bone dry

completely or extremely dry

The springs failed this year, leaving the riverbed bone dry.

by bluestinger66 April 19, 2023

dotilasolfamiredo

Solfege syllables sung backwards

Doremifasolatido, Dotilasolfamiredo. That’s how the scale goes forward and back.

by bluestinger66 October 29, 2022

o’clock

used to specify the hour when telling the time.

It’s twelve o’clock now.

by bluestinger66 March 15, 2023

Tententen

Another name for Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron

Since the Decameron has the Greek word for the number ten (δέκα) in its name, and in the work itself there are ten people, each of whom tells a story each of the ten days spent in their final place, I made up a new name for this famous piece. It’s Tententen.

by bluestinger66 February 12, 2023

lek

Basic monetary unit of Albania

One Albanian lek is equal to 100 qindarkas.

by bluestinger66 September 02, 2022

hoapucksummumplay

A word I made up when I was about eight or nine years old. Means “to share toys with your brother(s) and/or sister(s).”

Whoever is going to hoapucksummumplay with me, you’re all welcome to come to my room.

by bluestinger66 February 12, 2025

ribose

a sugar of the pentose class which occurs widely in nature as a constituent of nucleosides and several vitamins and enzymes

RNA is made up of nucleotides, which are ribose sugars attached to nitrogenous bases and phosphate groups. The nitrogenous bases include adenine, guanine, uracil, and cytosine. RNA mostly exists in the single-stranded form, but there are special RNA viruses that are double-stranded.

by bluestinger66 February 25, 2023