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falsificate

noun

Plural:   falsificates 

The result of falsification;  a fake.

Examples: 

The cellar was overpacked to bursting but there was enough room on the fake chest falsificate from last month (planted there by Doctor Barton so that he could hide the real kist from constabulary examiners) to lay out their tools on it.  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 

Translations:

Slovak / Slovenčina (SK):   falzifikát

Czech / Čeština (CZ):   falsifikát;  padělek

verb

Infinitive:  falsificate
3rd person:  falsificates
Present:  falsificating
Gerund:  falsificating
Past:  falsificated
Perfect:  falsificated

To falsify;  to fake;  to create a fraudulent copy of something.

farly

adverb

Far;  distantly;  remotely.

fast-growster

noun

Plural:   fast-growsters 

Something or someone that grows quickly.  Specifically:  A child or adolescent in their developmental growth spurts.

fauteuil

noun

Plural:   fauteuils 

Any armchair (upholstered chair) in general, or a specific type of armchair with open wooden or metallic armrests.

favourisation

noun

Amer·:   favorization
Plural:   favourisations (UK)  /  favorizations (US)

The process, propensity or tendency to make, propose or consider something or someone preferred over others;  favouring;  promotion;  recommendation;  preference.

Examples: 

It cannot be considered as any advice, guidance, instructing, replacement of medical or relevant professional consultation, a substitute for or denial of healthcare practices and protocols, favourisation of so-called alternative medicine or analogical nonsense, nor as a claim concerning any therapeutic, healing, health-related or unnamed benefits of the involved viands.  (Source: J∙ Okram - Semolina Dumplings for Soups  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

fearbag

noun

Plural:   fearbags 

Someone filled with fear;  a scared or easily frightened person.

Examples: 

—You can even inlocke yourself  [in the bathroom]  from innerside if you're shyful.  Or a fearbag.  And don't push the red button.  Inasmuch the klosethilfung is summoned by that. 
Bruno didn't understand. 
—That's such a kind of a rescuator.  The athandy sort.  Helpmanship for old people.  The ringer alarmic.  What, am I saying anything goodless?  Well, you know, when oldsters are stricken by a backpain, when they're being circled headaround by a fit, such things when enthreatening them.  Elseway, if they are nigh to befaint on the seathole.  (Context:  Grandma Estela is showing Bruno the toilet located outside the Bartons' apartment.  In her archaic language, she informs him of special accessories therein.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 

Translations:

Slovak / Slovenčina (SK):  strachopud, bojko

Czech / Čeština (CZ):  strašpytl

flatcake

noun

Plural:   flatcakes

A collective term for meals that are thin or not very thick, such as pancakes, latkes, pizza, tortillas, flatbread, etc·.  Figuratively, a flatcake is something rolled-over and flattened by a car, train, roll, or so.

Examples: 

Potato pancakes can vary from smooth thin crepes-likes up to lumpy, thick flatcakes.  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

flatpan

noun

Plural:   flatpans

An extremely shallow frying pan with very short rims, making it easy for tools to go under the fried food from the sides.

Examples: 

Depending on the amount and shapes of potware we own and the models of ovens or hotplates available, we have to figure out our own approach to the multi-plate challenge.  Say, we need plenteous pans.  As makeshift, we can use shoal pots instead.  Pancakes don't know whether they are being slow-roasted in a flatpan or in a casserole, wok, saucepan, or laver (but we avoid non-cooking containers posing the threat of toxic varnishes, thermolabile paints, harmful metals, etc∙).  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

flushtank

noun

Plural:   flushtanks 

A receptacle filled with water for flushing, especially the tank attached to a toilet bowl.

Examples: 

Bruno resolutely prehended the other flushstring as well and pulled gentlishly.  A few waterdrops were sputtered from the underrim flushgap and the tankwater refilled in three seconds.  He pulled all the way down, and it flushed usually.  Water was now replenishing in both flushtanks.  The second one, empty, had to be rewatered from the very bottom.  The first watertank's level was close to maximum, and the downfading influx got gradually throttled off with a declining hiss.  (Context:  A boy named Bruno tries to figure out why there are two tanks attached to a single toilet bowl.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 

Translations:

Slovak / Slovenčina (SK):  splachovacia nádržka

Czech / Čeština (CZ):  splachovací nádržka

freebooter's delicacy

noun

Plural:   freebooter's delicacies

A meal made of several layers of sliced potatoes with interleaved shaves or chunks of meat, diced sausages, bacon, onion, salt and spices, all barbecued together on a skewer or braised in embers; a so-called bandit roast, an easy-to-make food very popular with European tourists and campers;  freebsie;  slicemeal;  sliceroast.

Examples:

After a quick refreshing snack on warmed freebooter's delicacy and after bolsterising the nerves with a sip of port wine, Doctor Barton hastily lugged up his brown-green rucksack:

—The workplan is as follows.  At the rosebush level, we will stretch one black and one white rope with evenly spaced knots and...  (Dr∙ Barton and Hubert are getting ready to try photographing strange ghost-like apparitions in a night cemetery.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 

Translations:

Slovak / Slovenčina (SK):  živánska pochúťka;  živánska

frycake

noun

Plural:   frycakes

A cake, cake-like, or cake-shaped meal prepared by frying, such as pancakes, latkes, hashbrowns, etc·.

Examples: 

Summary:  The lighter subvarieties (no pork bellies and/or no oil in the batter mix) and the dry-fried variations necessitate the topmost quality anti-adhesive dreampans (Teflonised, siliconised, durable Delimano enamels, etc∙).  Elsewise, our frycakes will cling and overburn.  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

fryout

noun

Plural:   fryouts

A cookout resulting from frying;  a product of boiling in fat;  fried food;  fritter.

Examples:

However, believe it or disbelieve, even the like wrecks are no obstacle to attaining first-class fryouts.  With dueful care, theoretically, pancakes can be fixed on a mere piece of sheet metal.  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

frypan

noun

Plural:   frypans

A shallow pot or tray for cooking foods in fat, typically with one long handle;  frying pan.

Examples: 

Those surrounded by fanatic enemies of the brownish-to-blackish patina of a purposefully "initiated" frypan are in an unenviable situation.  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

frypanological

adjective

Coming from or concerning the body of knowledge, science and technology related to making, using and maintaining frying pans.

Examples: 

To conclude the frypanological scientific treatise, let's see how to avert welding-on of Barton-sort patties onto the recesses of subaverage and inferior pans.  The secret of success lies in the dubbed roastpot priming.  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

frypot

noun

Plural:   frypots

A standalone pot for frying foods on a stove;  a heated oil-containing compartment in a frying apparatus.

Examples: 

Aiming to prevent this, a handful of crucial niceties ought to be kept in mind: a useable potato strain, a reliable frypot, and unrushed roasting.  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

frystuff

noun

Plural:   frystuffs

An abstract or collective name for a thing or things related to, used for, or resulting from frying, which can be either:  (i) foods cooked in oil, or  (ii) literature, pans, pots, utensils, and tools useful for frying (the fryware).

Examples: 

...the shelving of mucky fryware brings no positive aspects into cookmanship.  If our palm sticks to the handle immediately upon grasping, what would you expect next?  The frystuff's inseparability from the sticky egg-scrambling zone is not to be wondered at...  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

fryware

noun

Plural:   frywares

A collective name for pans, pots, utensils and tools used for frying.

Examples: 

...the shelving of mucky fryware brings no positive aspects into cookmanship.  If our palm sticks to the handle immediately upon grasping, what would you expect next?  The frystuff's inseparability from the sticky egg-scrambling zone is not to be wondered at...  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

fuliginous

adjective

Dark colored;  sooty;  murky;  obscure.

Examples:

For example, Hubert's photograph of Bruno's broken key, where it was captured whole, with the handle intact.  This shot comes from the most unanticipable place.  An incredible story to tell.  Even Hubert and I are running out of ideas for possible explanations.  There are also other fuliginous and uninterpretable things going on at that place.  (Context:  The key found ingrown in a treetop is broken and missing its bow.  However, an unexplainable eerie glowing appearance in the city cemetery shows both parts of the key together.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 

functionalisation

noun

Plural:   functionalisations
Amer·   functionalization  /  pl·   functionalizations

The act or result of making functional or operational;  enabling;  empowering.

Examples: 

This requires a reiterated run-in, which fortunately takes substantially shorter toil than its primary functionalisation (or its regeneration to undo an unintentional abrasion of the protectant lining by wirewool or sand committed by an overeager but ignorant household member).  (Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 

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