I found this recipe last week and we unanimously decided to make them for Thanksgiving. Oh, good gracious, are these good. If you like Twix bars, you’ll love these. They are absolutely delicious. Marvelously, deliciously drool-inducing.

http://christmas.allrecipes.com/az/CaramelShortbreadSquares.asp

We followed the suggestions by some of the reviewers and poked holes in the shortbread with a fork after it came out of the oven, and also scored the finished dessert into sixteen scrumptilicious pieces about thirty minutes after putting it in the fridge. Yum, yum, yum.

This is a term used for a debutante that is the cream of the crop — beautiful, poised and perfect.

Merriam-Webster

A young woman making her formal entrance into society.

The debutante in romance novels will be around 18 years of age. This age can vary, for many reasons — death in the family, readiness, female politics, etc. A debutante has her “come out” where she is introduced to society.

Word of the Day week (or two) for the women of the Regency! Have to let the ladies have their due!

Starting the week with…chit!

Merriam-Webster

A pert young woman.

1811 Vulgar Tongue

An infant or baby.

Wiktionary

A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

Example

“Did you meet the Martindale chit?”
“Who?”
“The girl barely out of the schoolroom who is drowning in white ruffles over there.”

Confused, stupid.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

The feeling one gets after eating too much turkey…for the second day in a row.

Happy Thanksgiving!
(If you aren’t from the US, Happy Thursday!)

I am for Bedfordshire, i.e. for going to bed.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

The place one wants to go after eating too much turkey…

Surprised, confounded, out of one’s senses; also bewrayed.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Had to look up bewray. Merriam-Webster claims it is archaic (shocking!) meaning to divulge; betray.

Bold-faced, shameless, impudent.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

To go with those beetle-brows.

One having thick projecting eyebrows.

–From the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. (Vulgar Tongue week is here again! This time with the B’s.)

As seen on any mentat from Dune or on Peter Pettigrew.

You put your right paw up,
You put your right paw down,
You put your right paw up,
And you shake it all around…

Go, Michigan State!

That cheer will be issuing from more than just the Spartan fans tomorrow. It causes my eyes to cross when I hear Wolverines cheering for the Spartans, but I’ve been assured by a Wolverine (He-who-will-not-be-named) that they will be doing so this weekend. Out of selfish reasons, of course.

(Can you tell I saw Harry Potter last night?)

–edited on 11/19 to add that dear couch Voldie no longer cares if MSU wins, as Michigan lost to OSU. Capricious git.

The heroine may call the hero a blackguard at first, but in the end only the villain fits the description.

Merriam-Webster

A rude or unscrupulous person : a person who uses foul or abusive language

Wiktionary

A vulgar and uncouth person. One who has a less than trustworthy level of inhibition.

1811 Vulgar Tongue

Black guard — A shabby, mean fellow; a term said to be derived from a number of dirty, tattered roguish boys, who attended at the Horse Guards, and Parade in St. James’s Park, to black the boots and shoes of the soldiers, or to do any other dirty offices. These, from their constant attendance about the time of guard mounting, were nick-named the black-guards.