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Another new(ish) one - "clawback". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clawback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clawback - "The term clawback or claw back refers to an
by eesmith 4y ago
Another new(ish) one - "clawback".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clawback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clawback - "The term clawback or claw back refers to any money or benefits that have been given out, but are required to be returned (clawed back) due to special circumstances or events, such as the monies having been received as the result of a financial crime, or where there is a clawback provision in the executive compensation contract."
Etymonline at https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=clawback https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=clawback says:
> To claw back "regain by great effort" is from 1953; as a noun, an act of this, from 1969. Earlier clawback (n.) meant "one who fawns on another, a sycophant" (1540s), from phrase claw the back "flatter, curry favor" (late 14c.); compare the more recent expression scratch (someone's) back in a similar sense.
However, that's used as verb. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/claw%20back https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/claw%20back defines the noun in two forms:
> a : the recovery of tax allowances by additional taxation Next year sees the resumption of a 3% clawback that penalizes most upper-bracket taxpayers.— William Baldwin
> b : the reclaiming of money or benefits under special circumstances stipulated in a contract —usually used before another noun
Google n-gram shows about a 200-fold increase in use starting around 1965.
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- eesmith 4y agoTwo more I thought of, both again in the same time period: "lockjaw" - "1786, earlier locked-jaw (1765), popular name for trismus, also applied to tetanus, from lock (v.) + jaw (n.)." - https://www.etymonline.com/word/lock-jaw https://www.etymonline.com/word/lock-jaw "spitfire" - "1610s, "a cannon," from spit (v.) + fire (n.); c. 1600 as an adjective. Meaning "irascible, passionate person" is from 1670s. Replaced earlier shitfire (similar formation in Florentine cacafuoco)." - https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=spitfire https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=spitfire "shitfire" is attested by 1598 - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/384219/what-is-the-origin-of-the-american-expression-s-fire https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/384219/what-is-t...