Mae West

type of inflatable life jacket, 1940, military slang, in reference to the screen name of the buxom U.S. film star (1892-1980).

also from 1940

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Midwest

1926 in the U.S. geographical sense, from earlier Midwestern (1889) in reference to a group of states originally listed as West...Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas; it now generally refers to states somewhat north and west...

behold

Old English bihaldan (West Saxon behealdan) "give regard to, hold in view," also "keep hold of; belong to," from be- + haldan...A common West Germanic compound, compare Old Saxon bihaldan "hold, keep," Old Frisian bihalda "hold, possess, keep, protect...

Visigoth

1640s, from Late Latin Visigothus (plural Visigothi), perhaps "West Goths" (which could be Latinized from a Germanic source...such as Old High German westan "from the west"), as opposed to Ostrogothi; but according to some authorities, Visi/Vesi...

westernize

West, from western + -ize....Peck, "A New Guide for Emigrants to the West," Boston, 1837] In reference to Europeanizing of Middle Eastern or Asian places...

school

or other animals" (porpoises, whales), which is cognate with Old English scolu "band, troop, crowd of fish," both from West...Germanic *skulo- (source also of Old Saxon scola "troop, multitude," West Frisian skoal), perhaps with a literal sense of...

shire

administrative office, jurisdiction, stewardship, authority," also in particular use "district, province, country," from West...from The Shires (1796), used by people in other parts of England of those counties that end in -shire, which are north and west...

hustle

West] is the word "hustle."...We have caught it in the East. but we use it humorously, just as we once used the Southern word "skedaddle," but out West...[Julian Ralph, "Our Great West," N.Y., 1893] Sense of "to get in a quick, illegal manner" is 1840 in American English; that...

air

c. 1300, "invisible gases that surround the earth," from Old French air "atmosphere, breeze, weather" (12c.), from Latin aer "air, lower atmosphere, sky," from Greek aēr (genitive aeros) "mist, haze, clouds," later "atmosphere" (perhaps related to aenai "to blow, breathe"), which

jacket

mid-15c., "short garment for men," from Old French jaquet "short coat with sleeves," diminutive of jaque, a kind of tunic, which is of uncertain origin. Probably it is from Jacque, the male proper name, also the generic name of a French peasant (see jacquerie) with extended mater

arrogance

"a manifest feeling of superiority of one's worth or importance, combined with contempt of others," c. 1300, from Old French arrogance (12c.), from Latin arrogantia "presumption, pride, haughtiness," abstract noun from arrogantem (nominative arrogans) "assuming, overbearing, inso

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