Flinders (noun)
flin-derz
splinters, fragments.
Middle English flendris
Example sentences
“Once he’d chopped the wood, he collected the flinders to start the fire.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
Booker-prize winning author, Bernardine Evaristo, has lent her voice to renewed calls for schools in England to offer more diverse literature texts on the curriculum. The first Black woman to…
