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2021-01-06, 09:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Galoshes (or Goloshes or Galoches or Goloches or JOHNNY, JOHNNY GLOCKINSPIEL! WHEN YOU PLAY THAT GLOCKENSPIEL, THE PAINT BEGINS TO PEEEEEEL!1) entered English back in the middle ages, and before it referred to rainboots specifically was used for a sort of wooden soled overshoe, which shifted mostly to rubber after the development of vulcanized rubber made waterproof rubber soles practical in colder climates. Oddly, as of the 1911 version of the Encyclopædia Britannica, it was noted that the term was almost never used in the United States. I haven't been able to find details, but my instinct is that the term for the waterproof overshoes migrated more or less naturally to the waterproof rubber boots proper as those gained popularity.
The Wellington, meanwhile, was originally a cut of boot, done in leather, modified from a Hessian riding boot.
So my guess is that the two terms were derived separately, based on the garment functionally or physically closest to the high rubber boot.
In Australia, they apparently call them "gumboots," or, just to be confusing about it, Blucher Boots, after another famous commander of the Napoleonic wars.
1. Well, there's a reference no one will get. Then again, this is the internet...
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2021-01-06, 09:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Thank you Ajustusdaniel, I did already check out Wikipedia.
My primary question was whether galoshes was already an American term for rainboot/shoe at the time and that the Brits moved away from the term after we split off. That seems to hinge on when galoshes transitioned from anti-muck stilt to anti-wet foot shoe, and they don't seem to want to tell us. Was it with Goodyear, or before? I really wish there were a good intermediary step between 'wikipedia/OED/Britinica dive' and actually-ask-an-expert for this kind of thing. Reference #5 under Galoshes seems to be a Victorian Research forum. I might have to join and see how active that community is.
Yay, I just found a new distraction!
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2021-01-06, 09:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 12:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's way more British-America lexicology than I could ever learn reasonably.
ana****ic (n): relating to strong emotional dependence on another or others
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sciamachy (n): sham fighting for exercise or practice; an argument or conflict with an imaginary opponent
khachapuri (n): a Georgian cheeese-filled bread, made with eggs and flour
banausic (adj): not operating on a refined or elevated level; mundane; relating to technical workLast edited by understatement; 2021-01-06 at 12:35 PM.
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2021-01-06, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 04:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 04:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 05:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, it is a word. For instance, to wean yourself off alcohol.
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2021-01-06, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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OK, thanks -- I thought it was "the wean" as "result of weaning", so a child that doesn't drink mother's milk any more. This explains why the meaning wasn't in any dictionary.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-01-06, 05:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 07:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Curse of the House of Rookwood: Supernatural horror and family drama.
Ash Island: Personal survival horror in the vein of Silent Hill.
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2021-01-06, 08:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 09:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-06, 09:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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I didn't say that car trunks were footwear. One of us is confused (I certainly am now).
scunthorpe or anaclitic? The later I only know because I'm an AA sponsor. Honestly, I can't believe that it's the first time I've run into that confluence of letters within another word on this site (although off the top of my head I can't think of another that would have come up). I didn't know that 4 letters would be censored, so I guess it must be.
*This isn't us subverting the anti-swearing mechanisms and thus against the rules, right?
Thanks much! And a blogspot that is relatively current too!
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2021-01-06, 09:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, it isn't. In fact, the method employed by both Peelee and you was taught to us by Rawhide. I would generally recommend not testing their patience, though.
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2021-01-06, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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The former, though the latter was new to me. And took me a while to guess what it was before I realized it was written below.
Correct. You can't write obscenities, but non-oscenities have no issues. You can let a dolphin out of the tuna net so long as no tuna get out, if you like analogies.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2021-01-07, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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I thought this word was a misspelling of another one: picaresque : relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a roguish, but "appealing hero", of low social class, who lives by his wits.
"Jim leads us through an utterly enjoyable and picaresque journey through India.""We are the people our parents warned us about!" - J.Buffett
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2021-01-07, 09:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Mixtape. Definitely mixtape.
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2021-01-11, 12:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hackney: taxi cab (previously a horse or a carriage for hire)
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-01-12, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Proscenium: In an old-school theater, this is the plane separating the stage from the audience.
Effectively, this makes this term mostly synonymous with what we currently call the fourth wall!Murphy said 'whatever can go wrong, will go wrong'.
I say Murphy was an incurable optimist.
In my experience, even things that can't go wrong... often do.
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2021-01-12, 11:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-01-12, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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It took me a somewhat humiliating-to-admit amount of time to realise that the word 'embarrass' is actually derived from three words, put together to describe an act that is being depicted by the whole word.
em- as in; "to do something". A Noble Spirit Embigguns The Smallest Man, etc.
-bare - as in; to show publicly, or to be naked.
-ass - as in; your butt.
Em-Bare-Ass - to show your ass in public. Which is pretty much a good definition as well as a perfectly serviceable example.
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2021-01-12, 12:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's okay because that's not true. Several romance languages have verbs related to embarass (such as the French embarasser), always with the meaning of being physically restrained or bound or of being in a metaphorical "tight spot" such as an awkward situation. Alledgedly, it comes from barça which would be an old Portuguese word for "rope".
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2021-01-12, 04:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Italian also has a word, "sbarazzare", which means "removing some impediment".
What I find interesting is that Spanish has a few words for " pregnant", one being embarazada, another one encinta, both of which would mean more or less the same thing, "in rope/belt" (or "with no rope/belt", depending on the meaning of the prefix.)
Wraith's new scansion actually isn't too rare a phenomenon in linguistics, and it can change how a word is pronounced.
The old example is with the name of the hawk. Old Italic acu+petri " fast wing" became accipiter "grabber" in Latin, and then acceptor ("receiver"), then auceptor from a scansion avis ceptor "bird that grabs", whence Provencal austor.
English could have sandblind, from samblind (sam-=half).Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2021-01-12, 07:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Antiphrasis: the use of a word in a sense opposite to its proper meaning.
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2021-01-12, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hey, I didn't know that either, but it fits in with the weird tendency of "backward" Southern slang being unintentionally sophisticated. The amount of times I've heard my mom or grandma say "show your ass" as a synonym for being trashy or throwing a tantrum is astounding.
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2021-01-12, 11:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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cunctation
(kŭngk-tā′shən)
noun Archaic.
lateness; delay.
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2021-01-13, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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