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Grist is grain prepared for grinding, and by extension anything useful you can turn to your advantage—especially in the phrase grist for the mill; capitalized, Grist is also an open-source relational spreadsheet product.
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A bell jar is a bell-shaped glass cover used to protect objects or hold gases or a vacuum; the phrase is also famous as the title of Sylvia Plath’s novel and as a metaphor for feeling trapped by depression.
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To meddle is to involve yourself in someone else’s business without the right or invitation—usually in a way others find annoying or improper.
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A trifle is something of little value or importance; as a verb it means to treat lightly; and in British cooking it is a layered cold dessert of sponge, fruit or jam, custard, and cream.
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Halloweek is an informal name for the week of Halloween—the days around October 31 treated as one stretch of holiday events and costumes.
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Jawn is Philadelphia slang for a person, place, thing, or event when you do not need—or do not know—a more specific word.
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Psychs is usually the third-person form of the informal verb psych (to pump someone up or mess with their head), and people also search it for the joking shout “Psych!” and related slang.
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Interstitial means relating to a gap or interval between things; in medicine it often refers to spaces between cells or tissues, and as a noun it can mean a full-screen ad shown while a page loads.
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A Möbius strip (also spelled Mobius or Moebius) is a one-sided geometric surface made by giving a rectangular strip a half-twist and joining the ends.
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Fogerty is an Irish surname, a spelling variant of Fogarty, from Ó Fógartaigh—“descendant of Fógartach.”
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