"Hashimoto's thyroiditis or chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease where the body's own T-cells attack the cells of the thyroid...." more...
"A delta wave is a high amplitude brain wave with a frequency of 1-4 Hertz which can be recorded with an electroencephalogram (EEG) and is usually..." more...
"The hoochie coochie was a sexually provocative dance that became wildly popular during and after the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Described by..." more...
"A travois (Canadian French, from French travail, a frame for restraining horses; also obsolete travoy or travoise) is a frame used by Native..." more...
"Rose water or rose syrup is the hydrosol portion of the distillate of rose petals. Rose water, itself a by-product of the production of rose oil..." more...
""Mouton fur is sheepskin which has been processed to resemble beaver or seal fur. Mouton is French for "sheep". Mouton fur refers to lamb hair..." more...
"In the vocabulary of surfers, a skeg is a stabilizing strut or fin located at the rear of the surfboard. A surf board skeg improves the board's..." more...
"Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen
Partial lyrics:
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird,..." more...
"literally meaning "outside the work"
I find this definition adds greatly to my love of the word. I am ashamed to say I have used this word all my..." more...
"Ogonek (like a backwards cedilla, on the lower-right of a character). Used in Polish on the letters `a' and `e' to change their quality and..." more...
"Hey Skip...
Do you know about the Music Genome Project? That ongoing project resulted in Pandora.com. It is a pretty cool online radio project where..."
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"Goldschläger is a Swiss cinnamon schnapps (43.5% alcohol by volume or 87 proof; originally it was 53.5% alcohol or 107 proof), a clear liqueur..." more...
"Kung Pao chicken (also spelled Kung Po chicken) is a classic dish in Sichuan cuisine, originating in the Sichuan Province of central-western..." more...
"Agaricus bisporus is known by many names several of which refer to different stages; "button mushroom" when sold, collected or eaten in young,..." more...
"Spelt is an ancient and lovely tasting grain in the wheat family. It makes a more crisp, dense bread, has less gluten than typical wheat. It is..." more...
"Hoisin sauce, or Haixian Sauce, (hǎixiānjiàng) also called suckling pig sauce, is a Chinese dipping sauce. The word Hoisin is a romanization of..." more...
"Citronella oil is one of the essential oils obtained from the leaves and stems of different species of Cymbopogon. The oil is used extensively as..." more...
"I think sionnach is brave and wonderful for speaking up and I think, chained_bear, that you are exquisite for your efforts and love of words and..."
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"sionnach, I tried googling that title and am coming up empty handed. Who is the author and do you know if the books are still available and if there..." more...
"chained_bear, I agree with you on Renee Zellweger although I call her Just-ate-a-lemon-face. I agree on Mel, too. I do have to watch the occasional..." more...
"I liked some of their work and Pretzel Logic was a good album but I can't get past the fact that Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is a defense consultant..." more...
"Also a shelter hauled out onto a frozen lake and left there during the ice fishing season...some of them are anything but crude. Some have fully..." more...
"A man I know who was a soldier in Viet Nam said that this is an expression used by the Vietnamese in their own language. It refers to someone who is..." more...
"It is said in Wisconsin...it means I'm going to spank you or hit you instead of talking to you in the usual way...often an idle threat to a child..." more...
"Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
transitive verb
Etymology: from the implication that servility is equivalent to having one's nose in the anus of the..." more...
"Oh, jeeze! I just realized that this entire list exists that contains the word knuckle...so I will stop adding knuckle words to the Body Metaphors..." more...
"to decamp," 1834, from Sp. vamos "let us go," from L. vadamus, from vadere "to go, to walk," from PIE base *wadh- "to go" (cf. O.E. wadan "to go,"..." more...
"A trademark of the BIC Corporation as well as a genericized term (in the United States) for a felt tip marker with a wide tip as opposed to a fine..." more...
"a woman who has wised up after being pecked by a rooster for the second time....or....a woman who is not looking forward to being married again....or..." more...
"A cinder blockhead is a guy who murders his wife in their own driveway with a cinder block from their own garage and tells the police a stranger did..." more...
