tea sommelier n.— «Tiny finger sandwiches, crumpets, Devonshire cream and delicate tea cups hard figure on my gastronomic landscape. And this place even has a Tea Sommelier (a highfalutin word for tea expert) for heavens sake...
Q-dot n.— «Enter Marcel P. Bruchez, a Carnegie Mellon University associate research professor in chemistry and his amazing quantum dots. Q-dots, as they are called, are nanometer-sized crystallized particles with semiconductor properties...
skybusting v.— «North of Toronto at Tiny and Wye Marshes, fog, that persisted until 10 a.m., eliminated the skybusting that is common in public areas and forced all hunters to wait until the ducks were close.» —“Opening-day bag...
shottie n.— «Known to other gang members as “Tiny Alien,” he was also on police bail when he died facing a string of charges including robbery, theft and violence. One picture shows him crouching down in a hallway and...
three-nager n.— «Whoever invented the word “three-nagers,” was clearly speaking from bitter experience—they were describing three year olds with the rebellious spirit of a teenager, but none of the reasoning skills...