Wordie [wûrd • ē]
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12 wordies list
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first listed by:
arianell (106 words)
appears in these lists:
food, by eggplantia5
cross words, by trivet
Exotic Tastes, by bilby
Curry Zone, by bilby
braggadocio, by qroqqa
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The first definition herein incorrectly refers okra to the pods/fruits of a leguminous plant. Okra is a member of the Malvaceae, or mallow family of plants.
Elsewhere this term refers to the soft, edible, beaked, mucilaginous green capsular fruits of Abelmoschus esculentus, a.k.a. Hibiscus esculentus, and lady fingers. The green pods are either battered and fried, or stewed (commonly with diced tomatoes and onions), or used as an ingredient and thickener (due to its mucilage) in gumbo in the southern US and elsewhere.
I still want to know what the Arabic word is for “to cut off the upper end of an okra.”
*wondering and humming*
Great. Now every time I see this word, apparently, I'm going to start singing sionnach's song. *humming* ohhhhhhh-kra-mohel...
Amazing. We've found something just a little too weird for Weird Al.
skipvia, I'm sure you resemble Johnny Depp in many ways---and at least one of them is "not at all." ;)
OHHHHHHHKRA-MOHEL where the wind comes sweepin' down the ... well. Those lyrics don't really work. *earworm alert!*
That's a great article from the New York Times, which for me is saying a lot, since I have very little respect for that paper.
Actually, Charleston is not my okra-homa. It's Rock Hill.
Many people point out how much I resemble Johnny Depp. Which is not at all.
Hmmm. Now I have this ineradicable image of Johnny Depp playing skipvia in "Skipvia: the demon mohel of Charleston"
Good grief, sionnach, what are they feeding you these days? ;-)
Apparently the author means to torture us by not telling us what the word is. Otherwise, you can be sure I'd have Wordiefied it!
"Circumcise"? Which would make skipvia an okra-mohel I think there's a song about it:
OOOOOOOO-KRA-MOHEL ......
What yarb said. I spent a lot of my early years doing exactly that (okra grows in profusion in South Carolina) and now I want to know what to call it.
But what WAS that word?!
For anyone who knows only European languages, to wade into Arabic is to discover an endlessly strange and yet oddly ordered lexical universe. Some words have definitions that go on for pages and seem to encompass all possible meanings; others are outlandishly precise. Paging through the dictionary one night, I found a word that means “to cut off the upper end of an okra.” -- "Arabic Lessons," Robert F. Worth, New York Times, Jan. 6, 2008