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# gaméta
## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡɒmeːtɒ]
* Hyphenation: ga‧mé‧ta
* Rhymes: -tɒ

### Noun

gaméta (plural gaméták)
* gamete

#### Declension
### Further reading

* gaméta in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
# trisezionavamo
## Italian
### Verb

trisezionavamo
* first-person plural imperfect indicative of trisezionare
# lettiskas
## Swedish
### Noun

lettiskas
* indefinite genitive singular of lettiska
# sufixando
## Portuguese
### Verb

sufixando
* gerund of sufixar
# tremblera
## French
### Verb

tremblera
* third-person singular simple future of trembler
# implementares
## Catalan
### Verb

implementares
* second-person singular preterite indicative of implementar

## Portuguese
### Verb

implementares
* inflection of implementar:
** second-person singular future subjunctive
** second-person singular personal infinitive

## Spanish
### Verb

implementares
* second-person singular future subjunctive of implementar
# guest-room
## English
### Noun

guest-room (plural guest-rooms)
* Alternative form of guest room.
** 1887, Kathleen O’Meara, chapter IV, in Narka, the Nihilist, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 37:“About three hundred.” / “All staying in the house!” exclaimed Marguerite. “Oh! many guest-rooms have you?” / “Seventy-five. But then there is the armory; about a hundred manage to sleep there; they did at my marriage.”
** 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 59:Marian’s room was done up in blue, as she had requested, and the other guest-room was furnished in yellow.
** 2000, Sue Baker, Pam Bradley, Jeremy Huyton, Principles of Hotel Front Office Operations, 2nd edition, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 188:Most hotels have a stated check-out time at which departing guests must vacate their rooms. In general, check-out time is between 10.00a.m. and noon. The information regarding this should be written on the key card, as well as stated in the information folder in the hotel guest-room.
# ateisms
## Swedish
### Noun

ateisms
* indefinite genitive singular of ateism
# tweeze
## English
### Etymology

Back-formation from tweezers.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /twiz/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːz

### Verb

tweeze (third-person singular simple present tweezes, present participle tweezing, simple past and past participle tweezed)
* (transitive) To pluck or grasp using tweezers.
** 1929 September 2, “Philatelists”, in Time:Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks.
** 1930, Virginia Woolf, “Beau Brummell”, in The Common Reader: Second Series‎, published 1932:He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, tweezed out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm.
* (transitive) To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers.
** 1950, Anya Seton, chapter 1, in Foxfire‎, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 4:Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows.
** 1988, Edmund White, chapter 3, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […]
* (intransitive) To pluck out hairs using tweezers.
** 2012 November 16, Adriana Ermter, “How to get the perfect eyebrows: Four reasons to enlist a professional”, in Chatelaine:Word to the wise: if you must tweeze solo, stick to plucking only the obvious stray hairs.
# frustrasteis
## Spanish
### Verb

frustrasteis
* second-person plural preterite indicative of frustrar
# leucorrhoeas
## English
### Noun

leucorrhoeas
* plural of leucorrhoea
# trembler comme une feuille
## French
### Etymology

From trembler, comme, une and feuille.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɑ̃.ble kɔ.m‿yn fœj/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

trembler comme une feuille
* (simile) to shake like a leaf
# sufixada
## Portuguese
### Participle

sufixada f sg
* feminine singular of sufixado
# implementaren
## Catalan
### Verb

implementaren
* third-person plural preterite indicative of implementar

## Spanish
### Verb

implementaren
* third-person plural future subjunctive of implementar
# trehalosa
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɾeaˈlosa/ [t̪ɾe.aˈlo.sa]
* Rhymes: -osa
* Syllabification: tre‧ha‧lo‧sa

### Noun

trehalosa f (plural trehalosas)
* (biochemistry) trehalose
# fluctuabantur
## Latin
### Verb

flūctuābantur
* third-person plural imperfect passive indicative of flūctuō
# avvedevamo
## Italian
### Verb

avvedevamo
* first-person plural imperfect indicative of avvedersi
# frustrastes
## Galician
### Verb

frustrastes
* second-person plural preterite indicative of frustrar

## Portuguese
### Verb

frustrastes
* second-person plural preterite indicative of frustrar
# leucoscope
## English

* This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!

### Etymology

From leuco- +‎ -scope.

### Noun

leucoscope (plural leucoscopes)
* An instrument for testing the colour perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights in terms of their constituent colour or relative whiteness.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “leucoscope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
# tremblent
## French
### Verb

tremblent
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of trembler
# entusiasmadamente
## Spanish
### Adverb

entusiasmadamente
* enthusiastically
# implementariam
## Portuguese
### Verb

implementariam
* third-person plural conditional of implementar
# trembleth
## English
### Etymology

tremble +‎ -eth

### Verb

trembleth
* (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of tremble
# tokeneth
## English
### Etymology

token +‎ -eth

### Verb

tokeneth
* (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of token
# highwall
## English
### Etymology

From high +‎ wall.

### Noun

highwall (plural highwalls)
* (mining) The unexcavated face of exposed overburden and coal in a surface mine.
# hedersgästerna
## Swedish
### Noun

hedersgästerna
* definite plural of hedersgäst
# legerdemainist
## English
### Etymology

From legerdemain +‎ -ist.

### Noun

legerdemainist (plural legerdemainists)
* A person who practices or performs sleight of hand.
# tremblerais
## French
### Verb

tremblerais
* first/second-person singular conditional of trembler
# xivaisme
## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* xaivisme

### Etymology

From Xiva +‎ -isme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Valencia) unknown
* Rhymes: -izme

### Noun

xivaisme m (plural xivaismes)
* (Hinduism) Shaivism

### Further reading

* “xivaisme”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
# entusiasm
## Swedish
### Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιασμός (enthousiasmós), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”) + οὐσία (ousía, “essence”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aŋtɵsɪˈasm/, /antɵsɪˈasm/, /ɛntɵsɪˈasm/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -asm

### Noun

entusiasm c
* enthusiasm

#### Related terms

* entusiasmera
* entusiastisk

### References

* entusiasm in Svensk ordbok (SO)
# atentinda
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From atenti (“to pay attention”) +‎ -inda (“worth”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [atentˈinda]
* Rhymes: -inda
* Hyphenation: a‧tent‧in‧da

### Adjective

atentinda (accusative singular atentindan, plural atentindaj, accusative plural atentindajn)
* worth paying attention to
* worth watching for
# toksiskais
## Latvian
### Adjective

toksiskais (indefinite toksisks, comparative toksiskākais, superlative vistoksiskākais, adverb toksiski)
* the toxic, the poisonous; definite of toksisks
# avituallaríem
## Catalan
### Verb

avituallaríem
* first-person plural conditional of avituallar
# triploblasts
## English
### Noun

triploblasts
* plural of triploblast
# legerdemainists
## English
### Noun

legerdemainists
* plural of legerdemainist
# hechizándolas
## Spanish
### Verb

hechizándolas
* gerund of hechizar combined with las
# xiuxiuejàveu
## Catalan
### Verb

xiuxiuejàveu
* second-person plural imperfect indicative of xiuxiuejar
# atentinto
## Esperanto
### Noun

atentinto (accusative singular atentinton, plural atentintoj, accusative plural atentintojn)
* singular past nominal active participle of atenti

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /atenˈtinto/

### Verb

atentinto
* singular nominal past active participle of atentar
# suburbanizzati
## Italian
### Participle

suburbanizzati m pl
* masculine plural of suburbanizzato
# aquaplanavas
## Portuguese
### Verb

aquaplanavas
* second-person singular imperfect indicative of aquaplanar
# avituallas
## Spanish
### Verb

avituallas
* second-person singular present indicative of avituallar
# fubpees
## English
### Noun

fubpees
* plural of fubpee
# προσ-
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ποτι- (poti-) — Epic, Doric

### Etymology

Prefix version of the preposition πρός (prós, “towards”).

### Prefix

προσ- • (pros-)
* motion towards, accession to, or nearness to

#### Derived terms
### References

* “πρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Greek
### Alternative forms

* πρόσ- (prós-)

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek προσ- (pros-, “against”). See preposition προς.

### Prefix

προσ- • (pros-)
* toward
* (means proximity)
* (means agreement, similarity)
* (means hostility)
* (accentuates the meaning)

#### Derived terms

* Category:Greek terms prefixed with προσ-
* Category:Greek terms prefixed with πρόσ-

### References

* ↑ προσ-, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
# hechizándolo
## Spanish
### Verb

hechizándolo
* gerund of hechizar combined with lo
# caña del ancla
## Spanish
### Noun

caña del ancla f (plural cañas del ancla)
* (nautical) anchor shank

### Further reading

* “caña del ancla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
# treedt toe
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

treedt toe
* inflection of toetreden:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

### Anagrams

* toetreedt
# suburbanizzavamo
## Italian
### Verb

suburbanizzavamo
* first-person plural imperfect indicative of suburbanizzare
# guataquearlos
## Spanish
### Verb

guataquearlos
* infinitive of guataquear combined with los
# gansettes
## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɑ̃.sɛt/

### Noun

gansettes f
* plural of gansette
# fubicas
## Portuguese
### Noun

fubicas
* plural of fubica
# πρῖγκιψ
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From Latin prīnceps.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prîːŋ.kips/ → /ˈpriɲ.ɟips/ → /ˈpriɲ.ɟips/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /prîːŋ.kips/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpriŋ.kips/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈpriɲ.ɟips/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈpriɲ.ɟips/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈpriɲ.ɟips/

### Noun

πρῖγκῐψ • (prînkips) m (genitive πρῑ́γκῐπος); third declension
* (Koine, Byzantine) prince

#### Derived terms

* πριγκίπισσα (prinkípissa)

#### Descendants

* Greek: πρίγκιψ (prígkips), πρίγκιπας (prígkipas)
# aswamode
## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑːˌswɑː.mo.de/

### Verb

āswāmode
* inflection of āswāmian:
** first/third-person singular preterite indicative
** singular preterite subjunctive
# caña de la India
## Spanish
### Noun

caña de la India f (plural cañas de la India)
* rattan

### Further reading

* “caña de la India”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
# treedt op
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

treedt op
* inflection of optreden:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

### Anagrams

* optreedt
# enwejü
## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [eŋwehɨ]

### Verb

enwejü
* (intransitive) to do something during the night

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enwejü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
# flinthead
## English
### Etymology

From flint +‎ head, from the grey colour of the head.

### Noun

flinthead (plural flintheads)
* A bird, the wood stork.
# gajol
## Danish

* This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself! Particularly: "Can we get a picture of the licorice pieces themselves?"

### Noun

gajol
* a brand of licorice
* (chiefly in the plural, slang) a small breast; a mosquito bite
** 2017, Lone Diana Jørgensen, Camilla & kærligheden, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:Og det var ikke sådan nogle små gajoler, som hun selv havde, men rigtige bryster, der gyngede fra side til side, når hun bevægede sig.And they weren't small mosquito bites like the ones she had herself, but real breasts, that swayed from side to side when she moved.
** 2005, da:Cecilie Frøkjær, Jane Aamund, Lys i livet, Art People, →ISBN:Jeg var sent udviklet og havde bare små gajoler.I was a late bloomer, and only had small mosquito bites.
** 1996, Bjarne Reuter, Ved profetens skæg: roman:... en natsygeplejerske med to gajoler og en røv som et skoleatlas?... a night nurse with two mosquito bites and an ass like a school atlas?
# fubin
## Japanese
### Romanization

fubin
* Rōmaji transcription of ふびん
# trawienie
## Polish
### Etymology

From trawić +‎ -enie.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /traˈvjɛɲɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
* Syllabification: tra‧wie‧nie

### Noun

trawienie n
* verbal noun of trawić
* digestion (process in gastrointestinal tract)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* trawienie in Polish dictionaries at PWN
# caña del pulmón
## Spanish
### Noun

caña del pulmón f (plural cañas del pulmón)
* (anatomy) windpipe
    Synonym: tráquea

### Further reading

* “caña del pulmón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
# treedt in
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

treedt in
* inflection of intreden:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

### Anagrams

* intreedt
# aequivocaveris
## Latin
### Verb

aequivocāveris
* second-person singular future perfect active indicative of aequivocō

### Verb

aequivocāverīs
* second-person singular perfect active subjunctive of aequivocō
# flinthearted
## English
### Adjective

flinthearted (comparative more flinthearted, superlative most flinthearted)
* Alternative form of flint-hearted
# tvärstoppets
## Swedish
### Noun

tvärstoppets
* definite genitive singular of tvärstopp
# atracallà
## Catalan
### Verb

atracallà
* third-person singular preterite indicative of atracallar
# karditida
## Czech
### Alternative forms

* karditis f

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkardɪtɪda]
* IPA: [ˈkardɪtiːda]

### Noun

karditida f
* carditis (inflammation of the heart)
    Synonym: zánět srdce

#### Related terms

* See kardio-

### Further reading

* “karditida”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* karditida in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
# xanthosternae
## Latin
### Adjective

xanthosternae
* inflection of xanthosternus:
** nominative/vocative feminine plural
** genitive/dative feminine singular
# frigitt
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

frigitt
* past participle of frigi
# astrodynamicists
## English
### Noun

astrodynamicists
* plural of astrodynamicist
# adverse interest rule
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -uːl

### Proper noun

adverse interest rule
* (law) The presumption that the failure of a party to produce a witness available to them indicates that the testimony of that witness would go against the party.
# flashballs
## English
### Noun

flashballs
* plural of flashball
# tvärstupen
## Swedish
### Noun

tvärstupen
* definite plural of tvärstup
# atracallo
## Catalan
### Verb

atracallo
* first-person singular present indicative of atracallar
# karkeloitsi
## Finnish
### Alternative forms

* karkeloi

### Verb

karkeloitsi
* third-person singular past indicative of karkeloida
# impigrum
## Latin
### Adjective

impigrum
* inflection of impiger:
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
** accusative masculine singular
# fribytares
## Swedish
### Noun

fribytares
* indefinite genitive singular of fribytare
* indefinite genitive plural of fribytare
# haudu
## Estonian
### Noun

haudu
* partitive plural of haud

## Finnish
### Verb

haudu
* inflection of hautua:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

### Anagrams

* huuda

## Livvi
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑu̯du/
* Hyphenation: hau‧du
* Rhymes: -ɑu̯du

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *hauta. Cognates include Finnish hauta and Estonian haud.

#### Noun

haudu
* pit
* grave
* dent; depression, hollow

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

haudu
* swede/rutabaga or turnip steamed in oven

##### Declension
### References

* Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 58
# adverse selection
## English
### Noun

adverse selection (uncountable)
* (economics, business, insurance) The process by which the price and quantity of goods or services in a given market is altered due to one party having information that the other party cannot have at reasonable cost.
    It is adverse selection that leads US workers who anticipate high family medical expenditure to seek employers with superior health insurance coverage for their employees.
    The large number of "lemons" in the used-car market is the result of adverse selection.

#### See also

* lemon
* moral hazard
* self-selection
# gumutuku
## Tabaru
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡu.ˈmu.tu.ku]

### Noun

gumutuku
* rope

### References

* Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics
# aviái
## Occitan
### Verb

aviái
* first-person singular imperfect indicative of aver
# atrincherándolo
## Spanish
### Verb

atrincherándolo
* gerund of atrincherar combined with lo
# contraignait
## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Verb

contraignait
* third-person singular imperfect indicative of contraindre
# catarre
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French catarrhe, from Ancient Greek κατάρροος (katárrhoos), which is derived from καταρρέω (katarrhéō, “I flow down”), which is composed of κατά (katá, “down”) and ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkaːˈtɑ.rə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ca‧tar‧re

### Noun

catarre f or m (plural catarres)
* catarrh, chronic inflammation of the mucous membranes

#### Derived terms

* catarraal

#### Descendants

* → Saramaccan: katharha
# freewheeler
## English
### Etymology

From freewheel +‎ -er.

### Noun

freewheeler (plural freewheelers)
* A vehicle that can freewheel.
* Someone acting freely or irresponsibly.
* A person who is primarily concerned with having a good time.

### Further reading

* “freewheeler”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* “freewheeler”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
# adverse possessions
## English
### Noun

adverse possessions
* plural of adverse possession
# haudute
## Finnish
### Etymology

hauduttaa +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhɑu̯duteˣ/, [ˈhɑ̝u̯dut̪e̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ɑudute
* Syllabification: hau‧du‧te

### Noun

haudute
* Synonym of hauduke

#### Declension

Possessive forms of haudute (Kotus type 48*C/hame, tt-t gradation) :

### Further reading

* “haudute”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
# arcaders
## English
### Noun

arcaders
* plural of arcader
# aviarais
## Spanish
### Verb

aviarais
* second-person plural imperfect subjunctive of aviar
# atrincherándolos
## Spanish
### Verb

atrincherándolos
* gerund of atrincherar combined with los
# led off
## English
### Verb

led off
* simple past of lead off
# xochikuale
## Morelos Nahuatl
### Noun

xochikuale
* fruit
# hejtotan
## Esperanto
### Adjective

hejtotan
* accusative singular future passive participle of hejti
# fixiertest
## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

fixiertest
* inflection of fixieren:
** second-person singular preterite
** second-person singular subjunctive II
# togairm
## Old Irish
### Etymology

From to- +‎ gairm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈto.ɣərʲmʲ/, [ˈtoɣɨrʲmʲ]

### Noun

togairm n (nominative plural togarmand)
* verbal noun of do·gair: calling
** c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102$^d$17
    Amal ru·soírtha-som hi Sleib Sina tri togairm n-anmae Dæ ⁊ árim a degmaine nó amal ro·[so]írtha i n-Egipt, síc ro·soírtha in Machabdi húa Día dinaib imnedaib hi·robatar.As they were saved on Mount Sinai through calling on the name of God and enumerating His benefits, or as they were delivered in Egypt; so the Macabees were delivered by God from the troubles that they were in.

#### Inflection

Neuter n-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | togairm$^N$ | togairm$^N$ | togarman$^L$ |
| Vocative | togairm$^N$ | togairm$^N$ | togarman$^L$ |
| Accusative | togairm$^N$ | togairm$^N$ | togarman$^L$ |
| Genitive | togarmae | togarman$^N$ | togarman$^N$ |
| Dative | togarmaim$^L$ | togarmanaib | togarmanaib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Descendants

* Irish: toghairm
* Scottish Gaelic: taghairm
** → English: taghairm
** → Scots: taghairm

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “togairm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
# gandy dancer
## English
### Alternative forms

* gandy-dancer

### Etymology

Uncertain; see Wikipedia for various speculative etymologies.

### Noun

gandy dancer (plural gandy dancers)
* (chiefly US, idiomatic) A railway laborer, especially a member of a crew which carries rails and affixes them to ties.
** 1929, Vernon W. Saul, “The Vocabulary of Bums”, in American Speech, volume 4, number 5, page 340:Gandy dancer—A section hand or track laborer.
** 1959 May 18, “Bush Teachers”, in Time, retrieved 14 September 2008:The oddest gandy-dancer on the railroads in Manitoba during the summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock.
** 1981 May 3, Edward C. Burks, “Amtrak Changes on Schedule”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 June 2014:In railroad slang, a gandy dancer is a track worker, one who lays or maintains track.

#### Related terms

* gandy dance
* gandy dancing