"zac" is six pence or five cents in Australian slang. People who are crippled with arthritis and walk around bent over are commonly called "Zac"; they look like they are searching for a coin they dropped.
Defined in Dr Johnson's Dictionary with emphasis on display for attraction purposes, but later separated into 2 words "nest egg" and meaning shifted to wealth put aside for the future.
References to diaphane, spelt "diafane", appear in Ezra Pound's Cantos. Robert Grosseteste (13th Cent.) was probably Pound's source: "For we see light not by itself but in a certain subject, and this is the diafane."
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Colinc commented on the word zac
"zac" is six pence or five cents in Australian slang. People who are crippled with arthritis and walk around bent over are commonly called "Zac"; they look like they are searching for a coin they dropped.
July 18, 2009
Colinc commented on the word nest-egg
Nestegg, nest-egg and nest egg have meanings:
as wealth set aside for the future; or
something used to attract interest
July 16, 2009
Colinc commented on the word nestegg
Defined in Dr Johnson's Dictionary with emphasis on display for attraction purposes, but later separated into 2 words "nest egg" and meaning shifted to wealth put aside for the future.
July 16, 2009
Colinc commented on the word diaphane
References to diaphane, spelt "diafane", appear in Ezra Pound's Cantos. Robert Grosseteste (13th Cent.) was probably Pound's source: "For we see light not by itself but in a certain subject, and this is the diafane."
July 16, 2009
Colinc commented on the word Stroet
a stone specially placed, and perhaps ornamented, to interact with sunlight in a meaningful way to a culture
July 15, 2009
Colinc commented on the word Laquisha
A synonym for sunbather, with fanatical overtones
July 14, 2009