type of Italian bread made with olive oil, c. 1990, from Italianciabatta, literally "carpet slipper;" the bread so called for its shape; the Italian word is from the same source that produced Frenchsabot, Spanishzapata(seesabotage(n.)). The bread itself is said to have been developed in...
1800 as an English institution [OED]; it originally meant "a fashionable social affair (not necessarily out of doors) in which every partaker contributed something to the general table;" from F sabotage 1907 (from 1903 as a French word in English), "malicious damaging or destruction of an ...
1907 (from 1903 as a French word in English), "malicious damaging or destruction of an employer's property by workmen," from French sabotage, from saboter "to sabotage, bungle," literally "walk noisily," from sabot "wooden shoe" (see sabaton). In English, "malicious mischief" wo ...
The word is properly the sabotage 1907 (from 1903 as a French word in English), "malicious damaging or destruction of an employer's property by workmen," from French sabotage, from saboter "to sabotage, bungle," literally "walk noisily," from sabot "wooden shoe" (see sabaton). In ...
1907 (from 1903 as a French word in English), "malicious damaging or destruction of an employer's property by workmen," from French sabotage, from saboter "to sabotage, bungle," literally "walk noisily," from sabot "wooden shoe" (see sabaton). In English, "malicious mischief" wo ineffabl...
1907 (from 1903 as a French word in English), "malicious damaging or destruction of an employer's property by workmen," from French sabotage, from saboter "to sabotage, bungle," literally "walk noisily," from sabot "wooden shoe" (see sabaton). In English, "malicious mischief" wo ...
1907 (from 1903 as a French word in English), "malicious damaging or destruction of an employer's property by workmen," from French sabotage, from saboter "to sabotage, bungle," literally "walk noisily," from sabot "wooden shoe" (see sabaton). In English, "malicious mischief" wo ...
"amorous play with the feet" [OED], 1944, from foot (n.). Footie in the same sense is… See origin and meaning of footsie.
Originating from Medieval Latin Merovingi, meaning "descendants of Meroveus," the term refers to the dynasty of early French kings, notably Clovis, c. 500-752.
"a day as reckoned back from the first of the following month" (as fourteenth calend of… See origin and meaning of calends.