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Words, Phrases, Names, and Quotes I find interesting

This is an article that collects words, phrases, names, and such that I think are neat.

Foreword

Background

In the past, I would input things I wrote into a grammar checker. Almost always, something I wrote would be labelled ‘archaic’. This inspired me to check the words I use in a dictionary. This article started as a collection of archaic words I found interesting, but eventually grew to include regular words I found interesting…and then I started including ‘other’.
Since my speech is already unorthodox, why not double-down?

Additional Notes

Definitions

Definitions given here may not be completely accurate; this is because they’re based on my understanding of the words. I also don’t currently have my own dictionaries, which means I’m limited in what I can write.

Linguas

I include a few words that aren’t from English as well, which I have marked as from another lingua. Occasionally I’ll also include words I create myself, sourced from one of the conlangs I developed.

Unorthodox & Normal

Unorthodox is the term I use to differentiate words from those that are simply present in English.
Words are placed into this category if they are:

Finally, I include those words that are simply ‘outside the norm.’

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Phrases

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Names

A brief note that I realized isn’t really clear. When I say that a name means something, I’m not only referring to the specific form it’s in, I’m also referring to whatever it’s a variant of.
Also, keep in mind that most of the meanings are gathered from what I understand on wiktionary and BehindTheName. If an etymologist or whoever wishes to correct me, I’d be more than happy to change stuff here. Actually, I’d prefer to be corrected.

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Quotes

Unlike the previous section, this one isn’t ordered alphabetically…or in any order really.

We just deluded ourselves into it being a stonethrow away from Utopia.

— The source was one of whatifalthist’s videos, but I don’t remember which.

My ignorance amuses me.

— Manfred Powell, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

A task so devious some might call it herculean.

— Shadiversity, EFAP #194

Wherefore should I go into the direst peril that there is in the world for the sake of a wandering Gnome of the woods?

— Dairon referring to Beren, Beren & Lúthien, J.R.R. Tolkien

Demetrius: Villain, what has thou done?
Aaron: That which thou can’t not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I hath done thy mother!

— Titus Andronicus: act 4, scene 2, William Shakespeare

All men… are not created equal!

— Emperor of Britannia, コードギアス興道, Code Geass Koudou

The world’s going to hell pretty quick…

— Houtarou, Hyouka Episode 19

Because it’s perfectly normal for me to be the best.

— Haqua du Lot Herminium, 神(かみ)のみぞ知(し)るセカイⅡ(The World God Only Knows Ⅱ) Episode 3

I’ve thought about rebelling, but I don’t even know how to.

— Matsumae Ohana, 花咲くいろは, Hanasaku Iroha Episode 2

The power of friendship will guide me to her before the other guards!!

— Saten Ruiko, とある科学の超電磁砲レールガン, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 15, Chapter 120

I detect a little communism.

— "Ain't I Right" - American Anti-Communist song - YouTube, 0:59

Pornography can save the world.

— Okajima Taiga, 暗殺教室, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu

All your base are belong to us.

— CATS, Zero Wing

I have this bad habit of starting galactic wars whenever I get stuck.

— Shiomiya Shiori, 神(かみ)のみぞ知(し)るセカイ女神(めがみ)篇(へん)(The World God Only Knows Goddess Arc), Episode 6

You still watch anime even though you’re in high school?

— Kosaka Chihiro, 神のみぞ知るセカイ4人とアイドル, Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai 4-nin to Idol

Something tells me that God isn’t a stalker…

— Oshimizu Nako, 花咲くいろは, Hanasaku Iroha Episode 7

Viva la civil engineering!

— Uiharu Kazari, とある魔術の禁書目録エンデュミオンの奇蹟, Toaru Majutsu no Index: Miracle of Endymion

You yawn, I spawn.

— Kanzaki Kaori, とある魔術の禁書目録エンデュミオンの奇蹟, Toaru Majutsu no Index: Miracle of Endymion

There is nothing that I cannot blow away!!! I just have to pay for what I destroy afterwards.

— Kongou Mitsuko, とある科学の超電磁砲レールガン, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 8, Chapter 50

And what am I supposed to do with this newfound hatred of tumbleweed?

— TimTVT, The Trouble With Tumbleweed - YouTube Comments

Please have my babies.

— Nishijima Masumi, 未来(みらい)日記(にっき)(Future Diary) Episode 20

If you use the power of money, you do not need that girl to get the milk, do you?

— Holo, 狼(おおかみ)と更新料(こうしんりょう)II 狼(おおかみ)と琥珀色(こはくいろ)の憂鬱(ゆううつ)(Spice & Wolf II Wolf & Amber Melancholy)

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot we must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

— Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, annotated by Abner Kneeland, vol. 1, 239

Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.

— Overheard at a Washington D.C. bar (According to the film The Big Short)

　…Civilized people shouldn’t get into water too deep to stand in.

— Treize, Lilia & Treize, Volume 2, Chapter 8

A) Meaning I made them up in some way.
B) Most of the time.
C) My conlang originally had ‘c’ pronounced as ‘k’ exclusively…and I didn’t have a letter ‘k’ at all. I’m not sure why the spelling here changed.
D) There is no such thing as a boy who doesn’t like dinosaurs!
E) meant to be more general, if you’re unfamiliar with Bush Warfare.
F) Wiktionary lists a few potential meanings, but I’m not listing them all.
G) The Encyclopedia only says that his name is either derived from Old Welsh or from ‘Gilead’
1) ^ a Eldamo ⟫ Entish Words ⟫ burárum
2) ^ a, b English and Welsh by J.R.R. Tolkien
3) ^ a https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ek-se
4) ^ a http://rhodesia.com/docs/other/slang.htm
5) ^ a, b Helen (unit)
6) ^ a kin
7) ^ a, b, c https://genius.com/Mike-westcott-and-leprechaun-its-a-long-way-to-mukumbura-lyrics - ‘Kwai’ I could not find in the two better? sources I have now, but since I still like the sound I’m keeping it. Also, in context (of the song), the meaning makes sense so I’m assuming it’s trustworthy.
8) ^ a primary_world
9) ^ a refrain
10) ^ a Eldamo : Westron : ribadyan
11) ^ a volapyk
12) ^ a volapukaĵo
13) ^ a ♪
14) ^ a accoll
15) ^ a, b adulterate
16) ^ a anachronism
17) ^ a ante
18) ^ a ashen
19) ^ a avaricious
20) ^ a, b bemoan
21) ^ a benight
22) ^ a Byzantine
23) ^ a capricious
24) ^ a casus belli
25) ^ a cause célèbre
26) ^ a chic
27) ^ a chiconomics
28) ^ a clay
29) ^ a, b, c concord
30) ^ a, b, c discord
31) ^ a confelicity
32) ^ a convalesce
33) ^ a, b convent
34) ^ a coven
35) ^ a de facto
36) ^ a de jure
37) ^ a deadline fighter
38) ^ a, b deflower
39) ^ a deign
40) ^ a dewfall
41) ^ a dolorific
42) ^ a, b dulcet
43) ^ a ender
44) ^ a, b epicaricacy
45) ^ a confelicity
46) ^ a ersatz
47) ^ a fey
48) ^ a fae
49) ^ a fingersmith
50) ^ a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h Rhodesian Slang - Intaf
51) ^ a fortitude
52) ^ a gauche
53) ^ a geofront
54) ^ a, b, c hot_minute
55) ^ a hurcheon
56) ^ a instrumental
57) ^ a indelible
58) ^ a jejune
59) ^ a known known
60) ^ a known unknown
61) ^ a unknown known
62) ^ a unknown unknown
63) ^ a, b, c lese_majesty
64) ^ a l%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9
65) ^ a leze_majesty
66) ^ a manufactroversy
67) ^ a matutinal
68) ^ a maudlin
69) ^ a, b mellifluous
70) ^ a melliloquent
71) ^ a motile
72) ^ a newsie
73) ^ a noblesse oblige
74) ^ a nontroversy
75) ^ a obviate
76) ^ a plenipotentiary
77) ^ a nonsense
78) ^ a, b quietus
79) ^ a racy
80) ^ a risqué
81) ^ a indelicate
82) ^ a same difference
83) ^ a sclerotic
84) ^ a secondary world
85) ^ a septemfluous
86) ^ a skinship
87) ^ a, b slake
88) ^ a, b smooth operator
89) ^ a, b smooth operator
90) ^ a soiree
91) ^ a, b sparrow-fart
92) ^ a spitfire
93) ^ a stupid_o'clock
94) ^ a sylvan
95) ^ a tacit
96) ^ a terra_nullius
97) ^ a thalassocracy
98) ^ a trashy
99) ^ a très_chic
100) ^ a, b umbra
101) ^ a umbral
102) ^ a, b verboten
103) ^ a verily
104) ^ a vexation
105) ^ a vidya
106) ^ a vulgate
107) ^ a, b wallflower
108) ^ a warez
109) ^ a wilco
110) ^ a witching_hour
111) ^ a woggin
112) ^ a be_a_hundred_years_too_early
113) ^ a acknowledge_the_corn
114) ^ a Add_oil
115) ^ a the_bee's_knees
116) ^ a damn_with_faint_praise
117) ^ a https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/God%27s+in+his+heaven;+all%27s+right+with+the+world
118) ^ a up one's own ass
119) ^ a adelina
120) ^ a, b, c, d Eleanor
121) ^ a Aileen
122) ^ a Evelyn
123) ^ a alicia
124) ^ a adelaide
125) ^ a, b, c, d, e, f, g The Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends by Ronan Coghlan
126) ^ a Arthur
127) ^ a, b Catherine
128) ^ a Hecate
129) ^ a https://jakanddaxter.fandom.com/wiki/Ottsel
130) ^ a, b dexter
131) ^ a, b Dexter
132) ^ a dexterous
133) ^ a https://surnames.behindthename.com/name/dexter
134) ^ a Daxter
135) ^ a Eleonora
136) ^ a Alienora
137) ^ a Ali%C3%A9nor
138) ^ a Estelle
139) ^ a Galahad
140) ^ a %D7%92%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%93
141) ^ a Galahad
142) ^ a Guinevere
143) ^ a, b Reconstruction:Proto-Brythonic/Gw%C9%A8nnohu%C9%A8%CE%B2ar
144) ^ a igraine
145) ^ a Igraine
146) ^ a, b Iseult
147) ^ a keira
148) ^ a ciar
149) ^ a ciara-1
150) ^ a Keira
151) ^ a Lancelot
152) ^ a Leticia
153) ^ a Letizia
154) ^ a Lilian
155) ^ a Murgatroyd
156) ^ a Murgatroyd
157) ^ a Mabel
158) ^ a Maybel
159) ^ a Merlin
160) ^ a Moderatus
161) ^ a, b Morgan
162) ^ a, b, c niamh
163) ^ a Nimuë
164) ^ a nimue
165) ^ a Noor
166) ^ a نور
167) ^ a noor-1
168) ^ a Pendragon
169) ^ a pendragon
170) ^ a Percival
171) ^ a shirley
172) ^ a Shirley
173) ^ a Tristan
174) ^ a uther