Today’s word of the day is shandygaff, a drink made of beer or ale mixed with ginger beer, ginger ale, or lemonade. It’s sometimes given as two words, shandy-gaff, and these days it’s usually known as a shandy. Its origins are, alas, unknown. Probably forgotten amidst hangover headaches.
Today’s word of the day is green, the color of spring, money, and envy.
Today’s word of the day is bunny. Look:
Today’s word of the day is alpenglow, a rosy glow that suffuses snow-covered mountain peaks at dawn or dusk on a clear day.
Today’s word of the day is skinker, someone who draws, pours, or serves liquor, or, the landlord of an alehouse or tavern.
Come, skinker, that frozen-up water come give;
Come, cause this dead heart with the vinejuice relive!
—Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz, Vol. III, translated from the Arabic by John Payne (1901, London: Villon Society)
Today’s word of the day is frumenty, a dish made of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned, especially used in England and in some of the southern United States at Christmas. It’s related to frument, which is grain, corn, or wheat, and frumentaceous, an adjective for something resembling or consisting of grain, especially wheat.
Here are two recipes for frumenty from With a Saucepan Over the Sea: Quaint and Delicious Recipes from the Kitchens of Foreign Countries, by Adelaide Keen (1910, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company) and two more from Vegetarian Diet and Dishes, by Benjamin Smith Lyman (1917, Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach).