English words
In 2004 I moved from the Netherlands to the United States, and it’s been great to experience a new culture from up close. I like to keep track of new English words and expressions that I learn over time.
Some of these words were completely new to me and for others I wasn’t very sure about their precise meaning.
| Word | Description |
When found |
|---|---|---|
| Cerebral palsy | umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious neurological disorders that cause physical disability in human development, specifically the human movement and posture | 02/22/2007 |
| Philips screwdriver | kruiskop schroevedraaier | 02/20/2007 |
| pugnacious | quarrelsome | 02/18/2007 |
| bilge | The bilge is the compartment at the bottom of the hull of a ship or boat where water collects so that it may be pumped out of the vessel at a later time. | 02/18/2007 |
| bale out | 02/18/2007 | |
| estuary | a water passage where the tide meets a river current; especially : an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river | 02/17/2007 |
| feline | from a cat | 02/17/2007 |
| equerry | a personal attendant, usually upon a Sovereign or member of a Royal Family (British) | 02/17/2007 |
| swede | a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the white turnip | 02/17/2007 |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age | 02/17/2007 |
| convalescence | the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness | 02/13/2007 |
| hearse | a funeral coach | 02/12/2007 |
| shunt | a passage in a body that allows movement of a fluid (medical, technical) | 02/11/2007 |
| chaps | sturdy leather coverings for the legs (cowboys) | 02/07/2007 |
| pasture | land for livestock grazing | 02/04/2007 |
| detritus | non-living particulate organic material | 02/01/2007 |
| midden | a dump for domestic waste | 02/01/2007 |
| adze | a tool for smoothing wood | 01/31/2007 |
| fallow | resting of soil (crop rotation) | 01/28/2007 |
| shank | a cut of meat from the tibia | 01/28/2007 |
| bile | gal | 01/27/2007 |
| Groundhog Day | a traditional U.S. festival | 01/22/2007 |
| venison | deer meat | 01/22/2007 |
| quale | essentie | 01/21/2007 |
| scuffed (for a shoe) | versleten | 01/21/2007 |
