compost tea n.— «Spraying compost tea coats plants with a dense and diverse population of beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. A good tea can contain as many as 25,000 species of bacteria. Once on the leaves, compost tea...
internal nutrition n.— «What was going on at the internment camp wasn’t force feeding, he insisted. It was “internal nutrition.”» —“Off-colour stoats one for the Greens” by Alan...
gallerist n.— «A fashionable new word is bubbling up in the New York art scene: gallerist, as a substitute for art dealer. Not, of course, just any art dealer. A gallerist is directly involved with the care and feeding of artists, rather...
buzzard’s luck n. bad luck. Editorial Note: This term refers specifically to carrion-feeding North American vultures that are called buzzards. The expression is often accompanied by the explanation that a buzzard “can’t kill nothing and...
peg n.— «Most patients on feeding tubes, or pegs as they are called, have severe dementia or are in a persistent vegetative state.» —“The medical details about feeding tubes” by Regina McEnery Plain...
freeco n.— «Since I cannot quantify the scope of the “freeco” that the Caricom Santa Claus dispensed at the November feeding frenzy, our Parliament must be engaged because too many politically-partisan decisions have been made...