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taxiway

noun

Plural:   taxiways

A special road or a drawn line along which airplanes move when on the ground, especially before takeoff and after landing.


Teflonette

noun

Plural:   Teflonettes

A nonstick pan coated with an anti-adhesive plastic Teflon.

Examples: 

A well-maintained overlayer of periodically re-smoothed polymerate evolves a partial repulsive capacity of approx∙ one-third level of a good-quality stickinessless pan (equivalent to a year-old Teflonette deployed daily)(Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 


teflonise

noun

Infinitive:  teflonise (UK)  /  teflonize (US)
3rd personteflonises (UK)  /  teflonizes (US)
Presentteflonising (UK)  /  teflonizing (US)
Gerundteflonising (UK)  /  teflonizing (US)
Pastteflonised (UK)  /  teflonized (US)
Perfectteflonised (UK)  /  teflonized (US)

To supplement with the plastic named Teflon or to cover in Teflon.  Especially:  To add an anti-adhesive Teflon coating when producing nonstick frying pans.  Can be written capitalised (Teflonise) or non-capitalised (teflonise).

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.) 


thole

noun

Plural:   tholes
Alternatives:   thowl,  pl∙ thowls;  thowel,  pl∙ thowels 

1.  A short stick serving a mechanical purpose, such as a handle on a scythe, or as a fulcrum for oars on a boats' sides. 

2.  A cupola or dome in architecture.

3.  The ability to withstand, tolerate, or endure something;  endurance;  patience.


verb

Infinitive:   thole
3rd person:   tholes
Present:   tholing
Gerund:   tholing
Past:   tholed
Perfect:   tholed 

Tolerate;  withstand;  endure.

Examples:

—In some castle fortresses, with their cronies, they held secret hideouts.  Then they just worked there.  They never went to live back in their natal mansion.
—In one of those fortresses, did you visit him then?
—Unthinkable!  They wouldn't thole it.
—So, how could he have told you about the shooting incident?  (A village lady explains in her outdated rural language the events after an unexpected shooting in an empty locked room.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


thundermuggie

noun

Plural:   thundermuggies 

A chamber pot;  potty.

Examples:

—You don't understand, master my young.  You are freeful to utilise the roombourne stoolchair.—  Grandma Estela explained with an jocose undertone while sliding in the one-eared vessel under the circular cut-out in the wooden seat.  —For that purpose we have it here.  Don't forget to knock the coverlid properly over the thundermuggie.  Especially if a trout's outsweep would engage you during the night.  But through the fenestrature, you mustn't outsplash it into the luft!—  Grandma patted the window frame.  —God forbid!  (Context:  A boy named Bruno is about to spend his very first night in an old-fashioned apartment on 5 Misty Road.  In her archaic language, Grandma Estela gives him permission to use the potty - but he should cover its top with a lid after every usage, and he must not pour its contents out of the window.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tickwhile

noun

Plural:   tickwhiles 

A moment as short as a tick of a clock;  a very short time interval.

Examples:

I explained that a tickwhile ago!  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


timelong

noun

Plural:   timelongs  

A long while;  the time interval concerned.

Examples:

—Do we know where that room is?
—Behind the painting.
—Could you show it to me?
—That's what I have been urgenting you for all timelong!  I will show it to you, sure, gladly!  Get in the motor!  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


timestop

noun

Plural:   timestops 

Something unknown and mysterious, referred to in secret passphrases of unclear origins;  most likely some specific moment in time the future.

Examples:

Hubert turned slowly:
—That's right, and that's the way Shaab wishes it.
—Until the Timestop comes.
—Until the agefulness of the Shellrocks takes place and until the Markword starts to shine.
—The Omnibook shall be the Sign to you.—  finished Doctor Barton the exchange of conspiratorial rejoinders.  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tittlebit

noun

Plural:   tittlebits 

A very small amount;  tiny bit.

Examples:

We must not say a word!  Not a tittlebit, anent the minorest anyment!  (Context:  Grandma Estela is recounting the current disclosure restrictions.  In her archaic language, she reflects that they are not allowed to say a word, not even the tiniest fragment of any information.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


toastify

verb

Infinitive:   toastify
3rd person:   toastifies
Present:   toastifying
Gerund:   toastifying
Past:   toastified
Perfect:   toastified

To make something browned and crispy by frying or baking;  to generate toast-like properties;  to make a toast from something.

Examples:

Within circa 20 to 30 minutes, the dough's rawish topface should start showing darker spots.  At the appearance of this sign, the underside is toastified and prehardened enough to uplift the hotcake easily(Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 


tollear

noun

Plural:   tollears 

The currency in a fictive country Blagonia.  Derived from the geographical name of the 16th century's Central European region of Joachimsthal (today, around the Czech city Jáchymov):  Joachimsthal (a place) >> Joachimsthaler (a silver coin minted there) >> thaler >> taler >> tolar / toliar / dollar / tollear.

Examples:

You already know Mr∙ Hubert.  His services are not free.  You will pay him to do the job well.  Two thousand tollears will do.  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tombchamber

noun

Plural:   tombchambers
Alternatives:   tomb-chamber,  pl∙ tomb-chamber

A room or space in a tomb, especially in a house-like tomb;  burial chamber.

Examples:

The cloaked man's gaze slowly rescanned the tombchamber - expressionlessly noticing everything from an engraved Old English teapot, through an etched brass bowl full of roasted chestnuts, to the wires leading from some bulky briefcase directly into the host's shoes.  (Context:  A stone-faced gent Hubert has discovered a large grave with pieces of comfortable furniture in it.  Dr∙ Barton was already waiting for him in an upholstered armchair, wearing electrically heated shoes adapted for all-night-long observations of unexplained eerie phenomenons in the dark cemetery.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tombhouse

noun

Plural:   tombhouses
Alternatives:   tomb-house,  pl∙ tomb-houses 

A house-like tomb, often designed as a tiny chapel or praying site;  sepulcher;  charnel house.

Examples:

The edge of the new glowy patch almost touches the place, or rather the structure, to which I have the keys.  A little building, to be quite precise.  It's the Geldersmann family's ancestral tombhouse(Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tombroom

noun

Plural:   tombrooms
Alternatives:   tomb-room,  pl∙ tomb-room

A room or space in a house-like tomb;  burial chamber.

Examples:

Hubert's unbelieving gaze fell on the mechanical crank gramophone in the tombroom's rearward.  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


topface

noun

Plural:   topfaces

The upper surface;  the uppermost side or facet of something.

Examples:

Within circa 20 to 30 minutes, the dough's rawish topface should start showing darker spots(Source: J∙ Okram - Bartonian Potato Pancakes  ●  Cooking Recipe.) 


travail

noun

Plural:  travails 

Work, agony, torment, effort, or situation of a painful and/or laborious nature.

Examples:

Mam was plaintively recounting their travails with the social custodian lady, and Doctor Barton continued pondering stiffly.  He sympathetically muttered that if it were in his power to abate a mere half a per cent of the worriments in his own microsphere, the world would look different.  But even he himself supposed he had to stay away from certain kinds of people whenever possible.  Or at least to keep them at arm's length.  And he definitely wasn't omnipotent.  (Context:  Dr∙ Barton thinks hard about how he could help the Boleks harassed by the administrative oversight of their family life.  He makes it clear upfront that fighting dysfunctional state authorities will not be easy.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


treebourne

adjective

British:   treebourne, tree-bourne
American:   treeborne, tree-borne

Held by, contained in, carried by, or hidden in a tree.


treeland

noun

Plural:   treelands
Alternatives:   tree-land,  pl∙ tree-land

Land with trees;  woods;  forest;  orchard.

Examples:

Then the south, then the west, and even behind the lake's yondershore, they are in charge of those treelands(Context:  As an introduction to a new mystery case, an old village woman describes in her specific language the areas managed by the local forestry administration.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


treework

noun

Plural:   treeworks
Alternatives:   tree-work,  pl∙ tree-works 

Any work involving a tree or more trees.

Examples:

Bruno speeded away.  Without the rammed key and with his reputation tarnished.  Now it would not be advisable to show up in the yard and proceed with his unfinished treework, he realised on the fly...  (Context:  Bruno had to escape from the yard where he was retrieving a key ingrown in the wood of an old linden tree.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tricksterson

noun

Plural:   trickstersons 

A mischievous or cheeky person using trickery to amuse or deceive others (can be used in negative and positive / affectionate way);  rascal;  trickster;  prankster.

Examples:

But today some tricksterson turned the shining savinger on.  (Context:  Grandma Estela caught Bruno when he activated the light-saving system in an ancient elevator.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tridumation

noun

Plural:   tridumations 

Observing or celebrating a three-day holiday (triduum).

Examples:

But there are other three-day holidays, such as Paschal or Easter Triduum.  An analogical one is, I think, from about the eighth century, if I recall correctly.  It is still commonly called the Triduum by some people today.  That one starts in a couple of days.  As per the "Tridumations", I guess that's a local folksy term from some village in Estela's family line.  Satisfied?  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


triduum

noun

Plural:   triduums,  tridua 

A time interval of three days.  Specifically, a holiday or festivity that lasts three days, such as Christmas (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day), Paschal Triduum (Easter), or the autumn triduum (Halloween, All Saints' / Hallows' Day, and All Souls' Day).

Examples:

But there are other three-day holidays, such as Paschal or Easter Triduum.  An analogical one is, I think, from about the eighth century, if I recall correctly.  It is still commonly called the Triduum by some people today.  That one starts in a couple of days.  As per the "Tridumations", I guess that's a local folksy term from some village in Estela's family line.  Satisfied?  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


tripedality

noun

Plural:   tripedalities 

The quality of having three legs;  three-leggedness;  tripedism.

Examples:

So I must not withhold that over time we have gathered a number of supporting clues on the subject of tripedality(Context:  Dr∙ Barton's group has discovered a three-legged human skeleton, which initiated decades-long research.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


troutie

noun

Plural:   trouties 

1.  A little trout.

2.  A small oblong piece of something, shaped more or less as a trout / fish (e.g.,  a meat trimming, bacon slice, garlic clove, poo, etc∙);  slice;  strip.

Examples:

—The most enviable troutstrip in the whole town!—  Grandma enthused instead of answering, stuffing a flat fillet of dark carmine uncooked meat into the metallic throat's wide mouth.
—Raw fish?—  Dad focused his eyes.
—Any clippings or elongate meat trimmings are "troutstrip", "trout", or "troutie" in Estela's parlance.—  the Doctor explained.  (Context:  Grandma Estela is putting a piece of fresh meat into a grinder; Dr∙ Barton explains her archaic language to their guests watching the scene.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


troutstrip

noun

Plural:   troutstrips 

An oblong piece of something, shaped as a trout / fish;  slice;  strip.

Examples:

—The most enviable troutstrip in the whole town!—  Grandma enthused instead of answering, stuffing a flat fillet of dark carmine uncooked meat into the metallic throat's wide mouth.
—Raw fish?—  Dad focused his eyes.
—Any clippings or elongate meat trimmings are "troutstrip", "trout", or "troutie" in Estela's parlance.—  the Doctor explained.  (Context:  Grandma Estela is putting a piece of fresh meat into a grinder; Dr∙ Barton explains her archaic language to their guests watching the scene.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


trulyso

adverb

An emphasised form of "truly";  very truly;  absolutely;  most certainly in this manner;  with no doubt in the way specified.

Examples:

—Estelllla!  Did he go out?
—Anywhither he didn't go.  Trulyso not.   (Context:  Grandma Estela, in her archaic language, reassures Dr∙ Barton that their foreign guest did not leave the room.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.)


trumpered

adjective

Handled or placed as junk or trumpery;  taken out of a storage place and scattered around;  dispersed.

Examples:

—Estela?  Estela!—  Doctor Barton called and also went to press the call button on the wall as well.  He waited patiently by the door to the anteroom.  —Estela, we will have invitees staying for the night.  Will you please prepare guest rooms for the Boleks?

—Even the master engineer consentated? 

—They are all staying.

—Oyy, I am dedusting the books.  I've got them all unshelved!  Disordered and trumpered roomaround!  I didn't know...  A shame it will be...

—What books?

—Well, almanacks your scientific of course.  In the professorial room.  The whole bedspread is overcrammed with them.  The telegraph uncabled, bedtop undusted, oyoyoy...

—I meant the marital room, for grown-ups, and for the bo-...

—For such a highly educated gentleman?  Woman could disturb him.  Sodom and Gomorrah...

—Estelaaa...  Mister engineer is already sleeping here on his chair.  Please...?  (Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 

Translations:

Slovak / Slovenčina (SK):  rozkrámovaný;  porozkladaný


tubbath

noun

Plural:   tubbaths
Alternatives:   tub-bath,  pl∙ tub-baths 

A bath in a tub.

Examples:

For he is covered in mud up to his ears.  Didn't we mention that you should prepare him a rewarming tubbath first?  (Context:  Dr∙ Barton suggests preparing a warm bath for an exhausted international student who fell asleep on the floor.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 


twigpicker

noun

Plural:   twigpickers
Alternatives:   twig-picker,  pl∙ twig-pickers 

Someone who collects dry branches fallen from trees;  chatwood gatherer;  firewood seeker;  twigger.  Specific reference to:  A figure carrying loppings, as depicted on Wilhelm Tell playing cards (the Acorn Trump / Ace / Deuce).

Examples:

—She says, "behind the twigpicker".—  Mam passed on the specification she has received.
—She must mean this picture...—  Doctor Barton surveyed the tall paintings and pointed to one of them.  (Context:  Dr∙ Barton and his aides are looking for a walled-off secret room in a haunted house.  The scared landlady is hiding in the kitchen.  From behind the locked door, she instructs the searchers to look beyond a framed painting featuring a twig-picking person.  Source:  J∙ Okram - The Mystery of the Rammed Key.) 

Translations:

Slovak / Slovenčina (SK):  papekár;  papekárka


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