Yashmak (noun)
yash-mak
A veil concealing all of the face except the eyes, worn by some Muslim women in public.
Mid 19th century via Arabic from Turkish.
Example sentences
“She wore a yashmak so it was hard to tell if she was smiling, but I’d like to think she was.”
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…)