Hemlock (noun)
hem-lok
A highly poisonous European plant of the parsley family, with a purple-spotted stem, fernlike leaves, small white flowers, and an unpleasant smell.
Old English hymlice, hemlic, of unknown origin.
Example sentences
“No one suspected she’d laced it with hemlock.”
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…)
