English words first recorded in the 18th century

It is formed from English body + guard, after French garde du corps, used in Middle French from the 15th century in both its senses. The OED compares the earlier lifeguard.

It is formed from English crusade + -er. The OED compares French croisadeur, recorded by Cotgrave in 1611, and Etymonline gives an earlier English form croisader, from the French word. The noun it…

The OED takes the mathematical word partly as borrowed from New Latin exponentialis, first recorded in 1697 in a correspondence between B. Nieuwentyt and Johann Bernoulli printed in the “Acta…

Its origin is uncertain. The OED takes it as perhaps echoic of the sound of something sputtering or bubbling, or expressive of puffing and blowing, and Barnhart, Klein and Merriam-Webster also think…

It is borrowed from French molécule, recorded in French from 1674, from New Latin molecula, a diminutive of Latin mōlēs (“mass, barrier”), the source of mole in the sense of a breakwater, formed…

The OED and Merriam-Webster take it as formed from English organ + -ism, and the OED compares Medieval Latin organismus, used in the 12th century of polyphony and since 1706 of organic structure…

It is borrowed from New Latin schēmaticus, from the stem of schēma (“shape, figure, manner”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, figure”). The Shorter Oxford also allows a formation within…

It is formed from English un- + defeated, the past participle of defeat, which goes back through Anglo-Norman defeter to Old French desfait, the past participle of desfaire (“to undo”).

It is formed from English un- + intentional. Intentional, recorded from the 1520s, is from intention and -al, or else from Medieval Latin intentionalis. Intention goes back through Old French…

It is formed from English bombard + -ment.

It is formed from English state + -ment, from the verb.

It is borrowed from German Furnier, also spelled Fournier, from furnieren (“to veneer, inlay”), from French fournir (“to furnish, accomplish”), from Middle French fornir, Old French furnir, fornir…

It is probably borrowed from Dutch koekje (“little cake”), a diminutive of koek, cake, from Middle Dutch kōke (see cake). In Scotland, where it means a plain bun (1701 in Barnhart, 1730 in…

It is formed from English picture + -esque, after French pittoresque (“of painting; worthy of being painted”), itself from Italian pittoresco (“pictorial; of a painting, original or striking”), from…

It is formed from English shake + -y, from the verb or the noun shake, the latter in the sense of a crack in timber.

It is borrowed from Dutch slee, a contracted form of slede (“sled”), from Middle Dutch slede, from Proto-Germanic *slidô. The word began in North American English. Barnhart finds an earlier…

It is a contraction of a prepositional phrase formed from along and side.

It is formed from civilize and -ation, its main sense probably taken from French civilisation.

1. The verb is of uncertain origin; it was northern British dialect. It is perhaps a variant of obsolete cap “to arrest” (1589), which is borrowed from Middle French caper (“to seize”), from Latin…

It is borrowed from French corps (“body”), short for corps d'armée (“army corps”), from Latin corpus (“body”), from PIE Proto-Indo-European *kʷrep- (“body, form”). It is a doublet of corpse, which…

It is formed from English legalize + -ation; the OED compares French légalisation, recorded from 1690. The verb legalize is formed from legal and -ize, and legal comes from Latin lēgālis…

It is formed from English mad + -en, with the verb-forming suffix. Mad goes back to Old English gemædde (“out of one's mind”). The earlier verb in this sense was simply mad, used from the 14th…

It is borrowed from French piston, a word the OED records in the mechanical sense from 1662 and Barnhart from 1648, in Pascal, and which in Middle French meant a pestle (1552). The French word is…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin rotārius (“pertaining to wheels; wheeled”), from Latin rota (“wheel”) and the suffix -ārius. The OED records the Medieval Latin adjective in British sources from…

It is borrowed from Japanese 豆腐 (tōfu), from Chinese 豆腐 (dòufu), from 豆 (dòu, “beans”) and 腐 (fǔ, “rotten; to turn sour, ferment”). The American Heritage Dictionary gives the source of the Japanese…

It is borrowed from Latin vector (“one who carries or conveys, a carrier, rider”), an agent noun from vect-, the past participle stem of vehō, to carry (see vehicle and weigh).

It is borrowed from French enveloppe, a back-formation from envelopper (“to envelop, wrap up”) (see envelop), from Old French envoluper, the en- meaning in and the rest of unknown origin.

It is formed from liable and -ity.

It is a shortening of memorandum, first as a written abbreviation. That word is Latin memorandum (“(a thing) to be remembered”), the neuter of memorandus (“worth remembering”), the gerundive of…

1. The adjective is probably borrowed from New Latin oblātus, formed from ob- (“toward; inversely”) and -lātus, taken from its opposite prōlātus (“lengthened”), from lātus (“broad, wide”). 2. The…

It is a back-formation, as a singular, from New Latin phasēs, the plural of phasis, perhaps in part from French phase, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “appearance of a star, phase of the moon”)…

It is a clipping, at different times, of reputation, repetition, representative and repertory.

It is borrowed from French casserole (“saucepan, stew-pan”), recorded in French from the 16th century, a diminutive of casse (“ladle, pan”); Hoad and the Shorter Oxford take it as an extension of…

The origin is unknown. A story from the early 18th century names the inventor as a physician, or a colonel, called Condon or Condom, but no such person has been traced. The OED finds a derivation…

It is borrowed from French crucial, a medical term, from Latin crux (“cross”) (genitive crucis; see crux and cross).

It is a variant of the older verb craunch, recorded from 1631, which is probably of imitative origin. The OED, in an entry first published in 1893, calls it a recent variation of craunch or cranch…

It is, altered under the influence of the name of the Swiss city of Geneva, borrowed from Dutch genever (“juniper”) (now jenever), from Old French genevre (modern genièvre), from Latin jūniperus…

It is of unknown origin, perhaps imitative, or symbolic. Etymonline suggests a variant of Middle English cham, to bite on, gnash (see champ). The fruit preserve is probably a special use of the…

It is formed from broad and cast, the past participle of cast “to throw”, first describing seed scattered widely by hand.

It is borrowed from Latin ego (“I”), cognate with Old English ic (see I).

It is formed from English gate + way.

It is formed from English jelly + fish, for the animal's soft, jelly-like body. Jelly is from Middle English gelee, from Old French gelee (“a jelly; frost”), a noun use of the feminine past…

It probably comes, via an unrecorded intermediate form, inherited from Middle English stencellen (“to ornament with bright colours”) (before 1400), borrowed from Middle French estenceler (“to cover…

It is borrowed from Portuguese albino, from Spanish albino, and the OED takes it partly from the Spanish word directly. The Spanish word, recorded from 1609, spelled with ñ, in the passage that the…

It is formed from English auction + -eer. Auction (1590s) is from Latin auctiō (“increase; a sale by increasing bids”), from augeō (“to increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *aug- (“to increase”)…

It is borrowed from Latin camera (“vault, arched chamber”), in Late Latin “chamber, room”, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamárā, “anything with an arched cover, a vaulted chamber”), which is of…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin Colisēum, also Colisseum and Colyseus, the medieval name of the amphitheatre of Vespasian in Rome, a variant of Latin colossēum, the source of the name of the…

It is borrowed from New Latin migrātōrius, formed from Latin migrātus, the past participle of migrō (“to move from one place to another”), and the suffix -ōrius; the OED allows that it may also have…

1. The swampy place is a North American spelling of slough, a muddy hollow or bog, and the OED groups it with the spellings of Middle English slō. The Middle English noun is inherited from Old…

It is a hybrid compound of work and place.

It is borrowed from French brunette, the feminine of brunet (“brownish, brown-haired”), which in Old French, from the 12th century, was both a noun for a dark-complexioned or brown-haired girl or…

The word is originally Scots, with the earliest form “colsie” (1709); in Britain it is usually spelled “cosy”. Its origin is uncertain: Collins, the Oxford dictionaries, Hoad and Chambers call it…

It is borrowed from Old Norse saga (“saga, story, narrative”), cognate with Old English sagu (“a saying”), the source of saw in old saw.

It is formed from English author + -ship. The noun author came into Middle English from Old French autor (“author, originator, creator”) and directly from Latin auctor (“promoter, producer…

It is borrowed from Italian concerto, which in Italian denoted a composition for one or more solo instruments and orchestra before 1647, a specialized sense of the same Italian word meaning a…

It is formed from English dis- + armament on the model of the verb disarm, and the OED compares French désarmement (1616) and Spanish desarmamiento (late 15th century). Merriam-Webster and Webster's…

1. The card game is borrowed from French quadrille, perhaps from Spanish cuartillo, a diminutive of cuarto (“fourth”), from Latin quārtus (“fourth”), with its first syllable assimilated to the dance…

It is from Modern Latin diplomaticus (1680s), and in the later senses from French diplomatique, from diplomat-, the stem of Latin diploma (“a state letter of recommendation”) (see diploma), from…

It is a compound from English foot + note, with foot in its sense of the lower end of a document, recorded from the 1660s. It was so called from its position at the foot of a page.

It is borrowed from Anglo-Norman gist (“(it) lies”), from the Anglo-Norman legal phrase “cest action gist”, "this action lies", meaning that a case could be pursued in law; the OED finds the phrase…