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jodi commented on the word foundation-stone

"His mother was a Chapel foundation-stone, his father a violent drunk, so gentle forgiveness infuriates him and tyranny both revolts and attracts him." - from Touchstone by Laurie R. King, Chapter 14

May 8, 2021

jodi commented on the word bacha posh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_posh

December 15, 2020

jodi commented on the word pull your socks up

Commonwealth English for "get it together"

October 7, 2020

jodi commented on the word pull your socks up

'Williams warned the Beatles about the competition they would face by playing in the same club as the Hurricanes by saying, "You'd better pull your socks up because Rory Storm and the Hurricanes are coming in, and you know how good they are...."' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_in_Hamburg

October 7, 2020

jodi commented on the word cacerolazo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacerolazo

October 6, 2020

jodi commented on the word nickel thrower

At the Automat (circa 1955) "Happy women dressed in black, called nickel throwers, sat in the glass booths and made change for paper bills with rubber tips on their fingers." (p 435, Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly)

June 11, 2019

jodi commented on the word taxpayer

Special meaning of taxpayer in the context of fire fighting:

https://www.fsi.illinois.edu/content/information/facilities/taxpayer.cfm

A kind of mixed occupancy building (commercial tenant below, residential above)

June 3, 2019

jodi commented on the word asthore

treasure, term of endearment, from Irish: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asthore

November 22, 2018

jodi commented on the word gun moll

"Her accent sounded for all the world like some gun moll in a a gangster movie."

Through Waters Deep by Sarah Sundin

November 21, 2018

jodi commented on the word daerate

de-aerate: "Jim ducked around the deaerating feed tank..."

Through Waters Deep by Sarah Sundin

November 21, 2018

jodi commented on the word daylight_robbery

See https://twitter.com/RareIrishStuff/status/1024658188275208192

August 3, 2018

jodi commented on the word obliteration by incorporation

"it may be that the truth claims of a document are solidified and incorporated into the canon of knowledge within a given discipline. This phenomenon, called obliteration by incorporation, also leads to a decline in citation." - p92, Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know by Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière

June 26, 2018

jodi commented on the word hyperutility

"Einstein is rarely cited by contemporary physicists because it is taken for granted that readers are familiar with his work. In this case, not being cited is not a proxy for lack of utility, but rather hyperutility--the work has become foundational for the domain." - p92, Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know by Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière

June 26, 2018

jodi commented on the word put a term to

end/put an end to (slang)

June 10, 2018

jodi commented on the word ampula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampulla

June 10, 2018

jodi commented on the word ampula

See ampulla

June 10, 2018

jodi commented on the word put a ferret down the hole

Figurative example of flushing out:

"The second was when I asked to see the culture minister to tell him about a festival we were planning, Britain in Greece. I got no answer from his office, so I tried again. When I got no answer the third time I put a ferret down the hole to find out what was going on. My ferret reported that the minister, who was a distinguished musician but no politician, didn’t want to see me because he knew that if he did he would have to bang on about the marbles, but he wasn’t interested and didn’t want to. I left it at that."

Clooney and the Marbles

Oliver Miles

13 February 2014

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/02/13/oliver-miles/clooney-and-the-marbles/

June 10, 2018

jodi commented on the word put a ferret down the hole

Literal example, from hunting:

THE WAR YEARS by Derek and Alan Wheeler, Bromton Regis, UK

http://bromptonregis.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1939-The-War-Years-Edited.pdf

"With dogs, a load of green string nets and two ferrets in a sack, we’d go to a rabbit warren which we knew, from the rabbit dung, was occupied. Then we’d put nets over all the rabbit holes we could see or get at, put a ferret down the hole and wait. It would not be long before a rabbit came bounding out of a hole, often one we had not netted, in thick brambles. Then the animal would either run down another hole, often netted, or across the field, zigzagging, with the dogs in hot pursuit."

1st November 2004

The merits of ferrets

Worcester News

June 10, 2018

jodi commented on the word put a ferret down the hole

To flush out.

June 10, 2018

jodi commented on the word cow-kick

"Cow-kicking is when a horse (or cow!) kicks out to the side with a hind leg. It got its name from cows that kicked when being milked."

https://www.horsekeeping.com/ask-cherry/20080503-cowkicking.htm

June 10, 2018

jodi commented on the word shell noun

Nouns used to create a concept, in a particular usage. Example using "problem" as a shell noun: "The problem was to safeguard the many civil radar sites round Britain from encroachment by property development."

Nouns commonly used as shell nous include: aim, case, fact, idea, news, problem, position, reason, situation, and thing.

Source:

https://www.thoughtco.com/shell-noun-definition-4105165

See also folk ichthyology.

April 13, 2017

jodi commented on the word feticheur

"A feticheur is a person who uses occult powers to predict future events and to make curses. It's roughly an African magician." or "a féticheur is one who believes that certain objects have certain supernatural powers." See also féticheur (French)

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/féticheur.115227/

April 10, 2017

jodi commented on the word henwit

Insult: Someone with the wit of a hen.

February 4, 2017

jodi commented on the word roué

"Linglay was a sixty-five-year-old rouge-wearing roué who looked about ninety, collected obscene snuffboxes, and pinched and fondled every serving girl foolish enough to come within reach of his palsied hands. He had not been expected to survive the wedding night." - from Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

February 4, 2017

jodi commented on the word endim

"Endim 2000

The ENDIM 2000 analog computer was a tube-based design developed and manufactured in the former German Democratic Republic. About 20 machines were produced. The surviving machine is now held at the the Technische Sammlungen Dresden."

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-gorgeous-guide-to-the-earliest-computers

A Gorgeous Guide to the Earliest Computers

WRITTEN BY SARAH EMERSON

May 8, 2016

December 27, 2016

jodi commented on the word I'm happy out

Perhaps unique to Irish English. Meaning?

http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/kathryn-im-happy-out-but-in-no-rush-to-settle-down-30891021.html

'I'm happy out but in no rush to settle down'/'We're happy out'

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/im-happy-out-i-love-being-single-and-am-ready-to-run-a-marathon-says-sile-after-cancer-battle-29174183.html

"And I think it's really important for me to be single at the moment. I'm happy out."

December 11, 2016

jodi commented on the word tape bomb

https://www.waywordradio.org/tape_bomb_1/ "Wall Street traders like to call unexpected news events “tape bombs.” The terminology presumably dates back to the days when the physical flow of ticker tape delivered the latest ups and downs of stock price movements."

via

"short of an unexpected tape bomb, I do not see rates improving in the short term." - Victor Burek http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/consumer_rates/681096.aspx

November 21, 2016

jodi commented on the word slumgullion

' “Slumgullion” is a word that means several things, including a watery stew, the watery waste left after the rendering of whale blubber, and the slurry associated with a mine. It is generally believed to be derived from “slum,” an old word for “slime,” and “gullion,” an English dialect term for “mud” or “cesspool.” “Gullion” may actually be a corruption of the Gaelic word góilín, “pit” or “pool.” The earliest recorded usage of “slumgullion,” in Mark Twain’s Roughing It (1872), refers to a drink:

Then he poured for us a beverage which he called “Slum gullion,” and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it. It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler." '

From

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/91017

Forever Words: A new book collects the unpublished poems of Johnny Cash.

By Paul Muldoon

Poetry Foundation

November 9, 2016

jodi commented on the word cotton candy correlation

Apparently a slam. Used in this letter to the editor:

Dawes, Robyn M. "Trends based on cotton candy correlations." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6.02 (1983): 287-288. http://doi.org/d7zxcm (scroll, it's not an individual DOI)

(screenshot https://twitter.com/jschneider/status/789298225962422272 )

What does this say about cotton candy?

October 21, 2016

jodi commented on the word wharf

wharf/quay/pier/jetty

<img>https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cfm6U1tWsAA0_61.jpg</img>

via <a href="https://twitter.com/debcha/status/718810484225548288">https://twitter.com/debcha/status/718810484225548288</a>

July 16, 2016

jodi commented on the word crickets

'He waited anxiously for feedback and reaction.

And the response was?

"Crickets," Mr. Faulkes said in an interview.'

http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Preprints-Becoming-the-New/235819

Are Preprints Becoming the New Norm in Biology? Not So Fast

By Courtney Kueppers

MARCH 25, 2016

Chronicle of Higher Education

March 31, 2016

jodi commented on the word social banditry

"the act of crime committed by the residents of a village or the people in the low economic and social stratum in order to fulfill their basic needs" Warto, W. (2016). The Social Banditry in the Rural Areas of Rembang by the End of the 19th Century and at the Beginning of the 20th Century. TAWARIKH, 3(1). http://www.mindamas-journals.com/index.php/tawarikh/article/viewFile/395/393

March 22, 2016

jodi commented on the word salt mines

See salt mine

February 11, 2016

jodi commented on the word salt mine

An extended discussion

"The Salt Mines. Really??" Chronicle of Higher Education Prof Hacker section January 25, 2010 by Natalie Houston

February 11, 2016

jodi commented on the word membrillo

quince paste, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quince_cheese or https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_de_membrillo

February 7, 2016

jodi commented on the word adafina

"Similar to cholent among Ashkenazi Jews, adafina was the hamin (savory stew) that Jews in Spain ate on the day of rest." per http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/converso-cookbook/adafina-sephardic-sabbath-stew/

February 7, 2016

jodi commented on the word sheddim

From the Hebrew for demon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shedim

February 7, 2016

jodi commented on the word maranos

See anusim

February 7, 2016

jodi commented on the word flandrijn

"Riotous wine and flandrijn nights" - Chapter 5 of The Steel Remains

by Richard K. Morgan

February 6, 2016

jodi commented on the word qiyan

"a particular class of elite female singling slaves known as the qiyan (sing., qayna).(note 10)" , p108

Richardson, Kristina. "Singing slave girls (qiyan) of the ‘Abbasid court in the ninth and tenth centuries." Children in Slavery through the Ages (2009): 105-118. http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821443392/9780821443392-12.pdf

Note 10, pages 116-117 elaborates:
"The Arabic language has various names for the singing slave girls. The term qayna (pl., qiyan) refers specifically to a female slave who has been trained as a singer, poet, or musician (or all three). Qayna is the femine form of qayn, skilled worker. Other terms in use do not embody the meaning of female singing slave. Jariya (pl, jawari) means simply female slave, and mughanniya (pl., mughanniyai) designates a female singer. These two words are often used independently in medieval Arabic literature to signify singing slave girl. But if an author wants to avoid any ambiguity, he couples the terms, and the resulting phrase jariya mughanniya (pl, jawari mughanniyai) is synonymous with qayna.

February 4, 2016

jodi commented on the word scratch supper

aka homecooked evening meal, see e.g. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/wine/7245002/Sauce-wines-for-midweek-suppers.html

January 13, 2016

jodi commented on the word evening meal

British term inclusive of the many words for that meal you eat in the evening: dinner, tea (meaning meal), supper, ...

January 13, 2016

jodi commented on the word macassar

See macassar oil and antimacassar.

January 13, 2016

jodi commented on the word lavatory pan

aka lavatory bowl i.e. toilet bowl

January 13, 2016

jodi commented on the word experia

A recorded experience. (used in, e.g. <i>Altered Carbon</i>: "There’s a favourite experia star on Harlan’s World called Alain Marriott, best known for his portrayal of a virile young Quellist philosopher who cuts a swathe through the brutal tyranny of the early Settlement years. It’s questionable how accurate this portrayal of the Quellists is, but it’s a good flic." (<a href="http://www.richardkmorgan.com/books/altered-carbon/an-extract-from-altered-carbon/">author's extract</a>)

January 9, 2016

jodi commented on the word mohican

Heavily used in the novel Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. (All the police get their hair cut at the same place, we learn.)

January 9, 2016

jodi commented on the list words-and-phrases-from-the-short-story-blued-moon-by-connie-willis

Thanks for this beautiful transcription. honeyfuggle appears in Wordnik (I was surprised).

January 9, 2016

jodi commented on the word rumbustigator

Fake word from Connie Willis' short story "Blued Moon", in the collection Fire Watch:
"I’m enough of a rumbustigator with this waste emissions project to dazzlefy Old Man Mowen."

See also this list: words-and-phrases-from-the-short-story-blued-moon-by-connie-willis

January 9, 2016

jodi commented on the word sidon

perhaps http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Sidon.html#.VpBmx3gSSHk

January 9, 2016

jodi commented on the word seamew

seaplane or gull per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamew

December 6, 2015

jodi commented on the word maniculum

"First recorded in the “Domesday Book” of 1086, the manicule—taken from the Latin maniculum, or “little hand”—was a mark that readers drew to call out points of interest." SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

November 14, 2015

jodi commented on the word hack

"in the 21st century, a funny thing happened. The notion of a hack as a solution to a problem, or an ingenious shortcut, or an imaginative creation, began spreading to practically any activity you can name. "

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/06/09/a-nation-of-hackers/

A Nation of Hackers, June 9, 2015 by Allan Metcalf in Lingua Franca, The Chronicle of Higher Education (a number of usage examples there as well)

June 16, 2015

jodi commented on the word dial

"A few of these terms do linger. On the list of “menu options” given me by a computerized answering service yesterday, I could dial 13 for one person, dial 12 for another, dial zero for assistance. Of course, I wasn’t dialing anything. Dialing was what I did in that Irish pub, four decades ago. But when someone’s not really on the job these days, we still speak of their dialing it in. What other language lingers, from those days of switchboards and pay phones? Indulge your nostalgia and let us know. The party line’s open."

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/06/11/phoning-home/

Lucy Ferriss (June 11, 2015) "Phoning Home, Lingua Franca: Language and writing in academe section, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

June 11, 2015

jodi commented on the word powder monkey

US Navy Image ca 1864:

July 14, 2013

jodi commented on the word stigmergy

" ‘stigmergy’ − a term coined by the French zoologist Pierre-Paul Grassé to describe how wasps and termites collectively build complex structures by adding to the product of previous work rather than by communicating directly among themselves (Karsai, 2004: 101)" - Loveland, Jeff, and Joseph Reagle. "Wikipedia and encyclopedic production." New Media & Society (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444812470428

June 5, 2013

jodi commented on the word so

Irish grammar of "so", as a tag question: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/62157/is-there-a-name-for-how-the-irish-use-so-so

May 13, 2013

jodi commented on the word top of the morning

Etymology: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51427/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-top-of-the-morning-to-you

May 13, 2013

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