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Revision as of 01:38, 24 January 2012
Staff O of the English Wordbook.
Basic abbreviations: att'd=attested, OE=Old English, NHG=New High German, Du.=Dutch
For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see Forshortenings.
obedient | adj | hearsome |
obedience | n | hearsomeness |
obelisk | n | stonerock (<OE stanrocc) |
obfuscate | vt | becloud |
obituary | n | death(s)writ |
objectionable | adj |
forwarply (Calque of NHG verwerflich) |
object | n | gainstand |
objective | n | goal |
obligate | vb | bind, make |
obligation | n | binding, making, needness (OE néadignes) |
obliged | adj | beholden, fain |
oblique | adj | slanting |
obliquely | adv | aslant, athwart |
oblivion | n |
forgottenhood |
obscene | adj | foul, smutty |
obscure | vb | bedim, befog, befuddle, bethester, darken, darkle, overmist, overshadow |
obscure | adj | dim, unclear, unlit, swart, overmisted shady |
obsequious | adj | cowering, cringing, beggarly, bootlicking, brownnosing, fawning, groveling, sniveling, spineless |
observant | adj | underlookly, mindful, godfearing, watchful, bewitting |
observe | vb | underlook on (on seperable), waretake, bewit, watch, follow, keep, look at, mind |
obsess | vb | dwell(on) |
obstacle | n | hindrance, hinderness |
obstinate | adj | cranky, balky, bullish, bullheaded, dogged, headstrong, mulish, strong-minded, stubborn, unbending, unflinching, unyielding, wayward, willful |
obstruct | vb | hinder, hold up, waylay, forslow |
obstruction | n | hindering, hinderness, hitch, snag |
obstructive | adj | hindersome |
obtain | vb | underfang [past underfeng, ppt underfangen] (<OE underfón), beshape [past -shope, ppt -shapen] (Cf. NHG beschaffen), get, win, come by, get, nim |
obvious | adj | openseely, straightforward |
occasion | n | sele (att'd < OE sæl), marked time, time, mal |
occasionally | adv | sometimes, now and then |
occident | n | west |
occidental | adj | western |
occupied | adj | busy, besat |
occur | vb | happen, befall, come about, betide |
occurence | n | come-about, happening |
ocean | n | (great) sea, the blue moor, the floatway, sailroad, the bree, the brine, the foam, fivelstream, fivelway (OE fifelwæg) |
october | n | winterfulth, huntingmonth |
octopus | n | armfish |
odds | n | otherness (at odds) |
odour | n | smell, stench |
oecosystem | n | lifemesh |
oenophilia | n | winelust |
oesophagus | n | maw, foodpipe |
offend | vb | do wrong, do amiss,upset, gall, wound |
offer | vb | bequeath, agive |
offering | n | agiving, laq (OE lác) |
office | n | ambight (<OE ambiht; c.f. OHG ambaht, NHG Amt, Ic. ambátt, Dan embede, Goth andbahti) |
officer | n | sheriff, beadle |
official official language |
n |
steward, sheriff, reeve besteering shiretounge |
oil | n | fattybree |
ointment | n | salve |
okay | adj | alright |
old fashioned | adj | stick-in-the-mud |
old fogey | n | stick-in-the-mud |
Old Testament | n | Old Bond, Lawsetness (OE ǽgesetnes), Law-Giving |
oleaginous | adj |
oily |
olfactory | adj | smell |
-ology | suffix | -lore, -alogy (alog + -y) |
omen | n | foretoken, foreboding |
ominous | adj | foreboding |
omit | vb | underlet (Cf. NHG unterlassen), leave out, outleave, drop |
omnipotence | n | all-might, almightihood, almightiness, allwald, alwaldihood |
omnipotent | adj | almighty |
omniscient | adj | all-knowing |
onanism | n | onandom, wansowing |
onion | n | ramson |
operate | vb | bedrive (Calque of NHG betreiben), work, run |
operate, medically | vb | do cutwork |
operating system | n | working setup |
opinion | n | belief, thought, think-so, insight, penny's worth, pworth ( contraction of PW) |
opportune | adj | timely, well-timed, haplike (OE gehæplice) |
opportunity | n | opening |
oppose | vb | gainstand, thwart, witherstand (Cf. NHG widerstehen), sake (<OE sacan) |
as opposed to | phrase | as athwart from, over-against |
opposite | n | gainmatch, thwartmatch |
opposite | adj | overright(nb. Dorset), athwart(with object), fornent (Northern) |
opposition | n | gainstanders, gainstanding, thwarter, witherstand (Cf. NHG Widerstand), againsthood |
in opposition to | phrase | standing against, set to thwart. |
oppressed | adj | downtrodden |
optics | n | lightlore |
optimum | adj | best |
optimism | n | yaysaying, hopethinking |
optimist | n | yaysayer, hopethinker |
optional | adj | freechoicey, freewantly |
oral | adj | mouthly (Cf. NHG mündlich) |
orange (color) | adj | yellowred (<OE geoluhread, duskhue, dusk |
orangutan | n | fireape, redape |
orchestra | n | greatswaygroup |
orchid | n | ballockwort (<ME beallocwirt), wombbloom, wombblossom |
ordain | vb | tee (<OE teon), set up to happen |
order (command) | n | behest |
order (as in "out of order") | n | kilter |
order (command) | vb | behote [past -hight, ppt -hoten] (<OE behatan) |
order (send/ask for) | vb | bespeak (att'd), bestell (Calque of NHG bestellen) |
order (religious organization) | n | brotherhood, fellowship |
orderly | adj | smooth, well-run, shipshape, trim, spotless |
ordination | n | hading (OE hádung) |
orbit | vb & n | path-bow, world-bow, wharveway |
organ, body & tool | n. | workern (calque) |
organ, musical | n. | swinworkern (synthesised from calque) |
organize | vb | stight |
orgy, sexual | n | sunderfuck, clusterfuck |
orient | n | east |
oriental | adj | eastern |
orifice | n | hole, mouth, opening, outlet |
origin | n |
upspring (<OE upspring - origin, birth, rising up; in the Merr.-Web online wordbook) outspring, wellspring, root, dawn, beginning, birth, stem, wherefrom, whencecome, fromth, andstanding (cf. NHG Entstehung) or (<OE ór) |
original | adj | first, new, fresh, fromthly |
original | n | firstling |
originate | vb | stem, andstand (cf. NHG entstehen) |
ornament | vb | bedeck, deck, trim, gling (OE gleng) |
ornithology | n | birdlore |
orthodox | adj | by-the-book, (religiously) lieful (OE léafful) |
orthographically | adj | spellingwise |
orthography | n | spelling |
osteology | n | bonelore |
ostrich | n | racebird |
outcry | n | uproar |
outmanoeuvre | vb | outsmart, outshine, outwit |
outperform | vb | outdo, outshine |
overbalance | vb | (be)tip(ped) |
overcharge | vb | overload, overweigh |
overemphasize | vb | overplay, overshow |
oviraptor philoceratops | n | eggsnatcher |
ovum | n | eggling |
oxygen | n | windstuff, breath of life, sourwater-maker |
oyster | n | clam |