'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
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)
"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
"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
"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."
"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."
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.
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
See the various pages in Slaves Of Fashion, Loafers Of Industry: A History Of Paper Collars And The Men Who Wore Them by Brenton Grom, December 2015, from University of Delaware course project: https://disposableamerica.org/course-projects/brenton-grom/
"In British English, a man who is a bit of a lad does things that are considered a bit wild, such as getting drunk and having sexual relations with many women."
"In the third act of Harold Chapin’s “The New Morality,” a prewar artifact excavated by the Mint Theater Company, our heroine, Betty, prepares a late summer cocktail called a hock cup: She mixes white wine with maraschino liqueur, Cointreau, brandy and a whisper of soda water, muddling the lot with strawberries and cucumber. It’s a wonder audiences don’t rush the stage for a glass." per https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/theater/review-the-new-morality-a-vintage-play-at-the-mint.html
Review: ‘The New Morality,’ a Vintage Play at the Mint
THE NEW MORALITY Off Broadway, Comedy, Play Closing Date: October 25, 2015 Mint Theater, 311 W. 43rd St. 866-811-4111
“There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs and a deal table, behind which sat a small man, with a head that was even redder than mine." - The Red-headed League by A. Conan Doyle https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Red-headed_League
"In spring the gardens were sprinkled with purple and yellow crocuses, and later with harebells, springing up in little Wendy rings among the anæmic grass;" - George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
"There was hardly a soul in the firm who was not perfectly well aware that publicity—advertising—is the dirtiest ramp that capitalism has yet produced." - - George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
"The Angelus is a short practice of devotion in honour of the Incarnation repeated three times each day, morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of the bell." per Thurston, H. (1907). Angelus. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved March 3, 2018 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01486b.htm
"artistic styles that flourished in Europe during the first half of 19th century in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design" per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biedermeier
"I sold my few belongings and went on a walking tour, which deteriorated with my fortunes into what is known as 'the padding lay'. I've been 'padding ever since, and will say that I met many kindly folk who valued my superior social standing and erudition, and formed the habit of turning to me for counsel in certain complex disputes. Not an unpleasant way of life..."
- Chapter 6, The Riddle of Alabaster Royal by Patricia Veryan
"Leunbach's Paste is prepared from a number of substances alleged to include potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, iodine and potassium iodide in an olive oil and cacao butter base." - July 20, 1940
"her grandmother putting twigs under the bastible and smoking herring up the chimney for their supper" - Chapter 24, The Girl in the Castle, Santa Montefiore
"A big black bastible full of parsnip and potato stew was suspended above it" (it=the turf fire here) - Chapter 5, The Girl in the Castle, Santa Montefiore
"When I leave Moscow tonight, in a Black Maria,..." - Us Conductors, Sean Michaels, Chapter 7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Maria "Black Maria, a slang term for a police van used to transport prisoners, originally these were horse drawn and so could take some time to arrive at a crime scene. “Black Maria” was a famous racehorse of the day, born in Harlem USA in 1826. The name was sardonically applied to the police carriages (which were also usually colored black)."
"Odds Nipperkins! cried Mother Bunch on her broomstick, here's a to-do!" -- from Forgotten Children's Books by Andrew Tuer, Leadenhall Press, 1898 according to The Odditorium by Melissa Pritchard
"There seemed to be dogs everywhere, every possible size of hunting dog, from the lop-eared brachts that coursed rabbits to a great deer hound that stood up and stared at her solemnly as she passed it." - Counting Crows by Mercedes Lackey (collected in Charmed Destinies)
"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)
"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
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."
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."
' “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." '
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)
"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
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.
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>)
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."
"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
"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. "
"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."
" ‘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
"I assure you, Agha, that any previous loquacious tendancies have been curtailed and that now more than ever have I sought for and achieved new standards of brevity." - http://www.delilahdirk.com/ddattl/ch1-011-012.html
via geeky Questionable Content tshirt. Appears to be D&D terminology (per this): "most abilities that inflict Conditions on people (such as Silenced) would be "save ends," which means at the end of every round the creature gets to roll a d20 and on a 10 or better, the Condition ends."
"There was a new vocabulary word, wandervogel, used to describe the itinerant-traveling-scholar life of a famed researcher when he was in his unformed, rapidly-learning youth: my dictionary tells me that this translates into “bird of passage.” -from Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson, via Mel Chua's blog
Comments by jodi
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."
Similar, more detail: http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/7492920.The_merits_of_ferrets/
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
Shmid, Hans-Jorg. "English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells." From Corpus to Cognition. Berlin (2000): 44.
May 29, 2018
jodi commented on the word Gladstone bag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone_bag
May 24, 2018
jodi commented on the word Jerusalem chamber
A particular room in Westminster Abbey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Chamber
http://www.londononline.co.uk/architecture/westminster_abbey/5/
May 12, 2018
jodi commented on the word kilogirl
kilogirl ~ 1000 hours of computing labor per Page 34, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Clare Evans
via https://twitter.com/manjusrii/status/987272448507764737
April 23, 2018
jodi commented on the word crumpet ring
Metal rings for cooking English muffins
See http://www.breadmatters.com/crumpet-rings
https://blog.kingarthurflour.com/2011/04/25/0426-baked-english-muffins/
May have other purposes (e.g. cook eggs or pancake batter with round results)
One brand does SEO as "English Muffin Crumpet Biscuit Cookie Rings; Cutter Set; Egg Pancake"
April 21, 2018
jodi commented on the word muhjah
Invented, from Changeless by Gail Carriger. See https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/161914-muhjah
April 21, 2018
jodi commented on the word switch
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
April 16, 2018
jodi commented on the word waterfall
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
April 16, 2018
jodi commented on the word mouse
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
April 16, 2018
jodi commented on the word rat
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
April 16, 2018
jodi commented on the word puff comb
1870: "so much hair of her own, that she never patronized either rats, mice, waterfalls, switches or puff combs", An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Chapter XI. Needles and Tongues https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Old_Fashioned_Girl/Chapter_XI
April 16, 2018
jodi commented on the word puff comb
See https://patents.google.com/patent/US769151 for a 1904 "comb designed for use in forming a pompadour".
April 16, 2018
jodi commented on the word collar box
Example: http://studioshirtssydney.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-antique-collar-box.html
See also paper collar
See the various pages in Slaves Of Fashion, Loafers Of Industry: A History Of Paper Collars And The Men Who Wore Them by Brenton Grom, December 2015, from University of Delaware course project: https://disposableamerica.org/course-projects/brenton-grom/
https://disposableamerica.org/course-projects/brenton-grom/style-and-substance-the-look-and-feel-of-paper/
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word collar-box
See collar box
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word hard cheese
Presumably British English, Australian English: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Hard+cheese!
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word bit of a lad
"In British English, a man who is a bit of a lad does things that are considered a bit wild, such as getting drunk and having sexual relations with many women."
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/lad
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word matiness
British English - "sociable" or "friendly" per http://www.dictionary.com/browse/matiness - see mate
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word hock cup
"In the third act of Harold Chapin’s “The New Morality,” a prewar artifact excavated by the Mint Theater Company, our heroine, Betty, prepares a late summer cocktail called a hock cup: She mixes white wine with maraschino liqueur, Cointreau, brandy and a whisper of soda water, muddling the lot with strawberries and cucumber. It’s a wonder audiences don’t rush the stage for a glass." per https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/theater/review-the-new-morality-a-vintage-play-at-the-mint.html
Review: ‘The New Morality,’ a Vintage Play at the Mint
THE NEW MORALITY Off Broadway, Comedy, Play Closing Date: October 25, 2015 Mint Theater, 311 W. 43rd St. 866-811-4111
By ALEXIS SOLOSKI SEPT. 24, 2015
Recipe:
https://www.absolutdrinks.com/en/drinks/hock-cup/
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word hock-cup
See hock cup
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word orderly-room
See orderly room
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word couscousier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couscoussier "a traditional double-chambered food steamer" for cooking couscous
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word trade counter
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/trade_counter "A counter in a shop or business at which sales are made only to people practising a particular trade."
April 1, 2018
jodi commented on the word Hoosier cabinet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosier_cabinet
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word deal table
a deal table ringed by dynasties of teapots; a rickety kitchen chair" - George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word deal table
"There was a deal table under the window where he and the old man could talk without fear of being overheard." 1984 by George Orwell
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word deal table
deal meaning pine here
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/deal-table.1219563/
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=171247
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word deal table
“There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs and a deal table, behind which sat a small man, with a head that was even redder than mine." - The Red-headed League by A. Conan Doyle https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Red-headed_League
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word on the razzle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_razzle
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Razzle
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word Burdian's donkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word Wendy ring
"In spring the gardens were sprinkled with purple and yellow crocuses, and later with harebells, springing up in little Wendy rings among the anæmic grass;" - George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word sniffish
"He had not that sniffish, buttoned-up spirit that usually goes with an ability to make money." - George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word ramp
"There was hardly a soul in the firm who was not perfectly well aware that publicity—advertising—is the dirtiest ramp that capitalism has yet produced." - - George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word jellygraph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectograph
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word mouli
food mill, handheld
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouli_grater
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word scofula
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrofulahttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scrofula
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word sussurate
to whisper per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/susurrate
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word frog strangler
torrential downpour per https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=frog%20strangler
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word off their chump
"a little mad" per https://www.chegg.com/play/entertainment/can-understand-historical-insults/ (historical insult) and https://beta.artofmanliness.com/2010/03/10/manly-slang-from-the-19th-century/
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word Holland cover
furniture covers made of linen per https://www.answers.com/Q/What_are_Holland_covers
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word Lareum
World-specific, see Provenance by Ann Leckie
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word get spliced
get married (old-fashioned slang) see e.g. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/get-spliced
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word angelus
"The Angelus is a short practice of devotion in honour of the Incarnation repeated three times each day, morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of the bell." per Thurston, H. (1907). Angelus. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved March 3, 2018 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01486b.htm
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word postide
To shame/to be ashamed, from the Serbo-Croatian?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/postidjeti
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word pampas-grass
also pampas grass
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampas_grass
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word barcelona nuts
See also hazelnuts
Examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Bee_(ship)#Ships_manifest
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Enchanted_Castle/Chapter_3
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_and_the_Carpet/Chapter_2
Usage:
"Barcelona nuts come from the Spanish, or Barcelona, filbert, usually considered a variety of the giant filbert." per
http://www.allnut.com/displayInfo.cfm?InfoID=98
"Larger European species, C. avellana and C. maxima, are the source of Filberts, Cob Nuts and Barcelona Nuts." per http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/botany/legunuts.htm
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corylus_avellana
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word biedermeier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biedermeier
And
"artistic styles that flourished in Europe during the first half of 19th century in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design" per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biedermeier
March 4, 2018
jodi commented on the word bunhead
"'bunhead' (a slang term for women who put their long hair into a bun while dancing)" per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunheads
February 25, 2018
jodi commented on the word ymbryne
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
http://thepeculiarchildren.wikia.com/wiki/Ymbryne
"a class of female Peculiars named "Ymbrynes" who can transform into birds (in Miss Peregrine's case, a peregrine falcon) and manipulate time." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Peregrine%27s_Home_for_Peculiar_Children_(film)
November 19, 2017
jodi commented on the word spot of bother
"A slight problem; a predicament."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spot_of_bother
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word emboscada
From the Spanish: ambush
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word put a period to
"the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"" https://www.factmonster.com/thesaurus/period
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word tibby
"Fair raving he was...went right orf his tibby. ... Mad as a hatter."
- Chapter 8, The Riddle of Alabaster Royal by Patricia Veryan
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word holland cover
Furniture coverings: "Closely woven linen fabric originally made in Holland." per A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion by Mary Brooks Picken Dover, 1999 as quoted in https://janeausteninvermont.blog/2010/08/01/so-what-the-heck-are-holland-covers-anyway/
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word draw the bustle
e.g. tighten the belt:
"Lots of us have had to draw the bustle in these difficult times."
- Chapter 7, The Riddle of Alabaster Royal by Patricia Veryan
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word padding lay
"I sold my few belongings and went on a walking tour, which deteriorated with my fortunes into what is known as 'the padding lay'. I've been 'padding ever since, and will say that I met many kindly folk who valued my superior social standing and erudition, and formed the habit of turning to me for counsel in certain complex disputes. Not an unpleasant way of life..."
- Chapter 6, The Riddle of Alabaster Royal by Patricia Veryan
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word malacca
"The stem of a rattan palm, formerly used for making canes and umbrella handles." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Malacca
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word flat
"An honest person, foolish." (Regency slang) per https://sites.google.com/site/regencymurdermystery/slang
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word rum touch
"an odd or eccentric fellow" per http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/307350.html
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word in the basket
"To be in lots of trouble." https://sites.google.com/site/regencymurdermystery/slang
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word stove in
"Got proper stove in whilst you was in Spain, I hear. A propser nuisance it must be to have to limp about like that."
- Chapter 3, The Riddle of Alabaster Royal by Patricia Veryan
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word hedgebird
"HEDGE-Bird, a scoundrel or sorry Fellow." per Dictionary of Thieving Slang, 1737 http://www.fromoldbooks.org/NathanBailey-CantingDictionary/H/HEDGE-Bird.html
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word cisisbeos
From the Italian, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicisbeo
August 26, 2017
jodi commented on the word lucullanism
See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lucullan
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word iatrophobic
The fear of doctors.
See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatro-
iatro- "From Ancient Greek ἰᾱτρο- (iātro-), combining form of ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”)."
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word iatrophobe
Person who is afraid of doctors.
See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatro-
iatro- "From Ancient Greek ἰᾱτρο- (iātro-), combining form of ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”)."
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word choreas
See chorea
August 15, 2017
jodi commented on the word doing it tough
"New research has found #cabbies are doing it tough when it comes to mental health." via https://twitter.com/unimelb/status/829157889554014208
August 4, 2017
jodi commented on the word catasto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catasto "Italian system of land registration" See also cadastre
July 19, 2017
jodi commented on the word plump currant
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/p/plump-currant.html
"I am not plump currant; I am out of sorts.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose."
July 8, 2017
jodi commented on the word cock-loft
See also cockloft:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cockloft
"a small garret" - since 1589
More examples:
http://nyanglish.com/cock-loft
Also: "Cockloft: A structural space above ceiling and below rafters, often connecting adjacent occupancies and permitting fire to spread laterally, often unseen." per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_firefighting#C
July 8, 2017
jodi commented on the word crownering
"When I'm not mayor-ing I'm crownering"-crowner Fletcher in Chapter 13, The Riddle of Alabaster Royal by Patricia Veryan
July 8, 2017
jodi commented on the word roundaboutation
https://everything2.com/title/Roundaboutation
"vague, noncommittal language. Closely akin to equivocation and circumlocution, but without the hifalutin' overtones."
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roundaboutation
July 8, 2017
jodi commented on the word stand the huff
"to be answerable for the reckoning in a public house" http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/t/to-huff.html
July 8, 2017
jodi commented on the word bear garden jaw
http://minutemanworld.tumblr.com/post/108602856588/blackguardiana-or-a-dictionary-of-rogues
"A person with a bear garden jaw is someone with a vulgar mouth."
July 8, 2017
jodi commented on the word efrit
See also ifrit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrit
June 20, 2017
jodi commented on the word shank job
Also shankjob via Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shankjob
"A shankjob is someone who can't do anything correctly and/or does really shoddy work."
June 20, 2017
jodi commented on the word gillnetter
Wiktionary: "One who fishes using a gillnet."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gillnetter
June 20, 2017
jodi commented on the word Long Meg
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/l/long-meg.html
June 11, 2017
jodi commented on the word inkspurt
Derogatory word for a clerk, Chapter 13, The Cold Commands, Richard Morgan
June 11, 2017
jodi commented on the word maraghan
sea demons in The Cold Commands, Richard Morgan (see Chapter 26)
June 11, 2017
jodi commented on the word d-horn
dumbass, South-African English via this
June 11, 2017
jodi commented on the word Leunbach's paste
"Leunbach's Paste is prepared from a number of substances alleged to include potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide, iodine and potassium iodide in an olive oil and cacao butter base." - July 20, 1940
ABORTIFACIENT PASTES
JAMA. 1940;115(3):221. doi:10.1001/jama.1940.02810290051016
June 11, 2017
jodi commented on the word penedjo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_profanity#Pendejo
June 11, 2017
jodi commented on the word gundam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam
May 29, 2017
jodi commented on the word bastible
"her grandmother putting twigs under the bastible and smoking herring up the chimney for their supper" - Chapter 24, The Girl in the Castle, Santa Montefiore
May 24, 2017
jodi commented on the word bastible
"A big black bastible full of parsnip and potato stew was suspended above it" (it=the turf fire here) - Chapter 5, The Girl in the Castle, Santa Montefiore
May 24, 2017
jodi commented on the word dedushka
Grandfather (Russian); plural: dedushki
May 13, 2017
jodi commented on the word kwoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwoon
May 13, 2017
jodi commented on the word bong sao
See bong sau http://www.kwokwingchun.com/training-tips/techniques-glossary/bong-sau/
May 13, 2017
jodi commented on the word oreshki
Russian holiday cookies, shaped like walnuts: http://www.olgasflavorfactory.com/favorites/russian-walnut-shaped-cookies-oreshki/
May 13, 2017
jodi commented on the word chervonet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chervonets
May 13, 2017
jodi commented on the word terpsitone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpsitone
May 13, 2017
jodi commented on the word black maria
"When I leave Moscow tonight, in a Black Maria,..." - Us Conductors, Sean Michaels, Chapter 7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Maria "Black Maria, a slang term for a police van used to transport prisoners, originally these were horse drawn and so could take some time to arrive at a crime scene. “Black Maria” was a famous racehorse of the day, born in Harlem USA in 1826. The name was sardonically applied to the police carriages (which were also usually colored black)."
May 13, 2017
jodi commented on the word tulipier
Variant of tulipiere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipiere
http://www.thefrenchtangerine.com/2013/05/tulipiere.html
May 7, 2017
jodi commented on the word ratafie
"he procured a glass of ratafie for her." - Chapter 26 of These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
May 7, 2017
jodi commented on the word ratafie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratafia
May 7, 2017
jodi commented on the word espièglerie
From the French: <a href="http://www.wordreference.com/fren/espièglerie">http://www.wordreference.com/fren/espièglerie</a>
May 7, 2017
jodi commented on the word chicken-skin
"The Duke fanned himself with an air, handling the chicken-skin like a woman." - Chapter 8 of These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
May 7, 2017
jodi commented on the word gantrie
Alternate spelling for gantry, cf. An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor, Chapter 6
April 24, 2017
jodi commented on the word bok
'"Has she boked?"
Barry smiled at O'Reilly's use of the country vernacular for "vomited."'. - An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor, Chapter 5.
April 24, 2017
jodi commented on the word hoosh
to a cow in the road "Hoosh on, cow. Hoosh. Hoosh." <i>An Irish Country Doctor</i> by Patrick Taylor, Chapter 4
April 24, 2017
jodi commented on the word wokka-wokka
"soft music faded in--a wokka-wokka guitar...the theme from Shaft" Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits: A Novel by David Wong, Chapter 9
April 23, 2017
jodi commented on the word wokka-wokka
"silly dance and accompanying song featured in her book How Do You Wokka-Wokka?" per http://www.nysoclib.org/events/elizabeth-bluemle-how-do-you-wokka-wokka
April 23, 2017
jodi commented on the word purl
"Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives;" - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Chapter 4
April 23, 2017
jodi commented on the word brasser
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brasser
April 16, 2017
jodi commented on the word nipperkins
"Odds Nipperkins! cried Mother Bunch on her broomstick, here's a to-do!" -- from Forgotten Children's Books by Andrew Tuer, Leadenhall Press, 1898 according to The Odditorium by Melissa Pritchard
April 16, 2017
jodi commented on the word joxer
"what right had he to laugt, how much better was he than the joxer scratching his balls over the racing pages..." Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
April 16, 2017
jodi commented on the word joxer
As a name, see Xena; the Irish ballad "Joxer Goes to Stuttgart"; O’Casey’s ” Juno and the Paycock ” (via quotes, 1924) .
April 16, 2017
jodi commented on the word brachts
"There seemed to be dogs everywhere, every possible size of hunting dog, from the lop-eared brachts that coursed rabbits to a great deer hound that stood up and stared at her solemnly as she passed it." - Counting Crows by Mercedes Lackey (collected in Charmed Destinies)
April 16, 2017
jodi commented on the word ethnoichthyology
c.f. Anderson, Eugene
1967 The Ethnoichthyology of the Hong Kong Boat People. Unpublished
Ph. D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
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
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/
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholent
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
jodi commented on the list british-english-thats-not-in-american-english
See also American vs. British English
February 11, 2013
jodi commented on the word tricoteuse
on Wikipedia
October 3, 2012
jodi commented on the word banksman
BrE; seen on a sign at the side of a road ("no backing up without a banksman")
October 3, 2012
jodi commented on the word shuk up
IrE for shaken, when you're talking about someone who has been through an ordeal (per informant)
September 6, 2012
jodi commented on the word beat down
IrE for "ugly" (e.g. yelling insults to the TV: "Jaysus, she's quare beat down.", reports an informant)
September 6, 2012
jodi commented on the word Charley horse
Wikipedia article pegs this as "North American English"
August 15, 2012
jodi commented on the word outwith
via discussion between Lauren Hall-Lew and Charles Sutton
July 26, 2012
jodi commented on the word FRAND
Used in the patent world; see also RAND.
July 21, 2012
jodi commented on the word citance
Citances are "the set of citation sentences that reference a specific paper", per Anita de Waard.
July 19, 2012
jodi commented on the word g'wan ya good thing
Congratulatory/praising phrase in IrE
July 13, 2012
jodi commented on the word loquacious
"I assure you, Agha, that any previous loquacious tendancies have been curtailed and that now more than ever have I sought for and achieved new standards of brevity." - http://www.delilahdirk.com/ddattl/ch1-011-012.html
July 2, 2012
jodi commented on the word clothes swishing
BrE for clothes swapping (AmE)
June 22, 2012
jodi commented on the list arguers-lexicon
A place to replicate the The Arguer’s Lexicon
May 22, 2012
jodi commented on the word not pushed about
to not be overly concerned/worried about IrE; doesn't seem to be used in the positive.
May 21, 2012
jodi commented on the word tweetline
tweetline, a Twitter timeline.
May 16, 2012
jodi commented on the word tweetline
tweetline, a Twitter timeline.
May 16, 2012
jodi commented on the word Hilary term
Hilary term is an academic term from January to March in some Irish and British universities. (See also trimester(AmE).)
May 13, 2012
jodi commented on the word cooptition
See Wikipedia
February 12, 2012
jodi commented on the list irish-english-thats-not-in-american-english
See also this and that
January 29, 2012
jodi commented on the word paranymph
see also Wikipedia
January 29, 2012
jodi commented on the word pop
Geographically related to the northern midwest U.S. but also very common in Canada. See pop vs. soda maps.
January 6, 2012
jodi commented on the word washroom
Acceptable, but quaint, in AmE
January 6, 2012
jodi commented on the list british-english-thats-not-in-american-english
See also British English to American English
December 26, 2011
jodi commented on the word answerphone
BrE for answering machine
December 22, 2011
jodi commented on the word A chairde
Irish for Dear friends, often used in greetings especially of semi-formal communications.
December 20, 2011
jodi commented on the word go raib maith agat
Irish for thank you, often used interspersed with English, especially in semi-formal communication.
December 20, 2011
jodi commented on the word grá
Irish for love, sometimes used in IrE (e.g. example tweet.
December 19, 2011
jodi commented on the word fat frog
See also urban dictionary.
December 19, 2011
jodi commented on the word dummy
BrE for AmE pacifier, e.g. http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/applicationforms/visa-photo-guidance.pdf
December 12, 2011
jodi commented on the word save ends
via geeky Questionable Content tshirt. Appears to be D&D terminology (per this): "most abilities that inflict Conditions on people (such as Silenced) would be "save ends," which means at the end of every round the creature gets to roll a d20 and on a 10 or better, the Condition ends."
November 19, 2011
jodi commented on the word spimming
Spam over IM.
See also Urban dictionary
via a ToS that says no "spimming" and no "spamming" (scarequotes included in original).
November 7, 2011
jodi commented on the word wandervogel
"There was a new vocabulary word, wandervogel, used to describe the itinerant-traveling-scholar life of a famed researcher when he was in his unformed, rapidly-learning youth: my dictionary tells me that this translates into “bird of passage.” -from Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson, via Mel Chua's blog
October 31, 2011
jodi commented on the word kerning
See the kerning game to try your hand at adjusting typesetting.
October 28, 2011
jodi commented on the word propinquity
on Wikipedia
October 26, 2011
jodi commented on the word satanyanda
Yoga style named after the yoga teacher.
October 24, 2011
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