toph

Feb. 21st, 2018 08:04 am
prettygoodword: text: words are sexy (Default)
[personal profile] prettygoodword
toph (TOF? TUF? dunno) - n., a type of sandstone.


Given how few current dictionaries this appears in -- aside from Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries, I mean -- I suspect this of being obsolete geological jargon. Derived from Latin tophus or tōfus, meaning rock.

---L.

January 2026

S M T W T F S
     1 23
4 5 6 7 8 910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jan. 11th, 2026 06:45 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios