Today’s list of the day is “Out to Sea,” filled with nautical and seagoing terms such as koff, suezmax, longboat, hooker, and hovercraft.
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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.
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.
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.
Words that look like adverbs but aren’t
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.
Bedaphors
Today’s list of the day is made of words related to sleeping, such as sweven, stertorous, ahypnia, recubation, sloomy, and consopite.