I ran into "skeeve" in a book and wasn't sure what it means. Merriam-Webster had "skeevy", and mentioned "skeeve" as its source, but didn't have an actual entry for it!
Luckily, #Wiktionary did, and the article looks good to me.
This happens to me increasingly often, even though Merriam-Webster is one of the very few, perhaps even the only commercial English dictionary that is still regularly updated.
I love Merriam-Webster very dearly, but times may be changing.
What commander Reid Wiseman said about is cool, too:
"It’s indescribable. No matter how long we look at this, our brains are not processing this image in front of us. It is absolutely spectacular, surreal, there’s no adjectives. I’m gonna need to invent some new ones to describe what we’re looking at right now."
The words "indescribable" and "adjective" already have relevant quotations in the English #Wiktionary, so despite the historicity of the moment, I won't overload it with even more.
About an hour ago, the #Artemis2 astronauts saw a solar eclipse from behind the Moon, if I understand correctly (do correct me if I don't).
What Pilot Victor Glover said about it sounded so cool that I added it as an example of using the adjective "wicked" to the English #Wiktionary.
(Photo: Josh Valcarcel, NASA, Public Domain, obtained through Wikimedia Commons.)
New (to me) #sailing #jargon -
gabier: (french nautical) Topman; #sailor(s) stationed to work the upper yards and sails of a sailing ship. The 'station' was often a small platform attached to the mast at the trestle trees - where the heel of the topmast is fixed.
#Wiktionaire #français: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gabier
#English #Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gabier
On #Wiktionary, every so often one accidentally drops into a word which has multiple language groups where it means the same thing.
Even more rarely (and delightfully) are discoveries where a single word has the same meaning *across* two or more language groups.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mai
* my
* mother/mom
* water
* May (Gregorian calendar month)
* come, hither (toward the speaker)
* never/ever
What do those terms mean, in practical examples?
E.g. #Wiktionary uses left-wing to define (political) left. Left-wing is defined as:
"Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/left-wing
'Far' left is the most 'radical' part of the left wing, radical being 'fundamental change'. Extreme is not a political qualifier.
Supporting fundamental change toward political, social, and economic #equality sounds pretty good, to me.
#wiktionary has a page just for cat translations
@OvertonDoors @wikipedia Whilst I'm not knowledgeable on Latin (apart from that West Wing scene), But I suspect the Latin #wiktionary community would be able to assist!
Le Wiktionnaire, c’est le dictionnaire universel et gratuit que VOUS pouvez modifier. Plus qu’une simple liste de mots, c’est un projet vivant qui capture l’évolution de notre langue en temps réel.
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