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Nankeen (a yellow cotton cloth popular in the 1800s, named for Nanking, China, where it was originally made)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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
Tycoon (from the Japanese word taikun, which means ‘great ruler’)
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
Tycoon (from the Japanese word taikun, which means ‘great ruler’)
Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire.
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
Tycoon (from the Japanese word taikun, which means ‘great ruler’)
Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire.
Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love)
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
Tycoon (from the Japanese word taikun, which means ‘great ruler’)
Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire.
Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love)
Wad (From wadde , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing)
The meaning “something bundled up tightly” (especially paper currency) is from 1778. To shoot (one’s) wad “do all one can do” is recorded by 1860. The immediate source of the expression probably is wad in the sense of “disk of cloth used to hold powder and shot in place in a gun” (1660s). Wad in the slang sense of “a load of semen” is attested from 1920s, and the expression now sometimes is felt in this sense.
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
Tycoon (from the Japanese word taikun, which means ‘great ruler’)
Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire.
Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love)
Wad (From wadde , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing)
Xylophone - from Greek elements: xylon “wood” + phōnē “a sound”, 1866
Before the xylophone, children’s alphabet books (Biblically based) used Xerxes, or “X in the box” or “X is a letter that seldom is found”.
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
Tycoon (from the Japanese word taikun, which means ‘great ruler’)
Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire.
Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love)
Wad (From wadde , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing)
Xylophone - from Greek elements: xylon “wood” + phōnē “a sound”, 1866
Yahoo (the name of a race of brutish humanoids in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726))
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)
Ritzy - From Cesar Ritz and his highfalutin hotels.
Saxophone (named by its creator, Adolphe Sax, for himself)
Tycoon (from the Japanese word taikun, which means ‘great ruler’)
Umpire - The word was originally noumpere (from the French nonper) but the n shifted and a noumpere became an umpire.
Valentine (from St. Valentine, a Christian saint who is the patron saint of courtly love)
Wad (From wadde , "small bunch of fibrous, soft material for padding or stuffing)
Xylophone - from Greek elements: xylon “wood” + phōnē “a sound”, 1866
Yahoo (the name of a race of brutish humanoids in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726))
Zany (from Zanni, a term for the servant characters in the Italian Commedia dell’arte like Harlequin or Pulcinella, who could be shrewd and cocky).
[quote=“kenobi_65, post:739, topic:1025341, full:true”] Games of any kind, and words associated with it
American football
Badminton, birdie
Chess, queen
Disc golf
Elephant polo
Frankenstein chess
Go, pieces
Hockey, ice Irish, tables
Jai alai, cesta
Kingdom Rush