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Could maple mead* be considered as a type of metheglin? If not consumed by whales, at least some imbibers of it are as bad as sharks, certainly.

* open the "literature" button half-way down the page, and scan down till you reach references to LMB's Vorkosigan series
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Maple mead sounds like a natural for New England.
The buckets are out on the trunks, and our local sugar shack is boiling the sap as fast as it comes in.
Thanks for the idea, voralfred. I'm going to see about trying mead with maple syrup instead of honey, for medicinal purposes only, of course, so it will be metheglin.
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hominy

coarsely ground corn (maize) used to make grits

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In the American southwest, the wind blows hard and it is difficult to see as I walk through the gusts, the dusts and the grits.
I'm puzzled, though, why ground corn is blowing around. Then I realize it is the annual Hominy Grits Festival and the stuff has escaped from the display tables.
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bunny-boiler

a woman who acts vengefully after having been spurned by her lover

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commodify

turn into or treat as a commodity

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Do-it-yourself brewers can become manufacturers if they commodify their work.

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Budweiser - tojosan, Flickr
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censer

a container in which incense is burned, typically during a religious ceremony

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The sensor sensed the super-producing censer, signaled the Seigneur sorting socks, sending him scurrying to safety, where he smoked a cigarette to settle his nerves.
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Algot Runeman wrote:
The sensor sensed the super-producing censer, signaled the Seigneur sorting socks, sending him scurrying to safety, where he smoked a cigarette to settle his nerves.
In France, a censorious censor would censoriously censure this post for advertising an unhealthy subtance.
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bergère

a long- seated upholstered armchair fashionable in the 18th century

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Happy World Poetry Day.

Stacy leaned back on her bergère even though her grandmother would have glared. Proper ladies always sat forward and never slumped. She was composing her haiku for the @OxfordWords contest on Twitter. She chose "Encounter" as her word and composed...

The weather turns warmer.
Tomorrow there may be snow.
Encountering spring.
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Where would a sheperdess be more comfortable to eat a canapé? Sitting on a bergère or on a couch?
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gammy

adjective (gammier, gammiest)
British informal
(especially of a leg ) unable to function normally because of injury or chronic pain.
Origin:
mid 19th century (in the sense ‘bad, false’): dialect form of game

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No wait, that's the other Gammy!

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(Although, Dave describes it as being "gimpy."

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Sue's mother's mother was "Gammy" but she was also gammy, needing a cane to get around because she tore her ACL while rock climbing at 80. Sue's mother's father was called "Gramps" though he often had gas cramps and was described as "gamey." He hobbled a bit, too, because he was bow-legged.
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hoedown

a social gathering at which lively folk dancing takes place.
a lively folk dance.

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It's better to go to a hoedown than a showdown when you need the lowdown.
[It is easier to ask questions of a dance partner than of your dueling opponent.]
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panini

a sandwich made with Italian bread, usually toasted

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Even though an Italian would call one grilled sandwich a panino and many sandwiches panini, in English we say panini for one and add an s for more. I wonder if it's really that we simply overeat and plan to engulf more than one sandwich anyway.
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aspic

a savory jelly made with meat stock, set in a mold and used to contain pieces of meat, seafood, or eggs

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I loved Jello™ as a kid and still do, so when my aunt gave us tomato aspic one Christmas, I bit right in. Boy! Was I surprised.
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terraqueous

consisting of, or formed of, land and water

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The Earth is a terraqueous globe. It says so on the top of the map!
The MIssissippi River delta is also a terraqueous area.
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Algot Runeman wrote:...
The Earth is a terraqueous globe.
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Though Beta Colony is the opposite of Earth, i.e. a single landmass with some extremely salty puddles versus Earth's ocean with some largish islands and lots of pimples, Beta Colony is a terraqueous planet nonetheless.

There's a third liquid, to be found only on the northern part of one of Earth's smaller islands, that I'm analysing right now. Is it Highland Mead?
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voralfred wrote:
Algot Runeman wrote:
The sensor sensed the super-producing censer, signaled the Seigneur sorting socks, sending him scurrying to safety, where he smoked a cigarette to settle his nerves.
In France, a censorious censor would censoriously censure this post for advertising an unhealthy subtance.
Oh my, Voralfred was incensed ...
Is that why his visits have been so infrequent lately?
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Are we now recommending frequency?

I'll nominate 1030 kHz. :P
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epistrophe

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

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Well, we all know that photo doesn't represent the intended meaning, but the fly shown does, indeed, have that genus name! (Epistrophe elegans)

I'll practice my epistrophe and also fit in an apostrophe.

While I know it isn't so, I've tried so, to do it ever so.
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Algot Runeman wrote:...
I'll practice my epistrophe and also fit in an apostrophe.
...(Not quiite!)
Oh NOOO!
What a catastrophe!

P.S. Were you fishing for that one? I'll bet you were ...
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paean

a song of praise or triumph.
a creative work expressing enthusiastic praise: he's created a filmic paean to his hero

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Photo: adapted from Bernhard J. Scheuvens from Wikimedia Commons
Once again, a picture fails to match the word and definition, but the choir is singing a song of praise, for sure!

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Pedro the peon poured more papaya pureé and pondered the paean Pablo had produced with the local choir.
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Algot Runeman wrote:paean
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Pedro the peon poured more papaya pureé and pondered the paean Pablo had produced with the local choir.
Pedro the peon pondered whether Pablo had produced his paean for the upcoming Papuan pageant.
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Pedro the peon pondered whether Pablo had produced his paean for the upcoming Papuan pageant.
Probably...
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Okay, this post has nothing at all to do with the current word of the day.

I was reading an article about plastic winding up in the ocean. Ugh. Lazy humans, at best.

In the article, there was a description of pre-production plastic which goes into say, a bottle making machine. The pre-production form is a plastic pellet. Somehow, that isn't adequate, though. Such a plastic pellet is named a nurdle (which also happens to be a term of the game cricket according to Wikipedia following my Google search.)

I don't suppose there's much of interest here. However, I laughed out loud, thinking, "It isn't good enough to call a small piece of plastic a pellet. It needs a special name: how about nurdle?"

By the way, looking it up in Wikipedia, I learned that a nurdle is a ball poked into an area of the pitch where nobody is standing so as to make it easier to score a run. Of course, to me, a U.S. resident, a pitch is a ball thrown in a baseball game.

I guess, with all words, it's "location, location, location."

No, wait, that's real estate.


If you need the same context I had, here's the NatureNews Article
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pathos

a quality that evokes pity or sadness:
the actor injects his customary humor and pathos into the role

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I don't think anybody has projected pathos more vividly than Emmett Kelly, a clown who worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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E Pericoloso Sporgersi wrote:Oh my, Voralfred was incensed ...
Is that why his visits have been so infrequent lately?
No, no, just too busy
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Interestingly enough, the name of "Ombrosoparacloucycle" is familiar to me.
In fact it is short for anemélectroreculpédalicoupeventombrosoparacloucycle.
an invention by he famous "Professeur Cosinus", using wind ("anem"), electricity ("électro"), réaction ("recul") and human strength (through pedals "pédali") to propagate rapidly thanks to an aerodynamical shape ("coupevent"), while providing the rider with shadow ("ombroso") and removing nails ("paraclou") that might puncture the tires, the general aspect being that of a bicycle ("cycle").

I move that the anemélectroreculpédalicoupeventombrosoparacloucycle be nominated for the Word of the Month award....
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