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Crocs
Doctor Scholls
Earth Shoes
Flip-flops
Galoshes
Hush Puppies
Irregular Choice
Jackboots
Klomps
Loafers
Moccasins
New Balance
Oxfords (not brogues)
Penny Loafers
Que Shebley
Reeboks
Saucony
TUSA Sport
UGGs
Vellies
Wellington Boots
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Footwear
Adidas
Buster Brown
Crocs
Doctor Scholls
Earth Shoes
Flip-flops
Galoshes
Hush Puppies
Irregular Choice
Jackboots
Klomps
Loafers
Moccasins
New Balance
Oxfords (not brogues)
Penny Loafers
Que Shebley
Reeboks
Saucony
TUSA Sport
UGGs
Vellies
Wellington Boots
Xtep
Y-3 by Yohji Yamamoto
Footwear
Adidas
Buster Brown
Crocs
Doctor Scholls
Earth Shoes
Flip-flops
Galoshes
Hush Puppies
Irregular Choice
Jackboots
Klomps
Loafers
Moccasins
New Balance
Oxfords (not brogues)
Penny Loafers
Que Shebley
Reeboks
Saucony
TUSA Sport
UGGs
Vellies
Wellington Boots
Xtep
Y-3 by Yohji Yamamoto
ZIGIny
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
-“BB”-
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Knickerbocker (a type of clothing)
Coined by Washington Irving in his book History of New York, where he ascribes the name to a fictitious writer of Dutch descent. The name is picked up and used to describe old Dutch-descended aristocracy in New York by way of their long-stemmed pipes and short pants, eventually used to name social and sporting clubs of the region (i.e., the New York Knicks).
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Knickerbocker (a type of clothing)
Labia (from the Latin for “lip”)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Knickerbocker (a type of clothing)
Labia (from the Latin for “lip”)
Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam)
-“BB”-
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Knickerbocker (a type of clothing)
Labia (from the Latin for “lip”)
Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam)
Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made)
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Knickerbocker (a type of clothing)
Labia (from the Latin for “lip”)
Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam)
Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made)
Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”.
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Knickerbocker (a type of clothing)
Labia (from the Latin for “lip”)
Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam)
Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made)
Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”.
Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word palavra”
Here’s more: “Meaning word, speech, or talk. It was adopted along the West African coast during trade, where Portuguese traders used it for discussions with locals, eventually evolving in English to mean long, idle, or tedious talk.”
Words with a very particular etymology
Aubergine (eggplant in British English, from the Arab Bāḏinjān)
Badminton (named for Badminton House in Gloucestershire, the estate of the Duke of Beaufort)
Cantaloupe (named for the papal village of Cantalupo, Italy, where the seeds were cultivated. The name means “singing wolf”, or “place where the wolves sing”).
Derrick (originally a gallows, later a hoist, crane or structure over an oil well, from the surname of a hangman at London’s Tyburn gallows in the early 1600s)
Ear (“grain part of corn” from Old English æher, which means spike or head of grain)
Filbert (another name for a hazelnut, may come from the nut maturing arr. St. Philibert’s feast day)
Grenade (from the French grenate and the Spanish grenada, meaning ‘pomegranate’ – which the hand-thrown bomb resembled)
Husband (from the Old Norse hūsbōndi, literally meaning “house dweller.”) It combines hūs (house) and bōndi (occupier or freeholder), originally referring to the master of a household rather than a marital status.
Ion (coined in 1834 by English polymath William Whewell for physicist Michael Faraday, derived from the Greek word ion meaning “going,” which is the neuter present participle of ienai"to go".)
July, named for Julius Caesar
Knickerbocker (a type of clothing)
Labia (from the Latin for “lip”)
Macadam (a paving surface named for its developer, John Loudon McAdam)
Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made)
Okay - Started with a 1830’s fad of intentionally misspelling and abbreviating phrases. “All correct” became “oll korrect” which became “ok”.
Palaver - per Merriam-Webster, “originated in the early 18th century as sailors’ slang, derived from the Portuguese word palavra”
Quinoa (a grain originally from Peru, from the Spanish spelling of Quechua (Inca) kinua)