1. motorik — driving 4/4 beat—often with pop! on 3rd beat—typical of krautrock Though of course most are familiar with the motorik used in Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn”, aficionados still argue whether Jaki Liebezeit of Can or Klaus Dinger of Neu! deserves more credit for the spread of perhaps the most popular beat of the late 20th …
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1. mews — alley where stables are found; street with houses built from former stables or built to look like stables No other passerby were on the streets at that hour, and as the tattered waif limped into the dark mews he looked about and behind in fear or resignation. 2. burr — to …
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1. wally — [British slang] fool, doofus Brett always acted the wally but I suspected there was more going on behind those blue eyes than any of us ever knew. 2. chough — birds belonging to a genus within the crow family The choughs of Iona seemed to resent our presence, their dark forms …
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1. cog — to load dice so as to cheat; to cheat; to plagiarize Someone had obviously cogged the dice—too obviously, for I couldn’t imagine anyone being gulled by dice that always threw sevens. 2. haggard — [Scots] enclosure on farm for storage of grain or hay We piled high the hay-bogy and Alf …
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1. lithia water — mineral water containing lithium salts While it is true that 7-Up tried to capitalize on the craze for lithia water with its original name, the soft drink never contained any lithium, unlike the Coca-Cola product mentioned above. 2. kirmess (also kermesse or kermis) — street fair in Dutch or German …
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1. chalybeate — containing iron salts The town council decided that our chalybeate springs should be highlighted in the promotional materials. 2. gynander — woman with characteristics of a man In response to the nascent women’s movements of the fin de siècle, the forces of reaction posited a pretended threat from gynanders who would …
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1. dawamesc (also Dawamesk) — greenish edible paste or marmalade consisting of hashish mixed with butter, sugar or honey, pistachios, cinnamon and other spices, musk, nutmeg, pine nuts, orange juice Perhaps the Algerian dawamesc was the first introduction into Europe of cannabis edibles, being served in 1844 at the Club des Hashischins in Paris. …
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1. verisimilar — appearing true or real At first I thought myself deceived by a demonic phantasm, some tool of the dark forces assuming a verisimilar likeness to my favorite actor playing his most famous role, but then I realized it was just a cosplayer. 2. thrang — [Scots, N. England] busy, occupied with …
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1. finca — large estate in Spain or Hispano-America The Labor Law of 1894 established the right of any worker in Guatemala to seek employment outside his finca on days when the owner was not using his labor. 2. trichiliocosm — [Buddhism] third order world of thousands of thousands of worlds, conception of universe …
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1. dapperling — dwarf or child, esp. one neatly dressed; mushroom of the Agaricaceae family Face to face finally with my tormentor, I found him to be a smartly turned out dapperling with the missing monocle suspended like a mayoral chain beneath his chic imperial beard, and confess I did not know whether to bow …