Etymology — The Origins of English Words

From blandish (“to persuade someone by using flattery, to cajole; to praise someone dishonestly, to flatter or butter up”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, having the sense of ‘the action or result of what is denoted by the verbs’). Blandish is derived from Middle English blaundishen (“to flatter; to fawn; to be enticing or persuasive; to be favourable; of the sea: to become calm”) [and other forms] (whence blaundice (“flattery, blandishment; caresses, dalliance; allurement, attractiveness; deceitfulness, deception”) [and other forms]), from Middle English blaundishen, from blandiss-, the extended stem of Middle French blandir + Middle English -ishen (suffix forming verbs). Blandir is derived from Latin blandīrī, the present active infinitive of blandior (“to fawn, flatter; to delude”), from blandus (“fawning, flattering, smooth, suave; persuasive; alluring, enticing, seductive; agreeable, pleasant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“erroneous, false; bad, evil”)) + -iō (suffix forming causative verbs from adjectives).

From bull + dust. In the slang sense, a euphemism for bullshit.

From Mr. Bumble, a character in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, + -dom.

From burglar + -proof.

Blend of capsule + tablet.

From breach + -y.

From bus + bar.

From capitulate + -ory.

Back-formation from bludger.

The name stems from Native Americans, who called the nut "hetuck," which means "buck eye" (because the markings on the nut resemble the eye of a deer).

Borrowed from Bengali বিঘা (bigha).

From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallípugos) + -ian, from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).

From betray + -ee.

Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.

From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Isabel.

From beggar + -ly; adverb via Middle English beggarly, beggerly.

From bamboozle + -er.

Blend of bank + brokerage.

Probably from zing. Appears to originate from the X-Files season 7 episode "Hollywood A.D." Popularized as the catchphrase of the character Sheldon Cooper on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

From French automatiser, from automate (“automaton”). Equivalent to automate + -ize.

From Middle English bank, from Old French banc. Doublet of banco, bank, and bench.

From Middle English bedclothys, plural of Middle English bedcloth, bedclothe, bedde clothe (“bed-cloth, bedding”), from Old English bedclāþ, beddclāþ (“coverlet, blanket, bedding, bedclothes”), equivalent to bed + clothes.

From a- + synonymous.

From bead + work.