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whillikers
interjection
Informal.
(used as an intensive after gee or golly gee to express astonishment, delight, etc.)
More about whillikers
Whillikers and its variant whillikens are used only in the exclamatory phrase (golly) gee whillikers (whillikens). There is no satisfactory etymology for whillikers or whillikens. Gee whillikens first appeared in print in 1851.
how is whillikers used?
“Why,” she gasped, “It’s money!” “Gee whillikers鈥攖en bucks!” Jason echoed.
We鈥檙e all going to look at the things that are thrilling and exciting for him and say, 鈥楤ut that music sucks!鈥� Gee whillikers, guess who else said that? Every generation ever.
whillikers
cachinnate
verb (used without object)
to laugh loudly or immoderately.
More about cachinnate
Cachinnate, 鈥渢o laugh loudly or immoderately,鈥� comes straight from Latin 肠补肠丑颈苍苍腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of the verb 肠补肠丑颈苍苍腻谤别 鈥渢o laugh boisterously, guffaw.鈥� 颁补肠丑颈苍苍腻谤别 is a verb of imitative origin that even has its own Proto-Indo-European root: khakha– (who knew that primitive Indo-Europeans laughed?). The root khakha– yields Greek 办补办丑谩锄别颈苍, 办补办办丑谩锄别颈苍, and 办补苍办丑谩锄别颈苍, Old Church Slavonic xoxotati, Old High German kachazzwen, and Sanskrit 办谩办丑补迟颈 鈥渉e laughs.” Cachinnate entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is cachinnate used?
She does not laugh so much as cachinnate, finding at least one thing hysterical in every episode.
Just don鈥檛 expect to guffaw or cachinnate, and forget all about busting a gut. It鈥檚 not that kind of comedy.
cachinnate
butyraceous
adjective
of the nature of, resembling, or containing butter.
More about butyraceous
The adjective butyraceous is an expensive word for buttery. Butyraceous comes from Latin butyrum (both the first u and the y may be long or short), from Greek 产辞煤迟测虅谤辞苍 鈥渂utter,鈥� literally 鈥渃ow cheese,鈥� according to the traditional (and ancient) etymology, from Greek 产辞没蝉 (inflectional stem boo-, bou-) 鈥渃ow鈥� and 迟测虅谤贸蝉 鈥渃heese.鈥� Both 产辞没蝉 and 迟测虅谤贸蝉 are very ancient: both occur on Late Bronze Age Linear B clay tablets from Pylos (in the southwest Peloponnesus), and both words are of Proto-Indo-European origin. The closest non-Greek relative to 迟测虅谤贸蝉 is in the ancient Iranian languages: in Avestan (the language of the Zoroastrian scriptures), 迟奴颈谤颈– means 鈥渨hey, cheeselike milk鈥� and 迟奴颈谤颈ia– means 鈥渃urdled (milk).鈥� Herodotus states that butter was used by the Scythians, ancient Iranian nomads of the Russian steppes. Latin butyrum (with its variant 产奴迟奴谤耻尘) becomes burre in Old French (beurre in French) and burro in Italian. Latin butyrum was borrowed by the West Germanic languages (as usual, the details and date of the borrowing are disputed): Old English has butere (English butter); German has Butter, Dutch boter. Butyraceous entered English in the 17th century.
how is butyraceous used?
All good butter seems to have disappeared as if by magic, and there remains only a butyraceous compound of hair, butter, chips and rock salt, which is as striped as a zebra and smells as rancid as a goat or a bundle of foul linens.
fine food, lots of the best wine, had given his jowls a butyraceous sheen.
butyraceous