman, XXVI.2

ahuacacuahuitl, IX.3.2

Ahura-Mazda, XXVI.2

Ahvad, Ahless, III.2.320

ai, IX.3.1

aichurophobia, X.1

AID, II.1.96, V.2

'aidan (Ar.), XXXI.1

aid and abet, III.1.289, IV.4.571, XXX.2

aider, IX.1.4

aides, XII.3

AIDS, 3, XVI.3

as cyberspeak acronym, XXIII.1

aigle, XXX.2.23

ce n'est pas un, XXIII.1.13

aikido (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

ai-ko (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

Ailey, Bel, XXI.1

ailing, XX.3

ailments, eponymous, XXVI.3

aimable comme une porte de prison, XXIII.1.13

aimcrier, XXXI.3

"aimed to aid," VI.2.846

aimer, XXI.4

aiming bot, XXVII.3

ai-mi-tii (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

Aimwell, IV.2.487

ain-al-dik (Ar.), XXXI.1

ainé(e), XXIV.1.12

ain't, XX.3

ain't got none, XXVI.1

Ain't Misbehavin', VI.3.908

ain't that great, I.2

Ainu, IX.1.7, XXIII.3

Aion, XXIX.4

air, XXI.3

hot, XXIX.3

*air ball, XXXI.2

air battery, XV.1, XVI.1

air-conditioning, VI.3

aircraft miscommunications, XXI.2

air-cushion, XV.1

air jig, XXVII.4

Air Jordans, XVI.3

airline food, XI.4, XXVII.3

air (Malay), XXX.2

airplane, I.4, VI.4

delivery systems, II.4.202

in trouble, XIX.1

air raid (prison slang), XIX.2, XIX.2

airs, in his, XXX.4

"Airspeak" (Sampson), XXIV.1

air strike, IV.3.543

air (Thai), XXI.1

airy, III.3.308

"airy tongues that syllable men's names," XIX.3.20

aisle, XXVI.3

aitch, XXIX.3, XXVI.2, XXVI.2

ai-tii (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

Aix-en-Provence, VI.4

ajaan (Thai), XXXI.4

"Ajaib," III.4.421

ajakkes, III.3.357

ajar, XXXI.4

ajax, XIX.4

ajedrea, V.4

aji, X.1.1

Ajo, XVI.1

aka, XXVII.2

ak akçe kara gán içindir, XXVII.2.26

A.K. (alter kaker) (Yd.), X.2

akamatsu (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

akamushi mite (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

Akbar, Mughal emperor, XXVI.1

Akbar Walid, XI.4

akeki (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

akenobeite (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

aker/acre, XXVII.4

Akers, IV.2.487

akimbo, IV.4.561, XXXI.4

akla karayi seçmek, VI.2.853

aklanmak, VI.2.853

aklatmak, VI.2.853

Akow, VI.4

aksairt (Thai), XXI.1

aktris (Turk.), XXXI.1

Akukho nkanga idubul' ingethi, XXVI.4.14

akyüzlü, VI.2.853

al, II.2.112, V.4

Alabama, IV.2.487

Alabama dialect, XVI.2

"Alagazam" (Holtzmann cakewalk), XXX.2

Alain, V.3

alakazam, XXX.2

alakazam, XXX.2.30n.15

Alakazam (Pokémon character), XXX.2

Alakazam Quartet, XXX.2

Alakazam the Great (film), XXX.2

alakazirb, XXX.2.30n.15

Alamo, XV.2

alamode, XIX.2, XVIII.3

Al and Dick, VI.3

alang-alang, III.1.262

Alarbus, XXX.1

Alarums and Diversions, VI.1.612

alas and alack, II.4.220, IV.4.571

Alastor Moody, XXVI.2

"Alas, what boots it with uncessant care," XIX.3.21

-alator, XVI.1

alaudine, IV.1.455

Albany, III.2.323

Albany board, XVIII.3

albatross, II.3.189

albedo, XXIV.2

alberenjena, II.4.205, III.2.337

"alberge," II.4.205

al berginia, III.2.337

Alberich, XXXI.4

Albert, XI.1

Albert the Good, XXVII.2

Albigenses, XXVI.2

albóndigas (Sp.), XXXI.1

Ålborg, XXIII.1

album graecum, XXVII.2.29

Alburger, XIX.4

albus, XXVI.2.4

Albus Dumbledore, XXVI.2

Alcedo (kingfisher), XII.4

"Alchemical Calques" (Schleifer)

cited, XXIX.4

alcheringa (Aust. Ab.), XXIII.3

alcidine, IV.1.455

Alcindor, Lew, II.1.90

alcine, IV.1.455

alcohol, II.2.112, VI.3, XXIX.3

Serbian slang for, XXII.1

Alcoholic Chess, V.2

alcoholism, II.1.92, XXVI.3

Alcor, VI.3

Alcott, XXIV.1

(Amos) Bronson, XXIV.1, XXVI.2

Louisa May, XXIV.1

Alcox, XXIV.1

Alcuin of York, XXVI.2

Alcyone, V.3

Alda, Alan, XXX.4

Aldebaran, V.3

aldermancy, VI.2

Aldiger, XIX.2

ale, XXVI.3

alectoridine, IV.1.455

alectromancy, VI.2

ale-draper, XXXI.2

alef, XXIV.1

Aleman, Mateo, IV.2.506

alembic, XXII.1

aleph, II.4.239, V.3

"aleph-beth" rule, XIX.1

Aleppo boil, XX.1

alert, XX.4

"alert citizens of the danger," VI.2.846

ales master, XVIII.3

Alexander, Alfred, V.3

Alexander, Elspeth, XXIX.4

Alexander, Henry, II.4.242

Alexander, Mary D., XXX.4

Alexander, R. M., XXIII.3

Alexander the Great, XX.4, XXVII.2

Alexandrite, XXVI.2

Alexis Lane, XIX.4

Alexson, Lorraine, XXX.3

ALF, XVI.3

Alfalfa, XXVIII.4

Alfheim, XXXI.4, XXXI.4

al Fine, XXVIII.3.15

Alford, I.2

Alfred, King, and the cakes, XXIV.2

Alfred, Randy, XIX.1, XXI.3

al- + -fresco, XXX.2.31n.23

algebra, II.2.112

Algenubi, V.3

Algeo, Adele, XX.4

Algeo, John, II.2.109, II.2.116, XX.4, XXIII.2

Alger, Horatio, Jr., VI.3, XIX.3

Algol, V.3, V.4

Algonqui(a)n, XIX.2, XVI.4

Algonquin Round Table, XXX.3

Algonquin Wits, XXVII.3

algophobia, X.1

Algorab, V.3

algorism, II.3.189

algorithm/algoritme, VI.3

Alhambra (CA), XXIV.1

alhena, V.3

Ali, XXVII.1

Ali Ali, XI.4

alias document, VIII.1

"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (folktale), XXX.2

Alice, XVI.1, XXII.1, XXIII.3

Alice in Wonderland, see Alice's Adventures Underground (Carroll)

Alices Abenteur im Wunderland, I.2.29

Alice's Adventure's Underground (Carroll), XXX.3

Alice's Adventures Underground (Carroll), XXIX.3, XXIX.3

XXVI.1, XXX.3

Alicia per Speculum Transitis, XII.4.4

alien, III.2.297

alienation, III.2.318

Alien (film), XXXI.1

Ali (Fourth Caliph), XXXI.1

Alighieri, Giovanni, XIX.2

Ali, Muhammad, II.1.90. See also Clay, Cassius

A-line skirts, XXVIII.4

Alioth, V.3

Alison, XXII.1

A-list, XXVIII.4

*A Little Louder Please (Allen), XXX.1

*aliture, XXXI.3

aliviada, XV.4

alk, VI.3

Alkaid, VI.3

alkali, VI.1, XXIV.1

alkali-metals, XXIV.1

Alka-Seltzer, I.4

Al-Kasimi, Ali M., VI.2

al-kohl, XXIX.3.15

alky, VI.3

all, III.3.366

and sundry, IV.4.571

"All About All" (Cushing), XXIV.2

"All About Me" crossword (Stigger), XXX.1

Allah, XXVII.1

All'alba Shahrazad andrà amazzata (Varaldo), XXIV.1

Allan Quatermain (Haggard), XVI.3

allargando, XXVIII.3

allay, II.1.88

all balled up, XIII.1

*All Bar One (hypothetical pub chain), XXVI.3

All Cars Eat Gas, XVI.3

Allcock, XXIV.1

all cut n no iodine, XXX.3

all-day-into-evening, II.2.121

all-dressed, XXIV.4

*allectation, XXXI.3

allective, X.2

alleged, IV.2.504, V.2, VIII.1, XIX.3

allegro, III.2.298, XXVIII.3

Allegro (car), XXXI.4

Allemagne/, XX.1

Allen, A. Adrian, VI.3, VI.3, VVVI.2.881

Allen, Bob and Bettyann, XXX.1

Allen, Fred, XIX.3

Allen, Gracie, XIX.3

Allen, Harold, II.4.217

Allen, Harold B., XII.4

Allen, Harry, XXI.3

Allen, Hugh M., XXIV.1

Allen Parish, IV.2.487

Allen, R., II.1.94

Allen Settlement, IV.2.487

Allentiac, IX.3.1

Allen, Tim, XXIV.3

Allen, Woody, XXX.1

aller, and Cajun future tense, XI.3

allergic, XXI.4

allergy, XIII.3

"Allergy-ridden...", I.4

allerliebstes Weibschen, XXVIII.3.19

alleviate, II.1.88

alleviated poverty, X.1

alley/allée, IX.4.8

all-fired, XXVI.2

all four burners, not operating on, XXX.3

All-hallow-even, X.3

All Hallows' Eve, XXX.4

alliance of, XIII.1

alligator, XXVI.4

Allingham, Margery, XXVI.3

All in the Family (Betts), XXII.1

alliteration, I.1

alliterative doublets, XXIX.4, XXVI.4

"All Joined-Up" (Traynor), XX.2

all kinds of, XXIV.4

all-mond, XXIII.1

all mouth and trousers, XXIX.3

all my eye and Betty Martin, XXIX.3, XXIX.3, XXVI.4

XXVIII.2

all new, XXVII.3

all-night, II.2.122

allnight/, XX.2

all-night popcorn (prison slang), XIX.2

all of them, II.2.147

allomorphs, III.2.298

Allophone (Quebec), XXIII.1

alloporc, XI.2.18

allosemes, III.2.298

Allover Twist, VI.2

allowed/aloud, XXI.4

allow for, VI.2

allow/permit, XXI.4

all points bulletin, XIV.4

"All Present-and Unaccounted for" (Prichard), XI.4

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), XXX.4

all right, XXVIII.4, XXX.4

as "alright," XXI.3.3

Allsopp, Richard, reviews Collymore's Barbadian Dialect, XX.2.12–13

All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare), XIX.4

All that glitters is as good as gold, XXVI.2

All that glitters is not gold, XIX.4

all the traffic will bear, IV.3.543

All thru the nite, XVI.4

al-lughat DDaaD, XXVII.1

alluhyuz (NYC English), XXX.1

allusion, XVIII.4

vs. illusion, XXVIII.2

Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical (Urdang and

Ruffner), XIX.3

Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical (Urdang and

Ruffner), XXI.3

allusive heraldry, XIII.1

allusive naming, VIII.2

all ways, II.2.148

all work and no play makes jack, XX.3

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, XIX.4

allworks, XX.4

Allworthy, V.2

Almach, V.3

Almagest (Ptolemy), V.3, XXVI.2

almah, XIX.1.18

almah (Heb.), XIX.1

alma mater, XXVIII.4

"Almanac" (Defrees), XXIX.4

Almanac of Words at Play (Espy), XXIV.3

reviewed, II.3.197

almandine, X.4

Almanzor and Almahide, or, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards

(Dryden), XIX.4

almighty, X.2

almond, VI.1, XXIII.1

almond eyes, IX.3.23

Almond Joy, XIII.3

almost nothing, XVI.4

almost really, XXIV.3

almshouse auction, 12, X.4, X.4

Alohaleichem (Haw.-Yd.), X.2

alone, 12, 19, XI.4, XV.2, XXVI.1

alone like, IX.1.1

Alonzo fondled up a tree-oh, I.4

aloof, XXI.4

a lot, XXIV.4

of ice/a lotta vice, VI.2

*alot, XXXI.1

alot/, XX.2

aloud, III.3.366

Aloysia/-us, XIX.1

Al pan, pan y al vino, vino, XXIII.2.11

Alpert, Herb, and the Tijuana Brass, IV.2.477

alpha, XXVIII.4, XXXI.3

Alphabet, XXVIII.4

American Sign Language, XXIV.1

alphabet

Arabic, XXVII.1

alphabetical, XIII.1

"The Alphabet Is Killing Us" (Nixon), XXX.2

alphabetization, XXVI.4

Alphabet John Duntz, III.1.291

Alphabet net (ABC TV), XXX.1

"An Alphabetophile's Outrage" (Mills), XXVI.2

alphabet(s), IV.2.493, XVI.2, XXVII.4

acrostic poem, XXIV.2

Deseret, XXIII.2

French colloquial use of Greek, XXIX.4

frequency distributions, XXIX.3

Greek, XXVI.2

letters as self-referential names, XXIX.3

mnemonics, XXIII.2, XXIII.3

names for letters, XXVI.2

Phoenician, XXVI.2

phonetic, XXIV.1

of "scarlet letters," XXIX.4.15–17

upper and lower case, XXIV.1

alpha privative, XIV.3

Alphard, V.3

Alpharg, V.3

alphitomancy, VI.2

Alphonse and Gaston, IV.3.543, IV.4.601

Alphonse–Gaston routine, IV.3.543

Alphonso the Brave, XXVII.2

al-Qa'ida, XXVII.1

alright/, XX.2

*alright, XXX.4

alright/all right, XXI.3

also, V.2, VI.1, XXIV.4

Alsop, Martin, XXIX.3

Alsop, William, III.4.391

also-rant, XXIV.3

Altair, V.3

altar, II.2.118

Altenglisches etymologisches Woerterbuch, VI.2.885

alter kaker (Yd.), X.2

alternate, 11, X.1

alternatif (Turk.), XXXI.1

alternatives, viable, XXIV.1

alternative timelines/universes, XXX.2

"alternity," II.2.125, II.2.126

altho, XXVII.4

Altima (car), XXXI.4

alto, XXIV.3

altogether vs. all together, XXX.4

alto (Sp., Pg., It.), XXX.2

Altrusian blessing, XIX.1

altus, XXVII.2.16, XXVII.3

alumen, XXIII.4

aluminum, III.2.301

alumna, XI.4

alumni, III.2.300

al verde, XXVII.2.26

Alvey, John, Français ou plutôt à la française, XVI.3

Alvin the Chipmunk, XXVI.1

alwayes, IX.3.13

always, II.2.148, II.3.196, IX.3.13, XX.4

Always plan ahead, XIX.4

Alyat, V.3

alychiphobia, X.1

-alysis, XVI.1

Alzheimer, Alois, XXI.2, XXVI.3

Alzheimer's disease/syndrome, XXI.2, XXVI.3, XXVI.3

XXVI.3, XXVI.3, XXVII.1

A.M. (Able Mamzer) (Yd.), X.2

amado (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

amador, III.2.299

Amagasaki (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

Amalasiontha, II.3.196

Amalgamated Printers Association wayzgoose, XXX.3

amalgambol, XXIV.3

amalgams, III.2.298

Amalricus, XIX.4

Aman, Dr. Reinhold, XXIV.1

Amanita muscaria, VIII.2.2

Aman, Reinhold, III.2.325, III.3.360, IV.1.448, IV.2.515, VI.3

amante/Amanti/Amantis, XIX.2

Amanti (car), XXXI.4

amanuensisterhood, XXIV.3

amarlai...bazach bazich bazbazich, XIX.1.1

amarrer (Cajun), XI.3

Amasando se hace el pan, XXIII.2.11

amateur, III.2.299, XXX.1

amathophobia, X.1

Amati, Nicolò, XXVII.3

Amativeness (in phrenology), XXX.4

amaurosus fugax, XXVI.3

amaxophobia, X.1

amazement, XIV.4

Amazing Rhythm Aces, IV.2.476

Amazon, III.3.374, XIV.3

amazonite, X.4

*ambactos, II.4.242

ambactus, II.4.240, IV.4.596

ambassador, 242, II.4.240, IV.4.596

Ambassador (car), XXXI.4

amber, V.4

Amberg, George, XXI.3

AmberMatic, X.4

ambi-actus, II.4.240

ambidextrous, XXIV.4, XXX.1

Ambigrams (Langdon), reviewed, XXX.3

ambiguity, VI.4, XIII.4, XIV.4, XV.3

ambisextrous, XV.1

ambition, 12, X.4, X.4

amblyopy, XXIV.1

ambologera, IV.1.461

The Amboy Dukes, IV.2.479

ambulance, XXII.1

ambulance-chaser, XXIX.4

ambulophobia, X.1

AM (computer), XXXI.1

Amelia, IV.2.488

amelioration, III.2.297

amend, XV.4

America, IV.2.477, XIX.2

American, 5, 19, II.2.110, XIII.3

American Bread, IV.2.477

American/British English, XII.4

American College Dictionary, V.I.622, XIX.3, XXVI.4

American Cookery (Simmons), XVIII.3, XVIII.3

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, XXX.1

American Dialect Dictionary (Wentworth), XXIII.2

American Dialect Society, I.2

American Dictionary of the English Language(Johnson), XX.1

American Dictionary of the English Language (Webster), V.1

XXI.2, XXII.1, XXVII.4

American English, VII.2, VII.4, XII.3

early, terms for drunkenness in, XXX.4

hotel slang, 1950s, XXX.3

slang, VII.4

vs. British English, XIV.3

American English, 229, 230, 231, II.4.219

reviewed, II.3.176

American English (Marckwardt), XII.4

American Fork, Utah, XXIII.2

American hawfinch (Hesperiphona vespertina), XIX.3.44

American Heritage College Dictionary

Fourth Edition (AHCD4), XXX.4.5, XXX.4, XXX.4

*American Heritage Cookbook and Illustrated History of American Eating

and Drinking,* VI.3.936

American Heritage Dictionary (AHD), I.1, I.2, II.3.182, II.4.242,

II.4.243, V.1, V.1, V.1, V.2, V.4, VI.2

VI.2, VI.3, VI.3, VI.4, XIX.3, XX.3, XX.3

XXI.1, XXI.4, XXIV.1, XXVII.1, XXVII.1, XXVII.3

XXVIII.2

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD)

fourth edition reviewed, XXVI.2

third edition, XXIII.4, XXIV.4

American Indians, 231, II.4.229, XIX.1

tribe names, XIX.2

American Institute of Decorators, II.1.96

American Insurrection, XXVIII.1

Americanism(s), II.4.230, IV.1.472, VI.1, XII.1

Fowler's horror of, 29, XXVI.4

The American Language (Mencken), XXIV.4

American Language (review), II.4.229, III.3.356

American Language Supplement I, II.4.229

American Language Supplement II, II.3.176, II.4.229, IV.4.601,

VI.1

"American Law Reports" (Kunstler), XII.4

The American Mercury, II.1.89

American Museum of Natural History, I.4

American Names Society, IV.1.459, IV.2.489, XXIV.1, XXIV.2

American Orthnic Biography, III.3.371

American Place Names, XVI.1

American Pronunciation, VI.3.896

American Regional Dialects: A Word Geography (Carver), reviewed,

XX.4

American Revolution, XXVIII.1

The American Scholar, II.4.210, IV.1.459

American Sign Language, II.1.94, III.3.346, IV.1.466, XXIV.3

"American Slurvian" (Lederer), XIV.2

comments on and appendix to, XVI.2

American Society of Indexers, XIX.4

American Speech, 230, II.4.210

American Spelling Book, II.4.232

"The American Spelling Reform Movement" (Whelan), XXVII.4

American Talk (Hendrickson), XXX.1

American Translation, VI.2.839

American Unitarian Association, XXVI.2

American War, XXVIII.1

The American Way of Death (Mitford), XXX.1

The American Way of Death Revisited (Mitford), XXX.1

America's Longest War, XXVIII.1

americium, XXIII.4

Amerigo, XIX.4

Amerindians, see Native Americans, XIII.1

Ameritalian, I.4.65, II.2.150, II.3.183, V.2

Ameryiddish, XXVIII.4

Ames, Jay, XXIV.1

Ames, Jay, "A Rose Could Be a Ruse or a Rouse," VIII.3.14

amicable actions, XIV.4

Amicale des Anciens, II.1.97

amictus, XXVIII.3.27

Amidism, IX.1.9

Amidist, IX.1.9

ami(e), XXIV.1

amigo, XXXI.1

Aminidab, XXVIII.2

Amin, Idi, II.3.175

ámir albáhr, XII.2

Amis, Kingsley, XXX.1, XXX.4

Amis, Martin, XXX.4

Amitai, XXIX.4

Amlothi, XXXI.2

ammarillismo, XXVII.2.25

ammo, XX.4, XXVII.3

ammonia, XXVI.3

amnesia, XIV.3

amnesty, XIV.3

amo, amas, amat, a mames, a tates, a kind (Lat.-Yd.), X.2

amoeba, VI.4, XIX.2

amoenitas, XXVIII.3.18

amoibe, VI.4

amok, VIII.2

amok(amuck), run, XXX.3

among, V.2

amor, III.2.301

amoral, IX.1.6

amoralmmoral, XIV.3

Amor de lejos, X.4.13

Amorite, XXVI.2

amorosity, XXIV.3

Amory, Cleveland, IV.4.565

amour, XXX.2.23

Amoy, IX.1.7

amp(ere), VI.4, XIX.3

Ampère, André, IX.2.1

ampersand, XXVI.2

Amphitryon (Plautus), XXX.4

ampulla, VI.1

amputation, XXVII.4

amputee, II.2.119

amrant (Welsh), XIX.3

Amrita, Beverly, XXIII.2

Amsterdam, II.4.233, XVI.1

amulets, trans-alphabetic, XXIII.2

amused, II.3.196

amusement, accenting of, XII.4

AMW (actress-model-whatever), XXXI.4

Amyclean Silence, II.3.185

amygdala, VI.1.803

a myrrh can/American, XVI.2

an, III.3.367, IV.3.547, VI.2

followed by h, VI.2

an', XXI.3

-an, V.3, XXVI.2

Anacoco, IV.2.487

anaconda/henakandayaa, XXVIII.2.14

Anacreon, XXIX.4, XXIX.4

"The Anacreontic Hymn" (drinking song), XXIX.4

anadama, VI.2, XXIII.2

a nadder, XXVI.3

an adder/a nadder, IX.1.2

anadiplosis, XII.1

anagrams, XXX.1, XXXI.3

anagram(s), VII.4, XIV.2, XIV.4

Anaheim, XIV.1

analgesic, I.4, XIX.3

*analisis, XXVII.4

analize your markets, XIX.2

analog computer, XVI.4

analogies game, XV.4

"An Alphabetaphile's Outrage" (Mills)

cited, XXIX.3

analphabetic, X.2

analysand, XV.1

analysis, XX.4

analyst, XV.1, XVI.1

The Analyst (Berkeley), XXIV.1

"The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (Borges), XXX.2

analyzable, IV.1.464

ananá, X.1.1

Anand, Mulk Raj, V.4

anankē*,* XXVIII.1.14

Anansi the spider, XXX.4

anaphora, XII.1

"An Appeal to John Harralson" (anonymous), XXIV.1

a napron, XXVI.3

an apron/a napron, IX.1.2

anaptyxis, VI.1

anarchy, XIV.3

Anastasia, Grand Duchess, XXVI.1

anastrophe, XX.1

anatase, XXIV.1

anathema, X.1

anaticula, XXVIII.3.18

anatine, IV.1.455

anatomists, 12, X.4

a nauger, XXVI.3

a naught, XXVI.3

Anaxagoras, XXVII.3

ancestor-pit, XXIV.3

ancestor(s), II.1.93

gathered to one's, XXIV.1

anchor, X.3

anchor-bird, XXX.2

"anchored," I.2.28

anchorman/-person, I.2, XI.2

anchor papers, XXVIII.4

anchor point, XXI.3

ancient, XIV.1

Ancient Chinese, XII.1

ancient lady, in Nostradamus, XXVI.4

and, I.1, II.1.93, VI.1, XXXI.4

sentence-initial, XXXI.2

Andalusia, XV.1

andante, XXVIII.3

andar de la Ceca a la Meca, XIX.1.21

andbahti, IV.4.596

andén, XXX.2.18

andera, II.4.240

Anderson, II.1.89

Anderson, Anna, XXVI.1

Anderson, Clive, XX.4

Anderson, Hans Christian, VI.3

Anderson, Herb Oscar, VI.2

Anderson, Poul, XXIV.1

Anderson, Richard B., V.2

Andersonville, VI.2.873

"and et cetera," II.2.152

andiron, II.4.240

...and not a brick out of place!, IV.3.543

And Now for Something Completely Different (film), XXX.1

"And Oh, the Smell of Your Spile ..." (Ward), XI.1

"and/or," I.2.28

Andrade's Creep, XIII.3

andragazeo, XIII.1

Andrés, Marisol, XXIX.3

Andrew Lloyd Webber, XVI.3

Andrews, XXIV.1

Andrews, Julie, XXX.3

Andrew Street, XIX.4

Androcles and the Lion, XVI.2

And Then There Were None (Christie), XXXI.3

Andvari, XXX.4

Andy McNish and Lucky Dips, XX.4

"And you! I'll use you for a beehive!", XIX.3

"And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to ask for a brain? You

billowing bale of bovine fodder!", XIX.3

Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Thrale Piozzi), XXIV.1

an ekename, XXVI.3

anemia, XIV.3

Anemone, XXIV.1, XXIV.1

anemophobia, X.1

anent, XXVI.4

anergy, XIV.3

aner tis, XXVII.1.20

Aneslasleja, XXVIII.1

anesthesia, XIV.3

aneurosis bluejacks, XXVI.3

an ewt, XXVI.3

angches, IV.1.447

Angelino, Angelenos, XIII.3

angellein, XXVI.2.12

angeln, II.4.236

Angel (pub), XXVI.3

angel(s), II.4.236, IV.2.478, XI.2, XI.4, XXII.1, XXVI.2

Angels and Demons (Brown), XXX.3

"Angels with Soft Golden Knives" (Tritten), XXX.1

Angel (TV series)

hyphenates in, XXIX.4

angenægl, XXVI.3.7

anger/danger, XI.2

angimormous, XXIV.3

angiospermous, XIV.3

anglais, IV.3.549

angle, XXXI.2

anglé, IV.3.549

Anglicization, X.2, X.3

Anglo-American, II.2.150

"Anglo-American Crossword" (Marlowe), XXX.2

Anglo-American Crossword Puzzles, 603, IV.2.514, IV.3.556, V.1

V.2, V.3, V.4, VI.1, VI.2, VI.3, VI.4

Anglo-Hindi, XIX.3

Anglo-Japanese, XIX.3

anglojerga, XXX.2.18

Anglo-Malay, XIX.3

Anglomaniacs, II.4.229

Anglophobia, X.1

Anglo-Saxon, 20, 21, I.2, IX.1.7, V.3, VI.4, X.2, X.3

proverbs in, XXVIII.4

Anglo-Saxonisms, fading, XXIII.1

Anglo-saxophone, XXIII.1

Angola, III.2.306

angry, II.2.147

mad, XII.4

"Angry Young Men," XXX.4.29n.3

angstrom, IX.2.1

Angström, Anders, IX.2.1

anguine, III.3.376

Anguish Languish, II.2.117

angular gyrus, XXVII.4

Angwin (CA), XXIV.1

angyeli zaplakaly bi (Rus.), XXXI.1

An Herd or A Nerd, VI.2

aniline, XXVIII.2

anil/niil, XXVIII.2.13

animagus, XXVI.2.3

animal, III.2.300

as machine, in Nostradamus, XXVI.4

Animal Behavioral Society, II.1.95

animal companion, XXIX.4

animaline, IV.1.459

"Animal Lamina" (Room), XXVII.2

animal-like, IV.1.459

"Animal-Like Adjectives," IV.1.455

Animals, IV.2.477

animal sound, VII.1

animate, X.2

Ænima (Tool CD), XXX.2

animators (Quebec English), XXIII.1

animus, X.1

an innocent, XXVI.3

An Intolerant view of Intolerance, I.3.43, I.4

Ankara, X.4

anklebiters, XXX.1

ankle (v.), XXX.1

ANKS-ity (anxiety), XIX.1

ankyloglossia, V.4

an-lic, III.2.310

Anna and the King of Siam (Leonowens), XXXI.4

annae inconstans, XI.1.12

annal, XV.4

Annandale, Charles, XXXI.3

Annan, Robert, XVIII.3

Anna S. Wilson, XVI.1

annatto, IX.3.3

Anne, XXII.1, XXVI.3

année, VI.2.879

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Frank), XXIV.2

annelidous, III.1.283

annellets, XXX.3

annex (Quebec English), XXIII.1

The Annotated Alice (Carroll, ed. Gardner), XXVI.1, XXVI.1

The Annotated Lolita, VI.3.904

Anno Tobak (Gn.), IX.1.2

annoy, XII.2

annui (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

annuit coeptis, XXVII.4.20, XXVIII.4

annulet, XXVII.1

annus horribilis, XXIX.4.6

ano, XI.4

anodyne, X.2

anomalous, II.1.82

vs. anomic, X.2

anomaly, XIV.3

anomie, XIV.3

ano ne/, XX.2

anonymous, II.1.98, X.2, XIV.3

anopheline, IV.1.457

Anoquodor, XVIII.3

anorak, XX.2

"Another Brick in the Wall" (Pink Floyd), XXIV.2

"Another Foregone Conclusion" (Greenwood), XVI.1

another pair of shoes, that's, IX.1.1

anra mainyu, XXVI.2.14n.6

Anscombe, G.E.M., V.4

anserine, 376, III.3.375, XXIV.3, XXIV.3

anshum-scranshum (Lincs dial.), XXXI.2

ansu, II.4.242

ansubstantiationtray, XXVIII.3

answer the last call, XXX.1

-ant, I.3

añtaksis (Lith.), XIX.3

antanaclasis, XI.3

Antarctic, V.3, XIII.4

Antares, V.3

anteaters, XVI.4

antebellum, XXVII.3

antecede, X.2

antecedents, XV.3

antecedent to, III.3.366

Antedate Dictionary Citations, II.4.209

antedating, XXVII.4

antejentacular, XXVII.2

antelopine, IV.1.456

antennes, avoir des, XXIII.1.13

"The Antepenultimate" (York), XII.4

ante up, XII.3

Anthem, X.3

anthemion, XXVII.1

anthemon, VI.4.960

Anthology of Nonsense Verse, III.3.365

Anthony Albino, III.1.291

Anthony, Betty, III.4.424

Anthony, Susan B., XIX.3

anthracite, XXVI.2

Anthropological Linguistics, IV.2.498

anthropomancy, VI.2

anthropomorphic, XXVI.2

anthropomorphism, XXVIII.3

anthropophagous, X.2

anti, XIII.4

anti-, IV.2.482

Anti Bell-Ringing Society, XXIX.3

anti-child abuse center, XXIX.3

anticluckwise, XXIV.3

anti-dentite, XXVIII.2

Antidisestablishmentarians, XIX.3

antienvironment, XV.1

Anti-Establish Mint, VI.3

antifogmatic, XXX.4

antigravity, XV.4

"Anti-Language" (Mathew), XXIII.2

antimacassar, X.4

antimissile, XV.1

antimony, XXIII.4

antinatalist, XV.1

antinomian, XXIV.4

antipasto, XXVII.4

"antipathy of," VI.2.846

antiphrasis, XXVII.2

Antipodean English, VI.1

"Antipodean English" (Ramson), XX.3

antique-in-feeling, II.2.122

antirheumatic, XV.1

antiscientism, XV.1, XVI.1

antiseptic, XVI.4

antisexist, XV.1

antisistent, XXIV.1

anti-stain, I.4

anti-sticky, I.4

antithesis, X.2

antitussive, I.4

Antiville, IV.2.490

antlophobia, X.1

antonym, XXIII.4, XXIV.4

"ants are my friends," XXIV.2.31

antsy, II.2.145

a numpire, XXVI.3

anus, XX.4

anxious, V.2

anxious vs. eager, XXX.3

any, VI.1

syllabification of, XXVI.4

any and all, XXX.2

any bush (even ivy), IV.2.493

anyhoo, III.4.395, XXVII.3

anyhow, III.4.395

any more, III.1.289, V.2

Any Old Thing, XXVII.1

"Anyone for Gerunding?" (Moore), XXXI.4

"Anything but Pregnant: A Compendium of Colloquialisms" (Randall),

XXVII.2

ANZAC, XX.1

aoku naru, XXVII.2.25

A-1, XIV.3

A-1 Sauce (prison slang), XIX.2

aorist, X.3

aorta, XXXI.4

aortic aneurism, XXVI.3

Août, XXIII.1.1

Apache, 6, X.3, XIX.2

Apalachi, XIX.2

A pan duro, diente agudo (Sp.), XXIII.2.12

apartheid*,* XIX.4.12–13

apartman (Turk.), XXXI.1

apathy, XIII.4, XIV.3

A.P.B., XIV.4

APC (activated protein C), XXXI.4

APC (adenomatous polyposis coli), XXXI.4

APC (aerobic plate counts), XXXI.4

APC (amino-propyl cysteine), XXXI.4

APC (anaphase promoting complex), XXXI.4

APC (antigen-presenting cells), XXXI.4

apçiha, XXVII.4.8

ape, IX.2.14, V.2, XI.4

ape (It.), XXX.2

Ape (car), XXXI.4, XXXI.4

ape-penguin, XXIX.4

ape-poopy, XXIX.4, XXX.2

"aper-a-ture," VI.4.972

apeshit, XXX.2

Apes, Men, and Languages (review), II.1.94

aphasia, XXX.2

aphis, V.1.618

apholate, XV.1, XVI.1

aphorisms

of Saki, XXXI.3

aphrodisiac, XI.1

Aphrodite, XXX.3

apian, III.3.375

apiophobia, X.1

aplomb, XXII.1

apocalypse, X.2

Apocalypse of Peter, XXVIII.1

apocalypsuction, XXIV.3

apocryphal awry, V.2

apolitical, IX.1.6

Apollo, XXIV.1, XXIV.2, XXVI.3

Apollonius of Perga, VI.1

apologize, XX.1

apophaatic, VI.2

aposelene, XV.1

aposelenium, XV.1

aposoum/apossum, VI.4.960, XXVI.3

aposta, XIX.4

apostrophe, X.2, XII.1, XIV.4, XXVI.2

and spurious plurals, XXX.3

apostrophes, II.4.224, III.1.273, III.2.329, V.2

misuse of, XXXI.2

Appalachia, lapsed language of, XXVI.1

appalling, II.4.222

Appaloosa, XIX.2

apparatchik, XIX.3.33

apparition, X.2

appartements de grand standing, IV.4.592

appeal to voters, II.4.204

"An Appeal to Writers Everywhere" (Ladds), XXVII.4

appears, IV.2.504

appease, II.1.88

Appel, Alfred, Jr., VI.3

Appellation Trail, V.2

appendix, XIII.4, XXIII.1

appetite(s), XXIII.1

apple, II.1.82

-cart, IV.1.460

goes and not the core, XX.2

naming of varieties of, XXI.1

tree, IV.2.493

apple and oranged, comparing/, XX.2

Appleby Magna/Parva (Leicestershire), XXVI.1

Apple Dumpling, XXVIII.2

Apple Jitters, IV.2.492

apple John, XII.4

*Apple MacTavern (proposed pub name), XXVI.3

apple pie order, XXVI.3

apple-polisher, XXIX.4

apples

compared to apples, XXXI.2

applesauce, XII.2, XXIX.3

as apple sass, XVI.3

applesauce-cicity, XXX.2

apples-to-apples comparison, XXX.2

Apples to Apples Crate Edition, XXVIII.3

applicate, X.2

appoint, XXI.2

appointments, IX.4.8

appraise, V.2

apprehend, XXVI.2

apprenticeship (Quebec English), XXIII.1

apprise, V.2

appropriate, X.1.1

approximately, II.3.366

appuyer sur le champignon, XXIII.3.21

après nous, le déluge, XXII.1.6

après-rasage, II.2.150

Apresyan, Y. D., XIX.3

apricock, XXIV.1, XXIV.1

apricot, II.3.189, VI.4, XXIV.1, XXVI.2

April, II.3.196

April Fool's Day, XXX.4, XXX.4

apron, IX.1.1, VI.1

à propos, XXII.1

Apted, Michael, XXVI.2

apteek, XIX.4.13

aptonyms, XXIX.4

aqua, XXVI.4.12n.9

Aqua (band), XXVI.3

aquadextrous, XXIII.2

aqualelibrum, XXIII.2

aqua-penguin, XXIX.4

aquaphobia, X.1

aquaplaning, XXI.2

aqua regia, XXVIII.2

Aquarian Age, XV.1, XVI.1

aquarium-cleaning, XXIX.4

aquel, XXVI.1

aqui es una mesa/a Kuh ess' ohne Messer, XXIV.4.29

aquilegia, XXIV.1

aquiline, 376, III.3.375, IV.3.538, XXVII.2

aquiline nose, XXIV.3

Aquisitiveness (in phrenology), XXX.4

ar, XXI.3, XXIX.3

Arab, VI.1

descent, South Africans of, XXIV.2

Arabian, III.3.374

Arabian millet, III.1.263

Arabian Nights Entertainment, XXX.2.28

Arabian star-names, V.3, V.4

Arabic, 20, 40, 41, 247, 716, 717, I.3, I.4, II.4.205, V.3

XII.2, XIII.2

European cognates, XII.2

transliterating, XXVII.1

Arabic alphabet, XXVII.1

Arablish, XIX.3

arachnaphobia, X.1

Arafat, XVI.3

Aragon, III.2.323

aragonite, X.4

arakawaite (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

Araki-Alcock (comet), XIII.3

arakunen, XXVI.3.27

Aramaic, I.3, II.4.247, V.3, XIII.2

arance mafiuse, XIII.1.4

Aranda, XXIII.3

Arapaho, XIX.2

arathkone, VI.4.962

Araucanian, IX.1.7, IX.3.1

Arawakan, IX.3.1

arbiter elegantiarum, XXVII.4

arbiters, IV.1.444

arbitragers, XVI.3

arbitrary, XXVII.2

arbitrate it out, V.4

Arborite, XXIV.4

arbor vitae, XXVII.2

Arbuthnot, John, XXXI.3

Arc, XX.4

arc, XXIII.1

Arcadia, VI.3, X.4

arcadian, X.4

arch, XXIII.2

archaeology, XX.1

Archaic Chinese, XII.1

archaic (usage category), XXX.2

arched eyebrow, II.3.156

Arched Limpet, XI.1

The Archers (radio series), XXIII.2

archery proverbs, VI.3

"archetype," VI.3.848

archie, XXIII.1

"Archie Bunker in the Classroom," III.4.428

Archie-Bunkerism, I.4

archipelago, XXXI.1

"An Architectonic of Verbs" (Young), X.3

architrave, XXVII.1

arcjet, XV.1

arc-jet engine, XV.1, XVI.1

arco, XXVIII.3

ARCs (advanced reader copies), XXXI.4

Arctic, V.3, XIII.4

arcuate fasciculus, XXX.2

'ard, XII.2

-ard/-arde, XII.1

ardd, II.4.241

Ardella Sweek, III.1.291

ardue pennis astra sequi, XXVII.4.20n.5

are, X.1

area, II.4.203

area codes, XIX.4

areca, V.4.747

Arenofsky, Janice, "Dogspeak, So to Speak," XXXI.3.15–17

Ares, XXVI.4

arete, XXI.3.7

Arethusa, XXVI.4

Areva (car), XXXI.4

"Are you going to let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo you?",

XIX.3

arf, XXI.2

Argens, Marquis d', XXXI.4

Argent, IV.1.476

Argentine/-ian, XIII.3

Argentinian, XIII.3

Argo (corn starch makers), XXXI.1, XXXI.1

Argos, II.4.234

The Argot (Thirty-five), XXI.1

argument, XIX.3

argumentar/argumetación, XIX.3.35

Argus, XXVI.2

Argyll socks, XXII.1

árgyros, I.3.38

aria, V.2, XXVIII.3

Arias Davila, Pedro, XV.4

arigato (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

Arikara, XIX.2

Ariosto, Ludovico, XXIV.4

Aripeka, accenting of, XII.4

aristeros, XIV.2.8

aristeros (Gk.), XIV.2

Aristides, III.3.379

aristological, XXVII.2

Aristophanes, XXIX.3, XXX.1

Aristotle

on atomic theory, XXIII.4

defines money, XXIV.4

Aristu, IV.1.441

aristú, XIX.1.20

Arithmetick (Cocker), XXXI.3

arithmetic mean, XX.4

Arizona, IV.2.486

Arkabutla, accenting of, XII.4

Arkansas, XVI.1

Arkansas/-an, XIII.3, XVI.1

Arkansayer, XIII.3

arkart sia (Thai), XXI.4

Arkhipelag GULag (Solzhenitsyn), XIX.3

Arkin, Frieda, II.2.153, XX.1

arkitos, XIII.4.9

arktos, XIII.4.9

Arles, VI.4

Armada (car), XXXI.4

armadillo (fruit fly), XXXI.4

armapophar, astramuphar, astramuchur, XIX.1.2

armature, XX.3

armchair ride, XX.3

Armed Gunmen, True Facts, and Other Ridiculous Nonsense (Kallan),

reviewed, XXXI.2

"Armed with a rum cake and dough...", I.4

Armenfreund (surname), XXIX.4

Armenian, II.3.164, IV.2.500

Armistead, II.1.90

Armitage, V.2.670

Armored Christian Soldiers, V.2

Armour, Richard, II.2.139

arms control, XIII.3, XVI.3

Armstädt, II.1.90

Armstrong, Archie, XXX.4

Armstrong, David G., XXIV.1

Armstrong, Louis, XXXI.1

Armstrong, Louis "Satchmo," II.3.175, VI.3, XXVI.1

XXVI.1, XXVI.2

Armstrong, Neil, XXIV.4

Armstrong, Walter P. Jr.

"Sherlock Holmes Adds a Word, XIV.3

army moth, XIX.3

Army Talk, VI.1.810

Arndt, Colleen, V.1

Arnold, V.3

Arnold, Benedict, XVIII.3

Arnold, Harry L., Jr., M.D., IV.2.506

Arnold, Zach M., XXIII.1

A-Rod, XXIX.4

arooaroo helama rama, XIX.1.1

around, III.3.366

around the bend, XXX.3

around the horn (baseball), XXIV.2

"Around the World by Dictionary" (Hirschberg), X.4

arpa, XXVIII.3

arpeggio, XXVIII.3

arpeggione, XXVIII.3

arpent, X.2

ærphÿg (Ossetic), XIX.3

Arquette, Lester K., XXI.4

arrack, V.4

arrah, XXIII.3

Arran sweaters, XXII.1

Arras, III.3.374

arrau, IX.3.1

Arre, V.4

arrecha, X.4.13

arrecho, X.4.13

arrest, I.2

arrêt-court, III.1.282

arrêt pipi, III.2.329

ar-ringe, II.4.217

arrival of a rival in the Middle Least, VI.2

"arrival to," VI.2.846

arrive, XII.3

arroba/-o, II.3.167

arrogant, XXVI.1

arrogare, XIX.2.2

Arrowfield (Worcester), XXVI.1

Arsch, XXIX.4

arse, I.2, XXIV.1, XXIV.1, XXVI.1

as "ass," XXIV.2.6–9

end, XII.3

Ars(e) longa, XXIV.1

arsenic route, XXIV.3

arsenious, III.1.283

'arsh, XII.2

arsing around, XXIV.2

Ars longa, vita vrevis,pun on, XX.1

Ars Nova, 592, IV.2.476, IV.4.579, V.1

Art, XI.4

art, III.2.318

The Art and Technique of Citation Reading, II.1.81

art brut, XXX.1.29

art director, V.2, VI.3

ArtDude, XXX.4

arteanunkh (E.Armen.), XIX.3

Artemis, XXIV.2

The Arte of Rhetorique (Wilson), XI.3

arteriosum, III.1.283

arterious, III.1.283

arteritis, XXIV.1

Artery, XXVIII.4

artful, III.2.303

arthouse, XXX.1

arthritis, V.4

arthropods, XVI.4

Arthur, V.4

"Arthured," II.2.114

"arthuritis," VI.1.816

Arthur, king of the Britons, XXX.4

Arthur Road, XIX.4

articles, VII.4

artifact/artefact, XXI.3

artificial, XXX.1

artificial bipartite abdominal integument, IV.2.481

artificial insemination/resuscitation, XXVI.3

artificial intelligences, XXVII.3

artificial persons, XIV.4

artiste, XXX.2.22

artists, VI.3

The Art of English Poesie (Puttenham), XI.3

Art of Poetry, VI.1.800

Art of Rhetoric (Wilson), XIX.3

The Art of War (Sun Tzu), XXX.2

artspeak, XXIX.3

Arum, XXIV.1

Arundel, XIX.3

and hirondelles, XIII.1.2

Arvedsen (chemist), XXIV.1

arvo, VI.2

Ar wither!, XX.4

ary, III.2.308

Aryavarta, V.4

arzey-garzeys, XXI.3

as, 12, I.3, V.2, X.1

as a coot, XXX.3

as a matter of fact, V.2

asan, II.2.133, II.4.242

ASAP/, XX.2

as/as, X.1

as bored as an oil-well, XIX.1

Asch, Sholem, XXIX.4, XXIX.4

Ascot, X.4

ascot, X.4

Ascott-under-Wychwood, I.4

asea, XXVI.1

as far as..., XXVI.1

as fast as Cax, XXVIII.4, XXVIII.4

as fast as lightning, XIX.1

ash-bucket apprentice, X.4

ash-bucket apprentices, 12, X.4

Ashbury, XIX.2

Ashby Puerorum (Lincolnshire), XXVI.1

Asherah, II.2.136

*Ash from a Hole in the Ground, XXX.1.12

ashlag, II.4.247

Ash, Lee, V.4

Ashley, Leonard R. N., II.1.89, XXIII.4

ashl'gan, II.4.247

Ash Magna/Parva (Shropshire), XXVI.1

a shoe, XXVII.4

"ashphalt," VI.4.972

al-Ashraf, XXXI.1

ashram, XIV.4

Ash, Russell, XX.3

Ash Street, XIX.4

Ashurbanipal, XXX.3

asi, XXI.4

Asiago, XXXI.1

Asian (South Africa), XXIV.2, XXIV.2

Asiaticism, X.3

as if, XXVII.3

as if it would never stop, XIX.3

Asimov, Isaac, XXX.2, XXXI.1, XXXI.1

Asingsing, XVI.1

asinine, III.3.376, IX.2.14, XXIV.3, XXIV.3

asinus, II.4.242, XXIV.1

ask

for a date, XXI.3

as noun, XXVI.3

Askeladd (Norw.), XXXI.2, XXXI.2

askimowow, X.3.6

Askr, XXXI.2

as many faces as the town clock, XXX.3

as much use as a chocolate teapot/fireguard (York dial.), XXXI.1

asocial/unsocial, XIV.3

"asparagrass," II.4.228, VI.1

asparagus, VI.1

Aspasia, VIII.3

Asperger, Hans, XXVI.3

Asperger's syndrome, XXVI.3, XXVI.3

aspersion, VI.2

aspertame, XIII.4

asphalt, VI.1

asphodel, XXIV.4

Asphodel Fields, XXVIII.1

aspine, IV.1.456

aspirin, IX.1.7, XII.1, XIX.3, XXI.3

Asquith, XXIV.1

Asquith, Lady Margot, XXXI.2

ass, 16, 18, II.2.133, II.4.242, X.4, XXIV.2

blow smoke up someone's, XXIV.2

butt-, XXIV.2

candy-, XXIV.2

case of the, XXIV.2

chapped, XXIV.2

cool-, XXIV.2

doesn't know his/her, from elbow, XXIV.2

dragging one's, XXIV.2

dumb-, XXIV.2

falling on one's, XXIV.2

half-, XXIV.2

have a stick up one's, XXIV.2

have a train up one's, XXIV.2

head up one's, XXIV.2

horse's, XXIV.2

is grass, XXIV.2

kick, XXIV.2

kicking, XXVI.1

kiss my, XXIV.2

lame-, XXIV.2

my, XXIV.2

not known from elbow, XXIV.2

off, working/freezing one's, XXIV.2

on/up someone's, XXIV.2

pain in the, XXIV.2

piece of, XXIV.2, XXIV.4

to pull something out of one's, XXIV.2

sitting on one's, XXIV.2

taking it upn the, XXIV.4

talking out of one's, XXIV.2

tight-, XXIV.2

watch your, XXIV.2

assai, XXVIII.3

assart, XXII.1

Assassenach, XXIV.3

assassination, XIV.4, XXVII.3

assault and battery, II.4.220, IV.4.571, V.3

ass-backwards, XXIV.2

ass-butt, XXIV.2

ass (donkey), XXIV.1, XXIV.1, XXIV.2, XXIV.4

assemble and meet together, V.3

ass-end, XXIV.3

assentatour, X.2

asses, feeling for, XV.3

assessible, XXIII.1

assessments, XXVIII.4

assessories, XIV.2

asset, VIII.1

asseverations, XXIV.4

ass-for-face, XXIV.2

ass-groove, XXX.2

asshole, XXIV.2, XXIV.2, XXVII.1

tearing someone a new, XXIV.2

tight, to keep a, XXIV.2

assing about/around, XXIV.2

"Assing Around" (Randall and Woloson), XXIV.2, XXIV.3

XXIV.4, XXIV.4, XXIV.4

Assiniboin, XIX.2

assist, IX.1.4, V.2

assister, IX.1.4

ass-kisser, XXIV.2

ass-licker, XXIV.2

ass man, XXIV.2

associate, X.1

Associated Press Stylebook, XXI.4

Association, IV.1.476

assonance, I.1, XVI.2

in Spanish poetry, XXIV.4

ass-over-tit/teakettle, XXIV.2

ass peddler, XXIV.2

assuage, II.1.88

assume, XXIV.2

as swell as the mumps, XIX.1

ass-whomping, XXIX.4

ass-wipe, XXIV.2

assy, XXIV.3

Assyrian, II.4.247, IV.2.500

Assyro-Babylonian, IV.2.500

ast, IV.3.531

asteismus, XI.3

aster, VI.2

asterisk, XIV.1, XVI.2, XXVI.2

for unattested etymons, XXVI.2

for unattested forms, XXX.4

asthenic, X.3

asthenophobi, X.1

As the Word Turns columns, see Baldwin, Barry

asthma/asma, XXVII.4

asthore, II.2.133, II.4.243

a stòir, II.2.133

Astonishment of Words (review), I.2, V.3

Astra (car), XXXI.4

astragali, XXIV.4

astramuphar, XIX.1.3

astraphobia, X.1

astringentleman, XXIV.3

astrionics, XV.1, XVI.1

Astro (car), XXXI.4

Astrodome, Houston, Prince Rainier III comments on, XXX.3

astrologer, V.3

astrology, 718, V.3, VI.2

astromancy, V.2

astronaute/astronaut, XVI.4

astronomer, V.3

astronomy, V.3

astro-penguin, XXIX.4

astrophobia, X.1

as vs. like, XXVI.1

Aswaguschwadic, XVI.1

aswaq al-qat (Ar.), XXXI.1

as we know it, V.2

as well, V.2, VI.1

aswell/, XX.2

asylum, XIV.3

asymmetric hindquarter syndrome, XXVI.3

asyndeton, V.4

"As you sow, so shall you reap," XIX.4.7

at, XXXI.4

*ata/ateş/atin/etti'-/hutan/idho/iṣ̣u/iti,

ito/íto/od(od)/odun/odyn/oti/'ūd(ut)/udun/ut(ud)/u'ttı-/u'ttuut/utûnu*,

XX.1

atakka/atekka (Malay), VIII.2

atanan (Ar.), XXXI.1

Atari, XXVII.3

Ataturk, Kemal, XXIII.2

Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal), XXXI.2

ataxiophobia, X.1

atcha, XXVII.4

Atchafalaya, IV.2.487, IV.3.534

atch (Armen.), XIV.2

at close of play, IV.3.523

-ate, IX.3.2, XXVI.2

-ate, XXXI.1.7–11

ate/et, XXIV.1

Atellan farce, XXVI.1

A10DAD, XIV.4

à tes amours, XXVII.4.9

à tes souhaits, XXVII.4.9

Atfalati, XIX.2

at first bolt, VI.3

"athaletic," VI.1.816

at half cock, XVI.2

athanasian wench, X.1

atheism, XIV.3

solipsism, XXVI.2

Athena (computer), XXXI.1

Athens, 235, II.4.234, III.2.323

athletic team nicknames, XIX.1

at home, XIX.3

-athon, 20, XVI.1

Athwardship, XX.3

atichoo, XXVII.4

-ational, IV.2.482

atishoo(oooooooo), XXVII.4

Atkins-friendly, XXIX.4

Atkinson, Brooks, II.3.157

Atkins, P. W., XXIV.1

Atlantic Pidgin/le sabir atlantique, XVI.4.11

at large, XXVI.3

Atlas Linguistique de le France, V.4.759

at least ..., XIII.2

ATM machines, XXIX.3

atmosphere English, XIX.3, XXIV.3

"Atmosphere English" (Blackford), XXIII.1

atoll/atolu, XXVIII.2.14

atom, XIV.3, XV.2, XXIII.4, XXIII.4

atomized account, V.2

atone, X.3, XIV.3, XV.2

atonement, XIV.3

A2TH4U, XIV.4

A2THMAN, XIV.4

à tout à l'heure, IV.4.584

A Toyota, XI.3

A TO Z, XXVIII.3

at play, XIX.3

*at pretty, XXVI.3

Atremis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Colfer), XXXI.1

atrial tribulations, XXVI.3

atropine, XIX.3

Atropos, XIV.3

at rovers, VI.2

a-tschoo, XXVII.4

at school, XIX.3

at sixes and sevens, XII.3

At Swim-Two-Birds (O'Brien), XXIX.3, XXX.1

attack first/preemptive counterattack, XXVII.3

attack of the blue devils, VI.1

attack, rebuff the, XX.3

attainder, XVIII.3

attama (Thai), XXXI.4

attamusco (Va. Alg.), VIII.2

Attapulgus, accenting of, XII.4

attempt, V.4

atten ash, XXVI.3

Attenborough, David, XXIV.3

attend, IX.1.4

attendances, XIII.4

attention deficit disorder (ADD), XXVI.3

atterrissage sur le ventre/belly landing, XVI.4

at the end of the day, VI.4

at the hop, XXVIII.4, XXVIII.4

at this point, XIII.1

in time, I.3, VI.4

at this point in time, XXVII.3

at this present moment in time, IV.2.481

Atticism, X.3

Attila the Hun, XXVII.2

attitude, XIX.1, XX.2

over the project, VI.2

Attlee, XXIV.1

attorney, V.2

attorney general, XXIII.1, XXIX.3

attraction, X.2

attractive, quite, XX.3

attribute, X.1

attrition, III.2.298

Atwater, XIII.1

A2, XVI.1

Atwood, Deb, "Metaphoricall Speaking; or How to Hang on a Moment,"

XXXI.2

Atwood, Diane, XXIII.3

au, XXIV.1

aua (arctic wee folk), XXXI.4

AU (alternate universe), XXX.2

aubépine, XXX.2.23n.3

auberge, II.4.205

aubergine, II.4.205, III.2.337

Aubertin, Jean Baptiste, XXX.2

au bon père, XXVIII.2.23

Aubrey, John, XXVII.3, XXX.1

"au burr" (au beurre), III.4.421

auch, II.4.247

Auchincloss family, XXII.1

Aucoin (surname), XI.3

au courant, IV.4.568

Audace, IV.4.594

audacibus annue coeptis, XXVII.4.20

Auden, W.H., II.2.137, XX.3

'audi (Ar.), XXXI.1

audible, III.3.366

audience, XXVII.3

aud(ience), XXX.1

audiophile, XV.1

audiotypist, XV.1

auditory, XXVIII.4

Audomarois, XII.1

Aue, XXVI.4.12n.9

au fait, XIX.1, XXII.1

auf beiden Schultern Wasser tragen, XXII.1.21

auf der/die frau, VI.3.923

au fond, XXII.1.7

Augarde, Tony, XXX.4

Augarde, Tony, Bibliographia, XXXI.2.29–30

Augenbraue (Gn.), XIX.3

Augenlid (Gn.), XIX.3

Augenwimper (Gn.), XIX.3

auger, V.2

Auguface, XXII.1

augur, V.2

auguri, XXIX.3.15

Augusta's Topsoil Hair Products Manufacturing Co., III.4.421

Augustine of Hippo, Saint, XXIX.4, XXIX.4

Augustodunum, II.2.134

auh, II.4.247

au jus, III.2.309

auk, XI.3

auk-word, XXIV.3

Auld Clootie, XXIX.3

aunt, X.1, XI.3

auntie, XXVI.3

"Aunt Minnie's Chicken Talk," III.3.388, IV.2.512

aunts, a kissing of, XXIII.1

Aunt Sally, XI.1

au pied de la lettre/, XX.2

aura, II.1.88

auricle, IX.3.14

"Auricle of Delphi," V.2.684

aurochs, XXIV.4

Aurora (Philadelphia newspaper), XXIV.4

aurora australis, XXVII.2

Aurora Be Confused, XXI.4.1

aurora borealis, XXVII.2

auroral, XXVII.2

auroraphobia, X.1

aurum, XXIII.4

Ausfresser (surname), XXIX.4

ausgezeichnet (Gn.), XXXI.1

auspicious, XIV.4

Aussie, III.4.426

(Aust. Ab.), XXIII.3, XXIII.3

Austen, Jane, I.3, XXVI.2, XXVIII.4, XXVIII.4, XXXI.1

spurious novel attributed to, XXX.3

Austin Awareness League, V.2

Auston, Oliver L., Jr., III.3.373

austral (Argentine currency), XV.4

Australia, XXVII.2

Australian, IX.1.7

Australian accent, VI.2

Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, XX.3

Australian English, VI.1

Dharuk words in, XXIII.1

dialect differences within, XX.4

"flash language," XXIII.2.3

"Settlement by Sea" (Ramson), XXIII.3

of Tasmania, XXI.1

Australian English: an Historical study of the Vocabulary1788-1898

(Ramson), XX.1

The Australian Language (Baker), XX.1

Australian love grass, III.1.263

Australian National Dictionary Centre, XX.3

Australian National Dictionary (ed. Ramson), XIX.3, XX.4

XXI.4

reviewed, XX.1

Australian Oxford Guide for Writers and Editors, XX.3.15

Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary, XX.3.15

Australian Research Council, XX.3, XX.4

Australian Shiraz, XXII.1

Australian Society of Indexers, XIX.4

Auswaks, Alex

"What Mrs. Garnett Never Told Us," XI.3.10–11

ausziehe, IV.3.529

ausziehen, VI.1.821

Autem Quaver, XXVIII.2

auteur, XXII.1

auteur/-e, XXX.2.23n.4

authentic, XVI.1

authentication, VIII.1

author, XXI.2

authored, XXX.1

authority, XIX.4

Authorized Version (Bible), IV.2.480. See also Bible

King James, III.2.335

authorship, II.2.98

Author's Query, III.3.387

autism, XXVI.3

auto, VI.4

auto-antonyms, XXVII.2

autochthony, XXXI.1

autocrats (prison slang), XIX.2

autodrome, XV.1

auto-école, III.3.328

autoerotic, XVI.2

Autofac (computer), XXXI.2

autogrill, V.2

Autogrill Pavesi, I.4

automat, XI.4

automaticity, XXVIII.4

automatic typesetting machine, IX.4.18

automne, XXX.2.23

automobile, IX.1.7, VI.4

driving terms, XXII.1

automobile names, XXXI.4

automobiles

Aggressive Driver High Crash Area, XXIX.4

long in the tooth, XXIX.4

"Automobiles are all very well, but for pure pleasure give me a

well-boiled icicle," XIX.4.12

automóvil, X.4.14

autonomous language, XXVI.2

autonyms, IV.3.546

autoscrips, IV.3.546

autos-da-fé, XXVII.4.19

Autosegmental & Metrical Phonology (Goldsmith), reviewed, XXIII.1

autosquop, IV.3.526

autostrada (It.), I.4, IX.1.1

autre paire de manches, c'est un, XXII.1.21

autre paire des manches, XXIII.3.21

Autumn Period, XII.1

aux, XXIV.1

auxiliaries, X.3

auxiliary verbs, XXIV.1

Auyuittuq Na, XIII.1

Av, XXIV.2

A-V, IX.4.1

Avada Kedavra, XXVI.2.5

availability, XXXI.2

avails, 12, X.4, X.4

avaler les couleuvres, XXIII.1.13

avaler son bulletin de naissance, XXII.1.21

Avalon, Frankie, XXX.2

avant-haggard, XXIV.3

avant-niggardly, XXIV.3

avatar, V.4, XIV.4, XXIII.1

'ave, XXI.3

ave! (Lat./Punic), XXX.3

"Ave!" (McKean), XXIII.4

Aveline, XXII.1

avellan, III.4.413

avenage, XXII.1

aver, II.1.97

average, VI.4, XX.4, XXI.3

*Average Atmospherocephalic Bureaucrat in the Act of Milking a Cranial

Harp* (Dalì), XXX.1

Average White Band, IV.2.476

Avernus, XIV.3

averse, V.2

"Avesta Fideles," V.2.684

Avgas, VI.4

Aviator (car), XXXI.4

aviclature, British, XXX.2

avid, II.1.88

Avignon, VI.4

Avine, IV.1.455

Avis, V.4

Avis Crowe, III.1.291

avnán, I.3.38

Avnei Etan, XIII.3

avocado, III.4.421

avocado/, XX.4

"avocoda," III.4.421

Avogadro pair, V.2

avoid, XXI.2

"Avoiding Offense" (Morris), XXIV.4

A Void (Perec, tr. Adair), XXIV.1, XXIX.3

Avoid Tudor wise, VI.2

Avolio, Gennaro, XIX.1

Avon, 134, II.2.133

avuncular, X.2

Aw, XXI.3

awabi (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

aware, VI.1

aware (Japanese), XXVI.2

away the trip (pregnancy), XIX.4

awesome, IX.4.2, XIX.3

power, IV.4.563

awful, XXX.1

awful/-ly, V.2, XIX.3

good, XIV.2

awhile, V.2

/aw,in NYC English, XXX.1

awl, XXVI.3

awn, XI.3

AWOL, XXI.3, XXIX.3

AWOL/, XX.2

"A Word or Two in Spanglish" (Moore), XXX.2

awverlooked, XXIII.3

'áwwal, XII.2.2

ax, II.4.232, IV.3.531, XI.4

axe, 19, XVI.2

axénique/germfree, XVI.4

axinomancy, VI.2

axiom, XXXI.4

axis/taxis, XIII.2

axles, XXII.1

Axton, Paul V.

"The Nihongo Religion," XIII.2.10–12

ay, X.1

Ayatollah Khomeini, XXVII.3

ayatollah(s), 3, VI.4, XIII.4, XVI.3

[¡]ay caramba [!], XXX.2

aye, XXXI.4

A Year Behind Bars (East), XXVI.3

"Aye Ioannis!", III.3.382

ayem, XXX.1

Ayenbite of, X.2

ay (letter), XXIX.3

ayn (Arabic letter), XXVII.1

ayote, X.1.1

aypin', XII.3

¡Ay! que curvas, y yo sin frenos, XXXI.1.17

Ayrton Senna, XX.4

Ayto, John, XX.3

ayu (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

azalea, XXXI.4

azalea/-os, VI.4

Azariah, XXXI.1

Azinger, Paul, XXX.4

Azkaban, XXVI.2

azot, I.3

azote, I.3

azraq (Ar.), XXXI.1

azúcar, VI.4.968

Azusa, XVI.1

A-Z/USA, XVI.1

Azymite, XIV.3

-azzo, XIX.2

azzy-gazzies, XXI.3

B

as in jamb, XII.1

scarlet, for Baseball, XXIX.4

ba-, VI.4

baa, VI.2, XXXI.3

baaaaddd hitter, VI.1

"Baa Baa Black Sheep" (nursery rhyme), XXXI.3

baa-lamb, XXXI.3

baal (Aust. Ab.), XXIII.1, XXIII.3

baba, XI.4

Babar et le Père Noël (de Brunhoff), XXXI.4

babbagha, XXIV.4.25

Bab Ballads (Gilbert), XXVI.1

babble/Babel, XX.3

babble like a brook, XXX.3

babblers, XXVIII.1

babbling, X.4

babe, XXVIII.3

bab(e)age, XXIV.4

Babel, XII.1

babelard, XIX.4

BA (benzoic acid), XXXI.4

Babes in Toyland, XIII.4

Babies in Bottles (Squier), XXXI.4

babillard, XIX.4.11

babiller, I.4.74

Babington, George, XIII.1

babiroussa, V.2

baboon, I.3, XXIV.3

bab(o)uin, I.4.74, XXIV.3

Babraham (Cambridgeshire), XXVI.1

babushka, XIV.1

baby, IX.1.7, V.4, VI.3, XXI.4, XXVII.3

with the bathwater, throw out the, XXIX.3

as interjection, XXX.4

on a wire, XXI.3

baby!, XXX.4

baby boomer, XVI.3

baby buggies, XXII.1

baby carriages, XXII.1

baby cornstarch/baby cornflour, XII.4

"Baby Drill," I.4.67

babyface, XXXI.2

baby formula, XII.4

baby gang, XXVII.3

babylike, XXIV.1

Babylonian, XIX.1

Babylonian New Year Festival, XXX.2

Babylon 5 (TV series), XXXI.1

baby pacifier, V.3

baby pageant, V.3

baby parade, V.3

baby pensioners, XXVII.3

baby pictures, V.3

baby poopy, V.3

baby potty, V.3

baby powder, V.3, XII.4

"Baby-San's Lingo" (Gordon and Spear), XXVI.1

baby shock, XII.3

Baby Sitar, XXIII.1

baby( )sitter/-ing, V.1, VIII.1, VIII.4, XI.2

part-time, XXVII.3

babytalk, IV.2.485

baby'tje, VI.3

bacciballum, XXVIII.3

Bacharach, Burt, XX.3

bachelor girl, XI.1

bachelor pad, V.3

Bachelor President, V.4

Bach's Paradox, XII.1

Bach, Zellig

"Gremlins of E. T.", XVIII.4

"The Imperative of Opposites, X.4

"Neither 'God' Nor 'Aleichem' Is a Last Name," IX.1.19

bacilliphobia, X.1

bacillum, XXIV.4

bacio, XXVIII.3

back, XXIII.2

backache busters, XII.3

Back an alien revelry, VI.2

back and forth, I.2, XV.4

back-asswards, XXIV.2

back bacon, I.2

backblocks, VI.4

back catcher, IV.1.443

back country, XIX.3, XIX.3

backdoor pilot, XXX.1

backdrop, XIII.3

back end (Lincs dial.), XXXI.2

Backenhörnchen (Gn.), XII.4

Backes, Roger, XXVIII.3

backfield position, V.3

back formation, I.4, II.3.177

background, X.3

background noise, II.1.101

"A Backhanded Pardon" (Fischer), XXIV.3

back into harness, XXII.1

back out, XXIX.4

back out/out back, XXXI.3

backpack, V.3

back-paddle, V.3

back page, V.3

back pain, V.3

back passage, XII.3

back pasture, V.3

back pocket, V.3

back porch, V.3

back-pressure, V.3

backra/, XX.2

back rope, XXI.3

backside, XXVII.2

back slang, XXXI.2

backspace, hitting a, XXIV.3

backstage, XIII.3

backstop, XXVIII.3

back-up, VI.1

backward people, V.3

backward(s), XXIII.3

backwoods preacher, V.3

backword, XXIII.4

backwords, XVI.2, XVI.4

"Backwords and Newances" (Galef), XVI.2

backyard patio, V.3

bacon, VI.2

bring home the, XXIX.3

baconer, VI.2

Bacon, Francis, XXX.4, XXXI.3

Bacon, Lord, V.3

bacronyms, XIX.4

bacronyms/, XX.2

bacteriophobia, X.1

bacterious, III.1.283

bacterium/-a, XXI.1, XXIII.3, XXIV.4, XXVIII.4

bacuri, IX.3.3

bacury, IX.3.3

BAD, XXIV.2

bad, I.2, V.1, XXVII.2

egg, XXI.2

as slang for "good," IX.1.1

badass, XXIV.2

bad breaker-upper, XXVIII.2

Bad Company, IV.2.478

baddabing, baddabang(, baddaboom), XXVI.4, XXVI.4, XXVI.4

and the rimshot, XXVII.2

"Baddabing, Baddabang" (Humez), XXVI.4

bad end of the stick of life, XIX.3

bade/wade, XIII.2

Badfinger, IV.2.478, IV.4.580

badge, XX.3

badger, IX.2.14

badger box, XXI.1

Badger Grove, IV.2.490

Badger Springs, VI.4

badge(un), XXI.2

Bad (Gn.), XXX.2

badha, III.2.337

al-badhainjan, II.4.205, III.2.337, III.4.423

bad-hair day, XXX.1

Badlands, XVI.1

Bad Language (Andersson and Trudgill), reviewed, XX.3

badly, XIX.3, XXX.3

the bad man, XXIII.2

badminton, X.4, XIX.1

paddle, V.3

player, V.3

bad money situation, II.4.203

bad mouth, III.2.307, IV.4.581, XXXI.3

bad party, V.3

bad penny, V.3

bad person, V.3

bad place, V.3, XXIII.2

bad planning, V.3

bad player, V.3

bad posture, V.3

bad prices, V.3

bad prison, V.3

bad procedure, V.3

bad program, V.3

bad pun, V.3

Badr, battle of, XXXI.1

bad shape, in, XXVII.2

bad sick, VI.3

Bad Vibes, XXIII.1

Baffin Island, XIII.1

baffled, II.4.222

baffle of wits, XXIII.4

baffle/waffle, XIII.2

baffling problem, V.3

baffoonish, XXIII.1

bag, I.2, III.1.218, III.3.341, III.3.356, IX.4.1, IX.4.2, IX.4.3,

VIII.3, XII.3, XXVIII.4

bag a brace, IV.3.522

bag and baggage, I.2, IV.4.571

Bagatelle, IV.2.479

bag-blind bastard, XIX.3

Bagdasarian, Ross, XXVI.1

bagel, XXVIII.2

baggage, VIII.3, XXIV.4, XXX.1

bagged/ragged, XIII.2

baggi, VI.4

Baggies, XII.1

baggin, II.1.106

baggot, XXI.1

baggy pants, V.3

baggywrinkles, III.4.412

Baghdad, XXVII.1

Baghdad sore, XX.1

baği (Turk.), VIII.2

Bagi Moro, XXX.1

bagman, XXIV.4

Bagnal, Tom, V.3

bag of sand, XXXI.2

bagpipe, V.3

player, V.3

bagra (Ar.), XXXI.1

bags I!, I.2

Baguepuize, Ralph de, XXVI.1

baguettes, XXII.1

bah, III.3.357

bahak, XXVII.2.11

Bahamians, XVI.4

bah-bah, XV.2

Bahnhof, XIX.2

bahuvrihi, XX.1, XXIII.1

baibu (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

baikingu, XIX.3.17

bail, V.2

Bailey, Bel, XX.1, XXIII.3

Bailey, Bel, "Mottoes from Zetland," XIX.3.28–29

Bailey, Gus, XXVI.1

Bailey, Nathan, I.1, XIX.2, XIX.4, XX.1, XXXI.3

Bailey, Nathaniel, XXX.3

Bailey, Richard, XIX.1, XX.2, XXIII.3

reviews Mad for Words, XXIII.4.14–16

reviews The Warden of English, XXVI.4.27–29

Bailey, Richard W., XXX.4, XXXI.1

Bailey's Bead's, XXIV.2

Bailey's Dam, IV.2.487

Bailey's Manual of Cultivated Plants, VI.4.959

Baillio (surname), XI.3

bailout, XI.2

bail (out), XXIV.4

bailouts, XVI.3

bai-nara (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

Bainbridge, IV.2.490

Baird, Andrew, IV.4.591

bairn's right mawngey (York dial.), XXXI.1

baiser, XIX.2.17, XXVIII.2, XXVIII.3

bait, V.2, XXIII.2

baiting (dogs), XXXI.3

bait pail, V.3

Baize, XVI.4

bajan, XX.2

bak bak, V.4

Bake, XI.4

bake

dig in the, XXX.3

shut yer, XXX.3

baked potato, V.3

Baker, Adrian, "The Use of Quotes," XXVI.1.23

Baker, Aidan

"Blurts," XXX.1.17

Baker and Brewer (pub), XXVI.3

Baker, Howard, XVI.1

Baker, Nicholson, XXIX.3

Baker, Robert, III.1.260

Baker, Ronald, L., IV.2.489

Baker, Russell, XXVII.3

Bakersfield (CA), XXIV.1

Baker, Sidney, XX.1, XXI.1

Baker, Thomas, XXIV.1

bake/sake (alcohol), XIII.2

Bake & Take, III.2.317

Bakewell, XXII.1

Bakhtin, XXIII.2

baking pan, V.3

baking powder, V.3

Bakker, P., XXVI.2

bakkumira, XIX.3.17

*baklava helmet, IX.2.1

bakofy, V.4.746

baktun, IX.3.3

bakuri, IX.3.3

BAL, XV.1, XVI.1

bal, X.1

Balaam's ass, XXX.1

Balaclava, I.2

balaclava (cap), IX.2.1

Baladeur, XX.3.11

baladeur/walkman, XVI.4

Balado-Lopez, Daniel, XX.1

balagan, XXII.1, XXIII.1

balaganWilenitz, Ireal, XXIII.3

un balai neuf nettoie toujours bien (Fr.), XIX.2

balalaika, XXIV.3

balance-a-plate-on-your-lap, II.2.122

"A Balance of Trade" (Dougherty), XXI.2

balance pole, V.3

balancing point, 724, V.3

balanos (Gk.), XXXI.3

balansa power, V.3

balas, X.4

balata, IX.3.3

balboa (Panamanian currency), XV.4

Balboa, Rocky, XXVII.2

Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de, XV.4.7–9

bald, XI.4

balderdash, XVI.3, XXIV.4, XXIX.3, XXIX.3, XXVI.2

Balder the Good, XXX.4

baldpate, V.3

Bald Pates (ancient coins), XIX.4

balductum, XXIV.4.21, XXIX.3

Baldwin, Barry

"Brief Lives, Brief Loves," XXX.1.27

"Lincs Lingo," XXXI.2.14–15

"Some Golden Oldies," XXXI.3.22

Baldwin, Barry, As the Word Turns columns

"Catching Some Zees," XXVI.3.17

"God-Damns," XXVIII.2.22–25

"Jane's World," XXVII.4.9, XXVIII.4

"Kettell Kall," XXVII.3.14

"Latin Lovers," XXVIII.3.18–19

"Some Ado About Nothing," XXVI.4.24

"Some Goode Olde Englishe Dirte," XXVII.2.21–22

"Where Do They Come From?", XXVI.1

on X words, XXVI.2

Baldwin (British prime minister), XXIV.1

Baldwin-Carter School Board (Canada), XXVI.1

Baldwin of Bewdley, Earl, V.1

Baldwin's Store, IV.2.487

bale, V.2

baleboosteh, 151, 152, I.4, II.2.150

baleboss, I.4

balebosta, I.4.64

Baleno (car), XXXI.4

Balfour, XXIV.1

Balhorn, Johann, II.4.246

bal (Hung.), XIV.2

balking, XXII.1

Ball (surname), VIII.3

Ball, Lucille, XXVII.2

Ball, Norman, "Senior Glassware Maintenance Engineer," XXXI.3.17

ball, II.2.135, II.4.227, XIII.2, XXVII.2

baseball call, XXXI.2

and chain, IV.1.440

ballabusta, I.4.64

Ballantine Blast, XXIV.2

ballard, XIX.4

balle, X.1

balled/bawled, XXIII.3

ballenbreker, II.2.151

Ballet, VI.4

ballet program, V.3

Ballhill, XIX.2

ballism, VI.4

ballistics, XX.4

ballistrophobia, X.1

ballocks, XXVII.2

"ball of string," I.4.73

ballon au champ extérieur, III.1.282

balloon, I.3, XXVII.2

ballpark, V.3

ballpen, V.3

ballpoint, V.3

ball-point figure, V.3

ballpoint pen, V.3

balls, I.2, XII.3, XV.3, XVI.3, XXIX.3, XXIX.3

XXVII.2

ball's in your court, XXVII.3

balluster, XXVII.1

Bally, II.2.135

bally, XXVI.2

ballyhoo, II.3.178, II.4.240

Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds (Quinion), XXX.1

reviewed, XXIX.3

Ballyhooly, II.4.240

Balmer, Edwin, IV.3.553

Balmoral, III.3.374

Balmung, XXX.3

balmy, XXX.3

baloney, VI.3, XXIX.3, XXIX.3

balsam, V.3, VI.4

Baltimore, XIX.3

Baltimore Aureoles, V.2

balvo, J., VI.2

bam (onomatapoeia), XX.2, XXI.2

bam (Thai), XXI.1

bamboo pole, V.3

bamboozle(d), XXVIII.2

public, V.3

Bamroongrugsa, XI.4

Banach species, II.2.131

banal pap, V.3

banana(s), V.2, XXX.2

fritters, XXVI.2

go, XXX.3

peel, V.3

pie, V.3

problem, XXIV.2

pudding, V.3

republic, V.4

banana-jockey, XIX.3

Banana Junio 6000 series (computer), XXXI.1

bān/baun/bëne/bene/bĕne/binhî, XX.1

banca, card game, XXIX.3

bancha (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

band, IV.2.476, XXXI.2

Band-Aid(s), IV.2.503, X.1, XII.1, XXVI.3

pad, V.3

bandaite (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

bandanna/bandhanaa, XXVIII.2

band/banned, XXIII.3

bandied/bantered, XXIII.3

bandje, VI.3

bandle, XI.2

Bandman, David, XXX.1

band performance, V.3

band practice, V.3

bandy-legged, I.2

bang, II.2.109, VIII.2, XI.3, XXI.1, XXIII.1, XXIII.2

bang, XXI.2

for the buck, XXVII.3

to rights (prison slang), XIX.3

bangbelly, XXIV.4

bangers, I.2

Bangkok, XXVI.1

prostitutes in, XXII.1

"Bangkok Unabridged" (Blackford), XXVI.1

bangle/banglii, XXVIII.2

Bangor, XIII.1

bangtail, V.1

Bangzi/, XX.1

banira (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

banished poet, V.3

banished president, V.3

banjo, III.2.306

player, V.3

practice, V.3

bank, XXIX.3

bank bottle, XXX.2

banker, XIX.2

in prison slang, XIX.2

Bankhead, Tallulah, XXXI.2

banking, XXIV.4

Banking-gate, XI.3

bank payroll, V.3

bank president, V.3

Banksia, VI.4, XXIV.1

Banks, Sir Joseph, XXIV.1

bank-walker, III.2.309

banlieux, XXII.1.7

bannach, III.2.133

banned, XXVII.3

subjects, XVI.1

Banner by the Wayside, IX.4.5

Banner of Light (Spritualist newspaper), XXVI.2

bannut, XXVII.4.15

banque de données/data bank, XVI.4

Banquo, XXX.1

banshee, X.2, XXXI.4

bantam, IX.1.7, XIII.4

bantered about in the long distance marketplace, XXII.1

ban-the-bomb, II.2.122

banting, XXVII.2

bantling, XVIII.3, XXVI.1

Bantu, II.3.180, XXIV.2, XXIV.2

Bantustan, XXIV.2

banty, XXIV.3

bānyān (Hindi), XIV.2

Baoshen Gong (Xia Yian), XIX.3

bāp'/bāab-i-/băp, XX.1

baptise(d), I.2, X.1

Baptist preacher, V.3

Baptist time, X.4

baptizein, XXVI.2.11

bar, I.4, II.2.135, V.2, VI.3, XXI.2

as £1, XIX.4

bass, XXXI.2

code, XV.1

furniture, Japanese, ad copy for, XXIII.1

vs. war, XIII.2

barabbarous, XXIV.3

bara (Bret.), X.2

baragouin (Fr.), X.2, X.2

"Baragouins and Penguins: The Celtic Connection" (Stephenson), X.2

bara gwenn (Bret.), X.2

Baragwenn (surname), X.2

barahi (Ar.), XXXI.1

Baraka, Imamu, II.1.90

bar-and-grill, XXXI.1

barata, III.3.362

bara (Welsh), X.2

"Barbara Ann" (pop song), XXX.1

barbarian, IX.1.2

barbarian(s), IX.1.1, V.2, XX.1, XX.4, XXIX.3

"Barbarians: Babbling, Bearded, Bizarre" (Tius), XX.4

barbarismo, XXI.4

Barbarossa, XXX.4

barbarus, XXIX.3.21n.7

Barbary pirates, V.3

barb (Catalan), XXX.2

barbecue, IX.3.1, X.3

pit, V.3

barbecued port, V.3

barbed point, V.3

barbed shaft, VI.3

bar beer (Thai), XXI.1

barber chair, barber-chair, barberchairing, II.2.153, II.4.244

The Barber of Seville (Rossini), XXX.4

barber pole, V.3

Barber, Red, XXIII.2, XXIV.2, XXX.1

barber's chair, VIII.3

"Barber-shop Paradox," V.1.649

barbershop pole, IV.1.441

Barbey d'Aurevilly, XXIII.4

Barbie, XXVII.2

"Barbie Girl" (song), XXVI.3

Barbie-shaped, XXIX.4

barble, XIX.2

Barbour, Thomas, XXI.3

Barbue, IV.2.487

Barcelona Pavilion, V.3

Barchester Towers, V.2

bard, 199, II.2.133

*bardos, II.2.133

Bardot, Bridgette, XXVII.2

Bardo Thodol, XXVIII.1.17

Bards, Celtic, satirical powers of, XXX.1

Bardsley, C.W., II.3.196

the Bard's Play, XXVIII.4

Bar dye, VI.2

bare, X.3

patch, V.3

poles, V.3

Bare-ass Perinn, V.3

bare-chested beefcakes, XXVII.2

barefoot, X.3

bare-legged, XXIX.4

barely perceptible, V.3

barely possible, V.3

bare(-)naked, XIX.3, XXXI.3

Baretti, Giuseppe, XXVIII.2

Barfield, Mike, XX.3

Barfield, Owen, XIII.2

barfish, XXXI.2

Barford, George, V.2

bargain, II.1.106

bargaining point, V.3

bargaining power, V.3

Bargain Pence (earnest money), XIX.4

bargain prices, V.3

bar-girl, VIII.3

Baring, Evelyn, XXII.1

Baring-Gould, Sabine, XXIV.1

barium enema, XXVI.4

barium enemy, XXVI.3

barjot (Verlan), XXIX.3

bark, XI.3, XI.3

chopper, XIX.3

hut (Aust.), XXIII.3

mill, XIX.3

mitzvah, XXXI.4

stripper, XIX.3

up the wrong tree, IX.2.15

Barker and Lucas, VI.4

Barker, Howard F., II.1.89

Barker, Larry, I.3

Barker, Ronnie, XVI.1

Bark family (dog breeders), XXII.1

Barking, XXX.3

barking puppy, V.3

Barkley, Charles, XXXI.1

bar'l, IV.3.531

Bar-le-Duc/fish, XIII.1

barley-bird, XXX.2

bar line, XXXI.2

bar-mitzvahed, XXVIII.4

barmy, XXX.3

barmy (in the crumpet), IX.1.2

barn, IV.3.534, XV.2

dure, face like a, XXX.3

Barnaby bright, XX.3

barnacled post, V.3

barn-again, XII.3

Barney, 5, IX.4.4

Barney Barnsmell, XXVI.1

Barnhardt Dictionary of New English Since 1963, II.3.182

Barnhart, Robert K., reviews American Heritage Dictionary, fourth

edition, XXVI.2

Barnsley chop, XXII.1

Barnum and Bagel, XIII.4

Barnum, P(hineas) T(aylor), V.3, XIX.3

barnyard pet, V.3

Baro, XIX.2

Baro cheat, XIX.2

Baroja, Pio, III.1.286

barometer, IV.3.537

barometric pressure, V.3

Baron, Dennis

"Is It [mIs] or [mIz]?", XI.2

"Public Cutespeak," XIII.4.18–19

"Word Law," XVI.1.1–4

baronet, XXVI.2

Barons, IV.2.479

Barow, Isaac, XX.3

Barr, II.2.134

Barraban, XII.1

barrack, VI.4, XVIII.3

Barracuda (car), XXXI.4

barrage, X.1, XX.4

barramundi, BI.4.986

barratry, VI.3, XXVII.4

*barra (Vulg. Lat.), XXXI.1

Barr, Candy, II.1.91

barre/Barre, X.1

barrel, XXVII.2

barren from vegetation, VI.2

Barrett, Grant, The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English,

reviewed, XXXI.4

barricade, XXXI.1

barrier, XXXI.1

Barrie, Sir James, II.3.157

barrister, XX.3

Barro, XIX.2

Barro cheat, XIX.2

barrog, II.2.133

Barron, Nancy, IV.3.530

Barrow, John D., XXVI.4

barry-bendy, III.4.413

Barry, Herbert, XXIII.4

Barry, John A., XX.3

Barrymore, John, XXII.1

Barr, Yvonne, XXVI.3

bartendee (Thai), XXI.1

The Bartered Bride (Smetana), XXXI.2

Barthes, Roland, XXVI.1

Barth, John, XXVI.2, XXXI.1

Bartholomew, David, XXVI.4

Bartholomew Fayre, I.3

Bartholomew, Saint, XXX.3

Bartle and Trubshaw, XXVII.3

Bartlett pear, V.3

Bartlett's Ain't Got It, VI.3.908

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, VI.3.908, XXVII.4, XXVII.4

*Barton-le-Beans (as first name), XXII.1

barüün (Mong.), IX.1.10

Basalyga, Annette, "L," XXIX.3.24

base, II.2.148, III.2.298

baseball, IV.1.442, IX.1.7, XIX.1, XXVIII.4, XXVIII.4, XXX.1

terminology, III.1.281, XXIV.2, XXIV.3

terminology of, XXXI.2, XXXI.2

"Baseball, Chicago-Style" (Caws-Elwitt), XXXI.2

Baseball Dictionary (Dickson), XXIV.3

baseball player, V.3

"Baseball's Bright Lexicon," II.4.210

Baseball: The President's Game (Dickson), XXIV.2

based on, V.1

baseless, XIV.4

basepall practice, V.3

base plate, V.3

les bas fonds (Fr.), XXII.1

bash, XI.3

Basham, XXIV.1

bashful, V.2

ba shi, XXIII.2

basho (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

basiate, I.1

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution, VI.1.795,

VI.3

Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS), XXVIII.4

basic principles, V.3

Basil Bibby, III.1.291

Basilides, XXX.2

basium, XXVIII.3

basket(ball), X.3, XXVII.3

player, V.3

practice, V.3

basket case, III.4.400

basket catch, IV.4.564

basket(s), X.3, XX.3, XXI.2

basophilia carpitis, V.4.753

basophobia, X.1

Basque, II.4.245

linked to Asian languages by Marr, XXXI.3

linked to Etruscan by Marr, XXXI.3

basquear, XIX.1.20

Basqued, II.2.114

bass, II.2.148, IX.3.10, XXVIII.3

bass (fish), XXXI.1

nomenclature of, XXXI.2

bass (singer), XXXI.1

bass-ackwards, XXIV.2

bass/barse, XXIV.1

basse, X.2

Bassett, Ben, IV.2.512

Bassett, Thomas, XXVI.2, XXVI.4

bassoon player (+practice), V.3

basso profundo, V.3

bass player, V.3

bassus, XXVII.3

bastard, I.2, V.4, XIX.4, XVI.4, XXII.1, XXVII.1

XXVII.2

baste, XI.3

*bastia, II.2.133

bastilicine, IV.1.458

basting the formaldehyde turkey, XXX.1

bastoni, III.1.265

basu, XIX.3.17

bat, IV.1.443, VI.4, VIII.3, XI.3, XI.3

on a sticky wicket, IV.3.523

bata-bata (Jp.), XI.1

bat-al-jauza, V.3.717

batamte (Yd.), X.2

batata, X.1.1

Batchelor, Alice, XXIII.1, XXIII.1, XXIV.3, XXXI.1

batch plant, V.3

bate, V.2

Baten Kaitos, V.3

Bates, Norman, XXVII.2

Bateson, John, "A Short History of Punctuation," X.2.6–7

Bates, Peter (letter), XX.1

Bates, Robert L., II.2.136, III.1.285

Bates, W. Jackson, VI.2

Bat-gadget, XXIX.4

Bath (as first name), XXII.1

bath/bathe, XI.2, XX.2

Bath (city)

bun, XXII.1

Bathe 'n Glow, III.2.317

bather/father, XIII.2

bathers, VI.1

Bathesora, XIX.1

Bathilda Bagshot, XXVI.2

bathing beauty, XXVII.2

bathing dress, XIV.3

Bath Olivers cheese, XXII.1

bathophobia, V.4, X.1

bathos-scales, XXIV.3

bath powder, V.3

bathroom, XV.4, XXIII.3

Bathroom Bertha, XXX.3

*bathtubim, XXIX.4

Bathurst burr, VI.1

batik, IX.1.7, XX.2

Batman, XXX.4

a Bat Masterson, XXI.3

bâtons, XXII.1

bat-poopy, XXX.2

"Bats as Symbols" (Holan), XXIV.3

"Bats" (Galef), XXX.3

bats in the belfry, IX.1.2, VIII.2, XXX.3

Battaglia, Salvatore, XIX.2

Battambang, Cambodia, XXVI.4

Battenberg, II.1.90

Battenburg cake, XXII.1

*The Battered Broad (Smetana), XXXI.2

*battery (baseball), XXXI.2

battery plate, V.3

batting a thousand, XXIV.2

batting average, XIV.4

battle, XI.4

battle-friend, X.3

"Battle Hymn of the Republic" (Howe), XIX.3

battle, marketing as, XXX.2

Battle of the Bulge, I.2, XXIX.3

battle plain, V.3

battle-play, X.3

battler, XXI.1

battleship, XVI.2

battre son coulpe, XXVII.4.21n.26

batty, IX.1.2, IX.2.14, XXX.3

bató/batu/*fatu, XX.1.4

Baucis and Philemon, XXX.4

baud, XII.1

Baudelaure, Charles

mistranslations of, XXXI.2

Baudouoin de Courtenay, Jan, XXXI.3

Bauerle, R.F., XIX.1, XVIII.2

Bauerle, Richard F.

"The Expanding Lexicon of One-Letter Words," XV.1.4

"The Strange and Quarky Language of Physics," XII.3.20

Baugh, James, XXXI.4

Baule, royal death euphemism, XXIII.3

Baumhopfe (Gn.), XII.4

Baum, L. Frank, XIX.3

Baur, Rob, XXX.2

Bavarian, II.4.245

Bavarian Money Waster, XXXI.4

baveuse, II.3.168

baveux/I, II.3.168

Bawa, Mohan, V.4

bawbels, XXVII.2

bawd/bored/board, XXI.4

bawd-strot, VIII.3

bawdy, XX.1, XXVII.2

basket, XXIII.2

house, V.4

A Bawdy Language, a (Richler), XXIV.2

reviewed, XXIV.3

bawggin, XXX.3

bawn, XXII.1

Baxter, Richard, XX.3

Baya Pigs, V.3

Bayard, Nicholas, XVIII.3

Bay City Rollers, IV.2.477

Bayern, VI.4

Bayliss, Chris, XXIII.2, XXIII.3

Bayliss, Paul

"Famous Last Words," XXVIII.3.21–22

Bayogoula (tribe name), XIX.2

bayou, III.2.337, XI.3, XI.3

bayou bass, XXXI.2

Bayou Bonne Idee, IV.2.487

Baytona, XIII.1

bayuk, IV.2.487

Baywatch, XXIV.2.8

baz bazia, mas masia, kas kasia, scharlai, XIX.1.1

bazgha (Ar.), XXXI.1

bazoom(s), III.4.395, VI.1, XXVII.2

bazootie, XXXI.4

b-ball, IX.4.2

BBC, I.2

BBC English, I.2, XVI.2

BBI Combinatory Dictionary (Benson, Benson, Ilson), XIX.3

B-52 bombers, XXIX.3

BBQ, XXXI.4

BBs (baseball), XXIV.2

BBW (Big Beautiful Woman), XXVII.2

B&D, XXIV.3

bdellium, XXXI.4

bdoom, XXI.2

be

on a good wicket, IV.3.523

out for a duck, IV.3.522

patient, V.3

poisoned, X.1

prepared, V.3

pronounced dead, XI.3

on a sticky wicket, IV.3.523

B&E, XIV.4

beable/, XX.2

Beach Boys, IV.2.478

beach boys, XXVII.2

beach bums, XXVII.2

beach bunny, XXVII.2

Beachcomber, XXVII.3

beach grass, III.1.264

Beach-la-mar, IV.2.500

Beach, Mark, VI.3

beach party, V.3

beach patrol, V.3

beach pea, V.3

beach plum, V.3

beaconage, XXII.1

Beacontrictor (Dutch), XXVIII.4

be adamant, VI.1

bead/head, XIII.2

Beadle's About, XX.4

beak, XXI.1

beak/steak, XIII.2

beal, XII.3

Beal, Earl T., XXVI.1

bealing, XVI.3

Beam, Matthew, "Sympathy and Empathy," XXVII.2.12–13

beam weaponry, XV.4

bean ball, IV.1.443

Beanblossom, IV.2.490

Beaneaters (baseball team), XIX.1

Bean, Mary-Louise, XXVI.1, XXVI.2

bean, not worth a, IX.1.1

beanpole, V.3

bean pot, V.3

beans, XXIX.3

black-eyed peas as, XXIII.2

full of, XXIX.3

bean sidhe, II.2.133

bean-sídhe (Ir.), XXXI.4

bean't (Lincs dial.), XXXI.2

bean up, III.1.280

Bear, XIII.4

bear, VI.4, X.3, XIX.3

the Bear, XIII.4

be (Arabic letter), XXVII.1

bear cage, XXIII.2

bear claw, XX.4

beard, XX.4, XXVIII.3

beard (dogs), XXXI.3

bearded clam, XXIV.1

bearded oyster, XXIV.1

bearded patriarch, V.3

bearded pig, V.2

beard(ing), XXIV.4, XXIV.4

"Bear Hugs and Bo Dereks on Wall Street" (Odean), XX.3

bear in the air, XXIII.2

béarnaise, III.4.421

bear pit, V.3

bears, IV.3.534, XX.3, XX.3

Bear, Ted, 384, II.3.166, III.3.367

Bear Wallow, XI.2

bear with me, XXVI.2

bearwood, XXIV.1

be as close as batty and po, XIX.3

Beast, II.1.90

beast, IX.1.1, X.2

but a just beast, XXI.1

with two backs, XXVII.2

beasting, XXXI.4

be-ast (Lincs dial.), XXXI.2

beastly/nasty, X.1

beat, XI.4

Beat Brummells, IV.2.479

beaten path, V.3

Beaters, XXVI.2

beat goaltender between the legs, XIX.3

beatin'es'b'ilin, IV.3.531

the Beatles, IV.2.477, IV.4.579, V.1, XXIII.1, XXVI.4

XXVI.4, XXVI.4

"Michelle," XXIV.2.31

beat out/tire, X.1

beat poet, V.3

beat swords into plowshares, XXX.3

beat up, I.2

Beau Brummel, III.3.374, XXVII.1

Beauchamp, XXVI.3

Beaucoup, IV.2.487

Beaudouin, John T., III.3.363

Beaujolais, XVI.4

Beaumarchais, Jean Augustin Caron de, XXX.4

Beaumont, Francis, V.3, XX.3

Beaunichons, XVI.4

Beau-Tick, XIX.3.35

beautification project, V.3

beautiful, II.2.121, VI.1

Beautiful Mechanical Wonder, XXXI.4

beautiful people, V.3

beautility, II.2.110

beau-turned-adversary, XXIX.4

beauty, II.2.110

Beauty and the Beast, XXVII.2

beauty(case), X.3

Beauty Free, XXVII.3

Beauty is in the eye of the editor, XXVI.2

Beauty is only skin deep, XIX.4

Beauty is skin deep!--Official, XXVI.2

beauty pageant, V.3

beauty parlor, V.3

beauty (quark name), XII.3

Beauxbatons, XXVI.2

Beaven, Arthur, XXVI.2, XXVII.1

beaver, VI.4, XXIV.1

eater, VI.3

pelt, V.3

Beaver, Harold L., XXX.4

bébé, IX.1.4

BE (Bilingual Education), XXVIII.4

bébi szitter, XXI.4.7

be (Burm.), IX.1.10

be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, III.4.409

because

in NYC English, XXX.1

because of V.2.671

Bech: A Book, XI.2.18

Bechuanaland, XVIII.4

beck and call, I.2, IV.4.571

Beck, Cave, V.2

Becker, H., XIX.3

Beckett, Samuel, I.2

Beck, James H., V.4

Beckoning Lady (Allingham), XXVI.3

Becky Sharp, V.2

bec-scie, XXIII.4.10

Les Becs Fins, XX.3

bed, 769, V.2, V.4

bedad, XXVI.2

bed and board, I.2

bed-and-breakfast, II.2.121

bedbug, crazy as a, XXX.3

beddo (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

Bede, the Venerable, XXVI.2

Bedford, Emmett G., II.1.97

bedlam, XXVI.1

bed on the floor, XXI.1

bedpan, V.3

bed partner, V.3

bed patient, V.3

bedpost, V.3

bed's head, XVIII.3

bedstead/bedframe, XXVIII.1

bedswerver, XXXI.3

bed town, XXIV.3

Bee, VI.1

bee-bird, XXX.2

Beecher, Henry Ward, XXIII.4

Beech Street, XIX.4

beedo system, XXX.1

BEEEEEP, XIV.4

Beef

Dipped in Au Jus, III.3.350

beef, IX.3.23

Bourguignon, XV.1, XVI.1

hot, VIII.3

shackle remover, III.2.332

stuart, X.3

up, XXIX.4

beefalo, XV.2

beef-flavored, XXIX.4

Bee Humble and the Stingers, IV.4.590

bee in one's bonnet, VIII.2

bee (letter), XXIX.3

Beelzebub, XXVIII.4

Beelzebub's Beastly Barbs (Dick Diabolus), XX.3

Beeman's Pepsin, V.3

been around the block, XXVII.3

been-there-done-that, XXVII.3

bee pollen, V.3

beer, XIX.3

parlor, V.3

party, V.3

pitcher, V.3

beer beer beeee, XXVIII.1

Beer Dude, XXX.4

beero, XXIII.1

bees, XIII.4

The Bees (band), XXVI.4

-bees- infix, XXXI.2

beestings, XXVIII.3

beeswax (business), XIX.3

Beet, XI.4

*beeth, XV.4, XXIX.4

Beethoven prelude, V.3

beetle, 362, III.3.361

beetle heade, X.1

Beetlejuice (film), XXVIII.4

Beetle (Volkswagen), XXXI.4

bee-uh-hee-uh! (NYC English), XXX.1

BeeWee speech, XIX.4

beffon(-e), I.4

befool, XXVIII.2

before, III.3.366

before and after, IV.4.571

begarm, XXIII.2

beggar, I.2

beggarman, XIX.3

beggar's benison, XXVII.2

Beggars' Night, XXX.4

beggar's purse, V.3

beggin' em up, XII.3

Beginning in a Word, VI.4

begob, XXVI.2

begonia, IX.2.2, VI.2

Begón, Michel, IX.2.2

begorra(h), XXVI.2

begotten, XXI.4

beg pardon, V.3

be hanged, XI.4

behavioral objectives, III.3.363

behavior pattern, V.3

behaviour, III.2.318

behaviourism, VI.3

beheer, VI.3

behemoth, II.3.188, XXVII.2

behind, XXVII.2

behindhandsome, XXIV.3

behind the eight-ball, XII.3, XIV.3

behind the scenes, XIII.3

Behling, Jim, XXIV.4

behoove, XXVI.1

Behr, Nehemiah H., "Naming-Day in Eden," XIII.3.6–7

Beider, Alexander, XX.4

beige, XIV.1, XXVIII.4, XXVIII.4

being, XXVI.4

Being and Nothingness (Satre), XXVI.4

being gripped, XXI.3

being on the book (prison slang), XIX.3

beinott, XXIV.1

Beinsterze (Gn.), XII.4

beisbol, II.3.183, III.1.294

bejabbers, XXVI.2

bejesus, XXVI.2

bek, VI.3

bekex, XIX.3.30

bekex kidmi, XIX.3.30

bekken, VI.3

bekos, XXVI.1

belay, XXI.3

belaying pin, V.3

belbios (Dutch), XXVIII.4

belch, IV.3.552, XXXI.2

Belcher, III.2.315

Belcher, Mr., I.1

bel chiere, III.2.315

beleaguered parents, V.3

beleaguered planet, V.3

be left in the dark, X.1

*beleption, XV.4

Belgian language, XIV.4

Belgian sausage, VI.1

bélier/brebis, XXX.2.22

Belisha beacon, I.2

belittle, II.4.230

belkabouter (Dutch), XXVIII.4

bell, IV.2.476, XX.4

book, and candle, I.2, IV.4.573

pepper, V.3

player, V.3

pull, V.3

puller, III.2.332

rope, XXXI.3

Bell, Alexander Graham, V.1

Bell, Alexander Melville, V.1

Bell, Eleanor, III.1.291

Bell, James Scott, XXIX.4

belladonna, VI.2

bella et bona (Lat.), XXXI.3

Bellafonte, Harry, XXXI.1

bellbottom pants, V.3

bell-butted, XXII.1

Belle Gravey Hellfat, III.1.291

belle of the ball, XXVII.2

Bellerophon, XXIX.3

bellibone, XXXI.3

Bellibone Wines, XXXI.3

Belli, Gioacchino, XXVII.2

bellis perennis, XXIV.1.38

bello beaut, XIX.2

bellock, XXVII.4

Bellofatto, XIX.2

Bellovian, VIII.2

Bellow, Saul, V.3

The Bell (pub), XXVI.3

-bells- infix, XXXI.2

belly-cheat, XXIII.2

bellyologist, XIX.3, XX.2

bellytimber, XXXI.3

belly, vs. abdomen, X.2

Bel-Marduk, XXX.2

Belmonts, IV.2.477

beloe ugol, VI.1.796

beloe zoloto, VI.1.796

belomancy, VI.2

belonging to the New Light, XXVIII.2

below par, V.3

below the equator, XXVIII.2

Below the Surface, X.2

belp-horn, XXIII.1

Beltane, XXX.4

belt parkway, V.3

Belyea, Claire W., III.4.421

belye nochi, VI.2.796

bēm/bēam/boum, XX.1.4

BEM (bug-eyed monster), XV.4

bemused, II.3.196, IV.2.503

ben, II.4.241

ben/bat, XX.4

bench, V.2

of bishops, a, XXIII.1

benched show (dogs), XXXI.3

Benchley, Peter, XXVI.4

benchmark, XXVIII.4

assessment, XXVIII.4

Bencze, Elizabeth, "English Arrivals in Hungary," XXI.4.7

bend

the bow of Ulysses, VI.2

one's bow but shoot not, VI.3

over backwards, IV.2.510, IV.2.590, IV.4.576, V.1, V.2

bend, around the, XXX.3

benday, IX.2.1

bendetmek (Turk.), VIII.2

Bendigo, XXXI.1, XXXI.1

Bend Sinister (Nabokov), XI.3

bendy, III.4.413

beneath, VI.1

benedetto (It.), IX.1.2

Benedicite, XXIV.1

Benedict, III.3.374

Beneditti, II.1.90

benefit

claim, successful, XXIX.4

fraud, XXIX.4

benevolent patriarch, V.3

Bengali, VI.1, VI.2

bengi (Turk.), VIII.2

ben (Heb.), XXX.2

Ben-Hur, XXVII.4

benk (Turk.), VIII.2

Ben Lomond, II.4.241

benna, II.2.133

Bennaton, Ann E., "Please Don't F*** the Grass," X.4.13–14

Bennett (surname), XXIV.1

Bennett, Arthur, XXX.2

Bennett, Emory, XXI.3

Bennett, Martin, "The Lamps of Speech," XXI.1.1–3

Bennett, Martin W.

"Palaver Sauce: A Thematic Selection of West African Proverbs,"

XXVII.1

Bennett, Wright, VI.4

Bennie, VIII.2

Benny Hill (TV series), XXIX.3

Benny, Jack, XIX.2

Ben Phranklin, V.3

ben side, II.2.133

Benson, E., XIX.3

Benson, M., XIX.3

bent, III.1.264, XIV.4

Bent, A.C., III.3.372

bên tay phái (Viet.), XIV.2

bentet, XXVII.2.11

Bentham, Jeremy, VI.2, XXVII.4

benthos, XV.1

Bentley, Eric, V.2

Bentley, Tom, "Checking Your References," XXVII.3.15–18

"bent metaphors," IV.4.600

bentonite, X.4

bent out of, XII.4

bent pin, V.3

bên trái (Viet.), XIV.2

Bentzman, Bruce Harris, XXIX.3, XXVII.2

benzedrine pill, V.3

béow (OEng.), XI.3

beran, XXVI.3.1

Berber, XXIX.3

bereft of life, XXX.1

beremenna, XXVII.2

be/re (note), XIII.2

Berenstain, Stan, XXX.4

Beresky, Andrew E., IV.4.569

Berg, Alban, XXVI.4

berg/burg (slang), XXVII.1

Bergdorf's prices, V.3

Bergen, Edgar, XXVI.4, XXVI.4

Berger, Arthur Asa, *Signs in Contemporary Culture: An Itroduction to

Semiotics,* reviewed, XXIV.3

Berger, Henriette, III.1.279

Bergholtz, Henning, XXIII.1

Bergson, Henri, III.4.404

beri(-)beri, V.4, XX.1

Bering time, XV.1, XVI.1

Berkeleyan, XIII.3

Berkeley, George, XXIV.1

Berkowitz, Mildred D.

on nissim, IX.2.9

Berkshire, V.2

berkwards, XXIV.3

Berky, John F., XX.3

Berlin, III.3.374, X.4

berlin, III.2.323, X.4

berliner, VI.1

Berlin, Irving, XIX.3

Berlioz, Hector, XXIII.4, XXVII.3

Berlusco, XIX.2

Berlyne, Alex, XIX.4, XX.3, XX.4

ber (Marrist element), XXXI.3

Bermuda, III.1.263

"bernaise," III.4.421

Bernard, Maxine M., XXIII.4

Bernard O'Keefe, III.2.302

Bernard, Rob, XXVI.1

Bernard, Thomas L., II.4.242, XX.2, XXIII.4, XXVII.4

"African Appellations: To Z or not to Z," XXI.3.20

"Noncing the Indefinite Article, or, Do You Have a Nuncle?", XXVI.3

"Onomastica: Ultimate Consonant Duplication" (Bernard), XXIV.1

Bernauer, Agnes, II.1.76

Bernicia, II.2.134

bernie bayn (York dial.), XXXI.1

Bernie-poo, XXIX.4

Bernklau, David, XX.4

Bernstein, as surname, XXI.1

Bernstein, Marc A., "A Toast: To the Tautology," XIX.1.4

Bernstein, Peter L., XXIV.4

Bernstein's Reverse Dictionary, XX.3

Bernstein, Theodore, II.1.88, II.2.148, III.4.397, IV.1.438, V.2

XVI.4

Berra, Yogi, XIX.1

berry, XI.3

Berry, Chuck, XXVI.4

Berry, Michael, IV.4.584

Berry, William H., XVIII.4

berth, II.2.148

bertha, IX.2.1

Berthe au Grand Pied, IX.2.1

Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, XXVI.2

Bert Parks, V.3

Beryl the Peril, XXVII.2

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob, XXIII.1, XXIII.4

Besançon, VI.4

besar, XXVII.2

Bescherelle, Louis-Nicolas, XXX.2

be set back, VI.3

beside, V.2

the mark, VI.2

besides, V.2, V.2, VI.1

beso, XXVIII.3

"Bespeaking a Muse or What?" (Blackford), XXI.4

Besser ein S, XIX.2.6

best, I.2, II.1.90

at (the), II.2.147

bestia, X.4.18

bestiale (It.), IX.1.2

bestiality, XXVIII.1

"A Bestiary of Adjectives" (Elkins), XXIV.3

Best of Fats Waller, VI.3

bestseller, VI.3, X.3

bestseller/vendutissimo, XXVII.3.19

best things in life are free, XIX.4

betalipoproteinemia, IX.1.2

beta particle, V.3

Bet Bouncer, XXVII.2

betel, V.4

Betelgeuse, V.3

betel palm, V.3

bête noire, XXII.1

Beth, X.3

beth, II.4.239, V.3

Bethany (as first name), XXII.1

bethump, XX.3

betimes, XVI.3

be too much of the bowhand, VI.3

Betrügnisse der Gyler, Die, XXI.1.15

Betsey Dawson, XXIV.4

Betsy, X.3

Bettelarm (surname), XXIX.4

better, I.2

da ill kent as da guid untried (Shetland proverb), XIX.3

ee hert braks dan aa da wirld winders (Shetland proverb), XIX.3

feed five drones than starve one bee, XIX.3

for, or for worse, I.2

lang lowse daa ill teddered (Shetland proverb), XIX.3

late than never, XIX.2, XIX.2

than crack, XXXI.1

betting parlor, V.3

betto (Jp. loanword), IX.1.9

Betts, Jerome, XXII.1, XXIII.1, XXIII.2

"Dog Lime Days," XXVII.2.29

"Drowned in Translation," XXXI.2.31

"From Hand to Mouse," XXIX.4.28–29, XXIX.4

"Hell Is All Around," XXVI.2.19–20

"Ode to a Clodhopper," XXX.2.19–20

"To Curf and Thrash, and Vex and Dash," XXVII.4.15

"Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, Lend Me Your Good Ear," XXVIII.3.9, XXVIII.3

Betty, VIII.2, X.3

Betty Boop, XXVII.2

Betty Martin, all my eye and, XXIX.3, XXIX.3, XXVI.4

XXVIII.2

Bettywood, VI.2

between, IV.3.547, V.2, XXVIII.1

betwixt and, I.2, IV.4.571

the devil and the deep blue sea, XI.2, XX.3

he and I, XXVI.1

him and me, XXVI.1

the onion and its skin, XXI.1

you and I, I.3, IX.4.5

"Between, Among" (Espy), XXIV.3

*between baseman, XXXI.2

"Between the Parentheses: A Pron Chick Reports from the Front Lines"

(McKinzey), XXIV.4

betwixt and between, I.2, IV.4.571

Beutelschneider (surname), XXIX.4

beverage, XXIV.1

Beverley, V.2, XXII.1

BevHills, XXX.1

Bevilacqua, XIX.2, XIX.4

Bevivino, XIX.4

beware of your friend a hundred times, XXI.1

bewegen, IX.3.13

be wide at (on, of) the bowhand, VI.3

"Beyond Blue Chips, Bulls and Bears" (Ross), XX.3

"Beyond Compare" (Urdang), XVIII.4

bezant, III.4.412

bezar-stones, II.3.191

Bezile, XXIX.4

bezique, XXX.2

BF, XXI.3

B. F. D., XXIII.1

BFG, XXVII.3

BFI (Falmouth, ME), XXIV.3

b-girl, XXXI.4

B-girl(s), XXIX.4, XXVII.2

BGOOD, XIV.4

bgrassik, XXIII.1

bgrrf (Martian), XX.3

bhagwan, XXVIII.2.12

bhaji, XXXI.4

Bhantu, II.3.181

bharta, II.4.206, III.2.337

*bher-, VI.4

bhladra, XXIX.3.22n.10

*bhle-, XXIX.3.22n.10

Bhowani Junction, VI.2

BIAC, XXXI.1

Biancheria sexy, I.4

bib and tucker, II.4.220, IV.4.571

bibbity, bobbity, boo, XXX.2.28

"Bibbity, Bobbity, Boo" (song), XXVI.4, XXVI.4

bibble-babble, X.4

Bible, 2, 3, 20, I.2, VI.4, XVI.2

Vulgate, XXVIII.4

Bible Belt, XXIII.2

bible game (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

Bibleleaves, XXIX.4

Bible passage, V.3

bible play (Jp. teen slang), XXI.3

biblical, XXVIII.4

biblical prophet, V.3

biblioblogosphere, XXXI.3

bibliography, XXXI.3

bibliothèque, IX.1.4

bibooks, XXVIII.3

bibulography, II.2.111

bicentennial, XXVI.4

"A Bicentennial Pair, a: George and Patsy," III.1.268, III.2.317

Bicentennial parade, V.3

Bich, XI.4

Bickel, Anna S., "Spoonerism," XXI.4.21

bickies, III.4.427

Bickle, Travis, XXVII.2

bicornis, XVI.4.13

Bic Pen, V.3

bicronym, XXIII.4

BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills), XXVIII.4

bicycle, VI.4, XXVI.4

path, V.3

Bidai, XIX.2

Bideford, XIX.3

Biden, Joseph, XX.2

bidi-, II.3.188

bidog (Welsh), X.2

bid proposal, V.3

bidule, XXIX.4.7

bidule chouette, XXIX.4.7

Bien sé lo que digo cuando pan pido, XXIII.2.11

bien sûr, XXII.1.6

bientôt, XXIV.1.15

Bierce, Ambrose, 147, II.2.146, III.4.417, XIX.2, XVI.2, XXI.3

Bierma, Nathan

reviews Elephants of Style, XXIX.3.25–26

Biese, Paul, XXVI.1

bif, XXI.2

bifaulgulate, XXIII.1

biff, VI.1, XXIII.1

biffy, XIX.4

Big

Iron, XIX.3

big, 6, 17, 21, X.3, XVI.3, XX.3, XXI.2, XXVII.2

bubble, XVI.3

C, XXIV.3

cave, III.2.316

cheese, IX.3.23

eye, III.2.307

as a house, XI.2

I (prison slang), XIX.2

lug, I.1

package, V.3

pain, V.3

path, V.3

petunia, V.3

phony, V.3

pig, V.3

pile, V.3

pipe, V.3

platter, V.3

prick, V.3

prostitute, V.3

pump, V.3

words, XXVIII.2

big-and-the-small-of-it, II.2.122

Big Bag, XXVII.3

Big Bang, VI.1

granbotto, XXVII.3.19

Big Barnsmell, XXVI.1

Big Bend, IV.2.487

Big Blue Pencil, to be struck out by the, XXX.1

Big Bow Wow, I.2

Big Brother, II.3.191, XXVII.1

Big Brother and the Holding Company, IV.2.477

Big Brother (TV series), XXVI.2

big-dong theory, XXVI.1