Colloquial
51Smurf — Colloquial term for a money launderer. Also refers to one who seeks to evade scrutiny from government agencies by breaking up a transaction involving a large amount of money into smaller transactions that are below the reporting threshold. The… …
52Arles — Colloquial term for money given as an earnest of good intent; also, money given when a servant was hired. There was no connection with the town named Arles; rather the word is *arra with a dim. sense contributed by le …
53Black friars — Colloquial term for the Dominicans …
54Pied Friars — Colloquial term for the Friars of Blessed Mary, i.e. Friars De Domina; they were disbanded and obliged to join one of the major orders in the 14c. They were called pied because of their brown and white *habit …
55Plague — Colloquial term for the disastrous outbreak of disease, esp. in 1348, and known in the words of Henry Knighton (d. 1396) as the general mortality of the world . [< Lat. plaga = a wound; later, a pestilence] Cf. Black Death …
56Sack, friars of the — Colloquial name for the Friars of the Penance of Jesus Christ, the largest of the lesser groups of English friars. Their houses were all abandoned by 1314, the members being obliged to join one of the *mendicant orders …
57Scottish Sea — Colloquial term for the great tract of mossy land which lay between the Clyde and the Forth. It served for some time as a natural border between Scotland and England …
58milk teeth — Colloquial the primary teeth of young children. See dentition …
59color blindness — colloquial but misleading name for color vision deficiency …
60eye tooth — colloquial term for a canine tooth of the upper jaw …