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Which is not to be confused with the Scots 'neeptide', meaning 'turnip harvest'.

Hans Joerg, have you tried bananas flambé yet? Many a pirate must have had his beard singed thereby!

Anny, this is not quite the answer you were asking for, but a good starting-point for your query would be to search for hunky-dory using this site's search facility, and then to concentrate on those hits where the phrase appears in the title of the posting. Otherwise, I can best describe the usage a...

Anny, Russ has a good point there. 'Impecuniously' stands out in his example sentence for its relative unfamiliarity, but it is about as close as you can get to an adverb that approximately means 'in a manner that is the result of financial poverty'.

The very same expression has been annoying me too, partly because the context in which it was being used always left me unsure about exactly what was meant. Only when I looked it up in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_down_vote), which took its explanation almost verbatim from the website ...

'Peaceful' generally means 'calm, serene, enjoying or favouring peace, belonging to a time of peace', whereas 'peaceable' generally means 'favouring peace', and is frequently applied to people or nations that prefer to lead a quiet existence. The words are partial synonyms. Of the two, 'peaceful' is...

That you are getting to know the family of your better half stepwise, or step-by-step -- in other words, you are only meeting them halfway.

Perhaps so, but it's impossible to darn without a thread.

Just to amplify the possible connection with bookkeeping that Phil referred to, the Cassell Dictionary of Slang contains the following entry for 'down to':

[1970s+] responsible for. [figurative use of the abbreviation of Standard English 'written down to'].

Ken, I agree with your logic. After some further investigation (which I ought to have done before posting the above) it is clear to me that 'tridecimo-' would refer to thirteen, not thirty, and hence 'tridecimosenary' would mean 'relating to thirteen plus six', which would be a nonsensical way of sa...

I would go for 'tridecimosenary'.

Which suggests that Arizona's State flower ought to be the Black-Eyed Susan instead of the saguaro cactus.

By the way, Sam, is it 'dogies' or 'doggies'?

The only word I know of that ends in '-oia' other than 'paranoia' is 'sequoia', which of course is not a word of Greek origin but derives from a Cherokee personal name. Nevertheless, apart from requiring a diaeresis to clarify the pronunciation, a case could be made for the adjective 'sequoïd' (pron...

I have no particular information concerning the regional prevalence of 'dang it', but it is fairly obviously a minced oath that derives from 'Damn it!' The Cassell Dictionary of Slang describes 'dang' as being a euphemism for 'damn' that occurs from the mid-19th C onwards. Just out of curiosity, Tex...

Spiritus, are you as aggressively and unpleasantly overbearing in person as you are on this forum? You have truly taken condescending bullshitting to new levels of self-importantly insistent smugness, and it isn't winning you many friends here. You appear to be so delighted with the sound of your ow...