48. Brannock device: the thing they use to measure your feet at the shoe store.
49. Interrobang: what it’s called when you combine a question mark with an exclamation point like this: ?!
50. Mamihlapinatapai: the look shared by two people who both hope the other will offer to do something that they both want but aren’t willing to do.
51. Phloem bundles: those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.
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patrick.b.steg 10 year s ago
Good gawd... so many of these are flat out wrong, or not adequately explained!
Aglet is the coated tip of a lace, not the whole lace.
Snood is a net like hairpiece that holds the hair on the back of the head, the part on a turkey they mention is called the wattle.
Only ball peen hammers (sometimes called a machinist's hammer) have a peen. The "regular" hammers most people are familiar with is a claw hammer, and the side opposite the face (hammer striking face) is the claw.
Only bottles for sparking wines, like champagne, have a punt.
Aglet is the coated tip of a lace, not the whole lace.
Snood is a net like hairpiece that holds the hair on the back of the head, the part on a turkey they mention is called the wattle.
Only ball peen hammers (sometimes called a machinist's hammer) have a peen. The "regular" hammers most people are familiar with is a claw hammer, and the side opposite the face (hammer striking face) is the claw.
Only bottles for sparking wines, like champagne, have a punt.
Aglet is the coated tip of a lace, not the whole lace.
Snood is a net like hairpiece that holds the hair on the back of the head, the part on a turkey they mention is called the wattle.
Only ball peen hammers (sometimes called a machinist's hammer) have a peen. The "regular" hammers most people are familiar with is a claw hammer, and the side opposite the face (hammer striking face) is the claw.
Only bottles for sparking wines, like champagne, have a punt.