amortize

en-verb

amortize (third-person singular simple present amortizes, present participle amortizing, simple past and past participle amortized)

amortizes (present singular third-person)
amortizing (participle present)
amortized (participle past)
amortized (past)

From Middle English amortisen, from Old French amortir (via the stem amortiss-), from Vulgar Latin *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).

(real estate, property law, transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.


air bed

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A bed that is inflated with air; typically used as a portable, temporary bed.


waffle iron

Such a one is very apt to leave his impress upon his scholars, as the waffle-iron is impressed upon the cake that is baked in it.

1838, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Fireside Education, page 331:

I remember once of buying a waffle-iron of him, and when I tried it and found it did not make a pretty pattern on the waffles, I took it back to him to change it: but having no other pattern, he returned me the money as soon as I asked him.

1841 August 20, Miss Leslie, “Mr. Smith”, in The Ladies' Garland, volume 5, number 2, page 36:

These batter-based flat cakes gained a new form of popularity in America when Thomas Jefferson returned from his stint in France as a diplomat. In 1789 he presented his friends with a long-handled waffle iron.

2011, Ann Treistman, Who Put the Devil in Deviled Eggs?: The Fascinating Stories Behind America's Favorite Foods:

A cooking appliance, with hinged, indented metal plates, used to make waffles.

vaffeljern

a cooking appliance used to make waffles


CAM

(real estate) Initialism of common area maintenance.


AST

en-noun

AST (countable and uncountable, plural ASTs)

assured shorthold tenancy
w:assured shorthold tenancy

(property law, real estate, England and Wales) Initialism of assured shorthold tenancy.


arboretum

arboretum (plural arboretums or arboreta)

/ɑː(ɹ)bəˈɹiːtəm/

Borrowed from Latin arborētum (“place with trees growing, plantation of trees”), from arbor (“tree”).

bor

Coordinate term: floretum

A place where many varieties of tree are grown for research, educational, and ornamental purposes.


warranty

en-noun

warranty (countable and uncountable, plural warranties)

From Middle English warantye, warantie, from Anglo-Norman warrantie, an Old Northern French variant of Old French guarantie (Modern French garantie). Doublet of guarantee and guaranty. More at warrant.

covenant of warranty
covenant of warranty

(countable, law, real estate, obsolete) A legal agreement that was a real covenant and ran with the land: The grantor of a piece of real estate held in freehold, and his heirs, were required to officially guarantee their claim and plead their case for the title. If evicted by someone with a superior claim (paramount title), they were also required to hand over other real estate of equal value in recompense. It has now been replaced by personal covenants and the covenant of warranty.

(law, countable, real estate) A covenant, also called the covenant of warranty, whereby the grantor assures the grantee that he or she will not be subject to the claims of someone with a paramount title, thereby guaranteeing the status of the title that is being conveyed.


air conditioner

air conditioner (plural air conditioners)

A machine that is used to control temperature and humidity in an enclosed space.

kondicioner

a machine that is used to control temperature and humidity in an enclosed space

HVAC

heating, ventilation and air conditioning


freezer

→ Macanese: friza

(neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.


flophouse

From flop + house, originally hobo slang, presumably from slang flop (“lie down to sleep”).

In one of [Cincinnati’s] slum districts stands the Silver Moon, a “flop house” (i.e., a house where the occupants are “flopped” out of their hanging bunks by letting down the ropes).

We even visited some drunken seamen in a flophouse on Mission Street that she knew; they offered us whisky.

1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

He was born out back of a twopenny flophouse in what the wags called “The Holy Land” […].

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 34:

(US, slang) A cheap hotel or boarding house where many people sleep in large rooms.


dishwasher

From Middle English dysche wescheare, equivalent to dish + washer.

(Australia) A bird, the restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta).


terrace

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.

A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.

Häuserflucht

both not restricted to residential houses


afghan

(Australia, New Zealand) A type of iced chocolate biscuit, sometimes containing cornflakes and topped with a walnut.


mixer

→ Dutch: mixer

→ French: mixer

→ Polish: mikser

→ Romanian: mixer

desc

→ Russian: ми́ксер (míkser), ми́кшер (míkšer)

→ Turkish: mikser, mixer

To encourage those IRL meetings, Thursday hosts events in London and New York, the two cities where it is up and running; the mixer at Hair of the Dog was its eighth in this city and drew a crowd of about 450.

2022 January 27, Becky Hughes, “The Hot New Thing in Dating? Actually Going on Dates.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US) A dance or other social event meant to foster new acquaintances, as at the beginning of a school year.

A device for combining hot and cold water before it emerges from a single spout or shower head.

(electronics) A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.


blender

→ Turkish: blender

A machine with sharp rotating blades in a bowl, for mashing, crushing, or liquefying food ingredients.


oilcloth

en-noun

oilcloth (countable and uncountable, plural oilcloths)

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Ignatius pounded a paw into the oilcloth on the kitchen table.

a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, chapter 9, in A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 184:

When the Lincolns moved into the White House, it was not furnished, there was oilcloth on the floor in the State Rooms because of the overflow from the spittoons.

1995, Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir, page 346:

A fabric or cloth treated on one side with a waterproof covering, especially one made from linseed oil etc.; used for flooring, tablecloths, kitchen shelves and sometimes furniture covering.


corkscrew

A corkscrew has a 90° turn just prior to the loop and a 90° turn just afterward.

1987 September 20, Tim Cole, “Killer Coasters”, in Popular Mechanics, page 56:

(amusement rides) A type of inversion used in roller coasters.


posser

(UK) A tool for possing, or agitating laundry in a tub. It usually takes the form a bell shape or a circular plate with holes and vertical handle attached at the centre.


steamer

From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.

A device or object that works by the operation of steam.

(cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.


hostess trolley

hostess trolley (plural hostess trollies or hostess trolleys)

hostess trollies (plural)
hostess trolleys (plural)

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A piece of mobile furniture within which cooked food may be kept hot, and from which it may be served.


draining board

A board beside a kitchen sink, designed to drain into the sink, used for letting kitchen utensils dry after they had been washed.

escorreplats

board beside a kitchen sink for draining kitchen utensils


brochette

Borrowed from French brochette, diminutive of broche (“spit”).

A small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled.


hotbed

Tomato seedlings will be ready to transplant from the hotbed to the coldframe in 12 to 18 days after sowing the seed, depending upon the amount of sunshine and the care given the bed.

1924, Erval Jackson Newcomer, M. A. Yothers, Warren Draper Whitcomb, Control of the Codling Moth in the Pacific Northwest, page 11:

A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse.


love seat

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A carafe of tea and a plate of oatmeal cookies were on a small mahogany table in front of a pink and lime green plaid loveseat.

2007, Nora Charles, Death Rides the Surf, Penguin, →ISBN:

“Sit over there,” she added, pointing to a sage loveseat, matching chair and two chocolate-hued, cube-shaped ottomans.

2015, Bonita Thompson, The New Middle, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 20:


condo

(US, Canada, Philippines) Clipping of condominium.


apple-corer

A tool used to remove the apple core from an apple for use in cooking; some forms of the tool segment the apple at the same time as removing its core.


shepherdess

From Middle English scheperdesse, shepperdesse; equivalent to shepherd + -ess.

A large and deep armchair with a cushion.


detached house

A free-standing, single-family dwelling unit that does not share a common wall with any other structure.


bathrobe

/ˈbɑːθ.ɹəʊb/

A robe usually made of terrycloth intended to be worn when one is still damp from bathing or when there is no immediate need to dress fully.


back garden

Afterwards, Gareth Southgate conjured up the modern English pastoral when he said he was glad to have delivered goals for a public watching at home on a “warm Sunday afternoon”. A great vision of barbecues ablaze, televisions repositioned and six times a boozy roar across the back gardens.

2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2018-06-24:


puri

From Balinese ᬧᬸᬭᬷ (puri), from Old Javanese purī (“palace, royal residence”), from Sanskrit पुरी (purī), पुर् (pur, “stronghold, fortress”), from ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(t)pĺ̥H (“city, fortress, stronghold”). Compare to English polis (“a Greek city-state”).

der

In Bali and other parts of Indonesia, a palace, or other residence of a member of the royal family or ruling class.


tea strainer

A strainer used to filter loose tea leaves from brewed tea.


hot tub

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(chiefly US) A large tub, often situated outdoors, filled with hot water and used for communal leisure bathing.


taboret

From Old French tabouret (“a stool, pincushion, base of a pillar; literally, a little drum or tabor”), diminutive of tabour (“drum”). Compare French tambour.

He sat close to her on a low tabouret, and as he spoke his fingers lightly touched the hair that fell a little over her forehead.

They lie
upon a big dim doily
draping a taboret
(part of the set), beside
a big hirsute begonia.

1965, Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station:

A low stand or embroidery frame in the same shape.


chaise

Unadapted borrowing from French chaise. Doublet of cathedra and chair.

“But why is it necessary, said Edmund, that Crawford’s carriage, or his only should be employed? Why is no use to be made of my mother’s chaise? I could not, when the scheme was first mentioned the other day, understand why a visit from the family were not to be made in the carriage of the family.”

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 159–160:

The next morning after breakfast, Joe put Merrylegs into the mistress's low chaise to take him to the vicarage; he came first and said good bye to us, and Merrylegs neighed to us from the yard.

[1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 101:

An open, horse-drawn carriage for one or two people, usually with one horse and two wheels.

“Now, do me a favor. Could I borrow a beach chaise?” “Beach chaise?” “I promise it's for the float. Something that one might sit out in the sun on.” “What the fuck is a beach chaise? Is that French?” “They're lawn chairs, Seanie.” “Yeah, we got lawn chairs.” “Thank you very much, very kind.”

2023 July 20, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Pride Parade” (17:25 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

It pulled up with a mighty plunging of horses at the overturned chaise.

1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 20:


easy chair

"Let's sit quiet a bit, Toady!" said the Rat, throwing himself into an easy chair, while the Mole took another by the side of him and made some civil remark about Toad's delightful residence.

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:

A comfortable chair, often well upholstered; a lounge chair.


rockery

A section of a garden made from decorative rocks and alpine plants.


back scrubber

A utensil in the form of a brush or a sponge on a long handle, used to scrub the back while bathing.

lave-dos

utensil for scrubbing the back while bathing


mandolin

From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.

(music) A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.

A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.


gravy boat

A dish with a handle and spout, used to serve gravy or other sauces.


kazan

Borrowed from Russian каза́н (kazán), from a Turkic language. Cognate with Azerbaijani qazan, Kazakh қазан (qazan), Turkish kazan, Uzbek qozon.

A proper kazan also has to be well greased by constant use — it should never be washed with water, or, God forbid, actually scrubbed and scoured. The Uzbeks just wipe it carefully with an oiled cloth; and they will insist and I will second this — that the older the kazan, the better the pilaf.

1990, Anya Von Bremzen, John Welchman, Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook:

a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine


loofah

The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.


rocker

From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock + -er.


broiler

→ Finnish: broileri

→ Italian: broiler

→ Latgalian: broilers

→ Spanish: broiler

→ Swedish: broiler

From broil + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the chickens, + -er (patient suffix).

(cooking, Canada, US) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; known as a grill in British English.


featherbed

There are mires, bogs, and 'featherbeds' or quaking bogs. With the first two, look for the tussocks of heavy grass or rushes around the edges, which offer a relatively firm footing, but if you see a stretch of bright green sphagnum moss, for God's sake stay away from it. The moss is a mat covering a pit of wet ooze; […]

2014 March 17, Laurie R. King, The Mary Russell Series Books 1-4: The Beekeeper's Apprentice; A Monstrous Regiment of Women; A Letter of Mary; The Moor, Macmillan, →ISBN:

[…] bog. The writers and the old fellows you meet in pubs will tell you to look out for grass or 'bright green areas', and to fear the land that looks the easiest; but bogs - 'featherbeds', the locals call them - might be marked[…]

2014 May 13, William Atkins, The Moor: Lives Landscape Literature, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

[...] a featherbed bog of moss and cotton grasses. Much of their effort has just burned away to nothing — the peat giving[…]

2023 March 28, Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind - A Memoir, The Experiment, LLC, →ISBN:

(especially UK, Dartmoor) An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it. (Also in UK and Irish placenames.)


featherbed

en-verb

featherbed (third-person singular simple present featherbeds, present participle featherbedding, simple past and past participle featherbedded)

featherbeds (present singular third-person)
featherbedding (participle present)
featherbedded (participle past)
featherbedded (past)

(intransitive) To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.


bookshelf

Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.

1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:

(furniture) A shelf or shelves for storing books for easy visual reference.


canapé

Borrowed from French canapé. Doublet of canopy and conopeum.

Oliver was sitting on the edge of the canapé, swinging one leg over the other; and he stopped abruptly and stared, and then sank back, laughing softly to himself.

1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 29:

A piece of furniture similar to a couch or settee, an elegant sofa.


saucer

→ Kashubian: sosera (Canada)

From Middle English saucer, from Old French saussier (and feminine saussiere; hence modern French saucier m, saucière f).

A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.


diable

From French (à la) diable, from diable (“devil”), from Old French. Doublet of devil, diablo, and diabolus.


colander

From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.

An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:

A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.

مِصْفَاة

a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta


curule

From Latin curūlis (“of or pertaining to a chariot; curule chair”), from currus (“chariot”), from currō (“run”).

uder

Followed by his foolish followers Titus Vinius, who had served him in Spain, Cornelius Laco, an arrogant idiot, and the freedman Icelus Marcianus, who was after Laco’s post, he made for the curule chair.

1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

Designating a kind of elaborate ceremonial seat inlaid with ivory, used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome.

kuruliszi

designating a ceremonial seat used by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome


househusband

From house + husband (etymologically equivalent to house + bond).

com

He’s always thought of himself as boring, “a white-bread suburban househusband.”

2022 May 11, Alexandra Alter, quoting Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A man who tends to his home as a housekeeper or homemaker; the male equivalent of a housewife.


conservatory

Anglicized form of French conservatoire; ultimately equivalent to Etymology 1

A large greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants

оранже́рия

a greenhouse or hothouse for the display of plants


kast

From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kastō.

At Clifford A. Wallach tramp art rules absolutely, most unusually in a large cupboard that has the mass of a Dutch kast armoire and is painted light green.

2007 January 19, Roberta Smith, “Decorative Tradition, Laced With Bursts of Eccentricity”, in New York Times:

The exhibition includes the kinds of Dutch furnishings that might have been found in 17th- century estates: pewter plates, silver bowls, brass candlesticks, Dutch tiles, Bible boxes, Delft jars and Dutch cupboards, called kasts.

2009 July 3, Wendy Moonan, “Exploring Dutch Legacy 400 Years After Hudson”, in New York Times:

A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries


sublet

(property law, real estate, informal) Synonym of sublease.


time-sharing

(business, real estate) The joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year.


time-share

(business, real estate) A property jointly owned or leased by multiple people who are allowed to use (or sublet) it only during specified periods each year.


title deed

(law) A deed or similar document by which the title to property is conveyed between parties.

нотариален акт

deed by which the title to property is conveyed


manchette

(furniture) An upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.


towel rail

A rail, or system of rails (sometimes heated) in a bathroom, on which towels are hung to dry.


abstract of title

en-noun

abstract of title (countable and uncountable, plural abstracts of title)

(law, real estate) An epitome of the evidences of ownership; the condensed history of title to a particular parcel of real estate, with encumbrances.


glasshouse

From Middle English glasehows, glashous, glashows; equivalent to glass + house.

people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones

A greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.


tureen

From earlier terrene (thus pronunciations with /tj/, /t͡ʃ/ are spelling pronunciations), borrowed from French terrine. Doublet of terrine.

The tureens and stands are variously marked with the date letters for 1726 and 1728, with the charge and discharge marks for the fermier-générals Charles Condier (1722-1726) and Jacques Cortin (1726-1732) and with their weights.

1983, Gillian Wilson, Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 22:

But the metal tureen cannot just have been an import from the eastern Mediterranean area or from the Carpathian basin, because the style horizon of the Tiefstich pottery tureens with pendant triangles on the shoulder did not penetrate as far as that, nor do we know of any vessels there, pottery or precious metal ones, which show a similarity with these.

2009, Jan Albert Bakker, The TRB West Group: Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefsttich Pottery, page 125:

The large covered soup tureen, as well as the 15 inch round plate on which it sat, was rimmed by gold leaf, and was decorated with an ornate nineteenth century English scene.

2011, Paul Winick, Cancer Dreams, page 95:

A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.

су́пник

broad deep serving dish for soup or stew


lazy Susan

Uncertain, but probably a generic name like Jane, in reference to the device replacing a servant at table. The earliest attestation is from c. 1903 in the Boston Journal, which credits a local carpenter named John Laurie as "the resuscitator of 'Lazy Susan'". Almost certainly not named in honor of the daughters of Thomas Jefferson or Edison who were both named Susan.

The “ant-proof cooler” was a small larderlike cupboard in the kitchen, with a circular metal shelving unit, a series of round trays which revolved like a lazy Susan.

2002, Terrell Dixon, City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature, page 279:

A rotating set of shelves used to minimize inaccessible space, usually employed in corner kitchen cabinets.


crockpot

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From Crock-Pot (1971), brand name of slow cooker by The Rival Company, from crock + pot. Coined by duplication and assonance.


slow cooker

A kitchen appliance consisting of a clay pot and its housing with self-contained electrical heating, characterized by a loose-fitting lid, relatively low temperatures, and long cooking times, and used especially in the preparation of stews.


chaise longue

chaise longue (plural chaise longues or chaises longues)

chaise longues (plural)
chaises longues (plural)

/ˌʃeɪz ˈlɒŋ(ɡ)/

/ˌʃeɪz ˈlɔŋ/

Borrowed from French chaise longue (literally “long chair”).

bor

(chiefly UK) A reclining chair with a long seat, which can support the outstretched legs of a sitter normally with one armrest.


Balmoral

Castle name first appears in writing as Bouchmorale in 1451. Formed from a combination of Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”) and an uncertain second element. The second element may be Pictish, equivalent to Welsh mawr (“large”) + Welsh iâl (“pastureland”).

der

As we climbed the Marykirk Bank Ogilvie spoke of the passes leading over to Deeside, and of the Royal deer forests around Balmoral; then, with mingled pride and modesty, he added, "I've driven the King seven times."

1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:

A castle and associated estate in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, that is a private residence of the British sovereign (OS grid ref NO2595).

Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders#English

A suburb of Galashiels, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4836).


Dutch oven

Dutch (“substitute, inferior, ersatz”) + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from.
The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets.

1996, Bart Plantenga, Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation, page 111:

a Dutch oven, most commonly a large pot heated by surrounding it with fuel, and placing hot coals on the lid, can also be a mouth. Not only that - it can also be the smell of a bed in which someone has just farted.

1996, Jonathan Green, Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice, page 191:

Oh, man! Dutch oven! Not the Dutch oven! Anything but the Dutch oven! Must find fresh air before it's too late! It's too late! It burns. Mama, it burns!

2009, Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, spoken by Theodore:

Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!

2016 May 20, Chris Savino, “Space Invader”, in The Loud House, season 1, episode episode 15, spoken by Lynn Loud:

(slang) The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.


houseboat

A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.


jacuzzi

A generic use of the proprietary name Jacuzzi.

A hot tub or whirlpool bath with underwater jets that massage the body.


casserole

en-noun

casserole (countable and uncountable, plural casseroles)

Unadapted borrowing from French casserole.

ubor

a chicken casserole

Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

запяка́нка

food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish


projects

/ˈpɹɑˌd͡ʒɛkts/

My friend Larry Gray never gangbanged with us but was from the projects and to your rival, that meant you were one

2008, Donovan Simmons, Terry Moses, Bloods and Crips: The Genesis of a Genocide, page 128:

(US, usually preceded by the) One or more high-density urban housing developments for residents having low incomes.


coaster

From coast (“edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English coste (“rib; side of the body, flank; side of a building; face of a solid figure; coast, shore; bay, gulf; sea; concavity, hollow; boundary, limit; land; country; district, province, region; locality, place; division of the heavens; compass direction; direction; location with reference to direction, side”) [and other forms], from Old French coste (“rib; side of an object; coast”) (modern French côte (“rib; coast; hill, slope”)), from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *kost-.

navegador (de costas)

sailor who travels only in coastal waters

His father was skipper of a small coaster, from Bristol, and dying, left him, when quite young, to the care of his mother, by whose exertions he received a common-school education, passing his winters in school and his summers in the coasting trade, until his seventeenth year, when he left home to go upon foreign voyages.

1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXIII, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC, page 245:

The single line to Exmouth Docks curves round the back of the goods yard. […] The docks can handle vessels of up to 700 tons; on the day of my visit an English coaster was discharging coal and a Dutch coaster arrived with a cargo of wood pulp from Sweden.

1960 May, R. C. Riley, “The Coastal Branches of South-East Devon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:

Overhead, the black flag with the white skull-and-crossbones symbolizing defiance of radio regulations fluttered limply atop the two-hundred-foot mast mounted on the converted coaster from which they operated.

1969, John Brunner, chapter IX, in Double, Double, London: Gateway, Hachette, published 2011, →ISBN:

A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.


coaster

Hollywood Dream – The Ride
Universal Studios Japan

From coast (“to glide along without adding energy; to make a minimal effort; to slide downhill (especially, to slide on a sled upon snow or ice)”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Coast is derived from Middle English costeien (“to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], Old French costoier (“to be at the side of”) [and other forms] (modern French côtoyer (“to pass alongside; (figuratively) to rub shoulders”)), from Latin costicāre, from costa (“rib; side, wall”); see further at etymology 1.
The sense 2.1 (“small stand or tray”) is from the fact that the object and the decanter or wine bottle on it “coast” or travel around a tabletop from person to person. The sense 2.2.2 (“useless compact disc or DVD”) refers to the fact that the object is only useful as a drink coaster.

nb...

cost, costay, coste, costey, costie, coost, coostie, costen, costien

kelkka

something that coasts or is used to coast

(Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.

It was cold but still, and Polly trotted down the smooth, snow-covered mall, humming to herself, and trying not to feel homesick. The coasters were at it with all their might, and she watched them, till her longing to join the fun grew irresistible.

1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “Polly’s Troubles”, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC, page 42:

(US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.

Something that coasts or is used to coast.


tucker fucker

en-noun

tucker fucker (countable and uncountable, plural tucker fuckers)

From tucker (“food”) + fucker (“one who ruins”).

I never made it as a ‘Tucker Fucker’ (a cook), but I made it as a grunt—crap food and buggered and wet, or buggered and dry, all the time.

2001, Peter Haran, Robert Kearney, Crossfire: An Australian Reconnaissance Unit in Vietnam, unnumbered page:

2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane, Zeus Publications, eBookIt, unnumbered page,
‘Let's have a cuppa tea,’ he said. ‘The tucker fuckers (cooks) always do a bit extra, the bloody instructors always knock it off.’

“[…]Yer see, young feller, cooks is graded up here. On top yer gets cooks. After ′em comes tucker fuckers. Then bait layers. An′ last of all yer gets yer willful bloody murderers.”

2010, Jim Nicolson, Long Creek, iUniverse, page 10:

(countable, Australia, slang, derogatory) A cook, especially a second-rate one.

(countable, Australia, slang) A microwave oven.

(uncountable, Australia, slang) Tomato sauce.


pizza cutter

A wheel-bladed knife used for cutting pizzas.


chopping board

A sturdy board, used for cutting and preparing food.

マナィタ

sturdy board, upon which one chops and prepares food


pepper shaker

A small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it on food for seasoning purposes.

պղպեղաման

a small container designed to hold pepper and facilitate sprinkling it


fish slice

Would you pass me that fish slice, please; I'm making a mess trying to turn this omelette.

Truly the sign of an evolved person who has their shit together is that they’ve graduated beyond using a fish slice for everything (which they erroneously call a spatula).

2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in The Guardian:

(British) A kitchen utensil used to turn foodstuffs (commonly, burgers and omelettes) in a frying pan; a spatula.


rocking chair

A chair with a curved base which can be gently rocked (swung) back and forth.

ճոճաթոռ

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs


ice cream maker

ice cream maker (plural ice cream makers)

A machine used to make homemade ice cream.


garbage disposal

garbage disposal (plural garbage disposals)

An electric device in a kitchen drain that gets rid of food waste by shredding it to tiny bits that can be washed away.

trituradora d'escombraries

device in kitchen sink to wash away waste


salt cellar

From salt + cellar, from 15th Century Middle English saler, from Middle French salier, from Latin salārius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”). Modified based on originally unrelated English cellar.

(UK) Synonym of salt shaker (“a closed container with perforated lid for sprinkling salt”)


homemaker

Forty-seven-year-old homemaker and volunteer museum guide, holder of a master's degree in English, married twenty-three years to a professor.

1979, Lillian B. Rubin, Women of a Certain Age: The Midlife Search for Self, page 233:

(US) A person who maintains the administration and upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home; one who runs the household.

رَبّ بَيْت

person who maintains his or her residence


playpen

An enclosure in which babies or small children can play.


saucepan

→ Welsh: sosban

(countable, cooking) A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.


bubble bath

bubble bath (countable and uncountable, plural bubble baths)

A bath in which an additive, usually soap, is poured directly into the water that creates bubbles; a foam bath.

泡泡浴

bath in which an additive is poured into the water to create bubbles

The product poured in the bath to create those bubbles.


landlocked

From land + locked (i.e. "locked-in by land on all sides").

An easement of necessity, said the court, may be provided when property is landlocked and the owner needs access to that property from a public highway.

2005, Washington Legislative Reference Bureau, State of Wisconsin Blue Book, 2005-2006, page 610:

In some states, the law allows for easements by necessity, especially in circumstances where a property is landlocked.

2005, Thomas J. McEvoy, Owning and Managing Forests: A Guide to Legal, Financial, and Practical Matters, page 49:

For example, if a property is landlocked (entirely surrounded by other privately owned land) and has no access to a public street...

2006, Real Estate Principles, Rockwell publishing, page 114:

(US, real estate, of a property or parcel) Surrounded by other property and having no access to a public road.


triclinium

triclinium (plural tricliniums or triclinia)

Latin trīclīnium, from Ancient Greek τρικλίνιον (triklínion).

(Ancient Rome) A dining room furnished with such a triple couch.


linens

Household textiles made of linen-like cloth (such as cotton fabric), including tablecloths and bed sheets. The singular, linen, of this sense is rare.


smother

smother (countable and uncountable, plural smothers)

From Middle English smother, smorther (“a suffocating vapour, dense smoke”), from Old English smorþor (“smoke”, literally “that which suffocates”), from smorian (“to suffocate, choke”) + -þor (instrumental suffix).

inh

Thus must I from the smoke into the smother […]

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 I, scene ii], page 404:

That which smothers or appears to smother, particularly


fish-knife

A table knife with spatula-shaped blade designed for eating fish.


occasional table

en-noun

occasional table (plural occasional tables)

From occasional (“for an occasion”) + table.

A cushion-covered divan; three-piece lounge-suite; occasional table, writing table and radio constituted the principal pieces[.]

1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XI, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 119:

Any small table, such as an end table, having no particular function; typically it may be folded away.

bijzettafel

small table having no particular function


guesthouse

Japanese: ゲストハウス (gesutohausu)

Korean: 게스트하우스 (geseuteuhauseu)

From Middle English gest hous, gistenehus, gystehuse, gesthus, partly from Old English gæsthūs, ġesthūs (“guesthouse, hostel; guest-chamber”), from Proto-West Germanic *gastihūs; and partly from Old Norse gesthús (“guesthouse; guest-chamber”); both from Proto-Germanic *gastihūsą, corresponding to guest + house.

der

Low-season competition between the several backpackers and many guesthouses in town keeps prices down, but in high season expect steep price hikes (except at the backpackers) and book ahead.

2004, Mary Fitzpatrick et al., South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 199:

For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.

2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in The New York Times:

And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.

2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in The New York Times:

A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.


rolling pin

A food preparation utensil consisting of a cylinder with a handle at each end, used to flatten dough.


steam room

A sauna; a hot room that is filled with steam in which people sit for health reasons.


bombilla

Borrowed from Rioplatense Spanish bombilla (“straw”, literally “little pump”).

bor

The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position. The bombilla is literally “a little pump,” that is, a sucking tube, ending in a perforated bulb, which performs the office of the perforated diaphragm in our teapot spouts.

1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:

A straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.


mackinaw

en-noun

mackinaw (countable and uncountable, plural mackinaws)

Respelling of Mackinac, a strait between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, an island in the strait, and an important trading-post on the island; ultimately from Ojibwe mishinii-makinaang (“at the place of many snapping turtles”).

uder

A blanket made of wool, formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government.

A flat-bottomed cargo boat; mackinaw boat.


coverlet

From Middle English coverlite, from Anglo-Norman cuver-lit, formed on cuvrir (“to cover”) + lit (“bed”). Cognate with Catalan cobrellit.

Year after year unto her feet,
 She lying on her couch alone,
 Across the purpled coverlet,
 The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 152:

A blanket used as a bed covering, usually quilted.


griddle

From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources.

Such a clatter as the little spoon made, and such a beating as the batter got, it quite foamed, I assure you; and when Daisy poured some on to the griddle, it rose like magic into a puffy flapjack that made Demi's mouth water.

1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “chapter 5”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

Some people when making scones do not trouble to light the oven but use the frying pan: of course if you have a griddle it is better than oven or pan, but very few people possess this useful utensil.

1894, Lance Rawson, “Australian enquiry book of household and general information”, in Cookery:

A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.


tawa

Deeti gave her daughter the job of sweeping the poppy petals into a heap while she busied herself in stoking the fire and heating a heavy iron tawa.

2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 6:


bean bag

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dining table

A table, usually in a dining room, on which meals are served.

سُفْرَة

table in the dining room on which meals are served


backrest

A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.


queen-size

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Pertaining to a larger-than-average dress, blouse, skirt, pant or stocking size for women.

If you have a queen-size bed, you'll need some queen-size sheets to go on it, and maybe a queen-size comforter as well.

Pertaining to a bed or mattress measuring 60 inches wide by 80 inches long and approximately 9 to 12 inches thick.


bathtub

A large container for holding water in which a person may bathe (take a bath).

vaskë

large container in which a person may bathe


ramekin

Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.

The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.

2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

(cooking) A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.


flowerbed

A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.


polonaise

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Borrowed from French polonaise (“Polish”).


food processor

To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in a food processor.

A small kitchen appliance for chopping or pureeing food.


wingback

(soccer) A player who doubles on either side of the center as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.

carrilero

soccer: player who doubles as a defender and winger

(American football) A running back who is in formation near the line of scrimmage and outside the tackles, a slotback.

One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.


bath kimono

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A bathrobe in the style of a Japanese kimono.


chafing dish

(cooking) Any of several devices, involving a pan and a heater, used to warm food at the table, or to keep it warm.


chipper

en-adj

chipper (comparative chipperer, superlative chipperest)

chipperer (comparative)
chipperest (superlative)

From English dialectal kipper (“nimble; frisky”), of obscure origin. Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.

gloss

"to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">kippen</i> (“to seize”)

Van Halen orders garlic strewn about Lucy's bedroom. she feels a bit chipperer the next morning, so Mina heads off to help poor Harker in Budapest.

2013, Michelle Witte, Faker's Guide to the Classics, page 66:

The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.

2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in AV Club:

"Sure, but she's not saying." Imrich kicked his feet up on the coffee table, dislodging a pile of research papers — hers, of course — onto the floor. She tried not to twitch. Laiken twitched a lot, and it was irritating. "Personally I think she has the magical ability to not notice she's working for an arguably evil worldwide truth suppression conspiracy. Nobody at the SCP Foundation ought to be that goddamn chipper."

2022 September 15, HarryBlank, “The Mourning After”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-06-14:

Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.


chipper

Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).

(in particular, US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.

štěpkovač

(Ireland, North East Scotland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.

(golf) A golf club for making chip shots.


cocotte

small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven


bedspring

This morning not even the cry of a bedspring disturbed the silence, and John seemed, therefore, to be listening to his own unspeaking doom.

1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day):

A springy surface that supports the mattress of a bed.


sugan

Borrowed from Irish súgán (“rope”), from Proto-Celtic *souggo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”), see also Sanskrit सुवति (suvati). Doublet of soogan.


frame house

A house constructed on a light wooden framework.


Versailles

Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wértti (“to be turning around”).


Versailles

A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.

A home-rule class city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.

A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.


Versailles

Named by Vietnamese American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex in which they first settled.

A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.


paring knife

A thin-bladed knife intended for coring and paring (peeling) fruit such as apples as well as slicing small ingredients, especially used for precise and controlled cutting.


pepper mill

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(historical, slang) The Curta, a cylindrical hand-held mechanical calculator invented in the 1930s.


hothouse

From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house.

Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:

(climatology) A hot state in global climate.


bedstead

From Middle English bedsted, bedstede, bedestede, from Old English bedstede (“bedstead”), equivalent to bed + stead. Cognate with Dutch bedstede, bedstee (“closet-bed”).

The framework that supports a bed; the rigid structural components of a bed, excluding the mattress, box spring, etc; bedframe.


king-sized

Unusually large, used especially of a king-sized bed.


bedlinen

en-noun

bedlinen (countable and uncountable, plural bedlinens)

The items of cloth used to make up a bed, such as sheets and pillowcases, formerly made of linen but now manufactured in a wide variety of material such as cotton or polyester.


kitchenware

kitchenware (usually uncountable, plural kitchenwares)

The new chef reorganized the space where we keep the pots, pans, and other kitchenware.

He works in the kitchenware section of the department store.

Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food.

keukengerei

instruments and utensils found in a kitchen


bedspread

The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket.


laundry basket

Fortunately, Frank had devised a cool way of getting down the seemingly endless staircase. He’d found an old laundry basket, and with felt-tip pens had painted it with the colours of Queenie – red, white and blue. All he had to do was sit at the top of the staircase, and then let gravity take its course.

2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.

洗衣籃

container for holding and transporting clothing


fauteuil

/ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/

Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). See also English faldistory.

cog

Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96:


pillowcase

A washable, easily removable cloth cover for pillows.


parterre

Borrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).

Brussels
Buckinghamshire
Cliveden
Parterre
Parterre (theater audience)
Taplow

The window opened towards a most lovely garden, whose smooth turf and gorgeous parterres swept down to the river.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Sir Robert Walpole and House”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 238:

(horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.

Parham House, near Pulborough in West Sussex, has a four-acre walled garden that was restored in the Twenties and has been maintained at a high level ever since. It is divided into four areas, one of which is filled by the cut-flower borders and a box-enclosed parterre. […] It is traditional in a parterre to mix flowers and veg, but this relaxed jungle of productive plants, packed in tight together, is lusher and more beautiful than the more usual Villandry style, where single or pairs of plants are used.

2015 August 29, Sarah Raven, “The stately home garden where you can pick-and-eat all summer [print version: Pick-and-eat planting for the modern parterre, page 5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), archived from the original on 2015-09-03:

(horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.

(theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.

The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.

(British) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.

That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:


pie pan

(cooking) A pan for holding and shaping the dough and filling of a pie, made of a heat-conducting metal, glass or other ceramic, and (more recently) silicone.


crib mattress

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(US) A mattress that fits a standard-sized baby crib.


crib sheet

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A bedsheet, usually nowadays fitted, that fits a crib mattress.


row house

The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.

When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest.

1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9:

(chiefly US) A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof


bedsheet

From Middle English bedeschette, bedshete, bed shete, equivalent to bed + sheet.

A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.

laken

a sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen


truck garden

As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted.

1792 November 4, George Washington, The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: 1745-1799, volume 32:

it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.

1901, Booker T. Washington, chapter 14, in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography:

(chiefly US) Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.


scrubbing brush

en-noun

scrubbing brush (plural scrubbing brushes)

A short brush with stiff bristles, held in the hand, used for scrubbing floors etc.


appartement

I am a French student of litterature who would like to visit London during the month of August. Maybe you would like to visit Paris in this period. I propose you to exchange my appartement with yours. I live in the near suburb of Paris (5 minutes from the center by the tube). My appartement is modest, but with all acommodities: to live, to sleep, to cook, to wash, to read, to dream,...

1996 June 11, Ammadj Sedik, “exchange of flat Paris-London (échange d'appartement)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

The strange woman went right up to my appartement (I live in the highest) and stood right in front of my door. And she was just standing there, staring. Of course, I didn't notice that, so my girlfriend rang me using the intercom and said that a strange women was standing at my door.

1998 September 20, DJB, “Man at my bed”, in alt.folklore.ghost-stories (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

I leave my appartement in Paris, durin chrismas, and i would like to rent it for 1 week.
Situated near the "Père Lachaise cemetary" and near bus and metro.
3 rooms, it means 2 bedrooms.
Well furnished
With a quite big garden.
Nice residence, very green.
Do not hesitate to let me a proposition.
Thanks

1999 November 3, bou...@nomade.fr, “For Rent Appartement for Chrismas in Paris”, in japan.travel.abroad (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

Now you all can enjoy your time in cairo , without incurring very expensive hotel charge . I offer you to spend your lovely time in cairo as my guest , it`s charge is 10 $ for single room 15 $ for double room . I live in nasr city , my appartement is 120 m ..

2000 June 29, egy...@internetegypt.com, “appartement in Cairo”, in alt.culture.egyptian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-01:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of apartment.


bucket seat

Apparently from French baquet (“cockpit”), from early twentieth-century French aircraft.

A form-fitting seat for one passenger in automobiles, aircraft, and other such modes of transport.


country house

One of those utterly tedious amusements one only finds at an English country house on an English country Sunday. I don't think any one at all morally responsible for what he or she does at an English country house.

1909, Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, act 3:

(British) A weekend and holiday residence, located outside of urban areas, used as a retreat from city life.


footboard

desc

→ Telugu: ఫుట్బోర్డ్ (phuṭbōrḍ)

→ Telugu: ఫుట్బోర్డ్ (phuṭbōrḍ)

From foot + board. Compare Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (fōtubaurd).

A board or small raised platform on which to support or rest the feet, such as that found in a carriage.

astmelaud

board or small raised platform on which to support or rest the feet; such as found on in a carriage

A place to stand on a scooter or skateboard.

Continuous footboards ran along each side of the narrow body.

1941 August, “Notes and News: The First British Sleeping Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 373:

Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.

1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Kent & East Sussex Railway Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:


double bed

‘If you sleep on the floor, I’ll sleep on the floor too. But it seems rather a waste of a fine double bed.[’]

1980 [1962], Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in The Spy Who Loved Me, →ISBN, page 196:

(UK, US) A bed designed for two adults, typically measuring 54 by 75 inches (1.35 by 1.9 meters).

queen-size (60 inches wide by 80 inches long)


samovar

From Russian самова́р (samovár, “self-boiler”); from само́ (samó, “self”) + вари́ть (varítʹ, “boil, cook”).

bor

Come on now with the samovar ─ and make haste sorting the letter-bag.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 107

Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.[…]Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka. Then she fetched the samovar from the kitchen, and made tea.

1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's Business:

A metal urn with a spigot, for boiling water for making tea. Traditionally, the water is heated by hot coals or charcoal in a chimney-like tube which runs through the center of the urn. Today, it is more likely that the water is heated by an electric coil.


furnishing

With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.

1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

(chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.


Louvre

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Borrowed from French Louvre. More at Louvre Palace.

God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre.

2011, Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster, page 68:

I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre, you won't jerk a thing.

2010, Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents, page 130:

I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre.

2006, Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand, page 85:

IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre, somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.

1985 February, Phil Elderkin, “Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter”, in Baseball Digest, volume 44, number 2, page 49:

For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre.

1960, Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education, page 172:

They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre. Go to the Louvre, Sire; go to the Louvre.

1889, Alexandre Dumas, Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1, page 319:

A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.


pepper pot

A soup made of tripe, vegetables and dumplings, seasoned with pepper.


tenderizer

(biochemistry) Any substance added to meat before cooking in order to make it more tender, especially any source of the enzyme papain.

A form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking.

estovador

a form of mallet used to beat meat before cooking


mia mia

Borrowed from Kurnai mai-mai or Wathaurong [Term?].

1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, page 391,
On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a narrow track along which the escort must defile.

Decorated with this mop of hair and the chaplet, the girl was led by her father to the mia-mia and put inside this with the four boys.

1914, Baldwin Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, page 109:

Exhausted, he threw himself down at the door of the mia-mia of the emu and lay there as if dead.

1932, W. Ramsay Smith, “The Flood and its Results”, in Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, Dover, published 2003, page 160:

"Dan is creeping through the bushes on the other side of the mia-mia."

1944, H. Lorna Bingham, Tuckonie's Warrior Friend, page 15, column 2:

(Australia) An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya.


fitted sheet

A sheet tailored to form pocket for a mattress with elastic edges that is suitable for a range of mattress sizes. The edge may also contain a drawstring to secure the sheet more firmly and enable use on a wider range of mattress thicknesses.


counterpane

Corrupted from counterpoint, from the employment of pane (“a shaped figure in a coverlet”).

My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.

1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 4:

When he had got a light he saw that she had taken away all her things and the baby's .. and all the things on the washing-stand had been broken, a knife had been drawn cross-ways through the seats of the two chairs, the pillow had been slit open, there were large gashes in the sheets and the counterpane, the looking-glass appeared to have been broken with a hammer.

[...] the Westminster City Council has arranged with a large firm of launderers to wash blankets, sheets, pillow cases, and counterpanes, at low standard prices, and to return them the same day.

1941 September, Charles E. Lee, “Sheltering in London Tube Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 389:

He remembered the room where they lived, a dark, close-smelling room that seemed half filled by a bed with a white counterpane. [...]
 [...] His mind went back to another dream of two months ago. Exactly as his mother had sat on the dingy white-quilted bed, with the child clinging to her, so she had sat in the sunken ship, far underneath him and drowning deeper every minute, but still looking up at him in the darkening water.

1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, TWO.VII:

The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket; a coverlet, bedspread.


head of household

en-noun

head of household (plural heads of household)

The person responsible for governing a group that lives together, such as a family.


clotheshorse

In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:

A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.


comforter

From Middle English comfortour et al, from Anglo-Norman confortour, from Old French conforter. See comfort.

A vast quilt or comforter was heaped beside the bed, in a broad puddle of congealed blood, thick and shiny on the patterned rugs.

1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 185:

(US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.


waffler

One who waffles, or changes sides or positions frequently.


electric chair

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She much preferred her manual wheelchair, so we got into the routine of using the manual chair out of school, and the electric chair at school. The one thing that she did find amusing about the electric chair was that she had to take a 'driving test'.

2006, Molvia Maddox, Perfectly Flawed, →ISBN, page 90:

While I was "driving" in my electric chair to the only liquor store in town, the owner of the store would always smile when he saw me and say, "I don't know if I should sell to you. I don't want to be responsible for you drinking and driving."

2012, Sandra I. Bordenca, It's Okay to Laugh Sometimes, →ISBN, page 40:

He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, "Snowman go zoom zoom?"

2012, Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind, →ISBN, page 36:

(informal) An electrically powered wheelchair.


bar stool

Although we are no longer consigned to the bar stool and bottle, we still generally frequent these places to enhance our difficult egos.

1973 December 22, W. Emerson Smith, “Friends are Hard to Come By”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:

A stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.


bedwarmer

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(historical) A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.


tuck in

en-verb

tuck in (third-person singular simple present tucks in, present participle tucking in, simple past and past participle tucked in)

tucks in (present singular third-person)
tucking in (participle present)
tucked in (participle past)
tucked in (past)

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She tucked in her young son and turned out the light.

(transitive) To pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.

подпъхвам

to pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed

(transitive) To push (the fabric at the bottom of a shirt) under the pants.

laittaa (+ illative, such as "housuihin")

infilare il fondo della camicia nei pantaloni

And although Steven Fletcher cut the deficit for Wolves, tucking in Stephen Hunt's cross, the home side held on.

2011 September 24, Arindam Rej, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive, soccer) To score from with a casual motion


tuck in

Tuck in, before the food goes cold.

Still, he tucked in handsomely to bacon and tomato on fried bread, felicitating himself on the considered wisdom of his arrival in the character of guest to Bradly.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 74:


chesterfield

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A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.


can opener

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Coordinate term: bottle opener

A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off.


carving knife

(carpentry) A knife used to pare, cut, and smooth wood.

coltello da intaglio

a knife used to pare, cut and smooth wood


humpy

From Yagara (Brisbane region) ŋumbi, perhaps influenced by hump.

They did nothing much more in the way of building than to erect a number of crazy humpies of such materials as bark and kerosene-cans […]

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter III, in Capricornia, page 29:

Evicted men and their families lived wherever they could, and shanty towns of hessian-sack humpies grew up in Sydney′s southern suburbs on vacant crown land: the largest being at Brighton-le-Sands, Rockdale, Long Bay and La Perouse. In such camps, unemployed huddled for warmth in humpies while, closer to the city, others squatted in caves in the Domain around the local beauty spot known as Mrs Macquarie′s chair.

2003, Frank G. Clarke, Australia in a Nutshell: A Narrative History, page 215:

(Australia) Any crude or temporary dwelling, especially made from found materials; a bush hut.


cabriole

It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.

2009 January 23, Benjamin Genocchio, “A Winter Wonderland of Old and Modern Invites Meandering”, in New York Times:

A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal.


valance

From Middle English valance, valans, valaunce, valence, valons. Origin uncertain. Probably from Anglo-Norman valaunce, valence, from valer (“go down, let down”), aphetic form of Old French avaler (“to descend, go down”).

der

Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.

1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism, page 27:

A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.

A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.

verholauta

A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from a bed, from beneath the mattress to the floor, used to conceal the box spring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there.

Mortally insulted, Jasper went under the couch, where he remained with only his nose showing beneath the valance, emitting little world-weary groans at intervals, and refusing to come out for cake.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145:

A short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc.

helma

(automotive) A low-hanging auto body panel, below a front or rear bumper, whose purpose is aerodynamic and decorative but not structural (often valance panel).

The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.


almirah

Borrowed from Hindustani الماری / अलमारी (almārī) from Portuguese armário, from Latin armarium. Doublet of ambry, armarium, and armoire.

The three women ran past an almirah and entered a godown.

2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

(South Asia) Cupboard, cabinet or chest of drawers.


baking tray

(cooking) An oven-proof metal tray used to hold foods in the oven.


subdivide

en-verb

subdivide (third-person singular simple present subdivides, present participle subdividing, simple past and past participle subdivided)

subdivides (present singular third-person)
subdividing (participle present)
subdivided (participle past)
subdivided (past)

This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it.

Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.

1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 3

(transitive, intransitive) To divide into smaller sections.

(real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.


waterbed

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When I ask to sleep over at my friends’ houses, I am told I am not allowed. Boys are not allowed. My friend Caitie’s mother argues about this on the phone with my mother. I realize my mother is not on my side. Later, my mother tells me Caitie’s mother is divorced, has a tattoo, and sleeps on a waterbed, the relevance of which doesn’t seem clear. I think Caitie’s mother is cool.

2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium:

A bed with a tough plastic mattress filled with water.


washerwoman

‘I wish it would rain,’ continued she; ‘only we are going to have a six-week’s wash to-morrow, and that’s a heavy job for the poor creatures. La! don’t you pity washerwomen in hot weather; it’s the hardest work that’s done.’

1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVIII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, pages 123–124:


washboard

A board with a corrugated surface against which laundry may be rubbed.


whore bath

The quick style of bathing that would apparently be common among prostitutes between servicing clients.

A quick sponge bath by hand, using a wet washcloth or a pre-moistened towelette, to extend the interval between showers or clean up after casual sexual intercourse.


eiderdown

en-noun

eiderdown (countable and uncountable, plural eiderdowns)

A great sea lifted us high and, crashing down with a deafening roar, carried us swiftly along on light foam as soft as eiderdown.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 80:

(uncountable) The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.

The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven’s sake to quit—the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

I entered. It was a very small room, overcrowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing red eiderdown, and there was a large wardrobe, a round table, a very small washstand, and two stuffed chairs covered with red rep.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 11”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

She jerked up in bed, clutching the eiderdown; her heart beat. What could it be?

1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 263:

(countable) A quilt stuffed with this down.


egg whisk

A whisk (kitchen utensil made of multiple loops of wire) used to beat eggs.


dustpan

→ Tagalog: daspan

→ Cebuano: daspan

When she got downstairs, she would find the house tidy, but dirty. She could not rest until she had thoroughly cleaned; so she went down to the ash-pit with her dustpan.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

A flat scoop with a short handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.


trailer park

(US, Canada) An area containing mobile homes for rent or places to station them if owned; normally providing utilities and services


lawn chair

(US) Any chair designed to be used outdoors, especially a folding chair with aluminum frame, armrests, and interwoven ribbon mesh seat and back, used on backyard lawns.


caravan park

recreational vehicle
recreational vehicle

An area where caravans and recreational vehicles may be parked for a short period.


rancher

By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]

1987, E. C. Relph, The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present, page 174:

We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.

2009, Thomas Collins, How to Invest in Real Estate, page 21:

(US, real estate) A ranch-style house, a ranchhouse.


Osborne

From a medieval given name influenced by, or possibly derived from, Old Norse Ásbjǫrn, from áss (“god”) + bjǫrn (“bear”). See English bear.

A small city, the county seat of Osborne County, Kansas, United States.

Pipestone County
Pipestone County#English

A township in Pipestone County, Minnesota, United States.

A rural community in St. Clair township, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.

A former royal palace, now a tourist attraction, on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.


Buckingham Palace

The official London residence of the British monarch.

Buckingham-paleis

the official London residence of the British monarch


dessertspoon

(rare) An item of cutlery; a spoon, larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon, used for eating dessert.


escritoire

/ˌɛskɹɪˈtwɑːɹ/

From French, from escrire, obsolete form of écrire + -oire, indicating a tool or object. Doublet of scriptorium.

To surprise him, by finding on his table the books he liked, or the escritoire he had occasion for, gave Louisa the most delightful moments life had hitherto afforded her;...

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 199–200:

Fine promenades, domed saloons, long galleries, sunny balconies, confidential passages, bridal chambers, state-rooms plenty as pigeon-holes, and out-of-the-way retreats like secret drawers in an escritoire, present like facilities for publicity or privacy.

1857 April 1, Herman Melville, chapter II, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, New York, N.Y.: Dix, Edwards & Co., […], →OCLC:

Rosemary sat at her Public Works Department escritoire, in a sea of fed cats, and tried to write a letter to Vythilingam.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 561:

A writing desk with a hinged door that provides the writing surface.


social housing

(UK) Rental housing owned and managed by the government, non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, with the aim of providing affordable housing, often focusing on disadvantaged groups such as low-income earners, social-security recipients, the elderly and people with disabilities.

公共房屋

affordable housing provided by public authorities or non-profit organizations

(állami) bérlakás / bérház / lakástámogatás


trencher

/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

From Middle English trenchour, from Anglo-Norman trenchour and Old Northern French trencheor (French tranchoir), from trenchier (“to cut, to carve”). See trench (verb).

Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(archaic or historical) A plate on which food is served or cut.

tallador

(archaic or historical) a plate on which food is served


apartment building

apartment building (plural apartment buildings)

A residential building containing multiple apartments or flats.

жили́щен блок

residential building with multiple flats


gazump

en-verb

gazump (third-person singular simple present gazumps, present participle gazumping, simple past and past participle gazumped)

gazumps (present singular third-person)
gazumping (participle present)
gazumped (participle past)
gazumped (past)

Possibly from Yiddish גזלן (gazlen, “thief, bandit”).

If one believes that morality plays no part in such a transaction, and that the law is all that prevails, then I believe society is the poorer. Clearly no surveyor refuses to act for a client who gazumps — but while the practice is legal it can hardly be described as moral, and the position of the surveyor is far from clear.

1980, The Estates Gazette, volume 256, part 2, page 902:

During the early 1970s however in a period of rapidly increasing house prices it came to appear unfavourable to buyers since it allowed the seller to ‘gazump’, that is to refuse to sign the formal contract unless the buyer would agree to an increased price.

1981, Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire, M. P. Furmston, Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot, Cheshire and Fifoot's Law Of Contract, page 35:

(British, Australia, real estate) To raise the selling price of something (especially property) after previously agreeing to a lower one.

I can disclose that Mrs Blair had an offer of £2,765,000 accepted on a five-storey Georgian house in a fashionable area of central London, which she planned to give to daughter Kathryn.¶ However, actress Talulah Riley, 31, who played spoiled Annabelle Fritton in two St Trinian’s films, gazumped her with an offer of £3 million — a staggering £235,000 more than the asking price.

2017 March 15, Sebastian Shakespeare, “Cherie Blair is gazumped on £3m house by Elon Musk's ex-wife”, in The Daily Mail:

We are first-time buyers going through the process of buying our first home in London. We had previously tried three years ago and were gazumped twice. We lost nearly £4,000 to surveyors and solicitors with no property to show for it at the end.

2017 October 22, Nana Prempeh, quoting Nick Smith, “Gazumping: Your views”, in BBC News:

Birmingham's teen sensation Jude Bellingham is nearing a move to Borussia Dortmund, according to reports in Germany.¶ Manchester United and Chelsea have been strongly linked with the 16-year-old but are set to be gazumped by the Bundesliga giants.

2020 March 4, Marc Mayo, “Dortmund leading race for Jude Bellingham, 16, ahead of Man Utd with Birmingham wonderkid to be their record transfer”, in The Sun:

(British, Australia, real estate) To buy a property by bidding more than the price of an existing, accepted offer.


gazump

(British, Australia, real estate) The act of gazumping.


tumble dryer

An electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.


tian

From French, from Provençal tian, from Old Occitan, from Ancient Greek τήγανον (tḗganon), variant of τάγηνον (tágēnon, “frying pan”).

An oval cooking-pot, traditionally used in Provence.


scourer

From Middle English scourer, skourer, scowrrere, equivalent to scour + -er.

A scourer may be in the form of a mesh (ball) of wires, a flat piece of a rough fabric, or a pad with a soft sponge-like side and a more abrasive side.

A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookware.

in those days of highwaymen and scourers

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

(obsolete) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.


tabletop

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(furniture) The flat, horizontal upper surface of a table.


roaster

From Middle English roster, roostare, equivalent to roast + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix). Same formation as roster, although the words have very different meanings.

I found a really nice roaster in the kitchenware aisle, plus a bamboo cutting board.

(cooking) A kitchen utensil used for roasting.


roll-top desk

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he bought the roll-top desk and sat at it to do the accounts once a week

2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 393:

A desk having a flexible top, made of parallel slats, that rolls away when not needed.

ロールトップデスク

desk having a flexible top that rolls away


bedpost

Any of the four upright supports of a bedstead.

sloupek postele

any of the four upright supports of a bedstead


rotisserie

/ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/

/ɹəʊˈtɪs.ɹi/

From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.

There will be no more misery / When the world is our rotisserie

1959, Tom Lehrer (lyrics and music), “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:

Rotisseries are essentially self-basting because most of the juices stay on the meat and distribute across it while the rotisserie is being turned.

2007, Dan Huntley, Lisa Grace Lednicer, Extreme Barbecue: Smokin' Rigs and 100 Real Good Recipes, page 279:

Rotisseries cook with dry heat, but the continual rotation of foods as they cook helps maintain their natural juices.

2010, Regina S. Baraban, Joseph F. Durocher, Successful Restaurant Design, page 150:

The Italians are famous for their little windup rotisseries that cook in wood—burning ovens.

2010, Diane Phillips, The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook, page v:

Rotisserie broilers cook meats and other foods by turning them slowly in front of electric or gas-powered heating elements.

2011, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, 7th edition, page 47:

A cooking device with which food is roasted on a rotating spit.

rotisserie baseball
rotisserie baseball#English

fantasy baseball
fantasy baseball#English

(US, sports) Ellipsis of rotisserie baseball. Synonym of fantasy baseball

rotisserie sports
rotisserie sports#English

(US, sports) Ellipsis of rotisserie sports. Synonym of fantasy sports


bathhouse

Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).

A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.


tajine

From Moroccan Arabic طَجِين (ṭajīn), from Arabic طَاجِن (ṭājin, “shallow earthen pot”), from Ancient Greek τάγηνον (tágēnon, “frying pan, saucepan”), further etymology unknown.

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On a round table, food is served in a central platter or tagine or in shallow dishes so that it can be easily picked up with the fingers.

2005, Tess Mallos, Cooking Moroccan, Millers Point, N.S.W.: Murdoch Books, →ISBN, page 8:

Sometimes, in very densely populated urban areas in Egypt, one can still see children navigating their way through the labyrinthine maze of shops in the souk (marketplace) to bring their tagins to the bread baker.

2011, Amy Riolo, “Egypt”, in Ken Albala, editor, Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, volumes I (Africa and the Middle East), Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 54, column 2:

A tajine is a heavy ceramic plate covered with a conical lid of the same material. The prettiest tajines, decorated in all sorts of colours and designs, come from Safi, but the best tajines for actual use are plain reddish-brown in colour, and come from Salé. The food in a tajine is arranged with the meat in the middle and the vegetables piled up around it.

2016, “Morocco Basics”, in Morocco: Essaouira and the Atlantic Coast (Rough Guides Snapshot), London: Rough Guides, →ISBN:

(cooking) An earthenware cooking pot of North African origin, consisting of a shallow, round dish without handles and a tall, conical or dome-shaped lid.


whorl foot

A French design, the whorl foot was first seen on furniture in the mid-18th century.

(furniture) A foot that takes the form of a scroll at the end that rests on a shoe.


terrine

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Borrowed from French terrine (“a clay dish; that which is cooked in the dish”). Doublet of tureen.

bor

A deep type of dish or pan, typically used for casseroles and made out of pottery.


springform

(often attributive) A round baking tin with a rim that can be detached from the base, making it easy to remove the contents after baking.

kapcsos tortaforma

a round baking tin with a rim that can be detached from the base


headboard

A vertical panel, either plain or upholstered, attached to the head of a bed.

(nautical) A panel, usually of metal, attached to the head of a fore-and-aft sail for additional strength.

A new use has been found for the L.M.S.R. observation car which previously worked in the Llandudno area. Mr. W. G. S. Wike writes that, still carrying headboards with the inscription "Llandudno and Blaenau Festiniog", it found its way to the Blackpool District, where it was used for familiarising enginemen with the various routes of access to this populous resort.

1939 June, “What the Railways are Doing: Novel Use of an Observation Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 462:

(rail transport) A board on the front of a train, carrying the train's name or that of the service it is on.


toilet table

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Her low bed, oak dresser, and toilet-table could be tucked out of view with a flick of her wrist. In the main area, a plain, solid table with four decent chairs took up one wall, the cast-iron stove and window the other. Crockery, china and linens;...

2008, Stephen Marche, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, Penguin, →ISBN:


box spring

A box-shaped frame into which is a set of spiral springs, upon which rests a bed mattress.


skimmer

A device that skims.
A sieve-like, slotted spoon.

A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.

Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.


bunkbed

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rooming house

A house which lets out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.


bedsit

(British, Ireland) A form of rented accommodation consisting of a single room for use as both sitting room and bedroom; there may also be a small kitchen area and washing and toilet facilities, but these amenities are more commonly outside the room and shared by several tenants.


stockpot

(cooking) A large pot, such as is used for making stock or for cooking large amounts of soup.


kotatsu

A knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.

暖桌

a knee-high table with an electric foot-warmer


tea table

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Having abundance of roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own, she made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it, they exclaimed in chorus over its loveliness.

1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:

(furniture) A small table upon which tea is set to be served.


scouring pad

A flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning purposes.


rowhouse

(especially US) One of a row of houses situated side by side and sharing a common wall.


pier table

A small table, usually set against the wall between two windows.


pan

→? Irish: panna

→ Japanese: パン

From Middle English panne, from Old English panne, from Proto-West Germanic *pannā, from Proto-Germanic *pannǭ, from Late Latin panna, from Latin patina (“broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan”), from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē, “kind of flat dish”), which is probably from Pre-Greek.
Cognate with West Frisian panne, Saterland Frisian Ponne, Dutch pan, German Low German Panne, Pann, German Pfanne, Danish pande, Swedish panna, Icelandic panna.

pan

flat vessel used for cooking — see also frying pan

A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.

The steel band transforms the people who play in it and dance to it, and fosters links between them. […] He learned to play the pan and filled in for absent members.

2009, Pnina Werbner, Black and Ethnic Leaderships, page 122:


chinaware

en-noun

chinaware (countable and uncountable, plural chinawares)

Alternative case form of Chinaware, China-ware, &c., from China + -ware.

According to the Japanese writer, the two first-named mountains and hills, besides several other places up and down Hizen, is made Japanese porcelain or chinaware out of a whitish fat clay, which is found there in great plenty.

1881, George Ashdown Audsley, Keramic Art of Japan, page 148:

So I turned my attention to setting up my new home, arranging the furniture and displaying Rita's sparkling glass and chinaware on the sideboard.

1996, Rina De'firenze, Mystery of the Mona Lisa:

This book includes a systematic examination of chinawares in over a thousand documented estates from the seaport communities of Salem, Boston, Newport, New York, and Philadelphia from 1690 to 1770.

2011, Caroline Frank, Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America:


oven glove

A heatproof glove designed to carry hot things to or from an oven.


step stool

A stool of various designs with one or more steps; in some designs the steps may be folded away underneath the seat when not in use.


sickbed

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end table

The tiny rooms are fitted with a burgundy leather chair, an end table stacked with phone books, and an ugly orange payphone common here in Australia.

2003, James Postell, Daytrips Eastern Austrailia:

A small table placed beside a chair or at each end of a sofa.

Tischchen

small table placed beside a chair or a sofa


battledore

From Middle English batildore, batylledore, batildure, batyldoure, batyndore, probably as a blend of Middle English betel (“bat, club”) and Old Occitan batedor (“beater, bat”).

battledore and shuttlecock
battledore and shuttlecock

A game played with a shuttlecock and rackets (properly battledore and shuttlecock); a forerunner of badminton.

Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air.

1797, George Staunton, “Cochin-china”, in An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; […] In Two Volumes, […], volume I, London: […] G[eorge] Nicol, […], →OCLC, page 339:

There were nights when it seemed to me that our position could be stormed by twenty Boy Scouts armed with airguns, or twenty Girl Guides armed with battledores, for that matter.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.

1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface:

(obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.

There is a large basin near the fountain, where numbers of women may be seen every day, kneeling at the edge of the water, and beating the clothes with heavy pieces of wood in the shape of battledores.

1563, John Foxe, chapter 21, in The Book of Martyrs:

The laundry process of the time [1665] consisted of boiling textiles with lye or soap and then beating them with a battledore, a rustic version of a cricket bat.

2018 October 25, Matthew Taub, “Why England Once Forced Everyone to Be Buried in Wool”, in Atlas Obscura:

(historical) A wooden paddle-shaped bat or beetle used to wash clothes by beating, stirring, or smoothing them.


coffeemaker

Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.

1681, Thomas De Laune, The Present State of London, page 113:

If your cook is not habitually a good coffee-maker, the coffee will most probably be sent in cold, thick, and weak—for want of some previous supervision.

1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book, page 35:

To be sure it had to be taken without milk, but there was plenty of sugar, and when Rod passed his tin cup for a second helping, the coffee-maker's face fairly beamed with gratified pride.

1892, Kirk Munroe, Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy, page 47:

One of the tests by which a Greek goddess is measured is the quality of her Greek coffee. There are many ways to prepare it, and a flawless result is uncontestable proof of proper technique. Medium, sweet, plain, “heavy” and sweet, “heavy” with no sugar, with or without a film of foamy bubbles are some of the many variations of an expert coffee maker. Can she prepare good coffee? She’s a goddess!

2018, Katerina Tsemperlidou, translated by Alexandra Kalapothaki, Greek Women are Goddesses, AKAKIA Publications, →ISBN:


butter knife

A non-serrated or unilaterally serrated table knife with a dull edge and rounded point, designed for spreading butter on a piece of bread without tearing it.


cookware

cookware (usually uncountable, plural cookwares)

The assorted objects, such as pots, pans, baking sheets, etc., used for cooking


throw pillow

A small pillow, usually sealed, usually placed on a chair or sofa and used primarily for decoration rather than to sleep on.


botanical garden

botanical garden (plural botanical gardens)

A place where a variety of plants are grown, primarily for scientific or educational reasons, but are normally open to the public, and include ornamental plants from around the world.

حَدِيقَة نَبَاتِيَّة

a place where a variety of plants are grown for scientific reasons


bunk bed

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Two or more beds fixed on top of one another, so that one person can sleep in each bunk at a different height.

سَرِير بِطَابَقَيْن

two or more beds fixed on top of one another


corer

(geology) A device used to take core samples for analysis


homeowner

He advised homeowners to get insurance before then so they can be grandfathered in as discretionary buyers of flood insurance in a nonflood zone.

2009 June 9, Joseph Berger, “Flood Zone Remapping Hits Hard on Long Island”, in The New York Times:

The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.

2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-03:


kitchen cabinet

kitchen cabinet (plural kitchen cabinets)

kitchen + cabinet (“an advisory group of people”)

(informal) An informal group of advisors to a country's chief executive, as distinguished from the official cabinet.


appraisal cost

(real estate, usually in the plural) The costs that are incurred in assessing that products/services conform to the requirements. It relates to testing, executing, and examination to assess whether specified quality is being maintained. Some example component items of the total appraisal costs are: product quality audits, process control monitoring, inspection and testing of goods, and maintenance of test equipment.


canopy bed

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