Welp. I had thought that I’d just finished Book #1300 in my Great Book Tracking Project only this past Friday. However. Well, I came to find out, as I did my silly little analyses on the last tranche of One Hundred Books that … well, erm … I’d once again made a dumb mistake as …
Monthly Archives: October 2024
Friday Vocabulary
1. vestryman — council member of the local parish Caught in flagrante delicto, as it were, Humber cooly placed the rubber balls in his trouser pockets and wished the vestrymen a good day. 2. ghyll — [UK] ravine, gully Few go to Piers Ghyll now for the hiking, though once this was an important …
Friday Vocabulary
1. doab — [South Asia] tongue of low-lying land between two rivers which join, esp. that between the Ganges and the Yamuna The Gurjars began to extend their control across the Doab until Sher Shah felt constrained to utterly destroy them. 2. epopt — initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries; any initiate of a secret …
Friday Vocabulary
1. hustle-cap — old penny pitching game where coins are shaken in a cap In the colonial days of Pennsylvania there is even one report of a deadlocked jury determining their verdict by playing a quick game of hustle-cap. 2. tomelet — small tome The new (1929) tomelet from the World’s Classics Library containing …
Friday Vocabulary
1. bonhomous — cheerful, full of bonhomie But don’t let his bonhomous front fool you, for inside that genial clumban lurks a cunning and devious mind, always set upon gaining profit and power by any means fair or foul. 2. slewfoot (also sluefoot) — [slang] detective, policeman; clumsy person “Ain’t gonna let no tinhorn …