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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:32:13 GMT -5
Like the aholehole, the bummalo is another tropical fish, in this case a southeast Asian lizardfish. When listed on Indian menus, it goes by the slightly more appetizing name of “Bombay duck.”
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:32:26 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:32:37 GMT -5
According to a Tudor dictionary published in 1552, a clatterfart is someone who "wyl disclose anye light secreate"—in other words, it’s a gossip or blabbermouth.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:32:52 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:33:03 GMT -5
Cockapert is an Elizabethan name for "a saucy fellow" according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but it can also be used as an adjective meaning "impudent" or "smart-alecky."
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:33:19 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:33:31 GMT -5
A cock-bell can be a small handbell, a type of wildflower that grows in the spring, and an old English dialect word for an icicle. In any case, it’s derived from coque, the French word for a seashell.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:33:46 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:33:57 GMT -5
The cockchafer is a large beetle native to Europe and western Asia. The origin of its name is a mystery, but one theory claims the beetles are so characteristically aggressive that they can be made to fight one another like cockerels.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:34:07 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:34:17 GMT -5
Standing little more than a foot tall at the shoulder, the dik-dik is one of the smallest antelopes in all of Africa. Their name is apparently an imitation of their alarm call.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:34:31 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:34:48 GMT -5
A dreamhole is a small slit or opening made in the wall of a building to let in sunlight or fresh air. It was also once used to refer to holes in watchtowers used by lookouts and guards, or to openings left in the walls of church towers to amplify the sounds of the bells.
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:34:59 GMT -5
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Post by Fyson on May 25, 2020 15:35:14 GMT -5
According to one 19th-century glossary of industrial slang, a fanny-blower or fanner was "used in the scissor-grinding industry," and comprised "a wheel with vanes, fixed onto a rotating shaft, enclosed in a case or chamber to create a blast of air." In other words, it’s a fan.
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