In our Facebook discussion about unusual English words for ordinary things, a listener points out the term wharfinger, which means someone who manages a wharf. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Wharfinger”
Here’s another word I learned from listeners on our Facebook group.
Wharfinger, w-h-a-r and then finger. Wharfinger is this a person who hangs out on a wharf?
Is the operator or manager of a commercial wharf. Oh, wharfinger, wharfinger. I just, I don’t know that word.
Just makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I don’t know why. Well, I’ve got a word for a thing you’ve probably done before.
There’s a word for separating a citrus fruit out into its segments. Really? It is to supreme it. You can supreme an orange or supreme a grapefruit, common enough to appear in some cookbooks.
So I could supreme a clementine? You could supreme a clementine. You have supremeed it if you have broken it out into its own segments.
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