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YLTO!! Glossing the Glossary
Glossary: adelphogamy ~ 1. A form of polyandry in which two or more brothers have or share the same wife, or wives. 2. Possibly, the marriage of a brother and sister to each other. 3. In zoology, mating of brothers and sisters, as with certain kinds of ants
adumbrate ~ 1.to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch. 2. to foreshadow; prefigure. 3. to darken or conceal partially; overshadow
aubergine ~ eggplant
avuncular ~ 1.Of or relating to an uncle.
2.Kind and friendly toward a younger or less experienced person
badge - An award given to YLTO! members after the participation in a Group Read, Group Challenge, or Buddy Read. After the completion date, individuals may view their awarded badges in the Wall of Fame, posted under their own name.
bailiwick ~A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority. It also means The office or district of a bailiff
beedi ~ from Hindi, also spelled bidi or biri is a thin, Indian cigarette filled with tobacco flake and wrapped in a tendu or possibly even Bauhinia racemosa leaf tied with a string at one end. The name is derived from the Marwari word beeda—a leaf wrapped in betel nuts, herbs, and condiments.
bellicosity - Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament
bildungsroman ~ a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character. Literally translating it would be a novel with an educational purpose
biscuits a.k.a. cookies ~ bribes used to get the decision that you want from a moderator who is controlling a challenge
bloomers ~ first introduced by a woman named Amelia Bloomers, and were part of the movement towards woman having more independence. Women were wearing Parisian fashions of hooped skirts that weight 32 pounds and corsets tightened to accomplish size 18 waists. This was unhealthy and the poor gals were fainting all the time. Wearing bloomers and uncorseted and un-hooped dresses was first very much frowned up by society.
bodice ripper ~ a novel with a cover featuring scantily clad women being grabbed by the hero, such as a Mills and Boon or Harleqin Romance novel.
borked ~ To have totally f***ed something up. Usually by doing something stupid. Specifically used to describe technology that is broken. ~ www.urbandictionary.com
buddy read ~ a time when two or more members read a particular book together and discuss it. The call for discussion can be sent out by anyone, and the discussion thread be set at any time.
busker ~ a person who entertains in a public place for donations
Bucks Fizz Champagne and Orange Juice in others words ~ A Mimosa (French)
champers ~ Champagne
champers and Orange Juice ~ A Mimosa ☺☻☺
buttload ~ luckily once again the Iron Druid Chronicles help clear this up. [buttload - slightly more than a shitload but much less than a fuckton
cafetiere ~ French press
calumny an untrue statement that is made to damage someone's reputation ; alsothe act of making such statements
cenotaph ~ a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere
chamisa ~ 1: a saltbush (Atriplex canescens) of the western United States and Mexico having winged seeds 2: a rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus) having yellow flowers
Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys ~ the French
conchies - conscientious objectors
chuck a sickie ~ feign being sick… so you can stay home and read
cicatrised ~ to heal by forming scar tissue
claviger ~ 1. One who carries the keys of any place. 2. One who carries a club; a club bearer
cookies a.k.a. biscuits ~ bribes used to get the decision that you want from a moderator who is controlling a challenge!
coriander ~ Cilantro
courgette ~ Zucchini squash
coruscate ~ to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes (the stars that coruscated behind his eyelids)
cracker ~water biscuit
cwtch ~ a hug/cuddle/smooch/embrace
dog-ends cigarette butts , or something else distasteful
dodo - is the french kid talk for "one night of sleep". You often hear adult say to kids, "I will be back after 2 dodos" or "we will go there after x dodos".
doppelgänger ~ a double of a living person and sometimes portrayed as a harbinger of bad luck
ETA ~Edited To Add
♫earworm ~ Music that irritatingly repeats in your head, over and over again!♫
esurient ~ hungry, greedy
fair suck of the sauce bottle ~ protesting against unequal distribution of each person's fair share (Australian)
fecundating ~ impregnating or fertilizing
fence ~ an individual who knowingly buys stolen property for later resale
foodgasm ~ the seemingly orgasmic sensation experienced by tv chefs while eating whatever delectable delights they have whipped up on their show
fossick (ferrick, perhaps ferret) ~ rummage around or search for
frammis ~ a nonsensical placeholder along the lines of 'whatchmacallit', 'so-and-so', and 'thingy'. It's usually used in examples such as engineering and computer science. an elusive thing that grifters and other con artists try to reach.
fresh side ~ unsmoked, uncured pork bacon
fripperer ~ A fripper. One who deals in frippery or in old clothes
fruit machine a randomizer tool used to narrow poll choices or task/reading choices
gadzooks (gadˈzuːks) ~ exclamation archaic
Origin: late 17th century: alteration of God's hooks, i.e. the nails by which Christ was fastened to the cross.
gaijin ~ A non-Japanese person, a foreigner, an outsider
gloss ~ A brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult expression
glue stick ~ the booby prize (what the racehorse who came in last becomes!) In many monthly challenges the object is to choose and read a book that matches criteria in order to win the highest number of points. (Really the object is to have fun looking for matches.) The lowest reported points gets a glue stick. It is a reverse honor to actually read a book that will glean the lowest number of points...a coveted award that is even more difficult to achieve!
gophering ~ burrowing through your stacks (shelves) of horded books, retrieving them for your next challenge and storing them again in a different stack (shelf) until the challenge day arrives.
group challenge ~ moderator generated contest for individuals or teams to complete. One yearly challenge is set at the beginning of the year. Others are teasingly presented during particular months, by very mean moderators!
group read ~ a monthly event during which the membership reads one or more "vote winning" books based on a particular nominated/won theme.
Harlequin Romance ~ books of fantasy world of intrigue, danger, passion and romance (often reffered to as a Bodice Ripper) Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.(1949 Canada) published Mills and Boon (UK) romance reprints, later the two companies swapped titles, eventually they merged (1971). Harlequin Enterprises also publihses other genres
huisache ~ a widely cultivated thorny shrubby acacia (Acacia farnesiana) of the southern United States and tropical America with fragrant ball-shaped yellow flowers
inanition ~ 1. the exhausted condition that results from lack of food and water 2. the absence or loss of social, moral, or intellectual vitality or vigor
ineluctable ~ not to be avoided, changed, or resisted: inevitable
Johnny Depp's MY Man ~ an on going battle to claim him as our own. Here is but one conversation sample!
Marmite books ~ You either love them or you hate them! (The reference is to the yeast spread (high in vitamin B). It comes with a marketing slogan of "love it or hate it". It divides opinion, and usually quite vociferously.) See Vegemite!
meanie ~ a moderator who refuses to allow your chosen book to qualify for the set challenge. Attempted bribery is acceptable to see if their mind can be changed. Cookies (see biscuits), flowers, and drinks are acceptable bribes.
maximæ, mediæ and minimæ ~ for which, by-the-way I can find no adequate contextual definition, refer to graduated sizes of ants in a colony. (today referred to as distinct size-classes, called major, median, and minor workers.) I was comically reminded of Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies.
Mills and Boon ~ books of fantasy world of intrigue, danger, passion and romance (often reffered to as a Bodice Ripper). Mills and Boon (1908) the UK's undisputed market leader in romance fiction publishing is now a subsidiary (1971) of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Mucilage ~ a viscous secretion or bodily fluid
myrmecology ~ the branch of entomology that deals with ants.
numpty ~ More affectionate than nimrod and definitely more satisfying to say.
on the nest ~ behavior of an immature male who has access to easy sex and as a result stops concentrating on his job or study or friends or relations or anything else.
oubliette ~ a dungeon with an opening only at the top
pattypans ~ a type of squash ..."Pattypans are what you cook muffins and small cakes in. The paper or foil linings you put in the muffin tins. In fact, my mother was lamenting just last night that we call them cupcakes now because we have been "infiltrated by American TV language". She calls them pattycakes (and I remember that from a kid) as they are baked in pattypans."
paucity ~ The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity
perspicacity ~ the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness
polyandry ~ a form of polygamy whereby a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time
puissant ~ eavy, heavy-duty, influential, mighty, potent, powerful, important, significant, strong
ragamuffin ~ A grimy dirty little urchin or waif with ratted greasy hair, poorly clothed
rape ~ also called colza,an annual plant of the mustard family), native to Europe
rellies ~ relatives (Australian)
rickrolling ~ A method in which a prankster makes a fake link to the music video of Rick Astley's Never going to give you up
Roomba and Neato ~ Robotic vacuum cleaners (Rusalka wrote: “Our Neato is called Acathla after the demon in Buffy who came to suck the world through his mouth into a hell dimension.”) Roomba/Neato Link
ropeable ~ angry; furious, from the notion that the person requires to be restrained
salary man ~ Sarariman - A Japanese corporate businessman [Anglicization of Japanese)sawbuck ~ Originally slang for a sawhorse, fashioned in the 18th century by lashing together two pieces of wood into an "X" shape. With an X-shaped support at each of two ends, the contraption served to hold wood for cutting. With the advent of the U.S. 10 dollar bill, which bears the Roman numeral X, "sawbuck" became slang for the bill, as people associated the shape with the sawhorse. The slang term "buck" originated in the mid-19th century in reference to the dollar. In the mid-1900s "sawbuck" became street slang, apparently originating in Chicago, for a 10-dollar bag of marijuana. Since 1985 or so, the term has referred to a 10-dollar "bag" (actual bag or any kind of package) of any street drug (heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana, etc.). Occasionally, addicts use the term sawbuck to refer to 10 dollars, particularly when they intend to use the money to purchase drugs (e.g., "Borrow me a sawbuck so i can get my sick off").
"Sawbuck" is also the name of a Chicago-based media production company that focuses on documentary films on the street-level drug world.
"Gimme a sawbuck blow" (blow means heroin in Chicago's street level drug market).
secateurs ~ chiefly British/French, pruning shears Also know as snips
shears large gardening scissors
pinking shears are scissors to cut material and have a zigzag edge to help prevent fraying. Not to do with gardening.
Slick ~ a You'll Love This One! mascot, first introduced to us by Janice as her 2012 Rainbow challenge representative, showing her slow progress as that of a snail. There was much banter about his progress and success. Slick is now an official member of the group and shows up regularly in our conversation.
Slick's Debut
Sept 2012 = "Sacriledge!! We're going to eat Slick after all his hard work getting to the finish line? I can hear him now... "It took me forever to get to the finish line, and what reward do I get? Eaten!" "
Slick's humble beginnings
snaffling ~ to appropriate for one's own use, esp. by devious means; purloin
snog ~ 1. verb; to interface passionately with another being, creating a field of physical obsession and focused arousal +centered+ on the lips, mouth and tongue. 2. verb; to play tonsil hockey 3. verb; to give comfort or show affection to a fellow user of an internet forum. ~ urbandictionary.com
Sororal ~ an adjective meaning 'of or like a sister or sisters'. It made sense after I looked up the definition. It has the same root as sorority.
spoiler ~ an html code that allows a writer to hide a portion of a comment from easy view. A reader can then choose to view that portion of the message or not. It is a protection against reading something that may spoil the story, if read before hand.
Opening tag: <spoiler>
Closing tag: </spoiler>
spondulics ~ money, cash (spondulicks, spondoolicks, spondulacks, and spondulics are alternative spellings of spondoolies.)
squash ~ a racquet sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball
squash and other vegetables ~ I recall reading somewhere that British swedes and Scottish turnips are the same. ....To make things confusing, we have both swedes and turnips here. God knows the difference. To my untrained eye, I think the swedes are bigger. I'm having issues at the moment between working out quash. It seems Americans call everything and anything a squash. I got a few recipes yesterday and trying to work out if they are talking about what we call squash, or what we call pumpkins. Butternuts are pumpkins for example. They have a hard external skin and are hardish inside until you cook them. (Our squash are soft and very similar to zucchinis, but are a different shape. Like a star or a cog but kinda... squashed...in other words pattypans)
squash in the US is a type of vegetable, in the UK it can mean orange juice or what Americans call lemonade. This is very confusing for a thirsty American wife who is offered a glass of squash by her British mother-in-law!
squicky book ~ Blend of squeamish and icky. Engendering a feeling of disgust, distaste, nausea or revulsion. But with a judgment call over the rightness or wrongness of the something. She offered to show me the injury but I find blood rather squicky. ~ en.wiktionary.org
sticky-beak ~ (verb) to have a look at something, to investigate, to check something out. Usually something that doesn't have anything to do with you, or belongs to someone else. eg "I'm just going to have a sticky-beak at what's going on over there."
~ (noun) a nosey person eg "My mum is such a sticky-beak".
stuffing around ~ messing around
susurration ~ a soft murmur; whisper
susurrus a whispering or rustling sound
tares ~ An unwelcome or objectionable element
tatterdemalion ~ tattered. So why not just say tattered? Websters 9th indicates that it can be:1. a person dressed in ragged clothing: RAGAMUFFIN. 2. a :ragged or disreputable in appearance b: being in a decayed state or condition: Dilapidated 2: Beggarly, Disreputable
tautological ~ repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift'; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological.
tenebrific ~ is an adjective and means GLOOMY
titubant ~ characterized by titubation : marked by wavering or vacillating : unsteady
Toppler ~ A period of time in which everyone around the world reads at exactly the same time. Sometimes just for one day, sometimes for an entire week. The idea is to topple books off your To-Be-Read shelf. In general, the concept fails, because you end up adding more to your shelf than you remove, by
tracklements those things which complement the main ingredient of a meal and, traditionally, at least, may be found in the vicinity of the said ingredient - for example, horseradish root in good beef country.
tsundoku - (n) Japanese. buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands
Vegemite the Australian version of Marmite, and a product which started the Marmite/Vegemite Wars!
vim ~ energy, enthusiasm; ”in his youth he was full of vim and vigor”
Wall of Fame - a thread in the discussion section in which individual membership badges are posted, after the completion of YLTO! tasks.
water biscuit ~ cracker
weft ~ (in weaving) the crosswise threads on a loom over and under which other threads (the warp) are passed to make cloth.
whack it up ~ display challenge points, divided up by category
YLTO! ~ abbreviation for our group name, You'll Love This One!! A Book Club & More
you lot, youse guys, ya'll ~ encompassing everyone who is “other” than yourself, but most often directed toward a single person
ya'll an Americam south expression meaning "you", in the singular. The plural of "ya'll" is "all ya'll".
yuck-a-futz ~ a concoction of mixed fruits and alcohol. Lethal!
zaibatsu ~ a powerful family-controlled commercial combine of Japan
Some of these words have an YLTO!! History, so I have tried to include them for those who weren’t with us when the discussion began.Marmite
message by Helen:
The reference is to the yeast spread (high in vitamin B). It comes with a marketing slogan of "love it or hate it". It divides opinion, and usually quite vociferously. I often use it to describe books that inspire strong opinions at both ends of the scale, as opposed to those that are broadly liked or disliked. They're marmite books.
Vegemite the Australian version of Marmite, and a product which started the Marmite/Vegemite Wars!
The Baked Goods discussionmessage by Helen:
Digestives are a plain biscuit, made with wheatmeal flour. They are more textured than Rich Tea biscuits, which might be described as a sweet version of a water biscuit. (I'm guessing that's made no sense whatsoever).
You can also get chocolate coated digestives, which are, obviously, even better. I think of cookies as being thicker, softer, cakier biscuits. You can dunk a biscuit, but not dunk a cookie.
message by Rusalka:
Biscuits ...., are what we call your cookies, but can be and are applied to savory biscuits and things you call crackers too. Cakes, are baked goods that have much more flour in them and are larger and cut into slices. And then, to be confusing, we here (i'm assuming the same in Europe) we have slices, which are like brownies say but in different flavours. So a tray, cut into slices (hence the name), slightly more cakey than a biscuit but not as cakey as a cake.
Who would have known baked goods were so confusing?!
message by Debra:
So, clear something up for us, ....friends. Do you call all cookies biscuits? Curious minds want to know! And when you have your afternoon tea, does that include coffee, or is only tea?
message by Kat:
Yep, every single biscuit is a biscuit ;-)
message by Debra:
So what do you call the fluffy flour-made things we call biscuits? They aren't sweet and we often eat them with gravy.
Can I add that us Brits call champagne and orange juice 'Bucks Fizz'
And I would call a cookie a cookie, rather than a biscuit. Biscuits have a crunchiness. Water biscuit I'd say is a cracker.
Snoozie Suzie wrote: "And I would call a cookie a cookie, rather than a biscuit. Biscuits have a crunchiness. Water biscuit I'd say is a cracker."Aren't you from the UK? You sound like a Yank!☻
Snoozie Suzie wrote: "Can I add that us Brits call champagne and orange juice 'Bucks Fizz'"I will adapt it!!!
... for my part, sorry for all the slang! I can get overexcitable at times and forget what I'm saying. But nice to know there is a handy place to point people when I get carried away and speak entirely in Aussie.
Don't forget earwormsmessage by Cherie:
Oh, I Heard That Song Before!
It is stuck inside my head.
I can’t believe it’s happening
My synapses are going dead.
It’s an earworm, an earworm
A song that will not quit
An earworm, an earworm
The tune I cannot shed!
I hear it in the morning.
I hear it play at noon.
I hear it in the evening.
I think I’m going to swoon.
It feels like a toothache.
It throbs and throbs all day.
I rock and bang and shake my head,
Mine eyes are growing dim.
It’s an earworm, an earworm
A song that will not quit!
An earworm, an earworm
I JUST WANT IT TO GO A-W-A-Y!
This thread is a great idea, Almeta! There was a word that Stephen King used in Misery that I glossed over yesterday. Now I wish I had written it down.
Rusalka wrote: "... for my part, sorry for all the slang! I can get overexcitable at times and forget what I'm saying."I get a kick out of your slang!
Janice wrote: "Don't forget earwormsOh, yes!!! Thanks Janice. I know there are others but I can't think of them.
Great contribution.
Rusalka wrote: "... for my part, sorry for all the slang! ..."I just wish I could find them all in the previous discussions.
You have given us many words and laughs Rusalka.
Ace idea. We are clearly countries divided by a common language. I can usually work out the Aussie, but the US variations are often just so very different. Don't get me started on fanny packs, I may have disgraced myself the first time I heard that one.
Helen wrote: "Ace idea. We are clearly countries divided by a common language. I can usually work out the Aussie, but the US variations are often just so very different. Don't get me started on fanny packs, I ma..."Fannys are an example in my mind as well!
Let's keep it clean.☻
*snicker*I shut up an entire Yorkshire pub by announcing I was wearing thongs. All these large, bearded farmers just went silent, and there was a good 50 of them. I looked around in confusion, and then horror as I yelled "FLIP FLOPS! FLIP FLOPS! You call them flip flops!!!"
Will never do that again, I was so mortified. My aunt, who I was with, thought it was hilarious.
Rusalka wrote: "*snicker*I shut up an entire Yorkshire pub by announcing I was wearing thongs. All these large, bearded farmers just went silent, and there was a good 50 of them. I looked around in confusion, an..."
ROFL! I would have loved to have witnessed that.
Rusalka wrote: "*snicker*I shut up an entire Yorkshire pub by announcing I was wearing thongs. All these large, bearded farmers just went silent, and there was a good 50 of them. I looked around in confusion, an..."
OMG! That's hilarious!
Rusalka wrote: "*snicker*
I shut up an entire Yorkshire pub by announcing I was wearing thongs. All these large, bearded farmers just went silent, and there was a good 50 of them. I looked around in confusion, an..."
hahahahahahahaha
Oh that's just priceless.
I shut up an entire Yorkshire pub by announcing I was wearing thongs. All these large, bearded farmers just went silent, and there was a good 50 of them. I looked around in confusion, an..."
hahahahahahahaha
Oh that's just priceless.
lol. Maybe we should start a most embarrassing moment thread! You first Helen. :)
What is it that Helen calls the French? especially when competing against them in sports events.I cannot remember the word, but I know it is funny.
Oh, don't forget that lovely word that Sam has that sounds like a cat giving a kiss!
Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys = the French
cwtch - which is a hug/cuddle/smooch/embrace.
The welsh were stood behind the door when vowels were given out >;-)
The welsh were stood behind the door when vowels were given out >;-)
Good ones!By the way, if you are French or Welsh...You must have a good one too! Feel free to add your side of things.
My mother's family is French and Italian, but I am fine with the insults. We can take it! lolBTW, Almeta, I love this thread! Thanks for starting it. ; )
My words this week were:mirrored oubliette of the Chrome ward
and
susurration of the sea
Thanks to the wonderful film, Labyrinth I've known what an oubliette it is since I was a young 'un :)
Lynn wrote: "Thanks to the wonderful film, Labyrinth I've known what an oubliette it is since I was a young 'un :)"I saw that reference a lot when I looked up the word.
Although I saw Labyrinth, I must have glossed right over oubliette then too.☺
It's only a small part of the film; she 'falls' down into it with the helping hands and then Hoggle helps her find her way out.
I am now off to Youtube to find me some David Bowie in a codpiece action.
Rusalka wrote: "*snicker*I shut up an entire Yorkshire pub by announcing I was wearing thongs. All these large, bearded farmers just went silent, and there was a good 50 of them. I looked around in confusion, an..."
ROFL!
Great thread. Will now be running here often!
I remember hearing the word SNOG when I was dating a Scotsman. I'll leave you UK folk to properly describe snogging.
Rusalka wrote: "*snicker*I shut up an entire Yorkshire pub by announcing I was wearing thongs. All these large, bearded farmers just went silent, and there was a good 50 of them. I looked around in confusion, an..."
This is priceless. I think these moments are one reason I like languages so much, the richness of them. Same language, different place and you end up saying: "I am not sure what you understood but I think that's not what i think I said". :)
Debra wrote: "I remember hearing the word SNOG when I was dating a Scotsman. I'll leave you UK folk to properly describe snogging."Was he a good authority on the subject? ;)
Rusalka wrote: "Debra wrote: "I remember hearing the word SNOG when I was dating a Scotsman. I'll leave you UK folk to properly describe snogging."Was he a good authority on the subject? ;)"
Lol, not the best!
Debra wrote: "Was he a good authority on the subject? ;)"Lol, not the best!
..."
Maybe that's why she moved on? LOL!
Can't beat a bit of good old snogging! :D
Chamisa1: a saltbush (Atriplex canescens) of the western United States and Mexico having winged seeds
2: a rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus) having yellow flowers
I found chamisa above and the following words in American Elsewhere, which was a REALLY good book. cenotaph: a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere
huisache: a widely cultivated thorny shrubby acacia (Acacia farnesiana) of the southern United States and tropical America with fragrant ball-shaped yellow flowers
titubant: characterized by titubation : marked by wavering or vacillating : unsteady
From Gaeta1, we have "squicky" as a descriptor of a book.1.Engendering a feeling of disgust, distaste, nausea or revulsion. But with a judgment call over the rightness or wrongness of the something. She offered to show me the injury but I find blood rather squicky.
Debra wrote: "titubant: characterized by titubation : marked by wavering or vacillating : unsteady..."I don't know, I'm titubating on adding this one.☻
Janice wrote: "From Gaeta1, we have "squicky" as a descriptor of a book.Engendering a feeling of disgust, distaste, nausea or revulsion. But with a judgment call over the rightness or wrongness of the somethi..."
Another good one. Blend of squeamish and icky.
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I am suggesting that we all place our unusual word encounters here, and include a meaning or definition. This is also a great place to put our YLTO!!! jargon.