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Jugendstil
noun
art nouveau, a style of fine and applied art characterized by curvilinear motifs, as practiced in German-speaking countries.
More about Jugendstil
From German, Jugendstil consists of Jugend, meaning 鈥測outh,鈥� and Stil, meaning 鈥渟tyle.鈥� Jugend and English youth are distant relatives of Latin juvenis, 鈥測oung.鈥� Stil and English style both come from Latin stilus, 鈥渢ool for writing.鈥� Jugendstil was first recorded in English in the late 1920s.
EXAMPLE OF JUGENDSTIL USED IN A SENTENCE
The old movie theater鈥檚 lobby reflected Jugendstil, with bold curves and detailed flowers adorning the wallpaper.
Hobson-Jobson
noun
the alteration of a word or phrase borrowed from another language to accord more closely with the phonological and lexical patterns of the borrowing language.
More about Hobson-Jobson
Hobson-Jobson comes from the Arabic lament 岣san 岣sayn. British soldiers stationed in South Asia mistakenly wrote the Arabic phrase down as Hossy Gossy or Hossein Jossen. Eventually, the spelling Hobson-Jobson won out, after Hobson and Jobson, two clown characters in Victorian literature. Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burrell coined Hobson-Jobson for the name of their glossary of Anglo-Indian words in 1886.
EXAMPLE OF HOBSON-JOBSON USED IN A SENTENCE
English buckaroo and cockroach are the results of Hobson-Jobson, coming from Spanish vaquero and cucaracha.
coquettish
adjective
characteristically flirtatious, especially in a teasing, lighthearted manner.
More about coquettish
Coquettish comes from the French word coquette, a flirtatious woman, with a male equivalent, coquet. Formed from coq, 鈥渞ooster,鈥� and -et (feminine -ette), a suffix meaning 鈥渟mall, little,鈥� coquettish is a relative of the 51吃瓜 of the Day cockade. Coquettish was first recorded in English around 1690.
EXAMPLE OF COQUETTISH USED IN A SENTENCE
She finished telling her riveting story with only a coquettish wink, leaving her audience begging to know the ending.