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Missing Words #59

Closed Tex2002ans closed 1 year ago

Tex2002ans commented 1 year ago

Checked against the latest:

Missing Words

lawfare

acquihire acquihires acquihiring acquihired

Very new term which came from squishing together "acquisition" + "hire", like when a large company buys a smaller one to mostly get the employees/skills.

Note: There's also "acqhire" (acq-), which was the original word (2005). But I find usage of that one to be extremely low compared to the acqui- version. (I also think it would be disastrous—too close to a typo for acquire.)

Note 2: I think I learned about this on Lexico's old blog, where they announced newly accepted/introduced words. Sadly, I don't have the original URL to recover from Archive.org.

Note 3: Also see:

for more history/usages.

wheatgrasses

You currently have:

but forgot the plural form.

See:

explanandum explananda

Used in Philosophy:

a word or an expression whose meaning is to be explained.

Also see related words + their plural forms:

(which were listed in Lexico too, but sadly, never saved by Archive.org.)

Note: Looks like its popularity rose in ~1960. See:

abugida

Also see:

Used in Linguistics. It's a type of writing system.

Note: Also see 2 alternate Linguistic terms for this referenced in the Wikipedia article:

metagame metagaming theorycraft theorycrafter theorycrafting

While these don't exist in dictionaries yet, they're used in Mathematics/Econometrics/Gaming circles.

# of Hits in Google

Note: "metagame" started in the mid-1950s in Mathematics, but "metagaming" is much newer (~2000):

"theorycraft" + "theorycrafting" are much newer (~2010):

merrow merrows

This is a mermaid. (Mostly from Irish folklore.)

Right now, it appears in the en-GB list as a Proper Noun:

but it's an actual lowercase word too.

I can't find it in any of the usual online dictionaries, but it does exist in:

and the physical dictionary:

merrow (mer'ō), n.

[< Ir. moruach, moruadh, a mermaid, <muir, the sea: see mere^1.] A mermaid.

Note: In my research, there was also two alternate spellings:

but those were much older (around the 1830s) + are MUCH MUCH rarer. (Even Google n-grams barely has them showing up. 0% for most years.)

I WOULD NOT include those, but I'm just placing them here for future search/knowledge.

Unsure

woodsy woodsier woodsiest woodsiness

Note: Collins is the only one that listed "woodsiness".

Note 2: This is a very odd case. Looks like woodsy is used in both American+British.

But the other 3 words look to only be used in American English.

See Google N-grams:

budtender budtenders

Just like you have a "bartender"... this is an extremely new term used for people who serve marijuana. See:

Note: # of hits in Google:

It does seem more like an American thing though, and hasn't made its way to British usage yet. (Or maybe it gained more popularity post-2019, so it doesn't show up in Google's British n-grams data?)

marcoagpinto commented 1 year ago

Heya,

Thanks for the words.

I have added them:

87835) lawfare + lawfare's
87836) acquihire +s +ing +ed +'s
87837) wheatgrasses
87838) explanandum + explanandum's + explananda + explananda's
87839) explanans + explanantia + explanantia's
87840) explicandum + explicandum's + explicanda + explicanda's
87841) abugida + abugidas + abugida's
87842) alphasyllabary + alphasyllabary's + alphasyllabaries
87843) neosyllabary + neosyllabary's + neosyllabaries
87844) metagame +s +ing +ed +'s
87845) theorycraft +s +ing +ed +'s +er +ers +er's
87846) merrow + merrows + merrow's
87847) woodsy + woodsier + woodsiest + woodsiness + woodsiness's
87848) budtender + budtenders + budtender's