wing chair

He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 33, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I:

A chair with a high back from which project small side pieces, originally to protect from draught


day bed

Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Alternative spelling of daybed (“A bed or sofa used specially for daytime.”)


bluing

en-noun

bluing (countable and uncountable, plural bluings)

A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes.


boarding house

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A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.


cake slice

A knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpenedblade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake.

taartschep

a knife with a wide, triangular, unsharpened blade, designed to cut and serve slices of cake


worktop

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The cupboards were oak and the worktop was granite.

(UK) A surface, usually resting on cupboards or drawers that can be used to work on. Usually in a kitchen.


haulm

haulm (countable and uncountable, plural haulms)

From Middle English halm, from Old English healm, from Proto-Germanic *halmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos. Cognate with Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos) and Latin culmus. Doublet of calame, calamus, culm, helm (Etymology 4), and shawm.

doublet

(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.

слама

stems of cultivated plants left after harvesting


enamelware

en-noun

enamelware (usually uncountable, plural enamelwares)

Cooking utensils that have a corrosion resistant layer of enamel fused to the surface


shower cap

A waterproof headgear designed for use in the shower, to avoid wetting the hair.


shower gel

shower gel (countable and uncountable, plural shower gels)

A commercial gel soap, used to wash oneself, especially in the shower.


tallboy

By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”).

Coordinate term: (without the wardrobe) lowboy

(furniture) A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.


sheeting

sheeting (countable and uncountable, plural sheetings)


shirtfront

It is explained that a "shirt front" building is one of which only the street elevation is given a finished architectural treatment, the sides and back being of cheaper material, with no attempt at unification with the front.

1927, The Bricklayer, Mason and Plasterer, volumes 30-32, page 100:

False fronts, frequently called "shirt fronts," are futile attempts to make a small, cheap house pass for something larger and more valuable.

1967, The Appraisal of Real Estate, page 132:

(real estate, slang) An attractive facade applied only to the front of a house.


RFQS

(real estate) reduced for quick sale: Used when advertising houses at a lower than expected price to indicate that the vendor wants to sell the house quickly.


fleabag

While Mike was still in the hospital, a man named Olin—the manager of the goddamned hotel, if you please—came and asked Sam Farrell if he could listen to that tape. Farrell said no, he couldn't; what Olin could do was take himself on out of the agent's office at a rapid hike and thank God all the way back to the fleabag where he worked that Mike Enslin had decided not to sue either the hotel or Olin for negligence.

1999, Stephen King, “1408”, in Everything's Eventual, published 2002:

(slang) A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment.


coffee table

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We were just settling ourselves around the coffee-table, when several friends from the parsonage arrived.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 26:

(furniture) A long, low table, often placed before seating in a living room, on which drinks may be served, and magazines, etc. placed.


filing cabinet

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[...] adjacent is a clerk's room, with filing cabinets.

1960 December, “New G.E. diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:

A piece of office furniture composed of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.


dry cleaning

→ Japanese: ドライクリーニング (dorai kurīningu)

→ Korean: 드라이 클리닝 (deurai keullining)

The process of cleaning clothes and other fabrics without using water, instead using organic solvents and specialized equipment.

When you're in town, could you pick up the dry cleaning?

Clothing or other items that will undergo, or have undergone, this kind of cleaning.


diffuser

They are in the under-$20 section, which includes a display of scented candles and diffusers.

2009 February 28, Rita Zekas, “DecoRita visits West Elm”, in Toronto Star:

A device designed to diffuse a scent efficiently.

Along the sofa every three and a half feet, fluorescent tubes glow through translucent plastic diffusers.

2008 January 24, “In a Town Known for Light, a House With Very Little”, in New York Times:

(optics) Any device that or spreads out or scatters light, making the light appear softer.

(sewage treatment) An aerating device consisting of a membrane with fine pores, through which air is blown to generate small bubbles.

(cooking) A cooking item that can be placed above a stove heating element or burner to separate the cooking utensil from the heat source.


nightstand

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From night (“the conventional time for a person to be in bed”) + stand (“an object which supports things”).

compound

He always kept a full glass of water on the nightstand.

(US) A small table or cabinet, usually with two drawers one above the other or one drawer and a lower shelf, placed beside the head of a bed.

مِنْضَدة اَلسَّرِير

small table placed beside the head of a bed


davenport

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A. H. Davenport and Company
Davenport (sofa)

The sofa sense is a genericized trademark named after the defunct furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company.

Holonym: furniture

He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head.

Beezus felt a little better. She curled up on the davenport again with 202 Things to Do on a Rainy Afternoon and read about making Christmas tree ornaments out of cellophane straws, until she heard her aunt's car turn into the driveway.

1955, Beverly Cleary, Beezus and Ramona:


extractor hood

(UK) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.


daybed

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After this exhausting work was done Agnes would lie upon her daybed with her arms dangling, too fatigued to lift them.

2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 35:

A couch that can be used as a sofa by day and a bed by night.


housemate

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‘“Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’
‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’

2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 12:


teeter-totter

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Either from teeter + totter, or from a reduplication of either element.

(Canada, US, often childish) A seesaw; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a long board with seats at either end, with a pivot point in the center.

(Northeastern US, Atlantic Canada, often childish) A type of glider swing; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a tandem swing attached to a swingset, with two riders facing each other.


teeter-totter

en-verb

teeter-totter (third-person singular simple present teeter-totters, present participle teeter-tottering, simple past and past participle teeter-tottered)

teeter-totters (present singular third-person)
teeter-tottering (participle present)
teeter-tottered (participle past)
teeter-tottered (past)

(Canada, US, intransitive) To ride a seesaw.


overbuilt

en-adj

overbuilt (comparative more overbuilt, superlative most overbuilt)

more overbuilt (comparative)
most overbuilt (superlative)

in the overbuilt exurbs of the megalopolis

Having had excessive construction (building) carried out, as:


child safety seat

en-noun

child safety seat (plural child safety seats)

DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"...
 LEVITT: I think what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take away from the research is we've put in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind and shouldn't work at all.

2021 January 13, Stephen Joseph Dubner, “How Much Do We Really Care about Children?”, in Freakonomics Radio, Episode 447:

A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law.

seient infantil

a car safety restraint designed for infants and young children


spurtle

From Scots spurtle, spurtill (“potstick, spatula”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English spatyl, spatule, from Old French espatule (“spatula”). If so, then doublet of spattle and spatula.

unc

uncertain

One day they built a fire in the yard and made a black kettle of apple butter so big that when they stood over it and stirred the apple mash with spurtles, the scene put Ada in mind of the witches in Macbeth working at their brew.

1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 311:

Either of two Scottish kitchen implements made of wood: a flat one for turning oatcakes, or a stick for stirring porridge.


piping bag

A cloth bag shaped like a cone with a small hole at the tapered end, used with a metal (or similar) nozzle for squeezing out decorative icing and other pastes in cooking.


resi

(real estate, property law) Clipping of residential.


resi

(real estate, property law) Clipping of residential real estate.


steak knife

A table knife with a sharp, narrow, and often serrated blade designed for cutting tougher foods such as cooked meats.


banya

From Russian ба́ня f (bánja). Doublet of bagnio, bain, and balaneion.

The Russian public steam bath (banya) is a cultural hybrid which borrows freely from the Finnish sauna and the Turkish political detention centre.

1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:

A type of steam bath, popular in Russia (and in some parts of Alaska as well).


lectica

From Latin lectica (“litter”), from lectus (“bed, couch”) + -ica (“forming related nouns”), q.v.

(historical) A kind of Roman litter, typically with bedding, curtains, and four legs.


toastie maker

Once you've tried a toastie from a toastie maker, you'll never want to eat regular sandwiches again.

(British) An electrical appliance used to toast sandwiches.


Welsh dresser

They furnished the house with mahogany sideboard, leather settee, oak Welsh-dresser – handsome furniture […].

1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 14:

A piece of furniture used to store and display crockery.


dinner table

A table on which dinner (or other food) is served and eaten, particularly in a home.


doss-house

W. Besant
They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.

A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.


recliner

A chair hinged so that the back can be reclined for comfort.


pressure cooker

en-noun

pressure cooker (plural pressure cookers)

(cooking) A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.


melon ball scooper

melon ball scooper (plural melon ball scoopers)

A kind of scooper or spoon with small hemispherical head which is useful for scooping round pieces of melon, watermelon, etc.


subletting

[…] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.

1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:

(property law, real estate) Synonym of sublease.


short sale

(real estate) A property sale negotiated with a mortgage company in which a lender takes less than the total amount due.


lounger

You shoulda heard me in the lounger / Telling people what they was

2020, “I Don't Belong”, in A Hero's Death, performed by Fontaines D.C.:


honey dipper

A turned kitchen tool used to transfer honey.


Rachmanism

From Rachman + -ism, from Peter Rachman, accused of being an unscrupulous British landlord.

(British) The exploitation of tenants of slum properties by unscrupulous landlords

(UK) The exploitation of tenants of slum properties by unscrupulous landlords

intimidation de locataires par des propriétaires sans scrupules


banneton

A type of basket used to provide structure for breads during proofing.

Gärkorb

a type of basket used to provide structure for breads during proofing


single bed

We'll be together
With a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed

1978, Bob Marley (lyrics and music), “Is This Love”, in Kaya, performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers:

A standard-sized bed, usually for the use of only one person.


cooking pot

(cooking) any vessel (such as a saucepan), with or without a lid, used to cook food


camp bed

(chiefly UK) A lightweight portable bed used by the military, campers, etc.


buro

Borrowed from French bureau (“desk”, earlier “coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize”), from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).

cog

And I went up into the spare chamber, and sort o' fixed Philury's things to the best advantage; for I knew the neighbors would be in to look at 'em. And I was a standin' there as calm and happy as the buro or table, ...

1885, Marietta Holley, Sweet Cicely, Online edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:

One can only speculate about the appearance of the "New-fashion buro" advertised for sale in the Boaton Gazette of May 1, 1750.

1998 May, Phil D. Zimmerman, “The Stratford, Connecticut, bureau table: A re-examination”, in Antiques, volume 153, number 5, page 740:

chest of drawers
chest of drawers#English


prie-dieu

en-noun

prie-dieu (plural prie-dieus or prie-dieux)

From French prie-Dieu, from prie (“pray”) + Dieu (“God”).

Leaning her childish face and full chin on the shelf of the prie-Dieu, her eyes fixed, she laughed, out of some hidden capacity, some lost subterranean humour [...].

1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 42:

thinking to improve his hour, he took to kneeling at a prie-dieu and ventured upon some propitiatory prayers to the Virgin which might serve as a sort of scaffolding to the more important confession which was to follow.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 772:

At her prie-dieu, she read in a calm voice the prayers for the dying.

1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 87:

A piece of furniture on which someone can pray, consisting of a cushioned area to kneel on, with a built-in ledge for books.

belaunaulki

a piece of furniture on which someone can pray


stewpan

After letting them drain, put them into a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, salt, black and red pepper to taste.

1867, Colin MacKenzie, Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts, page 220:

Brown off well that flicks to your Stewpan; put in as much Flour as you think fit,...

1743, Lady (Unknown author) - The lady's companion: or, An infallible guide to the fair sex [page 333]

(archaic, cooking) A saucepan used for stewing.


sedan chair

/səˈdæn ˌtʃɛər/

Clarifying the intended meaning or sense of sedan.

kador-doug

portable chair used as a mode of transport — see also litter, palanquin

In Rio de Janeiro the gentry keep their chaises, which are drawn by mules; the ladies however use a sedan chair, boarded before and behind, with curtains on each side, which is carried by two negroes on a pole connected with the top of the chair, by two rods, coming from under its bottom, one on each side, and resting to the top.

1790, George William Anderson, A Collection of Voyages round the World, Vol. I, p. 25

Mr. G.'s published letters have widely diffused his favorite position, that "China is open." He still maintains this position, though others have risen to controvert it. To me it seems that, whether or not it is open to the settlement of missionaries is a matter to be decided only by experiment; to make which, there are not more than himself and three other missionaries sufficiently versed in the language... The worst that would probably happen to a proper man, making the trial, would be, to be placed in a sedan chair, and transmitted to Macao... It is a great mercy that China should be shut, at present, to Christian teachers. Were it otherwise, Protestants are without persons to send; while Popish priests abound in the East, and would instantly enter in great numbers, making the field worse for us, if possible, than now.

1839, Howard Malcom, Travels in South-Eastern Asia..., Vol I, p. 166

The National Code states: "Except the spouses and daughters of royal families, and the mothers, wives, daughters, and daughters-in-law of chief officials [tangsanggwan], as well as the brides of officials [ŭmgwan] who are appointed without taking state civil service examinations, no one is allowed to ride in a sedan chair with a canopy [okgyoja], and the violators of this statute shall be punished by eighty strokes of beating with a heavy stick..." However, the womenfolk of the yamen clerks in the Honam region alone all ride in sedan chairs with canopies, letting down colorful bead screens and being escorted by their servants, who shout to make a way ahead... As the decline of old families and famous clans becomes serious day by day, the sedan chairs that they use are so worn out that they are bound by ropes of straw; the destroyed canopy is replaced by a mat, the drapery by a dress, and the bead screen by a cut-off fish trap. They place the sedan chair on the back of a cow... These are the things we hear about nowadays.

2010, Jeong Yak-yong, translated by Choi Byong-hyon, Admonitions on Governing the People, page 479:

(chiefly historical) An open or enclosed chair raised on poles and carried by people or animals, used as a mode of transport.

bocha (2-door enclosed elevated Indian form)

Another way of carrying a patient is upon what is known among school-boys as a ‘sedan-chair’, each bearer grasping his own fore-arm and that of his fellow about its middle... and the patient grasping the bearers' necks.

1869, Cassell's Household Guide, volume I, page 72:

(games) An equivalent mode of transport created by two people grasping each other's forearms, making a seat for the rider.


plump up

en-verb

plump up (third-person singular simple present plumps up, present participle plumping up, simple past and past participle plumped up)

plumps up (present singular third-person)
plumping up (participle present)
plumped up (participle past)
plumped up (past)

Please plump up the pillows.

To shake or arrange (a pillow etc) so as to be fatter or more evenly distributed


platter

From Middle English plater, from Anglo-Norman plater, dissimilatory variant of platel, from Old French plate (“metal plate”) (see plate). Doublet of plateau.

A main dish and side dishes served together on one plate.


patio chair

A chair designed for outdoor use, on porches, decks and patios, frequently as part of a set with an umbrella-shade-equipped table


deep-fat fryer

A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot fat or oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.


deep fryer

A heated vessel for frying food by immersing in hot oil, as opposed to shallow frying in a frying pan.


fizbo

From pronunciation of FSBO (“for sale by owner”).

(real estate) A property being sold by the owner, without the aid of a broker.


fisbo

From pronunciation of FSBO (“For Sale by Owner”).


FSBO

That's a bad neighborhood for brokers: too many FSBOs.

(real estate) Acronym of for sale by owner, referring to the property.


bed bath

The washing of a person's body (especially that of a patient) in bed


market garden

Descending a narrow tree-lined lane the carriage passed into a leisurely winding road, bounded by market-gardens and the River Val.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 5

(chiefly UK) A garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.

horta

a garden in which vegetables are raised for sale at a market

pleasure ground

section of a large garden not intended for edible plants

vegetable garden

garden or section of garden for edible plants intended for personal or household use

orchard

farm, garden, or section of garden for trees bearing edible fruit


truckle bed

Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed; This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

When a truckle-bed with a sick man (some invalided agent from upcountry) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle annoyance.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208:


tax lot

(accounting, real estate, US) An parcel of real property on which property taxes are levied.


Scotch hands

Butter beaters; large wooden spatulas used when making butter, made out of sycamore wood, or metal, used for shaping the butter into bricks and for other miscellaneous manipulation. One side of the paddle will have ribs or be fluted.


kneeler

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From Middle English knelere, equivalent to kneel + -er.

The parish deacon was always pushing to get new kneelers for the church, probably because he was old and his knees were sensitive.


TICAM

(real estate) Acronym of taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance.


bottom the house

bottom the house (third-person singular simple present bottoms the house, present participle bottoming the house, simple past and past participle bottomed the house)

bottoms the house (present singular third-person)
bottoming the house (participle present)
bottomed the house (participle past)
bottomed the house (past)

The half-length lace curtains keep out most of what little sun there is, but they establish your privacy: the window-ledges and doorsteps scrubbed and yellowed with scouring-stone further establish that you are a 'decent' family, that you believe in 'bottoming' the house each week.

1957, Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, →ISBN:

She had 'bottomed' the house (ie spring-cleaned) and cooked specially for me.

1978, Colin Gordon, A richer dust: echoes from an Edwardian album:

My mother-in-law pickled walnuts
and covered floors in rag rugs
she bottomed the house each spring

1985, The Raving Beauties, editors, No holds barred, →ISBN:

(idiomatic, dated) To clean a house from top to bottom; to clean a house extremely thoroughly.


candy thermometer

en-noun

candy thermometer (plural candy thermometers)

A thermometer designed to measure the temperature of a cooking mixture of sugar and water.


wet work

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Calque of Russian мо́крое де́ло (mókroje délo).

clq

мо́крое де́ло

Most of the time I clean with A.J. or another coworker, who vacuums while I do the wet work—bathrooms and kitchens.

2011, Autumn Stephens, Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick, →ISBN:

Cleaning tasks that involve scrubbing with cleansers.


charpoy

From Hindustani چار پائی (cār pāī) / चारपाई (cārpāī), from चार (cār, “four”) + पाई (pāī, “feet”), thus literally “quadruped” or “tetrapod”.

Here is a charpoy on which two can sit, and it is possible that there may, from time to time, be food in that platter.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “To be Filed for Reference”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2004, page 213:

Flory crossed the brick-like earth of the yard between the hospital sheds. All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless.

1934, George Orwell, chapter 13, in Burmese Days:

There, every morning, tens of thousands of young men sit in the tea shops, reading the newspaper, or lie on a charpoy humming a tune, or sit in their rooms talking to a photo of a film actress.

2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 54:

(South Asia) A traditional bedstead used in South Asia, consisting of a wooden frame bordering a set of knotted ropes.


butchers' knife

en-noun

butchers' knife (plural butchers' knives)

He came after me with a butchers' knife.

A large, sharp knife, used by the butcher for hacking meats.


frat house

She wrote some awfully slushy letters to Phil Bowen, and he read them aloud at the frat house one night.

1922, Willa Cather, chapter 9, in One of Ours:

(US) A building in which the members of a fraternity reside or meet, especially one located on or near the campus of a college or university.


Greek house

From the Greek letters used in the names of fraternities and sororities.

About 50 students live in the average Greek house.

1997 October 30, Brad Wolverton, “Picking a Frat: Alpha to Omega”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 2013-07-17:

(chiefly US) A building in which the members of a fraternity or sorority reside or meet, especially one located on or near the campus of a college or university.


beach chair

A special chair designed to provide comfort and protection from sun, wind, rain, and sand on beaches frequented by tourists.


camping chair

A lightweight folding chair used by campers.

kokkupandav tool

a lightweight folding chair used by campers


piano bench

A rectangular wooden bench where a pianist can sit while playing the piano.

pianotuoli

a rectangular wooden bench used while playing the piano


piano stool

A round wooden stool used by piano players. It is less stable than the rectangular piano bench. The height can be adjusted by simply spinning the seat clockwise or counterclockwise, respectively.


folding chair

A light portable chair that can be stored in a stack, row or on a specially designed cart. They are produced in a variety of styles, folding mechanisms and materials.


office chair

A chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office. It is generally comfortable and adjustable and can swivel 360 degrees and has wheels.


ground rent

ground rent (countable and uncountable, plural ground rents)

"You had better go to the devil and ask him for my ground-rent," he said.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 99:

(law, real estate) Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.

retributie

1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner


hospital corner

hospital corner (plural hospital corners)

Beds in a hospital might be made up in this way.

(usually in the plural) A crisp fold formed at the corner of a bed by tucking the sheet or blanket tightly under the edges of the mattress.


Roman baths

A complex of public buildings, in the time of Ancient Rome, in which bathing took place as a social activity


rubber ducky

With a squeaky song remarkably reminiscent of a ‘rubber ducky’, the Dusky Myzomela is easily distinguished from other small honeyeaters by its uniform grey-brown coloration, lacking any markings or other colour on the wing or head.

1966, Niven McCrie, Richard Noske, Birds of the Darwin Region, Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, page 301:


rubber duck

A toy, made from rubber or rubber-like plastic, shaped like a duck; usually a floating bathtub toy.


bedcover

A decorative cover for a bed; a bedspread or counterpane


meatgrinder

The mountainous second day of the race was a real meatgrinder, with 20% of racers dropping out.

Last year’s lightning advances gave way to local stalemates and a meatgrinder battle for Kobani, where ISIL troops massing to attack the Kurds on the ground made themselves easy targets for the Americans in the air.

2015 February 11, Sydney Freedberg, 4,817 Targets: How Six Months Of Airstrikes Have Hurt ISIL (Or Not):

(informal) An activity with a high casualty or attrition rate, such as a military battle or an occupational or athletic activity.

мясару́бка

physically dangerous or wearing activity


kneeling chair

A type of chair for sitting in a position with the thighs dropped to an angle of about 60 to 70 degrees from vertical (as opposed to 90 degrees when sitting in a normal chair), with some of the body's weight supported by the shins.


Forbidden City

Calque of Chinese 紫禁城 (Zǐjìnchéng, literally “Purple Forbidden City”, or “Imperial Forbidden City”).

calque

The northern division of Peking consists of three inclosures one within another, each surrounded by its own wall. The first contains the imperial palace and the abodes of the different members of the imperial household ;[...]
The first inclosure, which is called the forbidden city, being the seat of ‘ the dragon’s throne,’ the place from which emanates the authority that governs one-third of mankind, is the most splendid, as well as the most important part of Peking. According to the notions of a Chinese, all within its walls is gold and silver.

1834 February, “Description of the City of Peking.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume II, number 10, Canton, →OCLC, page 438:

And within the Imperial city was the moated Forbidden city, with walls two and one-quarter miles long, plastered with a violet-coloured mortar, whence comes the popular name of the Purple city. The Forbidden city contained the Imperial palaces, which have been converted into a museum.

1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 532, columns 1, 2:

During the Tang Dynasty 12 centuries ago, even the Forbidden City in Peiping would stay open for three days to allow ordinary citizens to observe the Lantern Festival.

1979 February 11, “Lantern festival enchantment”, in Free China Weekly, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

Finally, in October, P'eng was moved from his quarters in the Chungnanhai area of the Forbidden City, where Mao, Liu Shao-ch’i and other Politburo members lived, to a dilapidated house in the Wu Chia Hua Yuan (Wu Family Garden), a compound within the Yuan Ming Park on the northern outskirts of Peking.

1983, Roderick MacFarquhar, The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960 (The Origins of the Cultural Revolution), volume 2, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:

The wall surrounding the Chung Nan Hai is high and wide, painted vermilion in keeping with the decor of the Forbidden City. It has a circumference of many miles, intersected at intervals by gates guarded day and night by armed soldiers.

1991, Chris Mullin, The Year of the Fire Monkey (Fiction), London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 252:

After we toured the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, I held a question-and-answer session with students at Beijing University.

2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 435:

Those lucky visitors may be able to discover whether there is any truth to the legend that the Forbidden City, which was the home of China's emperors between 1420 and 1912, is haunted by ghosts who come out just at night.
Usually only VIPs — such as President Trump in 2017 — get to venture into the Forbidden City at night.

2019 February 19, Anna Fifield, “China’s Forbidden City to open to the general public at night for the first time in 94 years”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-19, WorldViews:

A palace of the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty located in Dongcheng district, Beijing, China.


file cabinet

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(Canada, US) An item of office furniture comprising a set of either drawers, or shelves with individual doors or panels, sized to standard widths of file folders and traditionally used for the storage of files.


melon baller

A small tool used to cut round sections of melons and other soft fruits.


washeteria

Blend of wash + cafeteria. The trademark Wash-a-teria was prominent in the U.S. South during the 1930s.


pie safe

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A piece of furniture for storing pies or other foods not needing immediate refrigeration.

A cabinet or other piece of (usually freestanding) furniture made similar to or in imitation of a pie safe.


patchwork quilt

en-noun

patchwork quilt (plural patchwork quilts)

(literally) A decorative quilt made of pieces of cloth having diverse sizes, colors, and shapes, sewn together either to form a regular pattern or in a deliberately mismatched fashion without a pattern.


rent control

rent control (countable and uncountable, plural rent controls)

The official regulation of the amount that may be charged for rented property.


knork

A piece of cutlery in the form of a fork with a sharpened outer tine, enabling it also to be used as a knife.


milk pan

A small type of saucepan, with a lip for aiding pouring, used for heating milk.


cheese slicer

A kitchen instrument used for slicing cheese.


mandoline

Alternative form of mandolin (“kitchen tool”)


mandoline

en-verb

mandoline (third-person singular simple present mandolines, present participle mandolining, simple past and past participle mandolined)

mandolines (present singular third-person)
mandolining (participle present)
mandolined (participle past)
mandolined (past)


terraced house

(UK) A type of house which shares both sidewalls with the adjacent houses, typical of Victorian and Edwardian housing in English cities.


CHU

Chung Hua University
w:Chung Hua University

Initialism of Chung Hua University, a university in Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan).


council estate

A person who has grown up in a council housing estate is likely to be—indeed, visibly is—more middle class in outlook than a person who has grown up in a slum.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

(UK) A housing estate consisting, entirely or principally, of council housing.

kaupungin vuokra-asuntoalue

a housing estate consisting of council housing


housing estate

She suggested he was destroying all Sarkozy had achieved in proving that a traditional, Catholic, rightwing area could vote for an ethnic-minority candidate such as her, from a poor housing estate in the provinces, the Muslim child of illiterate north African parents. She vowed to "resist" Fillon.

2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian:

Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

That project would mean reinstating 5½ miles of decommissioned line between Tavistock, where a new single-platform railway station would be built alongside the 750-home housing estate currently under construction, and Bere Alston.

2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43:

A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time, primarily for residential accommodation.


fabric softener

en-noun

fabric softener (countable and uncountable, plural fabric softeners)

A chemical agent used to prevent static cling and make fabric softer by coating the surface of the cloth fibers with a thin layer of chemicals; these chemicals have lubricant properties and are electrically conductive, thus making the fibers feel smoother and preventing buildup of static electricity; usually available as a liquid or as dryer sheets.

versagmiddel

a chemical agent used to prevent static cling and make fabric softer


block of flats

The train service on this circuitous route to the City was withdrawn during the 1914-1918 war, and never restored. The track between Addison Road and Ravenscourt Park was removed, and the site is now occupied by blocks of flats.

1947 May and June, “Richmond-Ludgate Hill Train, London & South Western Railway, at Addison Road Station About 75 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page unnumbered (frontispiece):

The crowning glory of the property developments was then built in 1927-29 as a luxury block of flats above Baker Street […]. Chiltern Court became the home of authors H G Wells and Arnold Bennett.

2024 January 24, Stefanie Foster, “Metro-land's legacy for today's railway”, in RAIL, number 1001, pages 58-59:

A residential building consisting of apartments.


hammam

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حمام (hamam), from Arabic حَمَّام (ḥammām).

bor+

A communal bathhouse in Islamic countries and communities.


kitchen garden

vegetable garden
vegetable garden#English

(chiefly UK) Synonym of vegetable garden.


cacolet

From French cacolet, from Béarnais Occitan cacoulet (“mule chair”).

An open chair mounted to one side of a pack animal, balanced by another on the other side.

artolas

A twinned chair mounted on a pack animal

(medicine, especially historical and military) A stretcher mounted on a pack animal similarly or singly.


four-poster

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The furnishing of this Blue Room was solid and Victorian, it having been the GHQ of my Uncle Tom's late father, who liked things substantial. There was a four-poster bed, [...]

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

(attributive, of a bed) Having four vertical columns, one in each corner, that support a tester, so that curtains can be hung to exclude draughts from the sleeper.


four-poster

Wooden beds were made as replicas of large ones, some carved in walnut, others in mahogany and with elaborate head-pieces. There were four-posters draped with curtains to pull and bedspreads to match, much beautiful hand-sewing and embroidery going to their manufacture.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 214:

A four-poster bed, which has four high posts, one at each corner, supporting a canopy.


overdeveloped

Excessively developed, as:
(real estate, land use) Overbuilt.


teardown

The downtown redevelopment involved numerous teardowns.

Architect and clients also agreed that a teardown wasn’t an option.

2009 February 5, Ernest Beck, “Striped With Light”, in New York Times:

(real estate) A well-maintained structure purchased and torn down to make way for a new structure.


stewpot

It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right.

2007 February 6, Michiko Kakutani, “Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left”, in New York Times:

(art, literature) A jumble, especially one that lacks intellectual coherence.


furo

A Japanese bath, generally deep and square-sided, and traditionally made of wood.


EIK

(real estate advertising) A kitchen with room for a table and chairs, or with a counter meant for eating on and room for barstools.


bonheur du jour

en-noun

bonheur du jour (plural bonheurs du jour)

/bɒˌnɜː d(j)uː ˈʒʊə/

/bəˌnɝ də ˈʒʊɹ/

Borrowed from French bonheur-du-jour (literally “daytime delight”), conjectured to be from its sudden rise in popularity.

bor

(historical, furniture) An 18th- and 19th-century lady's portable writing desk with a raised back.


subletter

(property law, real estate) Synonym of sublessor.


fernery

My aunt especially loved the smaller fern houses, the ferneries.

1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind:

A specialized garden for the cultivation and display of ferns.


walled garden

A long time ago, back before Al Gore invented the Internet, there were three big kids on the online block, each of which ran its own proprietary online service. America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe each had a "walled garden" of sorts for their customers.

2000 September 4, “AOL's 'Walled Garden'”, in Wall Street Journal:

AOL tried to provide a walled garden for all their subscribers in the early 1990s.

2007, Wes Simpson, Howard Greenfield, IPTV and Internet video, →ISBN, page 39:

When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.

2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885:

The walled garden made AOL money, some of it real, but also hastened the site's loss of allure to the Internet, whose open design was the opposite of AOL's, and which was by now growing a greater variety of things to see and do.

2017, Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

The content sludge is also present in Big Tech’s plans to reimagine search as an interactive, chatbot-powered walled garden.

2023 May 17, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How AI Will Come for Your Job”, in The Atlantic:

(figurative, media, technology) A closed platform for content or services controlled by a single carrier or service provider, typically requiring subscription to access.


sofa-bed

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occasional furniture

Small pieces of furniture that can be put to varied uses as the occasion demands. Items such as small tables, nightstands, chests, commodes, and easily-moved chairs are usually included in this category.


ambry

From Middle English almerie, from Anglo-Norman almarie, aumer, etc., from Old French almarie, from Latin armārium. Doublet of armarium, armoire, and almirah.

doublet

At the end of the bench adjoining to the Frater-house door, was a fine almery fixed to the wall, and another on the other side of the door[…].

1787, William Hutchinson, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, volume II, page 64:

Nothing else should be kept in the tabernacle or aumbry where the Sacrament is reserved, but a small container of water and a cloth may be kept on the shelf for cleansing one's fingers.

1983, Dennis G. Michno, A Priest's Handbook, Morehouse, published 1998, page 75:

Portions of the consecrated bread from the Eucharist were stored or reserved in an ambry or tabernacle to be taken to the sick.

2003, Wm. B. Eerdmans, translating Erwin Fahlbusch et al., The Encylopedia of Christianity, vol.III, p.321

(architecture) A cupboard or storage area in a church to hold books, communion vessels, vestments, etc.; an armarium.


encoignure

The delightful Louis Quinze or Louis Seize encoignure in lacquer or in mahogany elaborately mounted in gilded bronze is not the least alluring piece of the great period of French furniture.

A small armoire, commode, cabinet or cupboard made to fit a corner.


marriage bed

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The bed shared by a newly-married couple.

häävuode

the bed shared by a newly-married couple


mansionette

From mansion + -ette. Doublet of maisonette.

gone to London to work and had left her mansionette flat empty. The mansionettes stood on high ground overlooking the docks.

(UK) A flat that spans two or more floors, and often has its own entrance (i.e. not off a communal hallway).


washerman

A man who washes people's laundry, usually for payment.


billycan

The filling of the billycan, cutting the supports to hang it over the fire, was a public show, but many times he would do this anyway to entertain himself. He unpacked the billycan from his old rucksack and I got out the tea and sugar. He filled the billy, then used his penknife to cut sticks to hang it over the fire.

1997, Ian Player, Zulu Wilderness: Shadow and Soul, page 69:

Galloping a hundred yards, then jumping off and remounting an excited horse while holding a full billycan of water and beating everyone back over the starting line without spilling it sounded easy – until you tried. Billycans were lost, dropped, trampled underfoot.

2010, Kerry McGinnis, Wildhorse Creek, unnumbered page:

2010, Nontsomi Langa, A Xhosa Story: Mbengu-Sonyanganzu, in Harold Scheub, The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance, page 162,
When they reached the river, Nqunuse's daughter's billycan began to leak.

A good billycan was one that had seen many fires, and was pitch black.

2011, Colin Graham Smith, Shadows of War, page 43:

(UK, Australia, South Africa) A lightweight pot for cooking or boiling water, used in camping.


cohousing

There are close to 200 of these cohousing communities across the country – according to The Cohousing Association – designed to facilitate community through shared resources and common spaces. Members admit there are many tradeoffs to living in such close proximity to their neighbors including navigating a shared chore list and mutual financial arrangement. But many also say that they've found a way to conquer the loneliness and isolation that plagues so many Americans — especially today's parents.

2024 December 6, Katia Riddle, “How to be not lonely? 'Cohousing' is an answer for some people”, in Shots, NPR, retrieved 2024-12-07:

Housing in which the residents' private space is supplemented by communal facilities such as a shared kitchen and/or dining room.


demilune

A handsome pair of tall, walnut-veneered Biedermeier bookcases from Austria, circa 1835, can be had from Iliad Antik of New York for $95,000, while Clinton Howell of New York has a rare pair of marquetry inlaid demilune consoles that he attributes to the workshop of John Linnell of England, circa 1755.

2007 February 9, Wendy Moonan, “Relics of the 19th Century, in a Sentimental Mood”, in New York Times:

(architecture, furniture) In the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular.


cake tin

(cooking) The tin in which a cake is baked.


pinery

The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve. Pineapples fit neatly into the national crazes for natural things in England,[…]

2014 May 26, David Dewitt, Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World, Catapult, →ISBN:

while Margam was exceptional in the scale of its orangery, it was not alone […] There was, for example, a peach house at Stradey Castle, a melon house and vinery at Nanteos, while Middleton Hall had both a peach house and a pinery. Pineapples were particularly prized because of their flavour and spectacular appearance.

2016 December 5, Alan Wilson, Comfort, Pleasure and Prestige: Country-house Technology in West Wales 1750-1930, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 116:

A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.


four door house

en-noun

four door house (plural four door houses)

(real estate) In Taiwan, a house with four doors, specifically a house with a garage, a garage door that connects to the home, a front door, and a back door.


folding screen

A piece of furniture consisting of two or more frames connected by hinges.


ashet

From the Scots form of French assiette. Doublet of assiette.

A large, shallow, oval dish used for serving food.


waiter's friend

waiter's friend (plural waiter's friends or waiters' friends)

waiter's friends (plural)
waiters' friends (plural)

When I ask the smiling African Frenchman behind the till how I get my wine opened, he hands me a waiter's friend.

2006, Stephen Downes, Paris on a Plate, page 136:

A type of corkscrew having a folding design and including a small blade resembling a pocketknife


whiteware

whiteware (countable and uncountable, plural whitewares)


sideboy

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He had a nice breath. Haig and Haig at least. ‘You've been at the sideboy again,’ I said.

1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 125:

More discreetly set on the sideboy were bottles of vodka and whiskey and a box of Cuban cigars.

A coffeepot was perking on a sideboy and the two men poured a cup of Kona before sitting down in comfortable leather covered chairs.

2000, Robert William Bruce, Power Vortex:

(US, colloquial) A small dresser; a drinks cabinet.


all-in-one

A multifunction device, especially a printer that also works as a scanner and fax machine.


mobile home

A prefabricated home built in a factory, rather than on site, and then taken to the place where it will be occupied.


footbath

[T]he portion [of the nail] which projects beyond the fingers or toes should be excised, so that it may not prevent the motions of the hands or feet. If the nail has no very considerable thickness, this may be done wit a pair of strong scissors, after it has been softened by the employment of the footbath.

1833, P[ierre François Olive] Rayer, “Alterations of the Nails”, in William B. Dickinson, transl., Treatise on Diseases of the Skin; Founded on New Researches in Pathological Anatomy and Physiology. … Translated from the French, London: John Churchill, […], →OCLC, section II (Alterations of the Dependences of the Skin), § 790, page 355:

A footbath is a handy tool to help you practice backyard biosecurity. […] Ask visitors to walk through the footbath, wiping their feet on the mat. The mat scrubs their shoes a bit as they wipe them and applies the disinfectant.

2014 April, “Section Two: Practicing Biosecurity”, in Biosecurity Guide for Poultry and Bird Owners: Biosecurity for Birds (Program Aid; no. 1885), Washington, D.C.: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC:

A small basin or bath designed for soaking or washing the feet.

jalkakylpy

small basin or bath designed for washing feet


bottom sheet

A bed sheet used to cover a mattress, i.e. the sheet that one typically lies on.


flatpack

flatpack (countable and uncountable, plural flatpacks)

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(uncountable, attributive) self-assembly furniture packed flat in a box for transport purposes, before it is assembled.


fish kettle

They all looked directly at the ſcullion,—the ſcullion had juſt been ſcouring a fiſh-kettle.

1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 52:

(cooking) A type of large pan, usually long with rounded corners, used to steam fish.


card table

A table, in a casino, used to play cards.

kártyaasztal

a table, in a casino, used to play cards


log cabin

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A dwelling made from logs; especially, a small and simple one.


faldstool

A portable, folding chair used by a bishop when away from his throne.


climate control

climate control (countable and uncountable, plural climate controls)

A device or system that controls the temperature and relative humidity in cars, buildings, etc, by way of a heating and/or air conditioning system.


pattypan

I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers.

(chiefly Canada, US) A small variety of squash with a scalloped rim and creamy white flesh; a pattypan squash.


mixing bowl

(cooking) A large bowl in which ingredients are mixed for the purpose of preparing food.


gateleg

Now that's a nice gateleg table in the corner there. Though of course you'd have to put new hinges on it if you wanted to use the flaps.

1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 8, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 90:

(furniture, also attributive) A table leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf of the tabletop to hang down.

hekpoot

table leg set into a frame in the form of a gate


washing line

/ˈwɒʃɪŋ ˌlaɪn/


etagere

Borrowed from French étagère, from Old Occitan estagiera (modern Occitan estatgiera).

A piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying ornaments.


kitchen hood

An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.


range hood

(US, Australia, New Zealand) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.


pastry bag

A flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs of piping.


forbathe

en-verb

forbathe (third-person singular simple present forbathes, present participle forbathing, simple past and past participle forbathed)

forbathes (present singular third-person)
forbathing (participle present)
forbathed (participle past)
forbathed (past)

(archaic, transitive) To bathe abundantly or thoroughly.


furni

(slang, Internet) Clipping of furniture, popularised by the social networking website Habbo.

An item on Habbo used to decorate or customize a room.


lather up

lather up (third-person singular simple present lathers up, present participle lathering up, simple past and past participle lathered up)

lathers up (present singular third-person)
lathering up (participle present)
lathered up (participle past)
lathered up (past)

(transitive) To lather; to cover with suds


suds up

suds up (third-person singular simple present sudses up, present participle sudsing up, simple past and past participle sudsed up)

sudses up (present singular third-person)
sudsing up (participle present)
sudsed up (participle past)
sudsed up (past)


bedquilt

Five hundred years ago, that ugly whirl of muddy surf, 100 square miles in area, was a fruitful field, "50 Villages upon it, one Town, several Monasteries and 50,000 souls:" till on Christmas midnight A.D. 1277, the winds and the storm-rains having got to their height, Ocean and Ems did, "about midnight," undermine the place, folded it over like a friable bedquilt or monstrous doomed griddle-cake, and swallowed it all away.

1756, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.):

We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.

1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 2:

"Sold!" yelped the auctioneer--"sold to madame the widow Dupuis of Hirondelette," who was now elbowing her broad way through the crowd to her bargain which she struggled out with, red and perspiring, to the mud-smeared lawn, where her eldest daughter shrewdly examined the bedquilt for holes.

1910, F. Berkeley Smith, A Village of Vagabonds:

A quilt used for spreading over a bed, as the topmost layer of bedclothes.


welfare hotel

A hotel where people receiving welfare can stay until permanent housing is found for them.


butter curler

A kitchen tool designed to produce decorative butter shapes for use in food decoration.


memory foam

en-noun

memory foam (countable and uncountable, plural memory foams)

So called because it "remembers", or keeps, the shape of something pressed against it.

Foam consisting of polyurethane and other chemicals used in the manufacturing of pillows, mattresses, laptop sleeves, etc, which reacts to body heat and molds to the shape of the body.


sufuria

Borrowed from Swahili sufuria, from Arabic صُفْر (ṣufr, “brass”).

Two large sufurias. For baking and roasting. Obtained from Zanzibar. Large enough to hold fry-pan mentioned above. / One small sufuria. For native servants. The only way to prevent the master's sufuria being used.

1891, S. Tristram Pruen, “Appendix: List of Supplies Necessary for One Person Travelling in Central Africa for One Year”, in The Arab and the African: Experiences in Eastern Equatorial Africa during a Residence of Three Years, London: Seeley and Co., Limited […], →OCLC, pages 326–327:

In a corner, he discovered a small amount of maize-flour in a bag among the utensils. He put this in a sufuria on a fire, added water and stirred it with a wooden spoon. He liked porridge in the morning.

1967, James Ngugi [i.e., Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o], chapter 1, in A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series; 36), London: Heinemann, →OCLC; republished Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Ujuzi Educational Publishers, 2002 (2008 printing), →ISBN, page 3:

The prefects, including the choir boy, had a separate table. Their food was even cooked separately, in a small sufuria the way it is done at home, [...]

1972, Miriam Khamadi Were, The High School Gent (New Fiction from Africa series), Nairobi, Kenya: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 18:

Where there is no discipline, children do not perform well in their national examinations, for discipline is the mother of learning. Without it, imparting academic knowledge is like carefully boiling milk in a dirty, greasy sufuria.

1987, Priscilla Were, “The Importance of Children”, in The Kenyan We Want: An Approach to Social Education and Ethics, Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Ujuzi Educational Publishers, published 1998, →ISBN, page 34:

A few days to uhuru, the local sufuria repairman, Bangarasio, was repairing my mother's sufurias.

2000, Kiraitu Murungi, In the Mud of Politics (Acacia Biographies; 1), Nairobi: Acacia Stantex Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:

Sometimes that lunch was in the form of three raw eggs and a sufuria because there were times Damiano thought it wise to cook in school during lunch hour. Come that hour and he would light a fire, break his eggs into the sufuria, fry them, eat them and then belch as if he had just demolished a six course buffet.

2002, Wahome Mutahi, Whispers & Camisassius: 14 Whispers’ Stories Published between 1991 and 1997, Nairobi: Seed Magazine, Consolata Missionaries, →OCLC, page 51:

(East Africa, cooking) A deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles.


DINO

Modelled after RINO (“Republican in name only”).

(real estate, humorous) Acronym of developer in name only — a real estate development company or individual that is still active, but does not have any developments underway due to a downturn in the market or in the economy in general.


dooly

From Hindi डोली (ḍolī), from डोला (ḍolā, “litter”) + -ई (-ī, “forming diminutives”), from Sanskrit दोल (dōlā, “dangling cradle; litter”), from दुल् (dul, “to swing”). Compare andor from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola) via Portuguese.

der

The dhulí is a slight bamboo framework covered with coarse cloth, about two and a half feet square, with a bedding made of string woven across, on which the passenger sits. It is slung on a stout bamboo pole, and carried by two or four men.

1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, pages 81-82:

He said I should not be able to ride much farther, as the pass beyond Sultanpoor was utterly impracticable for horses; coolies, however, awaited me with a dooly, one of those low litters slung on a bamboo, in which you may travel swiftly and without effort, but to the destruction of the digestive organs.

(India, now chiefly historical) A basic Indian litter or sedan chair made of poles, ropes, and a seat or cloth.


bocha

When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.

1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658

Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.

1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41

[…] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace […]

1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:

[…] the bocha, the chair-palanquin […]

1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:

(India, historical) A two-door sedan chair.


rya

People were proud of art ryas designed by textile artists and woven by professionals, and they themselves wove copies of published traditional compositions, or executed new craft ryas that were designed for the purpose by textile artists.

2008, Kirsti Salo-Mattila, “Chapter 12: Transformations in the Art of Rya Making”, in Terttu Tuomi-Gröhn, editor, Reinventing Art of Everyday Making, Peter Lang, page 217:

A Scandinavian knotted-pile woollen rug, used as bed-cover and tapestry.


sweat equity

en-noun

sweat equity (countable and uncountable, plural sweat equities)

My wife and I have put a lot of sweat equity into our home: I did the renovations and she did the redecorating.

Mr. TALLE: His time and his wife's time in that article is called the "sweat equity".
Mr. GRIGGS: Look at the fun they had doing it.

1949, U.S. House of Representatives, Housing amendments of 1949: Hearing before the Committee on Banking and Currency, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, page 203:

(idiomatic, real estate, business) An investment of labour, typically by the owner and often his or her family, usually in a small business or personal residence that increases the value of the business or residence.


soy milk maker

A kitchen appliance that cooks soy milk from raw soy beans.


rice cooker

A kitchen appliance which is designed to cook rice, through either boiling or steaming it. It may also be used as a steam cooker for other foods.


napkin ring

The boy set up his napkin ring.

A ring for holding napkins along with cutlery.


bedrail

As long as surfaces in hospitals are contaminated with drug-resistant bacteria, doctors’ and nurses’ hands become recontaminated seconds after washing and gloving, as soon as they pull open a privacy curtain to see the next patient or touch a bedrail.

2008 May 26, “Deadly Infections”, in New York Times:

A rail at the head, foot, or side of a bed.


closestool

From Middle English close stol, equivalent to close (“enclosed”, adjective) + stool.


elbow chair

she was forc'd to go through the whole Operation of a Flux in an old Elbow-Chair which was plac'd just under the Jack, in the Kitchin.

1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section II:

[…] Miss Vernon, seating herself majestically in a huge elbow-chair in the library, like a judge about to hear a cause of importance, signed to me to take a chair opposite to her, […]

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 293:

The reference library itself proclaimed the substance of the city with its solid elbow chairs and long mahogany tables, grooved along the edge to hold a pen, and in the centre of each table a massive pewter inkwell.

2011, Alan Bennett, “Baffled at a Bookcase”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.15:

A chair with long armrests for the elbows.


green roof

A roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, or other landscaping materials.

groen dak

roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, etc.

A roof of a house or other building on which solar panels, solar hot water collectors, wind powered turbines, or other natural energy collectors are placed.

A roof of a house or other building which is designed to collect rainfall for use in gardens, lawns, or as drinking water.


kamado

A traditional Japanese wood- or charcoal-fired earthen vessel used as a stove or oven.


pot scrubber

A mesh or ball of wires or fibres used to scrub pots and other cookware.


serving dish

A plate or dish or platter used to hold food to be served during a meal, but not used in cooking.


council house

The modern council house, with its bathroom and electric light, is smaller than the stockbroker's villa, but it is recognizably the same kind of house, which the farm labourer’s cottage is not.

1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

She maintains that the internet should face similar curbs to TV because young people are increasingly living online. "It's totally different, someone at Google watching the video from the comfort of their office in San Francisco to someone from a council house in London, where this video is happening right outside their front door."

2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:

(UK, Ireland) A house built and operated by local town councils, usually of relatively low price and lived in by the working class and welfare recipients.

kunnan omistama vuokra-asunto

house built and operated by a local council


detersion

detersion (usually uncountable, plural detersions)

detersion of a wound


herbary

/ˈɜː(ɹ)bəɹi/

An Herbary, for furnishing domestic medicines, always made a part of our ancient gardens

1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:


bedchair

A chair with adjustable back to enable an invalid to sit up in bed.


gestatorial chair

gestatorial chair (plural gestatorial chairs)

A calque of Latin and Italian sedia gestatoria (“carrying chair”).

bor

(historical) A sedan chair used as a portable throne by popes.


coach box

The coachman's seat (on a horse-drawn vehicle)


scuddle

en-verb

scuddle (third-person singular simple present scuddles, present participle scuddling, simple past and past participle scuddled)

scuddles (present singular third-person)
scuddling (participle present)
scuddled (participle past)
scuddled (past)

From scud + -le (frequentative). Compare scuttle (“to hurry”).

(transitive, Scotland) To wash or cleanse.


batlet

From bat + -let. Probably a spurious word, in the 20th century reborrowed from word-lists. Both this and batler are only known from the same Shakespeare locus; neither is it known that battler means a fuller’s beetle but him who beetles or “posses” the clothes. However for the meaning of a flat cuboid on a handle to clean textiles by muscles battril, which could be a metathesis of batler, is known to have been used in the Lancashire dialect, such as by Tim Bobbin on multiple occasions.

Touchstone: I remember, when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the kissing of her batlet (var. batler) and the cow's dugs that her pretty chopt hands had milked;

c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

These 'batlets', which had of necessity to be made from well-seasoned wood, were evidently prized household items, often intricately carved on the upper surface.

1992, Christina Hardyment, Home Comfort: A History of Domestic Arrangements ; in Association with the National Trust:

"If you come between me and my actions again, I will take a batlet to you." He shoved past her so hard that Dougless nearly fell against the wall, and she watched with a heavy heart as he strode angrily down the path and out through the door ...

2012, Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 258:

A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.

John Collier (caricaturist)
Lancashire dialect


gueridon

A small table supported by one or more columns, or sculptural human or mythological figures, often with a circular top.


victory garden

A kitchen garden planted in wartime to reduce the pressure on the public food supply.


cottrel

A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire.


home loan

(countable) A loan taken for the purpose of purchasing a house, or other type of residential property.


buck-basket

Falstaff. […] they conveyed me into a buck-basket.
Ford. A buck-basket!
Falstaff. By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins […]

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

Iane, let the Buck-basket be got ready for the foul-cloaths, de’e hear, and bid the Landress take care to mend all the shifts; these great Ramping-girles do so tear their Linnen, it almost makes me wilde.

1691, Thomas d’Urfey, Love for Money, or, The Boarding School, London: J. Hindmarsh, act II, scene 2, page 21:

(obsolete) A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.


Muskoka chair

From Muskoka + chair, after the Muskoka Lakes region of Ontario.

(Canada) A kind of outdoor lounge chair made of wood, with wide arm rests; Adirondack chair.


Adirondack chair

en-noun

Adirondack chair (plural Adirondack chairs)

After the Adirondacks, a mountain chain in New York State.

Nurse Graves […] wheeled him out onto the veranda, where he was lifted into an Adirondack chair and positioned so that he was facing the sun—or, rather, the spot in the firmament the sun might have occupied if it hadn't gone south for the winter.

1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 104:

(Canada, US) A kind of outdoor lounge chair made of wood, with wide arm rests.


public housing

Rental accommodation that is subsidized by public funds and provided for disadvantaged groups such as low-income earners, social security recipients, the elderly and people with disabilities.


Elijah seat

But Cohn can and does extend "recognition," suspecting from the beginning a significant core of feeling in the immense isolato, seeing hints of a "true gentleman" and even going so far as to offer him the Elijah seat at the Seder.

1987, Joel Salzberg, Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud, G. K. Hall, →ISBN, page 219:

Because of my schedule of chores, the seder was half-over when I arrived and there was a choice of two seats: one right beside the rabbi, or else Elijah's seat, a chair that sits empty in case the prophet Elijah turns up with the Messiah in tow, on his donkey. I sat beside Michael as I am not Elijah, and I have absolutely no messianic pretensions or connections, and thus the Elijah seat implied responsibilities that I did not care to take on.

2003 September 7, Bonnie Glassford, Living the Sacred Story: A Journey Into the Landscape of the Bible, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 196:

The Elijah seat on which the sandák sits and the performance of the brit at the synagogue as a religious ritual are elements that help affirm the link to Judaism.

2004, Matilda Koén-Sarano, King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition, Wayne State University Press, page 193:

(Judaism) In Jewish ceremonies, an unoccupied seat reserved for the prophet Elijah.


conventional oven

conventional oven (plural conventional ovens)

An oven that uses radiant heat (such as from burners or heating elements) and does not use a fan to recirculate heated air, nor any other technology such as electromagnetic induction.


neckroll

A cylindrical pillow to support the neck.


eight-top

(restaurants) A table seating eight diners.


four-top

When I walked into Rosie's, I headed for an empty four-top, where I placed my shoulder bag....

(restaurants) A table seating four diners.


six-top

(restaurants) A table seating six diners.


kitchen sink

The noun is derived from kitchen + sink. Sense 2.1 (“miscellaneous item or miscellany”) is probably from everything but the kitchen sink.
The adjective is derived from the noun. Sense 1 (“of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people”) was coined by the British art critic David Sylvester (1924–2001) in a December 1954 article entitled “The Kitchen Sink”: see the quotation.
The verb is a back-formation from kitchen-sinking (noun), which is derived from the noun.

back-formation

The kitchen sink was piled high with dirty dishes.

A sink in a kitchen used for washing crockery, cutlery, utensils, food, etc., and disposing of waste.

(metonymically) In chained or tied to the kitchen sink, etc.: domestic chores or housework, especially when regarded as menial and tedious.


kitchen sink

It is evident that neither objectivity nor abstraction is the aim of the young painters of the kitchen-sink school.

1954 December, David Sylvester, “The Kitchen Sink”, in Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, editors, Encounter, London: Encounter Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2:

[T]here are a number of instances of [John] Berger promoting the four artists known as the Beaux Arts Quartet, or the Kitchen Sink painters—John Bratby, Jack Smith, Edward Middleditch and Derrick Greaves.

2004 autumn, Adrian Clark, “Two British Art Patrons of the 1940s and 1950s: Sir Colin Anderson and Peter Watson”, in The British Art Journal, volume V, number 2, London: Art Journals, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:

The home and domesticity were the main subjects of "kitchen sink" painting, a short-lived style of realism active in London between 1952 and 1957. The four artists typically associated with this genre are Jack Smith, Edward Middleditch, Derrick Greaves, and John Bratby. […] In the histories of post-war British art, it remains widely unchallenged that these four men are the only "kitchen sink" artists. Their works from the 1950s are considered as central in discourses of post-war representations of the home and labour, with critics and historians often locating "kitchen sink" painting's legacy as a precursor to British pop art's focus on everyday domestic objects.

2019 May 31, Abi Shapiro, “The Kitchen Sink Too”, in British Art Studies, number 12, London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale Center for British Art, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-29:

(painting) Of or pertaining to a mid-20th-century realist style of painting in Britain characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors such as kitchens in the homes of urban working-class people; also, of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style.

Kitchen Sink -tyylinen

of or pertaining to a realist style of painting characterized by scenes of dull or untidy domestic interiors of urban working-class people; of or pertaining to an artist or group of artists painting in this style


kitchen sink

en-verb

kitchen sink (third-person singular simple present kitchen sinks, present participle kitchen sinking, simple past and past participle kitchen sinked)

kitchen sinks (present singular third-person)
kitchen sinking (participle present)
kitchen sinked (participle past)
kitchen sinked (past)

(transitive) to raise to (someone) unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument; (intransitive) to raise unrelated complaints and other matters during an argument

esittää aiheeseen liittymättömiä valituksia

(business) To release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go, in the hope that there will be less impact.

julkistaa kaikki huonot tiedot kerralla

to release (a large amount of information about the poor financial results of a company) in one go


kitchen knife

菜刀

typical knife for preparing food — see also chef's knife


balloon payment

en-noun

balloon payment (plural balloon payments)

So called because the debt becomes inflated like a balloon as a result of the compound interest accumulating on the large sum.

(business, real estate) An unusually large payment due at the end of the term of a loan agreement.


vegetable garden

vegetable garden (plural vegetable gardens)

The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

A garden where vegetables and herbs are grown for personal or household use, sometimes inclusive of cold frames, greenhouses, and market gardens. (This entry is a translation hub.)

pleasure ground

section of a large garden not used for edible plants

truck garden

section of a large garden used for edible plants for sale

orchard

section of a large garden used for trees bearing edible fruit


dakimakura

dakimakura (plural dakimakura or dakimakuras)

dakimakura (plural)
dakimakuras (plural)

From Japanese 抱き枕 (dakimakura), from 抱き (daki, “to embrace or cling”) + 枕 (makura, “pillow”).

I would follow that up with: "And then they raided his room at his parents' house where they found a Sailor Moon dakimakura and posters of Morning Musume plastering the walls" ...

2003 December 9, Ryan Ginstrom, “Re: Enterprising interviewee...”, in fj.life.in-japan (Usenet):

These character-print dakimakura came into existence in the late '90s as a way for animé fans to get up close and personal with their cartoon sweethearts.

2004 February 6, Chris Kohler, “Getting in Bed With the Customer”, in Wired:

Jin has fallen head over heels for a Japanese 'dakimakura' - or hugging pillow - showing a life sized cartoon of his favourite sexy anime cartoon character Fate Testarossa.

2010 March 12, “Man Weds Cushion”, in Daily Star, UK:

A body-length pillow, originating in Japan, which can be embraced or wrapped around one's body while sleeping.


body pillow

Between the five full-sized pillows and the four-foot body pillow my wife slept with, there was little room for me. I pretended to grow resentful of the body pillow and named him Fred, because I told my wife it was like having a four-foot man in our bed.

2000, Bradley G. Richardson, Daddy Smarts: A Guide for Rookie Fathers, Taylor Trade Publishing, →ISBN, page 61:

Once you think the Japanese voice acting is superior to the English voice acting, or have purchased a body pillow/mousepad with boobs of an anime character, or have tried to cosplay as your favorite anime character, you can rest assured that you are now an Anime geek.

2012, Alex Langley, The Geek Handbook: Practical Skills and Advice for the Likeable Modern Geek, Krause Publications, →ISBN, page 25:

You can tuck the body pillow around your body in various places, which makes finding a comfortable position easier.

2012, Jane Palmer, Joanne Stone, Keith Eddleman, Mary Duenwald, Pregnancy for Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

A long body-length pillow that can be held or wrapped around one's body while sleeping.


council housing

Living in council housing made life more affordable for her family.

(UK, Ireland) Housing provided (and usually built) by the local authority at a low rent, typically intended for those on low incomes.


ladderback

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-ladderback.wav

A chair whose back incorporates a series of horizontal bars.


starbase

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-starbase.wav

(furniture) Alternative form of star base


sleeperette

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sleeperette.wav

There is nothing on British Railways quite like the sleeperette accommodation. The bed itself pulls from the wall, and when this is not in use, the reverse side forms the back of a comfortable seat.

1952 April, H. W. Winham, “By "California Zephyr"”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:

(rail transport) A seat in a train compartment that converts into a simple bed.


popcorn popper

A machine used to pop kernels or corn to make popcorn.


orchidarium

orchidarium (plural orchidariums or orchidaria)

orchidariums (plural)
orchidaria (plural)


granny flat

Hundreds of people have built houses, granny flats, apartments and log cabins without planning permission across Ireland in the last 15 years.

2023 August 5, Amy Molloy, “Hundreds build houses, granny flats and log cabins without permissions”, in Irish Independent, page 5:

AARP, the research and advocacy behemoth, has begun aggressively promoting the spread of these units, often referred to as casitas or, more cheekily, granny flats.

2023 September 6, Michelle Cottle, “The Magic of the Granny Flat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A dwelling detached from a primary residence, traditionally designated for a member of an extended family to live in.


casone

A type of peasant's house in the Veneto.


dripping pan

A pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat during roasting.


loo table

A round table originally designed for playing the card game lanterloo.


rock garden

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console table

A table designed to fit against a wall, often styled with curved legs to look bracket-mounted.


sleeping mat

A thin mat used to insulate a sleeper from the ground when sleeping outdoors.

karimatka

a thin mat used to insulate a sleeper from the ground


bedside table

(UK, US, Australia) Synonym of nightstand


mattress protector

mattress protector (plural mattress protectors)

An item of removable bedding that sits on top of or encases a mattress to protect it from stains and sometimes to protect the sleeper from allergens and irritants.

faqe

removable bedding that sits on top of a mattress


handi

Audio (US)

A deep, narrow-mouthed vessel used in north Indian, Pakistani and Bengali cooking.


chairness

There was, according to him [an artificial monster created by a Swedish scientist], a 'goodness' that made things good, an 'evil principle' that made them bad, [...] and a 'chairness' or 'boxness' that made things chairs and boxes.

1870 December 29, “A New Adam in Sweden”, in Daily Telegraph, Harrisburg, PA, page 1:

Similarly when we call triangularity or chairness an idea or notion or concept, we do not mean to deny that these natures are really manifested in particulars; we are only saying that their reality, like that of the particulars, presupposes a thinking subject.

1907, H. A. Prichard, “A Criticism of the Psychologists' Treatment of Knowledge”, in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, volume 16, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 34:

He extended his finger and outlined the shape of the chair. "It's about forms and negative space—she's taken the chairness away from the chair and left it purely object."

2003, Ann Packer, chapter 18, in The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Contemporaries, →ISBN, page 177:

I can identify the pattern of wood grain on my chair at Mom and Dad's kitchen table, but I don't try to sketch it in my mind. For me, chairness is nonvisual; it's the feel of a seat connected to four legs and a backrest.

2011, Thad Nodine, chapter 3, in Touch and Go: A Novel, [Lakewood, Colo.]: Unbridled Books, →ISBN, page 39:

When you look at a chair, you are aware of its shape from a particular point of view, but defenders of this objection insist that you are also aware of its chairness.

2012, Jesse J. Prinz, “Where is Consciousness? The Intermediate Level”, in The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience (Philosophy of Mind), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

The essence of what it means to be a chair; the qualities that make a chair what it is.


chork

“Is a chork chopsticks crossed with a fork?”
“Uh-huh. And it's not at all weird that you asked.”

2019, C. J. Farley, Around Harvard Square:

In 2016, Panda Express introduced the “chork,” a clever combination of a fork and chopsticks. The utensil was designed to be a bridge between Chinese and American cultures.

2020, Samantha Chagollan, Immigrant Innovators: 30 Entrepreneurs Who Made a Difference, page 15:

Someone invented the chork, which is a mix of and looks like a fork and chopsticks together.

2022, Fred Dervin, Sude, Mei Yuan, Interculturality Between East and West (page 20)

An eating utensil that can be used like chopsticks or like a fork.


chowki

The post of a watchman or policeman (chaukidar).


short-sheet

en-verb

short-sheet (third-person singular simple present short-sheets, present participle short-sheeting, simple past and past participle short-sheeted)

short-sheets (present singular third-person)
short-sheeting (participle present)
short-sheeted (participle past)
short-sheeted (past)

(idiomatic) To play a prank by folding someone's bed sheets to make the space for lying in the bed unusably short.


jects

A few days later, Pharoah, now eleven, told a friend: "I worry about dying, dying at a young age, while you're little. I'll be thinking about I want to get out of the jects. […]

1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America, Anchor Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 264:

Monie grew up in the music industry, not in the jects.

2006 December 28, TJ Xenos [username], “Re: Monie Love gets fired for making Young Jeezy sound like a tard...”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):

"Whattaya expect? We in the 'jects, baby, a project for rejects," Jasmine sneers.

2010, Carol Taylor, The Ex Chronicles, New York N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 200:

Olander grew up around the “jects,” but wasn't born there; he actually lived about two blocks away in a three-story house with his mother and younger siblings.

2011, Garrett S. King, Something to Live For, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 116:

(US, slang) A multi-story low-income housing development; projects.


tea garden

A public garden where tea and other refreshments are served.

garraí tae

(marketing) Synonym of teahouse (“cafe restaurant that primarily serves tea and accompaniments”)


baradari

en-noun

baradari (countable and uncountable, plural baradaris)

From Persian برادری (barâdari, “brotherhood”), from برادر (barâdar, “brother”) + ـی (-i, “-y, -hood”), q.v.

bor

(South Asia) A system of social strata that dictate political alliances among South Asian Muslims.


wartime house

Using funds from the sale of their wartime house in Montreal, they purchased a handsome old log house on seven acres of white sand beach in the then still-active fishing community of Port Joli.

1997, Marion Kelsey, Victory Harvest: Diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, →ISBN, page xvi:

On average, a four-room wartime house cost $2,700, and a six-room $3,400. The homes were a hot commodity.

2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, →ISBN, page 150:

The house that inspired this prayer is a small wartime house in a working-class neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta.

2005, Gregory A. Scofield, Singing Home the Bones, →ISBN, page 109:

Originally, a tiny wartime house sat on the corner lot facing on Dunsmure St.

2008 December 20, Tracy Hanes, “Christmas comes early for Hamilton family”, in The Star, Toronto, Canada, retrieved 2014-06-11:

If you were driving from Saskatoon to Vanscoy early this morning, you may have seen a wartime house from Spadina Crescent rolling down the highway.

2014 June 5, Alyssa McMurtry, “Out with the old, in with the new”, in The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Canada, retrieved 2014-06-11:

(Canada) Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.


fish fork

A fork intended for eating fish and other seafood, as at formal dining where different forks are provided for different courses.


cow creamer

A traditional creamer (jug) in the shape of a cow.


spin dryer

A machine in which wet clothes are spun in a cylinder full of holes to remove water from them, taking advantage of centrifugal force.

центрофуга

machine to remove water taking advantage of centrifugal force


priority seat

A seat on public transport reserved for use by people with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant women and others in need.

vanhuksille ja liikuntaesteisille varattu paikka


California king

en-noun

California king (plural California kings)

(US) A large bed measuring 72 × 84 inches (183 × 213 cm), slightly larger than a king-sized bed.


property management

The operation, control and oversight of real estate.


serving spoon

A large spoon used to serve food at table.


khatiya

My men carried Shafi away on a khatiya.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 273:

I began drifting and presently encountered a man sitting on a khatiya, gazing passively into the scorched fields across the road.

2005, Rahul Bhattacharya, Pundits from Pakistan:

Inside the hut, an old man was lying on a khatiya. The ball boy greeted him with a salaam.


caviar spoon

A small shallow spoon made from inert materials (such as gold, horn, or wood) rather than typical metals, intended for eating caviar.


STCA

(real estate) Initialism of subject to council approval.


dekchi

Borrowed from Bengali ডেকচি (ḍekci), from a diminutive of Persian دیگ (dêg, “pot”).

(Bangladesh, West Bengal) A round-bottomed cooking pot.


Magdalene asylum

Magdalene asylum (plural Magdalene asylums)

Named after Mary Magdalene, traditionally associated with prostitution and patron saint of penitent sinners.

(historical) A religious prison for prostitutes and unmarried mothers, usually as a source of forced labour.


wurley

I took a walk amongst them [the First Nations of the Adelaide Plains] who were in their wurlies, saw a collection of naked boys and girls, men and women, either entirely or half so. They are quite innocent in this respect and the women think nothing of (stalking) bolt upright in perfect nudity.

1844, Irene [Margaret] Watson, quoting William Anderson Cawthorne, “Naked: The Coming of the Cloth”, in Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law (Indigenous Peoples and the Law; GlassHouse Book), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2015, →ISBN, page 60:

They were good wurleys at the beginning of the winter, but towards the latter end of the winter they got turned out of them by the fleas—which they frequently do. They have been turned out of the last wurley some time in August; and I gave them a lot of reeds and tried to persuade them to build some more wurleys. They said they did not require them as they were going to corroboree, and they did not like building new wurleys—they must have a make-shift wurley.

1860 September 26, George Taplin, “Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Council, upon ‘the Aborigines;’ together with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix. Ordered by the Legislative Council to be Printed, 16th October, 1860. [No. 165]”, in Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia; with Copies of the Documents Ordered to be Printed, volume III, Adelaide, S.A.: Printed by authority by W. C. Cox, government printer, Victoria-Square, →OCLC, paragraph 1326, page 57:

Poor [William John] Wills's remains we found lying in the wurly in which he died, and where [John] King, after his return from seeking the natives, had buried him with sand and rushes.

1862 February 1, “The Burke and Wills Australian Exploring Expedition”, in The Illustrated London News, volume XL, number 1129, London: Printed & published by George C. Leighton, 198 Strand, →OCLC, page 128, column 3:

A woman is supposed to signify her consent to the marriage by carrying fire to her husband's wurley [footnote: This word wurley is from the language of the Adelaide tribe. The Narrinyeri word is mante. I have used "wurley" because it is more generally understood by the colonists.] and making his fire for him. An unwilling wife will say, when she wishes to signify that she was forced into marriage with her husband, "I never made any fire in his wurley for him." In case of a man having two wives, the elder is always regarded as the mistress of the hut or wurley.

1874, George Taplin, “Social Customs”, in The Narrinyeri: An Account of the Tribes of South Australian Aborigines Inhabiting the Country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert, and Coorong, and the Lower Part of the River Murray: Their Manners and Customs. Also, an Account of the Mission at Port Macleay, Adelaide, S.A.: J. T. Shawyer, printer, King William Street, →OCLC, section 1 (Marriage), page 9:

And so those boys with stealthy pace / Returned the saddles to their place; / Then to their wurly quickly hied, / No doubt delighted with their ride.

1875, Robert Bruce, “The Black Boys’ Ride: A True Story”, in The Dingoes and Other Tales, Adelaide, S.A.: Printed at "Advertiser" and "Chronicle" offices, →OCLC, stanza 10, page 74:

After hunting through the forest into the afternoon I came to the wurley that had inside it a coolamon and a possum-skin cape, a club, a hatchet with a metal head, and a knife with a horn handle.

2012, Noel Beddoe, The Yalda Crossing, St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, →ISBN:

Before night fell, they made themselves a shelter like a wurly by collecting large Wollemi pine fronds from the forest floor, leaning them against each other to make a peaked hut and joining them together with vines. It would offer some protection while they slept.

2012, Maggie Meyer, Joan Small, “Monsters of the Cretaceous”, in Big Foot Adventures Down Under (Spirits Alive Series; 1), [Gordon, N.S.W.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 164:

(chiefly South Australia) An Australian indigenous shelter made from small branches with the leaves still attached.


kajawah

From Hindi कजावा (kajāvā), from Urdu and Classical Persian کجاوه (kajāwa, “kajawah, howdah”).

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Women of note trauell vpon Coozelbash-camels, each Camell loaded with two cages (or cajuaes as they call them) which hang on either side the beast.

1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626, into Afrique and the Greater Asia, page 151:

For the carriage of sick the camel is fairly well suited, the main difficulty being the kujawah, cradle or chair, the correct shape, size and weight of which can only be decided by actual experiment in hills as well as plains and under varying conditions.

1880, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volumes 9-10 1880-1881, page 44:

(Middle East and South Asia, chiefly historical) A camel-borne pannier, litter, or cacolet.

For men and women who suffer from being in the saddle for so many hours, there is a choice between the "kerjava" and the "takht-i-rawan." The kerjava, in its best appearance, takes the form of two very small gypsy tents made of light bands of wood, the top bent circular, and covered with shawls or carpets. In each of these tents a man or woman sits after the kerjavas have been slung, like panniers, across the saddle of a strong mule. In the kerjava one must sit cross-legged, or with one's feet hanging out.

1877, Robert Arthur Arnold, Through Persia by Caravan, page 125:

(Middle East, historical) Similar vehicles borne by other animals.


drizzler

Any pouring device intended to allow liquids to be drizzled.


dining set

A dining table and one or more dining chairs which feature similar or complementary designs.


floretum

Coordinate term: arboretum

A garden where flowers are grown for research purposes.


dining chair

A chair, usually in a dining room, designed to be used at a dining table.

餐椅

chair designed to be used at a dining table


honey drizzler

(chiefly Commonwealth) Synonym of honey dipper (“kitchen tool used to drizzle honey”)


Fontainebleau

census-designated place
census-designated place

Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County#English

A census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.


ice-safe

(dated) An early icebox or refrigerator.


vargueno

/vɑː(ɹ)ˈɡeɪnjəʊ/

Borrowed from Spanish vargueño or bargueño, from Bargas, the name of the village where it originates.

A decorative cabinet of a kind originating near Toledo in Spain, having a rectangular body supported on legs or an ornamental framework, and a front that opens downwards on hinges to serve as a writing desk.


plantstand

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-plantstand.wav

A tall narrow table on which a pot plant can be displayed.


knight's fee

(law, historical) The specific amount of land giving rise to such requirements generally, being sometimes a hide or less and sometimes six or more hides.