Index

 

Being an irregular record of the English language.

 

The word of the day dictionary. My primary source is the Oxford English Dictionary. Further research, quotation, and commentary comes from me, Arthur D. Ryel-Lindsey.

 
 
 

D

dairy
daisy
daisy-cutter
darling
dead ringer
deadfall
debacle
defenestration
deft
déjà vu
denim
derogate
desolation
destiny
detritus
deviled
dickens
dipsy-doodle
disabuse
disambiguation
discombobulate
dissectologist
divaricate
dog days
dog’s breakfast
dog-ear
doggone
draft-excluder
dragline
dragnet
dredge
drip
drive the nail home
dusky
dying quail

E

Easterlin paradox
eavesdrop
ecclesiastic
echo
ecstatic
egad
eglantine
eighty-six
emend
encomium
enfilade
ensorcell
Erebus
eristic
escheat
eschew
espalier
esprit de l’escalier
et cetera
etui
everyday
ex libris
excuse my French
exigency
expedition
exuberant
eyeshot

F

Fahrenheit
fail-safe
fait accompli
fantastic
felicity
fettle
fichu
fickle
fidelity
finagle
fine-tooth comb
finical
firebrand
fits and starts
flagship
flâneur
flibbertigibbet
flim-flam
folderol
follow suit
foray
forte
forthwith
fortune
foyer
freshwater soldier
frivolity
fulmination
fur
furlong
furrow
fustigate

G

gallimaufry
gallivant
galumph
gambrel
gangbuster
gazump
generation
germane
gibberish
gift horse
gimcrack
gnarly
gobbledygook
gregarious
grindstone
guile
gulch
gumshoe
gusto

H

haberdasher
hackney
haet
hagiography
hair of the dog
halcyon
Halloween
hammer and tongs
hands down
haphazard
happy hour
harangue
harum-scarum
havoc
haywire
heirloom
hell-for-leather
heyday
hiccup
hide and hair
higgledy-piggledy
high sign
hippodrome
hirsute
hoity-toity
holistic
holla
homophily
hone in
honeymoon
hoodwink
hope
horse-trade
hoser
hot dog
household
hullabaloo
hurly-burly
husting
huxing

I

ides
idiolect
idyll
imaginate
imbroglio
immanent
immure
imperious
impound
impresario
in a nutshell
in situ
in spades
in with a shout
incandescent
incorrigible
indict
indurate
inflorescence
ingratiate
inscrutable
interesting
into thin air
intromitter
irascible

J

jade
jejune
jeremiad
jiffy
the jig is up
jinx
Johnny-come-lately
jubilee
jump the gun
justify

K

kairos
kerfuffle
kicky-wicky
kismet
kittle
knave
knot
know the ropes
koozie

L

laggard
landlord
lapis lazuli
latent
laundry list
lbw
leviathan
lickety
ligature
lily
Limey
linchpin
lipstick on a pig
litmus test
llama
lofty
lopsided
lour
lunatic

M

macabre
makeshift
mammoth
manifesto
mansplain
maraud
meddle
memory lane
mercurial
mermaid
meshugas
métier
mettle
micturate
mirth
mistletoe
mitosis
module
moonlighting
morass
morphology
mortify
mosey
move the cheese
muckrake
mudlark
mutability

N

namaste
neck of the woods
née
needs must
newfangled
nominal
non sequitur
nonpareil

O

obliviate
obsequious
obsidian
obverse
Occam’s razor
off the bat
offal
offhand
on a dime
on the fence
one fell swoop
optimism
ordinal
ostentation
out of the blue
outfit
over a barrel

P

pabulum
paddock
paean
palaver
palindrome
palisade
palladium
palliate
paltry
panacea
panache
pancreas
Panenka
Panglossian
panoply
pantheon
paper tiger
papyraceous
paradiddle
paradox
paragon
paroxysm
parsimony
part and parcel
pathos
patrician
pear-shaped
penchant
pedant
the penny drops
penumbra
per fas et nefas
peregrination
peripatetic
perjury
persevere
persnickety
pestilence
petard
petition
petrichor
phaeton
phenomenon
philately
photobomb
picaresque
pickle
piebald
pilfer
Pillars of Hercules
pinion
pique
pipsqueak
pisculent
Plantagenet
plasticine
play it by ear
pleasance
poinsettia
poltroon
polyglot
ponderous
pony
poop
popinjay
posse comitatus
postulate
potboiler
precarious
prescience
pretension
primrose path
proboscis
procrastinate
pro forma
prudence
psilanthropism
psyche
punctilious
pundit
purple patch
Pyrrhic