2022-01-21

Published: 2022-01-21

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-01-21.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• flex
• scuttle
• poufy
• mane
• unhinge
• gawk
• geode
• decoy
• sentry
• stench

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flex

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• from Latin flectō (I bend)
• cf. flexible

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scuttle

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poufy

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• Originally North American, “puffy, fluffy”
• probably influenced by puffy

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mane

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unhinge

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• meaning “to take (a door, etc.) off the hinges” and therefore figuratively “to deprive of stability” or “to cause mental illness”

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gawk

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• gaw (obsolete English meaning “stare”) + -k (suffix found in Middle/Old English, denoting intensive or frequentative effect (cf. tale -> talk, steal -> stalk, smile -> smirk))

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geode

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• from Ancient Greek γῆ (gê, “earth”) + -ώδης (-ṓdēs, forming adjectives with the sense “like”)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode (be careful, if you have trypophobia)

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decoy

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• from Dutch de kooi (the cage) (de is an article)
• cf. obsolete English coy (a place constructed for entrapping ducks)

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sentry

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stench

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• cf. stink