"b" words

This is the b vocabulary encountered randomly by online reading unfamiliar somehow and researched for some reason.

I realized these files are not so good or useful as cards due to how they are created and how they are used.

Handwritten cards are better for impressing than copy / paste, the time it takes to write allows the material to cycle, the thought put into editing reinforces while c/p is zap there you go. Cards are at hand beckoning to be shuffled, there with you in your car idling in line at McDonald's, there with you at breakfast, on break, at lunch, on the throne whereas computer files just sit there untouched and unexamined. Cards can be bookmarks. Cards are dumber but better.

Indented, I don't know why I looked those up. Maybe to find the source, maybe to check something, sometimes to look at photos. The files have a lot more c/p information, but it never gets read. This right here is the most use the files ever had. As files, they're nearly useless as cards they could be worth something.

You might find these interesting.


     * bairn: Scottish child, also weans, see video "she's turned the weans against against us"
     * balaclava  
* Balfour Declaration: important letter from U.K leaders to Rothschild that looked favorably on establishment of Israel  
* banausic: banal, not operating on elevated level, mundane, technical work
     * banlieues  
     * barmy: full on barm, foamy, eccentric, daft  
* Basij militia: paramilitary volunteer militia founded by the order of the Ayatollah Khomeini  
* beetle-browed: tufted eyebrows, which resembled the antennae of beetles  
     * bel canto  
     * bellum omnium contra omnes  
* benighted: existing in a state of intellectual, moral, or social darkness : unenlightened. Nothing to do with knights in armor.  
* benthic zone: ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. Organisms living in this zone called benthos.  
* Berbere: Basic berberé  spice mixture curry or sorts, combined roughly equal amounts of allspice, cardamom, cloves, fenugreek, ginger, black pepper, and salt with a much larger amount of hot red (cayenne) pepper. The combination of fenugreek and red pepper is essential to berberé; while one or two of the other ingredients may be left out, the fenugreek and red pepper are must-haves.  
     * bespoke  
     * bête noire  
* betise: Stupidity; folly: "The bêtise of our human community is everywhere" A stupid or foolish act or remark.
     * beurre noisette
     * bien-pensant  
     * bildungsroman  
* bilious: nausea or vomiting
     * bill of goods  
     * billet–doux  
     * billet  
     * bituminous  
* black letter law: basic principles of law that are accepted by a majority of judges in most states. From the practice of publishers of encyclopedias and legal treatises to highlight principles of law by printing them in boldface type.
* bodge job: job that was completed quickly and carelessly, possibly with one's mind on other things, or without using the correct tools, even if no mistakes were made.  
     * boffin  
     * boke (vomit Scottish)  
     * bolus  
* bondieuserie: Ostentatious piety. An open display of religious sentiment primarily for the consumption or edification of others.
* bonze: Buddhist priest in Japan, self-interested dignitary, capitalist; leading figure of the propertied class, rich person
* börse: German for stock exchange
* boulevardier: A frequenter of city boulevards, especially in Paris. A sophisticated, worldly, and socially active man; a man who frequents fashionable places; a man-about-town.
* bourse: A stock exchange, especially one in a continental European city.
* boustrophedonic: turning like oxen in plowing; from "bous": ox, cow; "strephein": to turn) An ancient method of writing using alternate left-to-right and right-to-left lines. It used for an optimization performed by some computer typesetting software and moving-head printers to reduce physical movement of the print head. The adverbial form "boustrophedonically" is also found.  
     * bowdlerization  
* box squeeze kitty: a strange random idea for a pop-up card, lengthy detailed description by some crackpot
     * bras d’honneur  
     * brawn  
* brisant: the shattering effect of an explosive. measure of the rapidity with which an explosive develops its maximum pressure. Brisance
* Brodie helmet:  a steel combat helmet designed and patented in 1915 by the Briton John Leopold Brodie. Colloquially, it was also called the shrapnel helmet, Tommy helmet, or Tin Hat, and in the United States known as a doughboy helmet.  
* Brumaire: second month in the French Republican Calendar. Month was named after the French word brume (fog) which occurs frequently in France at that time of the year.
Brumaire was the second month of the autumn quarter (mois d'automne). It started between October 22 and October 24. It ended between November 20 and November 22.
* Brummie: colloquial term for the inhabitants, accent and dialect of Birmingham, England, as well as being a general adjective used to denote a connection with the city, locally called Brum.
* brushback pitch: baseball, a pitch thrown high and inside, usually a fastball, to force the batter away from the plate, often to intimidate.[1] It differs from the beanball in that the intent is not to hit the batter, or intentionally throw at the batter's head.  
* Bulverism:  logical fallacy that combines a genetic fallacy with circular reasoning. The method of Bulverism is to "assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error". The Bulverist assumes a speaker's argument is invalid or false and then explains why the speaker is so mistaken, attacking the speaker or the speaker's motive. The term "Bulverism" was coined by C. S. Lewis[1] to poke fun at a very serious error in thinking that, he alleges, recurs often in a variety of religious, political, and philosophical debates.  
* bunting: originally fabric decorations used for flags, any festive decorations made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes.
* bursary: A scholarship to attend a college or university. The treasury of an institution, esp. a religious one.
* bushwa: rubbishy nonsense; baloney; bull: You'll hear a lot of boring bushwa about his mechanical skill.
Also, bush·wah.    
     * Butterfield effect