Official New Word
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ventaWell, now.
Prawn crackers. Extensive research has provided us, finally, with words to describe the texture of these ubiquitous snacks as they age.
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megamole pointed out, the scientific term is antiquocartonaceous. That is, however, too long for everyday.
Opinion seems exactly divided (yes, it is, Megamole voted in a comment rather than via the poll) between scrudgy and squnchy. I guess they're regional variations on the same word, or something.
Of course, this now means I owe pints towechsler (nominator of scrudgy) and to both dmh and beckyl (nominators of squnchy). BeckyL, I'll see you down the pub sometime. Wechsler and DMH will probably have to wait til Whitby.
So, today's word is scrudgy/squnchy. Use it three times in conversation, and once in writing. When it makes it into the OED, remember you heard it here first.
In other news, I watched a kettle this morning.
It boiled.
So disappointing.
Prawn crackers. Extensive research has provided us, finally, with words to describe the texture of these ubiquitous snacks as they age.
As
megamole pointed out, the scientific term is antiquocartonaceous. That is, however, too long for everyday.Opinion seems exactly divided (yes, it is, Megamole voted in a comment rather than via the poll) between scrudgy and squnchy. I guess they're regional variations on the same word, or something.
Of course, this now means I owe pints to
wechsler (nominator of scrudgy) and to both dmh and beckyl (nominators of squnchy). BeckyL, I'll see you down the pub sometime. Wechsler and DMH will probably have to wait til Whitby.So, today's word is scrudgy/squnchy. Use it three times in conversation, and once in writing. When it makes it into the OED, remember you heard it here first.
In other news, I watched a kettle this morning.
It boiled.
So disappointing.
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Date: 2003-09-16 04:47 am (UTC)Of course it is. A pot is any of several scombroid vessels (especially genera Tupperware and earthenware) intermediate between the smaller pillboxes and the larger vats.
have you ever been the little girl from Stephen King's Firestarter
Shhhhh!
<smoulders gently>