Monday, June 09, 2008
Dictionary Sketches 4

More escapees from the secret wing of the OED...

 

"TU QUOQUE: The retort so are (or did etc.) you. [Latin, = you too]".

 

"TULCHAN: Calf-skin stuffed with straw or spread on mound beside cow to make her give milk".


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 Saturday, June 07, 2008
Dictionary Sketches 3

"FRICANDEAU: 1. Slice of fried or stewed meat, esp. veal, served with sauce".


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 Friday, June 06, 2008
dictionary sketches 2

 

 

"Humbug: 1. n Fraud, sham; deception; impostor. 2. Kind of hard-boiled sweet usu. flavoured with peppermint. 3. Delude (person into, out of, thing or doing). 4. Be, behave like, impostor". 

 

"Matrass: Long-necked glass vessel with round or oval body, used for distilling".

 


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 Thursday, June 05, 2008
Dictionary sketches

In an effort to generate some kind of creative impulse, I've taken to choosing words from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary at random, sketching whatever comes into my head, then going back to the OED and checking the definition to see how close I came. Here's the first two...

 

"JAGER: Var. of JAEGER:German or Austrian rifleman; kind of woollen clothing-material excluding all vegetable fibres as unwholesome; garment of this".

 

"RETROGRESSION: backward or reversed movement; return to less advanced state, reversal of development, decline, deterioration".

 


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