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January 29, 2010 by Grant Barrett

List of the day: Out to Sea

Today’s list of the day is “Out to Sea,” filled with nautical and seagoing terms such as koff, suezmax, longboat, hooker, and hovercraft.

January 28, 2010 by Grant Barrett - 1 Comment

Describing food

Today we have two lists of the day, both with words used to describe food, “Describing the Taste of Foods” and “Words to Describe The Taste of Food.” They include such words as scrumptious, succulent, oily, umami, esculent, and delish.

January 27, 2010 by Grant Barrett

The Devils and his imps

Today’s list of the day is made of names for the Devil and his minions, transcribed by user vanishedone from Charles P.G. Scott’s “The Devil and His Imps: An Etymological Inquisition” in Transactions of the American Philological Association (1869-1896), Vol. 26, (1895), pp. 79-146. It includes words such as pixie, brownie, spriggan, thurse, pooka, and hobthrush.

January 26, 2010 by Grant Barrett - 2 Comments

Pinchbeck, fraud, and lies

Today’s word of the day is pinchbeck, in the sense of “a cheap imitation.” It’s part of today’s list of the day, “not quite the real thing,” which contains words related to fakes, frauds, lies, and tricks.

January 25, 2010 by Grant Barrett

Words that look like adverbs but aren’t

Today’s list of the day is words that look like adverbs but aren’t, including pimply, contumely, dastardly, ungainly, and homily.

January 22, 2010 by Grant Barrett

Salt and saltiness

Today’s list of the day is about salt and saltiness (the chemical, crystal kind, not the personality kind). It has words like adarce, a saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds; halce, a salt liquor made of the entrails of fish, pickle, brine, etc.; and salsuginous, a rare word for saltish or somewhat salt.

January 21, 2010 by Grant Barrett

Bedaphors

Today’s list of the day is made of words related to sleeping, such as sweven, stertorous, ahypnia, recubation, sloomy, and consopite.

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