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anythingarian (n.)"one indifferent to religious creeds, one 'that always make their interest the standard of their religion,'" 1704, originally dismissive, from anything on model of trinitarian, unitarian, etc.
Related entries & more brickette (n.)"small brick" of anything, 1924; see briquette.
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evil (n.)
Related entries & more "anything that causes injury, anything that harms or is likely to harm; a malady or disease; conduct contrary to standards of morals or righteousness," Old English yfel (see evil (adj.)).
topper (n.)"the best (of anything)," 1709, originally slang, agent noun from top (v.).
Related entries & more closer (n.)
Related entries & more "one who or that which closes" anything, 1610s, agent noun from close (v.).
aught (n.1)
Related entries & more "something, anything," late 12c., from Old English awiht "aught, anything, something," literally "e'er a whit," from a- "ever" (from Proto-Germanic *aiwi- "ever," extended form of PIE root *aiw- "vital force, life; long life, eternity") + *wihti "thing, anything whatever" (see wight). In Shakespeare, Milton, and Pope, aught and ought occur indiscriminately. Chaucer used aughtwhere (adv.) "anywhere."
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