User contributions for Colin M

28 December 2024

• 22:3022:30, 28 December 2024 diff hist +844 N infloration Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|obsolete}} A covering or decoration of flowers; natural adornment as if by flowers. #* {{quote-book|en|text=Let not tasteless decoration / Shame, by needless ostentation / Nature's simple '''infloration'''.|title=Treasure Trove|editor=Charles A. Shaw|year=1874|url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Treasure_Trove_verses/DAyF1km59B0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22infloration%22&pg=PP11&printsec=frontcover}} # {{lb|en|obsolete|botany}}..." current

29 May 2024

• 15:0615:06, 29 May 2024 diff hist +293 N love play Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun|-}} # Foreplay #* {{quote-text|en|year=1952|author=Kurt Vonnegut|title=Player Piano|passage=Anita slept - utterly satisfied, not so much by Paul as by the social orgasm of, after years of the system's '''love play''', being offered Pittsburgh.}}" current

1 March 2023

• 18:3418:34, 1 March 2023 diff hist 0 m pro →Etymology 4: oops, should be 5 Tag: no head temp
• 18:3418:34, 1 March 2023 diff hist +374 pro →English: prophylaxis Tag: no head temp

15 February 2023

• 22:4422:44, 15 February 2023 diff hist +570 N social disease Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|dated}} A sexually transmitted disease #* {{quote-journal|en|1938|journal=New York Times|title=240 Students Submit to Wassermann Test |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/02/24/archives/240-students-submit-to-wassermann-test-all-enrolled-at-wagner.html |text=Cooperating in the drive against '''social disease''', all of the 240 co-educational students of Wagner College, Staten Island, a non-sectarian school under the sponsor..."

18 September 2022

• 16:2216:22, 18 September 2022 diff hist +249 super-duper Add adverb sense

29 July 2022

• 18:1118:11, 29 July 2022 diff hist +22 AIDS →English: add defdate
• 17:2317:23, 29 July 2022 diff hist +22 HIV →Noun: add defdate

14 March 2022

• 15:1215:12, 14 March 2022 diff hist +66 plat →Noun: add derived terms

11 January 2022

• 18:4218:42, 11 January 2022 diff hist +102 reward card +img
• 18:4018:40, 11 January 2022 diff hist +479 N reward card Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|historical}} A card given to a young student in recognition of academic achievement or good behaviour. #* {{quote-journal|en|year=1896|title=Merit Cards in Primary Schools|journal=Primary Education |passage=Let us note the effect of the '''reward card''' when given for good lessons. |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=QtQBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA122&dq=%22reward+card%22 }} ====Synonyms==== * {{l|en|prize card}} * {{l|en|merit ca..."
• 18:2818:28, 11 January 2022 diff hist +97 N imitation lace Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun|~}} # {{lb|en|uncountable}} Lace made with machinery." current

5 January 2022

• 19:4819:48, 5 January 2022 diff hist +590 N guess cake Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|historical}} A cake used in a fundraising game, in which individuals pay money to guess the weight of a cake (or, in other versions, to guess the identity of an object baked into the cake), with the cake going to the winner. #* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal|year=1892|title=Whispers|page=334 |passage=The principal feature of the evening was a grab bag and a '''guess cake''', from which..." current

30 December 2021

• 16:0716:07, 30 December 2021 diff hist +849 N ring-cake Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|USA}} A cake having a ring baked inside it, with slices sold as a form of lottery. Once a common feature of church fairs. #* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Sabbath at Home|year=1870|author=Jeremiah N. Thomas|title=Jonadab Cleaver's Experiment; Or, the Last Church Fair at Rutway |passage=Then pointing successively to the lottery-table, grab-box, '''ring-cake''', and cigars, he continued{{...}} |url=https://books.googl..."
• 15:5515:55, 30 December 2021 diff hist +351 grab box earlier quote
• 15:4915:49, 30 December 2021 diff hist +20 grab bag +grab box
• 15:4815:48, 30 December 2021 diff hist +890 N grab box Created page with "==English== ===Alternative forms=== * {{alter|en|grab-box}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # {{lb|en|historical|USA}} A box having a small opening in the top through which individuals can (usually for a small amount of money) reach to retrieve an unknown trinket. A common feature of some fairs. #* {{quote-journal|en|date=1 February 1906|journal=The Shoe Retailer|title=John the Shoeman's Grab Box |passage=The '''grab box''' was on the third floor of his store, and a sa..."

18 November 2021

• 17:2117:21, 18 November 2021 diff hist +257 make mouths +quote
• 15:4615:46, 18 November 2021 diff hist +111 couple usex for noun sense was actually demonstrating use of the word as a determiner

31 October 2021

• 16:1416:14, 31 October 2021 diff hist +197 Talk:gay →same sex, same gender: sounds good to me

23 October 2021

• 14:4814:48, 23 October 2021 diff hist +656 scrub →Noun: dress code/attire sense.
• 14:4314:43, 23 October 2021 diff hist +1,076 N tightum Created page with "==English== ===Alternative forms=== * {{l|en|titum}} ===Noun=== {{en-noun|-}} # {{lb|en|obsolete|slang}} Moderately formal attire or dress code #* {{quote-book|en|year=1842|title=Robert and Frederick|last=Martha|first=Mary|text=He knew that he had put out the usher's very best suit; not the '''tightum''' which he wore on Sundays; but the hightum,{{...}}|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=jKMgoLbC1n8C&pg=PA225&dq=%22hightum%22}} #* {{quote-journal|en|year=1876|jo..."
• 14:3414:34, 23 October 2021 diff hist +816 N hightum Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun|-}} # {{lb|en|obsolete|slang}} The most formal level of attire #* {{quote-journal|en|year=1876|journal=The Leisure Hour|title=Hightum, Tightum, and Scrub!|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=9PhMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA207|text=One was of superfine material; in this she appeared among her "quality friends," and it went by the name of "'''Hightum'''."}} #* {{quote-book|en|year=1920|title=Queen Lucia|last=Benson|first=E. F.|text=For one of Lucia's..."

6 September 2021

• 00:4100:41, 6 September 2021 diff hist +112 Talk:plurisexuality support

3 August 2021

• 15:4715:47, 3 August 2021 diff hist +62 brooch Audio doesn't match IPA. Not really sure what the correct solution is. Add the "rhymes with mooch" pronunciation as a standard UK option? Or remove the audio?

15 July 2021

• 23:1123:11, 15 July 2021 diff hist +217 gook a dull or hapless person
• 23:0523:05, 15 July 2021 diff hist +27 Thesaurus:error +floater
• 23:0423:04, 15 July 2021 diff hist +297 floater +sense, faux pas
• 22:5922:59, 15 July 2021 diff hist +434 N goose-flesher Created page with "==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun|head=goose-flesher}} # {{lb|en|slang}} A frightening or thrilling work of fiction. #* {{quote-book|en|title=The Mating Season|author=P.G. Wodehouse|year=1949 |text={{...}}the best thing to do is to curl up with a good '''goose-flesher''' and try to forget, and fortunately I had packed among my effects one called ''Murder at Greystone Grange''. }} ====Synonyms==== * {{l|en|spine-chiller}}"
• 22:5322:53, 15 July 2021 diff hist +4 m brass up correct title
• 22:5322:53, 15 July 2021 diff hist +229 brass up +sense

8 July 2021

• 17:0117:01, 8 July 2021 diff hist +20 resp see also

12 June 2021

• 20:4220:42, 12 June 2021 diff hist +146 Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English →gamer: cf gamer word
• 20:3120:31, 12 June 2021 diff hist +779 Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/English →un-Mario-like: please no
• 20:1620:16, 12 June 2021 diff hist +325 turn on +sense, to take drugs.

24 May 2021

• 14:5014:50, 24 May 2021 diff hist +341 N sotadic Created page with "==English== ===Adjective=== {{en-adj}} # {{alternative case form of|en|Sotadic}} #* {{quote-journal|en|year=1882|journal=The Journal of Philology|title=The Mostellaria of Pl..."

20 May 2021

• 19:2019:20, 20 May 2021 diff hist +5 similisexual A term can be both obsolete and rare, right? i.e. it's no longer in current use, and even when it was in use, it occurred only rarely? current
• 19:1919:19, 20 May 2021 diff hist +281 similisexual another quote
• 19:1119:11, 20 May 2021 diff hist +35 Thesaurus:homosexual +similisexual
• 19:1019:10, 20 May 2021 diff hist +480 N similisexual Created page with "==English== ===Adjective=== {{en-adj|?}} # {{lb|en|obsolete}} homosexual #* {{quote-book|en|title={{w|Imre: A Memorandum}}|author=Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson|year=19..."

15 May 2021

• 18:4518:45, 15 May 2021 diff hist +308 Wiktionary:Tea room/2021/May →say a few words
• 18:3718:37, 15 May 2021 diff hist +50 Greek active No edit summary current
• 18:3618:36, 15 May 2021 diff hist +50 Greek passive No edit summary current
• 18:3518:35, 15 May 2021 diff hist +521 N French active Created page with "==English== ===Adjective=== {{en-adj|-}} # {{lb|en|obsolete|gay slang}} Preferring to give rather than receive fellatio. #* {{quote-book|en|title=Q & A Queer And Asian:..." current
• 18:3318:33, 15 May 2021 diff hist +466 N French passive Created page with "==English== ===Adjective=== {{en-adj|-}} # {{lb|en|obsolete|gay slang}} Preferring to receive rather than give fellatio. #* {{quote-journal|en|journal=The Advocate|year=..." current
• 18:2618:26, 15 May 2021 diff hist +681 N Greek active Created page with "==English== ===Adjective=== {{en-adj|-}} # {{lb|en|obsolete|gay slang}} Taking or preferring to take the insertive role in anal sex. #* {{quote-journal|en|journal=BLK|year=1..."
• 18:1918:19, 15 May 2021 diff hist +622 N Greek passive Created page with "==English== ===Adjective=== {{en-adj|-}} # {{lb|en|obsolete|gay slang}} Taking or preferring to take the receptive role in anal sex. #* {{quote-book|en|title=Q & A Queer And..."

7 May 2021

• 16:3116:31, 7 May 2021 diff hist +1,387 Wiktionary:Tea room/2021/May →straight fiction, straight play: new section

6 May 2021

• 17:5817:58, 6 May 2021 diff hist +471 Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/English →flounce post: feyposting
• 14:5114:51, 6 May 2021 diff hist +533 Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/English →flounce post: re welcome/spam/troll post