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Not a great shot, but decent. The nebula is very faint and needs a longer exposure, and for some reason I’ve yet to figure out, none of my RGB frames were usable, which is why it’s a B&W shot. That would also have doubled the exposure time. Shot 24 October 2019; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure: 90 minutes, f/5.2; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 36mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera & Televue NP127is telescope as lens; post-processing: DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583210239640-D80GEU6DKA0MHORJ0Y7S/image-asset.jpeg Astro Gallery 01 - Crescent Nebula in Cygnus, 5,000 light years away. Not a great shot, but decent. The nebula is very faint and needs a longer exposure, and for some reason I’ve yet to figure out, none of my RGB frames were usable, which is why it’s a B&W shot. That would also have doubled the exposure time. Shot 24 October 2019; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure: 90 minutes, f/5.2; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 36mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera & Televue NP127is telescope as lens; post-processing: DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583349416986-KATATTILCTLKDY52ROFU/20100710_Ced214_high.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - NGC 7822 & Cederblad 214 NGC 7822 and Cederblad 214 are two nebulae in Cepheus, not far from Polaris, the North Star. NGC 7822 is the northernmost nebula. They’re about 6,000 light years from Earth. This one didn’t turn out quite as well as I’d hoped. On the plus side, the seeing was pretty good, and I nailed the polar alignment and focus dead on. But the framing is off—the objects are toward the bottom of the frame. Ced 214 is in the lower center; NGC 7822 is a long, thin nebula in the lower left. Also, I needed about twice as much exposure time as I gave them to get a good image—this is two hours total exposure; I needed twice that. Ced 214 is faint and NGC 7822 is almost invisible in this image. Maybe I’ll shoot some more images next weekend to see if I can up the exposure time. Shot 10-11 July 2010; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 122.5 min (49 x 2.5 minutes), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post-processing with ImagesPlus 3.0 and Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583349828254-JKJU78FZ9HH46302Q0KF/IMG_0032.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Mt. Tamalpais, Marin County, California Here’s a snapshot from Mt. Tam before it got dark. It shows why it is such a great site for astronomy. Not only is it easy to get to, but it’s above the fog that often covers San Francisco, making it much darker than any place this close to a major city has any right to be. (I’m not sure what causes the parallel lines you see in the sky. I think it’s the crappy jpeg compression inside my DigitalElph.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583349924133-AUD419T7QPY860A1XOTG/M57_20100619_crop_max.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M57 Ring Nebula Redux My second attempt at getting a good image of M57. M57, the Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. The ring is an expanding cloud of gas blown off a central red giant star, which cannot be seen in this image. It’s about 5,000 light years distant. Shot 19-20 June 2010; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 90 min (60 x 1.5 minutes), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, 2x Barlow. Post-processing with ImagesPlus 3.0 and Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350000895-NXQNMKFVWFFCQ38NQ26N/20100522_Moon_final_med.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Moon (again) It was a public astronomy night on Mt. Tam, so I didn’t get to photography until quite late. And by then clouds and very unseasonably cold weather were making the proposition iffy, so I packed it in without any long exposures. Of course, as soon as I started tearing down my equipment, the sky cleared… I also got some shots of Venus, but Venus is really boring—no details visible even on the best of professional scopes. I tried for Saturn, but my exposure settings must have been way too low, because I got zilch there. Not even a blob, just black. But here is our old friend. I took it through my 2x Barlow, so it’s higher resolution than my previous shots of the moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350104799-PSM9OBCUZ0GXMO1E5G83/20100515_Moon%26Venus2.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Moon & Venus A night of mixed results. The seeing was okay and there were scattered clouds. My target was the M101 Pinwheel Galaxy and to do it justice, I needed to get a higher magnification. The galaxy is faint to begin with and with the higher magnification of the 4x Barlow making it even fainter and significantly reducing the field of view, I just couldn’t place it in the viewfinder. I finally got it with my regular wide field of view, but it’s not a very good image. But earlier, just after sunset, I did get a nice shot of the three-day-old moon and Venus with my digital Elph. Not bad for just pulling the camera out of the bag and snapping away https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350225684-ASQH8280GPIQ3JBRVF6S/20100313_IC434_HorseheadNeb_clip_hi.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Horsehead Nebula Barnard 33 in IC 434, otherwise known as the Horsehead Nebula, is a dark nebula—basically a cloud of dust that blocks the light behind it—in Orion. The bright star in the image is Alnitak, the left-hand star in Orion’s belt. It’s about 1,500 light years from Earth. Shot 13 March 2010; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp: 25 x 2.5 minutes (62.5 minutes total), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post-processing with ImagesPlus 3.0 and Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350304560-PCFRLF0NO7YT3K7Q4K5L/M42_OrionNeb_100213.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M42 Orion Nebula Redux The Orion Nebula, the middle “star” in Orion’s sword, is a region of active star formation. It’s one of the brightest and probably the easiest Messier object to find. Observing this night was a bit sketchy—a fair amount of clouds. So the exposure isn’t all that long. I used a new (to me) technique in Photoshop for this one. Since the center of the nebula, the “Trapezium” cluster, is very bright compared with the diffuse outer clouds, I created a layer mask with the shorter, 15-second exposures to show the brightest portions of the nebula. This allows some detail in the center to be seen instead of just an white, overexposed core. Shot 13 February 2010; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp: 17 x 1.5 minutes + 5 x 15 seconds, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post-processing with ImagesPlus 3.0 and Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350381603-1P0T8X8VBM3DIXVP6HRP/M45_Pleiades_20091024.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M45, The Pleiades The Pleiades, a.k.a., the Seven Sisters, is an open star cluster in Taurus. The stars are all young, less than 100 million years, and were once closer together. It’s no longer an active star-forming region. The nebulosity is not a remnant of its star-forming days, but is merely a dust cloud the cluster is passing through. These are hot and fast-burning stars, expected to last only another 250 million years or so. They’re about 450 light years away. Shot 24 October 2009; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 60 min (24 x 2.5 minutes), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post-processing with ImagesPlus 3.0 and Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350487149-B2O1ZK54DAI0ICIU0TPV/M57_RingNeb_20090926a.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M57, The Ring Nebula M57, the Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. The ring is an expanding cloud of gas blown off a central red giant star, which cannot be seen in this image. It’s about 5,000 light years distant. This isn’t a great image. I didn’t have my scope aligned well and there was considerable star trailing. Seeing wasn’t great that night and there was considerable light from a first quarter moon. I’ll have to shoot M57 again with better alignment and conditions. Shot 26 August 2009; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 60 min, 30 sec (13 x 2.5 minutes, 14 x 2.0 minutes), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post-processing with ImagesPlus 3.0 and Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350572432-YVM3OFKVF7TJBRYQ6J7G/Jupiter_20090919.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Jupiter The big boy of the solar system. Not the greatest image; the focus is a bit off. But it’s the best planetary image I’ve done so far. Shot 19 August 2009; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 1/200 sec, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post-processing with ImagesPlus 3.0 and Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350629299-11DDL9CP3DQK78VENFZK/M17_OmegaNeb_20090719_crophi.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M17 Omega Nebula Emission nebula and star cluster in Sagittarius: M17 (NGC 6618). Distance is approximately 6,000 light-years. Also known as the Swan Nebula, the Horseshoe Nebula, and the Lobster Nebula. Shot 18-19 July 2009; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 1 hr, 32.5 min (37x2.5m), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Calibration, alignment, & stacking with Images Plus 3.0; other post-processing with Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350702648-14EVMZVJOTBE2N4XPUJA/Jupiter_Neptune_20090627a.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Jupiter & Neptune This isn’t the greatest of images, but it does show a conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune. Neptune is the dot near the top of the frame. The moon below Jupiter is Europa, the one close in above Jupiter is Io, and the one above and somewhat more distant is Calisto. Jupiter is way overexposed in order to show its moons and Neptune, so there is no surface detail. This wasn’t a planned shot; at the end of the night I just snapped away in hopes I might get something. Shot 27 June 2009; Fremont Peak State Park, California; ISO 800, 7 images of various exposures—each less than a second, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Calibration, alignment, & stacking with Images Plus 3.0; other post-processing with Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350784411-5XCUSCUANDEQA8HGHA29/M16_EagleNeb_20090627a_crop.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M16, Eagle Nebula Emission nebula in Serpens Cauda: M16 (NGC 6611). Distance is approximately 7,000 light-years. Shot 26-27 June 2009; Fremont Peak State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 2 hrs, 25 min (58x2.5m), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Calibration, alignment, & stacking with Images Plus 3.0; other post-processing with Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350850268-XESELJL5G5AGW79BBAHG/LeoTriplet_vhi_20090620.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Leo Triplet Three galaxies in the constellation Leo: M66 (NGC 3627, left top), M65 (NGC 3623, left bottom), and NGC 3628 (right). Distance is approximately 35 million light-years (approx. 22 million lyr for M65). Shot 20 June 2009; Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 18x2.5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Calibration, alignment, & stacking with Images Plus 3.0; other post-processing with Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583350985216-7PF78APBI5TP0PLSJY4Y/M81%26M82_20090530_cropped.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M81 & M82 Galaxies The M81 galaxy (NGC 3031, Bode’s Galaxy) and its companion M82 (NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy) in Ursa Major. Distance is 12 million light-years. Shot 30 May 2009; Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 22x2.5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Calibration, alignment, & stacking with Images Plus 3.0; other post-processing with Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351068804-RJBCAB26WO89S2LELR68/M51_WhirlpoolGal_cropped.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M51 Whirlpool Galaxy Redux The M51 Whirlpool Galaxy (NGC 5194) and its companion galaxy NGC 5195 in the constellation Canes Venatici. Distance is 23 million light-years. Shot 24 May 2009; Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 23x2.5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Calibration, alignment, & stacking with Images Plus 3.0; other post-processing with Photoshop CS4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351133215-9SIY9VO88DEVLGP8XA7G/DoubleCluster_092908.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Double Cluster in Perseus NGC 869 and NGC 884: the double open cluster in the constellation Perseus. Shot 27 September 2008; Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park; ISO 800, Exp 6x2m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Calibration, alignment, & stacking with Images Plus 3.0; other post-processing with Photoshop CS2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351182783-Y7OS3LDI83TT498UPU80/M31_29Aug08.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M31, Andromeda Galaxy Redux Reshoot of the Andromeda Galaxy with flat frames. Also from a new dark sky location at Lake Sonoma Recreation Area Shot 29 August 2008; Lake Sonoma, CA; ISO 800, Exp 9x5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351241376-FGVBBWXOH1DVK8IASH1E/NAmer_Neb_081008.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - North America Nebula This images isthe first I’m really happy with. It’s the first I shot flat frames for and it makes all the difference. This is NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, so called because it sort of resembles the continent. Cock your head to the left and you’ll start to see the resemblance--the dark “bay” in the upper-center-right is the Gulf of Mexico. Shot 9-10 August 2008, ISO 800, Exp 9x5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351325723-0UR00SO1KMRRKNFXJUUP/Veil_Neb_081008.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Veil Nebula Redux NGC 6960, the “Western Veil” portion of the nebula. Reshoot of last week’s image with a higher ISO. Even with only half the exposure time, the nebula is much brighter. I’m really getting the hang of this now. Shot 10 August 2008, ISO 800, Exp 5x5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351380574-JHWO6DBGPGKJOLR9ALMC/Moon_HiRes_Crop_080908.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Moon The moon again. I shot this one mainly to determine the infinite focus setting--the moon is just about the easiest object to focus on as you can readily see minor changes in detail at different settings. I also used it as my first experiment with flat field support frames. Shot 9 August 2008, ISO 100, Exp 1/400s, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351416448-S2H0RTHBYJXX02AM0F1X/IMG_0296.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - My Imaging Setup Main Telescope: Televue NP-127is, 127mm (5-inch), f/5.2 (660mm focal length) apochromatic refractor. Guide Scope: William Optics, 80mm, achromatic refractor. Mount: Takahashi EM-200 equatorial mount. Camera: Canon EOS 5D, Hutech modified with Canon IR filter replaced with enhanced H-alpha filter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351474045-STZA48RJ528TGCADF6HB/VeilNeb_02Aug08.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Portion of the Veil Nebula NGC 6960, the “Western Veil” portion of the nebula. It is very faint and looks like a horizontal wisp of cigarette smoke below the bright star in the center of frame. Shot 3 August 2008, ISO 100, Exp 5x10m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351536787-3LE7ACVHOSCVGG55NZYU/M31_AndGal_02Aug08_2.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M31, Andromeda Galaxy A flawed, but pretty cool image. I really need to start taking flat frames to eliminate the gradients and the interference by dust particles on the lens and sensor cover. Shot 3 August 2008, ISO 100, Exp 5x10m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs Parking Lot, Mt. Tamalpais State Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351604802-7PDH6DNWNR5QR9TTMYYN/M20_TrifidNeb_070508_final.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M20, Trifid Nebula Shot 6 July 2008, ISO 250, Exp 19x2m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs parking lot on Mt. Tamalpais, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351657717-FEMQD4FQX6UJ9R7JDCNW/M8_LagoonNeb_070508_add_Fin.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M8, Lagoon Nebula Shot 5-6 July 2008, ISO 250, Exp 30x2m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs parking lot on Mt. Tamalpais, California. That’s the M20 Trifid Nebula to the extreme right of the frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351701196-COJ4S70JYSF2HAJOB3IB/M51-NGC5195_WhirlpoolGal_a.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M51, Whirlpool Galaxy Shot 7 June 2008, ISO 250, Exp 3x5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs parking lot on Mt. Tamalpais, California. It’s not very bright. I need to reshoot this with a longer exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351767189-7GNR53T81HY7SK7RF599/M8_Lagoon_Nebula.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - M8, Lagoon Nebula Shot 7-8 June 2008, ISO 250, Exp 4x5m, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from Rock Springs parking lot on Mt. Tamalpais, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583351823683-5VIUXM2RL97XZ8KE051G/OrionNeb080212_b.jpg Astro Gallery 01 - Orion Nebula Shot 12 Feb 2008, ISO 250, Exp 300s, f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is, from my rooftop in Emeryville, California. My first deep sky image. 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Bortle 6 skies In Cassiopeia, 7,500 lyr distant 11.5 hours minutes integration time This is my first attempt at a mosaic, 2 images stitched together Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/iuowu6/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1753358815191-IPC34CIBH5SD4ZCXUDN8/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - My Portable Rig William Optics Redcat 51 telescope ZWO AM3 mount ZWO ASI2600MCDuo camera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1756062338433-KNH6FN5T5C1SZ2N5958E/M31_202508.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M31 Andromeda Galaxy 21–23 August 2025 Princeton, NJ; Bortle 6 skies 13 hours, 40.5 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/srqcnq/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1755107763809-J27SHG4H5WMXYFX90TI8/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) & associated nebulosity 5,000 lyr distant Also visible: open clusters NGC 6871 and NGC 6883 10–12 August 2025, Princeton, NJ 12 hours, 45 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/gbq6o4/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1754850060863-HGXNU6NYVSKMSY95VKM9/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Gamma Cygni (Sadr) Region & Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) ɣCyg is 1,800+ lyr distant; NGC 6888 5,000 lyr Also visible: open clusters M29 and IC 1311 7–9 August 2025, Princeton, NJ 15 hours, 50 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/ssylcv/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1754491944748-OUV3LSWZ2H7CIQQVPL8N/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Lion Nebula (SH2-132) In Cepheus, 10,000+ lyr distant 2–4 August 2025, Princeton, NJ 11 hours, 35 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/lb2koj/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1754004782623-5IAHWSWUUK41D3BOA7UQ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Bubble & Lobster Claw Nebulae (NGC 7635 & SH2-157) 27–29 July 2025, Princeton, NJ In Cassiopeia & Cepheus 7-11,000 lyr distant 9 hours, 20 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/r187pz/0/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1753358985033-0I4MJ6J2ERENOXYDWAYL/20250704_202314.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - My Portable Rig William Optics Redcat 51 telescope ZWO AM3 mount ZWO ASI2600MCDuo camera PrimaLuceLab Eagle 5 mini computer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1753358653399-EQBNJ5KN26R6ANC26L2G/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396) 17–22 July 2025, Princeton, NJ 14 hours, 31 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/8dgnh1/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1750887419239-N12T6I77099EVLAWG7MN/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Omega (M17) and Eagle (M16) Nebulae Emission nebulae in Serpens and Sagittarius Both are approx. 5,700 ly distant 24 June 2025, Princeton, NJ 7 min, 30 sec integration time This was a rather quick shot taken while I was testing out my new, portable mount; this was supposed to be several hours of integration time, but something went wrong and only a few minutes were saved; still it isn't a bad shot considering Tech details and full-res image at Astrobin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1750887106920-PRMJ90LIQNLIRFKN0BAD/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M16, Eagle Nebula Emission nebulae and open cluster in Serpens M16 is approx. 5,700 ly distant 23 June 2025, Princeton, NJ 1 hr, 25 min integration time This was a rather quick shot taken while I was testing out my new, portable mount Tech details and full-res image at Astrobin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1750886905861-C0R71C1Q5D9HW20S7NI9/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - NGC 7000, North America Nebula Emission nebulae in Cygnus NGC 7000 is approx. 2,600 ly distant 23 June 2025, Princeton, NJ 33 min integration time This was a rather quick shot taken while I was testing out my new, portable mount Tech details and full-res image at Astrobin.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1729532694898-1Z00OG7MY9ADRPSPRT8U/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - NGC 7822 & Sh2-170 Emission nebulae in Cepheus & Cassiopeia NGC 7822 is approx. 2,900 ly distant Sh2-170 (the small round nebula) is approx. 7,500 ly distant 18–20 October 2024, Princeton, NJ 14 hr, 15 min integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/nvsdmi/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1729199943616-KRRGQ4D808E4LOW9QWF8/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) 16 October 2024, Princeton, NJ 53 minutes, 10 seconds integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/lwdghy/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1728784106385-TOCMULGNYSB5HGMEOV3K/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396) Emission nebula in Cepheus Approx. 2,400 ly distant 9–10 October 2024, Princeton, NJ 2 hours, 24 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/3gs84r/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1728772183571-NSYNRZGCAJBZ6WG3NGWJ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Veil Nebula Supernova remnant in Cygnus Approx. 2,400 ly distant Exploded 10–20,000 years ago 9–11 October 2024, Princeton, NJ 6 hours, 54 minutes integration time Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/p6wi75/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1727039893616-AJUTYPYBONGJCFHZKNHE/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Horsehead & Flame Nebulae in Orion 4 December 2022, Princeton, NJ 5 hours, 20 minutes integration time The telescope was badly out of collimation when I took these images, and the stars were badly misshapen; better processing tools and techniques fixed it. Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/az39fh/C/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1727006379608-Q2L5O6SWPAXPVWNJRWDZ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Sadr (Gamma Cygni) Nebula 19–22 July 2022, Princeton, NJ 12 hours, 45 minutes integration time Nebulosity surrounding the star Sadr in Cygnus. I took the images back in 2022 but was never happy with the results. But I’ve learned so much about post-processing and there are much better tools available now, so I took another stab at it. Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/59u0py/C/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1726421969864-4IK6WC1U3LFH1OX6PO9O/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Stephan’s Quintet 12 September 2024, Princeton, NJ 6 hours integration time Visual grouping of five galaxies discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877. The group is best known for being used to illustrate the angels talking to one another in the 1946 film “It’s A Wonderful Life.” I really needed to use a longer focal length scope to do this group justice, but it happened to be in the frame when I was imaging the Deer Lick Group. Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/w3m0x6/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1726421828585-FH1B2VZ6CIEPJ3Y1VG5G/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Deer Lick Group (NGC 7331 Group) 12 September 2024, Princeton, NJ 6 hours integration time Visual grouping of five galaxies, some 294–365 million lightyears distant. (There’s actually seven readily visible in this crop.) They’re not gravitationally bound with one another; they just appear close together from our perspective. The name was coined by amateur astronomer Tomm Lorenzin after the Deer Lick Gap in North Carolina. Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/w3m0x6/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1724874448433-IQRNYRW7QALK9N8OUV67/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - ELEPHANTS TRUNK NEBULA (IC 1396) Emission nebula in Cepheus 21–24 August 2024 Princeton, NJ; Bortle 6 skies 10 hours, 5 minutes integration time Redcat 51 WIFD refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Duo camera Tech details and full-res image at https://www.astrobin.com/wwjow6/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1723570452121-F0529XW58X186FDLGF4N/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31) 11–12 August 2024 Princeton, NJ; Bortle 6 skies 10 hours & 20 minutes integration time 310 frames @ 120 seconds Redcat 51 WIFD refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MC Duo camera 1×1 binning, gain 101, f/4.9 Sensor temp -10C TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1722534405019-1JC5QM34OFTA344TU13E/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - NORTH AMERICA & PELICAN NEBULAE (NGC 7000 & IC 5070) 31 July 2024 Princeton, NJ; Bortle 6 skies 4 hours & 30 minutes integration time 90 frames @ 180 seconds Redcat 51 WIFD refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MC Duo camera 1×1 binning, gain 101, f/4.9 Sensor temp -10C TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1719607073198-7RZTAQ59I5V30WWVTLES/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Cygnus Wall Emission nebula in Cygnus, approx. 2,600 light-years distant Part of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) 15, 18, & 27 June 2024 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 13 hours, 18 minutes integration time SHO nebula / RGB stars Hydrogen-alpha (48 frames @ 5 min) Oxygen III (43 frames @ 5 min) Sulfur II (49 frames @ 5 min) Red (64 frames @ 30 sec) Green (67 frames @ 30 sec) Blue (65 frames @ 30 sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1718321279026-YXJC6SNEE06KTWDFD16F/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) Emission nebula in Cygnus, approx. 5,000 light-years distant 9 & 12 June 2024 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 9 hours, 25.5 minutes integration time HOO nebula / RGB stars Hydrogen-alpha (47 frames @ 5 min) Oxygen III (49 frames @ 5 min) Red (59 frames @ 30 sec) Green (57 frames @ 30 sec) Blue (55 frames @ 30 sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1717967380927-V6VGOC63CATA17FB3SAG/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - WITCH’S BROOM (NGC 6960) Portion of the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant in Cygnus 7 & 8 June 2024 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 7 hours, 56 minutes integration time HOO nebula / RGB stars Hydrogen-alpha (37 frames @ 5 min) Oxygen III (34 frames @ 5 min) Red (40 frames @ 60 sec) Green (42 frames @ 60 sec) Blue (39 frames @ 60 sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1654001906305-YWJ7EE7F69X1T09EZ3G6/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - North America & Pelican Nebulae First light of my Redcat 51 telescope 29 May 2022 North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 Redcat 51 telescope QHY mini guide scope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro ZWO ASI 120MM Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 9x300sec, 45 min integration time Chip temp -15C Image Scale: 3.1 arcsec/pixel Calibration frames: 30 Darks, 75 Flats, 25 Flat Darks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1717294828982-F7MX75GZ5LLYR4GU8UNJ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Lagoon Nebula (M8) Emission nebula in Sagittarius 28, 30, & 31 May 2024 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 9 hours, 52 minutes integration time SHO (Hubble palette) nebula / RGB stars Hydrogen-alpha (39 frames @ 5 min) Oxygen III (36 frames @ 5 min) Sulfur II (37 frames @ 5 min) Red (21 frames @ 30 sec) Green (19 frames @ 30 sec) Blue (24 frames @ 30 sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1717275340641-G2ENK86MSWTVIPSB1MLC/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Ring Nebula (M57) Planetary nebula (nova remnant) in Lyra 30–31 May 2024 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies The telescope I was using doesn’t do this justice. It’s only 1.5 × 1 arcminutes in size, so it’s incredibly small (the moon is 30 arcminutes) and really requires a telescope with a longer focal length. But I was waiting for my main target of the evening to rise, and figured to use the time. 2 hours, 35 minutes integration time Luminance (51 frames @ 1 min) Red (34 frames @ 1 min) Green (34 frames @ 1 min) Blue (36 frames @ 1 min) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1716656951042-0H7I64SUHXLRP129JCT5/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - IC 1311 Open star cluster with emission nebula in Cygnus 24 May 2024 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies False-color image with the intensity of the Hydrogen-alpha (green) reduced and the Sulfur II (red) and Oxygen III (blue) boosted; otherwise the Hɑ signal would drown out everything else 3 hours, 33 minutes integration time SII (24 frames @ 3 min) Hɑ (23 frames @ 3 min) OIII (blue, 24 frames @ 3 min) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1716321868874-Q12FWQPYNIEJ2LXFKBYS/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - HERCULES GLOBULAR CLUSTER (M13/NGC 6205) 20 May 2024 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies 2 hours, 30 seconds integration time Red (81 frames @ 30 sec) Green (80 @ 30) Blue (80 @ 30) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1712787344169-3705NQJS3AKO9D9PZT2G/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Solar Eclipse. 8 April 2024 From Jay, NY, using a Canon 6D Mark II and Redcat 51 telescope as the lens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1699495860419-EMZ867ZP6EKPVSYA14VG/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - FLAMING STAR NEBULA (IC 405) Emission nebula in Auriga Approx 1,550 light-years distant 1 & 2 November 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies HOO (nebula) RGB (stars) 13 hours, 56 minutes integration time Red (80 frames @ 60 sec) Green (79 @ 60) Blue (80 @ 60) Hα (99 @ 180) OIII (100 @ 180) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1698345396300-X9P2UNVX1GLXB9LNSY5D/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - PLEIADES (M45) Open cluster in Taurus Approx 444 light-years distant 17–24 October 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies 23 hours, 32 minutes integration time Red (234 frames @ 120 sec) Green (234 @ 120) Blue (238 @ 120) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1697317660490-GS5GJQHDB28SFH02D2RE/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Ghost of Cassiopeia (IC 63) Emission nebula in Cassiopeia Approx 550 light-years distant The bright star is Navi or γ Cassiopeiae, the middle star in the constellation’s “M.” 10 & 12 October 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies 5 hours, 30 minutes integration time Red (45 frames @ 120 sec) Green (34 @ 120) Blue (41 @ 120) Hα (45 @120) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1696775183452-277R036UBVZLKVHA3N6X/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - PACMAN NEBULA (NGC 281) Emission nebula in Cassiopeia Approx 9,500 light-years distant 1–4 October 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies 16 hours, 28 minutes integration time SHO nebula (164 frames @ 180sec, 219 frames @ 120sec) RGB stars (58 frames @ 60sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro 3.5nm filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1692738901186-GZJVEVKKSDTF28QHEENR/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - WIZARD NEBULA (NGC 7380) Emission nebula in Cepheus Approx 8,500 light-years distant 19 & 20 August 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies 5 hours, 22 minutes integration time SHO nebula (132 frames @ 100sec) RGB stars (102 frames @ 60sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 150, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1691107297522-6VUZS3CKBU8ZZIVN0E3U/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - CRESCENT NEBULA (NGC 6888) Emission nebula in Cygnus 01 & 02 August 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies 5 hours, 9 minutes integration time HOO nebula (246 frames @ 120sec) RGB stars (63 frames @ 60sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 150, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro filters TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1689457035683-7GE5J33HUJSRF8Y99NO3/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - NORTH AMERICA & PELICAN NEBULAE (NGC 7000 & IC 5070) 11 July 2023 North Truro, Cape Cod, MA; Bortle 3 skies 74 minutes integration time Redcat 51 refractor telescope Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi mount Astro-modified Canon 6d Mark II camera 1×1 binning, ISO 3200, f/5.1 Calibration frames: 24 bias, 15 darks, 25 flats Post-processing with PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1685220580139-HGKM8GRLZMLHSBN5ATWL/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) and Supernova SN 2023ixf 25 May 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies 3 hours, 21 minutes integration time LRGB (67 frames @ 180sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, gain 150, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro LRGB filters Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 4×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1684547415140-AETMGAVLEBQNTGZXSBP2/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Sunflower Galaxy (M63) 11–18 May 2023 Princeton, NJ Bortle 6 skies In Canes Venatici, 29.3 million light-years distant Approx. 400 billion stars 14 hours, 25 minutes integration time LRGB (295 frames @ 180sec) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera 1×1 binning, 2× drizzle, gain 150, f/5.2 Sensor temp -10C Antlia Pro LRGB filters Calibration frames: 18 darks, 25 flat darks, 4×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1681165079059-ONBF9G2U4JPUIQHLU04W/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Sun 10 April 2023 Princeton, NJ First light with my solar telescope ZWO ASI178MC color camera Lunt 40mm f/10 H-α Solar Telescope Post-processing with Autostakkert & RegiStax https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1679782417699-C1Y2EK2S49EJL2NY37ZG/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Bode's & Cigar Galaxies (M81 & M82) 13 Feb; 15, 19, & 20 Mar 2023 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 17 hours, 16.5 minutes integration time RGB (203 frames @ 180sec) + Hɑ (61 frames @ 450sec Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia RGB & Hɑ, filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 4×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1644772051858-ED60TET4Y0YC989FYDGZ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Orion Nebula Orion Nebula (M42), approx. 1,300 light years away. It is the middle “star” in Orion’s sword. 5–6 Feb 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exp 100 minutes (20x5m), f/5.2. Televue NP127is refractor with ZWO ASI 2600 Pro cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, & narrowband (Hydrogen-ɑ, Sulfur-II, Oxygen-III) filters in the Hubble palette. Capture software: TheSkyX. Post processing: PixInsight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1675806662931-49SX6ZBIG9B775ZNMH7A/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Tadpole Nebula (NGC 1893) 4 & 6 February 2023 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 7 hours, 4.5 minutes integration time Nebula: 6 hours 22.5 minutes (51×450s of Hɑ, OIII, & SII) Stars: 42 minutes (14×60s of RGB) Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia RGB, Hɑ, OIII, & SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 4×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1675548838933-XBFV7314BKJDMPJ28USZ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - COMET C/2022 E3 (ZTF) 1 February 2023 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 33 minutes integration time, 11×3-min one-shot-color exposures William Optics Redcat 51 refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount QHY183C color imaging camera 1x1 Binning, Gain 100 Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 4×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632601785952-H3WMWQ0OD8RJWBSH009L/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Jupiter Shot 24 September 2021, Princeton, NJ. Stacked image of the best video frames. ZWO ASI120MC-S color webcam and TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with Autostakkert, and RegiStax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1675025809823-J3CSBZ5UXX5JOADZC5IN/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) 28 January 2023 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 48 minutes integration time, 8×2-min exposures of red, green, & blue Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia LRGB filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 4×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1675025330524-OT0RCGZ19V5S19EQDCJL/20230127_M45_Pleiades.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Pleiades (M45) Open star cluster and associated reflection nebula in Taurus 20 & 27 January 2023 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies 4 hours, 38 minutes integration time, 139×2-min exposures of luminance, red, green, & blue Televue 127is refractor telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia LRGB filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/5.2 Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 4×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632330134298-68V58R5DFW3RGUURJCOU/SaturnASb_MVI_0525_pipp_Saturn_lapl5_ap10.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Saturn Again, not a great image; it exposes the limits of a DSLR in photographing planets (a great camera, but not designed for this). Shot 20 September 2021, Princeton, NJ. Stacked image of the best video frames. Modified Canon 6D Mark II and TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with PIPP, Autostakkert, and RegiStax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1671052853853-SB2S2800XX8XZ334XV0O/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Soul Nebula (IC 1848) Emission nebula in Cassiopeia 12–13 December 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 17 hours integration time, 51×20-min exposures of Hydrogen-α, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Redcat 51 telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sensor temp -5C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 3×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1670863006107-5SEXCXZL6HLJA7O4D1N8/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - California Nebula (NGC 1499) Emission nebula in Perseus 9 December 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 9 hours integration time, 27 20-min exposures of Hydrogen-α, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Redcat 51 telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sensor temp -5C Calibration frames: 10 darks, 25 flat darks, 3×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1671147299640-JVEKHTOP1DPTKDIIEYTN/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Horsehead & Flame Nebulae (Barnard 33 & NGC 2024) Dark and emission nebulae in Orion. 4 December 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies First light using my new mount Total of 6 hours, 30 minutes integration time, 39 10-minute exposures of Hydrogen-α, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Televue NP127is telescope Paramount MYT mount ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 3×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1643757263488-BD53TZR0EFDZFG8NP0LV/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Horsehead and Flame Nebulae Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) in Orion, approx. 1,300 light years away. 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exp 3 hours, 35 minutes hours (43x5m), f/5.2. Televue NP127is refractor with ZWO ASI 2600 Pro cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, & narrowband (Hydrogen-ɑ, Sulfur-II, Oxygen-III) filters. Post processing: Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CC. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula, that is a cloud of dust that blocks the light from stars behind it. The Flame Nebula is an emission nebula and star-forming region. The bright star is Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion’s belt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1667925795293-ME8OYFKZN80NJZIX2FOR/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Lunar Eclipse, 8 November 2022 Princeton, NJ I didn't get the second half because of sunrise. Canon 6D Mark II Redcat 51 telescope (250mm focal length) 4× barlow ISO 1600 Various exposure times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1665589965642-9TMZC596T6IFIGOK7RF2/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - BUBBLE & LOBSTER CLAW NEBULAE (NGC 7635 & Sharpless 157) Emission nebulae in Cassiopeia, some 7,100 to 11,000 lightyears distant 8–11 October 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 26 hours, 45 minutes integration time, 214 450-second exposures of Hydrogen-α, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Televue NP127is telescope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sky-Watcher Evoguide 50DX guide scope ZWO ASI 120MM mini guide camera Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flat darks, 3×25 flats TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628283309063-W2BXXAPAPXADIX42RBNL/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Andromeda Galaxy, M31 Shot 6 August 2021, Princeton, NJ. ISO 100, Exp 1 hour, 54 minutes (38x3m), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post processing in Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1664481955604-89Z95KPDD2G1M4L0NRHP/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Triangulum Galaxy (M33) The other spiral galaxy in our local group, the others being Andromeda and the Milky Way. At 2.73 million light-years distance, it's the most distant object that can be seen with the naked eye. 27 September 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 8 hours, 20 minutes integration time 100 300-second exposures with LRGB filters Televue NP127is telescope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia LRGB filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sky-Watcher Evoguide 50DX guide scope ZWO ASI 120MM mini guide camera Sensor temp -15C Calibration frames: 25 darks, 25 flats, 25 flat darks TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1663355476080-YNJUP1U9OXW2SLU855OZ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Andromeda Galaxy (M31) Wide Field Widefield shot of the nearest major spiral galaxy, 2.5 million light years distant. Taken with my new portable rig (at least parts of it are new) 15 September 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 1 hour, 9 minutes integration time (23 180-second exposures) William Optics Redcat 51 telescope Sky-Watcher StarAdventurer GTi star tracker Canon D6 Mark II camera ISO 1250, f/4.9 Optolong L-Pro light-pollution filter TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1662773829279-BODEIWEFSZC7QQV9TZNB/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Saturn, 8 September 2022 Princeton, NJ IRRGB image, with an infrared filter used for the luminance channel ZWO ASI290MM camera TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope Post-processing with Autostakkert, RegiStax, & WinJupos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1643761348140-5QQSCLDNNTMO6Y593PV8/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Horsehead & Flame Nebulae 2 A different version based on the same raw data, this one is in the Hubble palette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1662773664129-RAWJK9YEE33CVZW9KT3B/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Jupter, 8 September 2022 Princeton, NJ ZWO ASI290MM camera TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope Post-processing with Autostakkert and RegiStax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1659813730602-7LYSODZMJL7RVC4UTDOD/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - ELEPHANT'S TRUNK NEBULA (IC 1396); Starless Version A starless take on the nebula in the constellation Cepheus, about 2,400 light years distant. I’ve been trying to get the backfocus right on my telescope, and while I’m closer, the stars are still not quite right. So, this is an image with the stars removed. It has the advantage of making the nebulosity more prominent. 3 August 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 6 hours, 37 minutes, 30 seconds integration time 450-second exposures of H-alpha, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Televue NP127is telescope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sky-Watcher Evoguide 50DX guide scope ZWO ASI 120MM mini guide camera Sensor temp -10C Image Scale: 1.18 arcsec/pixel Calibration frames: 24 darks, 25 flats, 25 flat darks TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1659300361878-BFM6SJU8ZJ9OOT750VND/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula (IC 1396) Star-forming region in the constellation Cepheus, about 2,400 light years distant 30 July 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 5 hours, 30 minutes integration time, 450-second exposures of H-alpha, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Televue NP127is telescope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sky-Watcher Evoguide 50DX guide scope ZWO ASI 120MM mini guide camera Sensor temp -10C Image Scale: 1.18 arcsec/pixel Calibration frames: 24 darks, 25 flats, 25 flat darks TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1676499387089-X3I6MZ0Y446A1J1PWFOH/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Gamma Cygni Nebula (IC 1318) Emission nebula surrounding the star Sadr (Gamma Cygni) in the constellation Cygnus. 19–22 July 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 25 hours, 37 minutes, 30 seconds integration time, 450-second exposures of H-alpha, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Televue NP127is telescope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sky-Watcher Evoguide 50DX guide scope ZWO ASI 120MM mini guide camera Sensor temp -10C Image Scale: 1.18 arcsec/pixel Calibration frames: 24 darks, 25 flats, 25 flat darks TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1658101001889-7RLMI1LA7FT17ANMBDXG/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M16 Eagle Nebula Open cluster with star-forming nebula in the constellation of Serpens, some 5,700 light-years distant 24, 25, 30 June, 3, 10, 14 July 2022 Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 skies Total of 22 hours, 52 minutes, 30 seconds integration time, 450-second exposures of H-alpha, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II Televue NP127is telescope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro imaging camera Sky-Watcher Evoguide 50DX guide scope ZWO ASI 120MM mini guide camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Sensor temp -10C Image Scale: 1.18 arcsec/pixel Calibration frames: 24 darks, 25 flats, 25 flat darks TheSkyX and PixInsight software https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1655643580167-M4FN083QRQMRMY8B7MC0/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Veil Nebula Supernova remnant in Cygnus, some 2,400 light years distant 14 June 2022 30x450sec, 3 hrs 45 min integration time Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 Redcat 51 telescope QHY mini guide scope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro camera ZWO ASI 120MM guide camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 Chip temp -5C Image Scale: 3.1 arcsec/pixel Calibration frames: 30 Darks, 30 Flats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1655036933836-4U31Z6UR6KB584IX30YM/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - North America & Pelican Nebulae 4, 5, & 9 June 2022 North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) Princeton, NJ, Bortle 6 Redcat 51 telescope QHY mini guide scope Takahashi EM-200 mount ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro camera ZWO ASI 120MM guide camera Antlia 3nm Ha, OIII, SII filters 1x1 Binning, Gain 100, f/4.9 100x300sec, 8 hrs 20 min integration time Chip temp -15C & -5C Image Scale: 3.1 arcsec/pixel Calibration frames: 30 Darks, 26 Flats, 28 Flat Darks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1652360467620-HGK6PT84M79CMMTA10V3/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M51 Whirlpool Galaxy Spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici, approximately 31 million light-years distant, and its companion NGC 5195, with which it is interacting. With two clear nights back to back, I finally got enough time to image this one properly. 10 & 11 May 2022, Princeton, NJ. Total Integration: 7.5 hours (90x300sec). Equipment: 203mm TPO Ritchey-Chretien telescope, focal length 1625mm, f/8; ZWO ASI 1600 camera; Takahashi EM-200 mount. Capture software: TheSkyX. Post processing: PixInsight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1651434177942-ATYRGEZ82GR6TW3Q86T3/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M81 Bode's Galaxy Spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, approximately 12 million lyr distant. 12 & 29 April 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exposure: 4 hours, 25 minutes (55x300sec). 203mm TPO Ritchey-Chretien telescope, ZWO ASI 2600 & 1600 cameras, Takahashi EM-200 mount. Focal length: 1625mm, f/8. Capture software: TheSkyX. Post processing: PixInsight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1650141083593-ZG3C853XN7XHV9SCF3U2/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Orion First light of my new, portable rig. A Redcat 51 refractor with my DSLR on a star tracker. Portion of the constellation Orion; the Orion Nebula (M42) is at the bottom; the three bright stars at the top are Orion's "belt"; the Flame Nebula is barely visible next to Alnitak (the leftmost star in the belt). The Horsehead Nebula is too dim to make out with this short exposure. Not a great image, but a successful test. It's "galaxy season" and there aren't any good widefield targets. I took this as Orion was sinking—low in the evening twilight and looking through lots of atmosphere. The artifact at the bottom is a tree branch. But this rig will be great this summer when the Milky Way comes round. Plus, the Redcat paired with a cooled, astromical camera on my Takahashi mount will be fantastic for large nebula. 12 April 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exp 6 min, 20 minutes (19x20sec). William Optics Redcat 51 refractor, modified Canon 6d Mark II camera, Sky Watcher Star Adventurer 2i mount. Focal length: 250mm, f/4.9, ISO 800. Capture software: TheSkyX. Post processing: PixInsight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1645759918397-ZSEFDYOZBZ1SJZXI7PPT/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Horsehead & Flame Nebulae Redux My first attempt to combine data from multiple nights. Overall, I’m very happy with this one, although I didn’t use quite the same framing all three nights, so I had to crop quite a bit. There’s still a cropping artifact in the lower right that I couldn’t get rid of without sacrificing some of the Flame Nebula. Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33 / IC 434) and Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) in Orion, approx. 1,300 light years away. 31 Jan, 18 Feb, & 20 Feb 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exp 5 hours, 32 minutes. Televue NP127is refractor with ZWO ASI 2600 Pro cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, & narrowband (Hydrogen-ɑ, Sulfur-II, Oxygen-III) filters. Capture software: TheSkyX. Post processing: PixInsight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1644772471827-33NGWT1U3K6KNR2J04X7/22020205_M42_OrionNebula.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Orion Nebula (M42) The Orion Nebula (M42) is approx. 1,300 light years away. It is the middle “star” in Orion’s sword. Taken 5–6 Feb 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exposure of 100 minutes (20x5m), f/5.2. Televue NP127is refractor with ZWO ASI 2600 Pro cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, & narrowband (Hydrogen-ɑ, Sulfur-II, Oxygen-III) filters in the Hubble palette. Capture software: TheSkyX. Post processing: PixInsight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1643838889867-11E2NJ12Y3SG1PTRLT8B/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Horsehead and Flame Nebulae Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) in Orion, approx. 1,300 light years away. 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exp 3 hours, 35 minutes (43x5m), f/5.2. Televue NP127is refractor with ZWO ASI 2600 Pro cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, & narrowband (Hydrogen-ɑ, Sulfur-II, Oxygen-III) filters. Post processing: Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CC. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula, that is a cloud of dust that blocks the light from stars behind it. The Flame Nebula is an emission nebula and star-forming region. The bright star is Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion’s belt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1643479480805-YDRJNWIK4T00VN9IMQ0C/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237) Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237) in Monoceros, 5,200 lyr away 26 Jan 2022, Princeton, NJ. Exp 4.17 hours (50x5m), f/5.2. Televue NP127is refractor with ZWO ASI 2600 Pro cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, & narrowband filters. Post processing: Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CC. This is by far my best one yet. It’s a new camera and the first time I’m using multiple narrowband filters. The effect of a 16-bit camera and narrowband filters is amazing. 16-bit pixels allows you to stretch out the image and bring up very faint signals without adding a lot of noise. Narrowband filters mitigate against light pollution by capturing only the emission spectra for particular gases in the nebula. It’s a false-color image: Hydrogen-ɑ = Green; Sulfur-II = red; Oxygen-III = blue (Hubble palette). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1636300239786-UF7ZTYHKYDQCXURVJKMQ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Imaging Setup Takahashi EM-200 equatorial mount, 8" TPO Ritchey-Chretien telescope (I also have a 127mm Televue refractor, shown in an older configuration below), filter wheel, and ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 26mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera (I also use a Canon DSLR for some images, shown in an older configuration below). The small telescope on top is my guide scope, used to keep the target object in frame. The equatorial mount tracks with the rotation of the earth, but no matter how good the mount’s alignment is, it’s never perfect. The guide scope makes minute corrections to correct for small mechanical defects and alignment errors in the mount. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1636300186303-0276M66HYV1BKAG9JNXX/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Imaging Setup 2 A wider view showing the computer and power supply https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632772596524-IE28IWEGN7U9461P23ME/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Jupiter Shot 26 September 2021, Princeton, NJ. Stacked image of the best video frames. ZWO ASI120MC-S color webcam and TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with Autostakkert, and RegiStax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632601678449-ZDFGR2B1FV1TWT38B5IL/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Saturn Shot 24 September 2021, Princeton, NJ. Stacked image of the best video frames. ZWO ASI120MC-S color webcam and TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with Autostakkert, and RegiStax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628283476006-9WQE1YBWBXDVPTK4B8S3/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Andromeda Galaxy, M31 2.5 million light-years distant, the nearest major galaxy. Shot 6 August 2021, Princeton, NJ. ISO 100, Exp 1 hour, 54 minutes (38x3m), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. Post processing in Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625860550240-UHWWU9NHMW9OYIR6D34G/EagleNebula.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M16, Eagle Nebula Color this time. Shot 5–6 July 2021; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure 2.5 hours (30×5min, f.8; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 26mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, tri-band filter (h-ɑ, h-β, and O-III) & TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with Images Plus and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623113011285-67EXDH0BBXZ7J8S1ZKUO/EagleNebula_20210607.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M16, Eagle Nebula Given all the problems I’ve been having with my set-up lately, I’ll count this one as a success, even though it looks like crap. It’s a black-and-white image of M16, the Eagle Nebula, with the “pillars of creation,” some 7,000 light years distant. It’s only 9.5 minutes of exposure taken at the end of a long and frustrating night in which I just could not get autoguiding to work yet again. (I think the problem is my guide scope which is a piece of junk. It just doesn’t focus correctly and the lenses may be defective. I’ve ordered a higher-quality replacement.) So, this one is a series of 19 unguided, 30-sec exposures. The stars are still a bit elongated. I didn’t take any calibration frames. Shot 7 June 2021; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure 9.5 minutes (19×30sec, f.8; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 26mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera, tri-band filter (h-ɑ, h-β, and O-III) & TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621109310641-HD5LU67YRBCB6ON7BR6R/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - M3 / NGC 5272 Globular cluster in Canes Venatici of some 500,000 stars, about 34 thousand light years distant. I couldn't find a suitable guide star, so there's no autoguiding on this one. (I think I need to play with the gain on the guide camera.) I kept the exposures to 45 seconds, but there's still a bit of elongation on the stars. Shot 14 May 2021; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure 31.25 minutes, f.8; Canon EOS 6D Mark II & TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1610133766133-GX2TEFIAICGSD9EGW954/20210107_triangulum.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Triangulum Galaxy, M 33 / NGC 598 The third and smallest spiral galaxy in our local group (the other two being the Milky Way and Andromeda), 2.73 million lightyears distant. Mixed success with this one. After much travail and experimenting with different cables, I finally got autoguiding to work (yay!), but I stopped the shooting because as it moved across the sky the camera was about to hit the telescope’s tripod. As a result, I only got some of the planned luminance frames and none of the color (RGB) frames. Shot 7 January 2021; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure 33 minutes, f.8; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 26mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera & TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien telescope; post-processing with Images Plus and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589584284180-98O8Z4V8OGQ6HLHUBA32/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 I’m really happy with this picture, although it could have used a longer exposure time. This night was mainly trying to get everything to work together, rather than getting the perfect picture. But you can compare it to my earlier attempts to shoot M51, and you’ll see this is so much better. I’ve almost got the system down. This was the first time I’ve managed to direct the telescope with my laptop, which makes finding objects in a light-polluted, New Jersey sky so much easier. I haven’t got autoguiding to work yet, though. Shot 13 May 2020; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure: 130 minutes, f/8; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 36mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera & TPO 8" Ritchey-Chretien Telescope; post-processing with DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594722324264-F1TMCRLGP73REZ6E2GGJ/image-asset.jpeg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise Got up in the pre-dawn to take this one. It was low in the lightening eastern sky, so the tail isn’t fully visible; still, a nice shot if I can say so myself. Shot 14 July 2020; Princeton, New Jersey; ISO 800, Exp 1.3 sec, f/5.2, Canon EOS 6D Mark II & Televue NP127is. Post-processing with Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583355571932-Y5FI3T7VHGQ1T5VZ79LX/2019-10-24_CrescentNebula_grayscale.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Crescent Nebula Crescent Nebula in Cygnus, 5,000 light years away. Not a great shot, but decent. The nebula is very faint and needs a longer exposure, and for some reason I’ve yet to figure out, none of my RGB frames were usable, which is why it’s a B&W shot. That would also have doubled the exposure time. Shot 24 October 2019; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure: 90 minutes, f/5.2; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 36mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera & Televue NP127is telescope as lens; post-processing: DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583355584214-4MUC7RPBLPE5RPGPP99M/VenusTransit2012-1_max.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Transit of Venus, 2012 This is from some years ago, but I evidently forgot to post it. It’s of the 2012 transit of Venus across the sun. I only caught the beginning of it before it clouded over. The transits happen in pairs, spaced over a century apart. The next one will be in the 22nd century. Shot 5 June 2012; Toronto, Ontario; Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583355590513-GFG0R2KOM9A6PZ1CAHLR/VenusTransit2012-1_crop.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Transit of Venus 2012, close-up Here’s a cropped version of the same photo. Shot 5 June 2012; Toronto, Ontario; Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583355629268-Q9Q6BYCUV8NEVRHCQ58B/PinwheelGalaxy.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Pinwheel Galaxy Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major, 21 million light years away. This isn’t a great picture. I didn’t take black or flat frames, so the image is noisy with a big light gradient. Also, I couldn’t see the galaxy naked eye, so I was pointing the scope at where I thought it was. As a result it was at the very edge of the frame. There’s some star trailing that is visible in this cropped portion, so I’ll have to shorten the exposure to 30 seconds per frame next time. Still, I don’t think it’s shabby for the first deep-sky image with the new camera Shot 4 August 2019; Princeton, New Jersey; Exposure: 61 minutes (61 frames @ 1 min), f/5.2; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 36mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera & Televue NP127is telescope as lens; post-processing: DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583355659685-HAD2D5NYJZUCBCU796LC/2019-10-05-Moon_0000.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Moon My first astrophotography image in a long while. Now with a new camera. Shot 4 August 2019; Princeton, New Jersey; Exp 100ms, f/5.2; ZWO ASI 1600 Pro 36mm narrowband, cooled, monochrome, CMOS camera & Televue NP127is telescope as lens; post-processing: Photoshop CC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583355695389-Y3IMH71ZST0X3ENTOTHF/Ced214_02_crop2.jpg Astrophotography Gallery 02 - Cederblad 214 Photoshopped This isn’t a new image—I haven’t had my telescope out since moving to Canada. But I’ve been playing with Photoshop and found I could bring out some of the fainter features. It’s at the expense of the picture’s dynamic range, but for really faint objects like this it’s worth it. Cederblad 214 is a nebula in Cepheus, not far from Polaris, the North Star. It’s about 6,000 light years from Earth. Shot 10-11 July 2010; Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California; ISO 800, Exp 122.5 min (49 x 2.5 minutes), f/5.2, Canon EOS 5D & Televue NP127is. 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Tommy / Tommy Atkins - Make it stand out A Tommy of the Worcester Regiment in a trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, 1916 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/graduand monthly 0.5 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/05c19477-66e7-4a26-8d28-a83a7b6f4022/1046_graduand.jpg Big List Entries - graduand - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cardigan-raglan-balaclava monthly 0.5 2026-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d9969708-2ea0-4a36-833b-cafabc1d60e8/1045_cardigan.jpg Big List Entries - cardigan / raglan / balaclava - Make it stand out “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Richard Caton Woodville, 1894, oil on canvas. Lord Cardigan (center) leading the catastrophic charge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3854c0ed-3b23-4074-ae00-a1601817f809/1045_cardigan1.jpg Big List Entries - cardigan / raglan / balaclava - Make it stand out A man wearing raglan-sleeved shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/68a62842-971c-497b-b8c8-204c0816920c/1045_cardigan2.jpg Big List Entries - cardigan / raglan / balaclava - Make it stand out A woman wearing a balaclava https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/racoon monthly 0.5 2026-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d4cfefaa-ca21-4962-bd32-15b23d5747a4/1044_raccoon1.jpg Big List Entries - raccoon / trash panda - Make it stand out Conrad, the Raccoon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/828ab3c0-4357-4214-acd7-c6305906def8/1044_raccoon2.jpg Big List Entries - raccoon / trash panda - Make it stand out Memorial plaque dedicated to Conrad, the raccoon, established on the tenth anniversary of his death https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/livelong monthly 0.5 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/46e8995a-69b8-45aa-b745-d9925f0f8c86/1043_livelong.jpg Big List Entries - 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hobbit - Make it stand out Movie poster for Peter Jackson’s 2012 film The Hobbit: An Expected Journey https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/woo-woo monthly 0.5 2025-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a5dcf9c3-61c3-4e82-8365-e095ee0cc06d/1024_woowoo.jpg Big List Entries - woo-woo - Make it stand out Clockface displaying astrological symbols on the Torre dell'Orologio (clocktower) in the Piazza San Marco, Venice https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/quid-pro-quo monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c375849d-b4f7-47dc-89d7-ad953b295c3b/1023_quidproquo.JPG Big List Entries - quid pro quo - Make it stand out c. 1500 woodcut of the pope granting temporal power to a ruler in exchange for cash https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ok-boomer monthly 0.5 2025-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4d4901ac-5fe6-4d00-9d1b-7b75dc55b491/1022_OKBoomer.jpg Big List Entries - OK Boomer - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/turkey monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1606138620060-GYJBS2CSPO33MJS8BMYQ/166_turkey.jpg Big List Entries - turkey (bird) A tom turkey, Meleagris gallopovo, displaying during mating season https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1606138680577-ZD77WGI5HV9B3FTNXEDA/166_turkey2.jpg Big List Entries - turkey (bird) A helmeted guineafowl, Numida meleagris, at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hairbag monthly 0.5 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5cb5b15b-bec2-4650-b0dd-19eae919a79f/1021_hairbag.jpg Big List Entries - hairbag (slang) - Make it stand out An 1899 New York City policeman giving directions to three men https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/meme monthly 0.5 2025-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ede567f6-ba2f-4b4d-9d60-493d5c117676/1020_meme.webp Big List Entries - meme - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d6948438-0e22-48b4-991d-60937e8c7193/1020_meme2.jpg Big List Entries - meme - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/smoot monthly 0.5 2025-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b336487e-6e4d-4863-bad8-3efe0c0c4e9f/1019_smoot.jpg Big List Entries - smoot - Make it stand out Measuring Harvard Bridge in smoots https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/terror-terrorism-terrorist monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a522d8ab-8018-4fac-b9e0-5c282d9612e7/1018_terror.jpg Big List Entries - terror / terrorism / terrorist - Make it stand out John Testrake, captain of the hijacked TWA Flight 847, and one of the hijackers in Beirut, June 1985 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/prorogation-prorogue monthly 0.5 2025-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/256a829d-053f-447d-b4ed-29986914d634/1017_prorogation.png Big List Entries - prorogation / prorogue - Make it stand out Chamber of the UK House of Commons https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jones monthly 0.5 2025-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9b178432-a9bc-493b-9125-445cbf683a08/1016_jones.jpg Big List Entries - jones - Make it stand out Bottle of heroin sold by Bayer, originally containing 5 grams, c. 1925 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rapture monthly 0.5 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/02868c60-c68e-49a9-8516-903af7248297/1015_rapture.jpg Big List Entries - rapture - Make it stand out Louis Licherie, “The Rapture of Saint Joseph,” oil on canvas, before 1687 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/computer monthly 0.5 2025-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cb4b300f-8da1-4b1c-bff4-e627814c5f56/1014_computer.jpg Big List Entries - computer / compute - Make it stand out Mary Jackson in 1977. Jackson was one of the human computers who performed calculations for NASA’s first spaceflights. Jackson was one of the main characters in the 2016 book and film Hidden Figures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4bd5e540-cbde-4902-8d4e-7b4775052b5a/1014_computer2a.jpg Big List Entries - computer / compute - Make it stand out Building on the Institute for Advanced Study campus in Princeton that once housed the IAS Machine and is now used as a daycare center, going from baby machines to baby people https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/club-sandwich monthly 0.5 2025-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2b1e4293-4102-4b45-86f7-4db3b297bbee/1013_clubsandwich.png Big List Entries - club sandwich - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/butler monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/caf41260-a3ff-437b-907d-a94305c9f60c/1012_butler.jpg Big List Entries - butler - Make it stand out Arthur Hohl as the butler who didn’t do it in the 1933 film The Kennel Murder Case https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/imp monthly 0.5 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/54dbbc7c-2a9f-49ef-bd93-8fbea0725dab/1011_imp.jpg Big List Entries - imp - Make it stand out The Lincoln Imp, a late 13th-century grotesque in Lincoln Cathedral https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tabby monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/462acd74-ef5c-4fd6-903c-ff6102fd6c04/1010_tabby.jpg Big List Entries - tabby - Make it stand out Mackerel, a tabby cat https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/stiff-upper-lip monthly 0.5 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ea4e857b-4af0-4aff-9fe2-7996690d5304/1009_stiffupperlip.jpg Big List Entries - stiff upper lip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hoax-hocus monthly 0.5 2025-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d36ba175-8415-4a65-aed7-d1e4d07da1a1/1008_hoax.jpg Big List Entries - hoax / hocus - Make it stand out Scientists examining the skull of Piltdown Man, perhaps the most notorious scientific hoax ever perpetrated https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/measles monthly 0.5 2025-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3b087094-c0a4-4a81-93f0-4cb06b415e65/1007_measles.jpg Big List Entries - measles / measly - Make it stand out Colorized transmission electron micrograph of a measles virus (red) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dyke monthly 0.5 2025-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c7beffa8-303c-4206-923c-f6553fb0ac4b/090_dyke.jpg Big List Entries - dyke - Make it stand out “Dykes on Bikes,” Stockholm (Sweden) Pride, 2010 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bootstrap-boot-up monthly 0.5 2025-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/555e2551-a428-4d4c-8fbe-4dee74662b4e/1006_bootstrap.jpg Big List Entries - bootstrap / boot up - Make it stand out Baron von Munchausen pulling himself out of a swamp by his own hair https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tweetzkrieg monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/01706127-98ce-4f12-92c0-01baf7409897/1005_tweetkrieg.jpg Big List Entries - tweetzkrieg - Make it stand out The original Blitzkrieg: tanks and armored vehicles of the German 24th Panzer Division moving through the Ukrainian countryside, 21 June 1942 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/saracen monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/86be0c7b-5178-4443-ac1c-1d38795bac8c/1004_Saracen.jpg Big List Entries - Saracen - Make it stand out Loyset Liédet, c. 1465, medieval illumination of Renaut de Montauban battling Saracens from David Aubert’s version of Quatre Fils Aymon (The Four Sons of Aymon) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/emoji monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1bdaca7f-32cb-44d1-b6ab-73357b964142/1003_emoji.png Big List Entries - emoji - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/witch-hunt monthly 0.5 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a57043fb-d87c-49ce-b2d1-6ed4b00d61a9/1002_witchhunt.jpg Big List Entries - witch hunt - Make it stand out c. 1892 lithograph of the Salem witch trials https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hag monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f4705bf8-7ca2-43ba-9b56-58fae10f04bd/1001_hag.jpg Big List Entries - hag - Make it stand out The Hag of the Mill, Arthur Rackham, 1920 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mecca monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1ba9dc81-d711-44d9-80bc-3d2382bb31a5/1000_Mecca.jpg Big List Entries - Mecca - Make it stand out The Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/judeo-christian monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3b6c5a82-be01-47af-a5e4-6dd6fe493ad1/999_Judeo-Christian.png Big List Entries - Judeo-Christian - Make it stand out A symbol of Messianic Judaism https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/deplatform monthly 0.5 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/20fa98f0-2010-43be-b00e-1a878c40a446/998_deplatform.jpg Big List Entries - deplatform - Make it stand out Danuta Danielsson hitting a Neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden 1985 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/calvinball monthly 0.5 2025-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/17f9e9f9-f550-41f8-a0c1-255a536138a0/997_calvinball.jpg Big List Entries - Calvinball - Make it stand out Panel from 5 May 1990 Calvin and Hobbes comic strip featuring the word Calvinball https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fond monthly 0.5 2025-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3bcc7cd9-96ba-4264-b58c-3f750455e44f/996_fond.jpg Big List Entries - fond - Make it stand out Stella (the dog) and Erik (the cat) are fond of one another https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/meritocracy monthly 0.5 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/09aba627-5e4e-407c-9ae6-a5cd25e26818/995_meritocracy.jpg Big List Entries - meritocracy - Make it stand out Imperial examination, Ming Dynasty, 17th/18th century https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ultima-thule-thule monthly 0.5 2025-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e65a5be4-428f-4150-aa0e-cf7a3079b459/994_Thule.jpg Big List Entries - Ultima Thule / Thule - Make it stand out Detail of Olaus Magnus’s 1539 Carta marina map, showing Thule (Tile) between the Hebrides, the Orkney, and the Faeroe islands, in a place where no actual island exists; Iceland is depicted on the map outside of this detailed section https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/suborn monthly 0.5 2025-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/26802bf1-6d53-4775-8cfc-00409655fd24/993_suborn1.jpg Big List Entries - suborn - Make it stand out Illustration accompanying the c. 1686 broadside ballad “Perjury Punish’d with Equal Justice; or, Miles Prance” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hogmanay monthly 0.5 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/66dd69a3-3bc3-4f60-b7b3-ae12781fb679/992_hogmanay_b.jpg Big List Entries - hogmanay - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/just-do-it monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a8ca7624-3868-4118-8f97-e734e2c5ed16/991_justdoit.jpg Big List Entries - just do it - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/whole-nine-yards monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3eb033d4-3b0c-443c-b44f-b3a6bd4bdd19/990_wholenineyards.jpg Big List Entries - whole nine yards - Make it stand out 7 May 1921 headline from the Spartanburg Herald https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/unicorn monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/852c8203-264a-4be9-b2cb-ad365888c6d4/989_unicorn.jpg Big List Entries - unicorn - Make it stand out Domenichino, “Virgin and Unicorn,” fresco, c. 1602. The woman depicted is, ironically, Giulia Farnese (1474–1524), mistress to Pope Alexander IV (and sister of Pope Paul III). https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/testilying monthly 0.5 2025-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0b48d80d-2aa6-401e-a65c-1a3fbbda03f3/988_testilying.jpg Big List Entries - testilying - Make it stand out Los Angeles police detective Mark Furhman being examined by prosecutor Marcia Clark during the O. J. Simpson trial, 10 March 1995. Fuhrman was later convicted of perjury for his testimony. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/groyper monthly 0.5 2025-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0e6a74a5-065b-4a35-8203-83a6b9345c90/000_WITN_Banner.png Big List Entries - Groyper - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5d0a8049-a098-4e1b-9e3c-1471b4499c4c/002_Groyper_cartoon.png Big List Entries - Groyper - Make it stand out A Groyper cartoon https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/saved-by-the-bell monthly 0.5 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/251c91b8-fef0-4842-b8f1-7430af4cd78a/987_savedbythebell.jpg Big List Entries - saved by the bell - Make it stand out Ingemar Johansson knocks out Floyd Patterson for the world heavyweight boxing championship on 26 June 1959. Patterson was not “saved by the bell.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/red-baron monthly 0.5 2025-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b5cfba12-e1c6-4db1-b953-37c241948451/986_RedBaron.jpg Big List Entries - Red Baron - Make it stand out “The End of the Red Baron,” Joseph Simpson, 1918 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e03c6679-1ef7-4f70-b356-1e9462e678d8/986_RedBaron2.jpg Big List Entries - Red Baron - Make it stand out The first mention of the Red Baron in Peanuts, 10 October 1965 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gaffe monthly 0.5 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/49b0d8fb-c09e-40da-919c-e2de25e4c586/985_gaffe.jpg Big List Entries - gaffe - Make it stand out Banner heralding the supposed end of the Iraq War on 2 May 2003 during a visit of President George W. Bush to the USS Abraham Lincoln; the war would not end for another eight years https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/crisis-actor monthly 0.5 2025-09-05 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bechdel-test monthly 0.5 2025-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4aac6fe9-8545-4443-b78b-0a72e92cccff/983_Bechdeltest.jpg Big List Entries - Bechdel test - Make it stand out “The Rule” by Alison Bechdel, 1985 comic that appeared in the strip Dykes to Watch Out For https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yodel monthly 0.5 2025-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4a3286ac-6b6e-40c0-bd6b-decc9541a18e/982_yodel.jpg Big List Entries - yodel - Make it stand out Drake’s Yodel snack cakes, a commercial variant of the Swiss roll cake https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/white-shoe monthly 0.5 2025-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8d54de85-af7a-4a48-89b9-5ffcc0484eb7/981_whiteshoe.png Big List Entries - white shoe - Make it stand out Senator James Hamilton Lewis and Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, 1917 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/run-it-up-the-flagpole monthly 0.5 2025-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b4429bf8-bf11-421c-ae3f-eb55214ed408/980_runituptheflagpole.jpg Big List Entries - run it up the flagpole - Make it stand out Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag, Apollo 11, 20 July 1969 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/middle-ages-medieval monthly 0.5 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5db93d58-0dad-4f6a-9561-465ebc07bc78/979_MiddleAges.jpg Big List Entries - Middle Ages / medieval - Make it stand out Fifteenth-century depiction of a medieval market from a copy Nicole Oresme’s translation of Aristotle’s Ethics, Politics, and the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cotton-picking-cotton-picker monthly 0.5 2025-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/67905bc6-5ad9-4ded-8af1-7100c0d1770a/978_cotton.jpg Big List Entries - cotton-picking / cotton-picker - Make it stand out Enslaved people picking cotton, c. 1850 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/plead-pleaded-pled monthly 0.5 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4f4708ea-98d0-4068-a0e7-16ddf7981799/977_plead.jpg Big List Entries - plead / pleaded / pled - Make it stand out Saint Katherine arguing against pagan philosophers before Emperor Maxentius, Heinrich Füger (1751–1818), oil on canvas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/coach monthly 0.5 2025-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/694338af-d912-41a8-81bf-f692a0e5bfae/976_coach.jpg Big List Entries - coach - Make it stand out Royal coach returning to Buckingham Palace from the 2008 opening of parliament https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/world monthly 0.5 2025-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f5681440-75ca-4f3b-94c1-a3b483551cf6/975_world.jpg Big List Entries - world - Make it stand out The world, taken from Apollo 17, 1972 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/khaki monthly 0.5 2025-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4542cc1d-0ea5-491a-b623-e4c1e8661a74/974_khaki.jpg Big List Entries - khaki - Make it stand out “Corps of Guides,” Richard Simkin, 1891 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/food-desert-food-swamp monthly 0.5 2025-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c4349b23-351c-4aa5-bbf9-a34e64c9bdd9/973_fooddesert.jpg Big List Entries - food desert / food swamp - Make it stand out New Orleans neighborhood grocery store, 2007, presumably closed following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cyclone monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7ecc4ee1-e6bb-492b-9cc5-fba591f92086/972_cyclone.jpg Big List Entries - cyclone - Make it stand out Hurricane Florence, 2018; photo from a camera on board the International Space Station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9008a610-b369-4532-a3bd-d2bccddbd253/972_cyclone2.jpg Big List Entries - cyclone - Make it stand out The “Cyclone” roller coaster, Coney Island, Brooklyn https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/satellite monthly 0.5 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9a9ec74e-ef13-4549-9566-377cf0628058/971_satellite.jpg Big List Entries - satellite - Make it stand out The Hubble Space Telescope https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gnome monthly 0.5 2025-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b8579e57-dfbb-4464-9178-db471836c29f/970_gnome.jpg Big List Entries - gnome - Make it stand out A garden gnome https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cloture monthly 0.5 2025-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/aff88ee3-31cb-4d52-b17f-552c5086553f/969_cloture.jpg Big List Entries - cloture - Make it stand out US Senate in session during the 1999 impeachment trial of President Clinton https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/armadillo monthly 0.5 2025-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6132d821-933c-4c68-82cc-e4e0e4b1ee24/968_armadillo.jpg Big List Entries - armadillo - Make it stand out A nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/throuple monthly 0.5 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/53302b9e-e5a0-4205-b7ad-44adaf35d38f/967_throuple.jpg Big List Entries - throuple - Make it stand out Hand-tinted postcard, c. 1910 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/akimbo monthly 0.5 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e0da23b6-9791-4261-9f48-6be9f39c3b32/966_akimbo1.jpg Big List Entries - akimbo - Make it stand out Superman with arms akimbo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2569e7b0-3053-400f-9672-b30f30f4616f/966_akimbo2.jpg Big List Entries - akimbo - Make it stand out Charlie the Tuna with fins akimbo and “akimbo eyebrows” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/zeppelin monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/647a731f-ee8c-48e8-8355-b3fafcba921d/965_zeppelin.jpg Big List Entries - zeppelin - Make it stand out Crash of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 6 May 1937 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cajun-acadian-arcadian monthly 0.5 2025-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/897b0c2a-7035-4495-9ca4-b777dccba168/964_Cajun.jpg Big List Entries - Cajun / Acadian / Arcadian - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/confabulation-confab-fable monthly 0.5 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0011910b-1988-4a8a-af19-963875b6aa01/963_confabulation.jpg Big List Entries - confabulation / confab / fable - Make it stand out Roman bust (1st–4th-century C.E.) thought to represent Aesop https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/vet monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2b24fe6f-36df-474b-9f89-cfbcb9f6197e/962_vet.jpg Big List Entries - vet / veteran / veterinarian - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nuclear-option monthly 0.5 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8a75649e-a7f6-4a3e-ab3d-7889d2c97ed3/961_nuclearoption.jpg Big List Entries - nuclear option - Make it stand out The “Ivy King” US nuclear test, Enewetak Atoll, 1952; at 500 kilotons it was the largest fission bomb ever detonated https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/concentration-camp monthly 0.5 2025-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/62a11dda-5cb4-441e-a2eb-77bf4e45e1af/891a_concentrationcamp.jpg Big List Entries - concentration camp - Make it stand out Gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/leopards-eating-peoples-faces monthly 0.5 2025-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/75df6ea3-eccf-45c0-bfe0-085fc46d8c06/960_leopards.jpg Big List Entries - leopards eating people’s faces - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/85fb0e9f-5881-4142-8190-8963fd5e14ba/960_leopards2.jpg Big List Entries - leopards eating people’s faces - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/19f12573-e620-4af4-ad76-94a43cba5e23/960_leopards3.jpg Big List Entries - leopards eating people’s faces - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/love-bug monthly 0.5 2025-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b6db2b00-d100-4803-908c-2b2c14b9f431/959_lovebug.jpg Big List Entries - love bug - Make it stand out Two conjoined love bugs, Plecia nearctica https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tarheel-rosin-heel monthly 0.5 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/76e539ed-9b1a-484a-9d75-729e30d87462/958_tarheel1.jpg Big List Entries - tarheel / rosin heel - Make it stand out “The Turpentine Industry of North Carolina,” W. 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Snyder, 1884 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fiscal-procurator-fiscal monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d1a9e55d-f989-4842-9257-ab0d764c9cd1/957_fiscal1.jpg Big List Entries - fiscal / procurator-fiscal - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/star-spangled-spangle monthly 0.5 2025-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4512c77b-ac60-485c-94f8-96045dcec4ee/956_star-spangled.jpg Big List Entries - star-spangled / spangle - Make it stand out Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dont-look-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth monthly 0.5 2025-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4c7ba174-2c64-4670-a886-1d1e7c1f5b59/955_gifthorse.jpg Big List Entries - don't look a gift horse in the mouth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/loo monthly 0.5 2025-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/22716560-c84c-405b-9785-35ab296e496e/954_loo.jpg Big List Entries - loo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/90a2eab4-4077-4510-8eda-15652ab3fadd/954_loo2.jpg Big List Entries - loo - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/baseball monthly 0.5 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ae67d057-03a7-4141-a610-8451e031a52a/953_baseball.jpg Big List Entries - baseball - Make it stand out “Base-Ball,” from the 1787 edition of John Newbery’s A Little Pretty Pocket-Book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/71df6239-7af0-42fb-b187-3185ad6bdb93/953_baseball2.jpg Big List Entries - baseball - Make it stand out Extract from John Rhea Smith’s diary of 22 March 1786 containing the earliest known American reference to baseball https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/firework monthly 0.5 2025-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2006dc47-a4b2-45b3-9ec2-63ff26d2567d/952_firework.jpg Big List Entries - firework - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/waive-waif monthly 0.5 2025-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fe7fe194-b804-4ed3-b19d-62793bd0300d/951_waive.jpg Big List Entries - waive / waif - Make it stand out Frontispiece from Edward Sylvester’s 1900 A Waif of the Mountains https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/patient-zero monthly 0.5 2025-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/017c9cd8-5dff-4f8c-89b9-472a233aeccb/950_patientzero.jpg Big List Entries - patient zero - Make it stand out Mary Mallon, a.k.a. “Typhoid Mary,” an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, who as quarantined by New York health authorities in 1907–10 and 1915–38 to prevent the spread of the disease https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1cf1dce0-072f-4dd9-a380-febc4b88761e/950_patientzero_2.jpg Big List Entries - patient zero - Make it stand out Diagram of the March 1984 CDC AIDS cluster study with patient “0” at the center https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cavalier monthly 0.5 2025-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e92a4189-59d3-4462-9df2-90de7312b0b8/949_cavalier1.jpg Big List Entries - cavalier - Make it stand out Prince Rupert, Count Palantine, a Royalist cavalry commander in the English Civil War, Anthony van Dyck, c. 1637, oil on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4693e1df-d8aa-4fb9-95f5-af10293a8668/949_cavalier2.jpg Big List Entries - cavalier - Make it stand out Pasquino, the talking statue of Rome https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hook-or-by-crook monthly 0.5 2025-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c11cd574-cbae-481d-96e1-99ba01466be3/948_hookorbycrook.jpg Big List Entries - by hook or by crook - Make it stand out Image of Satan and demons holding hooks, 15th century, from the manuscript Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Douce 134, fol. 98r https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/curmudgeon monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/546c550a-32b2-4e6a-a6a3-09c5d8109b40/947_curmudgeon.jpg Big List Entries - curmudgeon - Make it stand out Screenshot from The Simpsons (2002) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/agree-to-disagree monthly 0.5 2025-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/12a76279-392f-4fe2-9bc3-ff35f86b8471/946_agreetodisagree.jpg Big List Entries - agree to disagree - Make it stand out Statue of John Wesley in Melbourne, Australia by Paul Raphael Montford https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/right-stuff monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c5b09156-bdcf-41ed-a76b-980b10bb4747/945_rightstuff.jpg Big List Entries - right stuff - Make it stand out The Mercury Seven astronauts with a US Air Force F-106B jet aircraft. From left to right: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/d-day-h-hour monthly 0.5 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e4c488e6-226f-4ffa-bb6d-a6ebb7f0c523/944_D-Day.jpg Big List Entries - D-Day / H-Hour / J-Day - Make it stand out American troops landing at Omaha Beach, Normandy, 6 June 1944 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/anaconda monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/046984c2-c1db-4c19-9b05-4cb4bc52d0ee/943_anaconda.jpg Big List Entries - anaconda - Make it stand out A green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pay-through-the-nose monthly 0.5 2025-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f5e217f7-c6c5-4c8b-8209-ac47312a44e6/942_paythroughthenose.jpg Big List Entries - pay through the nose - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/deep-state monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e1abc178-fce3-4c51-911f-9a3fe73087f2/941_deepstate.jpg Big List Entries - deep state - Make it stand out The Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 1963, and which generated many conspiracy theories about the “deep state.” From left to right: former CIA Director Allen Dulles, Representative Hale Boggs, Senator John Cooper, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senator Richard Russell, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations John McCloy, and Representative Gerald Ford. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tweak monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2548180a-32d5-4b4f-84f9-f2bf6dd17aa0/940_tweak.jpg Big List Entries - tweak - Make it stand out A radio operator tweaking the oscillator of a transceiver https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fascism-fascist monthly 0.5 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5276e599-8183-4561-939a-79f6f1c3caba/939_fascism.jpg Big List Entries - fascism / fascist - Make it stand out Mussolini and Hitler, 19 June 1940 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/leech monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/68a8e619-c204-410f-a13b-b780b7b2a305/938_leech.jpg Big List Entries - leech - Make it stand out A leech (Hirudo medicinalis) drawing blood https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trouble-at-thet-mill monthly 0.5 2025-05-19 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/grits monthly 0.5 2025-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c1d1cbd0-ced9-4a7b-9738-07e4b23c2025/936_grit.jpg Big List Entries - grit / grits / Grits / hominy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trigger-warning-trigger monthly 0.5 2025-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/53c6e453-1c5a-4ea2-8991-148817913119/935_trigger.jpg Big List Entries - trigger / trigger warning - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/slut-slut-shaming monthly 0.5 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c99954d5-77cc-4c94-a08a-c4f27a352471/934_slut.jpg Big List Entries - slut / slut-shaming - Make it stand out Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne in the 1926 film The Scarlet Letter https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blaster monthly 0.5 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/df3d875a-af8a-4723-a59b-59b77ecf7f9a/933_blaster.jpg Big List Entries - blaster - Make it stand out A blaster used by imperial stormtroopers in the Star Wars movie series https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/banjax monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/eefd12bc-b740-4c0b-b78e-c91107540a1e/932_banjax.jpg Big List Entries - banjax - Make it stand out Still from the 1930 film version of Juno and the Paycock, Alfred Hitchcock, director https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pita monthly 0.5 2025-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c1d04127-bcdf-42b3-b23c-fb7dce4483a8/931_pita.jpg Big List Entries - pita - Make it stand out Stacks of pita for sale at a Jerusalem market, 2010 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/luddite monthly 0.5 2025-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3a11ac82-a777-4ab7-965d-75e2d1a063dc/930_Luddite.jpg Big List Entries - Luddite - Make it stand out A hand-colored etching presumably depicting Ned Ludd, May 1812 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dog-hound monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583857965684-RMNQ49J8KE5MM3OM3EDH/Dexter.jpg Big List Entries - dog / hound Dexter, a beagle, photo by Lori Cheung, 2006 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/grotesque monthly 0.5 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/54e7820b-a396-4f39-95b5-3729f7bacdc3/928_grotesque.jpg Big List Entries - grotesque - Make it stand out Michelangelo, 1530, studies of grotesques https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/conclave monthly 0.5 2025-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0945b747-5177-4e05-9d8b-d30fd4edce1d/927a_conclave.jpg Big List Entries - conclave - Make it stand out White smoke from the Sistine Chapel signaling the election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chauvinism monthly 0.5 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/71315364-b36a-4701-a847-42f31cf2b41e/927_chauvinism.jpg Big List Entries - chauvinism - Make it stand out Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, c. 1825; lithograph of two veterans in Napoleon’s army breaking up a duel between two conscripts; the caption reads “Je suis Français, tu es Français, il est Français, nous sommes tous Français, Chauvin, l'affaire peut s'arranger” (I am French, you are French, he is French, we are all French, Chauvin, the matter can be resolved) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/callow monthly 0.5 2025-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/87456192-def9-422f-a9c2-9bd56a7768e5/926_callow.jpg Big List Entries - callow - Make it stand out A callow northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/great-depression monthly 0.5 2025-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3c55c0c5-7364-4888-ba77-480d4bb0e768/925_GreatDepression.jpg Big List Entries - Great Depression - Make it stand out Unemployed men queued in front of a Chicago soup kitchen opened by Al Capone, February 1931 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/awesome-awful monthly 0.5 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c6db6bec-da27-4b29-871f-ea4b9a22d812/924_awesome.jpg Big List Entries - awesome / awful - Make it stand out An “awful” Roman Legion https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/reeve-sheriff monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c075a0fb-50ce-4e65-b540-e9677b32f87d/923_reeve.jpg Big List Entries - sheriff / reeve - Make it stand out Perry Owens, sheriff of Apache County Arizona, c. 1886 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gizmo monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5e666cd9-34ab-4b10-9fe0-f86ae490632b/922_gizmo.jpg Big List Entries - gizmo - Make it stand out Example of a gizmo; a P-38 can opener, issued with US military canned rations from 1942 to the 1980s. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/good-friday monthly 0.5 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b35ce77d-452b-4171-9673-e73d5fff58fc/921_GoodFriday.jpg Big List Entries - Good Friday - Make it stand out Jesus in Golgotha, Theophanes the Cretan, c. 1550 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/maundy-thursday monthly 0.5 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a162654c-f451-4ac0-8dc6-eb9bbc4b2f4f/920_maundy.jpg Big List Entries - Maundy Thursday - Make it stand out 16th-century icon of the Pskov school of Christ washing the apostle’s feet https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/catfish monthly 0.5 2025-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/83168c1c-36ed-42c3-9eb7-020f73edf249/919_catfish.jpg Big List Entries - catfish - Make it stand out A channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/urban-suburbs-suburbia-burbs monthly 0.5 2025-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dc1db7f2-022e-46cf-9b95-7f82934a207f/916_suburban.jpg Big List Entries - urban / suburbs / suburbia / burbs - Make it stand out Suburban housing development, Spennymoor, Durham, UK, 2015 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yard monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/11b78509-2346-45cd-a2b3-c0d1697e75d6/918_yard.jpg Big List Entries - yard - Make it stand out A typical suburban, American front yard, c. 1983 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/weapon-of-mass-destruction-conventional-weapon monthly 0.5 2025-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6ca26bab-7ee8-4c89-830e-ae15812fc736/917_WMD.png Big List Entries - weapon of mass destruction / WMD /conventional weapon - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/viking monthly 0.5 2025-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4f52f502-684e-4cf2-be44-dc2541e86232/915_viking.jpg Big List Entries - viking - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/undermine-mine monthly 0.5 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d9861fed-0c8c-4ca5-874c-167ee7453a46/914_undermine.jpg Big List Entries - mine / undermine - Make it stand out Illumination of a medieval manuscript depicting the undermining of walls during the Siege of Jerusalem in 1187 C.E.; London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 12, fol. 40v. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/groove-in-the-groove-groovy monthly 0.5 2025-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d4e1740e-24a4-4404-a253-f5331bbdb0ce/913_groove.jpg Big List Entries - groove / in the groove / groovy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/truthiness monthly 0.5 2025-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b100faa6-d493-456e-b25c-d7a6f5368062/912_truthiness.jpg Big List Entries - truthiness - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/triumph monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/35b02a3d-a8c8-426e-a5bb-cd8cc615c1e6/911_triumph.jpg Big List Entries - triumph - Make it stand out The Triumph of Titus and Vespasian, Giulio Romano, c. 1540 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spendthrift-dingthrift monthly 0.5 2025-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fe513184-e40f-49f3-824a-6b2cf64b2516/910_spendthrift.jpg Big List Entries - spendthrift / dingthrift - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/virus-viral monthly 0.5 2025-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b46323d2-fb73-4469-87d7-e0aaf452d148/909_virus.jpg Big List Entries - virus / viral - Make it stand out Influenza viruses under an electron microscope https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/slim monthly 0.5 2025-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/83a705da-c2fa-4fa7-937e-e18baa62a1f5/908_slim.jpg Big List Entries - slim - Make it stand out A slim customer: General Edmund Allenby, c. 1917. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/polite monthly 0.5 2025-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f98312b2-466d-4ddd-8202-1ef019dd4b17/907_polite.jpg Big List Entries - polite - Make it stand out “Politeness,” James Gillray, hand-colored etching, c. 1779 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tariff monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e961ae95-c70e-4269-af2c-64abbe93156e/906a_tariff.jpg Big List Entries - tariff - Make it stand out Still from the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off of Ben Stein lecturing extremely bored students about the 1930 Hawley-Smoot Tariff https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mandela-effect monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/70034809-9d9f-473a-acdc-a3459810b362/906_MandelaEffect.jpg Big List Entries - Mandela Effect - Make it stand out Nelson Mandela, 1994 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/robot monthly 0.5 2025-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ffbd83b2-aa1c-44cb-a380-973ea04d5303/905_robot.jpg Big List Entries - robot / android - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/quick-quicksilver monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a319b3b4-f750-4f92-9727-a9d937d42e3f/904_quick.jpg Big List Entries - quick - Make it stand out Australian recruiting poster, c. 1915 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/curd-crud-cruddy monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/478d663d-e869-4b43-a477-b28ba4bd62f4/903_curd.jpg Big List Entries - curd / crud / cruddy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pork-pork-barrel monthly 0.5 2025-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/08039d53-a6ec-4b46-9913-31f09f326f90/902_pork.jpg Big List Entries - pork / pork barrel - Make it stand out 1917 political cartoon from the New York World https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/artificial-intelligence-ai monthly 0.5 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/42e77be5-2373-406c-91a5-f99cbf444027/901_artificialintelligence.jpg Big List Entries - artificial intelligence / AI - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/silver monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/24e2074b-e341-4205-8478-80def8d9f471/900_silver.jpg Big List Entries - silver - Make it stand out Bronze Age (c. 2300 BCE) silver goblet found at Karashamb, Armenia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kangaroo-court monthly 0.5 2025-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c0308b4b-5dce-4a7e-a887-e29af75b7b41/899_kangaroocourt.jpg Big List Entries - kangaroo court / mustang court / mustang - Make it stand out Adolf Reichwein, an educator and economist, on trial before the Nazi Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court), 20 July 1944; he was hanged 20 October 1944 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/occupy monthly 0.5 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9c9f565b-f583-45ca-912c-7d1680f75e1a/898_occupy.jpg Big List Entries - occupy - Make it stand out Protestors in the Occupy Wall Street movement, 30 September 2011 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/doge monthly 0.5 2025-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/107a514e-7d56-401f-929f-1798458ba612/doge1.jpg Big List Entries - doge - Make it stand out Kabosu, a Shiba Inu dog, dressed as a doge of Venice https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gulf-of-mexico monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2b2346ef-6cf7-4e41-971b-ee9dc4890f69/897a_GulfOfMexico.jpg Big List Entries - Gulf of Mexico - Make it stand out Detail of 1681 French map of North America and parts of South America https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/silicon monthly 0.5 2025-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c41b14f9-14d5-4806-96d8-24d641bb1d86/897_silicon.jpg Big List Entries - silicon - Make it stand out The “Googleplex,” in Mountain View, California, Silicon Valley https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rawdog monthly 0.5 2025-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bd7cf6c2-2791-46b5-844d-e217bae3abd4/896_rawdog.jpg Big List Entries - rawdog - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/moonstruck monthly 0.5 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2f953965-1921-4892-807a-d02cc890ca6f/895_moonstruck.jpg Big List Entries - moonstruck - Make it stand out A stained-glass window in the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, North Yorkshire, England, depicted Matthew 4:24 in which Jesus heals the sick https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/selenium monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b27fb66f-7b33-4af1-94ae-f9f3b7176e73/894_selenium.jpg Big List Entries - selenium - Make it stand out “Selene,” Albert Aublet, 1880, oil on canvas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mind-meld monthly 0.5 2025-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/72d74275-6f5c-4bb7-a398-08f6e7ee8be3/893_mindmeld.jpg Big List Entries - mind-meld - Make it stand out Evil Spock conducts a mind-meld with Good Dr. McCoy in the Star Trek: TOS episode “Mirror, Mirror.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/meh monthly 0.5 2025-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d66e1a63-0dad-4598-8b69-e18fd6176a97/892_meh.jpg Big List Entries - meh - Make it stand out Lisa and Bart Simpson saying “meh” in The Simpsons 2001 episode “Hungry Hungry Homer” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/seaborgium monthly 0.5 2025-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/713c4aca-e82b-40fc-9ca9-0bd44b57516b/891_seaborgium.jpg Big List Entries - seaborgium - Make it stand out Glenn T. Seaborg in 1950 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mze6jznbjd1uub4bfzhpunuzrhrlzi monthly 0.5 2025-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e2cb14f5-447d-4678-9f00-e1c6894bd6f0/890a_algospeak.jpg Big List Entries - algospeak - Make it stand out Examples of the algospeak cute winter boots on TikTok from January 2025 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/meat monthly 0.5 2025-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e200cfcf-88e9-45d5-a5cf-b219afa7df1f/890_meat.jpg Big List Entries - meat - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/march monthly 0.5 2025-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0a00e14d-163c-434c-8cda-42d2684cf5db/889_march.jpg Big List Entries - march - Make it stand out Women’s March in Washington, DC, 21 January 2017 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/scandium monthly 0.5 2025-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/93cf56db-ee51-46c7-865e-8c3a1910709c/888_scandium.jpg Big List Entries - scandium / Scandinavia - Make it stand out Map of Scandinavia by Johann Homann (1664–1724), probably produced before 1715 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lunch-luncheon monthly 0.5 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d7dd7aa0-9d33-442a-bf1f-fa57af8b0da4/887_lunch.jpg Big List Entries - lunch / luncheon / out to lunch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/makjang monthly 0.5 2025-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/01756775-d19c-437a-aadb-a9ecd375af65/886_makjang.jpg Big List Entries - makjang - Make it stand out Title card for the Korean television drama Temptation of Wife (2008–09) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/samarium monthly 0.5 2025-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b86e679a-b5d1-4fcd-b267-e24e4d1029fe/885_samarium.jpg Big List Entries - samarium - Make it stand out A sample of samarium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/inauguration-1 monthly 0.5 2025-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/847f26a7-ce56-4ad4-8d40-9c9ce3dc9a59/884_inauguration.jpg Big List Entries - inauguration - Make it stand out The inauguration of John F. Kennedy, 20 January 1961 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/b-movie monthly 0.5 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c699b6ad-ec30-4149-8cc2-bf93dbe0d47f/883_Bmovie.jpg Big List Entries - B movie - Make it stand out Movie poster for the 1936 B movie “Two-Fisted Gentleman” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ruthenium monthly 0.5 2025-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/16be9fc0-131f-4afe-bfa1-331b64c0ec5b/882_ruthenium.jpg Big List Entries - ruthenium - Make it stand out Coat of arms of Ruthenia used at the Council of Constance, 1414–18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/soap-opera monthly 0.5 2025-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bb7d3ec0-ccb0-4292-9d39-ca7fda4ef887/881_soapopera.jpg Big List Entries - soap opera / horse opera / space opera - Make it stand out Time, 12 January 1976 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/luxury monthly 0.5 2025-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8fcd7dbe-f290-4388-af84-cf30f78c5b37/880_luxury.jpg Big List Entries - luxury - Make it stand out “Beware of Luxury” / “In Weelde Sie Toe” (In Luxury, Be Careful) or “The Upside Down World,” Jan Steen c. 1663, oil on canvas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gold monthly 0.5 2025-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/79461e7a-43b8-425d-bc2e-c3c63d0b121b/879_gold.JPG Big List Entries - gold - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/epiphany-twelfth-night monthly 0.5 2024-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ec66d42c-9e4e-43fc-9d4a-0754112bb621/878_epiphany.JPG Big List Entries - Epiphany / Twelfth Night - Make it stand out “Adoration of the Magi,” Gentile De Fabriano, 1423, tempera on panel https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/calcium monthly 0.5 2024-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/064cab15-93ce-4a51-bbf8-4fa260a0e698/877_calcium.jpg Big List Entries - calcium - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/poinsettia monthly 0.5 2024-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/991f6853-11c7-4d59-8d1f-dfe3442858c1/876_poinsettia.jpg Big List Entries - poinsettia - Make it stand out A poinsettia plant, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 1836 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/zinc monthly 0.5 2024-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0f3ad928-be88-4e1a-bd4f-8152b79e900a/875_zinc.jpg Big List Entries - zinc - Make it stand out Three samples of zinc, a crystalline fragment (right), a sublimed dendritic (center), and a one-centimeter cube https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/merry-god-rest-you-merry monthly 0.5 2024-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a71b86ce-91f7-4d86-8349-0067a4b96cb8/874_merry1.jpg Big List Entries - merry / God rest you merry - Make it stand out Cover of Puck magazine for 25 December 1907; illustration by L. M. Glackens depicts John D. Rockefeller, Joseph B. Foraker, Henry H. Rogers, Edward H. Harriman, David J. Brewer, and James R. Day singing carols to Theodore Roosevelt https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/reindeer monthly 0.5 2024-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4b43a591-ec89-4adf-953e-ecb4a505a692/873_reindeer.jpg Big List Entries - reindeer - Make it stand out Page from the 1821 booklet The Children’s Friend https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yttrium monthly 0.5 2024-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/044e239c-9165-457b-a354-787130b2b55a/872_yttrium.jpg Big List Entries - yttrium - Make it stand out Two samples of sublimed, dendritic yttrium with a one-centimeter yttrium cube for comparison https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/wassail monthly 0.5 2024-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e98ca5d7-3749-4fa7-8771-a6fe6cfd21ab/871_wassail.jpg Big List Entries - wassail - Make it stand out “Origin of the Wassail-Bowl,” James Godwin, 1865. Rowena presenting a drinking cup to Vortigern. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/carol monthly 0.5 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/91d38abf-eaab-46db-b816-ab614e54b74c/870_carol.jpg Big List Entries - carol / carrel / corral - Make it stand out “Carols,” Nikiforos Lytras, 1872, oil on canvas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ytterbium monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/aea18105-faf8-4af0-b7d4-0152d6ec8409/869_ytterbium.jpg Big List Entries - ytterbium - Make it stand out Samples of ytterbium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/egg-nog monthly 0.5 2024-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/88b1f2c0-038e-4c20-b60c-addccd1ffc8b/868_eggnog.jpg Big List Entries - eggnog - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/juke-jukebox monthly 0.5 2024-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/005764fc-6b6c-4316-aadb-4a717902822b/867_juke.jpg Big List Entries - juke / jukebox - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/anticipatory-obedience monthly 0.5 2024-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9ee1a03d-f922-4866-a96c-79636ff29426/866a_anticipatory.jpg Big List Entries - anticipatory obedience - Make it stand out Joseph Stalin, 1943 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/xenon monthly 0.5 2024-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/386c3984-fe8a-4432-aaa5-d4af49c19e02/866_xenon.jpg Big List Entries - xenon - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gremlin monthly 0.5 2024-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7c9fb801-a92e-4bc9-b668-95e594bacbac/865_gremlin.jpg Big List Entries - gremlin - Make it stand out Frame from the Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” aired 11 October 1963, about a man (played by William Shatner) haunted by a gremlin during a flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a86fcda2-fea1-4f6e-acf3-a50c22ffd40e/865_gremlin1.jpg Big List Entries - gremlin - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/crash-blossom monthly 0.5 2024-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8f6a9399-45d5-403e-9420-fac4abffd79e/864_crashblossom1.jpg Big List Entries - crash blossom - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/vanadium monthly 0.5 2024-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c00b1680-9eaf-423b-9112-9da448d03f26/863_vanadium.jpg Big List Entries - vanadium - Make it stand out “Freja Seeking Her Husband,” Nils Blommér, oil on canvas, 1852 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lucifer monthly 0.5 2024-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d5fb601d-59f6-409e-8b58-2f6c3adab67a/862_Lucifer.jpg Big List Entries - Lucifer - Make it stand out Lucifer, by Gustave Doré, 1866, illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/deer monthly 0.5 2024-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/291532e8-7bc7-4e2e-ab72-40732675c211/861_deer.jpg Big List Entries - deer - Make it stand out A white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sodium monthly 0.5 2024-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/02ecbb62-333f-43ea-9ede-a5e0d929999b/860_sodium.jpg Big List Entries - sodium - Make it stand out Morton Salt facility, Chicago https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dreamtime-songline monthly 0.5 2024-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5f725b36-8924-478d-9f1c-7c99cf49d7eb/859_dreamtime.jpg Big List Entries - Dreamtime / Songline - Make it stand out “Kangaroo Wild Cabbage, Ceremonial Spear, Possum and Bush Carrot Dreaming,” by Bessie Nakamarra Sims & Paddy Japaljarri Sims (Warlpirri People), 1992. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dismal monthly 0.5 2024-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9e6fd3fe-f162-4c54-9d2a-3c3e57042014/858_dismal.jpg Big List Entries - dismal - Make it stand out Cypress trees in Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tungsten-wolfram monthly 0.5 2024-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d95eac0d-0344-45e9-b0df-0dc7824aa14e/857_tungsten.jpg Big List Entries - tungsten / wolfram - Make it stand out Hungarian advertisement for tungsten-filament light bulbs, c. 1910 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/armistice-armistice-day monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1cf47988-16ee-4646-b60c-62a5967b7186/856_armistice.jpg Big List Entries - armistice / Armistice Day - Make it stand out Celebration of the end of World War I, Philadelphia, 11 November 1918 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/full-monty monthly 0.5 2024-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6ca3de27-6fe2-4c56-88bb-2185cef399f1/855_fullmonty.jpg Big List Entries - full monty - Make it stand out UK theatrical-release poster for the 1997 film The Full Monty https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/brat-brat-pack-brat-summer monthly 0.5 2024-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9ec162fe-dbac-48ca-b7b2-8fde2b3bb628/xxx_brat.jpg Big List Entries - brat / Brat Pack / brat summer - Make it stand out Cover of New York magazine, 10 June 1985 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/titanium monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/181244d4-8632-455c-b1f7-7ce11f80b8ef/854_titanium.jpg Big List Entries - titanium / menaccanite - Make it stand out A Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft which is manufactured 93% out of titanium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/acre monthly 0.5 2024-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a99b8469-b465-445a-a89a-3b2083ec89c5/853_acre.jpg Big List Entries - acre - Make it stand out Farm fields in the Cotswolds, Frocester, UK https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/close-but-no-cigar monthly 0.5 2024-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a9017ad1-d89f-4858-8b02-e5370893345d/852_closebutnocigar.jpg Big List Entries - close, but no cigar - Make it stand out Still from the 1941 film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tin monthly 0.5 2024-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f610262e-1ddd-4e28-aaa4-4ee815765d25/851_tin.jpg Big List Entries - tin - Make it stand out A tin of Altoid mints https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/beam-me-up-scotty monthly 0.5 2024-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e970dad0-cf70-4c16-ad1b-ea3f781887dc/850_beammeupscotty.jpg Big List Entries - beam me up, Scotty - Make it stand out Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) from the original Star Trek television series https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/holt monthly 0.5 2024-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c5f17593-4e75-491a-b518-a275de7cabf1/849_holt.jpg Big List Entries - holt - Make it stand out Phone box in Holt Forest, Dorset, England https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/thorium monthly 0.5 2024-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4231057d-9e67-4098-96a0-b9b597e13826/848_thorium.jpg Big List Entries - thorium - Make it stand out Tors strid med jättarna (Thor's Fight with the Giants), Mårten Eskil Winge, 1872 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/heaven monthly 0.5 2024-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/48edac3c-1180-4451-a699-4238abd55ee3/847_heaven.jpg Big List Entries - heaven / seventh heaven - Make it stand out Portion of an Old English homily that refers to the seventh heaven, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 162, 384 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spitting-image monthly 0.5 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ac77b1dc-2024-40e4-b862-c1ad032dd4ad/846_spittingimage.jpg Big List Entries - spitting image - Make it stand out Astronauts and identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly, 2015 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/thallium monthly 0.5 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cd384713-2a35-4d19-b1a3-982926040703/845_thallium.jpg Big List Entries - thallium - Make it stand out Crystals of hutchinsonite, an ore containing thallium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hydro monthly 0.5 2024-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/db9e8fcc-5610-4586-8dc0-76482f6c056a/844_hydro.jpg Big List Entries - hydro - Make it stand out Sir Adam Beck Generating Complex, Niagara Falls, Ontario https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tarot monthly 0.5 2024-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fe793431-7b9a-4814-a51e-2fcb0a9149db/843_tarot.jpg Big List Entries - tarot - Make it stand out Image of le Fou (the Fool) from a fifteenth-century tarot deck https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/strontium monthly 0.5 2024-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2514120e-5371-4d8a-be8c-58a32633c2b7/842_strontium.jpg Big List Entries - strontium - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ass-arse-donkey monthly 0.5 2024-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/347b6cf2-311c-405d-9898-8a2ca01e26c6/841_ass.jpg Big List Entries - ass / arse / donkey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7ce648ce-898b-4a55-a33f-40ebe22cbf32/841_ass2.jpg Big List Entries - ass / arse / donkey - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sanewashing monthly 0.5 2024-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/59a3974f-85e5-49bd-9105-c1680afbfb92/840a_sanewashing.jpg Big List Entries - sanewashing - Make it stand out The New York Times building in Manhattan, 2019 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/weird monthly 0.5 2024-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f516e1dc-f8a8-4639-8e14-d27266929e0b/319_weird.jpg Big List Entries - weird - Make it stand out Samuel John Egbert Jones, c.1825, Macbeth and Banquo encounter the three weird sisters in Act 1, Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nimrod monthly 0.5 2024-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8b9d2779-911f-4533-b241-be5e91a41fc0/838_nimrod.jpg Big List Entries - nimrod - Make it stand out Looney Tunes, What Makes Daffy Duck, 1948 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3b49a68b-f2ce-4509-8e94-3ad5ea392561/838_nimrod2.jpg Big List Entries - nimrod - Make it stand out 1948 advertisement for a Pontiac car dealership https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tennessine monthly 0.5 2024-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c7eda788-7e78-41a3-b626-893e5625bfec/839_tennessine.jpg Big List Entries - tennessine - Make it stand out Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/boston-marriage-wellesley-marriage monthly 0.5 2024-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dea2199b-6bcb-49ce-959a-7b16f39a31c1/837_bostonmarriage.jpg Big List Entries - Boston marriage / Wellesley marriage - Make it stand out Lithograph of “the Ladies of Llangollen,” Eleanor Butler (1739–1829), right, and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), left. 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rhenium - Make it stand out A Pratt & Whitney turbofan engine, containing rhenium alloys and used on the F-15 Eagle, being tested https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/streisand-effect monthly 0.5 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d73675a1-f99b-4d14-a5b0-8ceecc670348/814_Streisandeffect.jpg Big List Entries - Streisand effect - Make it stand out Barbra Streisand’s Malibu, California home, 2003 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/commode monthly 0.5 2024-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e0498e19-6a42-4dda-9a9c-1fca6911f414/813_commode_2.jpg Big List Entries - commode - Make it stand out Thomas Chippendale, 1754, a French commode table https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/radon monthly 0.5 2024-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/291edb86-5f94-486a-94c2-5788f5def6e9/812_radon.jpg Big List Entries - radon - Make it stand out Radon test kit, 1988 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/unidentified-aerial-phenomenon-uap monthly 0.5 2024-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cb2f5633-0efe-4257-86b2-252f593fbe06/811_UAP.jpg Big List Entries - unidentified aerial phenomenon / UAP - Make it stand out Frame from the “Gimbal” video of a UAP taken by a U.S. Navy aviator in 2015; while unidentified, the object’s movement is consistent with it being an ordinary jet aircraft https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/frak monthly 0.5 2024-07-24 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/broligarchy monthly 0.5 2025-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1fd419d1-6b9f-46f9-9995-a241ccc215fc/823_broligarchy.jpg Big List Entries - broligarchy - Make it stand out Elon Musk (2015) and Peter Thiel (2022) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/radium monthly 0.5 2024-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/de7af9fa-3d99-4907-ad87-dd9ae22d808f/809_radium.jpg Big List Entries - radium - Make it stand out 1918 advertisement for toiletries containing radium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/libel monthly 0.5 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/502ff3b9-fbfb-4f37-8fd3-3a0aed310e31/808_libel.jpg Big List Entries - libel - Make it stand out Thomas Rowlandson, 1810, “Libel Hunters on the Lookout, or Daily Examiners of the Liberty Press” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/duke-dukes monthly 0.5 2024-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/788dea33-d091-4921-92ae-2bdb77f47a5b/807_duke.jpg Big List Entries - duke / dukes - Make it stand out The earliest known appearance of duke in English, from the Peterborough Chronicle entry of 1129 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/protactinium monthly 0.5 2024-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/69dfbe25-2700-4004-a207-ed60f839f0c6/806_protactinium.jpg Big List Entries - protactinium - Make it stand out Microscopic image of atoms of protactinium-233 (dark area) in the light of their radioactive emission https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yas-yassify monthly 0.5 2024-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7d3ce0a5-70e5-4278-b31f-69fafcd7fdcf/805_yassify1.jpg Big List Entries - yas / yassify - Make it stand out Yassified version of the Quaker Oats logo https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gerrymander monthly 0.5 2024-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/312c9dd5-30fa-40bf-82ce-a1adbd344c06/804_gerrymander1.jpg Big List Entries - gerrymander - Make it stand out Reprint of the original gerrymander cartoon in the Newburyport Herald, 31 March 1812 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2bb29ed9-1ce3-4dfa-9516-3a72c8447dc1/804_gerrymander2.jpg Big List Entries - gerrymander - Make it stand out Map of the redistricting of Essex County, Massachusetts, Boston Gazette, 9 March 1812 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/promethium monthly 0.5 2024-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/971e82ca-2731-48b2-b427-d5b8ba63309d/803_promethium.jpg Big List Entries - promethium - Make it stand out Prometheus, Nicolas-Sébastien Adam, 1762 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/grog monthly 0.5 2024-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7030db90-870f-4183-ac73-73c5c9fe27fc/802_grog.jpg Big List Entries - grog - Make it stand out “Learning to Smoke and Drink Grog,” Thomas Rowlandson, 1815 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/stool-pigeon monthly 0.5 2024-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a74d0390-382b-4a70-a8ae-c7b2f3478896/801_stoolpigeon.jpg Big List Entries - stool pigeon - Make it stand out A pigeon decoy https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/special-relationship monthly 0.5 2024-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a2718f30-b8a9-451c-a915-d2a5c2784771/800b_specialrelationship.jpg Big List Entries - special relationship - Make it stand out Poster promoting the 1898 United States and Great Britain Industrial Exposition https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gish-gallop monthly 0.5 2024-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/637707f7-f979-4718-a998-9f57984df450/800a_gishgallop.jpg Big List Entries - Gish gallop - Make it stand out 2012 political cartoon depicting candidate Mitt Romney engaging in a Gish gallop during a presidential debate https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/praseodymium-neodymium-didymium monthly 0.5 2024-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9164ad6d-2941-4c0f-b56e-ecb3d96d208f/800_praseodymium.jpg Big List Entries - praseodymium / neodymium / didymium - Make it stand out Castor and Pollux rescuing their sister Helen during the sack of Troy, Jean-Bruno Gassies, 1817, oil on canvas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/flop-flip-flop monthly 0.5 2024-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e96b8d59-9134-4dcc-8f28-9ef56e2d871c/799_flipflop.jpg Big List Entries - flap / flip / flop / flip-flop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fleabag monthly 0.5 2024-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/437f0c96-09a6-4123-acba-f99acff377b0/798_fleabag.jpg Big List Entries - fleabag - Make it stand out Bunks in “seven-cent,” New York City flophouse, c. 1890; Jacob Riis https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/potassium-potash monthly 0.5 2024-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fef0a044-250f-4d41-966d-9e21de5857bb/797_potassium.jpg Big List Entries - potassium / potash - Make it stand out Pieces of potassium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/flack-flak monthly 0.5 2024-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c594a2e5-fbba-411a-aafa-814759f5b8e9/796_flack_flak.jpg Big List Entries - flack / flak - Make it stand out An American B-24 bomber emerging from a flak barrage with one engine on fire, c. 1943 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fantastic monthly 0.5 2024-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/00b6485e-a26e-45b0-ba6d-274d2b510b9e/795_fantastic.jpg Big List Entries - fantastic - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/polonium monthly 0.5 2024-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/38a14bc5-1170-49ac-b94e-a0b10843b3f9/794_polonium.jpg Big List Entries - polonium - Make it stand out Pierre and Marie Curie, c. 1904 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/literally monthly 0.5 2024-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2b31dc0a-4ddb-4914-bcd5-aa9339f10adc/793_literally.jpg Big List Entries - literally - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dickens monthly 0.5 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/77d9647c-bc3f-43be-b804-68f5bb0a2a0e/792_dickens.jpg Big List Entries - dickens - Make it stand out Woodcut from the Compendium Maleficarum, a manual for witch-hunters, 1608 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/meitnerium monthly 0.5 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/83c19264-0f0c-4b1a-9ba6-ba5eaf2bb056/791_meitnerium.jpg Big List Entries - meitnerium - Make it stand out Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, c.1910 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/separation-of-church-and-state monthly 0.5 2024-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7bc06046-0008-4ef4-a4de-8a2e719681b0/790_separationchurch%26state.jpg Big List Entries - separation of church and state - Make it stand out Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1800, oil on canvas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bootylicious-babelicous monthly 0.5 2024-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9a35ea25-b03b-4bfb-8c7e-d07a2a5a069a/789_bootylicious.jpg Big List Entries - bootylicious / babelicious - Make it stand out Cover of Dr. Dre’s single Fuck Wit Dre Day https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/platinum monthly 0.5 2024-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f142001a-b145-4e24-8553-a141401e7012/788_platinum.jpg Big List Entries - platinum - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/booty-bootycall monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a43b3323-eaf1-486b-ae6e-e8f7902b3b7b/787_booty.jpg Big List Entries - booty / booty call - Make it stand out Cover for the 2018 song Booty by Spanish rapper C. Tangana (Antón Álvarez Alfaro) and Mexican-American singer Becky G. (Rebbeca Marie Gomez) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/berserk-berserker monthly 0.5 2024-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/92c6b5bf-8302-49d8-a01c-276fc289ec23/786_berserk.jpg Big List Entries - berserk / berserker - Make it stand out One of the Torslunda (c. 8th century) plates depicting Odin guiding a berserker or ulfheðinn (wolf-headed warrrior) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/phosphorus monthly 0.5 2024-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1b6733b8-483d-4540-ab70-227cf057c3d9/785_phosphorus1.jpg Big List Entries - phosphorus - Make it stand out The planet Venus, taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft, 1974 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5cd0b865-4d49-47d6-addb-1fef29bfb275/785_phosphorus.jpg Big List Entries - phosphorus - Make it stand out Allotropes of phosphorus: white phosphorus (left), red phosphorus granules (center left), red phosphorus chunk (center right), and violet phosphorus (right) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/basket-case monthly 0.5 2024-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1870f641-a96a-42d4-8ad5-14b3da59d00b/784_basketcase.jpg Big List Entries - basket case - Make it stand out A wounded American soldier arrives at a triage station in France during World War I https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hard-nosed-soft-nosed-dum-dum monthly 0.5 2024-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/40f61c65-4207-4f22-809c-47ae3cc43606/783_hardnosed.jpg Big List Entries - hard-nosed / soft-nosed / dum-dum - Make it stand out A 7.62mm full-metal-jacket rifle cartridge https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/palladium monthly 0.5 2024-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2783408f-524a-4b42-b7be-c89677020958/782_palladium.jpg Big List Entries - palladium - Make it stand out Calabrian vase (c.350 BCE) depicting Odysseus and Diomedes stealing the Palladium from Troy https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dollars-to-doughnuts monthly 0.5 2024-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5201f2fb-2666-4309-ba0d-c4ae91d35ead/781_dollarstodoughnuts.jpg Big List Entries - dollars to doughnuts - Make it stand out Image generated by the DALL-E AI image generator using the prompt “generate an image of betting dollars to doughnuts in the style of a medieval manuscript illumination; include both money and doughnuts in the image” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/memestock monthly 0.5 2024-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c09a6f8a-9f12-4f89-86d3-1049f2a68ddf/780_memestock.jpg Big List Entries - memestock - Make it stand out A GameStop retail storefront in Manchester, Connecticut https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/oxygen monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e36b6a8c-244f-457a-b9a1-5e87a9586466/779_oxygen1.jpg Big List Entries - oxygen - Make it stand out Liquid oxygen in a beaker https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bees-knees monthly 0.5 2024-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8b313e4e-38ea-40be-82d1-00b58f11a7ab/778_beesknees1.jpg Big List Entries - bee's knees - Make it stand out An English honey bee (Apis mellifera) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8c56fc99-d0fe-4dee-b1f7-ae38b5f59ab2/778_beesknees2.jpg Big List Entries - bee's knees - Make it stand out Detail of a purfling in a violin’s mitre or bee sting (bee’s knee?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f800b258-2645-490b-b744-0a5371c5663b/778_beesknees4.jpg Big List Entries - bee's knees - Make it stand out 1917 drawing of several members of a newly formed US Army unit from Scranton, Pennsylvania that describes one man as the “bee’s knees of the new unit.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dc802176-0de2-414f-a992-f7bdcd63a783/778_beesknees3.jpg Big List Entries - bee's knees - Make it stand out Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower (1918), commander of the US Army tank corps training school at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/creek-up-a-creek monthly 0.5 2024-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/45d3cdb1-aa9e-4a5e-abac-2af60fcc0a97/777_creek.jpg Big List Entries - creek / up shit's creek - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/zirconium-zircon monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e31135f8-7061-4445-bd7c-9468b5185ea1/776_zirconium.jpg Big List Entries - zirconium / zircon / hyacinth - Make it stand out A blue zircon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/67fcce2f-02b0-4a26-b4b9-0baae652b4f7/776_zirconium2.jpg Big List Entries - zirconium / zircon / hyacinth - Make it stand out The Death of Hyacinth, Alexander Kiselyov, late nineteenth century, oil on canvas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spaghettify-spaghettification monthly 0.5 2024-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/60cfd95c-ad60-463b-bc3d-f8624f8d8c42/775_spaghettify.jpg Big List Entries - spaghettify / spaghettification - Make it stand out Homer Simpson being spaghettified by a black hole https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cats-pajamas-whiskers-meow monthly 0.5 2024-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/89dc33d4-6bc2-469f-bb03-e630a2e3dfe3/774_catspajamas.jpg Big List Entries - cat's pajamas / whiskers / meow - Make it stand out Advertisement for the 1926 film The Cat’s Pajamas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c4b30f4e-66b7-4d67-bc21-43d34d3be9ad/774_catspajamas2.jpg Big List Entries - cat's pajamas / whiskers / meow - Make it stand out Early use of “the cat’s whiskers,” 1922 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/oganesson monthly 0.5 2024-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/507e8b92-446b-431d-92b2-0dc58c43db06/773_oganesson.jpg Big List Entries - oganesson - Make it stand out 2017 Armenian postage stamp honoring Yuri Oganessian and the discovery of element 118 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ham monthly 0.5 2024-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6f772d4a-2752-4122-8aa0-13d6e8ff4b03/772_ham.jpg Big List Entries - ham - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jabroni monthly 0.5 2024-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bf66f1e4-4824-4935-80c2-7bb52814155b/771_jabroni.jpg Big List Entries - jabroni - Make it stand out Pro wrestler Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, who is not a jabroni https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nobelium monthly 0.5 2024-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/77c602c4-6b67-408b-9034-50409300f417/770_nobelium.jpg Big List Entries - nobelium - Make it stand out Alfred Nobel, late nineteenth century https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pretendian monthly 0.5 2024-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9dc5d869-2fce-4429-b56f-be6bf17ca05d/769_pretendian.jpg Big List Entries - pretendian - Make it stand out Sicilian-American Espera Oscar de Corti (a.k.a. “Iron Eyes” Cody) meeting President Jimmy Carter, 21 April 1978 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/canada monthly 0.5 2024-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d14c4d3b-2780-4f72-9148-234408b34ca4/768_Canada.jpg Big List Entries - Canada - Make it stand out Portion of a 1643 map showing the name Canada https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nitrogen monthly 0.5 2024-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b5121847-e831-4396-b1eb-213eabb38d5e/767_nitrogen.jpg Big List Entries - nitrogen - Make it stand out Liquid nitrogen https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/boss monthly 0.5 2024-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/052092b7-5fa6-4d5d-b501-df948212495d/766_boss.jpg Big List Entries - boss - Make it stand out Bruce Springsteen in concert in East Germany, 19 July 1988 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pill monthly 0.5 2024-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c8388545-e791-4387-9216-5810eaf351a4/765_pill.jpg Big List Entries - pill / the Pill - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/niobium-columbium monthly 0.5 2024-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a021e7a0-d9e6-4e5c-94ab-bbe631259fcb/764_niobium1.jpg Big List Entries - niobium / columbium - Make it stand out “Apollo and Diana Attacking the Children of Niobe,” Jacques-Louis David, oil on canvas, 1772 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/716247c9-97e2-41a3-ae7f-20b2785b9293/764_niobium2.jpg Big List Entries - niobium / columbium - Make it stand out The weeping rock (Ağlayan Kaya) in Mount Sipylus, Manisa, Turkey said to be the grieving Niobe; the porous limestone formation appears to “weep” as rainwater seeps through it https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/maritimer monthly 0.5 2024-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c267c812-06ca-48d9-a0c5-7703db7060a3/763_Maritimes.png Big List Entries - Maritimes / Maritimer / Maritime Provinces / Atlantic Provinces - Make it stand out Map of Canada with the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) marked in red https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tsunami-tidal-wave monthly 0.5 2024-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5ed963f4-d56b-4b5e-85d4-e61849a9bfa9/762_tsunami.jpg Big List Entries - tsunami / tidal wave - Make it stand out Village in Banda Aceh, Indonesia following the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of more than a quarter million people https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nihonium monthly 0.5 2024-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/19f268bf-da57-4600-9f11-4f4c18df0781/761_nihonium.jpg Big List Entries - nihonium - Make it stand out Monument commemorating the discovery of nihonium at the west gate to the Riken institute in Wako, Japan https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/riding monthly 0.5 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6558edd0-19e5-4495-a3c8-d767ff020a4f/760_riding.jpg Big List Entries - riding - Make it stand out Canadian federal ridings, 2021 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/melt-meltdown monthly 0.5 2024-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/faf20eb2-0532-4a99-aa70-08cd902a26bf/759_melt.jpg Big List Entries - melt / meltdown / molten - Make it stand out The remains of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant several months after the 1986 accident https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/easter monthly 0.5 2024-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/50145baf-d1ec-49f1-8026-31bca542c420/758a_Easter.jpg Big List Entries - Easter / Easter bunny / pasch / paschal - Make it stand out Easter postcard, early 20th century https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nickel monthly 0.5 2024-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a8007c29-004e-4cda-b939-11a02efa11af/758_nickel.png Big List Entries - nickel - Make it stand out The reverse of a Canadian nickel coin https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bible monthly 0.5 2024-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6c3581d7-871f-44f0-8d00-46d5d3c2713c/757_bible.jpg Big List Entries - bible - Make it stand out A Gutenberg Bible in Yale University’s Beinecke Library https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/main-street-high-street-highway monthly 0.5 2024-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d7310b45-62d9-4e52-a0b3-f4c69e94cae5/756_main.jpg Big List Entries - main / Main Street / high / High Street / highway - Make it stand out View looking north down Main Street, Toms River, NJ https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/neptunium monthly 0.5 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0da252a4-9ac3-469d-a2fe-5a7dd6c6a73e/755_neptunium.jpg Big List Entries - neptunium - Make it stand out A nickel-clad sphere of neptunium used at Los Alamos National Lab to determine the critical mass of the element https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jejune monthly 0.5 2024-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1c4297cb-47db-4de4-bea2-7f21d4f4d0b4/754_jejune.jpg Big List Entries - jejune - Make it stand out Moscow youth, 2013 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tacit monthly 0.5 2024-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/225b6063-8db0-4249-9b61-6fd65d5c5eae/753_tacit.jpg Big List Entries - tacit - Make it stand out Illustration of socage, the requirement of service to a lord’s estate in a 14th-century manuscript, peasants harvesting wheat for their lord https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/neon monthly 0.5 2024-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a0c276ee-1f32-4519-84cd-d81dd1516a44/752_neon.jpg Big List Entries - neon - Make it stand out Broadway and Times Square, New York City, at night https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lunatic-fringe-fringe monthly 0.5 2024-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8c98df59-db9d-47ec-8fa7-4cd1651605bd/751_lunaticfringe.jpg Big List Entries - lunatic fringe - Make it stand out Image: Cubist Room, International Exhibition of Modern Art, Chicago 1913 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/swat-swatting monthly 0.5 2024-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/62b46e76-c823-4245-bb1b-d9f43f781c30/750a_swat.jpg Big List Entries - SWAT / swatting - Make it stand out St Charles County, Missouri SWAT Team in Ferguson, Missouri (St. Louis County) following the killing of Michael Brown by police https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/moscovium monthly 0.5 2024-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8adc8146-1ad1-4b52-a2ef-8bce44be0f3b/750_moscovium.jpg Big List Entries - moscovium - Make it stand out The author in Red Square, Moscow, January 1984 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/critical-race-theory-critical-legal-studies monthly 0.5 2024-02-28 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bachelor monthly 0.5 2024-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f3812cf4-2f6c-402f-8842-d9a51986a107/749_bachelor.jpg Big List Entries - bachelor - Make it stand out 1947 movie poster for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/leap-year monthly 0.5 2024-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/abb2d6d9-48c7-45e5-bd6c-03a2fee69934/747a_leapyear.jpg Big List Entries - leap year - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/molybdenum monthly 0.5 2024-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6c925a40-0545-4862-921e-5befe024877c/747_molybdenum.jpg Big List Entries - molybdenum - Make it stand out Fragment of crystalline molybdenum beside a one-centimeter cube of the metal https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/valkyrie monthly 0.5 2024-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/240d6e2a-bcf5-4ee5-89e6-8246871bdc3e/746_Valkyrie.jpg Big List Entries - Valkyrie - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/g-man monthly 0.5 2024-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e6901049-8d65-4c31-b7cc-6617938f1144/745_G-man.jpg Big List Entries - G-man - Make it stand out Poster for the 1935 movie G Men, starring James Cagney https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mendelevium monthly 0.5 2024-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/168f3be2-c56f-469f-8db3-dd370c418ec8/744_mendelevium.jpg Big List Entries - mendelevium - Make it stand out Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/australia monthly 0.5 2024-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e4b2d9ec-cc1e-4b43-ad2b-b6a974fbf75b/743_Australia.jpeg Big List Entries - Australia - Make it stand out Abraham Ortelius’s world map, 1570, depicting a vast southern continent labeled Terra australis nondum cognita (Southern land not yet known) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/arctic-antarctic monthly 0.5 2024-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/57950c7c-4d2b-4c85-879f-fcad7c2da0f3/742_arctic_antarctic.jpg Big List Entries - Arctic / Antarctic - Make it stand out Members of Roald Amundsen’s Antarctic expedition at the South Pole, December 1911. From left to right: Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mercury monthly 0.5 2024-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7a84c6cc-e51d-4c1b-8445-4846000e759a/741_mercury_quicksilver.jpg Big List Entries - mercury / quicksilver - Make it stand out Elemental mercury https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bowl-super-bowl monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c31dba19-cb5d-4e19-9908-ba5a04a994cf/740_bowl.jpg Big List Entries - bowl / Super Bowl - Make it stand out NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas just prior to the playing of Super Bowl LI on 5 February 2017 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/america monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/53c15d66-0fbe-4aba-b263-255901ed4452/739_America.jpg Big List Entries - America - Make it stand out Detail of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map bestowing the name “America” on what is now known as South America https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/manganese monthly 0.5 2024-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0c3954f5-9e3c-4a87-9a3c-044e9bb1ccd3/738_manganese.jpg Big List Entries - manganese - Make it stand out Manganese nodules on the sea floor https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/africa monthly 0.5 2024-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9bc6aa8b-c8eb-495e-b8a0-967c6154e0a9/737_Africa.jpg Big List Entries - Africa - Make it stand out A twelfth-century T and O map from a manuscript of Isidore's Etymologiae identifying the three continents https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/europe monthly 0.5 2024-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9e63d6be-21db-44c1-b7de-9a05d1f8df40/736_Europe.jpg Big List Entries - Europe - Make it stand out A twelfth-century T and O map from a manuscript of Isidore's Etymologiae identifying the three continents https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/magnesium monthly 0.5 2024-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b3ef253e-3505-4ff6-a5c5-0bcd4ffc4ead/735_magnesium.jpg Big List Entries - magnesium - Make it stand out Magnesium burning https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/asia monthly 0.5 2024-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0a235a95-304c-43f5-8885-f0e1e0ae1122/734_Asia.jpg Big List Entries - Asia - Make it stand out A twelfth-century T and O map from a manuscript of Isidore's Etymologiae identifying the three continents https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hootchy-kootchy monthly 0.5 2024-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/32aa316a-2a11-4eca-b16a-fe9d6e2128d9/733_hootchykootchy.jpg Big List Entries - hootchy-kootchy - Make it stand out Ashea Wabe, a.k.a. Little Egypt, posing as if dancing the Hootchy-Kootchy https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/genocide-1 monthly 0.5 2024-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ad65a350-17e1-49f8-ad46-9ee93b32f4a4/732a_genocide.jpg Big List Entries - genocide / ethnocide / cultural genocide - Make it stand out Railway leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lutetium monthly 0.5 2024-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e935b0cf-6c78-4405-a4b5-1ba7d4ef453c/732_lutetium.jpg Big List Entries - lutetium - Make it stand out Five samples of lutetium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/boondoggle-woggle monthly 0.5 2024-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6e8cc8c8-72ce-4529-8b4e-dd24a25d8824/731_boondoggle.jpg Big List Entries - boondoggle / woggle - Make it stand out A scout from Taiwan sporting a boondoggle https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rapid-unplanned-disassembly-rud monthly 0.5 2024-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/028d25a7-5c57-4ff4-8b38-4ff89d06e852/730_RUD.jpg Big List Entries - rapid unplanned/unscheduled disassembly (RUD) - Make it stand out Elon Musk trying to make the best of a catastrophic failure https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/livermorium monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/64c25c89-504f-4611-82da-9a64ab8d3262/729_livermorium.jpg Big List Entries - livermorium - Make it stand out Aerial view of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gyp monthly 0.5 2024-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a3351dd5-c9f8-4bae-81b4-2c32ee4c0865/727_gypsy.jpg Big List Entries - gypsy / gyp - Make it stand out A Romani family in Derby, England, 1910 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dark-ages monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3eea0ce8-0c40-40da-8d5e-cf439f014b51/728_darkages.jpg Big List Entries - dark ages - Make it stand out Madonna and Child, Book of Kells (Leabhar Cheanannais), c. 800 CE https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lithium monthly 0.5 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/eeedac6b-0f7f-4dd1-9c36-facae6298bed/726_lithium.jpg Big List Entries - lithium - Make it stand out A lithium-ion battery https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hooch-dwelling monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1277d64d-f036-49fa-98ca-53a409eadbf1/725_hooch_dwelling.jpg Big List Entries - hooch (dwelling) - Make it stand out A Korean “hooch,” c. 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/00c3af0a-dd6d-43f0-b277-887c2168e2d9/725_hooch_dwelling1.jpg Big List Entries - hooch (dwelling) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hooch-liquor monthly 0.5 2024-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/155f1c01-7362-4537-b9d0-b71ee1c7b806/724_hootch_liquor.jpg Big List Entries - hooch (liquor) - Make it stand out A “hooch hound,” a dog trained to sniff out liquor during Prohibition, 1922 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lead monthly 0.5 2023-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/be8e1e19-5062-42e8-ba20-2284a5dd2d1d/723_lead.jpg Big List Entries - lead - Make it stand out A Roman, lead water pipe, c. 1–300 CE. The inscription indicates the pipe was produced by an imperial procurator aquarum (manager of waters). https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/auld-lang-syne monthly 0.5 2023-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b0c7757f-c598-4bf0-9a16-e5d5efe32056/722_auldlangsyne.jpg Big List Entries - auld lang syne - Make it stand out Illustration accompanying an 1842 publication of Robert Burns’s version of Auld Lang Syne https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yule monthly 0.5 2023-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d4c2bc05-b459-4188-9779-a78c6879a347/721_yule.jpg Big List Entries - yule - Make it stand out The Yule Log (1966). The Yule Log is a television program broadcast by WPIX (New York) television on Christmas Eve from 1989–89 and from 2001–present. It consists of a film loop of a log burning in a fireplace with audio of Christmas music. The original film loop was filmed at the New York City mayor’s residence, Gracie Mansion. By 1969 that film had degraded and new version was filmed in a California fireplace. The original loop was only 17 seconds long; the second version runs for six minutes. The overall show is several hours in duration, and viewers often take pleasure in spotting the splice where the film loops and starts over. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lawrencium monthly 0.5 2023-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3093ceaf-55ab-47d9-9812-265b792efe11/720_lawrencium.jpeg Big List Entries - lawrencium - Make it stand out Albert Ghiorso (center left) adds lawrencium to the periodic table. Looking on, left to right, are Robert Latimer, Torbjørn Sikkeland, and Almon E. Larsh https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/boxing-day monthly 0.5 2023-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ce966437-edac-44a6-ba69-5a8c3d7ade0a/719_BoxingDay.jpg Big List Entries - Boxing Day - Make it stand out Boxing Day shoppers at Toronto’s Eaton Centre mall, 26 December 2019 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/christmas-xmas monthly 0.5 2023-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dffdc80b-dc24-460f-b2ad-180f71f8b92b/718a_Christmas.jpg Big List Entries - Christmas / Xmas - Make it stand out Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and children, 1848 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lanthanum monthly 0.5 2023-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a3c1775c-8a06-483c-9e31-afa28e114ced/718_lanthanum.jpg Big List Entries - lanthanum - Make it stand out A chunk of lanthanum https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/santa-claus monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b5f147d4-0063-4b87-8e9d-a54f68b3ff3d/716a_SantaClaus.jpg Big List Entries - Santa Claus - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/172452b1-f7e4-45b3-8deb-0334cba3a1da/716a_SantaClaus2.png Big List Entries - Santa Claus - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gay monthly 0.5 2023-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/aa970b8a-e03f-45a4-82fc-7cc6090488d6/716_gay.jpg Big List Entries - gay / gaycat - Make it stand out Pride flag flying over San Francisco’s Castro district, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c18af2db-ba93-4a8a-b8b3-70ec9815c550/716_gay_1.jpg Big List Entries - gay / gaycat - Make it stand out Cover for the sheet music of Will S. Hays’s 1868 The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/08a8c6fc-3260-4539-b425-d1295d143f23/716_gay_2.jpg Big List Entries - gay / gaycat - Make it stand out Cary Grant going “gay all of a sudden” in 1938’s Bringing Up Baby https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/krypton monthly 0.5 2023-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/70dbd356-66a1-4eb5-bbcb-9ab2a7359c4e/715_krypton.jpg Big List Entries - krypton - Make it stand out Krypton gas glowing greenish-blue in a discharge tube https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gi monthly 0.5 2023-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/24c0d580-e05a-4a84-bbeb-aef22b9ce940/714_GI.jpg Big List Entries - G.I. - Make it stand out G.I.s waiting to advance against the Japanese on the island of Vella Lavella in the Southwest Pacific, 13 September 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c51d81e2-6a26-42d6-8c28-c39bca181520/714_GI_a.jpg Big List Entries - G.I. - Make it stand out The inaugural “G.I. Joe” cartoon by David Breger https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rain-check monthly 0.5 2023-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f6ed33f2-44d2-488b-ac40-ce9fa3c6511a/713_raincheck.jpg Big List Entries - rain check - Make it stand out Rain delay at a Chicago Cubs game, 18 August 2015 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/iron monthly 0.5 2023-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b1ca4893-c044-49e9-bdfb-09a96e63c65f/712_iron.jpg Big List Entries - iron - Make it stand out Iron being smelted https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/war-crime-war-criminal monthly 0.5 2023-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ac062075-7d83-48a0-8ceb-4fb5315db21a/711a_warcriminal.jpg Big List Entries - war crime / war criminal - Make it stand out Nazi defendants in the dock at the Nuremburg Trials, 1946. Left to right, front row: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel; second row: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, and Fritz Sauckel. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cinch-lead-pipe-cinch monthly 0.5 2023-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d45fd897-2a1d-4ca8-8332-f954e337b9a0/711_cinch.jpg Big List Entries - cinch / lead-pipe cinch - Make it stand out A cinch with a belly guard to protect the belly from the horse’s fore hooves during a jump https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/free-lunch monthly 0.5 2023-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/681c1292-b7fc-46b2-bd2d-4dda1b8ad762/710_freelunch.jpg Big List Entries - free lunch (no such thing as) / TANSTAAFL - Make it stand out “A Free Lunch,” Currier & Ives, 1872 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/iridium monthly 0.5 2023-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d294f36e-62ea-43d6-9988-23ffe2368a6c/709_iridium.jpg Big List Entries - iridium / osmium - Make it stand out Cluster of osmium crystals https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/my-work-here-is-done monthly 0.5 2023-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1f8c52e9-1d1d-498b-a3c1-69305efbc946/708_myworkhereisdone.jpg Big List Entries - my work here is done - Make it stand out Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger on his horse Silver https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/black-friday-cyber-monday monthly 0.5 2023-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9ed6805e-7d22-4a98-abcf-35c7b5451cdd/707a_BlackFriday.jpg Big List Entries - Black Friday / Cyber Monday - Make it stand out Black Friday, 28 November 2013, Laramie, Wyoming https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/doughboy monthly 0.5 2023-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8270f93f-d817-4656-a3e6-be3f63d34f13/707_doughboy.jpg Big List Entries - doughboy - Make it stand out A WWI-era doughboy, c. 1919 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/iodine monthly 0.5 2023-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/46c44b6b-9448-42d2-9b48-e0f5deb09dd1/706_iodine.jpg Big List Entries - iodine - Make it stand out Iodine evaporating into a purple gas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dope monthly 0.5 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9e8ba5f8-f0d4-45fb-97f0-1b0ed399eaea/705_dope.jpg Big List Entries - dope - Make it stand out Cooking heroin or “dope” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/davy-joness-locker monthly 0.5 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7fa4764b-d6ad-4ff0-994f-29ab3cb810c3/704_DavyJones1.jpg Big List Entries - Davy Jones's locker - Make it stand out 1892 illustration by John Tenniel in Punch of Davy Jones sitting on his locker, wearing a pirate captain's uniform, while viewing a 1789 chart of Ferrol Harbor, Spain, that had belonged to HMS Howe. The ship had run aground at the mouth of the harbor on 2 November 1892, allegedly after using a poorly prepared naval chart to navigate its waters. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/brownie-points monthly 0.5 2023-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ddf0e821-b4b6-49b3-aba1-62207455a8b2/696_browniepoints.jpg Big List Entries - brownie points / brown nose / brownie - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/indium monthly 0.5 2023-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/41c35b18-710b-4d91-b668-399f7f1f7dec/703_indium.jpg Big List Entries - indium - Make it stand out A 40-gram ingot of indium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/booze monthly 0.5 2023-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d8868684-fcb5-4ba9-8ee1-29fdcc1193ad/702_booze.jpg Big List Entries - booze - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/card-sharp-card-shark monthly 0.5 2023-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b7b79f96-ac83-4d0b-970b-75d3f583edfc/701_cardsharp.jpg Big List Entries - card sharp / card shark / sharp / sharper / shark - Make it stand out Caravaggio’s The Cardsharps, c. 1595. (The title is a modern one.) Oil on canvas painting depicting men in late sixteenth-century dress cheating at a game of primero, a precursor of poker. On the left is the dupe, unaware that behind him the older card sharp is signaling his accomplice with a hand, the glove having had the fingertips cut out in order to better feel marked cards. At right, the young card sharp reaches behind his back to pull out a card hidden in his breeches https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bromine monthly 0.5 2023-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/097b0aa6-02a4-41ca-8329-9d8dbf548c47/700_bromine.jpg Big List Entries - bromine - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bullpen monthly 0.5 2023-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/35fcf18e-ea89-4c6c-8e01-03c117b6abc2/699_bullpen.jpg Big List Entries - bullpen - Make it stand out Houston Astros bullpen on 17 August 2005 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gonzo monthly 0.5 2023-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7eeefd80-8e18-42d1-abd2-628fb6e38a1f/698_gonzo.jpg Big List Entries - gonzo - Make it stand out Ralph Steadman’s illustration that accompanied the 1971 serialization of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in Rolling Stone magazine https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hydrogen monthly 0.5 2023-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ea25c550-a1de-4038-a2f6-e2562872d1f7/697_hydrogen.jpg Big List Entries - hydrogen - Make it stand out The hydrogen-filled zeppelin Hindenburg on fire and crashing into the ground at Lakehurst, New Jersey, 6 May 1937 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spooky-season monthly 0.5 2023-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cc323fee-2002-4159-84a5-ac6f3bc5f878/695_spookyseason.jpg Big List Entries - spooky season - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/holmium monthly 0.5 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/00921d2c-27bc-4324-ad74-62954d209910/694_holmium.jpg Big List Entries - holmium / thulium - Make it stand out Portion of the periodic table containing holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/underground-railroad monthly 0.5 2023-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ba854114-05d8-4fff-9966-5a97cd30d4dc/693_UndergroundRailroad.jpg Big List Entries - Underground Railroad - Make it stand out An 1872 engraving depicting the Underground Railroad https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/booby monthly 0.5 2023-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/facc518e-283f-441a-9f3b-a6640bdabe98/692_boob.jpg Big List Entries - booby / boob / booby hatch / booby prize - Make it stand out Illustration of a booby by Thomas Herbert, 1634 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/helium monthly 0.5 2023-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e7c0ba86-c585-44c9-a50c-46e6d03a0dc8/691_helium.jpg Big List Entries - helium - Make it stand out A vial of glowing helium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blind-pig monthly 0.5 2023-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c0f49d74-0479-40a9-9a0f-00588aa3d204/690_blindpig.jpg Big List Entries - blind pig / blind tiger / striped pig - Make it stand out Entrance to the Krazy Kat speakeasy, Washington, DC, 1921 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/belfry-bats-in-the-belfry monthly 0.5 2023-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/51e97120-bf29-4c00-a827-3c9cdc960490/689_belfry.jpg Big List Entries - belfry / bats in the belfry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hassium monthly 0.5 2023-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9ad57131-c44d-4675-92e0-442b6f509a1d/688_hassium.jpg Big List Entries - hassium - Make it stand out The linear particle accelerator at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany where hassium was discovered https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/balling-the-jack monthly 0.5 2023-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/82ed7b3b-8dac-40db-8094-ced34910e42a/687_ballingthejack.jpg Big List Entries - balling the jack - Make it stand out Judy Garland and Gene Kelly performing a tame (and very white) version of Balling the Jack in the 1942 film For Me and My Gal https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/the-coldest-winter-san-francisco monthly 0.5 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1e8c423a-84de-49a7-9c52-a06a8fa8e065/686_coldestwinter.JPG Big List Entries - the coldest winter ... San Francisco - Make it stand out San Francisco, seen from Twin Peaks, with the fog of the marine layer rolling in https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hafnium monthly 0.5 2023-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/200b58dc-9e7c-4633-a86b-035c2fa28ffa/685_hafnium.jpg Big List Entries - hafnium / celtium - Make it stand out 1 × 2 × 3 cm chunk of hafnium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/geek monthly 0.5 2023-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9e067b33-99ae-4fee-8dc3-c96f66450701/684_geek.jpg Big List Entries - geek - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/metamour monthly 0.5 2023-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a881cce9-df6b-4bfb-b7b7-6c0913053b61/683_metamour.jpg Big List Entries - metamour - Make it stand out 2018 Pride parade in London https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/germanium monthly 0.5 2023-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/aab47445-3676-4c48-a172-07d729c8abb4/682_germanium.jpg Big List Entries - germanium - Make it stand out A 12-gram chunk of germanium, 2–3 cm in size https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ditto monthly 0.5 2023-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5efb26a0-e717-44b4-945f-76b0d79463d5/681_ditto.jpg Big List Entries - ditto - Make it stand out Screenshot from the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/piss-poor-pot-to-piss-in monthly 0.5 2023-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/454b8538-de4c-4082-a9f3-9d95532e2f48/680_pisspoor.jpg Big List Entries - piss poor / not a pot to piss in - Make it stand out “An Old Woman at a Window Emptying a Chamber Pot,” anonymous, between 1700–24 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gallium monthly 0.5 2023-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/63532bd8-afde-4d51-9421-a79e52838c33/679_gallium.jpg Big List Entries - gallium / eka- - Make it stand out Crystals of pure gallium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/knock-yourself-out monthly 0.5 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8b6de2ce-89dd-48ad-bbe3-52df33af9ed0/678_knockyourselfout.jpg Big List Entries - knock yourself out - Make it stand out Muhammad Ali delivering a third-round, knock-out blow to Brian London, 6 August 1966 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/picnic monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bb22dcb5-7473-48c7-a365-4c25263f8150/427_picnic.jpg Big List Entries - picnic - Make it stand out “A Pic-Nic Party,” 1846, oil on canvas, by Thomas Cole. Men, women, and children sitting on blankets and eating and drinking in a bucolic setting. One man is playing the guitar. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/louse-lousy monthly 0.5 2023-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c18b791a-54a4-43ea-ab4a-afba003be08e/677_louse.jpg Big List Entries - louse / lousy / louse up - Make it stand out Human head louse (male), Pediculus humanus capitis https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gadolinium monthly 0.5 2023-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/13a6f835-1d3d-40a3-a451-09c58c52c4ba/676_gadolinium.jpg Big List Entries - gadolinium - Make it stand out A sample of gadolinium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/galoot monthly 0.5 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a79bdc5e-29c4-4136-8c20-60c1bc938653/675_galoot.jpg Big List Entries - galoot - Make it stand out Lobby card for the 1926 film The Ramblin’ Galoot https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/drag-race monthly 0.5 2023-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/31d7c7a3-f600-4701-8cdc-32d4745f9a9a/674_dragrace1.jpg Big List Entries - drag / drag race / main drag - Make it stand out Two dragsters racing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/92f688c1-a634-400d-8a8f-83e77ddaecde/674_dragrace2.jpg Big List Entries - drag / drag race / main drag - Make it stand out Illustration of a drug from Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/francium monthly 0.5 2023-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c46a5c63-7259-47be-b331-bd1d59fafaf9/673_francium.png Big List Entries - francium - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/whip monthly 0.5 2023-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6b0c4c62-9475-4340-8ac1-a251590fd8e2/672_whiplash.jpg Big List Entries - wipe / whip / lash / whiplash - Make it stand out “Snap the Whip,” Winslow Homer, 1872 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/steward-stewardess monthly 0.5 2023-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/66e018a7-bf8c-47f7-931b-ab44c826dd85/671_steward.jpg Big List Entries - steward / stewardess - Make it stand out Nelly Diener, the first European air stewardess, 1934. 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She would be killed in a crash in this aircraft in July 1934, soon after this photo was taken. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mug-mugger monthly 0.5 2023-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8355c32b-906d-4a3f-a051-799537c1a2f1/670a_mug.jpg Big List Entries - mug / mugger / mug shot - Make it stand out “Toby jug,” made by Ralph Wood, c. 1782–95. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fluorine monthly 0.5 2023-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e6064164-6574-44cf-b3a6-1f7ea3fd314c/670_fluorine1.jpg Big List Entries - fluorine - Make it stand out Liquid fluorine in a cryogenic bath https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/quark monthly 0.5 2023-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/50333e11-4055-4ce2-98cc-999df5695b84/669_quark.jpg Big List Entries - quark - Make it stand out James Joyce, 1915 (left) and Murray Gell-Mann, 2012 (right) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/big-endian-little-endian-middle-endian monthly 0.5 2023-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/19bacb08-e185-461d-95d3-3b14076586af/668_bigendian.jpg Big List Entries - big endian / little endian / middle endian - Make it stand out A chicken egg https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/flerovium monthly 0.5 2023-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/36e18df1-3cb0-42ce-a0db-45ee4302a513/667_flerovium.jpg Big List Entries - flerovium - Make it stand out Russian postal stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary of Georgy Flerov’s birth and the naming of element 114 after the laboratory named for him https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/comet monthly 0.5 2023-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/88a33f34-4e5a-4d5d-89af-ba7b15364811/666_comet_a.jpg Big List Entries - comet - Make it stand out Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), 1 February 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5154a63b-abb1-4073-86d6-06f35c1a2466/666_comet_b.jpg Big List Entries - comet - Make it stand out Portion of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the sighting of Halley’s Comet in 1066 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bordello monthly 0.5 2023-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dfbc0191-e224-48a2-a99a-6d32f12fffa0/665_bordello.jpg Big List Entries - bordello - Make it stand out Salon at the Rue des Moulins (1894), by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/europium monthly 0.5 2023-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cc24b3c2-3204-49d5-b416-153caed41b7b/664_europium.jpg Big List Entries - europium - Make it stand out A 300g block of pure Europium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/precovery monthly 0.5 2023-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/20b124d4-0a3f-4624-aaf7-3d263166d9af/663_precovery.gif Big List Entries - precovery - Make it stand out Example of precovery images showing Jupiter’s moon Valetudo. The moon was discovered in 2017 but later found in this archived shot from 2003. Each of three images in the gif were taken 21 minutes apart. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blue-blues monthly 0.5 2023-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e122188d-1cf3-43b7-80cf-57fb13757f2d/662_blue.jpg Big List Entries - blue / blues - Make it stand out Blues musician John Lee Hooker at the Long Beach Blues Festival, 1997 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/erbium monthly 0.5 2023-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/211b32dc-7b67-4fa4-ae8e-882a16f11037/661_erbium.jpg Big List Entries - erbium / terbium - Make it stand out Ytterby Mine on the island of Resarö, in Vaxholm Municipality in Stockholm archipelago https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cancer monthly 0.5 2023-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ab423053-8320-4b7b-8f46-f7848dc4e80a/660_cancer.jpg Big List Entries - cancer / canker - Make it stand out The constellation of Cancer, an illustration appearing in the 1825 Urania’s Mirror https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/capsicum monthly 0.5 2023-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3179c436-6d27-46ca-8d93-c73f44a1dd5f/659_capsicum.jpg Big List Entries - capsicum - Make it stand out Jalapeño, banana, cayenne pepper, chili, and habanero peppers https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/einsteinium-fermium monthly 0.5 2023-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9dfb57cc-7e9d-41c5-9f4b-7bbf39cc4af5/658_einsteinium.jpg Big List Entries - einsteinium / fermium - Make it stand out Albert Einstein, c. 1920 (left) and Enrico Fermi, 1940s (right) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cotton monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dbc81798-80a8-46d4-9a1f-ad7fbc75ae2a/657_cotton.jpg Big List Entries - cotton - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trespass-sin-debt monthly 0.5 2023-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3e5a8d69-8a00-45f5-b794-4b620e4ed556/656_trespass.jpg Big List Entries - trespass / sin / debt - Make it stand out A sign reading, “No Trespassing.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dysprosium monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4e260346-2561-44ab-94a3-d78c18426946/655_dysprosium.jpg Big List Entries - dysprosium - Make it stand out Dysprosium chips https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/katy-bar-the-door monthly 0.5 2023-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e8698c0b-4de3-4f37-890c-8687e6b769f4/653_KatyBarTheDoor.jpg Big List Entries - Katy bar the door - Make it stand out Nineteenth-century painting by Alexander George Fraser illustrating the ballad Get Up and Bar the Door https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/polycule monthly 0.5 2023-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f6abb80e-d46c-423c-ba38-27dc8de2cf1b/654_polycule.jpg Big List Entries - polycule - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dubnium-hahnium monthly 0.5 2023-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/93114d37-00fc-4e6b-9683-a6ba1272fc79/652_dubnium.png Big List Entries - dubnium / rutherfordium / kurchatovium / hahnium - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kick-the-bucket-bucket-list monthly 0.5 2023-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7d0c33ba-7f85-4caa-b256-b0e19f57a969/651_kickthebucket.jpg Big List Entries - kick the bucket / bucket list - Make it stand out Actor Jimmy Durante about to kick the bucket in the 1963 film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hip-hip-hooray monthly 0.5 2023-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/94454822-35cb-4701-a71a-031670afec4d/650_hiphiphooray.jpg Big List Entries - hip hip hooray / hurrah - Make it stand out Hip, Hip, Hurrah! Artist’s Party, Skagen, oil on canvas painting by Peder Severin Krøyer, 1888. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fuck monthly 0.5 2023-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e576c4a1-e3ca-4e72-9892-65c24921bad3/647_fuck.jpg Big List Entries - fuck - Make it stand out The name Roger Fuckebythenavel appearing in the Cheshire County Court Rolls (TNA CHES 29/23), c.1310 CE https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/darmstadtium monthly 0.5 2023-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/56f6b0b6-9589-4370-8575-4c663ce1a0f5/649_darmstadtium.jpg Big List Entries - darmstadtium - Make it stand out The Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mukbang monthly 0.5 2023-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b3c0a282-c255-4cda-ad53-8a99b1229326/648_mukbang.jpg Big List Entries - mukbang - Make it stand out Still image from a 2017 mukbang https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/aluminum-aluminium monthly 0.5 2023-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/19169e16-d9e5-43e0-b120-22b32afc1cf1/646_aluminum.jpg Big List Entries - aluminum / aluminium / alum - Make it stand out A roll of aluminum foil https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gospel monthly 0.5 2023-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/10eb1c44-2de0-4bbd-9b41-c1ed12bfed04/645_gospel.jpg Big List Entries - gospel - Make it stand out The Soweto Gospel Choir performing in Graz, Austria, 2014 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mook-moke monthly 0.5 2023-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cf6c7fc9-957b-448b-9bc2-8f7c87130aed/644_mook.jpg Big List Entries - mook / moke - Make it stand out Screen shot from Martin Scorsese’s 1973 film Mean Streets in which Johnny Boy (played by Robert De Niro) asks, “What’s a mook?” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/curium monthly 0.5 2023-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b776e925-b8eb-4b10-be74-e12af1deede6/643_curium.jpg Big List Entries - curium - Make it stand out Pierre and Marie Curie, c. 1904 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/christian monthly 0.5 2023-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/59c67f5d-a446-4743-ab14-0b86569b22c4/642_Christian.jpg Big List Entries - Christian - Make it stand out An early eighteenth-century Russian icon, tempera on wood, depicting the First Council of Nicaea (325 CE) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nice monthly 0.5 2023-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8e3ac198-ccdd-4527-8d3f-23278a73943c/641_nice.jpg Big List Entries - nice - Make it stand out The Fool card from the Rider-Waite tarot deck https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/copper monthly 0.5 2023-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7ae5c7ea-7aed-4744-8d66-bb108cdd1097/640_copper.jpg Big List Entries - copper - Make it stand out Copper ore https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/speculative-fiction monthly 0.5 2023-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c8af1a8f-bc6f-4006-8066-f947cce59955/639_speculativefiction.jpg Big List Entries - speculative fiction - Make it stand out A Martian fighting machine from a 1906 Belgian edition of H.G. 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rhubarb - Make it stand out A bench-clearing rhubarb between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays, 5 June 2008 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dressed-to-the-nines monthly 0.5 2023-06-03 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cobalt monthly 0.5 2023-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/84040289-1763-442c-a645-3ec664d9bb83/634_cobalt.jpg Big List Entries - cobalt - Make it stand out Cobalt https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/go-yard monthly 0.5 2023-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fe42fba8-ab78-484a-9765-6b06daba145e/633_goyard.jpg Big List Entries - go yard - Make it stand out Philadelphia Philly Chase Utley going yard against the Detroit Tigers on 10 April 2007 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/round-robin monthly 0.5 2023-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/18f07aaf-5901-4257-924d-c75f03331307/632_roundrobin.jpg Big List Entries - round robin - Make it stand out A c.1627 sailors’ round-robin letter addressed to a ship’s captain (fuller description and transcript below) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chromium-chrome monthly 0.5 2023-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/76834092-2b0c-47d6-911f-6f3ae6e45334/631_chromium.jpg Big List Entries - chromium / chrome - Make it stand out Chromium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fuzz monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e0f2279f-caf8-4ee6-83e8-7ee3bec6b680/630_fuzz.jpg Big List Entries - fuzz - Make it stand out The Keystone Cops, publicity still for the 1914 short film In the Clutches of the Gang; standing second-from-left is a young William Frawley, better known for playing Fred Mertz in the 1950s TV show I Love Lucy; to the extreme right is Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/americium monthly 0.5 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d936696c-22a6-440c-a1e5-537a993b68cc/576_americium.jpg Big List Entries - americium - Make it stand out Interior of an americium-based smoke detector https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/triskaidekaphobia monthly 0.5 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0c15fa7d-4a31-4116-86e4-8cc5eb7d8560/629_triskaidekaphobia.jpg Big List Entries - triskaidekaphobia - Make it stand out Triskaidekaphobia in Action https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chlorine monthly 0.5 2023-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b001e3c8-245b-424d-b923-f626b34b588f/628_chlorine.jpg Big List Entries - chlorine - Make it stand out Chlorine gas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/field-day monthly 0.5 2023-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8a0f9883-6271-44df-9381-c9027ee93f59/627_fieldday.jpg Big List Entries - field day - Make it stand out A boxing match at a Farm Security Administration field day in Yuma, Arizona, 1942 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fair-to-middling monthly 0.5 2023-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f0805f5b-b2d2-4bcf-b90c-f208103b1bcb/626_fairtomiddling.jpg Big List Entries - fair to middling - Make it stand out Nineteenth-century mezzotint of the not-so-fair-to-middling actor Edmund Kean as Shylock in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cerium monthly 0.5 2023-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f1f0324f-d4c7-4665-9bb1-77d5df465927/625_cerium.jpg Big List Entries - cerium - Make it stand out Cerium, Ce, element #58 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/face-the-music monthly 0.5 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d77f4e7e-6427-49f8-b223-f81a2f93ba77/624_facethemusic.jpg Big List Entries - face the music - Make it stand out A soldier who is literally not facing the music being drummed out of the Union Army during the US Civil War https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dry-run monthly 0.5 2023-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ffc1b61c-7e2f-42e2-be05-e348bff31ef2/623_dryrun.jpg Big List Entries - dry run - Make it stand out Sailors aboard the USS Oak Hill conducting a dry run firefighting drill https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/carbon-diamond-graphite monthly 0.5 2023-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/154c4099-c2f8-4cd5-81bc-dabe95168b95/622_carbon.jpg Big List Entries - carbon / diamond / graphite / buckminsterfullerene / fullerene / buckyball - Make it stand out Two allotropes of carbon: graphite (left) and diamond (right) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/drink-the-kool-aid monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e194b63f-39c0-4a72-aea0-ed0baff1575a/621_drinktheKool.jpg Big List Entries - drink the Kool-Aid - Make it stand out 1979 aerial view the People’s Temple cult compound at Jonestown, Guyana https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/drag monthly 0.5 2023-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/50b0a7bd-eaa6-4c70-9bc7-4424512612df/620_drag.jpg Big List Entries - drag (cross-dressing) - Make it stand out Drag performer Francis Leon, c.1919 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/californium monthly 0.5 2023-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1a942c78-e566-4bb3-8095-f37f9bcecb5b/619_californium.jpg Big List Entries - californium - Make it stand out August 1939 photo of the 60-inch (152 cm) cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley used to synthesize californium and other transuranic elements. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/doh-duh monthly 0.5 2023-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0dd914ed-e55c-48b6-af5c-ec88b1117e68/618_doh.jpg Big List Entries - d'oh / duh - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/deadline monthly 0.5 2023-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b90dd681-7a9a-40a9-97bf-042a7d7f8b02/617_deadline.jpg Big List Entries - deadline - Make it stand out 1882 drawing of the deadline at Andersonville prison camp, Georgia during the US Civil War https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/uranium-pitchblende monthly 0.5 2023-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7371ec59-2027-4883-95a9-01b58b592f49/616_uranium.jpg Big List Entries - uranium / pitchblende / yellowcake - Make it stand out A disc of highly enriched uranium processed at the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/caucus monthly 0.5 2023-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d94e6730-1e01-4404-82da-a063ffdced8d/615_caucus.jpg Big List Entries - caucus - Make it stand out Scene from the 2008 Iowa presidential caucus https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/oort-cloud monthly 0.5 2023-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4070cc42-6c4c-42f2-8297-d12f650f1fea/614_Oortcloud.jpg Big List Entries - Oort cloud - Make it stand out Diagram of solar system distances showing the Oort cloud. The scale is in astronomical units (AU) and is logarithmic. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/csium-cesium monthly 0.5 2023-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/47bf6bf7-5ea3-47d8-bd49-119253c6080c/613_caesium.jpg Big List Entries - cæsium / cesium - Make it stand out Caesium-133 crystal stored in an ampule of argon https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/brothel monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/af143ed6-3cfc-4e3c-941a-3fdecf814984/612_brothel.jpg Big List Entries - brothel - Make it stand out Brothel, by Joachim Beuckelaer, 1562 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kuiper-belt-objects monthly 0.5 2023-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8be1608e-fcba-417e-af5a-ad87f7994403/611_KuiperBelt.png Big List Entries - Kuiper belt objects - Make it stand out Kuiper-belt objects (blue) with the sun and giant planets marked. Distances, but not sizes, are to scale. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cadmium monthly 0.5 2023-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2ae5ba87-4185-4ec6-9280-7944d5ea9961/610_cadmium.jpg Big List Entries - cadmium - Make it stand out Two blocks of cadmium, one an oblong bar and the other a cube https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/brass-tacks monthly 0.5 2023-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8e26c27e-4563-46e0-91f3-c52f8b50e284/609_brasstacks.jpg Big List Entries - brass tacks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/asteroid-ceres-pallas-juno-vesta monthly 0.5 2023-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2870d6ce-64f5-4a70-a772-928a3610621f/608_asteroid.jpg Big List Entries - asteroid / Ceres / Pallas / Juno / Vesta - Make it stand out The asteroid Ceres https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/plutonium-pluto monthly 0.5 2023-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cfd54177-d064-4e85-a43a-2af32ceaf23f/607_plutonium.jpg Big List Entries - plutonium - Make it stand out A sphere of plutonium partially surrounded by tungsten-carbide blocks to reflect neutrons back into the sphere; used in 1945 at Los Alamos in experiments to test the critical mass of the element https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hoosier monthly 0.5 2023-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626954024603-7FHTNGGVTAT1OY1PELSI/300_Hoosier.jpg Big List Entries - Hoosier - Make it stand out Illustration from the 14 June 1905 issue of Puck magazine, depicting U.S. Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, former senator from Indiana, as Don Quixote keeping vigil over his armor. The armor is emblazoned with a sash that reads “Indiana Organization.” A full moon, with the face of President Theodore Roosevelt, is overhead. A hobby horse representing Rocinante is in the background. The caption reads: “The Hoosier Don Quixote: The Flower of Indiana Knighthood Keeping Watch Over His Boiler-Plate.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pluto monthly 0.5 2023-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/123fbac7-4f47-47a4-bc8a-6f5e1d599a70/605_Pluto.jpg Big List Entries - Pluto - Make it stand out True-color image of the dwarf planet Pluto, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft, 2015 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/boron monthly 0.5 2023-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a3fba543-856e-470b-8879-309c705d3131/604_boron.jpg Big List Entries - boron - Make it stand out Boron https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/indict-indictment monthly 0.5 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f9ac5325-3ea6-4fcf-929f-c768d6ba4d4d/603a_indict.jpg Big List Entries - indict / indictment - Make it stand out First page of a 2014 US federal indictment https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/whore monthly 0.5 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/32811dd1-2821-4ccd-bb1d-96aed38878ec/603_whore.jpg Big List Entries - whore - Make it stand out Colored version of an illustration of the Whore of Babylon that appeared in Martin Luther’s 1534 translation of the Bible https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b0338694-1a9a-40b8-9254-03ae2ae4c92d/603_whore_2.jpg Big List Entries - whore - Make it stand out Extract from Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.34, p. 270, showing the interlinear gloss of fulan horen & byccan (foul whores and bitches) for fracodan myltestran (wicked prostitutes) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/uranus monthly 0.5 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e140e542-4ce4-407d-9cb2-cf861a74b414/602_Uranus.jpg Big List Entries - Uranus - Make it stand out Uranus, imaged by the Hubble space telescope https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/march-madness monthly 0.5 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2b0ba34b-7b49-4a13-a291-5c0762200844/601a_MarchMadness.jpg Big List Entries - March Madness - Make it stand out Butler's Andrew Smith and Connecticut's Alex Oriakhi battle for the opening tip at the 2011 NCAA Championship game on April 4, 2011. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bohrium monthly 0.5 2023-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5e2ae50d-5422-49c0-a464-ec28cf884728/601_bohrium.jpg Big List Entries - bohrium / nielsbohrium - Make it stand out Niels Bohr, 1922 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blackmail monthly 0.5 2023-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4979b569-3367-44f4-99b2-7feda9068ea3/600_blackmail.jpg Big List Entries - blackmail - Make it stand out Poster for the 1929 Alfred Hitchcock film Blackmail, the first British “talkie” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bit-byte monthly 0.5 2023-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0882f3f5-9a7a-4be5-967a-49b018ab41b3/599_bit.png Big List Entries - bit / byte - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bismuth monthly 0.5 2023-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/32aff1c7-0982-4b1d-97c5-176f57e83387/598_bismuth.jpg Big List Entries - bismuth - Make it stand out Bismuth in the form of a synthetic crystal; oxidation has given it a colorful patina https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/big-apple monthly 0.5 2023-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fbd567b5-a4ba-4aa0-a78d-6b53b51bfb24/606_BigApple.jpg Big List Entries - Big Apple - Make it stand out The Home Run Apple at the NY Mets’ Citi Field, Queens, New York https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/oscar monthly 0.5 2023-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fc79858a-6740-4843-805e-cee8280f10a9/597_Oscar.jpg Big List Entries - Oscar - Make it stand out The Oscar statuette awarded to Jiří Menzel’s 1966 film Closely Watched Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky). The Czech film won the award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Academy Awards in 1968. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/galaxy-milky-way monthly 0.5 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/10e42bab-d8a4-4c56-b0d1-d3d49c89dee7/596_galaxy.jpg Big List Entries - galaxy / Milky Way - Make it stand out The arch of the Milky Way above the Atacama Desert, Chile. The bright dot near the top of the arch is Jupiter, elongated due to the panoramic projection. The two Magellanic Clouds can be seen to the left. The curved line to the right of the image is the trail of an airplane. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/beryllium monthly 0.5 2023-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e2d35b16-0d72-4456-9bdf-cd68c8285092/595_beryllium.jpg Big List Entries - beryl / beryllium - Make it stand out Three samples of beryl, from left to right morganite, aquamarine, and emerald https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/allege monthly 0.5 2023-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0b1ec343-49a0-40ac-affa-0464902ca3b5/594_allege.jpg Big List Entries - allege - Make it stand out Drawing of two men in medieval dress on horseback embracing each other. A retinue of courtiers, one holding a cross on a staff, surround them. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/moon monthly 0.5 2023-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/93c917b0-3348-47d5-a0e2-7ed5b7a5b126/593_moon.jpg Big List Entries - moon - Make it stand out Total lunar eclipse, 8 November 2022 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/berkelium monthly 0.5 2023-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/eeaab440-b7a8-48af-a87a-feb841b0aa9b/592_berkelium.jpg Big List Entries - berkelium - Make it stand out 1.7 micrograms of berkelium; the sample is 100 μm across https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/break-a-leg monthly 0.5 2023-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/131852cd-15d3-4fa7-8525-8aa03ee8ef93/591_breakaleg.jpg Big List Entries - break a leg - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/earth-middle-earth monthly 0.5 2023-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3f90ed44-7fe9-4b64-98dc-65b5eb38c7e3/590_earth.jpg Big List Entries - earth / middle-earth - Make it stand out “Earthrise,” the iconic 1968 photo of the earth appearing above the surface of the moon, taken by astronaut Bill Anders onboard Apollo 8 as it orbited the moon https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bitch-son-of-a-bitch monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/710e6bed-2a74-4e4c-9055-cff68462a984/109_bitch.jpg Big List Entries - bitch / son of a bitch - Make it stand out Extract from Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.34, p. 270, showing the interlinear gloss of fulan horen & byccan (foul whores and bitches) for fracodan myltestran (wicked prostitutes) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1601472170907-6WN48HKJZ2YQQQLPFI27/109_bitch.jpg Big List Entries - bitch / son of a bitch Uses of the word bitch in American speech during the first four decades of the twentieth century (Source: COHA) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/barium monthly 0.5 2023-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9a495eac-fbf1-432e-a1e6-f798161d2a57/589_barium.jpg Big List Entries - barium - Make it stand out Pure barium in an argon atmosphere to keep it from reacting with the air https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bedlam monthly 0.5 2023-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9e4331a0-56b5-4f51-93c9-f632ea1925a1/588_bedlam.jpg Big List Entries - bedlam - Make it stand out William Hogarth’s c.1733 painting In the Madhouse https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/names-of-the-classical-planets monthly 0.5 2023-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/641c8601-2d30-4318-b000-3765bb589e42/587_planets.jpg Big List Entries - Names of the Classical Planets - Make it stand out The sun and the planets with sizes to scale, but not the distances from each other https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/superb-owl monthly 0.5 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c61ba6cf-f8ec-4848-9de9-46ade0230610/586a_Superb_Owl.jpg Big List Entries - Superb Owl - Make it stand out A Superb Owl https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sun monthly 0.5 2023-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/15a85dad-fc3a-4151-937d-aa1461823377/585_sun.jpg Big List Entries - sun - Make it stand out The sun, as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/astatine monthly 0.5 2023-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e3b88cd1-d8a1-490c-b8d1-8c165fc6b22f/586_astatine.jpg Big List Entries - astatine - Make it stand out Uranium oxide ore, in which can be found trace elements of astatine, a decay product of uranium https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/planet-dwarf-planet monthly 0.5 2023-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1584820652586-9MGRGDX20AGMNF3ZTLKH/933_BIG_P_COLOR_2_TRUE_COLOR1_1980.jpg Big List Entries - planet / dwarf planet True color image of the dwarf planet Pluto, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft, 2015. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/arsenic monthly 0.5 2023-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0a540059-4395-47d9-a8ff-827247e0042a/583_arsenic.jpg Big List Entries - arsenic - Make it stand out Arsenic triselenide https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ale-beer monthly 0.5 2023-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0b24e23b-89ec-4e08-8847-feb101fd8cfb/582_ale.jpg Big List Entries - ale / beer - Make it stand out A glass of pale ale https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/die monthly 0.5 2023-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5494ce51-cff9-4703-a40a-3a9fa8b4b1a6/581_die.jpg Big List Entries - die - Make it stand out “The Garden of Death” (“Kuoleman Puutarha”), by Hugo Simberg, 1906 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/argon monthly 0.5 2023-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7abc313c-9a32-4318-be00-69b48469ffb6/580_argon.jpg Big List Entries - argon - Make it stand out A vial holding argon ice that is melting. The vial, containing argon gas, had been immersed in liquid nitrogen, causing the gas to freeze. It started melting upon removal. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/burma-myanmar monthly 0.5 2023-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4c49124f-07fc-4686-afb5-fc03f0158704/579_Burma.jpg Big List Entries - Burma / Myanmar - Make it stand out 1991 map of Burma / Myanmar https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hijack monthly 0.5 2023-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/85551728-9295-46fd-a44f-5a6397c34530/578_hijack.jpg Big List Entries - hijack / skyjack - Make it stand out Captain John Testrake and a hijacker onboard TWA Flight 847 in Beirut in June 1985 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/antimony monthly 0.5 2023-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e5522b19-0651-4fa1-9a0a-b4c29330e71d/577_antimony.jpg Big List Entries - antimony - Make it stand out A chunk of antimony mined in Andalusia, Spain https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tongue-in-cheek monthly 0.5 2023-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f43ae128-2890-4719-9779-180f14738ab7/576b_tongueincheek.jpg Big List Entries - tongue in cheek - Make it stand out President Barack Obama literally has his tongue in his cheek as jokes about his birth certificate https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/at-first-blush monthly 0.5 2023-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/16a8baa1-e563-41c3-a269-5cab085e21fd/576a_blush.jpg Big List Entries - at first blush - Make it stand out A scene from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that makes one blush; Lady Bertilak in Gawain’s bedchamber https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bomb-cyclone-bombogenesis monthly 0.5 2023-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a605e62f-1b0c-4f93-afdd-48ed8b13c302/575a_bombcyclone.jpg Big List Entries - bomb cyclone / bombogenesis - Make it stand out GOES-16 satellite image of the January 2018 bomb cyclone blizzard that hit the northeastern United States https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trivia-trivial monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/441fcd57-be3b-4df9-9703-f017f917c756/575_trivia.jpg Big List Entries - trivia / trivial - Make it stand out The board game Trivial Pursuit https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bigwig monthly 0.5 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/24a88511-dfd8-4197-b152-4a9148d0214f/574_bigwig.jpg Big List Entries - bigwig - Make it stand out 1793 colored mezzotint of three affluent physicians in large, powdered wigs https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/actinium monthly 0.5 2023-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/93f6280c-1e21-467b-ae4a-8f30862d55e3/573_actinium.png Big List Entries - actinium - Make it stand out Actinium-255 medical radioisotope. The blue glow is due to the ionization of the surrounding air by alpha particles. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/atmospheric-river monthly 0.5 2023-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c8a7eade-a3cc-4f25-8a37-e9d9ad9a9755/572a_atmosphericriver.jpg Big List Entries - atmospheric river - Make it stand out 2010 image from the GOES 11 satellite showing an atmospheric river flowing from the eastern Pacific to California https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bagel monthly 0.5 2023-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/112087af-dbad-4846-84a4-4b51d36eb5b8/572_bagel.jpg Big List Entries - bagel - Make it stand out A poppy-seed, Montreal-style bagel topped with lox and cream cheese https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/triage monthly 0.5 2023-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/238dcc20-ee1d-46e4-85ed-8f166ca2de2f/571_triage.jpg Big List Entries - triage - Make it stand out A wounded American soldier arrives at a triage station in France during World War I https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rain-cats-and-dogs monthly 0.5 2022-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e35da51c-77b6-4f35-bbb6-a1626bb12b4f/570_raincatsanddogs.jpg Big List Entries - rain cats and dogs - Make it stand out Erik (the cat) and Lila (the dog) poised for conflict (or in their case, snuggles). https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/threshold monthly 0.5 2022-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7693d7ca-5011-4a4b-bd6a-ca63ba1c662e/568_threshold.jpg Big List Entries - threshold - Make it stand out A threshold https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/third-degree monthly 0.5 2022-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5f950b61-a542-47ee-9b4f-177fed50f036/567_thirddegree.jpg Big List Entries - third degree - Make it stand out Poster for the 1919 silent film The Third Degree https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/swan-song monthly 0.5 2022-12-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f3e4c825-e4b3-4cb3-87a2-24b2f696641a/565_swansong.jpg Big List Entries - swan song - Make it stand out Two swans in a pond https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/station-wagon monthly 0.5 2022-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bd31122e-ca69-4b8e-9ca9-b7a2a9e3992b/562_stationwagon.jpg Big List Entries - station wagon / estate car / shooting brake - Make it stand out A 1954 Studebaker Conestoga station wagon https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sweeps monthly 0.5 2022-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a5101c77-cd41-4395-86c6-bf485e45af42/564_sweeps.jpg Big List Entries - sweeps - Make it stand out 1958 photo of a family watching television https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/paparazzi monthly 0.5 2022-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c97cf94c-9cf8-4c43-9232-9e31bf24c2fc/563_paparazzi.jpg Big List Entries - paparazzi - Make it stand out A grainy, 1963, black-and-white photograph of actor Mickey Hargitay assaulting paparazzo Rino Barillari on the Via Veneto in Rome https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shit monthly 0.5 2022-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d3dae245-4ef1-46ad-a51f-30124918a8ca/371_shit.jpg Big List Entries - shit - Make it stand out The passage from Bald’s Leechbook that uses the word shit https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/missouri monthly 0.5 2023-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628604124196-ZER5W18W246S7IN364CG/315a_Missouri.jpg Big List Entries - Missouri - Make it stand out Detail of a 1673 map by Jacques Marquette that identifies the territory of the Missouri people. This portion of the map contains the name ȣmissouri along the southern bank of what is now called the Des Moines River, near its confluence with the Mississippi River, in what is now northeastern Missouri. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/muckety-muck monthly 0.5 2022-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/37cf7106-39ae-401c-ae53-dda5ac40f1c3/560_muckety.jpg Big List Entries - muckety-muck - Make it stand out Potlatch dancers in Klinkwan, Alaska, c.1904 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/legislature monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4bc45ab7-7cb6-49e2-b632-10eddac804bb/558a_legislature.jpg Big List Entries - legislature - Make it stand out The US House of Representatives on 18 December 2019 during the vote to impeach President Donald Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/polka monthly 0.5 2022-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ac9c02ed-694d-4553-966b-d5cea521112d/558_polka.jpg Big List Entries - polka / polka dot - Make it stand out 1847 lithograph of a couple dancing a polka. The colored lithograph is titled “The Bohemian Polka.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/politically-correct-pc monthly 0.5 2022-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/562705f4-4bf0-4971-b7b3-78af21a1d5da/557_politicallycorrect.jpg Big List Entries - politically correct / PC - Make it stand out Two black-and-white photos. Top: A February 1897 photo of the St. Petersburg chapter of the Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. Seven men gathered around a table with Lenin seated in the center. Over his right shoulder stands Alexander Malchenko. Bottom: The same photo with Malchenko airbrushed out. Malchenko was arrested in 1929 and executed in 1930. He was rehabilitated in 1958 and restored to subsequent reprints of the photo. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pound-sand monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dcac25b4-4cee-49bf-a1fd-15d9028eec0f/556_poundsand.jpg Big List Entries - pound sand - Make it stand out Two men compacting or pounding sand in preparation for building construction https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/michigan monthly 0.5 2022-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e161f745-f83d-4f35-a329-fdc1de634e0e/555_Michigan.jpg Big List Entries - Michigan / Michigander / Michiganian - Make it stand out Detail of a 1763 map of New France by Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette showing Lake Michigan https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/in-deep-kimchi monthly 0.5 2022-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/90ae674c-5382-46a9-b0fc-6be2d8503fe7/554_kimchi.jpg Big List Entries - in deep kimchi - Make it stand out A serving of kimchi. Pickled cabbage on a plate. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/money-laundering monthly 0.5 2022-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/efa5cd54-ea3d-4d0e-a929-38760bbd1a18/553_launder.jpg Big List Entries - laundry / launder / money laundering / lavender - Make it stand out Oil on canvas painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, c.1735 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fast-and-loose monthly 0.5 2022-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8586d7f4-fdc7-4af7-abec-ba19ab95f542/552_fastandloose.jpg Big List Entries - fast and loose, play - Make it stand out Oil on panel painting from the school of Hieronymus Bosch of a mountebank cheating a crowd of marks with a shell game https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/oat-sow-ones-wild-oats-feel-ones-oats monthly 0.5 2022-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8c47cfa7-968c-4fb8-9f10-2c722c3ce12d/551_oat.jpg Big List Entries - oat / sow one's wild oats / feel one's oats - Make it stand out Oats growing in a field. Tall grasses under a blue, cloudless sky. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/stiff-drink monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9c2170d2-e686-470d-97ef-08dc3bedfc72/550a_stiffdrink.jpg Big List Entries - stiff drink - Make it stand out A glass and bottle of Highland Park Scotch whisky sitting on a wooden surface https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/angel monthly 0.5 2022-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5028a74c-9045-4c02-a7f9-e6e46d6aa350/550_angel.jpg Big List Entries - angel - Make it stand out Oil on canvas painting of Archangel Michael defeating Satan by Guido Reni, c.1636. A fair-haired angel wearing an armored breastplate and holding a sword in one hand and a chain in the other places its foot on the head of a prone Satan. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hell monthly 0.5 2022-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/167c7765-32ef-471c-ad75-576a28157a6c/549_hell.jpg Big List Entries - hell - Make it stand out c.1450–1516 oil-on-wood painting of the harrowing of hell by an artist in the school of Hieronymus Bosch. Image of people being tortured by demons and being fed into the gigantic mouth of Satan in the center of the frame. At center left is Christ breaking down the gate to hell and admitting light. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mastodon monthly 0.5 2022-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3e08db4d-f725-4775-876f-13a05fc73690/561_mastodon1.jpg Big List Entries - mastodon - Make it stand out Painting of a mastodon (Mammut americanum). A hairy, elephant-like creature with long tusks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/db82bb6d-f5d5-489c-9e81-dcfe0bfffed2/561_mastodon2.png Big List Entries - mastodon - Make it stand out Cartoon drawing of a mastodon used as the mascot for the social media service https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/calculus monthly 0.5 2022-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fc0b72b4-8163-4858-a1d4-c9e13a5171b1/548_calculus.png Big List Entries - calculus - Make it stand out A graph depicting a tangent line and its derivative https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/earl monthly 0.5 2022-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9426a793-34d2-4e14-948e-59d2eb778d24/547_earl.jpg Big List Entries - earl - Make it stand out Statue of Byrhtnoth, the English earl who died leading the English forces against Danish raiders at Maldon in 991 CE. The statue was created by sculptor John Doubleday and stands at the battle site. Statue of a bearded man in helmet and mail armor, holding a round shield at his side and a sword aloft. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mammoth monthly 0.5 2022-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/87a62bb8-46ed-41dd-b7ea-96b6c04f266e/546_mammoth.jpg Big List Entries - mammoth - Make it stand out A wooly mammoth. A photograph of a model on display at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. A large, hairy elephant-like creature with enormous tusks. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/churl monthly 0.5 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/93c3d33a-0ab5-4984-ae98-684a577ab990/545_churl.jpg Big List Entries - churl - Make it stand out The portion of Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3501, fol. 90v quoted below. A tenth-century manuscript written in Anglo-Saxon Square Minuscule. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/book-beech monthly 0.5 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c111a2c9-cb47-4884-9ea2-7fcd479ab3c4/544_book.jpg Big List Entries - book / beech / throw the book at - Make it stand out A Gutenberg Bible. An old book with black-letter type lies open on a stand, on display at the New York Public Library. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gaul-gallic-gaelic monthly 0.5 2022-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/54ce3153-ad98-413c-8280-51d0a1fe78bb/543_gaul.jpg Big List Entries - Gaul / Gallic / Gaelic - Make it stand out The Dying Gaul. An ancient Roman statue (c. 225 BCE) depicting a defeated warrior from Galatia in Anatolia. A marble statue of a naked man sitting on his shield with a sword and a horn lying next to him. He is slumped, with his head bowed. A Celtic torc is around his neck, and there is a sword wound in his side. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chad monthly 0.5 2022-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9ed4c055-ce4e-4491-8f27-b818175bcb04/542_chad.jpg Big List Entries - chad - Make it stand out A man examines a punch-card ballot in the 2000 Palm Beach County, Florida election. A man stares intently at a punch card that is being held in a stand that is the shape of a human hand. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/be monthly 0.5 2022-11-13 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hot monthly 0.5 2022-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0a608d65-6003-41be-87a4-2fea42c9addf/540_hot.jpg Big List Entries - hot - Make it stand out An image of the sun taken with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft on 14 September 1999 depicting a huge prominence erupting from the sun’s surface. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/exception-that-proves-the-rule monthly 0.5 2022-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/109017fc-b2d9-4642-9772-33c4384491d2/539_exception.jpg Big List Entries - exception that proves the rule - Make it stand out Sign that reads, “no parking this side.” This fact that there is an exception forbidding parking on one side of the street indicates that parking on the other side of the street is permitted. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dizzy monthly 0.5 2022-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/08641d1c-6541-46ca-9b9c-c2cbb5d49855/538_dizzy.jpg Big List Entries - dizzy - Make it stand out A photo pointing up at a tree and taken with the camera spinning, providing a representation of dizziness or vertigo https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/big-bang monthly 0.5 2023-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/caf121ef-d9ca-4878-a475-faae8299d71f/537_bigbang.jpg Big List Entries - Big Bang - Make it stand out The Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the nearest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, about 2,400 million light-years distant, and part of our local group of galaxies. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/snowclone monthly 0.5 2022-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/23298293-e411-4e34-adf5-5c0aaca9f1d4/536_snowclone.jpg Big List Entries - snowclone - Make it stand out Meme consisting of a screenshot of the character Boromir (Sean Bean) from the 2001 movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, in which he utters the line, “one does not simply coin a snowclone.” The original line was “one does not simply walk into Mordor.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/slang monthly 0.5 2022-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bb2ae7f1-bad1-41e9-baa6-e377429cbd3f/534_slang.jpg Big List Entries - slang - Make it stand out Meme displaying the character of Philip J. Fry from the cartoon television series Futurama with the caption, “I swear English is the only language where 50% of the words are slang.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/eggcorn monthly 0.5 2022-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4a73cf9e-72aa-4b40-a55f-c2dab4fdc8c0/535_eggcorn.jpg Big List Entries - eggcorn - Make it stand out An example of an eggcorn. A café chalkboard where the French term prix fixe (fixed price) has been altered to prefixed. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sandwich monthly 0.5 2022-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7cc591b4-dee0-438f-90c5-f927293835de/533_sandwich1.jpg Big List Entries - sandwich - Make it stand out A chicken salad sandwich. Chopped chicken breast tossed with almonds, celery, and tarragon, topped with romaine, and served between two slices of brown bread on a white plate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0d048546-684e-435f-9ae5-ca6ccb964dfe/533_sandwich2.jpg Big List Entries - sandwich - Make it stand out 1783 Gainsborough portrait of John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich. A man in eighteenth-century dress, a blue suit with gold trim and a powdered wig, standing and holding a roll of paper with the title “Infirmary.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fudge monthly 0.5 2022-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b438f016-ab06-4af4-b56b-890a942f7cb2/532_fudge.jpg Big List Entries - fudge - Make it stand out Trays containing variety of fudges on display in a shop, including whisky fudge, mint fudge, and Baileys truffle https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/flea-market monthly 0.5 2022-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7d482417-dd35-4a75-a65a-5456ed2cb22c/531_fleamarket.jpg Big List Entries - flea market - Make it stand out Black and white photo of the Marché aux Puces (Flea Market) in Montreuil, Paris, 1928. In the foreground a woman sits in a stall selling used clothing while a man glances at her wares. Other vendors’ stalls and customers milling about the street are in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/duck-duck-tape-duct-tape monthly 0.5 2022-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/89c86132-7f6e-4e2e-957c-52e11904b0c2/530_duck.jpg Big List Entries - duck (fabric) / duck tape / duct tape - Make it stand out Duck/duct tape used to jury-rig a repair to the fender of the Apollo 17 lunar rover. A photo of a rear wheel of the lunar rover with folded lunar maps replacing a portion of the fender and fastened with the tape. Astronaut Harrison Schmidt is seated in the rover. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tucker-out monthly 0.5 2022-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c3483e7b-824f-4ffb-a382-de85e496fd27/529_tuckerout.jpg Big List Entries - tuck / tucker out / take the tuck out of - Make it stand out “Bear Hunt,” c.1640, an oil on canvas painting by Frans Snyders and Peter Paul Rubens. A bear is attacking a man on horseback, who is armed with a sword, while another man rides to his rescue. Dead or injured dogs lie on the ground. In the back, another man is blowing a horn. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shock-and-awe monthly 0.5 2022-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/78c2045c-0f18-41a7-9836-01882343a00b/528_shockandawe.jpg Big List Entries - shock and awe - Make it stand out Two US M-1 Abrams tanks passing underneath the “Hands of Victory” arch in Baghdad, 13 November 2003. The arch, one of two, consists of two outstretched hands holding swords that form the arch. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/proof-of-the-pudding monthly 0.5 2022-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/39b3bfc6-84e9-491e-9940-a21f92ab99ba/527_proofofthepudding.jpg Big List Entries - proof of the pudding - Make it stand out A haggis (the “great chieftain o the puddin'-race”) served on a bed of lettuce. An animal’s stomach, presumably a sheep’s, that has been cooked and sliced open, revealing that it has been stuffed with sheep’s organs, onion, oatmeal, suet, and spices. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lobby-lobbyist monthly 0.5 2022-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c1dbb566-edbe-4546-ba88-a1dfe97f0cfb/526_lobby.jpg Big List Entries - lobby / lobbyist - Make it stand out Sign in the Maryland State House reading, “No Lobbyists Beyond This Point.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1def96b1-6cc3-4c6d-9a64-414194fba0a6/526_lobby1.jpg Big List Entries - lobby / lobbyist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jazz monthly 0.5 2022-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/345ef6c0-17e3-470f-8351-2ad930100de6/525_jazz.jpg Big List Entries - jazz - Make it stand out A head-and-shoulders portrait of Louis Armstrong, facing left and playing the trumpet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ab85af73-bc7e-4cfa-ac1f-ed765209605c/525_jazz1.jpg Big List Entries - jazz - Make it stand out Art Hickman’s Orchestra, c.1919. Ten musicians in suits and straw boaters posing at playing a variety of instruments. Hickman is at right on the drums. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/see-you-next-tuesday monthly 0.5 2022-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b013e6d2-61b9-4011-9c06-dd3691ebbd0b/524_seeyounextTuesday.png Big List Entries - see you next Tuesday - Make it stand out Graphic, clip-art depiction of a calendar and a clock. I mean, what were you expecting? This isn’t a pornography site. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/wild-goose-chase monthly 0.5 2022-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/52a1259d-c7fc-439d-a972-8f3e33d5fd7b/523_wildgoosechase.jpg Big List Entries - wild goose chase - Make it stand out A flock of five Canada geese in flight https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/troubleshooter monthly 0.5 2022-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3d5623f9-6b75-479e-9cf2-c4b89572cbb3/522_troubleshoot.png Big List Entries - troubleshooter / troubleshoot - Make it stand out The “blue screen of death” resulting from a crash of the Windows XP computer operating system. A solid blue computer screen with white lettering that reads: “A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down…” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tit-for-tat monthly 0.5 2022-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/13453687-7a5c-40d1-898c-4d14b669a35b/521_titfortat.jpg Big List Entries - tit for tat - Make it stand out “The Grand Old Game of Tit for Tat.” An 1895 political cartoon critiquing U.S. tariffs by showing Uncle Sam refusing to accept imports from France and Germany because its home market is so large it does not need foreign trade. Uncle Sam is standing on a wharf labeled the “U.S. Home Market” which is stocked with commodities. On the right, on another wharf, is a German man next to a barrel of beet sugar; in the background, on another wharf, is a French man and a Belgian woman next to boxes of wine. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tenterhooks monthly 0.5 2022-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ed78aeb7-77a1-4555-ac92-f282a47a31fc/520_tenterhook.jpg Big List Entries - tenterhooks - Make it stand out Cloth being stretched on a wooden tenter with the tenterhooks visible. An undyed cloth suspended on a wooden frame by small hooks. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/swashbuckler monthly 0.5 2022-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3fd4df60-76b2-43d2-a684-aaf0b7bf8e78/519_swashbuckler.jpg Big List Entries - swashbuckler - Make it stand out Illustration depicting d’Artagnan and the three musketeers from an 1894 edition of Alexandre Dumas's novel. Four soldiers in early seventeenth-century dress walking arm-in-arm down a street, one holding four swords aloft. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/skin-of-ones-teeth monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3e81f079-8b79-48e3-9015-cd10b68eae27/518_skinofonesteeth.jpg Big List Entries - skin of one's teeth - Make it stand out A set of adult human teeth. Photo of the lower part of a person’s face with the mouth open and displaying the teeth. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/scram monthly 0.5 2022-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b6c34b8d-09e0-4513-bcd7-54b50852a0e3/517_scram1.jpg Big List Entries - scram - Make it stand out A button on a control panel of the Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1 (EBR-1) at the Idaho National Laboratory’s Atomic Museum that is labeled: “Scram. Reactor Shut Down.” The reactor was in operation from 1951–63. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bda8ec8c-c855-43b0-a144-004e12caf3b8/517_scram.jpg Big List Entries - scram - Make it stand out A four-panel, black-and-white Dizzy Dugan comic strip from July 1928 in which the main character uses the verb “scram” to order a man to leave a private beach, only to find the man is larger and more intimidating than he had thought. He ends up walking away and letting the man stay on the beach. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pumpernickel monthly 0.5 2022-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e8a42d42-2d71-4b4f-a680-aaaaf134a2fb/516_pumpernickel.jpg Big List Entries - pumpernickel - Make it stand out A 1919 photo of a Westphalian farm woman in traditional dress with a large loaf of pumpernickel bread under each arm. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mate monthly 0.5 2022-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9d050b74-6330-4fdd-a93c-751012a4f09c/515_mate.jpg Big List Entries - mate / checkmate - Make it stand out Checkmate. Photo of a chess-piece king, having been turned on its side, checkmated by a queen and a knight. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/loose-cannon monthly 0.5 2022-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/be17febc-ec0b-4dcb-baf3-944d4e0e2ae0/514_loosecannon.jpg Big List Entries - loose cannon - Make it stand out Richard Nixon on the phone while sitting at his desk in the Oval Office, June 1972 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lollapalooza-lallapalooza monthly 0.5 2022-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4c4adf15-48d2-41a2-83c6-2156457d947e/513_lollapalooza.jpg Big List Entries - lollapalooza / lallapalooza / lu-lu - Make it stand out The crowd at the 2015 Lollapalooza music festival. A crowd of people with arms raised standing before a stage. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/husband monthly 0.5 2022-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1c86e123-a6c0-4b37-9010-733a81d27898/512_husband.jpg Big List Entries - husband / husbandry - Make it stand out Goats! A photo from a 1920 book on animal husbandry showing five girls standing next to four Angora goats. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/head-over-heels monthly 0.5 2022-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/147dab09-f062-44f7-b5e5-686b0b29dcdb/511_headoverheels.jpg Big List Entries - head over heels - Make it stand out Still from the 1922 comedy film Head Over Heels, starring Mabel Normand. A woman sitting on a bookcase with her legs raised so her heels are above her head. A painting hangs askew in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/french-fries monthly 0.5 2022-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/27bd9d2c-5d77-4553-95c1-640656e6a070/510_frenchfries.jpg Big List Entries - French fries / pommes frites - Make it stand out A cardboard sleeve of French fries with a side of ketchup. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fortnight monthly 0.5 2022-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4d69f328-6941-40b5-a7b6-5f691fe25f25/509_fortnight.jpg Big List Entries - fortnight - Make it stand out A line from Ine’s law code from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383 regarding the value of sheep https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/eureka monthly 0.5 2022-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/74047b77-8801-41f1-b2cf-5245b42f2b5d/508_eureka.png Big List Entries - eureka - Make it stand out The Great Seal of California bearing the word eureka, referring to the discovery of gold there in 1848. A round seal depicting the goddess Athena/Minerva, a grizzly bear, ships sailing into San Francisco Bay, and a miner digging for gold. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/digs monthly 0.5 2022-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/666127cb-a261-4e6b-b189-7a088fa27229/507_digs.jpg Big List Entries - digs - Make it stand out Typical digs at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, 2013. A hotel room with bed, couch, chairs, television, and other furnishings with a view of the Las Vegas strip out the window. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cute monthly 0.5 2022-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f01faeff-a791-4e12-97ea-a9f98475fd14/506_cute.jpg Big List Entries - cute - Make it stand out The apotheosis of cute. A gray, striped kitten. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cowabunga monthly 0.5 2022-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a6367328-efa8-45fd-b38c-c362a8fae205/505_cowabunga_surfer.jpg Big List Entries - cowabunga - Make it stand out A surfer riding the tube of a wave off Teahupo’o (Tahiti) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f0c65906-bb72-4a99-bdec-6c33bff7473d/505_cowabunga_mad.jpg Big List Entries - cowabunga - Make it stand out Frame from a 1954 Mad magazine parody of the Howdy Doody television show. Chief Thunderthud utters Kowabunga! as he and Buffalo Bob flee from Clarabell who is about to squirt them with seltzer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cccf9f89-8765-47eb-be83-353e6845b627/505_cowabunga_snoopy.jpg Big List Entries - cowabunga - Make it stand out Frame from a 1965 Peanuts comic strip depicting Snoopy on a surfboard yelling “Cowabunga!” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/peg-pegging monthly 0.5 2022-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d4bbe31f-2f79-4476-8e51-0153ed37c0ff/504a_peg.jpg Big List Entries - peg / pegging - Make it stand out Not the type of pegs discussed here. A picture of four metal tent pegs. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gaslight monthly 0.5 2022-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5170b788-5fe8-43dc-9c53-748cc5c71187/504_gaslight.jpg Big List Entries - gaslight - Make it stand out Theatrical poster for George Cukor’s 1944 film Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotton. Drawings of the three actors in the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3f3e560a-790a-4806-b6f6-5053d6ff12aa/504_gaslight_001.jpg Big List Entries - gaslight - Make it stand out Google Ngram viewer showing a rise in the use of the words gaslight, gaslighted, and gaslighting starting in the year 2000 and especially after 2012 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chili monthly 0.5 2022-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/edc5dc0f-81b7-4769-b6de-9b7fae57c47d/503_chili.jpg Big List Entries - chili - Make it stand out A bowl of chili con carne, consisting of pork, beef, beans, tomatoes, and chili peppers, garnished with two tortilla chips. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cad-caddie-cadet monthly 0.5 2022-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/35f7379d-aed3-43fa-9505-230b76511de2/502_cad1.jpg Big List Entries - cad / caddie / cadet - Make it stand out U.S. Air Force Academy cadets at graduation, 2009. Rows of men and women in uniform marching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c081cd66-ec37-47f1-9b0a-5689e929c425/502_cad2.jpg Big List Entries - cad / caddie / cadet - Make it stand out “The Blackheath Golfer,” 1790 engraving by Lemuel Francis Abbott. A gentleman in late eighteenth-century dress with a golf club over his shoulder. Behind him stands a caddie carrying more golf clubs. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bikini monthly 0.5 2022-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/570a2d69-d074-4e3b-99fa-f1edc8f0422f/501_bikini.jpg Big List Entries - bikini - Make it stand out The “Able” nuclear test conducted at Bikini Atoll on 1 July 1946, the first of twenty-three such tests at the atoll. A mushroom cloud rises above a coral atoll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6f8fd875-be17-448f-8b0c-902aaefb867f/501_bikini1.jpg Big List Entries - bikini - Make it stand out Micheline Bernardini modeling the original Bikini swimsuit in July 1946. Black and white photo of a woman standing beside a swimming pool wearing a two-piece bathing suit and high heels. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/appalachia-appalachian monthly 0.5 2022-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/392d10f5-461d-4637-b3dc-3d14faf69df3/500_Appalachia.jpg Big List Entries - Appalachia / Appalachian - Make it stand out 1857 painting by George Inness of the Delaware Water Gap, where the Delaware River cuts through the Appalachian Mountains between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A river in the foreground that has cut through a line of hills in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/been-there-done-that monthly 0.5 2022-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5a4d8e14-53ea-4e4b-b98f-d76f5f0baf17/499_beenthere.jpg Big List Entries - been there, done that - Make it stand out Australian cricketer and commentator Alan McGilvray. An older man speaking into a microphone and gesturing with his hands. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/unboxing monthly 0.5 2022-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b5efdc83-7761-47f2-8382-c5452cc0ab6f/498_unboxing.jpg Big List Entries - unboxing - Make it stand out DJ Leonardo Roa unboxing a music mixer. Two hands removing an electronic device from a box. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/twenty-three-skidoo monthly 0.5 2022-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c0cfd0ea-42ca-45dd-b0cd-8b43b7b39460/497_23skidoo.jpg Big List Entries - twenty-three skidoo - Make it stand out 1910 postcard of a man ogling a woman with a raised skirt, exposing her ankles, with New York City’s Flatiron Building in the background. It has the caption, “I am seeing great things.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/truck-truck-farm monthly 0.5 2022-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a0e8486c-edc8-4e09-8aee-44a3bd932446/496_truck.jpg Big List Entries - truck / truck farm - Make it stand out A vintage, red Plymouth pickup truck https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/quiet-part-out-loud monthly 0.5 2022-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1d77a1bd-1910-4daa-bba1-8e62f439ebba/495_quietpartoutloud.jpg Big List Entries - quiet part (out) loud - Make it stand out Meme of the Simpsons character Krusty the Klown saying, “Oops! I said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud.” From a 5 March 1995 episode of the animated television series The Simpsons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/34bc9360-2279-4474-8983-b8819c24da86/495_quietpartoutloud_twitter1.jpg Big List Entries - quiet part (out) loud - Make it stand out 28 October 2008 tweet that reads, “said the quiet part loud again, at least i'm wearing pants this time” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/14ad5e4c-3e87-40e6-afd5-551b9faf483e/495_quietpartoutloud_twitter2.jpg Big List Entries - quiet part (out) loud - Make it stand out 17 November 2008 tweet that reads, “Dougie honey, I think you just said the quiet part loud :-)” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trip-the-light-fantastic monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/61db5fc5-e4c7-4f81-a9ad-867becb7cc65/494_tripthelightfantastic.jpg Big List Entries - trip the light fantastic - Make it stand out “Mirth” by William Blake. Watercolor illustration created between 1816–20 to illustrate Milton’s poem L’Allegro. The drawing shows the nymph Mirth surrounded by personifications of Laughter, Jest, Youthful Jollity, and Wreathed Smiles, among others. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trench-foot-trench-mouth monthly 0.5 2022-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3d90c504-9024-48db-887e-1546462098c8/492_trenchfoot.jpg Big List Entries - trench foot / trench mouth - Make it stand out Wounded soldiers being tended to in a WWI trench. A wounded soldier lying on a stretcher is given a drink by a medic, while another wounded soldier looks on. Several other soldiers are standing about in the trench. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trailer monthly 0.5 2022-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3981ef24-6046-4728-9ce7-7595e3c0660c/491_trailer.jpg Big List Entries - trailer - Make it stand out Screenshot from the trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 North by Northwest. The words “Every Staggering Sight and Sound is REAL” are emblazoned over the image of a burning tanker truck with a man (Cary Grant, or his stunt double) lying on the ground in front of it. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/stare-decisis monthly 0.5 2022-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/be707205-6f54-4ba6-9c11-139a95054535/493_staredecisis.jpg Big List Entries - stare decisis - Make it stand out Oblique view of the front facade of the US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC. A portico lined with marble columns with the words “Equal Justice Under Law” inscribed above them. A statue of a seated lawgiver holding a tablet is in the foreground. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tow-headed monthly 0.5 2022-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ca9fd1ae-cce0-4223-b7b0-c980763a5c37/490_towheaded.jpg Big List Entries - tow-headed - Make it stand out Pastel on cardboard painting of a tow-headed boy, wearing a black coat with gold buttons and seated on a chair. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/toe-the-line monthly 0.5 2022-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5ed92c88-92b0-4355-abee-4056c367c3db/489_toetheline2.jpg Big List Entries - toe the line / toe the mark - Make it stand out 2007 photo of US soldiers of the First Cavalry Division toeing the line. A line of soldiers standing at attention, wearing camouflage uniforms, boots, and cavalry spurs (the latter worn for effect rather than any practical purpose). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/360e4117-90d9-4655-b696-c653b4c8e341/489_toetheline1.jpg Big List Entries - toe the line / toe the mark - Make it stand out Illustration from Pickering’s 1775 Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia showing the lines soldiers must toe when marching in a wheeling motion. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tip monthly 0.5 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/93bc2ece-2d5b-4344-9056-b4550ab02a3a/488_tip.jpg Big List Entries - tip - Make it stand out A tip left at a cafe in Spain. An empty glass of beer sits on a table next to a bill for €4.20 and €5.00 left in payment. (A rare case where the European practice of leaving spare change as a tip corresponds in value to the North American one of leaving 15–20% of the bill as a tip.) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/juneteenth monthly 0.5 2022-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1592570421515-870A0IWHQ5YGLR56GV0L/037a_Juneteenth.png Big List Entries - Juneteenth A band at a Juneteenth celebration, Austin, Texas, 1900 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tinkers-damn monthly 0.5 2022-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/66893bad-3655-4d72-a6e8-e7bc27821eb1/487_tinkersdamn.jpg Big List Entries - tinker / tinker's damn - Make it stand out A nineteenth-century Polish tinker. A man seated on a chair, holding a pot between his legs and tools in his hands. Various tools and materials are strewn about his feet. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater monthly 0.5 2022-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2a8cb537-dd21-469a-bd63-c8b03656ecd7/486_throwthebaby.jpg Big List Entries - throw the baby out with the bathwater (don't) - Make it stand out Woodcut of a woman in sixteenth-century dress emptying out a washtub with a baby still inside, from Thomas Murner’s 1512 Narrenbeschwörung. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/egregious monthly 0.5 2022-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9cd929a9-99ce-4b5f-88ef-93dac23340ad/485_egregious.jpg Big List Entries - egregious - Make it stand out A flock of white sheep with a single black sheep standing in their midst https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/three-sheets-to-the-wind monthly 0.5 2022-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2c3cd5ef-ad70-4ff3-b10e-bdd44bcddc61/484_threesheets.jpg Big List Entries - three sheets to the wind - Make it stand out A mainsail sheet (the green rope) that is where it should be and definitely not in the wind. A green rope attached to a pulley on the spar of the mainsail of a boat. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/third-world monthly 0.5 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7a4721f3-f433-45f7-9154-7965f2aac2d7/483_thirdworld.png Big List Entries - Third World - Make it stand out Plenary session of the 1955 Bandung Conference. Diplomats from Asian and African nations seated in a conference hall facing a speaker, who is not seen in the photo. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tuxedo monthly 0.5 2022-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a6fe1245-bc54-472f-88aa-9c14dac68315/482_tuxedo.jpg Big List Entries - tuxedo - Make it stand out 1898 illustration of a tuxedo dinner jacket. Illustration of two gentlemen wearing formal dinner jackets, one with peaked lapels and the other with a shawl collar. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/teetotal monthly 0.5 2022-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/515d4d6b-afa3-4d31-b6d3-b6739ad2b6d9/481_teetotal.jpg Big List Entries - teetotal - Make it stand out c.1874 lithograph by Currier and Ives, titled “Woman’s Holy War. Grand Charge on the Enemy’s Works.” A young woman in armor, bearing an axe and a shield with the stars and stripes and astride a charging horse, leads a group of similarly armed women as they shatter barrels of liquor. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tattoo monthly 0.5 2022-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/fef078f5-76d7-400f-8030-2e8a8dd99ea1/480_tattoo.jpg Big List Entries - tattoo - Make it stand out Photo of Tuhoe Maori activist Tame Iti at an event to raise awareness and funds for Maori arrested in 2007 "terror raids" by the New Zealand government. Headshot of a Maori man with facial tattoos. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/taps monthly 0.5 2022-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5e99c5af-b329-4bd5-9f80-b0dd3dd68f35/479_Taps.jpg Big List Entries - Taps - Make it stand out A US Army bugler playing Taps at a burial service at Arlington National Cemetery, 28 January 2009, for former Sergeant Major of the Army William Bainbridge. A lone bugler in uniform playing amidst snow-covered cemetery headstones. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/taliban monthly 0.5 2022-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/994cc97c-d62e-4fa0-a9dc-310af5339452/478_Taliban.png Big List Entries - Taliban - Make it stand out Taliban fighters entering Kabul on 17 August 2021. A pickup truck with heavily armed men riding in the back. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bear-arms monthly 0.5 2022-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/61d01da6-3850-4012-ae97-112c1f01284a/477a_beararms.jpg Big List Entries - bear arms - Make it stand out Black and white security video frame showing the two shooters in the 20 April 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. The pair murdered 12 students and a teacher and wounded 21 others before committing suicide. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tabloid monthly 0.5 2022-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f4d66b69-05a4-4f82-bcef-b866c36927db/477_tabloid.png Big List Entries - tabloid - Make it stand out 2009 cover of the Globe, a Canadian tabloid, featuring lurid stories of greatly exaggerated, if not downright false, celebrity gossip https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dilettante monthly 0.5 2022-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9cf291f9-03b8-49fc-85a9-3b02a76515a9/476_dilettante.jpg Big List Entries - dilettante - Make it stand out 1863 engraving by Joshua Reynolds of a group portrait of the Society of Dilettanti, c.1778. Seven well-dressed gentlemen arrayed around a table, drinking and discussing artwork that is laid out before them. Pictured, from left to right: Watkins William Wynn; John Taylor (standing); Stephen Payne-Gallwey; William Hamilton; Richard Thompson (standing); Spencer Stanhope (standing); and John Lewin Smyth. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/amateur monthly 0.5 2022-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5e760810-8b6f-4b98-a23c-5bd3775bdcc9/475_amateur.png Big List Entries - amateur - Make it stand out The Olympic logo. Five conjoined rings of different colors. The modern Olympic games were conceived as the pinnacle of amateur athletics but have become increasingly populated by professional athletes. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lend-lease monthly 0.5 2022-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5b67024f-b2b9-4012-9401-ba82d3d881f8/474_lendlease.jpg Big List Entries - lend-lease - Make it stand out An M3A1 Stuart tank and part of an A-20 bomber on the deck of a ship bound for the Soviet Union, c.1942. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/go-for-broke monthly 0.5 2022-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cf266269-5aba-45cd-aaf4-1472bd346d9d/474_goforbroke.jpg Big List Entries - go for broke - Make it stand out Goichi Suehiro of Co. F, 2nd Battalion, 442nd RCT in the Vosges region of France, 1944. A Japanese-American soldier standing in a foxhole, holding an M-1 carbine. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/state-of-the-art monthly 0.5 2022-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4d7fcf7c-cecb-4533-bc80-d5fd40583239/473_stateoftheart.jpg Big List Entries - state of the art - Make it stand out A colored etching satirizing the technological advances of the early 19th century. A conglomeration of scenes, such as a steam-powered horse, a suspension bridge between Cape Town and Bengal, and cat food labeled “delicate viands for quadrupeds.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fan-fiction-fanfic-slash-ks monthly 0.5 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b80ae0bd-26fd-4611-b123-00bc7938b699/472_fanfic.png Big List Entries - fan fiction / fanfic / slash / K/S - Make it stand out A “deep fake” digital manipulation by a Star Trek fan of frames from the original television series to show the characters of Kirk (played by actor William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) kissing. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sawbuck monthly 0.5 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bad42bb3-c821-4e38-a2b1-945a0d821ca6/471_sawbuck2.jpg Big List Entries - sawbuck - Make it stand out A US 1861 ten-dollar demand banknote, with pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Lady Liberty, and an eagle on the obverse side and a large “X” on the reverse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/66aa2211-1ddf-4fd3-be20-6bb9108d0db3/471_sawbuck1.jpg Big List Entries - sawbuck - Make it stand out A sawbuck; a wooden trestle with two X-shaped pairs of legs connected by crossbars, on which a piece of lumber to be cut can be laid. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/testify monthly 0.5 2022-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d2665be0-277e-4a85-8d86-26587fabb214/470_testify.jpg Big List Entries - testify - Make it stand out Charles Lindbergh testifying in the 1935 trial of Bruno Hauptmann, his son’s kidnapper and murderer. Hauptmann is in profile on the right. Black and white photograph of a man sitting on a chair on a courtroom’s witness stand, surrounded by court clerks, lawyers, jurors, and onlookers. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/reggae monthly 0.5 2022-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/96c817c9-74ca-477e-95cc-9b75650088ec/469_reggae.jpg Big List Entries - reggae - Make it stand out Toots Hibbert in concert, 2010. A man in a blue, leather vest singing into a microphone while playing the guitar. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pneumatic monthly 0.5 2022-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d9e5f270-01c9-4ede-ba07-d341ff29df3a/468_pneumatic.jpg Big List Entries - pneumatic / Mae West - Make it stand out 1954 photo of Mae West being presented an inflatable life vest with her name stenciled on it and inscribed with signatures of servicemen. The vest is being presented by Maj. George Gaines, US Air Force. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pull-the-wool-over-ones-eyes monthly 0.5 2022-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ca7ed5f4-f072-4c88-a4f2-744dfca9f2ce/467_pullthewool.jpg Big List Entries - pull the wool over one's eyes - Make it stand out Caricature of a barber powdering a wig. A drawing of a man with a comb behind his ear and scissors in his pocket is applying powder to a man’s wig that is on a stand. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ketchup-catsup monthly 0.5 2022-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1341125e-71de-4a2a-8039-65a4962fe99f/466_ketchup.jpg Big List Entries - ketchup / catsup - Make it stand out An almost-empty bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup alongside a single-serving foil packet and two “Dip & Squeeze” packages of the sauce https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/avocado-guacamole monthly 0.5 2022-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c7824dff-f92a-4f50-8ec2-db1074e98aaf/465_avocado.jpg Big List Entries - avocado / guacamole - Make it stand out Avocados growing on Réunion island. Two green avocados hanging from a tree, a third is in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sanitation-sanitary-sanitorium monthly 0.5 2022-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/088bc9ed-a9d5-419a-a7b8-a594b2777ffc/481_sanitation.jpg Big List Entries - sanitation / sanitary / sanitorium - Make it stand out A patient undergoing treatment for tuberculosis at the Municipal Sanitarium, Chicago, Illinois, 1941. A doctor and a nurse stand over a patient who is lying on a treatment table in a medical facility. A chest x-ray is hanging from the wall. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/white-elephant monthly 0.5 2022-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5b622e7d-4d73-4bc4-bbe9-7751bb4180fa/464_whiteelephant.jpg Big List Entries - white elephant - Make it stand out Nineteenth-century, Thai painting (pigment on wood) of Prince Vessantra, a pre-incarnation of the Buddha, delivering the white elephant, named Peccaya, who had the ability to bring rain, to eight brahmins from the neighboring state of Kalinga who greedily desired it. Vessantra was exiled for giving Peccaya away. A man, Vessantra, riding a bejeweled, white elephant with a handler behind, pours a bottle of water on seven men (brahmins), while an eighth watches from nearby. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/plugged-nickel monthly 0.5 2022-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/baa03248-17d1-470a-b2fe-dd44f701433a/463_pluggednickel1.png Big List Entries - plugged nickel - Make it stand out An obviously plugged 1792 US one-cent piece. A coin with a bust of a Native-American man bearing the words “Liberty Parent of Science & Indus.” on the obverse, and on the reverse, a laurel wreath with the words “United States of America,” “One Cent,” and “1/100.” A round hole has been punched through the middle and then refilled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dd25d7f4-0926-46f7-b410-10eccf8f090c/463_pluggednickel2.jpg Big List Entries - plugged nickel - Make it stand out A much-more skillfully plugged 1795 US dollar coin. A US dollar coin with a bust of a woman, presumably Lady Liberty, with the word “Liberty” and bearing a date of 1795. The plug, a round circle about the “T” in “Liberty,” can just barely be detected. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/grandfather-clause monthly 0.5 2022-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b630b47d-9c2b-46bc-823d-ee94535a9249/462_grandfatherclause.jpg Big List Entries - grandfather clause - Make it stand out A mob of armed, white supremacist insurrectionists posing outside the burned-out offices of the Wilmington, North Carolina Daily Record, the state’s only Black-owned, daily newspaper following the successful coup against the city's government in November 1898. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pony-pony-up monthly 0.5 2022-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7fb2d810-1f2a-4ca3-bcbd-cab32f2854c7/461_pony.jpg Big List Entries - pony / pony up - Make it stand out A Fell pony; Fell ponies are a breed of horse from northwest England. A black pony with a long mane standing on a snow-swept hillside. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/push-the-outside-of-the-envelope monthly 0.5 2022-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a612b7a7-3e1a-47dc-995c-852f66b8fa18/460_envelope1.jpg Big List Entries - envelope / push the outside of the envelope - Make it stand out Chuck Yeager standing next to the Bell X-1 rocket plane, “Glamorous Glennis,” named for his wife, in which he became the first pilot to exceed the speed of sound in 1947. A man, wearing a leather jacket, with a parachute over his shoulder and holding a helmet, stands in front of the open hatch of a rocket plane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/11b65656-e9e4-4ea1-b128-02a68d08986e/460_envelope.jpg Big List Entries - envelope / push the outside of the envelope - Make it stand out 1944 hand-drawn diagram showing the curves that define a flight envelope https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/salary monthly 0.5 2022-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2826ea52-c19a-4a67-ac0a-9d70f835c6a0/459_salary.jpg Big List Entries - salary - Make it stand out A 1947 paystub for bassist Milton Hinton from Cab Calloway, for a gross pay of $140 and a net pay of $92.80 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/maine monthly 0.5 2022-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ced59ffc-e56d-4494-b7db-8e2cdfe370cc/458_Maine.jpg Big List Entries - Maine - Make it stand out The Portland Head Light Station on Cape Elizabeth, Maine. A rocky shore with a white, brick lighthouse and surrounding red-roofed buildings. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/posh monthly 0.5 2023-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ef0d58b6-2aab-4a23-8751-4b2e1db1a4e4/457_posh.jpg Big List Entries - posh - Make it stand out Caroline Astor and her guests at a 1902 ball. Black and white drawing of an elegantly dressed and bejeweled woman surrounded by other well-dressed women and men. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/vermont monthly 0.5 2022-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dee2b0c7-008e-4032-8094-c6d606252034/456_Vermont.jpg Big List Entries - Vermont - Make it stand out Detail of a 1780 map showing the state of Vermont https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pot-boiler monthly 0.5 2022-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1a7a595d-19ce-48ff-9aa2-d70b3113ad47/455_potboiler.jpg Big List Entries - potboiler - Make it stand out Pasta cooking in a boiling pot https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/florida monthly 0.5 2022-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0c6eca11-92b6-4190-b150-5b4b1114bbfa/444_Florida.jpg Big List Entries - Florida - Make it stand out Rosemary Beach on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Green scrub vegetation leading to a white sand beach and the placid waters of the Gulf of Mexico. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/port-larboard-starboard monthly 0.5 2022-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/b27ebad1-d5ef-4821-b203-f32e9c4bbab6/443_port.jpg Big List Entries - port / larboard / starboard - Make it stand out Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry showing Harold Godwinson sailing to France in two ships with rudders on the starboard (Old English steorboard) side of the ships. A section of an embroidered cloth depicting two sailing vessels, filled with people, with rudders on the right side. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ohio monthly 0.5 2022-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c447cabb-f6e5-43e3-9460-d31613c6db44/442_Ohio.jpg Big List Entries - Ohio - Make it stand out Detail of a map by George Washington that accompanied his 1753 “Journal to the Ohio.” A hand-drawn map showing a portion of the course of the Ohio River. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/poop-poop-deck monthly 0.5 2022-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/da965345-80b2-462c-a285-a8155c431f02/441_poop.jpg Big List Entries - poop / poop deck - Make it stand out The poop deck of the replica ship HMS Surprise, a re-creation of 24-gun Royal Navy frigate housed at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. A view looking aft on a replica of an eighteenth/nineteenth century frigate. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nebraska monthly 0.5 2022-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a53f22bd-8b3b-4aa3-9f98-a56788c65b08/440_Nebraska.jpg Big List Entries - Nebraska - Make it stand out An 1843 map of the “Nebraska or Platte River,” as it flows through what is now Nebraska and Wyoming https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/arizona monthly 0.5 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a36c4c52-5251-4217-9c7e-b1159a577559/0214_Arizona.jpg Big List Entries - Arizona - Make it stand out Saguaro cactus on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/poker monthly 0.5 2022-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3e11783e-3061-4de0-b199-5ee7fb3c7007/439_poker.jpg Big List Entries - poker - Make it stand out Four sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman playing Texas Hold ‘Em, a variant of poker. Four men sitting around a table gambling on a card game. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/point-blank monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ca44404b-00fd-4812-a390-f877fcad4d5c/438_pointblank.jpg Big List Entries - point blank - Make it stand out US soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment fire a 155-mm howitzer at a target within point-blank range https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/massachusetts monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/44d7b9a3-318c-4834-8417-1472f0f4bc6e/437_Massachusetts.jpg Big List Entries - Massachusetts - Make it stand out The hill from which the Massachusett people, and hence the state, take their name, a.k.a. the Great Blue Hill. A highway running next to a large, snow-covered hill. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/poindexter monthly 0.5 2022-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/dd3983f2-2f1d-4f8b-b8ff-913ac13b9bcf/436_poindexter.gif Big List Entries - poindexter - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bespoke monthly 0.5 2022-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/13ac5416-a5e0-44ae-89ad-48eac4f9cef2/435_bespoke.jpg Big List Entries - bespoke - Make it stand out A tailor, Mr. Raja Daswani, fitting a customer with a bespoke suit. A tailor makes adjustments on a partially completed suit being worn by another man. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/connecticut monthly 0.5 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6aee2b8e-1fe3-4e61-81c1-dd70d8861e13/434_Connecticut.jpg Big List Entries - Connecticut - Make it stand out c. 1650 map of eastern Long Island showing the “Cannitticutt” shoreline https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pizzazz monthly 0.5 2022-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ab347fbb-48c2-434f-8956-0a5c46b508fa/433_pizzazz.jpg Big List Entries - pizzazz - Make it stand out The two-page spread in the March 1937 Harper’s Bazaar that launched the present-day sense of pizazz. Watercolor images of female models showing off the latest fashion accompanying a short article titled “This Thing Called Pizazz.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mexico-new-mexico monthly 0.5 2022-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/27350ba7-38aa-4221-84bc-bff94b47f757/432_Mexico.png Big List Entries - Mexico / New Mexico - Make it stand out Map of Mexico in 1824, shortly after its independence from Spain, showing the state of Nuevo México, as well as the territory of the United States and of British North America. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pipe-dream monthly 0.5 2022-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4ddc038f-6d2c-4193-9e85-25326e3680d9/431_pipedream.jpg Big List Entries - pipe dream - Make it stand out 1881 drawing of a New York opium den from Harper’s Weekly. Several people sit and lie on cots smoking opium. An Asian man has entered the room carrying a tray. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/utah monthly 0.5 2022-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3c4a9fe1-927a-4c36-a64b-c0e66d0f6ed8/430_Utah.jpg Big List Entries - Utah - Make it stand out Detail of an 1844 by John C. Frémont showing the Great Salt Lake and the territory of the Ute people https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pig monthly 0.5 2022-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a4e8e097-e152-4fea-8a46-8b86630c8f3b/429_pig.jpg Big List Entries - pig - Make it stand out A smug and self-satisfied pig in its sty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8b37d4dc-2b78-4c71-bda7-8bbce7acbc4e/429_pig2.jpg Big List Entries - pig - Make it stand out Detail of the marginal gloss in the Antwerp Glossary that contains the line “Glanx glandis picbred” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/alaska monthly 0.5 2022-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0e49e061-70d7-4793-b7cf-4a20153a5f9c/428_Alaska.jpg Big List Entries - Alaska - Make it stand out A 1774 English translation of the map of the Aleutian Islands, originally made by Jakob von Stæhlin, inaccuately depicting the Alaskan peninsula as an island bearing the name Alaschka https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/georgia monthly 0.5 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/244a3cdf-2cd6-4e3f-8a71-ade7e6f0fe5a/426_Georgia.jpg Big List Entries - Georgia - Make it stand out Detail of the c.1450 Fra Mauro map of the world showing the country of Georgia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/huron monthly 0.5 2022-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/cf0ed8a7-e8bb-407d-9c1c-d82b229028a1/425_Huron.jpg Big List Entries - Huron - Make it stand out Satellite image of Lake Huron https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/piccaninny monthly 0.5 2022-02-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/texas monthly 0.5 2022-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3ca8e716-7ffa-473e-865c-11d652e98e3a/423_Texas.jpg Big List Entries - Texas - Make it stand out Replica of the 1690 Mission San Francisco de los Tejas constructed in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and located in the Mission Tejas State Park. A building in a wooded area, constructed of logs and mortar with a small steeple with a cross mounted on it. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/phoney monthly 0.5 2022-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/7a785448-4ca4-409b-999c-30df5118ff0c/422_phoney.jpg Big List Entries - phony / phoney - Make it stand out Image of the Phony War at the start of WWII in Europe from September 1939 to May 1940 when there was little actually fighting on the western front. Two British soldiers sitting beside two French airmen outside a dugout labeled “10 Downing Street.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/iowa monthly 0.5 2022-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/aa875068-41ae-4e61-a1ca-4543033e3012/421_Iowa.jpg Big List Entries - Iowa - Make it stand out Detail of an 1844 map of Iowa https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/peloton-platoon monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/088970ae-74f2-497d-86bf-efda781564ba/420_platoon.jpg Big List Entries - peloton / platoon - Make it stand out A peloton of bicyclists. A pack of cyclists on a leg of the 2005 Tour de France. Lance Armstrong is in the center of the photo, wearing the yellow jersey. Armstrong would win the tour, his seventh victory in the race, only to later have the title stripped from him because of doping. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jersey-new-jersey monthly 0.5 2022-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0ff180c6-48ae-40ec-9277-d72435a5b367/419_Jersey.jpg Big List Entries - Jersey / New Jersey - Make it stand out A cranberry harvest in New Jersey. Men standing waist-deep in a cranberry bog loading cranberries onto a conveyer belt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/350aa054-90f9-4030-b88a-ffcec588f110/419_Jersey1.jpg Big List Entries - Jersey / New Jersey - Make it stand out A Jersey barrier. A concrete road barrier, wide at the bottom and tapering to the top. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pastrami monthly 0.5 2022-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e9bb8a45-69ff-4e58-bcef-fb77d74d0e60/418_pastrami.jpg Big List Entries - pastrami - Make it stand out A pastrami on rye sandwich. A sandwich, piled high with meat, served with pickles and mustard. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/alabama monthly 0.5 2022-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1d8b6c50-9245-417f-83b9-233aa5f1b860/417_Alabama.jpg Big List Entries - Alabama - Make it stand out Detail from a 1743 French map showing the Alabama River as it flows into the Mobile River and into the Gulf of Mexico https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pagan monthly 0.5 2022-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/feb470c3-dccf-4552-91c9-5ae59a877e68/416_pagan.png Big List Entries - pagan - Make it stand out Nine present-day pagan symbols representing (1st row) Slavic, Celtic, and Germanic Neopaganism, (2nd row) Hellenism, Wicca, Italo-Roman Neopaganism, (3rd row) Goddess movement, Kemetism, and Semitic Neopaganism https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pennsylvania monthly 0.5 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f7bc2b08-f3af-476c-a4b8-a7c0cbd6c007/415_Pennsylvania1.jpg Big List Entries - Pennsylvania - Make it stand out Detail of a 1685 map showing the area of Pennsylvania settled by Europeans, i.e., Philadelphia and the surrounding environs and what is now Delaware https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/phat monthly 0.5 2022-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d1f4060b-3299-43d6-9519-275b155cb093/414_phat.jpg Big List Entries - phat - Make it stand out An example of white adoption of a Black slang term. The Phat Cart food vendor in Portland, Oregon. Three white people standing outside a food kiosk, with a fourth white person behind the counter writing down orders. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/normality-normalcy-normalness monthly 0.5 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e8f6be59-bf24-4191-81bb-80a8a617ede8/413_normality_AmerEnglish.jpg Big List Entries - normality / normalcy / normalness - Make it stand out Google Ngram graph of the frequency of normality, normalcy, and normalness in American writing from 1900–2019. Normality is the most common of the three. Normalcy surges in frequency in 1916 from almost no use to an initial peak in 1924. After that, it waxes in wanes in frequency but remains in fairly frequent use. Normalness is extremely rare throughout this period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2c8563e9-2ddc-4d73-8645-566b649c2ea0/413_normality_BritEnglish.jpg Big List Entries - normality / normalcy / normalness - Make it stand out Google Ngram graph of the frequency of normality, normalcy, and normalness in British writing from 1900–2019. Normality is the most common of the three, rising in frequency throughout the period. Normalcy is vanishingly rare before 1916, after which it slowly and steadily grows in frequency, but remaining significantly less common than in American usage (see graph below). Normalness is extremely rare throughout this period. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/indiana monthly 0.5 2022-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d016ac7a-b133-495d-b957-873de910c832/412_Indiana.jpg Big List Entries - Indiana - Make it stand out Detail of an 1804 map showing the then-territory of Indiana https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/peanut-peanut-gallery monthly 0.5 2022-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/331ae0db-cb28-4b7f-aca3-a9eef3619f0c/411_peanut.jpg Big List Entries - peanut / peanut gallery - Make it stand out The peanut gallery from the Howdy Doody television show (1947–60). A black and white photo of approximately 40 children seated in a grandstand labeled with a sign reading “Peanut Gallery.” A man in a stylized cowboy costume, Buffalo Bob Smith, squats in front of them. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mississippi monthly 0.5 2022-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6c2c7b69-78d6-4e23-a10f-21090ba5db5d/410_mississippi.jpg Big List Entries - Mississippi - Make it stand out Detail of a 1673 map by Jacques Marquette showing the Mitchisipi River. A hand-drawn map of a large river showing Indigenous settlements on both banks. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pandemonium monthly 0.5 2022-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a0932ad1-f173-4177-96c7-2573eb98ebf2/409_pandemonium1.jpg Big List Entries - pandemonium - Make it stand out An 1841 painting of Pandemonium from Milton’s Paradise Lost. A figure, presumably Satan, stands with arms raised on a rock outcrop surrounded by molten lava. A great fortress is in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/illinois monthly 0.5 2022-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2bba3ab8-6790-43cb-8a0d-a17cf5888f7a/408_Illinois.png Big List Entries - Illinois - Make it stand out Detail of a 1681 map of North America showing the Great Lakes, including Lake Illinois (a.k.a., Lake Michigan) and an Illinois village. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pale-beyond-the monthly 0.5 2023-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c376cd0a-fa04-41da-ba54-571ff38b7a43/407_beyondthepale.jpg Big List Entries - beyond the pale - Make it stand out A white picket fence, made of pales and decorated with holiday ribbons, casts shadows across a road in Brunswick, Maine. A white clapboard house and woods are in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/samoa monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9cdc3c21-fb13-4430-9f39-c3a3d06241c5/406_Samoa.jpg Big List Entries - Samoa - Make it stand out A tropical beach on Upolu Island, Samoa, with sand and rocks at the shore and palm trees slightly inland https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lesprit-de-lescalier-staircase-wit monthly 0.5 2022-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/532eb46f-1f2f-4fe1-a3ba-5b98f6a8c69f/401_lespirit.jpg Big List Entries - l'esprit de l'escalier / staircase wit - Make it stand out Cartoon of a man and woman walking down the front stairs of a building and the man saying, “L’esprit d’escalier’ That’s the expression I couldn’t think of.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/murphys-law monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d06a01f3-d19c-437e-b62d-db9317dbc32b/405_MurphysLaw.jpg Big List Entries - Murphy's Law - Make it stand out Title image for the Murphy’s Law column in the US Navy’s Approach magazine, 1956. A cartoon drawing of the head of an angry man accompanied by a statement of Murphy’s Law. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/delaware monthly 0.5 2022-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0b3e3925-0210-44d8-aed5-689182faa5af/404_Delaware.jpg Big List Entries - Delaware - Make it stand out c.1872 steel engraving of the Delaware Water Gap, the passage of the river through the Appalachian Mountains between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Image of groups of people in boats on and along the shore of the Delaware River with the gap in the mountains in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/oklahoma monthly 0.5 2022-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6c301bd8-6632-4835-bd9b-7fc56122ea2c/403_Oklahoma.png Big List Entries - Oklahoma - Make it stand out A stop sign with both English and Cherokee lettering in Tahlequah, Oklahoma https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mind-your-ps-and-qs monthly 0.5 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f309e1d6-7e80-4fa3-820e-84b9d96f0e13/402_mindyourpsandqs.jpg Big List Entries - mind your Ps and Qs - Make it stand out A Rwandan teacher instructing young children how to read. A woman and three children in front of an open book. The woman is reading aloud, pointing at the words on the page. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/buck-dollar monthly 0.5 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/49f206f2-a232-459e-83f4-46ac490a3423/400_buck.png Big List Entries - buck (dollar) - Make it stand out US Federal Reserve bank notes in denominations from one to one hundred dollars https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/uncle monthly 0.5 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e449c3b2-b473-47df-a5e7-107233a98dc7/398_uncle1.jpg Big List Entries - uncle - Make it stand out 1903 comic strip titled “Simon Finds the Telephone Useful.” A description is in the text below. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/star monthly 0.5 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5db55acd-6619-428c-b6bf-6b52fcbb0e3d/397_star.jpg Big List Entries - star - Make it stand out A picture of the star closest to Earth, the Sun. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/square-meal monthly 0.5 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1e25ce02-4f0f-42dc-8ea4-442f41403f72/394_squaremeal.jpg Big List Entries - square / square meal - Make it stand out World War II-era poster from the US Office of War Information about meat rationing. The headline reads: “For the Square Deal and the Square Meal Share the Meat.” An image of Uncle Sam, in a butcher’s smock, cutting a large slab of beef. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/squaw monthly 0.5 2022-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f1e704e3-9e10-4819-98e6-de009f54219d/395_squaw.jpg Big List Entries - squaw - Make it stand out 1842 lithograph of an Ojibwe (Chippewa) woman and child titled: “Chippeway Squaw & Child.” Image of a kneeling Ojibwe woman offering her breast to a child in a papoose carrier. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spud monthly 0.5 2021-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/17dc84f5-c6fb-4373-9b58-66ac8a7bc8bd/393_spud.jpg Big List Entries - spud - Make it stand out Text describing and an image of a spud, from Markham’s 1613 The English Husbandman. The text is quoted in the article. The image depicts a staff with an iron blade at one end. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/duck-duck-goose monthly 0.5 2021-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0996a86c-fbf2-43cc-b484-713b1799cf56/391_duckduckgoose.jpg Big List Entries - duck, duck, goose - Make it stand out Children playing Duck, Duck Goose. Children sit in a circle on the grass, while a girl chases a boy around the circle. A boy, presumably an it who had been caught previously is in the center. A school bus is in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spic monthly 0.5 2021-12-29 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/frankincense monthly 0.5 2021-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/090a523c-b906-417c-9160-00ba0bfec9c5/390h_frankincense.jpg Big List Entries - frankincense - Make it stand out Flowers and leaves of Boswellia sacra, a tree that produces frankincense, on the campus of Florida International University in Miami. Branches of a tree with green leaves and orange and yellow blooms. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jack-frost monthly 0.5 2021-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6de1694b-f044-4b30-bffe-2353b43184c9/390i_JackFrost.png Big List Entries - Jack Frost - Make it stand out c.1850 cover of sheet music for Arthur Henry Brown’s Little Jack Frost Quadrilles. Image of a red-hooded, young, fairy-like man with wings skating on a pond. A wreath of holly is around his waist. The picture is partially framed with more holly. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spick-and-span monthly 0.5 2021-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/5242487a-8262-4373-9dd2-0ce08b28bd36/392_spickandspan.jpg Big List Entries - spick and span - Make it stand out Advertisement for the cleaning product Spic and Span that appeared in the Ladies’s Home Journal in 1948. Colored drawings of a blond woman holding a box of the product and cleaning a door and wall, with wording that touts the utility of the cleanser. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/myrrh monthly 0.5 2021-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/73d698b3-6d51-497e-9e66-3a03b0a0523f/390g_myrrh.jpg Big List Entries - myrrh - Make it stand out Somali man collecting myrrh from a tree. A man cutting into a tree and catching the flowing resin in a basket. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/father-christmas monthly 0.5 2023-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/275bd15e-71f8-435a-ab1f-149579ca0394/390f_FatherChristmas.jpg Big List Entries - Father Christmas - Make it stand out Frontispiece from Josiah King’s 1658 The Examination and Tryall of Old Father Christmas. The image depicts a bearded man in fur-lined cap and robe seated in a chair with elements of a feast set on the floor in front of him. At the door is a mob of men with sticks. The caption reads, “Behold the maiestie and grace / of loueing, cheerfull, Christmas face; / Whome many thousands with one breath: / Cry out let him be put to death. / Who indeede can neuer die: / So long as man hath memory.” The image is actually from a later, 1687 edition, which I have used because it is a higher quality scan. The 1658 image is identical, but a mirror-image. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/elf monthly 0.5 2021-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/98e0a743-8058-4d72-86ea-1281ae5524c4/390e_elf.jpg Big List Entries - elf - Make it stand out “The Elf Ring,” by Kate Greenaway. A watercolor drawing of a girl standing in forest with a ring of elves (tiny people) sitting on mushrooms in front of her. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tinsel monthly 0.5 2021-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4f3e9d08-5a34-40fe-ab41-01e2a2f3172f/390d_tinsel.jpg Big List Entries - tinsel - Make it stand out A Christmas tree decorated with tinsel, mid-1970s. A tree with shiny, metallic strips and other decorations hanging from it, surrounded by toys. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/screw-scrooge monthly 0.5 2021-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8e5c88fb-64ba-4553-a463-1b2e7b47b777/390c_Scrooge.jpg Big List Entries - screw / Scrooge - Make it stand out Ebenezer Scrooge visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present. An illustration from an 1843 edition of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. A bearded man in a green fur suit and head adorned with holly holds aloft a flaming torch and gestures to a man in Victorian nightclothes. Around them are food and drink for a Christmas feast. The caption reads, “Scrooge’s third Visitor.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mistletoe monthly 0.5 2021-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bcd18d8f-1a6d-44ca-9172-33f542cefdd2/390b_mistletoe.jpg Big List Entries - mistletoe - Make it stand out Mistletoe (Viscum album). A green plant with white berries. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kris-kringle monthly 0.5 2021-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8c6416df-100f-444d-a55f-34979dc2c59f/390a_KrisKringle.jpg Big List Entries - Kris Kringle - Make it stand out 1893 German illustration of the Christkindl (Christ child) bringing gifts on Christmas Eve. A host of angels carrying the Christ child, a Christmas tree, and gifts, descends upon a snow-covered roof, while two children open a window to let them in. A candle-lit church is in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sos monthly 0.5 2021-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e89ac6bd-76e5-4a98-a9f9-e57c7f2ed930/390_SOS.jpg Big List Entries - SOS - Make it stand out RMS Titanic as it is leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912. The Titanic was the first ship to issue an SOS distress call. Black and white photograph of a large steamship with four funnels. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/resile monthly 0.5 2021-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c1b05f54-613e-401b-ac8e-341e633fa653/389b_resile.jpg Big List Entries - resile - Make it stand out Late sixteenth-century, posthumous portrait of Stephen Gardiner, the first person known to have used resile in English https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pink-pinkie monthly 0.5 2021-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/84ca0220-ed22-45b2-a17a-02f5003402ea/389a_pinkie1.jpg Big List Entries - pink / pinkie - Make it stand out Dianthus plumarius, common garden pinks, in the Jibou Botanical Garden Romania. Pink flowers with green stems. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/spam monthly 0.5 2021-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3452a8c5-6ff5-48f1-a760-0f517b2c2b99/389_spam.jpg Big List Entries - spam - Make it stand out Two cans of Spam meat product https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/smart-aleck monthly 0.5 2021-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/079a03cd-9b74-4727-ab2a-4a3c3021fbed/387_smartalec.jpg Big List Entries - smart aleck - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/son-of-a-gun monthly 0.5 2021-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/03cfd86e-1b0e-4758-9bb3-6a2fa93ab843/386_sonofagun.jpg Big List Entries - son of a gun - Make it stand out Advertisement for the 1919 film The Son of a Gun, starring Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson. Movie poster with two photos: one of Gilbert Anderson in faux-western dress, and the other of a man with a gun leaning over the body of a dead man (Anderson?), while a woman kneels beside the body looking concerned. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/soho monthly 0.5 2021-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/f0d7f636-f25e-4845-b766-ebdae1af0c2c/385_soho.png Big List Entries - Soho - Make it stand out 2009 street map of London’s Soho district https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a6a8d75c-6ff6-4ec8-97bb-a1c85938f464/385_soho2.png Big List Entries - Soho - Make it stand out 2013 street map of New York City’s Soho district https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/soccer monthly 0.5 2021-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/62752b74-7cda-44d3-876e-40e737a09ea7/384_soccer.jpg Big List Entries - soccer - Make it stand out A game of soccer played in Bloomington, Indiana, 1996. The offensive player (in red) has sprinted past two defenders (in white) and is about to either attempt to score or pass it across the field to a teammate (not pictured) in front of the goal. In the background, a goalie stands ready to try and intercept any scoring attempt. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/smoking-gun monthly 0.5 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/53bfc5fb-1864-41d9-a18c-c774d4404771/383_smokinggun.jpg Big List Entries - smoking gun - Make it stand out Undated photograph of US President Richard Nixon and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman conversing in the Oval Office. Nixon, seated behind his desk, is talking with Haldeman, who is standing nearby. On 23 June 1972 in a conversation with Haldeman like this one, Nixon ordered the cover-up of the break-in to the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate office complex. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/southpaw monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ffeb1bb2-6de1-4bdb-9521-4a5f580ed259/382_southpaw.jpg Big List Entries - southpaw - Make it stand out 1848 pro-Democratic political cartoon in which Democratic candidate Lewis Cass is boxing Whig candidate Zachary Taylor. Democratic vice-presidential candidate Samuel Butler looks on, while defeated candidates lie about: a Black character representing abolition, Martin Van Buren, and Millard Fillmore. The latter is saying “Curse the Old hoss wot a south paw he has given me!” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/crocodile-tears monthly 0.5 2021-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/a6a76ffe-b185-41d7-9dd3-0a23c94dbad6/380a_crocodiletears.jpg Big List Entries - crocodile tears - Make it stand out 1882 cartoon depicting former US President Ulysses S. Grant weeping over the persecution of Jews in Russia in a ploy to garner Jewish votes for his party in the 1884 presidential election. Grant is depicted dressed in a crocodile’s skin and holding a notice for a meeting in support of Russian Jews, while in the background is a reminder of his 1862 order excluding Jews from service in the U.S. Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/8f287fc2-9b8b-413d-a97b-c7f34698c1ae/380a_crocodiletears2.jpg Big List Entries - crocodile tears - Make it stand out Illustration from De rebus in Oriente miribilibus depicting the Donestre. The three-part image shows a Donestre conversing with a man, then attacking and devouring him, and then weeping over the man’s head. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sleep-tight monthly 0.5 2021-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/e8e14981-5ca0-4b0c-9dbf-1762611537a9/381_sleeptight.jpg Big List Entries - sleep tight - Make it stand out Erik (top) and Charles (bottom) sleeping tight. Two gray and white cats asleep atop a cat tree. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/montana monthly 0.5 2021-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/abf13b82-9b6b-4682-b17b-9953c46f0795/380_Montana.jpg Big List Entries - Montana - Make it stand out A Gros Ventre Indian encampment on the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana showing a woman seated in front of a hearth, man on horseback, an American flag, and tipis https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/skid-row monthly 0.5 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/c5e27c4f-889e-4783-88c1-3b5a2cde7ac9/379_skidrow.jpg Big List Entries - skid row / skid road / hit the skids - Make it stand out Skid row, Los Angeles, 2001. An urban street, littered with trash, with crowds of homeless people and their possessions lining the sidewalks. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/skedaddle monthly 0.5 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/044d3366-901b-4e27-90c6-d446225015c1/377_skedaddle.jpg Big List Entries - skedaddle - Make it stand out A memeified frame from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail depicting King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table skedaddling from the killer rabbit. The meme’s caption reads “Run away! Run Away!!” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sixes-and-sevens-at monthly 0.5 2021-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/9789057a-0ac5-471b-b2b7-b226dcdc79ec/376_sixesandsevens.jpg Big List Entries - sixes and sevens, at - Make it stand out Five six-sided, red dice with white pips https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sideburns monthly 0.5 2021-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/2179d498-5681-4f8e-85b5-ae397f3b193c/375_sideburns.jpg Big List Entries - sideburns - Make it stand out Major General Ambrose Burnside, c.1863. A man in a US Civil War uniform sporting exceedingly bushy sideburns that connect with his moustache. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/trick-or-treat monthly 0.5 2021-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/3661b425-7083-4c35-b9d9-b1d5ce8d34ee/145_trickortreat2.jpg Big List Entries - trick or treat - Make it stand out A trick-or-treater from Redford, Michigan, 1979. A child dressed in a skeleton costume leaving the front porch of a house carrying a shopping bag filled with candy. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shrink monthly 0.5 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ce126f1f-9a4f-4b0b-9ce6-bc217841db2c/374_shrink.jpg Big List Entries - shrink / headshrinker - Make it stand out Photograph of Sigmund Freud, c.1921. A bearded man in a suit looks at the camera while holding a cigar that is just a cigar. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/short-shrift monthly 0.5 2021-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/4db996e3-c69f-425d-9bfd-f33318a5f015/373_shortshrift.jpg Big List Entries - shrift / shrive / short shrift - Make it stand out c.1618 portrait of King Richard III of England. Richard is alleged to have required William Hastings to make a short shrift before his execution because Richard was hungry and wanted to get home for dinner. Oil on oak panel. A portrait of a man with a prominent chin wearing royal robes. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dakota monthly 0.5 2021-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/bf1d1faf-f2a5-4834-a5dc-d4f553005e87/372_Dakota.jpg Big List Entries - Dakota - Make it stand out A bison standing in grasslands in Badlands National Park, South Dakota https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nevada monthly 0.5 2021-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1635772235375-O9XB1SPWKXEGHH2SDMY0/370_Nevada.jpg Big List Entries - Nevada - Make it stand out Albert Bierstadt’s 1868 painting Among the Sierra Nevada, California. An oil on canvas landscape painting featuring a herd of deer drinking from a lake in the foreground while exaggeratingly majestic, snow-capped mountains with waterfalls rise in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mischief-night-and-other-names monthly 0.5 2021-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1635626835286-C5G469MY2QVEPJMXCZVK/369b_mischiefnight1.jpg Big List Entries - mischief night, and other names - Make it stand out A carved jack o’ lantern that has been set on fire https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/meta monthly 0.5 2021-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/aba644f6-56e9-44ab-b638-4353d1f3af1c/369a_meta.jpg Big List Entries - meta - Make it stand out Meme of a young Keanu Reeves with an astonished look on his face and the words, “Whoah...that’s so meta” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shark monthly 0.5 2021-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1978ab04-23fa-4566-bdba-e9e69cd0f3c9/369_shark.jpg Big List Entries - shark - Make it stand out A 1569 broadside advertisement for a large specimen of shark that was on display in London in June of that year. An anatomically incorrect drawing of a shark. The text of the broadside is in the entry below. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/witch monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/6d0cf651-abb2-46ba-b079-ea6cbb5e8b98/370a_witch.jpg Big List Entries - witch / Wicca - Make it stand out Two photos of Starr Maddox that appeared in the Mobile Register on 8 September 1970. The caption run in the paper reads: “BEWITCHING BUNNY—Starr Maddox, 23, a member of a Miami cult known as Wicca, poses (top photo) in her witching outfit with black candles and skull. As a Playboy Club bunny (bottom photo) she displays her 36-24-36½ figure and a portrait of herself done by a warlock.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pumpkin-spice monthly 0.5 2021-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/0425f6c1-5f7b-41a6-a86b-9a9b99a6ce38/368_pumpkinspice.jpg Big List Entries - pumpkin spice - Make it stand out A sign for Taco Casa advertising pumpkin spice tacos in College Station, Texas https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pumpkin monthly 0.5 2021-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/ad6a71eb-843c-43f7-92d9-fa2e9d3a4914/367_pumpkin.jpg Big List Entries - pumpkin - Make it stand out Pumpkins displayed for sale on wooden racks https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/seed monthly 0.5 2021-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/87e53434-2383-4770-9298-b897975ebdbe/366_seed.jpg Big List Entries - seed - Make it stand out Portion of the page of the Lindisfarne Gospels containing Matthew 13:3 and the use of the verb to seed, meaning to sow or plant. An eighth-century Latin text with a tenth-century Old English (Northumbrian) gloss. London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D.iv, fol. 51v. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/secretary monthly 0.5 2021-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/037c0afe-700c-4836-9d53-90945df554fb/365_secretary.jpg Big List Entries - secretary - Make it stand out Swedish models displaying the latest in fashionable, secretarial wear, 1952. A black and white photo of nearly identically dressed women sitting at typewriters. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sea-change monthly 0.5 2021-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/d2d1b76f-3912-45c0-98a7-4b903cd4bc38/364_seachange.jpg Big List Entries - sea change - Make it stand out An 1850 painting by John Everett Millais depicting the scene from Shakespeare’s The Tempest in which the spirit Ariel sings to Ferdinand. An airy spirit, surrounded by others, sings into the ear of a young man amid an Edenic setting. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/scuttlebutt monthly 0.5 2021-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1634734854783-Z0C5G4OXDFT1BKYWMQQT/363_scuttlebutt.jpg Big List Entries - scuttlebutt - Make it stand out WWII-era poster featuring a sailor named “Scuttlebutt Sam” pointing to another sailor’s insignia of rank, a pig’s head over three chevrons, and saying, “Don’t let them hang it on you! It Means Food Waster First Class!” The bottom of the poster reads in large letters, “Don’t waste food!” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/scot-free monthly 0.5 2021-10-19 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/screw-the-pooch monthly 0.5 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1634563560212-5DUKCF3YPFHD2Z74UMN0/361_screwthepooch.jpg Big List Entries - screw the pooch / fuck the dog - Make it stand out One of the last images of Liberty Bell 7 (Mercury-Redstone 4) before it sank beneath the waves on 21 July 1961. The capsule sank when the explosive bolts on its hatch blew prematurely. At the time, many blamed Astronaut Gus Grissom for screwing the pooch on this, the second US crewed spaceflight, but more recent evidence has shown it was a mechanical malfunction, not Grissom, that resulted in the capsule’s loss. The capsule was recovered from the ocean floor in 1999. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/assignation monthly 0.5 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1634300907128-9K2QZ6QRSEYKB3MP2OWM/360_assignation.jpg Big List Entries - assignation - Make it stand out A lovers’ assignation gone very, very wrong. James Northcote’s c.1790 depiction of Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3. In a portion of the scene that dramatic productions often omit, Friar Laurence appears in the tomb in the moments between Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths, offering to take Juliet to a convent. She refuses, and when he leaves kills herself. In the painting, Laurence, bearing a torch, appears on the stairs, looking down on the scene. Juliet has her hand raised, as if dismissing him. Romeo and Paris lie dead beside her. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gopher-gofer-gopher-wood monthly 0.5 2021-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1634217971320-76M651VZ6816PBQV7NDM/359_gopher.jpg Big List Entries - gopher / gofer / gopher-wood - Make it stand out A plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius). A brown rodent with long claws. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/scapegoat monthly 0.5 2021-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1634127374522-6L5PD5C3T2RJWYPL8QVF/358_scapegoat.jpg Big List Entries - scapegoat - Make it stand out A brown-and-white goat standing on a tree stump https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/scab monthly 0.5 2021-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1634045723543-COS9FZD84D44T8DBP9BA/357_scab.jpg Big List Entries - scab - Make it stand out Attack of striking railroad workers on scab switchmen and brakeman during an 1888 strike against the Burlington and Quincy Railroad in Chicago. Black and white drawing of men throwing rocks and bricks at railroad workers aboard a train. Other men, armed with shotguns, are atop the train as well. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sam-hill monthly 0.5 2021-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633957133115-ZPSW68BVZ9W4I9OWE7RD/356_SamHill.jpg Big List Entries - Sam Hill - Make it stand out Illustration by Gustave Doré for Canto 15 of Dante’s Inferno, where Brunetto Latini accosts Dante, while Virgil, Dante’s guide, looks on. Black and white image of a hellscape, raining fire and brimstone, where a naked man accosts a laurel-wreathed man, while another laurel-wreathed man watches. Around the three central figures are naked, suffering men. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/werewolf monthly 0.5 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633699895999-Q9FOH0AZOOI3TVPFC6T2/355_werewolf.png Big List Entries - werewolf - Make it stand out Woodcut, c. 1685. Three men, armed with clubs and a pitchfork, drive a wolf into well. On the left, of the scene the wolf, dressed in human clothing, is hung. In the background are the villages of Neuses and Eschenbach. The German caption reads: “Great Incident! With an outlawed wolf, who in 1685 in the Margraviate of Ansbach carried away and ate a number of children, was finally caught in a well on 9 October at Neuses near Eschenbach, and later hung.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/salad-days monthly 0.5 2021-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633613617737-S87XDVOQRL8M44RNUOSB/354_salad.jpg Big List Entries - salad / salad days - Make it stand out A recipe for salad set down by the chief cook for King Richard II of England, c.1390. The recipe, transcribed below, follows the rubricated word Salat. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sabotage monthly 0.5 2021-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633524664655-AWSP4QX2NLQLE789V32N/353_sabotage.jpg Big List Entries - sabotage - Make it stand out An Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) stickerette or “silent agitator” from 1915. A drawing of a wooden shoe crushing a top-hatted capitalist, coins spilling out of his pockets. In the background are silhouettes of industrial buildings. The IWW logo is above, shining like the sun. The caption is quotation from IWW official W.D. Haywood, “Sabotage means to push back, pull out or break off the fangs of Capitalism.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sabbatical monthly 0.5 2021-10-05 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rule-of-thumb monthly 0.5 2021-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633354797175-6HEX8E9M3LSKB55WLL8J/351_ruleofthumb.jpg Big List Entries - rule of thumb - Make it stand out A hand-colored etching by James Gillray, 1782, titled, Judge Thumb, or__Patent Sticks for Family Correction: Warranted Lawful! Francis Buller, in a judge’s robe and wig, walks left to right, carrying two bundles of sticks that he is trying to sell. He says, “Who wants a cure for a rusty Wife? Here’s your nice Family Amusement for Winter Evenings! Who buys here?” In the background a man is beating his wife with a stick. She is saying, “Help! Murder for God’s sake, Murder!” Her husband replies, “Murder, hay? it’s Law you Bitch! its not bigger than my Thumb!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633354853748-IZTDKEIGUVWF4TZDOOP8/351_ruleofthumb2.jpg Big List Entries - rule of thumb - Make it stand out An anonymous c.1782 etching of Francis Buller, in judge’s wig and robe, beating his wife with a stick, while a cat and barking dog watch. Buller says, “Tis no bigger than my Thumb,” to which she replies, “Would I had known of this before Marriage.” A partially unrolled scroll reads, “A Husband may Chastize his Wife with a Stick the Size of his thumb. Coke.” (No such statement by Elizabethan/Jacobean jurist Edward Coke has been recorded, and the statement was probably invented by the cartoonist.) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rube-goldberg monthly 0.5 2021-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633094078607-JT7S143Q6O2YFX3CJ9K4/350_RubeGoldberg.jpg Big List Entries - Rube Goldberg - Make it stand out An early Rube Goldberg “invention,” from 18 December 1913. “How to Open a Bottle of Beer Without an Opener.” A man holds a lighted candle under a string, causing it to break, releasing a ball that rolls through a trough, striking a hammer, which triggers a pistol, and so on through several more absurd steps, until a phonograph plays a record of a woman’s voice, and the “bottle of beer, being polite, takes off its hat.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rope-a-dope monthly 0.5 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1633002793872-NWGOS3JLBPJ76O241ZQ0/349_ropeadope1.jpg Big List Entries - rope-a-dope - Make it stand out George Foreman throws a punch at Muhammad Ali, who is employing his rope-a-dope strategy during the October 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” title fight. Two boxers, one throwing a punch against the other, who is leaning against the ropes, avoiding the hit. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/roger monthly 0.5 2021-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632923001782-29RN9XVV7JBAJ4XRZ11V/348_roger.jpg Big List Entries - roger (radio use) - Make it stand out Drawing of three American soldiers digging in on a beach in Sicily, 1943, while a fourth, a radio operator, works his equipment. In the background an LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) disembarks soldiers, and a plume of water rises nearby from an artillery hit. Other ships are in the distant background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/diaspora monthly 0.5 2021-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632831437123-RSOCVP0U3OJWUSJEKB96/347_diaspora.jpg Big List Entries - diaspora - Make it stand out An Asian man and two boys, presumably his sons, in traditional Chinese dress, walking along a street in San Francisco’s Chinatown, c.1900. Part of the Chinese diaspora. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ring-around-the-rosie monthly 0.5 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632750531152-0S5B9UPOOW3SUW3F17NK/346_ringaroundtherosie.jpg Big List Entries - ring around the rosie - Make it stand out Illustration accompanying the “Ring-a-ring-a-roses” rhyme in the 1881 edition of Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose. Colored drawing of six children in late nineteenth-century dress holding hands and dancing in the circle, while on a country hillside. A windmill and farm fields are in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/redneck monthly 0.5 2021-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632491388601-CLMNASNH05GDXNU1XPF5/345_redneck.jpg Big List Entries - redneck - Make it stand out Three white, cotton sharecroppers in Hale County, Alabama, 1936. Black and white photo of three men in working clothes, sitting in front of a building. The men are Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/redhanded monthly 0.5 2021-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632403661928-W0VCC0PR0X243B937MNK/344_redhanded.jpg Big List Entries - redhanded - Make it stand out Lady Macbeth examining her hand, believing it to be bloodstained, after the killing of King Duncan. A painting of a woman in a darkened room looking at her hand. An oil lamp burns on a table next to her. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/red-tape monthly 0.5 2021-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632325722294-YGDUQNED52J03RK55T0S/342_redtape.jpg Big List Entries - red tape - Make it stand out US pension documents bound with red tape. A sheaf of papers, folded, and tied with red cloth ribbon. The top document is dated 1 October 1904. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/red-herring monthly 0.5 2021-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632240934169-MZMUXS79ZBM0KK4X1387/341_redherring.jpg Big List Entries - red herring - Make it stand out One of the more famous red herrings in literature, from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 A Study in Scarlet, the first print appearance of the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes, not wearing his trademark deerstalker cap, uses a magnifying glass to examine the word “Rache,” which has been scrawled on a wall of a murder scene. Watson and two police detectives look on. The caption reads, “He examined with his glass the word upon the wall, going over every letter of it with the most minute exactness.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/real-mccoy-the monthly 0.5 2021-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1632143730179-WU57F5YWIOJQGR1VP9IC/340_realMcCoy.jpg Big List Entries - real McCoy, the - Make it stand out Black and white publicity photo of actor Deforest Kelly as Dr. Leonard McCoy from the television show Star Trek (1966–69). A man in a Star Fleet uniform from the show standing in front of a control panel on the bridge of the starship USS Enterprise. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/read-the-riot-act monthly 0.5 2021-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631886893369-0KAZ8VTT9JFTH7DFR5GW/338_riotact.png Big List Entries - read the riot act - Make it stand out The Peterloo Massacre of 16 August 1819. The Manchester and Salford Yeomanry cavalry regiment violently disperses a crowd of peaceful demonstrators and attempts to arrest its leaders at St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England. Eighteen people were killed and hundreds injured. The Riot Act of 1715 was not read on this occasion, although it had been for previous demonstrations at that location where the crowd had dispersed peacefully. Saber-wielding cavalrymen charge into a crowd of demonstrators, while six men and one woman, bearing banners with Phrygian caps atop them, look on in horror from the speakers’ platform. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/buccaneer monthly 0.5 2021-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631797871857-PSEJWKIQ4W99KWQRN1ZG/339_buccaneer.jpg Big List Entries - buccaneer - Make it stand out 1906 engraving of buccaneers under the command of Henry Morgan sacking the town of Puerto del Principe (Camagüey, Cuba) in 1668. Image of men with cannon, muskets, and pikes attacking a defended town, defended by a small, but similarly armed force. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yosemite monthly 0.5 2021-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631710691789-26CLR7N1EDGKUAR1LNIO/337_Yosemite.jpg Big List Entries - Yosemite - Make it stand out The Yosemite Valley, California. Cathedral rocks are on the right and El Capitan is on the left. A valley filled with trees, a body of water in the foreground, and two massive rock outcroppings to either side. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hypocrisy-hypocrite monthly 0.5 2021-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631626100302-A6DCCWJ7SD50T0TZGOEQ/335_hypocrite.jpg Big List Entries - hypocrisy / hypocrite - Make it stand out A fox, a much-maligned animal, but which is true to its nature and not a hypocrite, as some medieval sources would have it. A red fox standing in the snow. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/california monthly 0.5 2021-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631537545144-MLPV7HHE2RDDTFRMHAOW/336_California.jpg Big List Entries - California - Make it stand out Detail of a c.1595 map showing what is now Baja California labeled as California and the territory to its north labeled Nova Albion, the name bestowed upon the region by Francis Drake in 1579. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yankee monthly 0.5 2021-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631106670218-NU3P8YWARYC7QKC2S7E8/333_Yankee.jpg Big List Entries - Yankee - Make it stand out Cartoon titled, British Valour and Yankee Boasting or, Shannon vs. Chesapeake. The cartoon depicts the capture of the USS Chesapeake by the HMS Shannon in Boston Harbor on 1 June 1813. It shows a British boarding party routing and throwing overboard the crew of the Chesapeake, depicted as hapless and cowardly, while ashore in Boston a dinner party awaits the return of the crew who are not coming. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/punter monthly 0.5 2021-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631279680575-C3ZZNSK8C6D2HEYLQ7YZ/334_punter.jpg Big List Entries - punter - Make it stand out 1799 hand-colored aquatint of men betting on a horse race. A crowd of men on horses jostle each other at a betting post, attempting to make bets on a race that is already underway in the background. Identifiable characters in the image include thoroughbred owner Dennis O’Kelly, in a blue coat, on a white horse and holding crutches needed for his gout, and the Prince of Wales (later King George IV) in the red coat. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/docket-shadow-docket monthly 0.5 2021-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631195863025-VLN78IJYAVPAATTDZETY/333a_docket.jpg Big List Entries - docket / shadow docket - Make it stand out The US Supreme Court as it was composed in 2020–21. Chief Justice John Roberts is seated in the center. The associate justices are, left to right, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Stephen Breyer, Amy Coney Barrett, and Sonia Sotomayor. Nine people in black robes arrayed in front of a red curtained background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/world-war monthly 0.5 2021-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631020604418-KTHNUDQO7H8R6GGO4OUX/332_worldwar.jpg Big List Entries - world war - Make it stand out Soldiers of the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade in the trenches at Gallipoli, 1915. Three Sikh soldiers in a sandbagged trench alongside a slingshot-like device for hurling bombs. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/coney-coney-island monthly 0.5 2021-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630935141067-SQS0CNS7CX6GYWD5AAD8/331_coney.jpg Big List Entries - coney / Coney Island - Make it stand out Photo, c.1912, of a man and two women strolling down a city street eating hot dogs. Two men and a ladder are in the background. The photo is labeled, “Hot Dog,” Coney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1631134871707-B94FXGV62I42SHLJIZQA/331_coney2.jpg Big List Entries - coney / Coney Island - Make it stand out Detail of a copy of a 1639 Dutch map marking the location of Conyné Eylant (lower left) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/squash monthly 0.5 2021-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630676050808-IFXTD80NBCDTX2F1B64M/330_squash1.jpg Big List Entries - squash - Make it stand out Butternut squash, Cucurbita moschata. A pile of butternut squash in a field. One squash has been sliced open to display the interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630675956031-M440JJWPVZ9MZUJJM8XE/330_squash2.jpg Big List Entries - squash - Make it stand out A game of squash being played in The Hague, The Netherlands. Two men with rackets on a squash court. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/saskatchewan monthly 0.5 2021-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630597431699-7VJ43IWM9BQARO3TKDK1/329b_Saskatchewan.jpg Big List Entries - Saskatchewan - Make it stand out Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in winter. The city’s skyline viewed from across the mostly frozen South Saskatchewan River. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/alberta monthly 0.5 2021-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630499899144-TP9R5SVI7YO2CMG8OXQ3/329a_Alberta.jpg Big List Entries - Alberta - Make it stand out A farm near St. Albert, Alberta on an autumn afternoon. A large barn and several other buildings surrounded by fields of harvested corn, below a partly cloudy sky. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/wop monthly 0.5 2021-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630415996000-5382MH4T16ZDDWIZCH4N/329_wop.jpg Big List Entries - wop - Make it stand out Sheet music cover to the 1908 “Italian novelty song” Wop, Wop, Wop! by James Brockman, picturing a stereotypical caricature of an Italian man with dark hair, long moustache, earring, and red bandana. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/wog monthly 0.5 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630326144736-4CTM0D6LT6JORUBYVFXH/328_wog1.jpg Big List Entries - wog / golliwog - Make it stand out Cover image of Florence K. and Bertha Upton’s 1895 children’s book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a “Golliwog.” Image of two white, female dolls holding hands with a grotesquely caricatured black, male doll, all curtsying and bowing toward the reader. The Golliwog is depicted in typical blackface minstrel attire: blue jacket with tails and red bowtie and trousers. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/toronto monthly 0.5 2021-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1630068961321-98YYXUFN3BA911H6H6PM/327a_Toronto.jpg Big List Entries - Toronto - Make it stand out The Toronto skyline viewed from Centre Island in Lake Ontario, featuring the CN Tower and the Rogers Centre (the domed structure), home to baseball’s Toronto Blue Jays. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/with-a-grain-of-salt monthly 0.5 2021-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629985144115-V59KCYQFYMR09MQ1IGQ8/327_withagrainofsalt.jpg Big List Entries - with a grain of salt - Make it stand out A dish of sea salt https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hashish-assassin monthly 0.5 2021-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629899859200-7U7KPREQF4R5FF13V4GZ/326_hashish.jpg Big List Entries - hashish / assassin - Make it stand out Pieces of hashish, with a U.S. penny for scale https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/windy-city monthly 0.5 2021-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629809911396-G5LD5EN18G71H1AFTE5M/325_WindyCity.jpg Big List Entries - Windy City - Make it stand out The Chicago skyline seen from Lake Michigan. A city of tall buildings, foregrounded by a park-lined lakefront shore with sailboats moored along it. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hawaii monthly 0.5 2021-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629726510866-B25P0TIJ7FNIJY6SB7EF/324_Hawaii.jpg Big List Entries - Hawai'i - Make it stand out Lowering of the flag of the Kingdom of Hawai’i at ‘Iolani Palace, Honolulu on 12 August 1898, to be replaced by the United States flag signaling annexation of the island chain. Soldiers on the steps of a palace lowering a flag while a crowd of well-dressed, mostly white men and women look on. Fountains and palm trees are in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629726579592-7Z8U219NIRWTZ8G9N0GK/324_Hawaii1.jpg Big List Entries - Hawai'i - Make it stand out Meme of Homer Simpson with the words, “MMM Sandwich.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/widows-peak monthly 0.5 2021-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629464620042-38WVUFSVOLLP3EHX00D3/323_widow.jpg Big List Entries - widow / widow's peak / peak / pike - Make it stand out 1650 Painting of Olimpia Maidalchini in widow’s clothes by Diego Velázquez. Maidalchini was the sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X and reputed to have had significant influence over papal appointments and decisions. Portrait of a middle-aged woman clothed in black and with a widow’s cap that forms a peak on her forehead. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/whole-shebang monthly 0.5 2023-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629378496348-QCOUH5RMY6LQGXKLD5OT/322_shebang.jpg Big List Entries - shebang / the whole shebang / shebeen - Make it stand out A shebeen in Namibia. A rough, cinder-block building with an open door, a sign reading “If Not Why Not,” a sign offering internet access, and a plastic chair sitting outside. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/whistleblower monthly 0.5 2021-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629292360766-4377MIYEY6K4Y3COX1BT/321_whistleblower1.jpg Big List Entries - whistleblower / blow the whistle on - Make it stand out Photo of American whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 exposed the National Security Agency’s global surveillance program, which included surveillance of American citizens in contravention of U.S. law. Opinions of Snowden range from traitor to patriot. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/-stan-istan monthly 0.5 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629225438598-VYUHATNJEVNP44XQWJ3P/320a_stan.jpg Big List Entries - -stan / -istan - Make it stand out Detail of an 1835 map of the Persian Gulf region with labels for Afghanistan, Hindostan, and Beloochtstan. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/welch-welsh monthly 0.5 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1629205952287-9G3XX7XZUOQGZZYRNG9K/320_welch.jpg Big List Entries - welch / Welsh - Make it stand out “Betting on the Favorite,” by W.L. Sheppard. A group of men in nineteenth-century dress in the paddock of a horse racing track making bets. In the foreground, two groups of men are making bets, with one in each group, the bookie, writing in notepads. Another man is consulting a jockey. A racehorse is in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/wake monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628856983329-J9GQAX3ZCZD66YO4005F/318_wake.jpg Big List Entries - wake - Make it stand out One half of an 1894 stereographic, a posed, derogatory depiction of an Irish wake, titled “Mickie O’Hoolihan’s Wake.” Nine men and women are posed around a coffin containing corpse. They are smoking and drinking; one mourner appears to be passed out. A cask and various bottles are in the frame. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/vaudeville monthly 0.5 2021-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628795949827-GA91A5P618ILE97GUM84/317_vaudeville.jpg Big List Entries - vaudeville - Make it stand out 1894 promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles. A lithograph depicting a variety of performers, including clowns, ballerinas, dogs, acrobats, jugglers, and a performer in blackface. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/upsydaisy monthly 0.5 2021-08-11 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/upset monthly 0.5 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628515390395-AX92LCT91YALR6G8I03I/315_upset.jpg Big List Entries - upset - Make it stand out The 1919 Sanford Memorial Stakes in which Upset “upset” Man o’ War. In the photo, Upset, the right-most horse, ridden by jockey Willie Knapp, is in the lead, followed closely behind by Man o’ War, ridden by Johnny Loftus. Golden Broom, Eddie Ambrose up, trails in third. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/up-to-snuff monthly 0.5 2021-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628260220742-BSB51AELPUOXZJJB6OFE/313_uptosnuff.jpg Big List Entries - up to snuff - Make it stand out An 1827 engraving, titled The Contrast, depicting two women, one young and one old, snorting snuff https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/united-nations monthly 0.5 2021-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628168426464-NE1BVSZ0WQF1MBY6Q4U0/312_UnitedNations.jpg Big List Entries - United Nations - Make it stand out The United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York. A large hall with approximately 150 delegations sitting at tables and facing a speaker’s dais. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/under-the-weather monthly 0.5 2021-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1628079043944-FSFHEIM0XVHQDPRHP33O/311_undertheweather.jpg Big List Entries - under the weather - Make it stand out Early nineteenth-century painting of a French fleet under the weather, riding out a storm in the Bay of Tabarka, Algeria. Five ships being tossed about at anchor in a stormy sea. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/thats-white-of-you monthly 0.5 2021-08-03 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/colorado monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1627905812819-FO6WNVXILK4234456QKJ/309a_Colorado.png Big List Entries - Colorado - Make it stand out Map of the Colorado river basin as the river flows from the state of Colorado through Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California to the Gulf of California https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tail-wagging-the-dog monthly 0.5 2021-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1627651943065-MO2NX5VN2Z2R9ANMDR74/306_tailwagging.jpg Big List Entries - tail wagging the dog / wag the dog - Make it stand out Actor E.A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary in the original 1858 cast of Our American Cousin. A monocled man with long, bushy sideburns and wearing a frock coat. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/saunter monthly 0.5 2021-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1627565342037-G4IRRDTL06FGEXYUTL36/309_saunter.jpg Big List Entries - saunter - Make it stand out 1907 photo of John Muir. An older, bearded man with a walking staff sitting on a boulder. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rabbit-test-the-rabbit-died monthly 0.5 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1627473796274-979DB60CRQI66DNVA25M/304_rabbittest.jpg Big List Entries - rabbit test / the rabbit died - Make it stand out Poster for the 1978 film Rabbit Test, written and directed by Joan Rivers (subject of an early use of the phrase the rabbit died) and starring Billy Crystal. The poster has the image of a pregnant man (Crystal) with a woman (Rivers) pointing quizzically at his extended abdomen. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mansplaining monthly 0.5 2025-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1627390542206-NQAT81IC5W1DU54214NN/303_mansplain.jpg Big List Entries - mansplaining - Make it stand out “Classmates,” a 2006 sculpture by Paul Tadlock on the campus of the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. A bronze sculpture of a woman sitting on a bench, a book open in her lap, staring up at a man who has one foot on the bench, his arm resting on his knee, apparently speaking to her. The statue has been nicknamed the “mansplaining statue.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/york-new-york monthly 0.5 2022-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1627299995436-HGE6QVX85LTKAKC25Y0S/301a_York.jpg Big List Entries - York / New York / Manhattan - Make it stand out The New York City skyline. A cluster of high-rise buildings in lower Manhattan. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/quiz monthly 0.5 2021-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1627048267245-5SCZ9QI91X6BSHMUDM9I/301_quiz.jpg Big List Entries - quiz - Make it stand out “Quiz,” an 1839 painting by Edwin Landseer. In a demonstration of differences in size, Quiz, a Maltese dog, sits on a table, its paw on the snout of a St. Bernard. Next to him are an artist’s drawing tools. A mouse is in the foreground. Quiz belonged to Queen Victoria’s mother, the Duchess of Kent. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/two-spirit monthly 0.5 2021-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626873043561-6GUO19L3BPV82UH44KYL/298_twospirit.jpg Big List Entries - two-spirit - Make it stand out Turn-of-the-twentieth century photo of We’wha, a Zuni lahamana, a male-bodied person who wears a mixture of men’s and women’s clothing and performs social and ceremonial roles associated with women. A Zuni person in traditional dress sitting on the floor and weaving. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/columbia monthly 0.5 2021-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626788078637-RZJKAMITU0B3626QUGE0/297a_Columbia.jpg Big List Entries - Columbia - Make it stand out WWI-era depiction of a personified Columbia reaching out to the American people. A woman in stars-and-stripes clothing, including a star-spangled liberty cap, facing the viewer with arms outstretched. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/think-outside-the-box monthly 0.5 2021-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626698065468-J12ZBS8B3B9HJ4ROPDUI/297_thinkoutsidethebox.jpg Big List Entries - think outside the box - Make it stand out Illustration of the connect-the-dots puzzle that accompanied the 1971 article in Data Management https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/washington monthly 0.5 2021-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626442194707-2G7J6EOOG7S17ERQ2EIF/296c_Washington.jpg Big List Entries - Washington (DC & state) - Make it stand out Detail of an 1887 copy of Pierre L’Enfant’s 1790 plan for Washington, DC, showing the major streets, the Mall, Congress House (i.e., the Capitol) and the President’s House (i.e., what would become known as the White House) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/northwest-territories monthly 0.5 2021-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626354980697-PUWMX9TMYTIZ5SWO2EL2/296b_NorthwestTerritories.png Big List Entries - Northwest Territories - Make it stand out The Northwest Territories Proclamation of 2 December 1869, which announces the organization of the territory https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/manitoba monthly 0.5 2021-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626264991084-XCAP35CAC58CDT6DBZM6/296a_Manitoba.jpg Big List Entries - Manitoba - Make it stand out 1882 map of the province of Manitoba, which was much smaller than the present-day province. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/unmentionables monthly 0.5 2021-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626181978447-X7ADJMSHPB3DBO85FUD0/296_unmentionables.jpg Big List Entries - unmentionables - Make it stand out A 1789 painting of Elijah Boardman, later a U.S. senator from Connecticut, wearing one kind of unmentionables, a.k.a. knee breeches. An image of a man in a powdered wig, tan coat, dark knee breeches, and white hose standing in front of a writing desk with shelves containing books and a closet filled with fabrics. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rabbit monthly 0.5 2021-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1626099030984-W0YHX4W85H5MDBGXBJOK/295_rabbit.jpg Big List Entries - rabbit - Make it stand out Photo of a brown rabbit in a grassy field https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/wyoming monthly 0.5 2021-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625834521097-YOP5CV86OJU25MLXIFJ5/289a_Wyoming.jpg Big List Entries - Wyoming - Make it stand out Detail of a German map, c.1748, that depicts a native village of Wiöming on the banks of the Susquehanna River in eastern Pennsylvania https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/over-a-barrel monthly 0.5 2021-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625748168432-ZU6DTAL35RAQJ1IFY8CM/289_overabarrel.jpg Big List Entries - over a barrel - Make it stand out 1912 illustration of a man in an American prison being stretched over a barrel and then flogged with a paddle. A man, clad only in underwear, is tied down, stretched over a barrel screaming, while a prison guard beats him with a paddle. Another prison guard and two men dressed in suits observe. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/idaho monthly 0.5 2021-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625666411827-VFK68EDISSPXI1WXC6UZ/288a_Idaho.jpg Big List Entries - Idaho - Make it stand out Pocatello, Idaho in 1892. A sepia-toned photograph of a town with mountains behind. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/orange monthly 0.5 2021-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625582570249-JQ7XD569VU8YY2BN2P3Q/288_orange.jpg Big List Entries - orange - Make it stand out Two navel oranges, one whole and the other cut into pieces https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/quebec monthly 0.5 2021-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625491415409-XZ6QEWTL7HICDT69VCBC/287e_Quebec01.jpg Big List Entries - Quebec - Make it stand out Detail of a c.1909 copy of a 1688 map of New France by Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin showing Quebec City and the European settlements along the St. Lawrence River https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625491507386-A4ZZ31BKH011OKLWBJLU/287e_Quebec02.jpg Big List Entries - Quebec - Make it stand out c.1909 copy of a drawing of Quebec City accompanying Franquelin’s 1688 map. A view of the city as it stood in 1688. In the foreground are ships on the St. Lawrence River and a settlement along the water’s edge. Beyond that is a cliff face, on top of which are the Plains of Abraham and monumental structures. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/prince-edward-island monthly 0.5 2021-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625226815841-ZWRSND6DBST2RYCLM958/287d_PrinceEdwardIsland.jpg Big List Entries - Prince Edward Island - Make it stand out Green Gables House, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. The farmhouse that inspired the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Montgomery. Canadian law requires a reference to the novel in every article about the island (not really, it just seems that way). A white clapboard house with a green gabled roof. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ontario monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625144362249-V4GZD6MV5GHG9RT6U3D5/287c_Ontario.jpg Big List Entries - Ontario - Make it stand out 1631 French map, titled Description du Pais des Hurons (Description of the Land of the Hurons) of the region between Lakes Huron and Ontario. In the upper left are portions of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. The circular lake on the right that is labeled Lac Ouentarenk is now known as Lake Simcoe. In the lower right is a portion of Lake Ontario, labeled Partie du Lac Ontario. The location of present-day Toronto is on the depicted shoreline. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nova-scotia monthly 0.5 2021-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1625065144959-9GDIAQ3BA1VLBIJTHBJU/287b_NovaScotia.jpg Big List Entries - Nova Scotia - Make it stand out 1749 map of Nova Scotia. What are now New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are included in the territory, the latter bearing an anglicized version of the French name which appears on the map, I. St. John. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/brunswick-new-brunswick monthly 0.5 2021-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1624972250191-70LP4VKQUE1O7LGTBHNU/287a_NewBrunswick.jpg Big List Entries - Brunswick / New Brunswick - Make it stand out British Revolutionary War map of New Brunswick, New Jersey, c.1777. A pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing, showing topographic relief by shading of an area crossed by the Raritan River. Roads, troop positions, and military emplacements are shown and numbered, with a key at the bottom identifying them. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/virginia-west-virginia monthly 0.5 2021-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1624628184410-E33G5G940FRV5WAY5DI7/286a_Virginia.jpg Big List Entries - Virginia / West Virginia - Make it stand out 1606 map of the Tidewater region of Virginia, showing the colony of Jamestown, among others. In the upper left is an image of the Powhatan, the chief of the Tsenacommacah. In the upper right is an indigenous hunter/warrior, carrying a bow, a club, and the body of an animal he has killed. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shrewd-shrew monthly 0.5 2021-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1624545605740-DTOFWQC4M44OEIFK2QSV/286_shrew.jpg Big List Entries - shrew / shrewd - Make it stand out 1791 cartoon by James Gillray titled, The Taming of the Shrew: Katherine & Petruchio; — The Modern Quixotte, or, What You Will. The cartoon critiques the British attempt, with Prussian and Dutch support, to negotiate a truce in the Russia-Turkish War (1787–92). It depicts Catherine the Great of Russia fainting into the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II and a figure representing France, while English Prime Minister William Pitt, as Don Quixote, points accusingly at Catherine, while he sits astride Rocinante, representing King George III of England. Sitting on the horse behind Pitt are the king of Prussia and a Sancho Panza figure representing Holland. Ottoman Sultan Selim III kneels behind the horse and kisses its tail. Russia, supported by France and the Holy Roman Empire, and is winning the war wants nothing to do with a negotiated peace, while Turkey, which is losing badly, desperately wants the war to end. George III, depicted as an emaciated and scarred, horse, simply does what Pitt tells him. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/old-army-game monthly 0.5 2021-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1624451872273-GAVQDAEDZ1T1C0005QJM/284_oldarmygame.jpg Big List Entries - old army game - Make it stand out Indochinese soldiers playing chuck-a-luck in France shortly after the World War I armistice. A crowd of Asian men in uniform gathered round a blanket on which are bets and a cup and saucer, presumably holding dice. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ok-okay monthly 0.5 2021-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1624365716670-8H8GDOY1PRWFESW8GTTY/282_okay.png Big List Entries - OK / okay / A-OK - Make it stand out A Matthew Brady photograph of U.S. President Martin Van Buren, c.1856. While not the word’s origin, Van Buren’s nickname of Old Kinderhook played a significant role in popularizing OK. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hampshire-new-hampshire monthly 0.5 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1624278397796-ATRQE3RCR7XZYKWJ40YU/279b_Hampshire.jpg Big List Entries - Hampshire / New Hampshire - Make it stand out Entry for 860 C.E. in the Peterborough Chronicle that mentions Hamtunescire (Hampshire) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/off-the-wall monthly 0.5 2021-06-18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nightmare monthly 0.5 2021-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623929743983-IIKBUMOV9BWRTXR0O2LI/279_nightmare.jpg Big List Entries - nightmare - Make it stand out The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781. A painting of a woman, clothed in white bedclothes, lying prostrate on a bed while a gnome-like demon sits on her chest; the head of black horse pokes through the bed curtains to observe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623929792863-8Z1OY43Y1V83QYJVWKRW/279_nightmare2.jpg Big List Entries - nightmare - Make it stand out Portion of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc 108, fol. 134v. containing the text about demons and nightmares https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nightingale monthly 0.5 2021-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623849043715-6Q1GFG6UZJYK18SA3U7V/278_nightingale1.jpg Big List Entries - nightingale - Make it stand out The nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos); a brown songbird sitting on a branch with its mouth open, presumably singing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623849185546-BSAWD8XWDI7BYK9ONO0B/278_nightingale2.jpg Big List Entries - nightingale - Make it stand out The entry for nightingale in the eight-century Corpus Glossary, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 144 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623849234798-81CEDKSET3H39T92X1T2/278_nightingale3.jpg Big List Entries - nightingale - Make it stand out The opening lines of the Owl and the Nightingale in London, British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A.9, fol. 233r https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/arkansas-kansas monthly 0.5 2021-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623759886705-JQJA947S6G3SZ4TX60MR/277a_Arkansas.png Big List Entries - Arkansas / Kansas - Make it stand out Map of the Arkansas River basin as the river flows through the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas to the Mississippi River https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/catawampus monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yukon monthly 0.5 2021-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623414266833-U0P9ZW0Z27SG700ZKOHY/274a_Yukon.jpg Big List Entries - Yukon - Make it stand out A 1904 map of the Yukon Territory https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/new-york-minute monthly 0.5 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623328995234-87LSPLCQ572R8YMI9HOC/274_NewYorkminute.jpg Big List Entries - New York minute - Make it stand out The Grand Central Station terminal clock in New York City. A round, four-faced clock adorning the top of an information kiosk in the main hall of the terminal. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/new-news monthly 0.5 2021-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623246172172-I1YT31UXYBB6EMZJ5Y4F/273_new.jpg Big List Entries - new / news - Make it stand out Detail of the Vespasian Psalter, folio 35r containing the portion of Psalm 32(33) that contains the word neowne (new) in an interlinear gloss over the Latin text https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nerd monthly 0.5 2021-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623153483416-9YJG6MJQPLQAWODJE5DU/272_nerd.jpg Big List Entries - nerd - Make it stand out 1952 cartoon of a bald, middle-aged man broadcasting a radio commercial, saying, “You’ll get a large charge from Hoffman’s Teen-Age Clothes. So get on the stick with these real fat, real cool, really crazy clothes. Don’t be a Party-Pooper or a nerd. Yes, everybody is bashing ears about Hoffman’s Teen-Age Clothes....” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623153536353-6ORV8LC5GYDVOK853JB5/272_nerd2.png Big List Entries - nerd - Make it stand out The page from Dr. Seuss’s 1950 children’s book If I Ran the Zoo, that contains the word nerd, as well as a drawing of a Seussian nerd and of other fanciful creatures https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/neck-of-the-woods monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1623072342418-YI4LBYLO238JZBLFEBPU/271_neck.jpg Big List Entries - neck of the woods - Make it stand out Sign posted at the entrance to Maine’s Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park. A wooden sign giving the park’s name in the foreground with trees in the background. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/potato monthly 0.5 2021-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622812251183-NQXL3NEUW5234FJQIDSJ/270_potato.jpg Big List Entries - potato - Make it stand out A baked potato with butter https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/install-installation monthly 0.5 2021-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622727620689-HG9KZC0YA7QO2BG2TV55/269_installation.jpg Big List Entries - install / installation - Make it stand out Stalls in the choir of St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland. A block of ornately carved, semi-enclosed, wooden seats. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/misogynoir monthly 0.5 2021-06-02 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tennessee monthly 0.5 2021-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622554068195-VZSS405DYE2PBLG4ZTKY/265b_Tennessee.jpg Big List Entries - Tennessee - Make it stand out Detail from “A Draught of the Cherokee Country,” by Henry Timberlake, 1765, showing the village and river named Tennessee https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kentucky monthly 0.5 2021-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622553206027-VQ7RFUINO56NBYKAK3XZ/265a_Kentucky.jpg Big List Entries - Kentucky - Make it stand out Detail of a 1755 map showing the Kentucke River https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/woke monthly 0.5 2021-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622468388192-AVX4A8Y8022J3BOS77T1/265_woke.jpg Big List Entries - woke - Make it stand out A 7 July 2016 protest over the police shooting of Philando Castile, a Black man, during a routine traffic stop the previous day. Two women among a crowd of protesters hold up a sign that reads “#JusticeForPhilando” and has an image of a fist rising out the state of Minnesota. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/wisconsin monthly 0.5 2021-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622209706018-M6MG2T3QSFH3FHIR075E/268_Wisconsin.jpg Big List Entries - Wisconsin - Make it stand out Detail of a c.1819 map of the Northwest Territory (i.e., what is now the state of Wisconsin) showing the Ouisconsin River https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rhode-island monthly 0.5 2021-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622208540056-PGIO5FZG6HW5H7XLMG5K/267_RhodeIsland.jpg Big List Entries - Rhode Island / Aquidneck - Make it stand out Detail of a 1758 map showing the colony of Rhode Island. Aquidneck is labeled Rhode Island on this map. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/narc-nark monthly 0.5 2021-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1622118244909-UIW3VKWBP1RVM5J3TA0L/264_narc.jpg Big List Entries - narc / nark - Make it stand out A Japanese poster advertising the 2002 movie Narc, directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. The fact that the only word not in Japanese is narc shows the global ubiquity of the word. The image on the poster is a photo of two men from the waists down. Both are carrying guns. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fritz-on-the monthly 0.5 2021-05-26 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mulligan monthly 0.5 2021-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621949412356-XTHWPGA6UJJOOWX1HS7C/262_mulligan.jpg Big List Entries - mulligan - Make it stand out Cartoon by sportswriter Bozeman Bulger illustrating the fictional Swat Milligan’s 1,278 RBI hit. A stick-figure man in baseball uniform hitting a line drive into a sign on the outfield fence. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mortgage monthly 0.5 2021-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621861917811-13SEVAN50PGI5778OYI5/261_mortgage.jpg Big List Entries - mortgage - Make it stand out A house with a “For Sale” sign posted in front of it https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/carolina monthly 0.5 2021-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621601780177-MKFPWNNI2490K0HBRNWY/260a_Carolina1.jpg Big List Entries - Carolina, North and South / Roanoke - Make it stand out Detail of 1590 map of a region that would become part of North Carolina, showing Roanoke island (spelled Roanoac on the map) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/monkey-wrench monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621345133184-Q2T13ASHIXN1M6JFAT1V/258_monkeywrench.png Big List Entries - monkey wrench / throw a monkey wrench into - Make it stand out A page from a machinist’s textbook showing a monkey wrench (left) compared to a Stillson or pipe wrench (right). Both are adjustable wrenches, but the monkey wrench is designed to grip straight surfaces, like hex bolts. The pipe wrench permits some play in the jaws, allowing it to grip circular surfaces, like pipes. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/morphology monthly 0.5 2021-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621517764195-LMNLAK7MKPEB6G5KNC50/260_morphology.jpg Big List Entries - morphology - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/absentee monthly 0.5 2021-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621427166502-7C1XTIUOOLTWYUBOXEH0/259_absentee.jpg Big List Entries - absentee - Make it stand out An 1880 political cartoon titled “What Things Are Coming to; or, the Boycotted and Land-Leagued Landowner.” A tenant, wearing a traditional Irish conical hat, smoking a pipe, and holding a cudgel behind his back, confronts a blind landlord in shabby and worn clothing begging for rent. The landlord bears a sign reading, “Pity the Poor Landlord,” and is drawn to resemble English prime minister William Gladstone. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cicada monthly 0.5 2021-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1621255485557-WZN8WRD3R6XCBC7GJLEJ/257a_cicada.jpg Big List Entries - cicada - Make it stand out Seventeen-year cicada nymph of Brood X (dead); an orange insect with large, red eyes and small, immature wings https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mondegreen monthly 0.5 2021-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620999671873-O9S1UL9AUJXA8KK1IHMX/257_mondegreen.jpg Big List Entries - mondegreen - Make it stand out A 1592 “vendetta portrait” of James Stewart, the second Earl of Moray, painted to keep alive the memory of his murder. The body of a naked, dead man with a burial shroud strategically laid across his loins, showing wounds on his face, torso, and leg, and the words “God revenge my caus” written above. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/molotov-cocktail monthly 0.5 2021-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620909373439-64PPJMRZR2H7VJN86IIG/256_Molotovcocktail2.png Big List Entries - Molotov cocktail - Make it stand out 1940 charcoal drawing of two Spanish Republican soldiers using Molotov cocktails against a Nationalist tank during the Spanish Civil War. Image of a burning tank in an urban setting, with an infantryman who has just thrown a Molotov cocktail and another about to throw a second. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620909425944-8WUF7FPBDAFT97QHLBCX/256_Molotovcocktail.png Big List Entries - Molotov cocktail - Make it stand out Finnish soldier with a Molotov cocktail, c.1940. Man’s torso, wearing a white coat and military equipment belt, into which is tucked a liquid-filled bottle with a long match tied to it. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/moll monthly 0.5 2021-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620825100828-BSYSBX1W4GEUWUAA657X/255_moll.jpg Big List Entries - moll - Make it stand out Cover of Middleton and Dekker’s 1611 play The Roaring Girle. An image of a woman in men’s clothing, carrying a sword and smoking a pipe. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/minnesota monthly 0.5 2021-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620738468890-0A99PK4T0FTSXVRIGGCH/254a_Minnesota2.jpg Big List Entries - Minnesota - Make it stand out Detail of 1755 “Mitchell Map” of French and British dominions in North America showing the Minnesota River, labeled on the map as Ouadebamenissouté or R. St. PeterWhatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/eskimo monthly 0.5 2021-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620651378485-09PTPDGCGSV5FDMDZLCV/254_Eskimo.jpg Big List Entries - Eskimo Inuit family, 1917. A man, a woman, and child, dressed in furs, sitting on a log. A second child is in a pack on the back of the woman. The woman is sewing, the man carving a bone. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mojo monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620397960815-CMUXOGJ936P242BJDLIK/253_mojo.jpg Big List Entries - mojo Still image from the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery transformed into a meme with the words “I found my mojo, baby. YEAH!” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/milquetoast monthly 0.5 2021-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620300224870-TJTC2MHCV4ZLCJZJNM2E/251_milquetoast.jpg Big List Entries - milquetoast A 1928 installment of H.T. Webster’s The Timid Soul in which in which a bellman announces a message for Caspar Milquetoast (far right), but he is too embarrassed by his name to answer https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/doom monthly 0.5 2021-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620220450680-YNACEGFVTKOY2YV0CSK9/250_doom.jpg Big List Entries - doom Image of the Last Judgment, an illumination from a thirteenth-century psalter. The image is in three tiers. At the top is Christ surrounded by angels blowing horns and saints. The middle tier depicts a sword-bearing angel dividing the people, with some (left) being led to heaven by an angel and some (right) being led to hell by a devil. The lower tier depicts Christ resurrecting the dead (left) and devils roasting people in hell (right). https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/mayday monthly 0.5 2021-05-04 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/man-woman monthly 0.5 2021-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1620045952463-SOL8EVNJ8P36AQZACMPJ/248_man.jpg Big List Entries - man / woman / wife Detail of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Luke 2:23, showing the Old English interlinear gloss of the Latin text; being a Northumbrian text, it uses the mon form https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/louisiana monthly 0.5 2021-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1619787491968-ZP4WUAAYH8BU8VSXVKLY/247a_Louisiana.jpg Big List Entries - Louisiana Facsimile of a 1684 map of Louisiane (Louisiana) made by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, who accompanied Cavelier’s expedition. The facsimile dates to c.1900; the original has been lost. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/martini monthly 0.5 2021-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1619704151697-R1AXONC72C1IY3NF0PHD/246_martini.jpg Big List Entries - martini A classic martini of Tanqueray gin, Noilly Prat dry vermouth, and two queen olives https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/maryland monthly 0.5 2021-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1619616239168-5JLQSWVVLHVXIXNNGNJE/248a_MarylandChesapeake.jpg Big List Entries - Maryland / Chesapeake A 1732 map of delineating the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania and showing the Chesapeake Bay. The map was annexed to an agreement between Charles Calvert, the fifth Lord Baltimore, and the Penn family. The map did not accurately reflect Maryland’s territorial claims and Calvert reneged on the agreement. The dispute was finally resolved in 1750 in favor of Pennsylvania, and the Mason-Dixon line, subsequently set as the boundary between the colonies, largely accords with this map. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lynch monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1619529458946-NGAU5VQ84UPVLFKDJ8C1/245_lynch.jpg Big List Entries - lynch A 1936 black-and-white photograph showing a flag flown from an upper-story window of the NAACP headquarters in Manhattan announcing that "a man was lynched yesterday" https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lukewarm monthly 0.5 2021-04-26 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lorem-ipsum- monthly 0.5 2021-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1619183727425-01KYV451C48NB1CSRWMI/244_loremipsum.jpg Big List Entries - lorem ipsum ... Example of the placeholder lorem ipsum text mistakenly making its way into print in Singapore’s Straits Times, 26 April 2014 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lord monthly 0.5 2021-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1619097535999-9PWDPN6TKXQ1BJX7SFSD/243_lordlady.jpg Big List Entries - lord / lady Entries in the Abingdon II Chronicle for the years 912 and 913 C.E. that refer to Æþelflæd, the Lady of the Mercians. An image of Old English script. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/long-in-the-tooth monthly 0.5 2021-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1619008862160-4UAFHRDRR6R4TSYZXLYD/242_longinthetooth.jpg Big List Entries - long in the tooth A horse yawning, exposing its teeth https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jinx monthly 0.5 2021-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615299589880-AHN83C3WATY4VW6VMEQA/215_jinx.jpg Big List Entries - jinx Playbill for a January 1891 Chicago production of Little Puck with the character Jinks Hoodoo https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lollygag monthly 0.5 2021-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1618925872142-3GABXPYKEHBUD0XLJPGD/241_lollygag.jpg Big List Entries - lollygag The Wordorigins.org staff lollygagging on the balcony instead of working. From front to back: Charles, Lila, and Erik. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ramadan monthly 0.5 2021-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1618577733831-7D0EHRSAKV8K202UTNW1/240a_Ramadan.jpg Big List Entries - Ramadan A new moon. Ramadan, like all months of the Islamic calendar, begins with the first sighting of the new moon https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lock-stock-and-barrel monthly 0.5 2021-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1618484227193-3FZ6BE7PXUQ04IOA7UZL/239_lockstockbarrel.jpg Big List Entries - lock, stock, and barrel A Springfield model 1822 musket with its principal parts labeled, including lock, stock, and barrel https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/guam monthly 0.5 2021-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1618398563291-9KVLWYKYLSZ5AF664JJS/238b_Guam.jpg Big List Entries - Guam / Mariana Islands 1697 map of the East Indies including the island of Guam https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/puerto-rico monthly 0.5 2021-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1618397238130-I1VN1GTT5LW3EMQ8QPN0/238a_PuertoRico.jpg Big List Entries - Puerto Rico View of the entrance to Bahía de San Juan, Puerto Rico with the Castillo San Felipe del Morro, a fortification built between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, in the foreground https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lock-and-load monthly 0.5 2021-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1618316636959-3XY8SCDC6EACXFB47SLR/238_lockandload.png Big List Entries - lock and load A WWII-era M1 Garand rifle being loaded; photo of a hand inserting a clip of ammunition into the rifle https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tijuana-bible monthly 0.5 2021-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1618232430086-A3AZ4WY4U7XS8O2VCT2F/237_Tijuanabible.jpg Big List Entries - Tijuana bible Cover and first panel of a 1940s–50s Tijuana bible that is a parody of the comic strip Blondie. The panels pictured here are quite tame; the rest of the comic is quite pornographic. A drawing of the character Dagwood Bumstead in his office with a naked woman. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/life-of-riley monthly 0.5 2021-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617972870865-D36BGR367HW7EWLB01EZ/236_lifeofRiley.jpg Big List Entries - life of Riley Lobby card for the 1927 silent film The Life of Riley, directed by William Beaudine and starring George Sidney and Charles Murray, playing the character of Timothy Riley; image of two men: George Sidney holding the chin of Charles Murray in a fire chief’s uniform—below the image is the line “Now smile and show your pretty teeth,” presumably the words meant to be spoken at this moment in the film—while a third man looks on from behind them; a book bearing the face of Murray and the title The Life of Riley is in the foreground frame https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hunky-dory monthly 0.5 2021-04-08 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pig-in-a-poke monthly 0.5 2021-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617886575928-ALDPQ1CCN1BMU5S03QLV/235_piginapoke.jpg Big List Entries - pig in a poke Portion of an eighth-century, Latin gospel (the Macgregol Gospel) showing Luke 9:3 with a tenth-century Old English interlinear gloss that contains an early use of poke (Old English pohha) on the fourth line https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag monthly 0.5 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617800973844-YQNZ6YE803GLG3MEQ3KV/234_letthecatoutofthebag.jpg Big List Entries - let the cat out of the bag Erik the cat sitting in an overnight bag https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/left-wing monthly 0.5 2021-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617720654929-30PXIACQDMWWGE6ZTV7V/233_leftwing.jpg Big List Entries - left wing / right wing Jacques-Louis David’s painting of the June 1789 Oath of the Tennis Court, during which the French National Assembly swore not to dissolve until a new constitution had been enacted. In the foreground, a Catholic monk, a Protestant minister, and a layman clasp hands. In the background, a man stands on a table with one hand raised and the other holding a book, presumably reading the oath, while the hall full of legislators raise their hands in disorganized affirmation; one man in the lower right is seated and dour, refusing to take the oath, while a crowd looks down from the windows and the gallery above, and a revolutionary wind billows the curtains. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/leatherneck monthly 0.5 2021-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617627071328-2819EN8WLJJ6694RRWRT/232_leatherneck.jpg Big List Entries - leatherneck U.S. Civil War soldier wearing a leather neck stock. A photo of a man, Private David A. Sheldon, Company B, 4th Rhode Island Infantry, 1861–64, in civil war uniform and holding a musket with bayonet, staring into the camera. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ku-klux-klan monthly 0.5 2021-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617368977443-FV79L6QF9D8JTHF8HP74/231_KuKluxKlan.jpg Big List Entries - Ku Klux Klan 1872 drawing of three Mississippi Ku Klux Klan members arrested in September 1871 for attempted murder. Drawing of three hooded men posing with pistols in their hands. The caption reads: “Mississippi Ku-Klux in the Disguises in Which They Were Captured. (From a Photograph.)” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/april-fool monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617283971094-I5C59RK9X6UXPK529N28/230e_AprilFool.png Big List Entries - April fool “Les Poissons D’Avril,” by Grandville (a.k.a. Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), 1868. Image of fish fishing for people, using wine, tobacco, jewelry, etc. for bait. The caption reads: “Poissons d’avril, poissons de tous les mois, de tous les temps, de tous les âges: on aura beau être trompé aux appâts que vous nous tendez, on s’y laissera reprendre jusqu’à la fin—et trop heureux!” (April fish, fish for all the months, for all time, for all the ages: one could easily be fooled by the bait you lure us with, but we will let it go on until the end—all too happily!) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nunavut monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617282214206-H6UIV143VZZW9RKVKK39/230d_Nunavut.jpg Big List Entries - Nunavut A bilingual stop sign in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut. In the foreground, a stop sign in both English and Inuktitut; in the background, buildings and vehicles of the town. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/labrador monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617197499045-0SPHS7V95GBWC20BXKK5/230c_Labrador.jpg Big List Entries - Labrador Battle Harbour, a restored fishing village on the coast of Labrador. Wooden buildings lining a coastline. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/newfoundland monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617196715472-5EKDHILYLOF7KYPBBKXA/230b_Newfoundland.jpg Big List Entries - Newfoundland Placentia Harbor, Newfoundland. Photo overlooking the town and harbor of Placentia. Low hills are in the background, a stone wall and wooden fence in the foreground. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/virgin-islands monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617195581823-Y8G1HQJFIPMO2I2ZDRZC/230a_VirginIslands.jpg Big List Entries - Virgin Islands Painting, tempera and gold on wood, of Saint Ursula and her virginal companions by Niccolò di Pietro, c.1410. Image of a richly dressed woman, wearing a crown and with a halo, flanked by two flags bearing the cross of St. George (signifying England) and twelve other women. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/knight monthly 0.5 2021-03-31 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/knickerbocker-knickers monthly 0.5 2021-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617024265071-T9P1HJTIHHKCX13B1FBX/229_knickerbocker.jpg Big List Entries - Knickerbocker / knickers 17 April 1912 photo of newsboys wearing knickerbocker trousers, Washington, DC. Sepia-toned photograph of newsboys, the youngest being only nine years old, holding copies of an extra edition of the Washington Post after midnight. The photo was taken to show the exploitation of child labor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617024366479-VOZ6MTC180X64WX51FTO/229_knickerbocker3.jpg Big List Entries - Knickerbocker / knickers Illustration by George Cruikshank from an 1836 edition of Diedrich Knickerbocker’s (Washington Irving’s) A History of New York. Image of a man enraged that all the men around him are smoking pipes; all the men are in knee breeches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1617024429335-DE404WZSID9205GMABA5/229_knickerbocker2.jpg Big List Entries - Knickerbocker / knickers The drawing of a man in knee breeches in a book-lined study and holding a pen and a pipe that graced the cover of the Knickerbocker Magazine for decades, starting in the 1830s. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nervous-breakdown monthly 0.5 2021-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1616762852925-T906BQLDCDREL1ASD0OR/228_nervousbreakdown.jpg Big List Entries - nervous breakdown Illustration accompanying a 1954 edition of Anton Chekhov’s short story A Nervous Breakdown. A charcoal drawing of a man with a despairing look on his face, alone on a snow-covered, city street. In the background is a lighted entrance to a building with men and a sleigh waiting outside, indicating convivial companionship could be his if he chose. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kitty-corner monthly 0.5 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1616676506565-A5SZZXNJ8E4O3O27ER09/227_kittycorner.jpg Big List Entries - kitty-corner / catty-corner / catercorner Kitty-corner? A cat (Erik) sitting in a corner by a feline water fountain https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kit-and-caboodle monthly 0.5 2021-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1616594171891-GT6FFHVPU210X30DDMLC/226_kitandcaboodle.jpg Big List Entries - kit and caboodle Passage from a 956 C.E. charter that uses the word cytweras (basket-weirs) in an inventory of the property owned by the abbey at Bath, England https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/this-is-a-wendys monthly 0.5 2021-11-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1616504260100-5JQB9CF831T5R8C1M961/225_thisisaWendys.jpg Big List Entries - this is a Wendy's A pair of tweets from 22 July 2018 in which U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Iran and to which an ordinary Twitter user replies, “Sir, this is a Wendy’s drive-thru.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kilroy-was-here monthly 0.5 2021-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1616416161922-E4N4U3MXPIRFO5BQXULB/224_Kilroy1.jpg Big List Entries - Kilroy was here / Mr. Chad An engraving of the Kilroy was here graffito on the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. In the graffito, the phrase Kilroy was here is placed alongside the sketch of a man peering over a wall that originated as the British Mr. Chad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1616416226606-03GAKE99AWO5HUSWXG61/224_Kilroy2.jpg Big List Entries - Kilroy was here / Mr. Chad The first published appearance of the figure later known as Mr. Chad in a “Useless Eustace” cartoon by Jack Greenall in the Daily Mirror, 11 December 1937. A man stands at a bank teller’s window in front of a pile of money, saying, “I don’t want to draw it out!—I was only making sure it was all there.” In the background, a Mr. Chad-like figure peers over a wall. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/keister monthly 0.5 2021-03-20 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/keep-ones-nose-clean monthly 0.5 2021-03-19 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shamrock monthly 0.5 2024-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615988462293-4JQE59BC1EAQMU7YZ5XK/221a_shamrock.jpg Big List Entries - shamrock Dew-covered shamrocks (Oxalis acetosella) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kangaroo monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615901700702-7P2SMOWZ0KFVSP615IIV/221_kangaroo.jpg Big List Entries - kangaroo A pair of Eastern Grey Kangaroos, a female and a joey; photo taken near Brunkerville, New South Wales, Australia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jump-the-shark monthly 0.5 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615814787754-02FCKQHLSATTVHAGNCXH/220_jumptheshark.jpg Big List Entries - jump the shark Fonzie during his attempt to jump the shark. This still photo from a 1977 episode of the TV series Happy Days depicts actor Henry Winkler on water skis and wearing a leather jacket and bathing suit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615815265968-L40CAD3AC5MJFPRGBRGK/220_jumptheshark2.jpg Big List Entries - jump the shark Advertisement for the 31 January 1977 TV special Evel Knieval’s Death Defiers. Sensationalist drawing of a motorcyclist leaping over two sharks; in the background are a man on an exploding chair and a man making a high dive off a platform. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/joneses-keeping-up-with-the monthly 0.5 2021-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615557882774-6SL4MX4C8DZ2JSAKNNFX/219_keepingupwiththeJoneses.jpg Big List Entries - Joneses, keeping up with the Two early examples (the first?) of the Keeping Up with the Joneses comic strip that ran in different editions of the Omaha World-Herald on 7 April 1913. The first depicts a husband getting an emergency phone call from his wife and rushing home, only to find she wants to hire a cook because the Joneses next door have one. The second depicts the same man buying a cuckoo clock, only to have his wife throw it away because the Joneses would think it too ordinary. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/john-bull monthly 0.5 2021-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615474539799-AKTB5754TYUHB6INR7NM/218_JohnBull.jpeg Big List Entries - John Bull WWI British recruiting poster featuring John Bull. A paunchy, white man in a top hat and Victorian dress with a Union Jack waistcoat points at the reader, and words on the poster ask, “Who’s Absent? Is it you?” Soldiers in khaki uniforms stand in the background along with group of buildings on fire. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jody monthly 0.5 2021-03-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/metes-and-bounds-bounds-boundary monthly 0.5 2021-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1615211649847-6LBWUQPU8CJ80ZZ8AC4L/214_metesandbounds.jpg Big List Entries - metes and bounds / bounds / boundary Young women beating the bounds near St. Albans, Hertforshire, 1913. Image of nine young women standing beside a fence and holding sticks. In Britain it was, and in some places still is, customary for parishioners to “beat the bounds” of the parish to mark its borders on rogation days. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jerky monthly 0.5 2021-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614952589681-WQZ59J7FE6LHROTGXFP8/213_jerky.jpg Big List Entries - jerky Strips of jerky, presumably beef https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jerkwater monthly 0.5 2021-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614867638536-5ZH2HTMKVA016M6Y5LKG/212_jerkwater.jpg Big List Entries - jerkwater The ironically named No Agua water stop on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad line near No Agua, New Mexico; photo of a 10,000-gallon water tank with a flatbed railroad car in front of it, a building with a sign reading “No Agua” is in the background https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jerk-jerk-off monthly 0.5 2021-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614778947693-QZJ25164396CFM2J7ZWG/211_jerk.jpg Big List Entries - jerk / jerk-off A soda jerk flipping ice cream into a malted milk shake, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1939; black-and-white photo of a man in a white uniform flipping a scoop of ice cream into a mixing cup https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jeep monthly 0.5 2021-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614693711781-H5TVVEFB0XQRZMVV3KKE/210_jeep1.jpg Big List Entries - jeep General Dwight Eisenhower in a jeep in Normandy, summer 1944. The lieutenant general in the backseat appears to be Omar Bradley. Black and white image of three soldiers in a jeep with a soldier in the foreground engaging them in conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614693818594-ZO1WS4H7C2REDCALPS0W/210_jeep.jpg Big List Entries - jeep Thimble Theater comic strip from 1 April 1936, featuring Popeye, Olive Oyl, and family watch Eugene the Jeep come out of his shipping crate; Eugene is a spotted quadruped who utters the sound “jeep” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jerry-built-jury-rig monthly 0.5 2026-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614605867980-7B0Z5T4A1BR7X8ZXR73E/209_juryrig_jerrybuilt.jpg Big List Entries - jerry-built / jury rig 1856 hand-colored lithograph of the HMS Dido returning to Tahiti on calm seas, port broadside view; jury rigged with jib, foresail, mizzensail, and a complete set of sails on main mast; two smaller crafts are in the background. The ship had been damaged in a hurricane on 21 January 1856. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jaywalk monthly 0.5 2022-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614350973643-GC0YNNE5EP3W8YOK3B3V/208_jay.jpg Big List Entries - jay / jaywalk A 1937 anti-jaywalking poster created under the auspices of the U. S. federal Works Projects Administration. Drawing of a pedestrian being struck by a car, the driver of which is horrified, while a policeman looks on helpless to prevent it. The caption reads: “Don’t Jaywalk. Watch Your Step.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/java-joe monthly 0.5 2021-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614262956872-C564G9FC5RPPZ3UM7ML9/207_java-joe1.jpg Big List Entries - java / joe Coffee beans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614262680166-RL85JRICH8N78QPZQ98W/207_java-joe.jpg Big List Entries - java / joe An “Oscar und Adolf” cartoon: the title characters are running a restaurant and Osgar, the waiter, gives the orders to the cook, Adolf, via a music box, where a particular song selection means a particular dish; in this musical code, Stephen Foster’s “Old Black Joe” means coffee without cream. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jackleg-blackleg monthly 0.5 2021-02-25 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jackknife monthly 0.5 2021-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1614088527002-2KA2MKZSOK37DRPBSFHN/205_jackknife.jpg Big List Entries - jackknife Roman jackknife (left) with its wooden handle rotted away, found at Gellep, Germany, and a modern reconstruction next to it https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jack-robinson monthly 0.5 2021-02-22 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ivy-league monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1613741886531-ZYNHACKZWN1VZADE25ED/203_IvyLeague.jpg Big List Entries - Ivy League Ivy-covered Nassau Hall (built 1756), the original building of Princeton University, a large stone building with a cupola https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lent monthly 0.5 2021-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1613657326849-LP61KR51TGX3Y2WLSY6U/201a_lent.jpg Big List Entries - Lent The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1559. Painting of a village scene depicting revelers clashing with fasters; in the foreground is a jousting match between a fat man riding a beer cask and holding a lance adorned with various meats and a religious ascetic with a lance adorned with fish. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ivory-tower monthly 0.5 2021-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1613572533528-ZYRZ6A29J2JHUWPHK7BL/202_ivorytower.jpg Big List Entries - ivory tower Image from a c.1500 Netherlandish manuscript depicting the annunciation of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–28). Mary is in a walled garden seated on the ground reading a book with a unicorn placing its front legs and head in her lap (symbol of virginity). Also inside the wall are a tower (Song of Solomon 7:4), an altar, and a fleece (Judges 6:36–40) that is illuminated with a ray of light descending from a cloud. Outside the wall behind Mary is a burning bush (Exodus 3:2) and in the foreground the angel Gabriel blowing a horn and being led by two hounds on leashes. The image is framed by botanical drawings. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/indian-summer monthly 0.5 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1613487261675-2TTY9TBBEDLZ8HV1IXJQ/201_Indiansummer.jpg Big List Entries - Indian summer New England autumnal foliage, trees with brightly colored leaves lining the shore of a lake https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/indian-giver monthly 0.5 2021-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1613400603145-P8VNLOT0PRP3LAUXO4DB/200_Indiangiver.jpg Big List Entries - Indian giver 1617 engraving of Ralph Hamer, secretary of the Virginia colony, and party meeting with Wahunsenacawh, father of Matoaka (a.k.a. Pocahontas) and leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking peoples living in the Tidewater region of Virginia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/valentine monthly 0.5 2021-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1613226359867-XVTT4LAYPJ2P3SBZO8F6/217_valentine.png Big List Entries - valentine Woman in medieval dress offering a man a heart. Marginalia in a 1338–1410 manuscript containing a copy of the Romance of Alexander https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/in-like-flynn monthly 0.5 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1613057247373-QP21Z0A4N69MJM3WF97D/199_inlikeFlynn.jpg Big List Entries - in like Flynn Headshot of actor Errol Flynn, c.1945 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hysteria monthly 0.5 2021-02-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hustings monthly 0.5 2021-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1612883278552-4HHR1EYARTDNQ8VNPGPL/196_hustings.jpg Big List Entries - hustings November 1806 political cartoon by James Gilray titled, “View of the Hustings in Covent Garden.” Featuring: front row, left to right: Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood; Samuel Whitbread, holding tankard of beer; Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in the black coat; James Paull, speaking; Sir Francis Burdett; William Cobbett, holding an issue of the Political Register on which the word Cobbett is legible; and William Bosville. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hold-my-beer monthly 0.5 2021-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1612790858164-1WAX9EDHV87P89C4604V/195_holdmybeer.jpg Big List Entries - hold my beer A hold my beer meme featuring characters from the television series Game of Thrones. Tormond Giantsbane (played by Kristofer Hivju), a large, adult male, claims that he killed a giant at age ten. Lyanna Mormont (played by Bella Ramsey), a small girl, responds with “hold my beer.” (Lyanna kills a giant in spectacular fashion during the penultimate episode of the series.) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/white-trash monthly 0.5 2021-02-04 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/humble-pie monthly 0.5 2021-02-03 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/groundhog-day monthly 0.5 2021-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1612273337366-BAN6ZC8PWMZOBTVUEGV2/184_GroundhogDay.jpg Big List Entries - Groundhog Day Still from the 1993 film Groundhog Day showing Bill Murray and a groundhog driving a car https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/huckleberry monthly 0.5 2021-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1612191425543-29T7QWV4URXSI4CDZC43/191_huckleberry.jpg Big List Entries - huckleberry Huckleberry growing near Golden, British Columbia; blue berries growing on a green-leaved plant https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hocus-pocus monthly 0.5 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1609774905143-8SO566175DBGXOVBGLLO/174_hocuspocus.jpg Big List Entries - hocus-pocus Frontispiece and title page of Hocus Pocus Junior, third edition, 1638, one of the first books published detailing the tricks of stage magic, perhaps authored by William Vincent, who went by the stage name of Hocus Pocus https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bubble-investments monthly 0.5 2021-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611929291150-OSDMUBVUZA016HBSI9HK/190a_bubble.jpg Big List Entries - bubble (investments) A GameStop store in Griffin, Georgia, 2014. In January 2021 GameStop stock was a speculative bubble. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hooligan monthly 0.5 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611845373688-WNBDW6Q2AE304YOTQU5F/190_hooligan.jpg Big List Entries - hooligan Football hooligans: Fans of FC Lokomotive Leipzig clashing with fans of SG Dynamo Schwerin before a match in the 1990 FDGB-Pokal tournament https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/charlie monthly 0.5 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611760000620-D4DPMMZXT977DAQT65HM/189_Charlie.jpg Big List Entries - Charlie Lobby card for the 1931 film Charlie Chan Carries On, featuring White actor Warner Oland portraying the fictional Chinese detective Charlie Chan. This was the first film featuring Chan as a leading role, the. Previously, Chan had appeared as a supporting role in films, portrayed by Japanese actors George Kuwa and Kamiyama Sojin and Korean actor E.L. Park. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/deadname monthly 0.5 2021-01-26 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pussyfoot monthly 0.5 2021-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611589448746-BWWO7J8NEWDZ7Y5DCFRT/187_pussyfoot.jpg Big List Entries - pussyfoot William E. “Pussyfoot” Johnson in 1925. A bald man with moustache and tweed suit sitting at a desk. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pros-from-dover monthly 0.5 2021-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611325486425-HDQ2UG9LIAVHR3EFQ4N4/186_prosfromDover.jpg Big List Entries - pros from Dover Still from the 1970 film M*A*S*H, showing the disheveled and grungy “pros from Dover” arriving at a military hospital in Japan from front-line duty in Korea carrying golf clubs and a golfing umbrella: Hawkeye (left), played by Donald Sutherland, and Trapper John (right), played by Elliot Gould; two nurses in the background look on incredulously https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/open-access monthly 0.5 2021-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611238447242-CEGIXF52R6J5V3RGH8N3/185_openaccess.png Big List Entries - open access Open Access logo, a stylized representation of an open padlock https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/republic monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611085950559-ZWEB6G9CNPB8F5B541DB/185c_republic.jpg Big List Entries - republic Denarius coin of the Roman Republic, 54 B.C.E. depicting the semi-legendary first consul Lucius Junius Brutus between two lictors (bodyguards) bearing fasces and preceded by an accensus (attendant) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/democracy monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1611065023188-WXD5UUX00PW0JJSN4S8Q/185a_democracy.jpg Big List Entries - democracy President Barack Obama delivering the 2011 State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress, 24 January 2011 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hooky monthly 0.5 2021-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1610977552596-BG8MEGB03HO8SDPZT8WK/183_hooky.jpg Big List Entries - hooky / play hooky Engraving accompanying the 1856 Mother’s Magazine story on the dangers of playing hooky, showing a young boy freezing in a snowy forest https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shanty monthly 0.5 2021-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1610813089091-YF4JS22HEJ54PF5OR8AX/182a_shanty.jpg Big List Entries - shanty Piper sitting and playing on a ship’s capstan while sailors turn the capstan to weigh the anchor, presumably singing a shanty as they do so https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hooker monthly 0.5 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1610718463007-9GCYQ9DU8GOQ8LVXDXAB/182_hooker.jpg Big List Entries - hooker Corlear’s Hook, Lower East Side of Manhattan, 1876 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hoodwink monthly 0.5 2021-01-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/copacetic monthly 0.5 2021-01-13 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/sedition monthly 0.5 2021-01-12 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/honky monthly 0.5 2021-01-11 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/lickspittle monthly 0.5 2021-02-09 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/honeymoon monthly 0.5 2021-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1610113394842-8X6AINZ1DBFQ2XEF3U1Z/178_honeymoon.png Big List Entries - honeymoon Late nineteenth-century, stereographic photo of a honeymoon couple at Niagara Falls, New York https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hospital monthly 0.5 2021-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1610027313147-HDNOD8X1K2SUVF60W4K1/177_hospital.jpg Big List Entries - hospital Engraving showing St. Barthomew’s hospital in London as it stood in 1720. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/homecoming monthly 0.5 2021-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1609940672344-V13GJB14U34M4QR26OFB/176_homecoming.jpg Big List Entries - homecoming Tulane University students and alumni cheering at a 2011 homecoming game against the University of Memphis. Tulane lost 17–33 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hogans-goat monthly 0.5 2021-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1609856336530-WDIBX1X1OMRKC1DZWRED/175_hogansgoat.jpg Big List Entries - Hogan's goat The Yellow Kid comic strip, by R.F. Outcault, 14 November 1897, “How the Goat Got ‘Kilt Entirely!’” showing Hogan’s goat butting a cigar-store Indian and being knocked unconscious (not literally killed) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hobsons-choice monthly 0.5 2020-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1609426451008-QF8IAOR65PKJ8JDMES7L/173_HobsonsChoice.png Big List Entries - Hobson's choice 1629 portrait of Thomas Hobson, a man in early seventeenth-century dress https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hero monthly 0.5 2020-12-31 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hermetic-seal monthly 0.5 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1609251189792-I4BH3NJDGLMHIVUY48SJ/171_hermeticseal.jpg Big List Entries - hermetic seal Floor mosaic of Hermes Trismegistus in the Cathedral of Siena, Italy, c. 1485 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hello monthly 0.5 2020-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1609165491907-9H0MEVXOE3C9CEN4ZKS8/170_hello.jpg Big List Entries - hello Thomas Edison on the telephone, using his “Telescribe” device to record telephone calls, c. 1915 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/malarkey monthly 0.5 2020-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1608823156607-3PT7RADSN0FMDN7SG1CR/165_malarkey.jpg Big List Entries - malarkey 1922 cartoon by T.A. Dorgan featuring a man and a woman watching two men trying to talk on adjacent telephones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1608823220652-07A1SF6Z4GQBO27588VN/165_malarkey_a.jpg Big List Entries - malarkey 1924 cartoon by T.A. Dorgan featuring lawyers arguing in a courtroom while four policemen converse in the gallery https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hell-in-a-handbasket monthly 0.5 2020-12-23 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bear-bruin-animal monthly 0.5 2020-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1608643513948-ODCISBVSOPOR2AF8T4BX/163_bear.jpg Big List Entries - bear / bruin (animal) Alaskan brown bear in a river with a fish in its mouth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1608643568034-OLWLY762D4N10KSI0ARD/163_bear.png Big List Entries - bear / bruin (animal) xkcd cartoon featuring four people discussing the etymology of the word bear https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/heathen monthly 0.5 2022-02-02 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hawk-a-loogie monthly 0.5 2020-12-18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hat-trick monthly 0.5 2020-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1608217008474-23WQ18154W3CQUUQGRIZ/160_hattrick.jpg Big List Entries - hat trick A cricket scene: Shaun Pollock, South Africa, bowls to batsman Michael Hussey, Australia, 27 December 2005; Pollock had one-upped a hat trick in 1996 by taking four wickets in four successive balls https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/vaccine monthly 0.5 2020-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1608129880876-TUFB1GSPV52ST7NT6ID7/159a_vaccine.jpg Big List Entries - vaccine An 1802 cartoon portraying a physician (perhaps Edward Jenner or George Pearson) inoculating patients with the cowpox virus and having them sprout bovine parts from the their bodies, showing that anti-vaccination hysteria is nothing new https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/harlot monthly 0.5 2020-12-15 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/titmouse monthly 0.5 2020-12-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607956990757-XXFPCFRXVLBYGGVR76MF/154_titmouse.jpeg Big List Entries - titmouse A tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor, with blue-gray, orange, and white coloring, perched on a branch with snow on its beak https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/doctor monthly 0.5 2020-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607885525456-I3YK7TKHQT1TH36LHDAR/153a_doctor.jpg Big List Entries - doctor Illustration of Chaucer’s physician-pilgrim at the start of “The Physician’s Tale” from the Ellesmere Manuscript of The Canterbury Tales https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/happy-as-a-clam monthly 0.5 2020-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607695682621-TVRE4DHES9WI7LQHQ4WT/153_happyasaclam.jpg Big List Entries - happy as a clam A clam (Spisula solidissima) on a Cape Cod beach, emotional state undetermined https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/handicap monthly 0.5 2020-12-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hacker monthly 0.5 2020-12-09 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hack-hackney monthly 0.5 2020-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607438009299-3UEC7RVWCDVN07CSGVE3/151_hackney.png Big List Entries - hack / hackney A map of London showing the borough of Hackney in red https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/doomscroll-doomscrolling monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607350572549-FJI480BCNA24SRLYXMWY/150a_doomscrolling4.jpg Big List Entries - doomscroll / doomscrolling Ellen Muehlberger’s tweet of 14 March 2020 that used the term doomscrolling and precipitated widespread use of the term https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607350398951-88G5M0M6XMIDBISSL26V/150a_doomscrolling.jpg Big List Entries - doomscroll / doomscrolling Chris Kimberley’s tweet using the term “doom scroll” and attaching a picture of a cute kitten https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607350161675-6B1HPVYTZQZ81FJZY1C4/150a_doomscrolling2.jpg Big List Entries - doomscroll / doomscrolling @ChanFlan’s tweet of a cute, Pomeranian dog running with the hashtag #BeatTheDoomScroll https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/battery-electrical monthly 0.5 2020-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607094873895-RBOSRKEES5S6AFLHOLCS/143_battery.jpg Big List Entries - battery (electrical) Benjamin Franklin’s Leyden-jar battery at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gung-ho monthly 0.5 2020-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607003394051-P556E5SW37PV5365TTZ0/141_gungho.jpg Big List Entries - gung ho Women spinning thread underneath a sign with the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives “gung ho” logo, c. 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1607003314610-4N3V6565ZT0XZJ5I32GD/141b_gungho.jpg Big List Entries - gung ho 1941 advertisement for a New Jersey bank that uses “Gung Ho” as a slogan https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gun monthly 0.5 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1606918331728-J9UC2MST8IZSHPHKQ0YB/140_gun.jpg Big List Entries - gun Mons Meg, a fifteenth-century, 510mm (20 inches) bombard housed at Edinburgh Castle https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/guinea monthly 0.5 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1606833986861-R8G1REZ830AJLTVORKTD/139_guinea.jpg Big List Entries - Guinea A 1663 guinea coin with the head of Charles II above a small elephant on the obverse and the shields of the four countries of the United Kingdom on the reverse https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/squire-esquire monthly 0.5 2020-11-30 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/indigenous monthly 0.5 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1606316684963-X0IVM7RAHOR55JL0NY8J/168_indigenous.jpg Big List Entries - indigenous Chiricahua Apache children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. March 1887, an example of forced assimilation into settler-colonist culture https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pilgrim monthly 0.5 2020-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1606225839181-KGW55YHH0YRKCK3W1S91/169_pilgrim.jpg Big List Entries - pilgrim Image of Geoffrey Chaucer on a horse pointing to the start of the “Tale of Melibee” in the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, a tale that one of the ones told by the character of Chaucer, the pilgrim, in that work https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/thanksgiving monthly 0.5 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1606058070941-NIIR5U85BAT3REXKXCJV/167_thanksgiving.jpg Big List Entries - Thanksgiving An Idealized and historically inaccurate painting of the Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621: a white man standing in prayer at table around which are seated White people and three Native American chiefs, in Plains-Indian dress, with a larger group of Native Americans sitting off to one side on the ground, a White woman and four children are in the foreground https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/coup-dtat monthly 0.5 2021-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1605880286404-G9RG6IBEATKHTGC8OSMI/134a_coup.jpg Big List Entries - coup d’état Arrest of General Changarnier during Louis Bonaparte’s coup d’état of 2 December 1851, image of a man in a nightshirt in his bedroom being arrested by soldiers https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/guerrilla monthly 0.5 2020-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1605792898720-LRAR3ZCQ320XAGYBU4CC/137_guerilla.png Big List Entries - guerrilla Watercolor painting of guerrillas firing on a column of French troops during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ground-zero monthly 0.5 2021-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1605721393618-01LGSAPPQ4IU5IRX4PSH/136_groundzero.jpg Big List Entries - ground zero The “ground zero” hot dog stand that once stood at the center of Pentagon courtyard https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gringo monthly 0.5 2020-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1605625639117-DBKXTJA0EGXKNJQIZ7ZI/135_gringo.jpg Big List Entries - gringo Woman in an outdoor cafe reading the English-language Gringo Gazette in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, 2007 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/green-room monthly 0.5 2020-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1605539600614-EP0Z3PDL6X4DWMQB3S7P/134_greenroom.jpg Big List Entries - green room The green room at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2007, a room with comfortable chairs, couches, and a television that is predominantly red and yellow in color https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/graveyard-shift monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1605280996418-S23ULNKT2HPFWOQAKE5G/133_graveyardshift.jpg Big List Entries - graveyard shift Three child coal miners with mules, Gary, West Virginia, 1908 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gotham monthly 0.5 2020-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1605201819417-FH6B9BTR4PIJGU4U09ZE/132_gotham.png Big List Entries - Gotham Image of the Bat Signal over Gotham City from the Batman comics https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gossip monthly 0.5 2020-11-11 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/n-word monthly 0.5 2020-11-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dollar-princess monthly 0.5 2020-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604929741237-GUTJR1CM7MQJOIBC4CZ5/129_dollarprincess.jpg Big List Entries - dollar princess Poster for the 2019 movie Downton Abbey, featuring Elizabeth McGovern as the “dollar princess” Cora, Countess of Grantham, and Hugh Bonneville as the Earl of Grantham https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/opera-aint-over-until-the-fat-lady-sings monthly 0.5 2025-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604775367846-O8TZ34VXFA6HUTMOOPOV/150_itaintover.jpg Big List Entries - opera ain't over until the fat lady sings Soprano Amalie Materna appearing as Brünnhilde in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at Bayreuth, c. 1876 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blue-mirage-red-mirage monthly 0.5 2020-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604691982460-VTP71ATL16SAGOAC4B4W/128a_bluemirage.jpg Big List Entries - blue mirage / red mirage 2020 U. S. presidential election results as of 1:30 pm EST, 6 November 2020 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/goody-two-shoes monthly 0.5 2020-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604671518457-L7N27FZLWYPSLF7GUAOH/127_goodytwoshoes.jpg Big List Entries - goody two-shoes Frontispiece and title page of John Newberry’s 1765 edition of The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the frontispiece features a young woman, wearing two shoes, standing in a country lane https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/canvas-canvass monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604613187416-5P3F7PTSZ0J69YNVGEW0/126a_canvas.jpg Big List Entries - canvas / canvass A man examining a punch-card ballot in the 2000 U. S. presidential election in Florida https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/golf monthly 0.5 2020-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604585049879-887CD9692J3XI783TS4N/126_golf.jpg Big List Entries - golf A golf ball lying near the tree with the pin and a golfer in the background https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/nail-biter monthly 0.5 2020-11-04 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/globalization monthly 0.5 2020-11-04 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/swing-state monthly 0.5 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604413490809-Y91EE89UE85RZYPYOVRC/157_swingstate.jpg Big List Entries - swing state Fivethirtyeight.com graphic showing voting behavior in four swing states, 2000–2020; 2020 projection based on 25 August data https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/college-electoral-college monthly 0.5 2020-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604335762432-JDA2WA8FTZ7XW4QZRL6Z/156_college.png Big List Entries - college / electoral college Map of the United States showing state sizes in proportion to their electoral college voting power as of the 2010 census https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/red-state-blue-state-purple-state monthly 0.5 2020-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604326153276-LM4I4XGKYF1EVWDXBKTA/155_redstate.jpg Big List Entries - red state / blue state / purple state Journalists Tim Russert and Tom Brokaw broadcasting on Election Day 2000 (or more likely in the wee hours of the next day) in front of a map of red and blue U.S. states https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/halloween monthly 0.5 2024-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604072287721-U719H2RKOC93LCT23NWB/148a_Halloween.jpg Big List Entries - Halloween A Halloween jack o’ lantern https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ghost-give-up-the-ghost monthly 0.5 2023-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1604063003162-OTUM9J9C9AMCYGYPKW5D/148_ghost.jpg Big List Entries - ghost / give up the ghost The “Brown Lady” of Raynham Hall, Norfolk, England; 1936 image of a ghostly figure on a staircase; likely created by the photographers as a hoax using a double exposure, possibly of a photo of a Virgin Mary statue superimposed on that of the staircase https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/goblin-hobgoblin monthly 0.5 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1603983048205-HGRWOHF8005IKEIRBPDH/147_goblin.jpg Big List Entries - goblin / hobgoblin A girl paying goblins for fruit by cutting off a lock of her blonde hair, illustrating the line “Buy from us with a golden curl” from Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem The Goblin Market, drawn by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/vampire monthly 0.5 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1603890789141-UEQOZOZJLD23ZGI1H429/146_vampire.jpg Big List Entries - vampire Screenshot from the trailer for the 1931 film Dracula featuring Bela Lugosi as the title character https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/october-surprise monthly 0.5 2020-10-27 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ghoul monthly 0.5 2020-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1603719047595-AFU2QMVCA4N6XUWVLCIP/144_ghoul.jpg Big List Entries - ghoul Image of a woman discovering a ghoul feeding on a corpse from an 1840 edition of the Arabian Nights https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/paddy-wagon monthly 0.5 2020-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1603458375767-QRKCRP025UDP596EM82S/149_paddywagon.jpg Big List Entries - paddy wagon A Portland, Oregon police paddy wagon from 1912 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/glitch monthly 0.5 2020-10-22 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/googol-google monthly 0.5 2020-10-22 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gig monthly 0.5 2020-10-21 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/generational-cohorts monthly 0.5 2020-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1603199859211-QDZSSMG3ZRZG29TK0SQK/122_Generations.jpg Big List Entries - Generational Cohorts Cover of the 1964 book Generation X by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pornography monthly 0.5 2020-10-19 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gargoyle monthly 0.5 2020-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1602852899772-SV0KH3SMR46GHVC3OJ22/120_gargoyle.jpg Big List Entries - gargoyle A gargoyle of a leopard-like animal with a human face jutting from a wall of Bayeux Cathedral, France https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/frog-march monthly 0.5 2020-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1602764718350-6OT2510NSGH76BNCHNOD/119_frogmarch.jpg Big List Entries - frog march Four London police carrying a man face down, by the arms and legs, with the caption “Death from the ‘frog’s march,’ Eastend.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/french-kiss monthly 0.5 2020-10-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/gam monthly 0.5 2020-10-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/freelance monthly 0.5 2020-10-12 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/flying-colors monthly 0.5 2020-10-11 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/flying-saucer monthly 0.5 2020-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1602249783131-2DP7QRTWCK9C0F6RZ6OL/115_flyingsaucer.jpg Big List Entries - flying saucer / UFO Image of a flying saucer hovering over a graveyard from Ed Wood’s 1959 cinematic masterpiece, Plan 9 from Outer Space https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/jim-crow monthly 0.5 2025-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1602163060792-6BZ5GWPLX2MLRMFKNE1D/114_JimCrow.jpg Big List Entries - Jim Crow A Black man drinking from a “colored” water fountain, with signs pointing to segregated washrooms, in an Oklahoma City streetcar terminal, July 1939 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/five-by-five monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fire monthly 0.5 2020-10-05 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/superspreader monthly 0.5 2020-10-03 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/inshallah monthly 0.5 2020-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1601641871543-EK3V60MEXGJNS88ZABQY/110b_Inshallah_chart.jpg Big List Entries - inshallah Chart showing the rise in the use of inshallah in American speech and writing from 2004–14. Source: COCA. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cheesesteak monthly 0.5 2020-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1601383697294-3578YTWAR3KNI0X0T4KJ/108_cheesesteak.jpg Big List Entries - cheesesteak Cheesesteak from Pat’s King of Steaks in Philadelphia https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fifth-column monthly 0.5 2020-09-28 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rickroll monthly 0.5 2020-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1601039883699-9XU6QNVMHXY5LNF4WK84/106_rickroll_duckroll.jpg Big List Entries - rickroll Image of duck with wheels instead of legs and the caption “duckroll” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/filibuster monthly 0.5 2020-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1600952256860-7UTAS89F9CBCDCNX0U92/110_filibuster.jpg Big List Entries - filibuster Still image featuring actors Claude Rains and Jimmy Stewart from the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/faggot monthly 0.5 2020-09-23 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/clickbait monthly 0.5 2020-09-22 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/face monthly 0.5 2020-09-21 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/evolution monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/ethnic-cleansing monthly 0.5 2020-09-17 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/elephant monthly 0.5 2021-06-25 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/eighty-six monthly 0.5 2020-09-15 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pizza-tomato-pie monthly 0.5 2020-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1600085854205-CIFK89XJR3NX7J8XYTWU/098_pizza.png Big List Entries - pizza / tomato pie A pepperoni pizza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1600085661873-3G5RY2TVAPSOI4NNWX98/098_pizza1.jpg Big List Entries - pizza / tomato pie Black and white photo of Maruca’s Pizza, Seaside Heights, New Jersey, c.1960s; a sign advertises pizza and a man’s t-shirt reads Maruca’s Tomato Pie https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/egg-on monthly 0.5 2020-09-18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hot-take monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/eeny-meany-miney-moe monthly 0.5 2020-09-09 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/eavesdrop monthly 0.5 2020-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1599568952799-OK866G8I971TJVHS9FZJ/094_eavesdrop.jpg Big List Entries - eavesdrop 1657 Dutch painting of a woman eavesdropping on a conversation between two lovers https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dog-eat-dog monthly 0.5 2020-09-04 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dutch-treat monthly 0.5 2020-09-02 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/that-dog-wont-hunt monthly 0.5 2020-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1598965633325-PDSYVTLKKL0BBJRXJ14S/088_dogwonthunt.jpg Big List Entries - 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dongle A Bluetooth dongle attached to the USB port of a laptop computer https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dolly monthly 0.5 2020-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1597840329170-Q2JU7K1UUIKTV6Y7IQY3/080_doll.jpg Big List Entries - doll / dolly A nineteenth-century washing dolly, a stick with arms and legs used to agitate clothing in a washing tub https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dollar monthly 0.5 2020-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1597754548666-JCQ4R296PVPFA17H92BB/079_dollar.jpg Big List Entries - dollar 1548 woodcut depicting silver mining in Joachimstal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1597754610781-CS1HFWPG3JF3HW3AC6Z5/079_dollar2.jpg Big List Entries - dollar Two-dollar U.S. Federal Reserve note https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dirt-poor monthly 0.5 2020-08-17 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/devil-to-pay monthly 0.5 2020-08-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/denim-jeans monthly 0.5 2020-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1597327283890-LMY2HQIIUPJZN6Y3XQS7/076_denim.png Big List Entries - denim / jeans Figure from the 1873 patent application for riveted blue jeans filed by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dark-and-stormy-night monthly 0.5 2020-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1597236670057-GGLFPQR8V25ORN1LPBFR/075_darkandstormynight.gif Big List Entries - dark and stormy night 12 July 1965 Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz in which Snoopy starts writing a novel with the opening line “It was a dark and stormy night.” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/freeholder monthly 0.5 2020-08-11 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cyber- monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dago monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/atomic-bomb-a-bomb monthly 0.5 2023-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1596718944170-WKKD07IZKXNHCJYRXOP2/073a_atomicbomb.jpg Big List Entries - atomic bomb / a-bomb Mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), 6 and 9 August 1945 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pork-roll-taylor-ham monthly 0.5 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1596630321272-8M8EQOEF9KWEBBREYSYL/093_porkroll1.jpg Big List Entries - pork roll / Taylor Ham Evening view of the bridge over the Delaware River at Trenton with the iconic “Trenton Makes, the World Takes” sign replaced with “Pork Roll” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1596630452788-RJ5M214CY7YHCHKWMAGV/093_porkroll.jpg Big List Entries - pork roll / Taylor Ham A pork roll, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cloak-and-dagger monthly 0.5 2020-08-04 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cut-to-the-chase monthly 0.5 2020-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1596454094769-Y55D5RMTI06THQ1FT0P1/071_cuttothechase.jpg Big List Entries - cut to the chase Chase scene from Seven Chances, starring Buster Keaton, 1925 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cut-the-mustard monthly 0.5 2020-08-01 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cunt monthly 0.5 2020-12-21 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/craps monthly 0.5 2020-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1596117254439-BEHH8XB74Y0KGW5CNCOE/068_craps.jpg Big List Entries - craps A craps table https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/crap monthly 0.5 2020-07-29 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/crackerjack monthly 0.5 2020-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1595939619053-EAX1BVDML772Q72K34IT/066_crackerjack.jpg Big List Entries - crackerjack Cardboard store display advertising Cracker Jack-brand candy, c.1918 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cracker monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cop monthly 0.5 2020-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1595692717592-LA9NL4WAG1KIE9GP5RU2/064_cop.png Big List Entries - cop New York City police uniforms, 1854 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/condom monthly 0.5 2020-07-24 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/commando monthly 0.5 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1595518544805-U0YWYA6NVHW3WFP15WRA/062_commando.jpg Big List Entries - commando Men of No. 4 Commando after a raid on the French coast near Boulogne, 22 April 1942 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/colonel monthly 0.5 2020-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1595424787278-5IFXP8QVIAFNXBKE4DDP/061_colonel.jpg Big List Entries - colonel Civil War-era (1860s) insignia of a U.S. Army (Union) colonel https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cold-war monthly 0.5 2020-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1595339055392-EWJBPYKCISB13I9Z1WVZ/060_coldwar2.jpg Big List Entries - cold war Image of US Pershing II intermediate-range ballistic missile in West Germany, 1983–91 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1595339138749-FQXXRWMM1Q3GPCY5KBO6/060_coldwar.png Big List Entries - cold war Image of woman glaring at pro-FDR picketers, 1940 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cold-turkey monthly 0.5 2020-07-20 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cockpit monthly 0.5 2020-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594994864362-3ZF41H8JQ6D0OW7Z9EAO/056_cockpit.jpg Big List Entries - cockpit Cockpit of a Boeing 787 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/coin-a-phrase monthly 0.5 2021-12-26 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cocktail monthly 0.5 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594822174527-CRTEQJSCKLNIDEWV05DL/057_cocktail.jpg Big List Entries - cocktail Image of a martini cocktail with olive https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/irregardless monthly 0.5 2020-07-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cloud-nine monthly 0.5 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594641249220-XO87KF8HKV43I9KPHUS2/055_cloudnine2.png Big List Entries - cloud nine A Dixie Dugan comic strip from 6 June 1946 using the phrase on cloud 9 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/church-key monthly 0.5 2020-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594393354773-3MBKXOJBBFLCXTWA83JU/054_churchkey.jpg Big List Entries - church key A church key manufactured by a Pennsylvania brewery, c. 1940 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chow monthly 0.5 2020-07-09 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/stan monthly 0.5 2020-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594217247835-Q4214PH2FRWI31PWWME7/052_stan.jpg Big List Entries - stan Eminem performing live in Washington, D.C., 2014 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/china monthly 0.5 2020-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594128421341-D1OCAMCZ4P3FURWRS2R5/051_China.jpg Big List Entries - China Eighteenth-century, Chinese, white, porcelain flask painted with an underglaze of blue waves and clouds and a red dragon https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/brass-monkey-cold-enough-to-freeze-the-balls-off-a monthly 0.5 2020-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1594048539407-2B46OHF3NO9D15WVD3EJ/050_brassmonkey.jpg Big List Entries - brass monkey, cold enough to freeze the balls off a Statue of a brass monkey with detached balls in Post Office Square, Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia, 2008 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us monthly 0.5 2020-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1588768866134-V59CU69TMZFR33C7D3PA/049_allyourbase.gif Big List Entries - all your base are belong to us Animated gif capture from the introduction to Zero Wing with subtitles https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/charger-plate monthly 0.5 2020-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1593865860757-JPD3NMZ2DJB1D3A3LOCV/048_charger.jpg Big List Entries - charger plate A place setting with a red charger plate https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chairman monthly 0.5 2020-07-03 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/capital-capitol monthly 0.5 2020-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1583769924830-TCI0F65AFBAP5MPQA2KM/Capitol-Senate.jpg Big List Entries - capital / capitol US Capitol building, 2007 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/catch-22 monthly 0.5 2020-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1593613159403-1VI7ACF9EG0BT7CR9LXH/045_catch-22.jpg Big List Entries - catch-22 B-25 bomber used during filming of the 1970 movie Catch-22 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/call-a-spade-a-spade monthly 0.5 2020-06-30 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/redline monthly 0.5 2020-06-29 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/caesarean-section monthly 0.5 2020-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1593351769144-AJ3ZNDRP52OO75O4FSTV/043_caesarean.jpg Big List Entries - caesarean / caesarean section 1692 engraving of a caesarean section from Johannes Scultetus’s Auctarium ad Armamentarium Chirurgicum (An Addition to the Surgical Arsenal) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/henchman monthly 0.5 2020-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1593271190292-N9SK4TTAACSO820FTFGE/042a_henchman.png Big List Entries - henchman Oddjob, played by Harold Sakata, the henchman of Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dixie monthly 0.5 2020-06-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1592923554438-4D1M5CMQQOSYITNL6HH9/039a_Dixie.jpg Big List Entries - Dixie Detail from the playbill for the 4 April 1859 performance of Bryant’s Minstrels in New York City, the night Daniel Emmett’s version of Dixie premiered https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/cabal monthly 0.5 2020-06-26 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/by-and-large monthly 0.5 2020-06-25 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/buy-the-farm monthly 0.5 2020-06-25 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/busmans-holiday monthly 0.5 2020-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1592828905024-F1JR8ASZABFTQM5SRE4R/039_busman.jpg Big List Entries - busman's holiday Albert Chevalier in costume as a cockney costermonger, c. 1890 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/minstrel monthly 0.5 2020-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1592745341605-CSLY2URTO6L5E2A082IT/038a_minstrel.jpg Big List Entries - minstrel Sheet music cover for songs by the blackface Christy Minstrels, 1847 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bunk monthly 0.5 2020-06-20 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bumper-crop monthly 0.5 2020-06-18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bull-amp-bear-markets monthly 0.5 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1592402940890-JRF6Z5C4SAWXLL0EVAO5/036_bullandbearmarket.jpg Big List Entries - bull & bear markets “Charging Bull,” a statue by Arthur Di Modica located in the financial district of New York City, March 2020 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bobs-your-uncle monthly 0.5 2023-04-18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/microaggression monthly 0.5 2020-06-15 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/buckleys-chance monthly 0.5 2020-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1592141458745-EEOAHA0I61WWN7DSETZE/034_Buckley.jpg Big List Entries - Buckley's chance Buckley and Nunn storefront in Melbourne (now David Jones) https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/five-oh-twelve monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/broad monthly 0.5 2020-06-12 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/banana-republic monthly 0.5 2020-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591886061566-IGQIWMH2QLQ6QYQBZX8L/032a_bananarepublic.jpg Big List Entries - banana republic 1915 United Fruit Company advertisement https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/shenanigans monthly 0.5 2020-06-09 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kettling monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591633447092-EAJPUWLIFQV8THFJZLUI/030a_kettling.jpg Big List Entries - kettling Police kettle protestors at the Bishopsgate Climate Camp, London, 1 April 2009 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/curfew monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591625004828-A6CD1GQEK9X8950I40FN/030a_curfew.jpg Big List Entries - curfew / sundown town Kansas City, Missouri sign indicating a nighttime curfew is in effect for minors, 2013 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bogey monthly 0.5 2023-01-21 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/tear-gas-pepper-spray monthly 0.5 2020-06-06 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bogart monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591454019230-E5WR3CY06791K27HZY2M/030_bogart.jpg Big List Entries - bogart Humphrey Bogart, 1940. Publicity photo for the film Brother Orchid https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/identity-politics monthly 0.5 2020-06-05 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/stop-and-frisk monthly 0.5 2020-06-04 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blurb monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591107439965-YFPQ9WY922A6CE0H4AE5/028_blurb.jpg Big List Entries - blurb The original blurb, for Gelett Burgess’s 1907 book Are You A Bromide?, featuring Belinda Blurb https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/no-quarter monthly 0.5 2020-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591053786550-8L6E3ZZYD2PX3DWYB4CF/027b_noquarter1.png Big List Entries - no quarter 1 June 2020 tweet by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) calling for “no quarter” for rioters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591053908559-IKYUE8BLMINBZED4ONT4/027b_noquarter2.png Big List Entries - no quarter 1 June 2020 tweet by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) tweeting links to “no quarter” in dictionaries https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591043974250-AYJWH45GSC7GND0SNG2B/027a_whenthelooting.png Big List Entries - when the looting starts, the shooting starts Donald Trump’s 29 May 2020 tweet repeating the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blue-moon monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1591021772411-LSCIAPFTOLQRZBG7E32D/027_bluemoon.jpg Big List Entries - blue moon A blue-colored moon (hypothetical representation), 2014 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bloody monthly 0.5 2020-05-31 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/fish-or-cut-bait monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1590849187267-O0XC6C5JCIH2K5TI1449/025a_fishorcutbait.jpg Big List Entries - fish or cut bait A fish being cut up for use as bait https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/charley-horse monthly 0.5 2020-05-29 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blockbuster monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1590673495192-1HPVV2OBON4VTM2UFSWT/024_blockbuster.jpg Big List Entries - blockbuster Two-ton, blockbuster bomb being loaded onto a de Havilland Mosquito bomber during WWII https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blimp monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1590587177894-6Y5HBN9BOKX4EWJ7ZAL2/023_blimp.jpg Big List Entries - blimp U.S. Navy Blimp in front of Hangar #1, Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, October 1933 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/blackguard monthly 0.5 2020-05-26 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/black-box monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1590417012907-0JHXA3RXOHSP18NFWL8H/021_blackbox.jpg Big List Entries - black box An aircraft’s orange-colored black box; the flight data recorder is on the left, the cockpit voice recorder on the right; underwater locator beacons are mounted on the front brackets https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bizarre monthly 0.5 2022-03-22 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bimbo-1 monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1590244988023-BJLCMZOWAEVGSP03SWMG/019_bimbo.jpg Big List Entries - bimbo Cover sheet for the song “My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle,” 1920, showing a woman dancing in a grass skirt while a shipwrecked sailor looks on appreciatively https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/influenza-flu monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1590161410754-Q1RNXNN0IC2L5YD4LZ3H/018_influenza.jpg Big List Entries - influenza / flu Japanese schoolgirls wearing masks to prevent spread of influenza, 17 February 1920 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/beeswax monthly 0.5 2020-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1590069179304-31F18FAXYJX1M3VZH4J3/016_beeswax1.png Big List Entries - beeswax, none of your Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit, by T. A. “Tad” Dorgan, 30 April 1930 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chonk monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589983680066-YU3HDDP9LO0S2DKWLJ9L/017_chonk.jpg Big List Entries - chonk Tweet by Emilie Chiang titled “This cat is CHONKY” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589983729141-IE7F439UMO0VFHEOK5N2/017_chonk2.jpg Big List Entries - chonk Feline body-fat-index chart on which the above tweet is based https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/beefeater monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589893819564-MXX2C6GEGHQA8QZ1CJI0/015_beefeater.jpg Big List Entries - beefeater Display of bottles of Beefeater-brand gin. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bated-breath monthly 0.5 2020-05-18 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/barbecue monthly 0.5 2021-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589725803396-R334EEXSS0AZGCQPMSVM/012_barbecue.jpg Big List Entries - barbecue A man brushing meats with BBQ Sauce in the kitchen of the Salt Lick restaurant, Driftwood Texas, 2011 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/karen monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589635919257-QMTJR20WXTXHS9JIIX8Y/011a_Karen.png Big List Entries - Karen Tumblr post from 21 October 2016 featuring an early slang use of “Karen.” Image of a woman bringing a video game console to a party. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bandwagon-jump-on-the monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589551597382-XQ772YLMS3TGV3QLNDOT/011_bandwagon.jpg Big List Entries - bandwagon, jump on the Circus bandwagon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2009 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/yellow-journalism monthly 0.5 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589462013133-5GM58FF3ZE15AK2TGP44/010a_yellowjournalism.jpg Big List Entries - yellow journalism The Yellow Kid, by R.F. Outcault, 1 January 1897 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/qt-on-the monthly 0.5 2020-05-14 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589378890782-ZKN8FXGVQEFAOU4A8RNJ/009_lightattheendofthetunnel.jpg Big List Entries - light at the end of the tunnel A railway tunnel with sun shining at one end, Bath, UK, 2017. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/balls-to-the-wall monthly 0.5 2022-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589377323217-BE1JN26STDBTPCYYN3F2/008_ballstothewall_throttle1.jpg Big List Entries - balls to the wall / balls out An aircraft throttle assembly with ball grips. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589377067377-YMNSPPT4TEXJD1KW2WJ9/008_ballstothewall_BallsOut.jpg Big List Entries - balls to the wall / balls out P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane with nose art of a charging bull with the words “balls out,” flown by Capt. Milton Thompson of the 509th Fighter Squadron, 405th Fighter Group, 1945. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/coronavirus-covid-19 monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589291635031-NE7E3YTCZT06T9ZOG9T3/007_coronavirus.jpg Big List Entries - coronavirus / COVID-19 Transmission electron micrograph of a coronavirus, 1975. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bakers-dozen monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589290919309-VB7N8Q92E10SYFEGST3L/006_bakersdozen.jpg Big List Entries - baker's dozen Medieval bakers at work, detail from a 13th century, Belgian psalter, Los Angeles, Getty, MS 14, fol. 8v. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/pandemic monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589206693419-9HS1I8396EW2BXL2KK1C/005_pandemic.jpg Big List Entries - pandemic Red Cross workers removing the body of an influenza victim from a home in St. Louis, Missouri, 1918 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bailiwick monthly 0.5 2020-05-11 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/quarantine monthly 0.5 2020-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589121081248-6KV5HJX2USIY1BKK6KC0/003_quarantine.jpg Big List Entries - quarantine U.S. President Nixon greeting the crew of Apollo 11 in quarantine upon their return from the moon, 24 July 1969 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/apron-strings-tied-to monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1589032617981-BUNKG7OBPVHLHKH8VQ9D/002_apron_strings.jpg Big List Entries - apron strings, tied to Cover page of sheet music for “Your Mother’s Apron String,” a song by John Hogarth Lozier, 1891 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/social-distance monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1588972774626-5H8NH4AJ03P1RVOTZT1I/001_socialdistance.jpg Big List Entries - social distance Social distancing at a London supermarket, 30 March 2020. https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/bug monthly 0.5 2020-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1592311563140-JH0N19Y9XM9QPL6696UN/035_bug.jpeg Big List Entries - bug (computer) 9 September 1945 page from the logbook of the Harvard Mark II computer with a moth taped to it https://www.wordorigins.org/about-us-gallery daily 0.75 2026-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1706813846668-QHKTUD386JSN882K63C9/Wilton_May_2014_medres.jpg About Us Gallery - Dave Wilton Dave Wilton has a PhD in medieval English literature from the University of Toronto and teaches at Texas A&M University. Dave also has an M.A. from George Washington University in National Security Policy Studies and a B.A. from Lafayette College in Government and Law. In past lives, Dave has worked as a marketing writer/editor and as a product manager for 3D graphics and digital television technologies at NVIDIA and OpenTV, for Science Applications International Corporation as a manager of programs that dismantled the nuclear stockpiles of the former Soviet Union, and as an arms control negotiator for the Pentagon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1706813846668-QHKTUD386JSN882K63C9/Wilton_May_2014_medres.jpg About Us Gallery - Dave Wilton Dave Wilton has a PhD in medieval English literature from the University of Toronto and teaches at Texas A&M University. Dave also has an M.A. from George Washington University in National Security Policy Studies and a B.A. from Lafayette College in Government and Law. In past lives, Dave has worked as a marketing writer/editor and as a product manager for 3D graphics and digital television technologies at NVIDIA and OpenTV, for Science Applications International Corporation as a manager of programs that dismantled the nuclear stockpiles of the former Soviet Union, and as an arms control negotiator for the Pentagon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1706813861085-3P8UCNR5DXB8RD095BVR/Charles%26Erik.jpg About Us Gallery - Erik & Charles These two brothers are responsible for bird watching, sitting on important papers, and keeping keyboards warm while they are in use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1706813994164-O0FNEXWB5ZWXDQATG5WO/Lily1.jpg About Us Gallery - Lily Lily is employed to chase down balls and conduct daily perambulations. She sometimes works out of the Wordorigins office in Princeton, and sometimes she works remotely from an office in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1706814044573-QQE9E5E182391N28QQO3/Stella.jpg About Us Gallery - Stella Stella is our office intern, very young but eager to learn. Currently, she is learning how to ask Erik and Charles questions without getting slapped. She is also in charge of masticating objects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d8376408f684dab86ae23/1706814170208-NHLMNWXZ60Y5QN823U5H/Lila1.jpg About Us Gallery - In Memoriam: Lila (2008–22) We lost Lila, our senior staff assistant, in October 2022. 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