Just finished a crossword. These are the answers to the clues I am "cross" about. That is, obscure (to me) words. So new hashtag: #CrossAtWords
olio - a stew
olla - a jug
brocket - type of deer
sera - crazy plural for serum
transom - crossbar of a doorway or window (in addition to many other meanings)
My wife wanted "transom" to be a way to describe a really attractive trans-masc person. We may start using it that way.
@jendefer I used to live in an apartment that had transom windows over the doors that could be opened for ventilation, but I never thought to look up what the transom part meant. Today I learned!
◯ @jendefer I’m familiar with all of those except brocket. I’ve always thought olio meant a collection of different things. I just looked it up though, and that’s the second definition; stew is the first.
@xvf17 Ah, interesting! I can see how that figurative meaning could have grown out of the concrete one.