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‘When the well is full it will run over’ is a 17th century proverb advising that a person can only handle so much before their emotions overflow.
To stop himself being made the butt of jokes, in 1862 a man named Joshua Bug changed his name to Norfolk Howard. After his story was reported in the press, however, people began using NORFOLK HOWARD as a slang name for a bedbug instead. (Slang & Unconventional English, 1937)
‘Viz.’, meaning ‘that is to say’, is an abbreviation of the Latin term VIDELICET. The reason it ends in a Z, while the original word does not, is that the Z is not really a Z at all, but a Latin shorthand symbol or siglum, Ꝫ , once used to represent the pair of letters ‘et’.
Thursday HH brainteaser time with @bbcnewcastle! This week... ❓ The word RINGTONE can be rearranged to spell another 8-letter dictionary word. What is it? Get the answer just before 1pm—listen along live with BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…
The word COMET comes from the Greek ‘aster kometes’—literally meaning ‘long-haired star’.
Word of the Day: DROWK (v.) to droop or lean with tiredness
A COOL-THE-LOOM is a lazy, unmotivated worker.
Word of the Day: ISLOMANIA (n.) a fondness for visiting islands
Thursday HH brainteaser time with @bbcnewcastle! This week... ❓ What do these five words have in common? SOAK WELDER SPINE WASH BALDER Get the answer just before 1pm—listen along live with BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…
In 18th and 19th century slang, a BUMBRUSHER was a school teacher.
Word of the Day: COCK-MA-DANDY (n.) a priggish, self-important man
To BUFFLE something is to handle it clumsily.
Some words that were originally not quite as general as they are in English today include STUFF (which was once a padded material worn under chainmail), THING (which was a local assembly), and BLOCK (which was a tree stump or log, before only later coming to mean any solid mass).
So that would be most of us 😫
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An AVOCAMENT is a deliberately distracting shout or call.
Tuesday HH brainteaser time with @bbcnewcastle! This week ... ❓ Give us a 7-letter word that contains the string of letters –OPMO– somewhere inside it. Get the answer just before 1pm today—listen along live with BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…
Word of the Day: QUAQUAVERSAL (adj.) moving outwards in all directions from a central point
Word of the Day: COSMODELYTE (n.) someone worried about the state of the world
Something that is KEDOGENIC is caused or brought about by worry.
Thursday HH brainteaser time with @bbcnewcastle! This week ... ❓ What can you add to all four of these 6-letter words to turn them into 10-letter words? STANDS PICKED BASKET SHAKES Get the answer just before 1pm—listen live with BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…
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Word of the Day: COSMODELYTE (n.) someone worried about the state of the world
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A BEAM was originally a tree, before the meaning shifted in Old English to refer to a piece of timber from a tree rather than the tree itself. The original meaning still survives in the names of several different kinds of tree, however, like QUICKBEAM, WHITEBEAM, and HORNBEAM.
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Etymologically, the ‘log’ in LOGIN is an actual log. In the sense of entering into a system, the verb ‘log’ comes from LOGBOOK. A logbook in turn was originally a ship’s record, and was so named because the ship’s speed was measured by throwing a roped log into the water.
'Ein lieber Besuch', 1894, by Max Kurzweil (1867–1916).
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RAMFEEZLEMENT is a 19th century word for the disorder caused by trying to do something when you’re tired. (English Dialect Dictionary, 1904)
Useful word, ‘Ramfeezlement’ - almost onomatopoeic…
RAMFEEZLEMENT is a 19th century word for the disorder caused by trying to do something when you’re tired. (English Dialect Dictionary, 1904)
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RAMFEEZLEMENT is a 19th century word for the disorder caused by trying to do something when you’re tired. (English Dialect Dictionary, 1904)
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In 2002, astronomers at Johns Hopkins University found that the average colour of the universe—combining light from 200,000 galaxies—was pale beige. They called the colour COSMIC LATTE—though other suggestions for its name included SKYVORY, UNIVEIGE, and PRIMORDIAL CLAM CHOWDER.
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An ANTELUMINARY is a light that precedes the emergence of another—like the gradual brightening of the sky at dawn before the sun itself actually appears.
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Word of the Day: NEMOROSITY (n.) woodedness, the quality of being covered in trees or forest
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Adopted into English from French, the word FAULT was originally spelled and pronounced “faut”, until an L was added in the 1500s to make it better match its Latin root, ‘falsus.’ But the L remained silent for 200 years, until the modern pronunciation emerged in the 18th century.
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Bring back all of these; and hog-babe especially as a term of endearment
As a word for a young pig, the word PIGLET only dates back to the mid 1800s. Before then, a young pig might be called a HOGLING (14thC), a PORKET (1550s), a HOG-BABE (1600s), or a GRUNTLING (1680s).
Puts a new light on my early stroll.
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