Friday, September 07, 2007
Smallage
Smallage is nowhere near as interesting as it sounds. It's wild celery. The invented meanings were far more out there. I enjoyed reading them very much. It was quite a pick me up after a long day at a squash tournament. Well done, everyone, and especially Pastor Phil who's back from holiday and winning on the poll again. Great work.
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Smallage is light baggage taken on a trip. When packed by a woman it is considered a minor miracle, and one of the evidences for consideration into sainthood.
Smallage: n Dwelling for support staff of a Vicar.
"The vicarage and the smallage were constructed by the church."
Smallage is ingredients of a recipe that are cut into really small pieces to avoid identification by the eater. Scientific study shows that a balanced diet needs a decent amount of smallage and roughage.
I am afraid that the sisterhood may be reluctant to beatify you, Pastor Phil.
;)
Smallage is similar to dotage. It is the age a person is when they have not caught up to their peers in terms of height. (Smallage is usually around the beginning of puberty.) I hope to leave my smallage eventually.
SMALLAGE (n): The process during which people grow smaller with age.
Smallage is the transportation of items such a fragile ornaments and household bric a brac. It used to be a well utilised service during the earlier part of the 20th century. On moving house, well to do ladies would employ a regular removals or haulage contractor for furniture and then a separate smallage contractor for her more breakable items.
A Smallage stands for 'A Saving Mall'(All Goods Exchanged).
It's a mall that stores commodities which you can buy in exchange of anything for the same value, without involving money.
The Govt. had started this policy of barter system as part of practical training classes for political economy students and ever since, smallages have become a favourite with the masses.
Well, 'tis well known there's been the Stone-age when man was very frosty in nature; the bronze-age when he went in for sun tanning; in the iron-age he went in for keeping fit and there was even a dark age when Grecian 2000 was first introduced. The small-age was a period when man was encouraged to think small (small is beautiful!) which came just before the big-age when we were supposed to think big!
Are you with me on this?
Smallage is a rural Essex word meaning a small holding, or little farm. Essex is a very rural county for you Kiwis who might not appreciate it.
The Essex farming folk are a simple lot (I once had an Essex farmer boyfriend, so I should know) and they have limited vocabulary. So smallage is a small holding, wastage is what goes into the slurry, biggage is a large farm, etc. I won't bore you with 'hedging and ditching' terms. At least not today.
Lorenzo.
Smallage is a term used by fruit and vegetable sellers to refer to the percentage (by weight) of their produce that ends up not getting sold - either because it goes off, gets squashed, is pinched, etc.
Remember the play "Lettice & Smallage"? Maggie Smith won great acclaim for her performance as the, shall we say, 'overdramatic' Lettice on Broadway. An aging tour guide at one of Britains 'lesser' stately homes, Lettice 'flavors' up its history since nothing significant ever happened there.
Most of this is NOT a total, baldfaced lie for a change.
Smallage is the combination of tiny incriments of dust that accrues during the launching of rockets.
Gotta go with Pastor Phil on this one.... and I shall never be sainted!!!!
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