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- n. a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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whaling terms
Terms defined in the glossary of Clifford W. Ashley's "Yankee Whaler".
advance, adze, after house, after oar, agent, air up, alow, ambergris, apeak, article, away, bailer and 299 more...
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The Magic Pudding
Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends, Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff.
plum duff, whisker soup, bottle-oh, the penguin bold, Irish stoo, cut-an'-come-again, beef-and-thunder ..., treacherous 'abits, put the billy on, Caribbee, many's the bootin..., belayin' pin and 26 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
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Western - "Pioneer & Modern Recipes"
Recipes from my 1947 (original copyright, 1939) "The United States Regional Cook Book" which is a cookbook divided into recipes from 11 "regions" of the US, plus an "auxiliary" section. I'm highlig...
abalone chowder, venison soup, chiopino, halibut pot roast, sand dabs meunière, apples stuffed wi..., california tongue, baked steak, baked ham, califo..., sukiyaki, braised breast of..., pigeon pie and 27 more...
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dontcry No plums are harmed in the making of the duff. Oct 21, 2008
arby Also the name of a gorgeous but sadly long-discontinued bath bomb from Lush. Jul 3, 2008
bilby May you be enveloped in sweet sauce, friend. Mar 25, 2008
reesetee Sometimes I feel like a ponderous mass, glutinous and yet crumbling. Mar 25, 2008
chained_bear "'... But what was that ponderous mass, glutinous and yet crumbling, enveloped in a sweet sauce, that came at the end?'
'Why, that was plum duff, a great favourite in the service.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 113 Mar 25, 2008