word histories

‘flesh-tailor’: meaning and origin 17th Feb 2026 - (0)
one who sews up wounds, i.e., a surgeon—also, in later use, a plastic surgeon—first recorded in ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore (1633), by the English playwright John Ford
‘love-bite’: meanings and origin 15th Feb 2026 - (0)
‘to put a bomb under (a person or thing)’: meaning and origin 14th Feb 2026 - (0)
‘to roll down to St. Helena’: meaning and origin 12th Feb 2026 - (0)
‘crash-test dummy’: meanings and origin 11th Feb 2026 - (0)

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