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sourstuff

noun

Etymology

From sour + stuff. Calque of German Sauerstoff (“oxygen”) and/or Dutch zuurstof (“oxygen”), both loose loan translations of French oxygène. See oxygen for more.

  1. derived from oxygène
  2. derived from zuurstof — “oxygen”
  3. calqued from Sauerstoff — “oxygen”

Definitions

  1. Oxygen.

    • This is approximately the heat of exploding what the Germans call bang-gas (mixture of sourstuff and waterstuff), the result being liquid.
    • For an outshow, the gang of water has two waterstuff unclefts bound to one sourstuff uncleft; the gang of rust has two iron and three sourstuff unclefts; [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sourstuff. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA