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The common plaster beetle has near cosmopolitan distribution and is the most common, house-infesting, member of its large family. It is typically found in old warehouses and cellars, places with damp and crumbling plaster, under loose wallpaper, around leaking water pipes and ill-fitting windows, in fact anywhere indoors affected by moulds, which form its main diet.
Not particularly rude. 'Builders' bum' is the exposure of the buttock cleavage by an overweight working man in ill-fitting trousers. [73] bumf derogatory reference to official memos or paperwork. Shortened from bum fodder. Slang term for toilet roll. [74] bumsucker a toady, creep or someone acting in an obsequious manner. [74] bumfreezer
Used of mentally ill and neurotic women, particularly single women and spinsters who hoard cats. [23] Cretin [citation needed] Cripple "A person with a physical or mobility impairment". Its shortened form ("crip") has been reclaimed by some people with disabilities as a positive identity. [6] [7] [17] [24] Confined to a wheelchair
Finding shoppers styles that fit was an issue solved long ago, or at least addressed, by store fitting rooms. But with e-commerce only continuing to solidify its place as the preferred channel for ...
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Epulis fissuratum is a benign hyperplasia of fibrous connective tissue which develops as a reactive lesion to chronic mechanical irritation produced by the flange of a poorly fitting denture. [1] More simply, epulis fissuratum is where excess folds of firm tissue form inside the mouth, as a result of rubbing on the edge of dentures that do not ...
1. Often a cake eater was the opposite of a flapper e.g.The individual is dressed in tight-fitting attire, including a belted coat with pointed lapels, one-button pants, a low snug collar, and a greenish-pink shirt with a jazzbo tie; see flaming youth [18] 2. Spoiled rich person; Playboy [80] 3. Lady's man [81] 4.
OED defines these two kludge cognates as: bodge 'to patch or mend clumsily' and fudge 'to fit together or adjust in a clumsy, makeshift, or dishonest manner'. The OED entry also includes the verb kludge ('to improvise with a kludge or kludges') and kludgemanship ('skill in designing or applying kludges').