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prettygoodwordcullet - n., Scraps of broken or waste glass gathered for remelting.
Etymology is obscure: per American Heritage, "probably alteration of collet, neck of glass left on the blowing iron, from French, collar, diminutive of col, neck, from Old French, from Latin collum"; per Merriam-Webster, "perhaps from French cueillette, act of gathering, from Latin collecta, from feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere." I don't have access to an OED here. I've sometimes heard it used of the barrel or other container that holds the scraps, but no dictionary seems to acknowledge this sense.
ETA: OED gives it as alteration of collet, neck.
---L.
Etymology is obscure: per American Heritage, "probably alteration of collet, neck of glass left on the blowing iron, from French, collar, diminutive of col, neck, from Old French, from Latin collum"; per Merriam-Webster, "perhaps from French cueillette, act of gathering, from Latin collecta, from feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere." I don't have access to an OED here. I've sometimes heard it used of the barrel or other container that holds the scraps, but no dictionary seems to acknowledge this sense.
ETA: OED gives it as alteration of collet, neck.
---L.
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Date: 2005-10-24 02:19 pm (UTC)---L.