Etymology — The origins of English words

From spear + chucker, in the offensive sense, alluding to a stereotype of Africans as primitive savages who use spears in hunting and war.

From spell + maker.

From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).

From straggle + -er.

From struggle + -some.

From Middle English streightnes, equivalent to straight + -ness. Cognate with Scots strauchtness, straichtness (“straightness”).

From sulfo- + -ane.

See swagbelly.

PIE word *dwís The verb is derived from Middle English splaien, splayen (“to display; to spread out, unfurl (a flag, etc.); (cooking) to cut open (a fish) lengthwise and lay it open; (figurative) to appear; to spread”), an aphetic form of Middle English displaien, displayen (“to display”): see display. The adjective and adverb are derived from the verb, or from splayfoot (noun) or splayfooted (adjective). The noun is derived from the verb.

From strong + woman.

Apparently a variation of sprent or sprint. This term originated as a Victorian-era Scots word in the Roxburgh region.

From Middle English; variant of stub.

From soup + spoon.

From Middle English sublimite, sublimitee, from Middle French sublimité and/or Latin sublīmitās. By surface analysis, sublime + -ity.

From Latin stēla, from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē). Doublet of stele.

From supplant + -er.

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which is from the root Proto-Indo-European *steyp-. It is cognate with stiff through Proto-Indo-European. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was attested in 1788 in the early form stowadore (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore.

From Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion).

From splatter + dash. In the "haphazard work" sense, perhaps influenced by slapdash.

From straining + -ly.

Learned borrowing from Latin stypticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek στυπτικός (stuptikós), from στύφω (stúphō, “to contract”).

From stork + -s- + bill, calque of translingual Pelargonium. Compare cranesbill, which is calqued from Geranium.

From suckle + -er.