My mother and grandmother always call it oleo. I occasionally call it that, especially when working from one of their recipes. I think of it as an old-fashioned word, but certainly not rare.
(furiously taking notes…)
Keep 'em coming dopers. I need all the help I can get.
What we really need is for someone to post all those friggin’ “combination form” words. Hell, I don’t even know what that means. The only one I know (and I’m not even that sure of it) is:
Ostea/o - Bone: combination form.
You already got two of my favorites, nene and adit…but what about ewer (pitcher) or alae, (winged)?
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** Elia (Kazan)…
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and ELIE (Wiesel)
xtnjohnson: “Ural (clue: Russian river, never mountain)”
and ARAL (Russian sea)
ARETE (mountain ridge)
and RARA or AVIS, depending
OTID - eared seal
GHEE - clarified butter
ort - table scrap
nib - a sharp point
alee - away from the wind
tar - an old salt (sailor)
Jeg elsker dig, Thomas
Crossword puzzle’s favorite pitcher
OREL Hershiser
Good ones, folks. I had forgotten about most of those, and also:
ANIL - some sort of dye, I think.
OAST - kind of oven
OLLA - king of pot
OTOE and UTE - Western Native American tribes
Chaim Mattis Keller
Good ones, folks. I had forgotten about most of those, and also:
ANIL - some sort of dye, I think.
OAST - kind of oven
OLLA - king of pot
OTOE and UTE - Western Native American tribes
Chaim Mattis Keller
Never heard of this one. Seriously, anyone know what kind of pot it is (I am assuming that “king” is a typo) - like a Dutch oven or saucepan?
Although the ‘king of pot’ does bring up some interesting images…
Sheesh. Not only do I double-post, I write “King of pot” instead of “kind of pot.” :o
“King of pot,” of course, is Jimi Hendrix…
8-letter word for “Careless poster”, anyone?
Chaim Mattis Keller
E’er and ere mean exactly the same thing, so when I see “Before: poetic” as a clue, I pull out my hair and scream. O’er is a favorite, too.
I wish I was Olla, King of Pot. I would rule.
I may be wrong, but i think e’er is a contraction of ever and ere means before.
noria - water wheel
oriel - bay window
Oulo - city in Finland
An “olla” is a Mexican soup pot. Used to make the soup called “olla podrida” (literally “rotten pot”… it’s a mishmashy mulligan stew).
Aside: what’s the French phrase for “rotten pot”? potpourri.
My favorite “crossword words” have all been mentioned, so I’ll address a related point. Whenever the clue has a question mark after it, I know the answer is going to be smart-assed; what I don’t appreciate is when they do a smart-assed answer and DON’T tip you off with a question mark. I remember once the clue for a five-letter word was:
Hammer and sickle
And the answer was:
TOOLS
Arrrrggggh.
The thing all these words have in common is the high ratio of vowels to consonants. Any word with at least 50% vowels is crossword fodder. Makes it easier to set up with other words going across it.
I also have to wonder…
would the sport of Jai Lai even exist anymore if not for crossword puzzles
Someone beat me to “ogee” but I can still claim that famous Herman Melville work, “Omoo”.
I like Crosswords but my problem is that the Dell brand contain no clues that reference anything after 1962. IS there a good source for crosswords written by people who’ve been aware of the past 30-40 years? Games Magazine has good ones, but they seldom collect them.