Thanks! Likewise!

1942, "Marine and Navy usage for any old thing you can't put a name to" ["Life" magazine, July 30, 1945], of unknown origin, perhaps a made-up word.

1630s, "silken stuff; striped silk **ffeta" (**bbies was a general name for watered silk), from French **bis "a rich, watered silk" (originally striped), earlier atabis (14c.), via Mediterranean languages from Arabic 'attabi, from 'Attabiyah, a neighborhood of Baghdad where such cloth was made.

You'll get me into trouble...

"danger, risk, hazard, jeopardy, exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction," c. 1200, from Old French **ril "danger, risk" (10c.), from Latin **riculum "an attempt, trial, experiment; risk, danger"

late 13c., "style or fashion of attire," from Old French **ise "manner, fashion, way," from Frankish *wisa or some similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *wison "appearance, form, manner," from *wissaz,Sense of "assumed appearance" is from 1660s, from earlier meaning "mask, disguise" (c. 1500)

Middle English ***rt, from Old English sceort, scort "of little length; not tall; of brief duration," probably from Proto-Germanic *skurta- (source also of Old Norse skorta "to be **ort of," Skort "**ortness;" Old High German scurz "short").

Slate

c. 1300, **neu, "act of arriving," from Old French **nue "coming" (12c.), from fem. past participle of **nir "to come," from Latin **nire "to come" (from PIE root *gwa- "to go, come").

What’s your starter word?