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chrome - podictionary 850
Google has come out with its own browser and called it Chrome so I thought I’d look into chrome as a word.
First of all I think many people know that Google as a company took its name in error, based a made-up name for a large number.
Edward Kasner was an American mathematician who once asked [.....
switch - podictionary 849
A number of sources theorize that it is the back and forth motion of a whip that led to a mechanical switch taking on the word.
Tabasco - podictionary 847
In men whom men condemn as ill / I find so much of goodness still
In men whom men pronounce divine / I find so much of sin and blot
I hesitate to draw the line / Between the two where God has not.
bluff - podictionary 846
"the word is probably one of the numerous cant terms which arose between the Restoration and the reign of Queen Anne." Cant was the supposed secret language of thieves starting in the 1500s.It makes some sense that the bluff to "blindfold" meaning could have come from the language of the criminal...
buff - podictionary 845
The physically fit "buff" is new enough that it's hard to find a first citation. It isn't even mentioned in the OED yet. Merriam-Webster does mention it and I get the sense that this meaning comes from the "polishing" or "enhancing" effect of body building. Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Contempora...
cushy - podictionary 844
A "cushy wound" was one that didn't actually endanger your life but was enough to get you out of the trenches.
thug - podictionary 842
...the Thugs continued to practice their execrable trade?the evil seems to have been regarded in much the same light as the fixed inconveniences of the climate...
horde - podictionary 841
there is an etymological connection between the name of the language Pervez Musharraf uses and today's podictionary word
passion - podictionary 840
Byron was talking about being consumed by passionate love, the image of being struck by lightning and bursting into flames sounds pretty painful and actually, pain is really at the root of passion.
doldrums - podictionary 839
As The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea explains it "[the doldrums are a] belt of low pressure that extends 5° to 10° either side of the equator?[they] were notorious in the days of sail, because vessels could become becalmed there for many days and even weeks?Being in the doldrums has now b...
