The difference between ichthyoacanthotoxism, which I misspelled when adding it to my list, and ichthyosarcotoxism is that the former is poisoning resulting from the bite or sting of a fish, while the latter is poisoning resulting from eating a toxic fish.
When I have clothes to wash, I do laundry. I don't think I ever say "launder" as a verb, unless I'm referring to someone's ability or tendency to run illegal funds through a legitimate business.
My understanding is western PA-Ohio folks also say warsh. I know this because someone I work with is from that area and in my job we frequently refer to George Warshington. *nerves grating*
We have been enjoying "The Wire" on DVD. I love that it's such a great show and that it's set in Baltimore--which doesn't get enough attention. The other night was an episode where the gang of cops was all eating crabs at a particularly famous crab restaurant (which I know only from an episode of "No Reservations").
Sorry if this seems completely out of the blue--your comment about Baltimore on another page reminded me of your geographic-ness. :)
On further thought, it is depressing how much of my knowledge comes from TV. *sigh*
Of course all these don't involve what a TSA official recently called "the crotchal area," so I could see if they don't fit those made-up rules in your head.
Re: the coffee bean: "As for this salutiferous berry, of so general a use through all the regions of the east, it is sufficiently known, when prepared, to be moderately hot, and of a very drying attenuating and cleansing quality; whence reason infers, that its decoction must contain many good physical properties, and cannot but be an incomparable remedy to dissolve crudities, comfort the brain, and dry up ill humors in the stomach." —Coffee-Houses Vindicated, 1675, seen here.
I disagree, rolig. "To daze or render senseless" certainly can apply to the level of complexity in Afghanistan/Pakistan, without there necessarily being a blow to one's head about it. I think the result is similar to the result of a blow to one's head--in the same way people say "I can't think about that right now--it gives me a headache." They don't mean it *literally* hurts their head, but that its complexity is... well... stunning.
Also, as I read definition 2, I think it really only applies/is commonly used in reference to a person's attractiveness, and actually relates to definition 1 in the sense that the person is SO attractive, their beauty SO amazing, that it's as if one is stunned (rendered senseless) to look at them.
I agree the journalist could have found a better term, but this one's rather more neutral than others that could apply here, and given the political undertones of the Af/Pak situation and the fact that the article was about Holbrooke--not the situation itself--the relative neutrality of the term was probably a good thing.
P.S. nice to see these kinds of conversations--and have time to read them. :)
I never tried it. My lactation consultant told me that in her experience working with nursing moms over the years, it hasn't usually resulted in gaining more than around an ounce a day--and while that sounds like a lot, if you're struggling to produce enough milk for your baby, there are other methods that seem to work better for more people. Of course, some women swear by it, so... *shrug*
Maybe it has to do with the "finishing" sound of each word, e.g. "fly" is going to have a long-I sound no matter what follows it, because it's the end of that word. "Ice" wouldn't, because it's the S-sound that finishes that word.
I have only ever seen this word in a modern cookbook featuring medieval recipes, that says "Ask your butcher to chine the joint." "WTF," I thought—first off it's assuming I even have a butcher—and didn't do anything of the kind.
qroqqa (as always) put it better than I could, but I concur: where you mentally place the S-sound has an effect on the preceding vowel.
I think I may have posted a similar conundrum re: "writer" vs. "rider" (for Americans who don't pronounce the T as a T but more like a D). But I can't remember where (and it isn't on either writer or rider).
Interestingly, and most people don't know this, the Nazi government insisted that the Zeppelin company put a swastika on the tail fin. The company put it only on one side of the ship. IIRC, when the ship was ordered to fly over the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the pilot flew in a circle over the gathering as ordered, but turned the ship in such a way that the swastikas were not displayed to the crowd. I honestly can't remember where I read that, but I think it was in the book The Great Dirigibles by John Toland. (Excellent book, BTW.)
P.S. Cool pics of the ship and a short clip of it flying over NYC can be found here.
"Send your picturrrres... to dear old Captain Noaaaaaaaah... Send todaaaaaaaay, send riiiiight awaaaaaaaaay..." (Very bad recording here.) Totally SFW.
Wow. Well... I'm just glad he didn't eat the seasoning packet--that would have made him horribly sick. Though, admittedly, if I were a dog, I'd probably just eat the plain noodles, too.
Okay, I know what this word means according to dictionaries, but when a mother says it of her young, rambunctious boys (for example), that's certainly NOT the meaning she's ascribing.
I'm looking for a synonym in the phrase "the poor buggers," that doesn't use the original word I was thinking of ("bastards") and does not sound British ("sods"). Any suggestions?
Probably the better place to post the comment would be on the Ronald Reagan page, but thanks! I think it's posted there now. That way future Wordnikkers will find it. :)
Whereupon I chime in, late as usual, with something completely unrelated based on personal experience, and loaded with qualifiers so as to avoid possiblymaybe someday offending someone who might read this comment, though it will (usually) kill the thread.
That's spectacular. Look how fatty North Dakota and Colorado are! And Texas is nicely marbled...
We used to play a game whenever my mom (or I) made beef cutlets for dinner. I taught Spawn the rule that one could eat one only after identifying a state or nation that its outline resembled.
"In the libretto of J.S. Bach's 'Coffee Cantata' (1732) a young bourgeois German woman threatens her father: No lover shall woo me Unless I have his pledge Written in the marriage settlement, That he will allow me To drink coffee when I please." —Antony Wild, Coffee: A Dark History (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), 146
"Over eight hundred different chemical ingredients have been identified inside the coffee bean, glorying in such names as furfurylthiol, furfuraldehyde, oxazole, and ethylfuraneol. Another, trimthylamin, exists in minute quantities: it is also found in putrefying fish. Like perfume, coffee uses the most outré of ingredients to work its wonders." —Antony Wild, Coffee: A Dark History (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), 193
"During roasting, a series of complex chemical reactions take place that develop the characteristic coffee aroma and flavour. ... The most important change takes place when the interior of the bean becomes hot; by a process known as pyrolosis, the carbohydrates and fat form new molecules, generally known as oils. These contain all the flavour and aroma we associate with coffee...." —Antony Wild, Coffee: A Dark History (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), 193
I learned it from a Civil War journal called The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah. The gentleman (who was from Maine, if I recall) mentioned that on the march the new recruits had been offered refreshments by locals, and some were "city boys" and didn't know that eating the lights (lungs) of a cow wasn't going to be very satisfying.
Ohhh... good one. Disgusting but satisfying once it's done. I love the gluggy noise of the water actually going DOWN the drain, which is a great sound after you haven't heard it for a while.
Hair catchers work great, but sometimes it takes a while to find an effective one.
I have decided what this word means. When someone is so adorable that they are beyond able-to-be-adored, and the adoration is actually mandatory, person is said to be adoratory.
Interestingly (not), I made a comment on my profile, then went to edit it, and (three times) got the "Oops, we screwed up, please reload" note--which by the way is so small and unobtrusive as to be nearly invisible--and never was able to edit said comment. :(
I believe that it's someone who prays very frequently--an *excessively* pious person (or someone who's ostentatious about their prayer), rather than simply someone who prays. At least, that's what its original meaning was. (19th century?)
You know what I miss? The "search all of Wordie" feature that used to bring up comments, tags, etc. as well as the actual word page. I guess it's not possible here on Wordnik but sometimes I do miss it.
If there are more Ocracoke terms on Wordnik, it'd be great if they were tagged as such. :) Having just visited the place for the first time, I'm fascinated by it and its people.
P.S. Long have I praised the work of abraxas and longed for his return. :(
I am two years behind adoarns. Just read this etymology today in Newsweek, in an article by Joan Huston Hall. Who, by the way, ought to be a wordnikker if she isn't already. :)
"Hannah Griffitts supported the early protests but balked at war. As a loyalist, she lambasted Tom Paine and defended tory womanhood against his aspersions:
Of female Manners never scribble, Nor with thy Rudeness wound our Ear, Howe'er thy trimming Pen may quibble, The Delicate—is not thy Sphere.
—Susan E. Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2009), 92
James Kirke Paulding told Morris Smith Miller that when he was in Washington, he would 'have some potential bouts at the mint juleps' and that he would share 'a secret by which you may get safely home after drinking six bottles. It is by just putting your feet on the edge of the table, by which means the wine is prevented from descending into the legs, thereby making them as drunk as nine pins. I have tried this method several times and do assure you, that ... you may drink up to the chin and afterwards walk home as steady as a church steeple.' —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 133
The earliest concerns about alcohol in America arose in the medical community in the 1740s. Physicians, particularly Philadelphian Benjamin Rush, noted a new disease then called the West Indies dry gripes. Unbeknownst to Rush, the disease was actually lead poisoning that resulted from the use of lead in the stills that West Indies distillers used to create their rum. —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 123
William Roberts advertised in the Maryland Gazette in 1745 that his servant, John Powell, had not in fact run away, but had 'only gone into the country a cider drinking' and was again prepared to repair watches and clocks. —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 122
Camp followers were the wives, children, and prostitutes who followed and supplied the army to make money, assist their husbands, and support the revolution. These women washed, sewed, cooked, and brewed for the troops and nursed them when they were sick and injured. Women had long played a valuable role in provisioning the English and colonial armies and were proud of their work. For example, Martha May stressed her commitment to the army when she wrote to Henry Bouquet in 1758, 'I have been a wife 22 years to have traveled with my husband every place or country the company marched to and have worked very hard ever since I was in the army.' When Mary Cockron applied for a pension in 1837 for her own and her husband's service to the Continental Army, she stated that she 'drew her rations as other soldiers did.' —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 112
Hi y'all. I'm typing in a comment in nested quotation marks (as is my wont), and it comes up without the opening and closing marks (whether they are single or double), and moreover will not let me copy/paste the citation from another entry (as is also my wont). See the poorly-formatted and uncited comment on carouse for visible evidence of my woes.
"I felt very unwell, this whole day," soldiers frequently noted in their journals, "from last night's carouse." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 111
Listen. I don't know where you come from or what you drink normally, reesetee, but if you think something called "cock ale" would taste better with something other than rooster in it, I don't want to drink with you.
I consider stretch marks, and indications of "working boobs" to be my battle scars. I don't want to die well-preserved and perfect-looking. I earned my silver hairs and my stretch marks and my awesome working boobs. :)
Electricblue, I'm sure you didn't expect this kind of response... :) Best wishes.
"Seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century cider presses like John Worlidge's 'ingenio for the grinding of apples' had been expensive and hard to obtain." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 108
"... another author recommended that brewers purchase 'blind thermometers' in which the scale could be hidden in the brewer's or distiller's pocket so that his workers would not learn his methods and be able to found businesses of their own." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 102–103
"In case any men continued to leave alcohol production to women, the new experts assured them that they were wrong. Morrice warned that 'when a butt wants fining down, many appoint a servant girl to perform that office by whom the bungs are left out, and many other acts committed, which all tend to discredit the brewer, although he does not deserve it." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 98
I'm not sure any young servant girl ought properly to know how to fine down a butt.
"Since he would show 'the manner of using the thermometer and saccharometer' 'rendered easy to any capacity,' he established himself as master of the mystery." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 97
"Ball instructed his nephew to build 'a strong crotcy fence] around the trees 'to keep cattle, and horses, from tearing and barking' and killing the orchard trees." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 53
"He sold cords of wood, timber trees, and products from his cooperage, including planking, lathing, clapboards, scantling, siding, heading, fence rails, fence posts, framing, and coffins." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 47
"Most symbolically, Bray owned a money scale and steelyard, or balance beam scale, to weigh and balance accounts. Just as a ring of keys and a pocket were the signs of the housewife's labor in dispensing foodstuffs from cupboards, so the money scale and steelyards were the symbol of the planter-merchant who weighed coins and crops." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 45
"In 1736, an English traveler in the Chesapeake recorded that 'we gathered a fruit, in our route, called a parsimon sic, of a very delicious taste, not unlike a medlar, tho' somewhat larger: I take it to be a very cooling fruit, and the settlers make use of prodigious quantities to sweeten a beer ... which is vastly wholesome.'" —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 38
"Doctors began prescribing cider to sailors in the late seventeenth century because of its supposed antiscorbutic properties." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 31
"...Men and women both drank at the popular outdoor meal called a barbeque, 'an entertainment' that, as one traveler describes, 'generally ends in intoxication.'" —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 18
"Mustering men mixed some of their brandy charcoal, saltpetre, sulfur, cobine nitre, and brandy to make gunpowder." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 17
"The legislature required white men to drill with a militia in case of Indian attacks, and the resulting militia days offered another chance to imbibe.... Alcoholic beverages were such an intrinsic part of the militia muster that boys playing 'militia' ended their games with rounds of drinks." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 16
"'We had several sorts of liquors, namely Virginia red wine and white wine, Irish usquebaugh, brandy, shrub, two sorts of rum, champagne, canary, cherry punch, cider.'" —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 15
"Landon Carter had better luck when he gave his cow 'with the blind staggers' three doses of warm beer with rattlesnake root, after which the cow 'got pretty well and feeds about as usual.'" —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 15
"Rum, wrote traveler Edward Ward, was 'adored by the American English... 'tis held as the comforter of their souls, the preserver of their bodies, the remover of their cares, and promoter of their mirth; and is a sovereign remedy against the grumbling of guts, a kibe-heelchilblain or a wounded conscience, which are three epidemical distempers that afflict the country.'" —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 14
"Planter Landon Carter treated both his daughter and his slaves with alcoholic concoctions. When his daughter, Judy, was sick in 1757, Carter treated her with a 'weak julep of rum with salt tartar and pulvis castor.'" —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 14
"Even colonists with access to milk often avoided it because of fears of 'milk sickness' caused by consuming the milk of cows that had grazed on wild jimson weed." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 12
"Rum or arrack, an alcohol distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, was mixed with sugar, citrus juice, water, and spices to make punch." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11
"Persico was a cordial flavored with the crushed kernels of peaches, apricots, or nectarines." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11
"Red hippocras was made of claret, brandy, sugar, spices, almonds, and new milk." —Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11
chained_bear commented on the word warshington
(Holy shit. Four years ago??)
Jan 4, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word ichthyosarcolite
A fossil bivalve shell of the genus Caprinella (OED).
Jan 4, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word ichthyoacanthotoxism
Also misspelled (by me---thank you very much, I'll be here all week) as icthyoacanthotoxism.
Jan 4, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word icthyoacanthotoxism
The difference between ichthyoacanthotoxism, which I misspelled when adding it to my list, and ichthyosarcotoxism is that the former is poisoning resulting from the bite or sting of a fish, while the latter is poisoning resulting from eating a toxic fish.
Jan 4, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word launder
When I have clothes to wash, I do laundry. I don't think I ever say "launder" as a verb, unless I'm referring to someone's ability or tendency to run illegal funds through a legitimate business.
My understanding is western PA-Ohio folks also say warsh. I know this because someone I work with is from that area and in my job we frequently refer to George Warshington. *nerves grating*
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the list below-the-belt
Oh, I already have a couple lists about the crotchal area.
Wait... that's not what you meant.
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the user milosrdenstvi
We have been enjoying "The Wire" on DVD. I love that it's such a great show and that it's set in Baltimore--which doesn't get enough attention. The other night was an episode where the gang of cops was all eating crabs at a particularly famous crab restaurant (which I know only from an episode of "No Reservations").
Sorry if this seems completely out of the blue--your comment about Baltimore on another page reminded me of your geographic-ness. :)
On further thought, it is depressing how much of my knowledge comes from TV. *sigh*
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word fake bus stop
This is brilliant. I wonder how many other elegantly simple solutions are out there that could improve countless people's lives.
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the list below-the-belt
gaiters? spatterdashes? or their shortened version, spats? legwarmers?
Of course all these don't involve what a TSA official recently called "the crotchal area," so I could see if they don't fit those made-up rules in your head.
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word Janet's method
I suppose it's somewhat better (though probably as ineffective) as squirting mercury up one's penis (the old treatment for syphilis).
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word sjostygg
This is incredibly useful.
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word Priestley's mass
... eeeeeeeeyeeeeeeeww ...
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word coffee bean
Interesting comment about coffee beans on salutiferous.
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word coffee
Interesting comment can be found on salutiferous.
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word salutiferous
Re: the coffee bean: "As for this salutiferous berry, of so general a use through all the regions of the east, it is sufficiently known, when prepared, to be moderately hot, and of a very drying attenuating and cleansing quality; whence reason infers, that its decoction must contain many good physical properties, and cannot but be an incomparable remedy to dissolve crudities, comfort the brain, and dry up ill humors in the stomach."
—Coffee-Houses Vindicated, 1675, seen here.
Jan 3, 2011
chained_bear commented on the list we-three-kings
Hee! See of Orient are. (It's on another list--one I completely forgot about!)
Dec 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word stunning
When I went to the liquor store* in Boston, I couldn't believe the wide variety of beverages. I was Pakistunned.
*See packie.
Dec 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bear-proof
*(hacking cough)*
Dec 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word actuopalynology
Yes. Yes, we do.
Dec 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word stunning
I disagree, rolig. "To daze or render senseless" certainly can apply to the level of complexity in Afghanistan/Pakistan, without there necessarily being a blow to one's head about it. I think the result is similar to the result of a blow to one's head--in the same way people say "I can't think about that right now--it gives me a headache." They don't mean it *literally* hurts their head, but that its complexity is... well... stunning.
Also, as I read definition 2, I think it really only applies/is commonly used in reference to a person's attractiveness, and actually relates to definition 1 in the sense that the person is SO attractive, their beauty SO amazing, that it's as if one is stunned (rendered senseless) to look at them.
I agree the journalist could have found a better term, but this one's rather more neutral than others that could apply here, and given the political undertones of the Af/Pak situation and the fact that the article was about Holbrooke--not the situation itself--the relative neutrality of the term was probably a good thing.
P.S. nice to see these kinds of conversations--and have time to read them. :)
Dec 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word scumbled
Seen in this New York Times article.
Dec 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word muculent
Wow. A word to describe how I've been feeling lately.
Dec 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bear-proof
Nothing can stop me!! Grrrr!!
Dec 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word TSA
Here's my underwear.
Nov 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list out-to-sea
salee rover. I seem to have lost the ability to add to this list. :-(
Nov 19, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Kentucky Man Forced To Eat His Own Beard In Fight Over Lawnmower
Aaaaagh!
Nov 19, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Harmenszoon
(psst... is it Rembrandt?)
Nov 19, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user reesetee
... or when they're swooping your head in spring. The fuckers.
Nov 19, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word non sequitur
It sounds like this: blrbth thrbl? Nmi-nmi-nm.
Nov 19, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list dutchly-things
Cole slaw!!
Nov 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word the united states of america
You know, ████████ is probably the single best comment I've seen on Wordie.
Nov 17, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word fail kale
I want a picture.
Nov 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word guilloche
Also seen in this nifty article.
Nov 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word fenugreek
I never tried it. My lactation consultant told me that in her experience working with nursing moms over the years, it hasn't usually resulted in gaining more than around an ounce a day--and while that sounds like a lot, if you're struggling to produce enough milk for your baby, there are other methods that seem to work better for more people. Of course, some women swear by it, so... *shrug*
Nov 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word hi there!
"Were you looking for H.I. there?"
(Is this feature the Wordnik.com version of WeirdNet?)
Nov 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word fenugreek
Hork if you like. It is also used as an herbal supplement by women who need to increase their milk supply.
Nov 12, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word flyswatter
Excellent point, leather-ears. Very cogently put.
Nov 12, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word flyswatter
Maybe it has to do with the "finishing" sound of each word, e.g. "fly" is going to have a long-I sound no matter what follows it, because it's the end of that word. "Ice" wouldn't, because it's the S-sound that finishes that word.
I bet qroqqa has something better.
Nov 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word rinderpest
Now declared eradicated, according to this article in the NY Times.
Nov 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Cape Horn voice
Okay, really it should be cape horn voice.
Nov 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bananabird overseer
ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana-birrrrrd...
Nov 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word chine
I have only ever seen this word in a modern cookbook featuring medieval recipes, that says "Ask your butcher to chine the joint." "WTF," I thought—first off it's assuming I even have a butcher—and didn't do anything of the kind.
Recipes are more like guidelines anyway.
Nov 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Shoeverine
Teh alsome, John. Thanks.
Nov 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word flyswatter
qroqqa (as always) put it better than I could, but I concur: where you mentally place the S-sound has an effect on the preceding vowel.
I think I may have posted a similar conundrum re: "writer" vs. "rider" (for Americans who don't pronounce the T as a T but more like a D). But I can't remember where (and it isn't on either writer or rider).
Nov 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Hindenburg
Interestingly, and most people don't know this, the Nazi government insisted that the Zeppelin company put a swastika on the tail fin. The company put it only on one side of the ship. IIRC, when the ship was ordered to fly over the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the pilot flew in a circle over the gathering as ordered, but turned the ship in such a way that the swastikas were not displayed to the crowd. I honestly can't remember where I read that, but I think it was in the book The Great Dirigibles by John Toland. (Excellent book, BTW.)
P.S. Cool pics of the ship and a short clip of it flying over NYC can be found here.
Nov 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Hindenberg
The ship (and the person) are actually spelled Hindenburg.
Nov 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat
:-)
Nov 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat
Rolig, I agree with the capping, and I've had the same difficulty. I see a couple of "old" Wordizens on Facebook but it's not the same.
Nov 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user feedback
Is it just me, or is the option/pulldown menu to add a word to your lists not appearing on word pages right now?
Edit: Nevermind. It's me.
Nov 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat
Rolig. How I've missed you. *yoinks word*
(note: it's also listed under its non-capitalized version, hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat)
Nov 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Girl Famous for Having Hiccups Charged with Murder
That's an amazing accomplishment--to have one's hiccups charged with murder. How do I do that?
Nov 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word necropants
I should not have clicked on this page.
Nov 3, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Hindenburg
I'm going to tell a political joke now, so if you don't like those, cover your eyes.
Q: What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
A: One is a gigantic Nazi gasbag, and the other is an airship.
Nov 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word temporal slices of spacetime worms
Dude!! I found a Diet of Worms joke!!! My people... :)
Nov 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word eaty
This describes my twenty-pound dog. See the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood of trick-or-treaters.
Nov 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood of trick-or-treaters
My dog is so eaty!!
Nov 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list lost-for-word
Keyboard plaque sounds like exactly what it is.
Nov 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Captain Kangaroo
Can see a clip here. I remember this show.
Oct 27, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Captain Thunderpants
Seen on this Wordnik page.
Oct 27, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word tapir
LOL Tapirs. I kid you not. (Note: Not surprisingly, they are unfunny.)
Oct 27, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word I don't care what the captain said.
Yeah? Do you get your lovin' in the evenin' time?
Oct 27, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Captain Noah
"Send your picturrrres... to dear old Captain Noaaaaaaaah...
Send todaaaaaaaay, send riiiiight awaaaaaaaaay..." (Very bad recording here.) Totally SFW.
Oct 27, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Captain Crunch
Truly, it's more correctly spelled Cap'n Crunch. But that's stupid, so we should let it slide. :)
Oct 27, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list things-my-twenty-pound-dog-has-eaten
Wow. Well... I'm just glad he didn't eat the seasoning packet--that would have made him horribly sick. Though, admittedly, if I were a dog, I'd probably just eat the plain noodles, too.
Oct 27, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word rally to restore sanity
I was going to, but can't. That doesn't mean that I don't know about a dozen people who *are* going. Post pictures!
Oct 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list things-my-twenty-pound-dog-has-eaten
Really? That's the one that got you?
Oct 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood of trick-or-treaters
A.K.A. a bunch of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Almond Joys, and Milk Duds.
Oct 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word off-putting
This whole conversation is extremely off-putting.
Oct 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bugger
Okay, I know what this word means according to dictionaries, but when a mother says it of her young, rambunctious boys (for example), that's certainly NOT the meaning she's ascribing.
I'm looking for a synonym in the phrase "the poor buggers," that doesn't use the original word I was thinking of ("bastards") and does not sound British ("sods"). Any suggestions?
I also found this interesting conversation.
Oct 25, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word poop-lantern
I like the usage on the front page: "as big as a seventy-four's poop-lantern."
Oct 25, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user bilby
Probably the better place to post the comment would be on the Ronald Reagan page, but thanks! I think it's posted there now. That way future Wordnikkers will find it. :)
Oct 21, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list song-starters
don't you is definitely one for me too. can't get no and I try are ones I find particularly annoying.
There are also a ton of Stan Freberg-related ones for me. Really? is one. Sit down is another.
Does anyone remember Schoolhouse Rock? Carefully?
Oct 21, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word boneless, skinless violin
... still, I would hope that all violins are boneless and skinless. *worried*
Oct 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Stolpersteine
Singular is Stolperstein. More info here.
Oct 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Stolperstein
I just learned about Stolperstein (plural Stolpersteine) today. Fascinating. More info here.
Oct 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Sanctimommy
It isn't just the media.
Oct 14, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pants
Interesting headline here.
Oct 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word remarkable link
At this point, I decide I love this page, only instead of "love," I type <3 and then ask someone how to make that little heart symbol.
Oct 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word nacelle
I know this from Star Trek.
Oct 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user derekjet89
No, cuz he's a wanker.
Oct 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word remarkable link
Whereupon I chime in, late as usual, with something completely unrelated based on personal experience, and loaded with qualifiers so as to avoid possibly maybe someday offending someone who might read this comment, though it will (usually) kill the thread.
Oct 12, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user rgsertge
Wanker.
Oct 12, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word adams's rules
... That's about right.
Oct 11, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word cartocacoethes
That's spectacular. Look how fatty North Dakota and Colorado are! And Texas is nicely marbled...
We used to play a game whenever my mom (or I) made beef cutlets for dinner. I taught Spawn the rule that one could eat one only after identifying a state or nation that its outline resembled.
We actually still play this game.
Oct 11, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list on-a-rock-and-jelly-rolltop-desk
Cool! LOTD! Thanks for the hat-tip! :)
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word picking up black walnuts
... actually I rather like that confession. It seems a fine punctuation.
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word coffee
"In the libretto of J.S. Bach's 'Coffee Cantata' (1732) a young bourgeois German woman threatens her father:
No lover shall woo me
Unless I have his pledge
Written in the marriage settlement,
That he will allow me
To drink coffee when I please."
—Antony Wild, Coffee: A Dark History (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), 146
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word trimthylamin
Usage can be found on furfurylthiol.
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word ethylfuraneol
Usage can be found on furfurylthiol.
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word oxazole
Usage can be found on furfurylthiol.
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word furfuraldehyde
Usage can be found on furfurylthiol.
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word furfurylthiol
"Over eight hundred different chemical ingredients have been identified inside the coffee bean, glorying in such names as furfurylthiol, furfuraldehyde, oxazole, and ethylfuraneol. Another, trimthylamin, exists in minute quantities: it is also found in putrefying fish. Like perfume, coffee uses the most outré of ingredients to work its wonders."
—Antony Wild, Coffee: A Dark History (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), 193
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pyrolosis
"During roasting, a series of complex chemical reactions take place that develop the characteristic coffee aroma and flavour. ... The most important change takes place when the interior of the bean becomes hot; by a process known as pyrolosis, the carbohydrates and fat form new molecules, generally known as oils. These contain all the flavour and aroma we associate with coffee...."
—Antony Wild, Coffee: A Dark History (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), 193
Oct 8, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word what the living fuck is THAT
I learned it from a Civil War journal called The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah. The gentleman (who was from Maine, if I recall) mentioned that on the march the new recruits had been offered refreshments by locals, and some were "city boys" and didn't know that eating the lights (lungs) of a cow wasn't going to be very satisfying.
Oct 7, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word the George Clooney of noodles
see pappardelle.
Oct 7, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word slaveocracy
See also slavocracy.
Oct 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word slavocracy
Also spelled slaveocracy.
Oct 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list an-echo-in-the-bone
Awesome, Marcela!
You might want to pillage from this list too, if it's helpful.
Oct 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word fixing metatags on downloaded music
I do this all the time. Thanks for listing, frindley.
Oct 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list •open-list-a-fruitless-task-but-oddly-satisfying-on-a-personal-level
Nonsense. That's the essence of Wordnik. :) It's just less obvious to stalkers than it would be on Facebook.
Oct 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word jellied eels
Odd. I rather like eel when it's NOT jellied. Then it's most definitely not like eating brains.
Not that I would know, or anything.
Oct 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word casu marzu
Asativum, what about protective headgear?! Didn't it fight back?!
Oct 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word iballs
accidentally invented here. Sorry.
Oct 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word what the living fuck is THAT
I believe the lights are generally the lungs. Which kind of makes sense... if one has the lights (lungs) scared out of one, one can't breathe.
But I agree the consciousness/eyeballs angle works better.
And I almost typed "iballs." What a stupid word.
Oct 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list •open-list-a-fruitless-task-but-oddly-satisfying-on-a-personal-level
Ohhh... good one. Disgusting but satisfying once it's done. I love the gluggy noise of the water actually going DOWN the drain, which is a great sound after you haven't heard it for a while.
Hair catchers work great, but sometimes it takes a while to find an effective one.
Oct 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list end-in-kin
Very well then. Thanks!
Sep 28, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list end-in-kin
fbharjo, isn't it either Algonkian or Algonquin?
Sep 28, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word slutspurt
...eeew...
Sep 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word drek
... Could it be any more specific?
Sep 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list creative-onomatopoeia
Lovely! Thanks for sharing. That pretty much nails this list, doesn't it? :)
Sep 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word adoratory
I have decided what this word means. When someone is so adorable that they are beyond able-to-be-adored, and the adoration is actually mandatory, person is said to be adoratory.
Sep 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user chained_bear
P.S. I got rather a load of guff for those tags, by the way.
Sep 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user feedback
Interestingly (not), I made a comment on my profile, then went to edit it, and (three times) got the "Oops, we screwed up, please reload" note--which by the way is so small and unobtrusive as to be nearly invisible--and never was able to edit said comment. :(
Sep 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user chained_bear
Uhh... that's right...
*suspicious*
Are you stalking me?
Sep 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word What am I, the fucking Oracle
See bilboquet.
Sep 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word u-ie
We always said "chuck a u-ie" (east coast USA). But then, we were strange people.
Aug 28, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word God-botherer
I believe that it's someone who prays very frequently--an *excessively* pious person (or someone who's ostentatious about their prayer), rather than simply someone who prays. At least, that's what its original meaning was. (19th century?)
Aug 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word thesaurused
Overheard in a meeting today: "'Click on' can't be thesaurused."
Aug 26, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word CMV
also cytomegalovirus.
Aug 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word wrongest
OED has wronger but not wrongest. But it does have wrong-foot: "2. fig. To disconcert by an unexpected move; to catch unprepared."
Aug 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Candwich
Now, now. Prolagus loves those!
Aug 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word herb
Errrrrrb!
By the way, speaking of "h," "an historian" drives me batshit. It's "a historian."
Errrrrrb!
Aug 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word DARE
I really wanted to buy the thing, but each volume is about $120. Check your local library!
Aug 5, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user feedback
You know what I miss? The "search all of Wordie" feature that used to bring up comments, tags, etc. as well as the actual word page. I guess it's not possible here on Wordnik but sometimes I do miss it.
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user Prolagus
*wonders if that sentence has ever been uttered before in the history of the world*
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word boba fett
For future reference... here.
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pizer
If there are more Ocracoke terms on Wordnik, it'd be great if they were tagged as such. :) Having just visited the place for the first time, I'm fascinated by it and its people.
P.S. Long have I praised the work of abraxas and longed for his return. :(
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word hey
Hey, I didn't know it was chiefly southern.
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word No, I don't know him
Subtle, but never gets old.
Dad: "Do you know Smith?"
Me: "What's his name?"
Dad: "Who?"
Me: "Smith."
Dad: "No, I don't know him."
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Moo!
It works with other things too. Like interrupting cheese.
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word DARE
If you haven't visited their website yet, I hope you will.
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word annulus
This word, to me at least, is disconcerting in its vague seaminess.
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word skeevy
I am two years behind adoarns. Just read this etymology today in Newsweek, in an article by Joan Huston Hall. Who, by the way, ought to be a wordnikker if she isn't already. :)
Aug 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list punch-lines
My favorite was a friend of mine's; she used to say, "So the Chinese guy jumps out of the closet and yells, 'Supplies!'"
Aug 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word strangely orange snack appreciation day
reesetee, your abhorrence for perfectly innocent root vegetables is beyond unreasonable. Umbrage! Umbrage, I say! Harrumph!
Jun 25, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word BaGOK
This is the sound chickens make. Yes it is.
Yes it is.
Yes it is.
(see coccodè.)
Jun 24, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word strangely orange snack appreciation day
Like circus peanuts?
*gags*
Jun 24, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bubukle
One... Barrrdolph.
Jun 22, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list hernesheir-apparent
... no, you're right. It has never been. (More's the pity. I wanna know what that would look like.)
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user feedback
oops, sorry I posted on the wrong page.
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word chlorosis
Iron-deficiency anemia associated with puberty.
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word smalledge
Wild parsley or wild celery, formerly used medicinally.
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Thomas Paine
"Hannah Griffitts supported the early protests but balked at war. As a loyalist, she lambasted Tom Paine and defended tory womanhood against his aspersions:
—Susan E. Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2009), 92
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word as drunk as nine pins
James Kirke Paulding told Morris Smith Miller that when he was in Washington, he would 'have some potential bouts at the mint juleps' and that he would share 'a secret by which you may get safely home after drinking six bottles. It is by just putting your feet on the edge of the table, by which means the wine is prevented from descending into the legs, thereby making them as drunk as nine pins. I have tried this method several times and do assure you, that ... you may drink up to the chin and afterwards walk home as steady as a church steeple.'
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 133
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word West Indies dry gripes
The earliest concerns about alcohol in America arose in the medical community in the 1740s. Physicians, particularly Philadelphian Benjamin Rush, noted a new disease then called the West Indies dry gripes. Unbeknownst to Rush, the disease was actually lead poisoning that resulted from the use of lead in the stills that West Indies distillers used to create their rum.
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 123
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word cider
William Roberts advertised in the Maryland Gazette in 1745 that his servant, John Powell, had not in fact run away, but had 'only gone into the country a cider drinking' and was again prepared to repair watches and clocks.
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 122
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word camp follower
Camp followers were the wives, children, and prostitutes who followed and supplied the army to make money, assist their husbands, and support the revolution. These women washed, sewed, cooked, and brewed for the troops and nursed them when they were sick and injured. Women had long played a valuable role in provisioning the English and colonial armies and were proud of their work. For example, Martha May stressed her commitment to the army when she wrote to Henry Bouquet in 1758, 'I have been a wife 22 years to have traveled with my husband every place or country the company marched to and have worked very hard ever since I was in the army.' When Mary Cockron applied for a pension in 1837 for her own and her husband's service to the Continental Army, she stated that she 'drew her rations as other soldiers did.'
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 112
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word bugs
Hi y'all. I'm typing in a comment in nested quotation marks (as is my wont), and it comes up without the opening and closing marks (whether they are single or double), and moreover will not let me copy/paste the citation from another entry (as is also my wont). See the poorly-formatted and uncited comment on carouse for visible evidence of my woes.
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word carouse
"I felt very unwell, this whole day," soldiers frequently noted in their journals, "from last night's carouse."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 111
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user chained_bear
I love that thing. I like visiting my profile to see it. :)
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word flaming or lead-filled cupcake mailing list wannabe
*disappears into self*
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Si ursus essem, ursus fabulans essem
If I were a bear... oh wait.
I am rather fabulans, if I do say so.
Jun 18, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word national doughnut day
Its chief weapon is surprise.
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word stenobothrus
Rats. I was hoping this was some kind of dinosaur for my plethora of dinosaur-themed lists.
Is it hateful because it's the kind that went around swarming and eating farmers' crops in the 1800s?
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word perry
Listen. I don't know where you come from or what you drink normally, reesetee, but if you think something called "cock ale" would taste better with something other than rooster in it, I don't want to drink with you.
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word national doughnut day
But only the carob-flavored ones.
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list b-see--the-eyes-have-it-b
Mphhmmm?*
*Sorry, I'm eating some popcorn from Chicago and can't hear you over the crunching. What's this about peeling eyeballs? That weirds me out.
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word cock ale
Usage (and other alcoholic drink names) on perry.
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word perry
Yes, actually there's a comment about this on cock ale. That capital-letters thing is really crimping my game.
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word eczema
Those Merriam bastards...
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word my boobs aren't perky
my boobs aren't perky in Slovenian: moje joške niso vesele.
*pointedly ignoring Prolagus's question* ;)
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word seltzer bottle
...With purple mountains majesty above the two cents plain!!
—Stan Freberg
Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word eczema
Those American Heritage Dictionary bastards...
Jun 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word isabelle
... Isabella of Australia? Or Austria?
Jun 14, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word mother's wrist
See De Quervain's tenosynovitis. Also called washerwoman's sprain.
Jun 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word washerwoman's sprain
See De Quervain's tenosynovitis. Also called mother's wrist.
Jun 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word de Quervain's thyroiditis
A different condition, but found when looking up De Quervain's tenosynovitis.
Jun 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Finkelstein test
See De Quervain's tenosynovitis.
Jun 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word De Quervain's tenosynovitis
Found here. Though I think the "D" in de should not be capped. My bad.
Jun 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the user frogapplause
I just visited my profile for the first time in ages. Thank you so much, happy frog! :)
Jun 13, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pampooties
Seen here, in an article about the oldest leather shoe ever found. (Thanks Prolagus.)
Jun 11, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list everything-i-hate-about-me
Time itself is a battle, plethora. Some days, surviving with your sanity intact is enough of a fight. :)
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word woylie
AWWWWW!!
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the list everything-i-hate-about-me
I consider stretch marks, and indications of "working boobs" to be my battle scars. I don't want to die well-preserved and perfect-looking. I earned my silver hairs and my stretch marks and my awesome working boobs. :)
Electricblue, I'm sure you didn't expect this kind of response... :) Best wishes.
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word ingenio
"Seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century cider presses like John Worlidge's 'ingenio for the grinding of apples' had been expensive and hard to obtain."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 108
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word blind thermometer
"... another author recommended that brewers purchase 'blind thermometers' in which the scale could be hidden in the brewer's or distiller's pocket so that his workers would not learn his methods and be able to found businesses of their own."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 102–103
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word butt
"In case any men continued to leave alcohol production to women, the new experts assured them that they were wrong. Morrice warned that 'when a butt wants fining down, many appoint a servant girl to perform that office by whom the bungs are left out, and many other acts committed, which all tend to discredit the brewer, although he does not deserve it."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 98
I'm not sure any young servant girl ought properly to know how to fine down a butt.
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word saccharometer
"Since he would show 'the manner of using the thermometer and saccharometer' 'rendered easy to any capacity,' he established himself as master of the mystery."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 97
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word crotcy
"Ball instructed his nephew to build 'a strong crotcy fence] around the trees 'to keep cattle, and horses, from tearing and barking' and killing the orchard trees."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 53
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word lathing
Usage on scantling.
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word scantling
"He sold cords of wood, timber trees, and products from his cooperage, including planking, lathing, clapboards, scantling, siding, heading, fence rails, fence posts, framing, and coffins."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 47
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word steelyard
"Most symbolically, Bray owned a money scale and steelyard, or balance beam scale, to weigh and balance accounts. Just as a ring of keys and a pocket were the signs of the housewife's labor in dispensing foodstuffs from cupboards, so the money scale and steelyards were the symbol of the planter-merchant who weighed coins and crops."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 45
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word vastly wholesome
Usage on medlar.
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word medlar
"In 1736, an English traveler in the Chesapeake recorded that 'we gathered a fruit, in our route, called a parsimon sic, of a very delicious taste, not unlike a medlar, tho' somewhat larger: I take it to be a very cooling fruit, and the settlers make use of prodigious quantities to sweeten a beer ... which is vastly wholesome.'"
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 38
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word antiscorbutic
"Doctors began prescribing cider to sailors in the late seventeenth century because of its supposed antiscorbutic properties."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 31
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word barbeque
"...Men and women both drank at the popular outdoor meal called a barbeque, 'an entertainment' that, as one traveler describes, 'generally ends in intoxication.'"
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 18
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word cobine nitre
"Mustering men mixed some of their brandy charcoal, saltpetre, sulfur, cobine nitre, and brandy to make gunpowder."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 17
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word militia
"The legislature required white men to drill with a militia in case of Indian attacks, and the resulting militia days offered another chance to imbibe.... Alcoholic beverages were such an intrinsic part of the militia muster that boys playing 'militia' ended their games with rounds of drinks."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 16
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word canary
"'We had several sorts of liquors, namely Virginia red wine and white wine, Irish usquebaugh, brandy, shrub, two sorts of rum, champagne, canary, cherry punch, cider.'"
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 15
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word blind staggers
"Landon Carter had better luck when he gave his cow 'with the blind staggers' three doses of warm beer with rattlesnake root, after which the cow 'got pretty well and feeds about as usual.'"
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 15
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word rum
A fine quotation on kibe-heel.
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word kibe-heel
"Rum, wrote traveler Edward Ward, was 'adored by the American English... 'tis held as the comforter of their souls, the preserver of their bodies, the remover of their cares, and promoter of their mirth; and is a sovereign remedy against the grumbling of guts, a kibe-heel chilblain or a wounded conscience, which are three epidemical distempers that afflict the country.'"
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 14
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pulvis castor
Usage on salt tartar.
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word salt tartar
"Planter Landon Carter treated both his daughter and his slaves with alcoholic concoctions. When his daughter, Judy, was sick in 1757, Carter treated her with a 'weak julep of rum with salt tartar and pulvis castor.'"
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 14
Jun 9, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word jimson weed
And of course it grows in Virginia, where Jamestown is located. :)
Jun 7, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word milk sickness
"Even colonists with access to milk often avoided it because of fears of 'milk sickness' caused by consuming the milk of cows that had grazed on wild jimson weed."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 12
Jun 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word arrack
"Rum or arrack, an alcohol distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, was mixed with sugar, citrus juice, water, and spices to make punch."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11
Jun 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word persico
"Persico was a cordial flavored with the crushed kernels of peaches, apricots, or nectarines."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11
Jun 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word hippocras
"Red hippocras was made of claret, brandy, sugar, spices, almonds, and new milk."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11
Jun 6, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word methelin
Usage on perry.
Jun 6, 2010