A brickfielder is a hot, dry wind in Southern Australia. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “A Blowing Brickfielder” Grant, do you know what a brick fielder is? A center fielder who doesn’t have to move when a pot fly comes their way...
Ben in Sydney, Australia, writes with a suggestion for a word describing that feeling you get upon discovering that your favorite restaurant has closed. He calls it noshtalgia, and shares a touching story about his own experience with it...
ontin n.— «But he also likes to come up with new words to describe cultural patterns, acknowledging that at breakfast he invented a new word—ontin, meaning the ostensible usage of something—which he has already used a few times to much bewilderment...
positive jaws n.— «Wilson HTM banking guru Brett LeMesurier notes the “positive jaws”—bankers” parlance for income growth exceeding expense growth—were sadly lacking. “Not only are the jaws shut, there now seems to be overbite,” he quips.» —“ANZ...
surface snorting n.— «Scores of Sydneysiders woke to the sight of thick white smoke coming from a Collins-class submarine off Sydney’s northern beaches this morning, but their fears of a fire were unfounded—it was just the ageing sub’s batteries...
hail cannon n.— «He also has what’s called a hail cannon, which uses a sonic boom to bombard hailstones so they break up and are less damaging to fruit.» —“Drought creates thirst for hi-tech farming” in Sydney, Australia Earthtimes.org Nov. 2, 2007...
