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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, Lilia & 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 ===== Trivilinks ===== * I had a plan for something here but I forgot it. * Regarding sources: 
  * My primary source was, and currently still is, Wiktionary, but I am in the process of replacing it. I'm trying to find a decent dictionary...as in a book...but, well, I haven't found one yet. Wiktionary's quality is highly variable and I don't like the Wikimedia project anyway.
    * I have managed to secure a few dictionaries of Japanese Grammar, as well as a dictionary of Shinto, and a Matoran language dictionary. I don't know if any of those will ever come up here however.
  * However, for names, I've switched to relying on BehindTheName.
* Words being considered:
  * Dixie, Yankee
A) Meaning I made them up in some way.
B) Most of the time.
C) 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.
D) There is no such thing as a boy who doesn’t like dinosaurs!
E) This is in the sense of ‘creates lots of skub’. So something that is ‘skub’ can generate ‘skub’.
F) The definition on Merriam-Webster confused me for a second, so I consulted other online definitions.
G) 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.
H) meant to be more general, if you’re unfamiliar with Bush Warfare.
I) Wiktionary lists a few potential meanings, but I’m not listing them all.
J) 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