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I'm learning Czech language, and in the book that I'm learning from, there's a translation from Czech to English. There's one word that came in between which is the word "coll". It's not in
Mrs /ˈmɪsəz/ (pl Mrs, Mesdames) A title used before the name(s) of a married woman Collins Concise English Dictionary Mrs. was originally, like Miss, an abbreviation of Mistress (the plural of whic...
1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 17 May (O.H.S.) II. 14 Amused by Charlett's trick re Tacitus. (" re, prep.". OED Online. June 2016. Oxford University Press.) 2 Thus re has been a word since ancient Roman times (as your own definition shows), and has been in use in English since at least the early 18th century. A related question might be:
However, repeat occurences may well be abbreviated "coll." then. In your question, you mention character/narrator which would be relevant for fiction rather than an essay. Trying to nail down a mandatory level of formality for the narrator appears like a rather tricky proposition to me in such context. The rather unspecific "language!"
Here's Eric Partridge from the Dict. of Slang and Unconv. English: sod. A sodomist: low coll.: Mid-C. 19-20; ob.-2. Hence, a pejorative, orig. and gen. violent: late C. 19-20. Often used in ignorance of its origin: cf. bugger. So your sense of "sod" is on the money. Suffixial "off" marks a general epithet as an insult, as seen in "piss off," "f-ck off," "bugger off," etc., all used in the ...
Montgomerie, Watson's Coll. iii. 2. Redolent odour vp from the rutis sprent, / —Aromaticke gummes, or ony fyne potioun ; / Must, myr, aloyes, or confectioun. Doug. Virgil, Prol. 401. 43. And adding to that entry, Jameson, A Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1825) offers this further note: MUIST, MUST, s.