Seldom-Used Words

[Handley_Page]

trencherman • n., a person who eats in a specified manner, typically heartily; a glutton.
...speaking of trencher.

Not a glutton, according to my Oxford.
A person with a healthy, hearty appetite; one who eats all put before him/her.
(also a person who scrounges a meal).

I believe it may be from Trencher: A slice of bread used as a plate or platter

 

[AllardChardon]

Americans don't use this one very often;

rotter - noun a thoroughly objectionable person

 

[oggbashan]

Not a glutton, according to my Oxford.
A person with a healthy, hearty appetite; one who eats all put before him/her.
(also a person who scrounges a meal).

I believe it may be from Trencher: A slice of bread used as a plate or platter

My understanding is that a trencherman eats the Trencher as well as the meal served on it.

Og

 

[Tio_Narratore]

My understanding is that a trencherman eats the Trencher as well as the meal served on it.

Og

Johhny McEldoo, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fZ3ISaHv0

 

[oggbashan]

Johhny McEldoo, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fZ3ISaHv0

Or Obelix from the Asterix stories.

When Og was very young, in the time of WWII rationing and unpleasant food substitutes such as Woolton Pie, I was sometimes loaned to parents of fussy eaters. I would eat anything and everything. If the child opposite me wasn't keen on their food, I'd eat their portion too and ask for more. A few meals with me and the fussy child would start defending their food or eating it before I could. It worked almost every time and I was well fed.

Possibly too well fed, too much of a trencherman. I'm now diagnosed with Type II diabetes.

 

[trysail]

Not a glutton, according to my Oxford.
A person with a healthy, hearty appetite; one who eats all put before him/her.
(also a person who scrounges a meal).

I believe it may be from Trencher: A slice of bread used as a plate or platter

Aren't words fun!

It's interesting to see the different senses of the word arising from different sources. My Concise Oxford Dictionary ( 10th ed. ) does not suggest gluttony; that is also the case for the Compact OED. It is nevertheless clear that Oxford does not view a trencherman as a dieter or abstemious eater in its invocation of the understated and delightfully tongue-in-cheek "healthy eater" description.

Other sources are explicit in their use of the word "glutton." For example:

glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman (a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess)

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=trencherman

The wry humor incorporated in the word's origin is obvious: a person who eats everything on their "plate" and the "plate" too!


Og's anecdote was typically both amusing and illustrative.

 

[AllardChardon]

Did I ever tell you, gentlemen, how much I appreciate your input? Yes, I suppose I have, but I can never say it enough for my trencherman tastes!

This one has three entries and I only knew of one;

rote - noun CROWD

rote - noun 1. the use of memory usu. with little intelligence 2. routine or repetition carried out without understanding or mechanically

rote - noun the noise of the surf on the shore

 

[Handley_Page]

Did I ever tell you, gentlemen, how much I appreciate your input? Yes, I suppose I have, but I can never say it enough for my trencherman tastes!

This one has three entries and I only knew of one;

rote - noun CROWD

rote - noun 1. the use of memory usu. with little intelligence 2. routine or repetition carried out without understanding or mechanically

rote - noun the noise of the surf on the shore

Like many others, I learned my multiplication tables by rote.

 

[AllardChardon]

Handley, it was the last entry that intrigued me. I have never read the word rote to describe the sound of waves breaking on the shore before.

ross - noun the rough often scaly exterior of bark

 

[Tio_Narratore]

rollamite noun. A mechanism consisting of two or more hard cylindrical rollers with a flexible nonstretching band looped around them, so that the rollers move against each other with very little friction.

(Now there's a technology that should be incorporated into one of our sci-fi or hi-tech sex stories...)

 

[AllardChardon]

This one is also new to me;

roscoe noun slang PISTOL

 

[oggbashan]

This one is also new to me;

roscoe noun slang PISTOL

As used in 1930s and 40s gangster movies...

Why? I don't know.

 

[AllardChardon]

Yes, Og, that was an odd one. Here is another;

roque - noun croquet played on a hard-surfaced court with a raised border

 

[AllardChardon]

How about this one;

roose - noun PRAISE

 

[AllardChardon]

This one is sure to have some history to it;

roorback - noun a defamatory falsehood published for political effect

 

[AllardChardon]

Happy Father's Day, Dads, Grandpas and future Pops! Here is another word that leads to fatherhood;

romant - noun archaic ROMANCE

 

[AllardChardon]

Anyone know about this word;

ronyon - noun obsolete a mangy or scabby creature

 

[oggbashan]

Happy Father's Day, Dads, Grandpas and future Pops! Here is another word that leads to fatherhood;

romant - noun archaic ROMANCE

I know this word from the title of Chaucer's Romant of the Rose.

WORKS OF CHAUCER

Earlier, lines 255-267 (A), the god of love accuses Chaucer:

Thow hast translatid the romauns of the rose
That is an eresye a-geyns myn lawe

And makyst wise folk fro me withdrawe
*******

Hast thow nat mad in englys ek the bok

How that Crisseyde Troylis forsok, etc.

 

[AllardChardon]

Thank you, Og, that was beautiful to read.

rondure - noun 1. ROUND 2. gracefully rounded curvature

 

[AllardChardon]

There are two entries for romp, but I am only posting the first one here;

romp - noun [partly alter. of ramp (bold woman)] 1. one that romps; esp. a romping girl or woman 2. boisterous play: FROLIC 3. an easy winning pace

 

[Handley_Page]

How about this one;

roose - noun PRAISE

I think there could be a bit more to it than that:-

roose. Also (Sc.) ruise.

A
1 v.refl. & (rare) i. Boast or be proud of something. Usu. foll. by of..
2. Commend, praise; flatter.

B
1 Boasting, bragging; a boast, a brag.
2 Commendation, praise; flattery.

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[AllardChardon]

Handley, that was all my ole dictionary said about roose. Thanks for the additional definitions.

Here's a couple of interesting capitalized words;

Romany - noun 1. GYPSY 2. the Indic language of the Gypsies

Romish - adj Roman Catholic, usually used disparagingly

 

[oggbashan]

Handley, that was all my ole dictionary said about roose. Thanks for the additional definitions.

Here's a couple of interesting capitalized words;

Romany - noun 1. GYPSY 2. the Indic language of the Gypsies

Romish - adj Roman Catholic, usually used disparagingly

George Borrow wrote The Romany Rye, considered the most accurate account of Romany ways at the time.

Romish Rite was a cause celebre during the early 19th century Church of England when several prominent C of E personages advocated very ceremonial High Church practices such as repeated genufluction and numbers of incense burning acolytes. At times they were almost more inclined to extreme forms of service stagecraft than the Roman Catholic Church in England which was undergoing a revival in England at the time. The Puseyites were ridiculed in the pages and cartoons of Punch magazine.

 

[AllardChardon]

Og, I do recall your mentioning The Romany Rye in a past post, but I must thank you for the information on Pusey. It is my favorite era, the 1850s, and would have been discussed by my travelers during their lengthy steamship voyage from New York to London aboard the Collins Line. you are a wonderful source of information and I truly appreciate your guidance.

Romanic - adj ROMANCE

Romanism - noun ROMAN CATHOLIC, often taken to be offensive

Romanist - noun 1. ROMAN CATHOLIC, often taken to be offensive 2. a specialist in the language, culture or law of ancient Rome

Romansh or Romansch - noun the Rhaeto-Romanic dialects spoken in the Grisons, Switzerland and adjacent parts of Italy

 

[AllardChardon]

I liked this word immediately, even though I have never encountered it before;

roman-fleuve - noun a distinctively French novel in the form of a long, usually easygoing, chronicle of a family, community or other social group