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Copyright © 1998-2001, Janet I.
Egan
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- barista
- kid who makes coffee drinks at Starbucks (formerly
the Coffee Connection)
- Beanie Baby
- toy no child can live without several dozen of
- breader
- person who feeds bread to ducks; verb: to bread
- brotheration
- aggregate celebration of brother birthdays occurring
in the same or sequential months.You make up words like
this when you have a lot of brothers.
- cabinet
- frappe in Rhode Islandese - see frappe
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cellar
- basement - where you keep tools and junk - not
where you keep wine
- Coffee Connection
- a chain of coffee shops in the greater Boston area
bought out by Starbucks. Many early entries refer to
meeting friends and drinking coffee at the Coffee
Connection in Andover, Massachusetts.
- coffee milk
- state beverage of Rhode Island
- coffee syrup
- used to make coffee milk - brands are Eclipse or
Autocrat
- Del's
- lemonade bordering on lemon slush - lost a tight race
for RI state beverage to coffee milk
- downcellar
- in the cellar (basement)
- downcity
- downtown, also a proper noun denoting the Downcity
Diner as in "We went to Downcity for breakfast."
- FIP
- Feline Infectious Peritonitis
- FIV
- Feline Immune deficiency Virus
- FLV
- Feline Leukemia Virus
- frappe
- milkshake (contains ice cream)
- IDRI
- International
Dendrological Research Institute
- jokullhaup
- volcanic eruption underneath a glacier, also called
glacier burst - causes lots of flooding (Icelandic)
- kraal
- a fenced enclosure for cattle or sheep in South
Africa
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- Massachusetts
- place near the big hill - named for the Massachusett
tribe who lived near Great Blue Hill when the white folks
came - not named after Massasoit although he
played a huge role in Massachusetts history. There is no
evidence that the Massachusett viewed living here as
symptomatic of insanity.
- milkshake
- milk and flavored syrup - no ice cream involved
- Monophysite
- a person who believes that Christ had but one nature,
or a composite nature of the human and the divine
- MRFRS
- Merrimack River
Feline Rescue Society
- pinano
- piano in Andrea speak (actually she's outgrown this
now, and has quit piano lessons but I have to keep it in
the glossary for past entries)
- piping plover
- a small shorebird the color of dry sand - see
The Plover Warden Diaries
- proleptic
- of prolepsis; anticipatory. From the noun prolepsis
meaning the describing of an event as taking place before
it could have, the treating of a future event as if it
had already happened, or the anticipating and answering
of an argument before one's oppenent has a chance to
advance it.
- quahog
- pronounced co-hog, a marine invertebrate forming the
staple diet of people in Rhode Island
- Starbucks
- unless otherwise specified refers to the Starbucks
incarnation on Main Street in Andover, Massachusetts,
which used to be a Coffee Connection. Before it was the
Coffee Connection it was Ford's Coffee Shop but Stella
and Tom (the Ford's owners) retired and couldn't get
their kids to take over the business.
- stuffie
- stuft animal or baked stuffed quahog depending on
context
- stuft
- stuffed (inventive spelling used in Groton-Dunstable
Schools)
- T
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority aka MBTA
fka MTA
- Teenie Beanie
- miniature Beanie Baby distributed by McDonalds with
Happy Meals
- URI
- Upper Respiratory Infection or University of Rhode
Island depending on whether I'm writing about cats or
oceanography
- wicked
- severe or severely - as in "wicked bad snowstorm last
week!" or "wicked good rock n' roll"- used in New England
states, especially Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode
Island. Readers have submitted reports of its being used
in Connecticut.
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