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Bollard
A bollard is a short(ish) sturdy post to prevent traffic access to an area, though people can walk through.
Bollards can be found on wharfs and ship tie their cables to them.
You may find bollards in the front of buildings to prevent cars from smashing through and stealing stuff.
Most bollards are not automatic like the ones in this video
Fabian
Fabian comes from a Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus who plotted his victory against Hannibal
in slow, methodical, steps rather than one large outright battle.
People or factions that want to change their government may use Fabian methods of making slow,
but steady progress. In the late 1800s, in England, there was a Fabian Society that attempted to
introduce socialist benefits into the government slowly, over a period of time.
Cromulent and embiggen
These two words are known to my spell-checker, even though they are fairly recently invented
by writers on The Simpsons cartoon show.
Cromulent means acceptable or satisfactory and was used to describe another Simpsons word,
"Embiggen" as "a perfectly cromulent word" that means "to enlarge" as in to embiggen your vocabulary.
 
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Definition of BENTHAL​

  • of or pertaining to a benthos
  • of or pertaining to a benthon
  • benthic (pertaining to oceanic depths) [adj]
  • benthic (pertaining to the ocean depths) [adj]
 
Anemoia

My spell checker does not like this word, possibly because it is a fairly recently coined word
from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
Basically, it is a feeling of nostalgia, a longing for a time and place you have never experienced.
In the movie, Midnight in Paris, for example, the main character longs for the world of the 1920s, of Picasso,
Fitzgerald, Man Ray, Hemmingway, stein... and at midnight would be chauffeured back in time.
 
Definition of 'SNIRT'

1. a sly or disrespectful laugh, esp one partly stifled. verb (intransitive)

2. to utter such a laugh.
 
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Definition of PASTERN​

  • a part of a horse's hoof [n -S]
  • a part of a horse's foot [n PASTERNS]
  • either of the two bones of this part, the upper or first phalanx (great pastern bone) and the lower or second phalanx (small pastern bone), between which is a joint (pastern joint)
  • the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof
 

Definition of ZIBET​

  • an Asian civet, also ZIBETH [n -S]
  • an Asian civet [n ZIBETS]
  • civet, Viverra zibetha, of India, the Malay Peninsula, and other parts of Asia
 
Lethologica (leh-thuh-laa-juh-kuh)
If you ever were trying to think of something, a person's name, or a specific word and it's
on the tip of your tongue, but just will not pop into your brain- you go through the alphabet
hoping it will jog a memory, and it doesn't. Well, that is an example of lethologica.
The word is derived from Greek roots- lethe, like the river of forgetfulness and logos (word).
 

Definition of LUR​

  • an object usually of leather or feathers attached to a long cord and used by a falconer to recall or exercise a hawk
  • inducement to pleasure or gain enticement
  • peal attraction
  • decoy for attracting animals to capture as
  • often luminous structure on the head of pediculate fishes that is used to attract prey
  • a Scandinavian trumpet [n -S]
 
Bagumbawalla said:
Bollard
A bollard is a short(ish) sturdy post to prevent traffic access to an area, though people can walk through.
Bollards can be found on wharfs and ship tie their cables to them.
You may find bollards in the front of buildings to prevent cars from smashing through and stealing stuff.
Most bollards are not automatic like the ones in this video
Fabian
Fabian comes from a Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus who plotted his victory against Hannibal
in slow, methodical, steps rather than one large outright battle.
People or factions that want to change their government may use Fabian methods of making slow,
but steady progress. In the late 1800s, in England, there was a Fabian Society that attempted to
introduce socialist benefits into the government slowly, over a period of time.
Cromulent and embiggen
These two words are known to my spell-checker, even though they are fairly recently invented
by writers on The Simpsons cartoon show.
Cromulent means acceptable or satisfactory and was used to describe another Simpsons word,
"Embiggen" as "a perfectly cromulent word" that means "to enlarge" as in to embiggen your vocabulary.
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I often read this word in Australia. I just found out that the word is British English.

I wonder if Americans use the word "bollard" in their daily life?


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What do Americans call a bollard?


Most people have probably seen bollards before but not known what they were called. Some people refer to them by a more generic term, such as “traffic barriers.” A bollard is a vertical post that is short and sturdy used for security to prevent vehicles from crashing into buildings or pedestrian areas.22 Nov 2023
 
vokazu said:
I often read this word in Australia. I just found out that the word is British English.

I wonder if Americans use the word "bollard" in their daily life?


Edit:


What do Americans call a bollard?


Most people have probably seen bollards before but not known what they were called. Some people refer to them by a more generic term, such as “traffic barriers.” A bollard is a vertical post that is short and sturdy used for security to prevent vehicles from crashing into buildings or pedestrian areas.22 Nov 2023
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Well, yes, bollards are called bollards in the USA, and the word would be known to people in the shipping or boating field or
those in construction that involves barriers, parking lots and storefronts for example. The word, from Middle English, probably came from
"bole", meaning a tree trunk. The slang use of the word "bollard" to refer to an uneducated, doltish, person may be a reference
to them standing by like a stump.
 

Definition of SCRIMPED​

  • to be frugal (with)
  • SCRIMP, to be very or overly thrifty [v]
  • SCRIMP, to stint (to limit (to restrict (to keep within boundaries))) [v]
 

Definition of BORNITE​

  • a copper ore [n -S]
  • common mineral and important ore of copper, copper iron sulfide, Cu5FeS4, occurring in masses, of brownish color when first exposed to the air; peacock ore
  • an ore of copper [n BORNITES] : BORNITIC [adj]
 
This is kind of a "new" word

Boomerasking

"Boomerasking" refers to the conversational habit of asking a question, letting the other person answer,
and then immediately pivoting the conversation back to oneself by answering the same question, often
with a brag, complaint, or neutral self-disclosure.

Here's a breakdown of "boomerasking":
  • Definition:
    It's a self-centered conversational tactic where someone asks a question, allows the other person to answer, and then immediately turns the focus back to themselves by answering the same question, rather than engaging with the other person's response.
    • "How was your weekend?" (You answer) "Mine was amazing! I went to [insert brag]".

    • "How are you doing?" (You answer) "I'm fine, but I've been so stressed lately because of [insert complaint]".

    • "What have you been up to?" (You answer) "Oh, I had a really weird dream last night".
 

Definition of MEERSCHAUM​

  • tobacco pipe of meerschaum
  • (German) hydrated magnesium silicate occurring as a soft white or yellowish claylike mineral, aka sepiolite [n -S]
  • a fine light white clayey mineral that is a hydrous magnesium silicate found chiefly in Asia Minor and is used especially for tobacco pipes
 

Definition of ZEK​

  • a prisoner in a labour camp in USSR [n -S]
  • an inmate in a Soviet labor camp [n ZEKS]
  • (in the former U.S.S.R.) an inmate of a forced-labor camp
 
Exedra

Noun. A room, portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse, especially in ancient Roman and Greek houses and gymnasia, typically semicircular in plan.

The Admiral Farragut Monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, located in Manhattan, includes an exedra where people can sit and contemplate whatever.

1280px-Farragut_sculpture.JPG
 
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