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gweilo [gweilo 词源字典]: "A foreigner, especially a westerner", Cantonese, literally 'ghost man'.[gweilo etymology, gweilo origin, 英语词源]
gharial: "A large fish-eating crocodile with a long, narrow snout that widens at the nostrils, native to the Indian subcontinent", Early 19th century: from Hindi ghaṛiyāl. The spelling gavial (from French) is an alteration probably due to scribal error.
girl Friday: "A female assistant, especially a junior office worker", 1940s: on the pattern of man Friday.
gubbins: "Miscellaneous items; paraphernalia", Mid 16th century (in the sense 'fragments'): from obsolete gobbon 'piece, slice, gob', from Old French; probably related to gobbet. Current senses date from the early 20th century.
glocalization: "The practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations", 1990s: blend of global + localization.
graven image: "A carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship", With biblical allusion to Exod. 20:4.
galactagogue: "A food or drug that promotes or increases the flow of a mother’s milk", Mid 19th century: from Greek gala, galakt- 'milk' + agōgos 'leading'.
gnar: "Snarl, growl", Imitative: compare Middle Low German gnarren, German knarren 'creak', knurren 'snarl'.
ghee: "Clarified butter made from the milk of a buffalo or cow, used in South Asian cooking", From Hindi ghī, from Sanskrit ghṛtá 'sprinkled'.
gazump: "Make a higher offer for a house than (someone whose offer has already been accepted by the seller) and thus succeed in acquiring the property", 1920s (in sense 2): from Yiddish gezumph 'overcharge'. sense 1 dates from the 1970s. More These days we associate gazumping with the buying and selling of houses, a use that dates from the 1970s. It now means ‘to raise the price of a house after accepting an offer from a prospective buyer’, but in the early 20th century it simply meant ‘to swindle’, deriving from Yiddish gezumph ‘to overcharge’. In the late 1980s the opposite term gazunder (a combination of gazump and under) was coined to describe the practice of lowering the amount of an offer that the seller has already accepted while threatening to withdraw if the new offer is not accepted.
galah: "A small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and rosy pink head and underparts", Mid 19th century: from Yuwaalaraay (an Aboriginal language of New South Wales).
granita: "An Italian-style water ice with a granular texture", Italian.
grilse: "A salmon that has returned to fresh water after a single winter at sea", Late Middle English: of unknown origin.
gelignite: "A high explosive made from a gel of nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate, used particularly for rock-blasting", Late 19th century: probably from gelatin + Latin (l)ignis 'wood' + -ite¹.
girasol: "A kind of opal reflecting a reddish glow", Late 16th century (in the sense 'sunflower'): from French, or from Italian girasole, from girare 'to turn' + sole 'sun' (because the sunflower turns to follow the path of the sun).
gorgonian: "A colonial coral of an order distinguished by having a horny tree-like skeleton, including the sea fans and precious red coral", Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Gorgonia, from Latin Gorgo (see gorgon), with reference to its petrifaction, + -an.
galea: "A structure shaped like a helmet", Mid 19th century: from Latin, literally 'helmet'.
genu: "The knee", Mid 19th century: from Latin.
gangrenate: "To make gangrenous", Mid 16th cent.; earliest use found in John Fisher (c1469–1535), bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr. From gangrene + -ate.
gurdwara: "A Sikh place of worship", From Punjabi gurduārā, from Sanskrit guru 'teacher' + dvāra 'door'.