For today’s word, I decided to open a page of The New Oxford Dictionary of English and look for a word I’d never heard of before. On my quick scan of the pages from Madeira to magic lantern, I found the word ‘madrilene’. Spell check attempted to push me toward mandrill and mad riding; I held my ground.
Madrilene is, I discovered, a clear soup that is usually served cold. It comes from the French ‘consommé à la madrilene’ – the literal translation being ‘soup in the Madrid style’.
As the saying goes, you learn something new every day.
Have you any words to share? I’d love to hear from you.
I’ve (hopefully temporarily) lost image playground for my usual images – apologies and grr!
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Nice picture of soup but I miss the one of you. Anyway never heard of this word. Taught me something. Thank you.Barbara
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I hope normal service will soon resume!!
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Thanks to Angela from our writing group, I now know the word WASTREL meaning a waster, looser, self indulgent kind of person. Great word. I love the sound of it!
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Thank you 🙏 That’s an excellent word.
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The problem here is I don’t keep a record of words I have sent in reply 😂 So if I repeat myself just put it down to the fact I’m a daft old goat. There is a word my farming brother-in-law used. I’m not sure how it’s spelt, but woofoo. He used to tell us kids to be careful of them especially at night as they hid in hedges and watched you!
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It’s okay, you’ve not sent that before. It’s a new one on me so will look it up!
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Ooo! I’d be interested to see if you discover anything. I tried once and Google said “Do you mean a Guinea Pig” 😂
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🤣🤣
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I learnt a new musical term the other day – ‘Glissando’
‘A glissando instructs instrumentalists to slide in pitch from note to note, instead of accentuating each note.’
I think I actually do this when I play a bum note on my bass and try to ‘glissando’ to the right one!🤣🎵🤣🎵
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Musical terms have wonderful words, often sounding like what they ‘do’.
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That’s fascinating, Liz!
I’ve been researching old-English to see if there any suitable words I could weave into my new novel and the OE word for spider is made up of 2 nouns ( which is a ‘kenning’ so my trusty ‘wordhord’ book tells me) is: weaver-walker or walker-weaver! (I can’t tell you what the word in OE actually is as I haven’t worked out how to get those letters on my keyboard!!
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Ah, like a kenning poem where the words describe what something is? Great kenning 🕷️
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Yeah. they’re ‘riddle-like’ compounds of two ordinary nouns that when combined mean something else (‘The Deorhord’ by Hana Videen. There are other egs in the book but I particularly liked the one for spider!
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I like that.
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Not sure how many will find their way into my WIP, but I’m having grat fun diving down this particular rabbit-hole!!
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