2022-12-28

Published: 2022-12-28

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-12-28.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• piquant
• portmanteau
• reticent
• singlestick
• cognizant
• seedy
• pedlar
• slipshod
• petulant
• while

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piquant

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• French piquant < present participle of piquer (to prick, pierce, sting) (with suffix -ant)
• cf. pique

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portmanteau

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• Plural portmanteaus, portmanteaux
• French portemanteau (officer who carries the mantle of a person in a high position) < porte- (forming the names of objects, instruments, etc., which bear or carry the item denoted by the second element) + manteau (manteau, a cloak)
• cf. mantle, manteau

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reticent

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• Latin reticēns, present participle of reticēre (to keep silent) < re- + tacēre (to be silent)
• cf. taciturn

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singlestick

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlestick

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cognizant

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• probably < cognizance < Old French conoissant, present participle of conoistre (to know)
• cf. recognize, cognoscenti, etc.

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seedy

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• with allusion to a phrasal verb to go to seed (to produce seed (often resulting in the cessation of flowering and growth))

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pedlar

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• also peddler
• variant of pedder (a pedlar)

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slipshod

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• slip + shod

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petulant

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while

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• “to pass or get through (a vacant time)”
• now almost always, with away