Search for: 1905
3341 Etymology dictionary, p. dimmer (n.).2
"one who or that which makes dim," 1822, agent noun from dim (v.). Of mechanisms for reducing the brightness of electric lights, from 1905.
3342 Etymology dictionary, p. dingbat (n.).2
… from 1905. In typography, by 1912 as a printer's term for ornament used in headline or with illustrations.
3343 Etymology dictionary, p. dinner (n.).5
Dinner-time is attested from late 14c.; dinner-hour is from 1750. Dinner-table is from 1784; dinner-jacket from 1852; dinner-party by 1780. Childish reduplication din-din is attested from 1905.
3344 Etymology dictionary, p. diploid (adj.).2
in cellular biology, "having two homologous sets of chromosomes," 1908, from German (1905), from Greek diploos "double, twofold," (see diplo- ) + eidos "form" (see -oid ).
3345 Etymology dictionary, p. dissociate (v.).3
… personality (1905) "pathological state in which two or more distinct personalities exist in the same person."
3346 Etymology dictionary, p. do (v.).5
… by 1905. To have to do with "have concern or connection with" is from late 13c. To do without "dispense with" is from 1713. Expression do or die indicating determination …
3347 Etymology dictionary, p. double (adv.).3
… by 1905. Related: Double-spaced. To double book in reservations is by 1966. To double park "park (a vehicle) parallel to another on the side toward the street" is …
3348 Etymology dictionary, p. doyenne (n.).2
"leading or senior woman in a group or society," 1905, from fem. of French doyen (see doyen ). As a type of pear, from 1731.
3349 Etymology dictionary, p. duma (n.).2
Russian national assembly, 1870 (in reference to city councils; the national one was set up in 1905), literally "thought," from a Germanic source (compare Gothic doms "judgment," English doom, deem ).
3350 Etymology dictionary, p. ergophobia (n.).2
"fear of work," 1905, coined by British medical man Dr. William Dunnett Spanton, from Greek ergon "work" (from PIE root *werg- "to do") + -phobia "fear."
3351 Etymology dictionary, p. erode (v.).2
… by 1905. Related: Eroded; eroding. Originally of acids, ulcers, etc.; geological sense is from 1830.
3352 Etymology dictionary, p. erogenous (adj.).2
… by 1905.
3353 Etymology dictionary, p. fat (adj.).4
… from 1905, perhaps ironic (the expression is found earlier in the sense "good opportunity").
3354 Etymology dictionary, p. Fauvist.2
… of 1905. The movement was a reaction against impressionism, featuring vivid use of colors. French fauve (12c.) in Old French meant "fawn-colored horse, dark-colored …
3355 Etymology dictionary, p. film (n.).3
… picture" (1905); sense of "film-making as a craft or art" is from 1920.
3356 Etymology dictionary, p. film-maker (n.).2
also filmmaker, 1859 as a solution used in developing photographs, later "a producer of film for cameras" (by 1889), from film (n.) + maker. As "producer of a cinematographic work, movie-maker," from 1905.
3357 Etymology dictionary, p. flashlight (n.).2
… ). From 1905 as as a handheld, pocket-sized electric illumination device, the American English word for what the British might call an electric torch .
3358 Etymology dictionary, p. flivver (n.).2
… ," by 1905, of uncertain origin. The word flivver was noted c. 1910 as a new theater slang word come into common use: "A flivver is something that is not a success, perhaps …
3359 Etymology dictionary, p. follow-up (n.).2
1905, originally in the argot of sales and business, from verbal phrase follow up "pursue closely, act on energetically" (1794); see follow (v.) + up (adv.).
3360 Etymology dictionary, p. foot (n.).7
… from 1905 (the right foot is by 1907); to put one's best foot foremost first recorded 1849 (Shakespeare has the better foot before, 1596); Middle English had evil …