Search for: 1905
3481 Etymology dictionary, p. steady (n.).3
The meaning "one's boyfriend or girlfriend" is from 1897 in youth slang (to go steady is by 1905), from steady (adj.), in reference to a lover or suitor, "regular, constant," attested from 1887.
3482 Etymology dictionary, p. sticks (n.).2
"rural place," 1905, from sticks in slang sense of "trees" (compare backwoods ). See stick (n.).
3483 Etymology dictionary, p. stingy (adj.).3
As "doled out sparingly or grudgingly" by 1849. Back-formation stinge "a stingy person" is recorded from 1905, and a verb stinge "be meanly avaricious" was formed from that by 1937. Related: Stingily; stinginess .
3484 Etymology dictionary, p. sweat-shirt (n.).2
… ," by 1905, from sweat (v.) + shirt. In some early uses it refers to a sort of stiffened shirt meant to keep from contact with the skin. Related: Sweatshirted .
3485 Etymology dictionary, p. tantric (adj.).2
"of or pertaining to the Tantras," 1905, from Tantra + -ic; used loosely in the West to denote erotic spiritualism.
3486 Etymology dictionary, p. tardy (adj.).4
… late," 1905, is said to be a new borrowing from French. Seventeenth-century English lexicons (Blount. Coles, Cockeram) have tardiloquent "speaking slowly, drawling …
3487 Etymology dictionary, p. Tartuffe (n.).2
… Encyclopedia, 1905]. Tartufo is said to have been the name of a hypocritical character in Italian comedy.
3488 Etymology dictionary, p. temperate (adj.).3
… tempery (1905) have been tried.
3489 Etymology dictionary, p. Texas.3
… from 1905, named for the minor league that operated in Texas from 1902 (one theory is that outfielders played unusually deep in Texas because hit balls bounced …
3490 Etymology dictionary, p. think tank (n.).2
also think-tank, 1959 as "research institute" (first reference is to Center for Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Calif.); it had been colloquial for "the brain" since 1905. See think + tank (n.1).
3491 Etymology dictionary, p. thulium (n.).2
… (1840-1905), from Thule, which sometimes was identified as Scandinavia. With metallic element ending -ium .
3492 Etymology dictionary, p. track (n.).2
… from 1905. Meaning "single recorded item" is from 1904, originally in reference to phonograph records. Meaning "mark on skin from repeated drug injection" is …
3493 Etymology dictionary, p. trichotillomania (n.).2
1905, from French trichotillomanie (1889), from tricho-, Latinized form of Greek trikho-, combining form of thrix (genitive trikhos ) "hair" + Greek tillesthai "to pull out" + mania .
3494 Etymology dictionary, p. twee (adj.).2
"tiny, dainty, miniature," 1905, from childish pronunciation of sweet (adj.). Compare tummy from stomach .
3495 Etymology dictionary, p. tyrannosaurus (n.).2
… dinosaur, 1905, Modern Latin genus name, coined by H.F. Osborn (published 1906 in "Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" XXI, p.259) from Greek tyrannos …
3496 Etymology dictionary, p. umpty.2
1905, "of an indefinite number," originally Morse code slang for "dash," influenced by association with numerals such as twenty, thirty, etc.
3497 Etymology dictionary, p. unlisted (adj.).2
1640s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of list (v.3). In reference to stocks, attested from 1905; of phone numbers, from 1937 (American English).
3498 Etymology dictionary, p. unmotivated (adj.).2
"lacking in motivation," by 1905, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of motivate. Meaning "lacking in motive" is attested from 1871. Unmotived is from 1794.
3499 Etymology dictionary, p. variety (n.).2
… in 1905 by Sime Silverman.
3500 Etymology dictionary, p. vice (n.1).3
… from 1905, American English. Vice anglais "fetish for corporal punishment," literally "the English vice," is attested from 1942, from French. In Old French, the …