A mike - the short form of the microphone, shortening;
to babysit – back formation from babysitter;
to buzz – late 15c., echoic of bees and other insects. Aviation sense of "fly low and close" is by 1941;
a torchlight – compound word, direct meaning of components;
homelike – compound word, direct meaning of components;
theatrical – suffixation, from theater + -ical {adj. forming suffix};
old-fashioned – compound word, "in an outdated style," from old + past participle of fashion (v.). As a type of cocktail, attested from 1901, American English.;
to book – conversion, Old English bocian "to grant or assign by charter," from book (n.). Meaning "to enter into a book, record" is early 13c. Meaning "to enter for a seat or place, issue (railway) tickets" is from 1841; "to engage a performer as a guest" is from 1872;
unreasonable – affixation, un + reason + able;
SALT – strategic armament limitation talks, shortening, the abbreviated written form is read as though in ordinary English word and sounds as English words it’s called acronym {strategic armament limitation talks.};
Anglo-American - compound word, two stems (основы) are combined by link in vowel or consonant,;
to murmur – conversion, noun means "expression of discontent by grumbling"{ворчание} from Old French murmure;
a pub - slang shortening of public house;
to dillydally - Phonetically varied rhythmic-twin forms compound word {колебаться};
okay – echoic origin from abbreviation O.K. Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh "it is so" (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929. In the case of O.K., the abbreviation is of "oll korrect";
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eatable — suffixation, eat + -able;
a make – conversion from verb, "match, mate, companion " (now archaic or dialectal);
a greenhorn – compound word, mid-15c., "young horned animal," from green (adj.) in sense of "new, fresh, recent" + horn (n.). Applied to new soldiers from c.1650; extended to any inexperienced person by 1680s. {a raw, simple, inexperienced person, easily fooled};
posish – shortening from position;
a dress coat – compound word {a black, long-tailed coat worn by men for formal evening occasions};
to bang - "to strike hard with a loud blow," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse banga "to pound, hammer" of echoic origin. The noun is recorded from late 16c;
merry-go-round — compound word, (карусель) The process of deducing the meaning of the hole word from constituents is impossible;
H-bag — shortening {ничего про это слово не нашёл};
B.B.C. — shortening, abbreviation, Brown Boverie Company {Britain Broadcast Company записывается как BBC};
thinnish – affixation, thin + ish – тонковатый, жидковатый – not complete thin;
to blood-transfuse – back formation from blood transfusion;
a go – conversion, "action of going";
to quack - "to make a duck sound," 1610s, quelke, of echoic origin;
M.P. - shortening, abbreviation, military police;
to thunder – conversion from thunder;
earthquake - compound word, from earth + quake (n.);
D-region - {the lowest region of the ionosphere extending from 60 to 80 km} compound word, D – letter that signed layer;
fatalism – suffixation, fatal + ism, ism - suffix forming nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine;
a find – conversion, from verb to found.
1 mammal — one of the class of animals which feed their young with milk from the breast (e. g. human beings, dogs, whales).
2 tidbit — very important news.
3 The Afro-American — the name of a newspaper.
4 A. A. fire — anti-aircraft fire (R. зенитный огонь).
5 stowaway — one who hides himself on a ship to make a journey without paying.
5 We'll put you up front. — R. 1. Мы пошлем вас на передовую. 2. Мы посадим вас в первый ряд (игра слов).
6 pro — (here) professional actor (sl.)
7 GI — Government issue. WWII servicemen.
1 O. D. — officer of the day, officer on duty.
2 to hob-nob — to be on familiar terms.
3 whipper-snapper— young, esp. undersized boy who behaves with more self-importance than is proper.
4 ha-ha — fence, hedge or wall hidden in a ditch or trench so as not to interrupt a landscape.