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 |
|---|---|---|
| to commute | 07/02/2007 | |
| Clothes-pin | 06/30/2007 | |
| Town and gown | 06/17/2007 | |
| to play it by ear | 06/15/2007 | |
| cooties | 06/15/2007 | |
| (lemon) zest | 06/07/2007 | |
| to hawk | 06/03/2007 | |
| insidious | 06/02/2007 | |
| coil | 06/01/2007 | |
| obloquy | 05/29/2007 | |
| getting the skinny on something | 05/24/2007 | |
| harangue | 04/25/2007 | |
| stupor | 04/19/2007 | |
| oodles | 04/19/2007 | |
| to steal someone's thunder | 04/18/2007 | |
| cop a squat | 04/11/2007 | |
| goslings | 04/11/2007 | |
| to shoo away | 04/11/2007 | |
| CliffsNotes | 04/11/2007 | |
| "Is it bigger than a breadbasket?" | 04/11/2007 | |
| fowl | 04/08/2007 | |
| stupendous | 04/08/2007 | |
| felicity | 04/08/2007 | |
| smarty pants | 04/06/2007 | |
| double-wide | 04/06/2007 |
