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Words, Phrases, Names, and Quotes I find interesting

This is an article that collects words, phrases, names, and such that I think are neat.

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Foreword

Background

In the past, I would input things I wrote into a grammar checker. Almost always, something I wrote would be labelled ‘archaic’. This inspired me to check the words I use in a dictionary. This article started as a collection of archaic words I found interesting, but eventually grew to include regular words I found interesting…and then I started including ‘other’.
Since my speech is already unorthodox, why not double-down?

Additional Notes

Definitions

Definitions given here may not be completely accurate; this is because they’re based on my understanding of the words. I also don’t currently have my own dictionaries, which means I’m limited in what I can write.

Linguas

I include a few words that aren’t from English as well, which I have marked as from another lingua. Occasionally I’ll also include words I create myself, sourced from one of the conlangs I developed.

Unorthodox & Normal

Unorthodox is the term I use to differentiate words from those that are simply present in English.
Words are placed into this category if they are:

Finally, I include those words that are simply ‘outside the norm.’

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Names

A brief note that I realized isn’t really clear. When I say that a name means something, I’m not only referring to the specific form it’s in, I’m also referring to whatever it’s a variant of.
Also, keep in mind that most of the meanings are gathered from what I understand on wiktionary and BehindTheName. If an etymologist or whoever wishes to correct me, I’d be more than happy to change stuff here. Actually, I’d prefer to be corrected.

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Quotes

Unlike the previous section, this one isn’t ordered alphabetically…or in any order really.

We just deluded ourselves into it being a stonethrow away from Utopia. The source was one of whatifalthist’s videos, but I don’t remember which.

My ignorance amuses me. Manfred Powell, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

A task so devious some might call it herculean. Shadiversity, EFAP #194

Wherefore should I go into the direst peril that there is in the world for the sake of a wandering Gnome of the woods? Dairon referring to Beren, Beren & Lúthien, J.R.R. Tolkien

Demetrius: Villain, what has thou done? Aaron: That which thou can’t not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I hath done thy mother! Titus Andronicus: act 4, scene 2, William Shakespeare

All men… are not created equal! Emperor of Britannia, コードギアス興道, Code Geass Koudou

The world’s going to hell pretty quick… Houtarou, Hyouka Episode 19

Because it’s perfectly normal for me to be the best. Haqua du Lot Herminium, 神(かみ)のみぞ知(し)るセカイⅡ(The World God Only Knows Ⅱ) Episode 3

I’ve thought about rebelling, but I don’t even know how to. Matsumae Ohana, 花咲くいろは, Hanasaku Iroha Episode 2

The power of friendship will guide me to her before the other guards!! Saten Ruiko, とある科学の超電磁砲レールガン, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 15, Chapter 120

I detect a little communism. "Ain't I Right" - American Anti-Communist song - YouTube, 0:59

Pornography can save the world. Okajima Taiga, 暗殺教室, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

All your base are belong to us. CATS, Zero Wing

I have this bad habit of starting galactic wars whenever I get stuck. Shiomiya Shiori, 神(かみ)のみぞ知(し)るセカイ女神(めがみ)篇(へん)(The World God Only Knows Goddess Arc), Episode 6

You still watch anime even though you’re in high school? Kosaka Chihiro, 神のみぞ知るセカイ4人とアイドル, Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai 4-nin to Idol

Something tells me that God isn’t a stalker… Oshimizu Nako, 花咲くいろは, Hanasaku Iroha Episode 7

Viva la civil engineering! Uiharu Kazari, とある魔術の禁書目録エンデュミオンの奇蹟, Toaru Majutsu no Index: Miracle of Endymion

You yawn, I spawn. Kanzaki Kaori, とある魔術の禁書目録エンデュミオンの奇蹟, Toaru Majutsu no Index: Miracle of Endymion

There is nothing that I cannot blow away!!! I just have to pay for what I destroy afterwards. Kongou Mitsuko, とある科学の超電磁砲レールガン, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 8, Chapter 50

And what am I supposed to do with this newfound hatred of tumbleweed? TimTVT, The Trouble With Tumbleweed - YouTube Comments

Please have my babies. Nishijima Masumi, 未来(みらい)日記(にっき)(Future Diary) Episode 20

If you use the power of money, you do not need that girl to get the milk, do you? Holo, 狼(おおかみ)と更新料(こうしんりょう)II 狼(おおかみ)と琥珀色(こはくいろ)の憂鬱(ゆううつ)(Spice & Wolf II Wolf & Amber Melancholy)

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot we must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, annotated by Abner Kneeland, vol. 1, 239

Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry. Overheard at a Washington D.C. bar (According to the film The Big Short)

…Civilized people shouldn’t get into water too deep to stand in. Treize, Lillia & Treize, Volume 2, Chapter 8

So much fun in the old time. doorway, 2018-07-27, Danbooru post 500787

People think they want complete control over their experience when what they really want is to cut down trees to cross ravines — something they’ll never actually do if they have complete control over their experience. Matthewmatosis, Breath of the Wild Review

sex is fun, i assume Japan Hater #1, 2025-04-27

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. George Orwell202)

A) Meaning I made them up in some way.
B) In hindsight this one is unnecessary.
C) Most of the time.
D) My conlang originally had ‘c’ pronounced as ‘k’ exclusively…and I didn’t have a letter ‘k’ at all. I’m not sure why the spelling here changed.
E) There is no such thing as a boy who doesn’t like dinosaurs!
F) This is in the sense of ‘creates lots of skub’. So something that is ‘skub’ can generate ‘skub’.
G) The definition on Merriam-Webster confused me for a second, so I consulted other online definitions.
H) As a quick aside, I have no clue why it isn’t just described as a contract on wiktionary, because that’s what it is.
I) meant to be more general, if you’re unfamiliar with Bush Warfare.
J) Wiktionary lists a few potential meanings, but I’m not listing them all.
K) The Encyclopedia only says that his name is either derived from Old Welsh or from ‘Gilead’
1) ^ a Eldamo ⟫ Entish Words ⟫ burárum
2) ^ a, b English and Welsh by J.R.R. Tolkien
3) ^ a https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ek-se
4) ^ a http://rhodesia.com/docs/other/slang.htm
5) ^ a, b Helen (unit)
6) ^ a kin
7) ^ a, b, c https://genius.com/Mike-westcott-and-leprechaun-its-a-long-way-to-mukumbura-lyrics - ‘Kwai’ I could not find in the two better? sources I have now, but since I still like the sound I’m keeping it. Also, in context (of the song), the meaning makes sense so I’m assuming it’s trustworthy.
8) ^ a primary_world
9) ^ a refrain
10) ^ a Eldamo : Westron : ribadyan
11) ^ a Skub
12) ^ a volapyk
13) ^ a volapukaĵo
14) ^ a ♪
15) ^ a accoll
16) ^ a, b adulterate
17) ^ a alacrity
18) ^ a alacrity))((:ref:>[[camd>alacrity
19) ^ a alcove
20) ^ a anachronism
21) ^ a ante
22) ^ a appropos
23) ^ a ashen
24) ^ a avaricious
25) ^ a balderdash
26) ^ a, b bemoan
27) ^ a benight
28) ^ a Byzantine
29) ^ a capricious
30) ^ a casus belli
31) ^ a cause célèbre
32) ^ a chic
33) ^ a chiconomics
34) ^ a clay
35) ^ a, b, c concord
36) ^ a, b, c discord
37) ^ a confelicity
38) ^ a convalesce
39) ^ a, b convent
40) ^ a coven
41) ^ a de facto
42) ^ a de jure
43) ^ a deadline fighter
44) ^ a, b deflower
45) ^ a deign
46) ^ a, b demimonde
47) ^ a dewfall
48) ^ a disquiet
49) ^ a dolorific
50) ^ a, b dulcet
51) ^ a ender
52) ^ a, b epicaricacy
53) ^ a confelicity
54) ^ a ersatz
55) ^ a exhort
56) ^ a fey
57) ^ a fae
58) ^ a fingersmith
59) ^ a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h Rhodesian Slang - Intaf
60) ^ a fortitude
61) ^ a gauche
62) ^ a geas
63) ^ a geofront
64) ^ a, b, c hot_minute
65) ^ a hurcheon
66) ^ a incorrigible
67) ^ a indelible
68) ^ a instrumental
69) ^ a jejune
70) ^ a known known
71) ^ a known unknown
72) ^ a unknown known
73) ^ a unknown unknown
74) ^ a, b, c lese_majesty
75) ^ a l%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9
76) ^ a leze_majesty
77) ^ a manufactroversy
78) ^ a matutinal
79) ^ a maudlin
80) ^ a, b mellifluous
81) ^ a melliloquent
82) ^ a mollify
83) ^ a motile
84) ^ a newsie
85) ^ a noblesse oblige
86) ^ a nontroversy
87) ^ a obviate
88) ^ a onyx
89) ^ a onyx
90) ^ a picaresque
91) ^ a plenipotentiary
92) ^ a nonsense
93) ^ a profligate
94) ^ a putatively
95) ^ a, b quietus
96) ^ a racy
97) ^ a risqué
98) ^ a indelicate
99) ^ a rubbernecker
100) ^ a, b saccharine
101) ^ a same difference
102) ^ a sclerotic
103) ^ a secondary world
104) ^ a septemfluous
105) ^ a skinship
106) ^ a skirl
107) ^ a, b slake
108) ^ a, b smooth operator
109) ^ a, b smooth operator
110) ^ a soiree
111) ^ a somnolence
112) ^ a, b sparrow-fart
113) ^ a spitfire
114) ^ a stupid_o'clock
115) ^ a sylvan
116) ^ a tacit
117) ^ a terra_nullius
118) ^ a thalassocracy
119) ^ a trashy
120) ^ a très_chic
121) ^ a, b umbra
122) ^ a umbral
123) ^ a, b varsity
124) ^ a, b verboten
125) ^ a verily
126) ^ a vexation
127) ^ a vidya
128) ^ a vulgate
129) ^ a, b wallflower
130) ^ a wanderlust
131) ^ a warez
132) ^ a wilco
133) ^ a winningest
134) ^ a witching_hour
135) ^ a woggin
136) ^ a be_a_hundred_years_too_early
137) ^ a acknowledge_the_corn
138) ^ a Add_oil
139) ^ a the_bee's_knees
140) ^ a the%20cat's%20meow
141) ^ a damn_with_faint_praise
142) ^ a https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/God%27s+in+his+heaven;+all%27s+right+with+the+world
143) ^ a up one's own ass
144) ^ a adelina
145) ^ a, b, c, d Eleanor
146) ^ a Aileen
147) ^ a Evelyn
148) ^ a alicia
149) ^ a adelaide
150) ^ a Arsinoe
151) ^ a arsinoe
152) ^ a, b, c, d, e, f, g The Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends by Ronan Coghlan
153) ^ a Arthur
154) ^ a, b Catherine
155) ^ a Hecate
156) ^ a https://jakanddaxter.fandom.com/wiki/Ottsel
157) ^ a, b dexter
158) ^ a, b Dexter
159) ^ a dexterous
160) ^ a https://surnames.behindthename.com/name/dexter
161) ^ a Daxter
162) ^ a Eleonora
163) ^ a Alienora
164) ^ a Ali%C3%A9nor
165) ^ a Estelle
166) ^ a Galahad
167) ^ a %D7%92%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%93
168) ^ a Galahad
169) ^ a Guinevere
170) ^ a, b Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/Gw%C9%A8nnohu%C9%A8%CE%B2ar
171) ^ a igraine
172) ^ a Igraine
173) ^ a, b Iseult
174) ^ a keira
175) ^ a ciar
176) ^ a ciara-1
177) ^ a Keira
178) ^ a Lancelot
179) ^ a Leticia
180) ^ a Letizia
181) ^ a Lilian
182) ^ a Murgatroyd
183) ^ a Murgatroyd
184) ^ a Mabel
185) ^ a Maybel
186) ^ a Merlin
187) ^ a Moderatus
188) ^ a, b Morgan
189) ^ a, b, c niamh
190) ^ a Nimuë
191) ^ a nimue
192) ^ a Noor
193) ^ a نور
194) ^ a noor-1
195) ^ a Pendragon
196) ^ a pendragon
197) ^ a Percival
198) ^ a shirley
199) ^ a Shirley
200) ^ a Tristan
201) ^ a uther
202) ^ a Quote Origin – May find a better source later on.