Word of the Day

[weaktwos]

Your challenge: drop this word in casual conversation.

cumshaw (KUM-shaw) noun

A gift or a tip.

[From Chinese (Amoy/Xiamen dialect), literally, grateful thanks.]

"An additional bit of cumshaw came on foreign press trips, in the old
days at least, when the travel office people enabled the returning
correspondents to bypass customs formalities."
Richard Dudman, Connections, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jun 15, 1997.

Comments

[ex-zakh565.livejournal.com]

In exchange for your daily donation of dictional delight, I've included a little cumshaw (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/9333/Smelly.html) cordiality of my own.

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[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. I've seen a variant of this already. Yet very handy.