2022-09-05

Published: 2022-09-05

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-09-05.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• guffaw
• off the cuff
• jibe
• google-fu
• anthead
• slip up
• tag along
• bristle
• prissy
• bespectacled

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guffaw

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• Echoic, originally Scottish

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off the cuff

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• as if from notes made on the shirt-cuff

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jibe

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• also gibe

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google-fu

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• probably from kung fu?, 功夫 (high level of skill or expertise in any field, effort and time spent on a job)
• cf. Japanese 工夫

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anthead

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• used by Philip K. Dick
• cf. chickenhead

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slip up

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tag along

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bristle

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• “to react angrily”

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prissy

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• perhaps a blend of prim and sissy

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bespectacled

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• be- (prefix in the notion of “covered or furnished with”) + spectacle (a device for assisting defective eyesight) <- Latin spectō (I look) <- speciō (I observe)