"Violent Is the Word for Curly Violent Is the Word for Curly is the 32nd short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1938 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Administrators at Mildew College, an all-girl school, are begging the school's largest benefactor, Mrs. Catsby (Gladys Gale), to provide an athletic fund for the school. She does not approve of girls playing sports, and informs the administrators that the money will be used for the salaries of the three"
"Spondulix Spondulix is 19th-century slang for money or cash, more specifically a reasonable amount of spending money. Spondulicks, spondoolicks, spondulacks, spondulics, and spondoolics are alternative spellings, and spondoolies is a modern variant. There are two views on the origin of the word. The most likely is from the Greek ""spondulox"", which refers to a type of seashell from bivalves of the genus ""Spondylus"". The ""Spondylus"" shell was used as neolithic jewelry and also as an early form of currency. There is global evidence of the importance of the spondylus shell. Archaeological evidence shows that people in Europe were trading the"
"Charles Godfrey Leland includes it in a long list of synonyms for money: "" . . . the magic spell of the ""ready""—otherwise known as money, cash, tin, stuff, rhino, root-of-all-evil, blunt, wherewhital, rowdy, funds, stumpy, pecuniary, dibs, hard, browns, heavy, mopusses, slugs, shiners, lucre, or 'the filthy,' dust, gelt, chips, lumps, chinkers, mint-drops, pewter, brass, horsenails, rocks, brads, spondulix, needful, dough, spoons, buttons, dimes, or the infallible . . ."" The spelling ""spondulicks"" appeared in an 1858 edition of ""Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine"": ""Steve, if the Court recollects herself, then you come up with the spondulicks, and Bill Bresse"
"Spudulike Spudulike is a restaurant chain and franchise specialising in baked potatoes (potatoes being known as ""spuds"" in colloquial British English) that first opened in Edinburgh in 1974. Spudulike purveys baked potatoes with various fillings, other potato based meals, and side dishes. Spudulike was founded by Kim Culley and Barbara Leggate. In 1979, the company was acquired by the British School of Motoring (BSM), who helped Spudulike to rapidly expand its business as a franchise operation. It later demerged from BSM, and in May 2001, it bought ""Courts Quality Foods"", owner of rival potato brand Fat Jackets. Spudulike had fifty"
"tuck down Lem's pile."" ""Spondulix"" is used by 19th-century American author Bret Harte in his 1891 story ""A Sappho of Green Springs"": ""MR. EDITOR, — I see you have got my poetry in. But I don't see the spondulix that oughter follow."" It is also mentioned in the short story ""Ivy Day in the Committee Room"" from the collection ""Dubliners"" (1914) by Irish novelist James Joyce. In the 1916 Charlie Chaplin silent film ""The Floorwalker"", a title card proclaims ""Spondulicks Forever!"" after Chaplin appears to rejoice upon recovering a suitcase full of greenbacks. Spondulix Spondulix is 19th-century slang for money"
"spine to piled coins; thus ""Spondulics - coin piled for counting..."". The earliest recorded occurrence of the word as slang for money appears to have been in the late 19th century in the United States. The New Oxford Dictionary of English marks the origin as US slang. However, according to the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, the term can be traced back to the mid-19th century in England. Other sources also suggest a mid-19th-century origin. The July 1852 edition of the ""Water-Cure Journal"" includes ""Gossip from Indiana"" by ""a Hoosier"" which complains about ""spending our spondulix."" In Meister Karl's Sketch-Book (1855),"
"outlets across the United Kingdom in 2001, including twenty ""Courts"" franchises. Spudulike Spudulike is a restaurant chain and franchise specialising in baked potatoes (potatoes being known as ""spuds"" in colloquial British English) that first opened in Edinburgh in 1974. Spudulike purveys baked potatoes with various fillings, other potato based meals, and side dishes. Spudulike was founded by Kim Culley and Barbara Leggate. In 1979, the company was acquired by the British School of Motoring (BSM), who helped Spudulike to rapidly expand its business as a franchise operation. It later demerged from BSM, and in May 2001, it bought ""Courts Quality"
"Spondylus Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae. They are known in English as spiny oysters (though they are not, in fact, oysters). The many species of ""Spondylus"" vary considerably in appearance and range. They are grouped in the same superfamily as the scallops. They are not closely related to true oysters (family Ostreidae); however, they do share some habits such as cementing themselves to rocks rather than attach themselves by a byssus. The two halves of their shells are joined with a ball-and-socket type of hinge rather than with a toothed hinge,"
"Spondylurus Spondylurus is a genus of lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus ""Spondylurus"", vernacularly known as the Antillean four-lined skinks, is a neotropical skink taxon including many species. Species in the genus ""Spondylurus"" are characterized by four (occasionally three to six) dark dorsolateral stripes. This characteristic is known to fade in older individuals, and colors when preserved shift from tans and browns to greens and blues, often causing confusion as to the true color in life. Many of the species of ""Spondylurus"" are extinct or endangered, resulting from invasive predators such as the mongoose. The genus ""Spondylurus"" is distributed"
"Schanulleke Schanulleke is a Flemish comic book character who originated in the Belgian comics series ""Suske en Wiske"". In the series she is Wiske's beloved rag doll. Between 1986 and 1993 Schanulleke received her own spin-off series. The character's name in English is Molly, Sawdust or Muffin. Schanulleke was introduced in the very first panel of ""Suske en Wiske"", along with her owner Wiske, namely in the album ""Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije"" (1945). Her original name was ""Schabolleke"", later changed into ""Schalulleke"", both Flemish dialect expressions for a scallion. When ""Suske en Wiske"" were translated for the Netherlands her"
"was made into an actual rag doll too. Schanulleke Schanulleke is a Flemish comic book character who originated in the Belgian comics series ""Suske en Wiske"". In the series she is Wiske's beloved rag doll. Between 1986 and 1993 Schanulleke received her own spin-off series. The character's name in English is Molly, Sawdust or Muffin. Schanulleke was introduced in the very first panel of ""Suske en Wiske"", along with her owner Wiske, namely in the album ""Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije"" (1945). Her original name was ""Schabolleke"", later changed into ""Schalulleke"", both Flemish dialect expressions for a scallion. When ""Suske"
"the name ""Popelhole"" or ""Popelhôle""; Standard German: ""Popelholle""; English translation: ""hooded ""Holle"""") or wearing ragged clothing (as shown by the name variant ""Zumpeldrulle"" or ""Zompeldroll""). She also can be seen in old Franconian dress or generally shaped as a pelt sleeve. The Bohemian ""Frau Holle"" is a small and ugly old woman which carries a batch of stinging nettles. The main activity of the ""Spillaholle"" is connected with spinning, for she is the overseer of spinning taboos and a bogey used for spinning children. Therefore, a broad variety of names for the ""Spillaholle"" shows connection to spindles, such as ""Spilladrulle"","
"Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón in Costa Rica, golden apple in Grenada, Saint Vincent"
"occasionally used to approximate rhyming slang; it does not quite rhyme, but preserves meter and rhythm. The Beautiful South bowdlerised their original line """"sweaty bollocks"""" as """"Sandra Bullocks"""", as one of several changes to make their song ""Don't Marry Her"" acceptable for mainstream radio play. The term """"Horlicks"""" was brought to prominence in July 2003, when then-British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw used it to describe irregularities in the preparation and provenance of the ""dodgy dossier"" regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Straw used the expression ""a complete ""Horlicks"""", instead of the more impolite ""make a complete ""bollocks"" of something""."
"which has developed the secondary meaning of a soup, especially one made from these. The word ""skink"" is ultimately derived from the Middle Dutch ""schenke"" ""shin, hough"" (cognate with the English word ""shank"" and German ""Schenkel"", 'thigh', and ""Schinken"", 'ham'). It has no etymological connection with its homonym ""skink"", meaning a lizard belonging to the infraorder Scincomorpha. Cullen skink Cullen skink is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions. An authentic Cullen skink will use finnan haddie, but it may be prepared with any other undyed smoked haddock. This soup is a local speciality, from the"
"or simply nudli. Shlishkes Shlishkes (the plural form is standard) is a dish of potato-based small dumplings (called krumplinudli or nudli in Hungarian) popular in Hungarian cooking and often found in the Jewish cuisine of the Ashkenazi community. It is formed from a soft dough of cooked mashed potatoes, egg, flour and water; the dumplings are boiled and rolled in sugar and hot buttered caramelized breadcrumbs (streusel) or in browned breadcrumbs as a savory preparation. When cooking plum dumplings called szilvásgombóc (in Hungarian) then the leftover batter is formed into small (finger-sized) breaded rolls, called krumplinudli (direct translation: potato dumpling"
"October 2015 Douglas E. Bagley and MP-OTHA Corp settled their dispute Douglas Bagley will continue to sell the same fabulous donut mix however he will not use the names spudnut, spudnuts or spuddos and will now be selling this mix under the name potadonut. Spudnut Shops Spudnut Shops were American franchised stores selling donuts made with potato flour called Spudnuts. The parent company no longer exists, but independent stores remain. The original recipe is based on a folk recipe that traces back to Germany. After brothers Al and Bob Pelton of Salt Lake City ate potato-based doughnuts in Germany, they"
"Spathoglottis Spathoglottis, commonly known as purple orchids or 苞舌兰属 (bao she lan shu) is a genus of about fifty species of orchids in the family Orchidaceae. They are evergreen terrestrial herbs with crowded pseudobulbs, a small number of leaves and medium-sized resupinate flowers on an upright flowering stem. The sepals and petals are all similar to each other and are white, yellow, pink or purple. Species of ""Spathoglottis"" are found from Asia and Southeast Asia to Australia and some Pacific Islands. Orchids in the genus ""Spathoglottis"" are evergreen, terrestrial herbs with crowded pseudobulbs just below the surface of the soil"
"This euphemism stems from an advertising campaign for the Horlicks malt drink, where people were seen to be shouting """"Horlicks!"""" in a loud voice, to give vent to stress or frustration. Eric Morecambe was also known to cough """"Horlicks!"""" behind his hand on The Morecambe and Wise Show. ""Rollocking"" is sometimes used as a euphemism for """"bollocking"""". A ""rollocking bollocking"" may be delivered by an electorate. The 2007 ""Concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English"" quotes ""bollards"" as meaning ""testicles"" and that it is a play on the word bollocks. The play ""Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery"","
"throughout the West Indies including the Caicos Islands, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and the Lesser Antilles. These 17 species are recognized: ""Nota bene"": A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ""Spondylurus"". Spondylurus Spondylurus is a genus of lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus ""Spondylurus"", vernacularly known as the Antillean four-lined skinks, is a neotropical skink taxon including many species. Species in the genus ""Spondylurus"" are characterized by four (occasionally three to six) dark dorsolateral stripes. This characteristic is known to fade in older individuals, and colors when preserved shift"
"""Pall Mall Gazette"" reported in 1892 that ""the Kilburn Sisters ... daily satisfied hundreds of dockers with soup and Spotted Dick"". The name has long been a source of amusement and double entendres, to the point that the catering staff of Flintshire County Council decided in 2009 to rename it to ""Spotted Richard"" because of all the jokes they were receiving. While ""spotted"" is a clear reference to the dried fruit in the pudding (which resemble spots), ""dick"" is more obscure. The word was widely used as a term for pudding in the 19th century; in late 19th century Huddersfield,"
"the ""slippery Jill"". In a 1986 publication on ""Suillus"" taxonomy and nomenclature, and further discussed the synonymy of ""S. salmonicolor"", ""S. subluteus"", and ""S. pinorigidus"". They noted that fruit bodies of ""S. subluteus"" collected in Minnesota did not have the strong salmon colors considered characteristic of ""S. salmonicolor"", as well as collections that had been named ""S. pinorigidus""; this is a morphological difference that could be sufficient to consider ""S. subluteus"" a distinct species. They explained that although the microscopic characteristics of the three taxa do not differ significantly, this is not unusual for ""Suillus"" and cannot be used as"
"""little boys' penis""). In Bavarian cuisine they are known as ""Fingernudeln"" (finger noodles), ""Dradewixpfeiferl"", Kartoffel- or ""Erdepfebaunkerl"" (potato ""Baunkerl"") or ""Schupfnudeln"", and in Upper Palatinate they are called ""Schopperla"" or ""Schoppala"". In the Odenwald their name is ""Krautnudeln"" (cabbage noodles) and in the Palatinate they are called ""Buwespitzle"". The ""Bauchstecherla"" in Franconia are a bit thinner and more pointed. A special variety of these noodles is called ""Mohnnudeln"" (poppy seed noodles) and can be found throughout Bavaria and Austria. The name ""Schupf""- or ""Fingernudel"" refers to the form and shape of the noodle and not to the ingredients. There is"
"based on the shell only, and this is highly variable. To add to this, while some shallow-water species are extremely common, at least two deep-water ones are known from a single specimen, while a third (S. gravis) was only rediscovered after 77 years. At least another common species (S. regius) has a different shell when it grows in deep water. Spondylus Spondylus is a genus of bivalve molluscs, the only genus in the family Spondylidae. They are known in English as spiny oysters (though they are not, in fact, oysters). The many species of ""Spondylus"" vary considerably in appearance and"
"Cordulegastridae The Cordulegastridae are a family of Odonata (dragonflies) from the suborder Anisoptera. They are commonly known as spiketails. Some vernacular names for the species of this family are biddie and flying adder. They have large, brown or black bodies with yellow markings, and narrow unpatterned wings. Their bright eyes touch at a single point, and they can be found along small, clear, woodland streams, flying slowly 30 to 70 cm above the water. When disturbed, however, they can fly very rapidly. They usually hunt high in forest vegetation, and prefer to capture prey resting on leaves or branches (known"
"both the fruits and the tender leaves are eaten. Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón"
"the bread with the fillings ""wedged"" in between, or a sandwich that is served between two ""wedges"" of bread. It has also been said ""wedge"" is just short for ""sandwich"", with the name having originated from an Italian deli owner located in Yonkers, who got tired of saying the whole word. The term ""spukie"" (""spukkie"" or ""spuckie"") is unique to the city of Boston and derives from the Italian word ""spucadella"", meaning ""long roll"" The word spucadella is not typically found in Italian dictionaries, which may suggest that it could be a regional Italian dialect, or possibly a Boston Italian-American"
"a revived literary variety of Ulster Scots. The magazine of the Ulster-Scots Language Society is also named ""Ullans"". Lallans Lallans () (a variant of the Modern Scots word ""lawlands"" meaning the lowlands of Scotland), is a term that was traditionally used to refer to the Scots language as a whole. However, more recent interpretations assume it refers to the dialects of south and central Scotland, while ""Doric"", a term once used to refer to Scots dialects in general, is now generally seen to refer to the Mid Northern Scots dialects spoken in the north-east of Scotland. Both Robert Burns and"
"Crepidula Crepidula, common name the slipper snails, slipper limpets or slipper shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calyptraeidae. This family includes the slipper snails (""Crepidula""), hat snails (""Calyptraea""), spiny slipper snails (""Bostrycapulus""), and cup-and-saucer snails (""Crucibulum"") as well as ""Crepipatella"", ""Siphopatella"", ""Grandicrepidula"", and ""Maoricrypta"". These recent changes in the definition of ""Crepidula"" are based on both DNA sequence data as well as anatomical work. Dissections of various calyptraeids show that species that are now placed in ""Grandicrepidula"" and ""Maoricrypta"" are anatomically very different from the true ""Crepidula"". If only the shells are examined"
"reported from Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. Crepidula Crepidula, common name the slipper snails, slipper limpets or slipper shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calyptraeidae. This family includes the slipper snails (""Crepidula""), hat snails (""Calyptraea""), spiny slipper snails (""Bostrycapulus""), and cup-and-saucer snails (""Crucibulum"") as well as ""Crepipatella"", ""Siphopatella"", ""Grandicrepidula"", and ""Maoricrypta"". These recent changes in the definition of ""Crepidula"" are based on both DNA sequence data as well as anatomical work. Dissections of various calyptraeids show that species that are now placed in ""Grandicrepidula"" and ""Maoricrypta"" are anatomically very different from the true"
"set in a preparatory school of the 1950s, Jennings was ""Jen"", and not ""Jenners"". Even so, in the Harry Potter books of J. K. Rowling (b. 1965), Dudley Dursley was addressed as Dudders. The adjective butters, meaning ugly (an abbreviation of ""everything but 'er face""), is a 21st-century example of the ""-er"" as ""street"" slang, as in ""She's well butters, innit"". This is similar in concept to the well-established starkers (stark naked). The origin of bonkers (initially meaning light-headed and, latterly, crazy) is uncertain, but seems to date from the Second World War and is most likely an ""-er"" coinage"
"as gleaning). The Cordulegastridae usually lay their eggs in the sand in shallow water, the female hovering just above the water with her body in a vertical position, and making repeated dips into the water with her abdomen. The family is distributed worldwide; all eight species in North America belong to the genus ""Cordulegaster"". The name Cordulegastridae comes from the Greek ""kordylinus"", 'club-shaped' and ""gaster"", belly. The common name spiketails refers to the females' prominent ovipositors. Cordulegastridae The Cordulegastridae are a family of Odonata (dragonflies) from the suborder Anisoptera. They are commonly known as spiketails. Some vernacular names for the"
"civil association ""Skalický trdelník"" was founded at the end of 2004 with the goal of keeping the tradition of the original open fire Trdelník production. The name ""trdelník"" comes from ""trdlo"" (originally a wooden tool for pounding or stamping materials in a ""stoupa"", a hollowed-out log), the wooden stake the cake is wrapped around for cooking which gives it its traditional hollow shape. Trdelník Trdelník is a kind of spit cake. It is made from rolled dough that is wrapped around a stick, then grilled and topped with sugar and walnut mix. Trdelník originates from the cuisine of the Hungarian"