BUKA
(c) A small roadside stall selling food (especially in Nigeria). Adaptation of the Hausa. “I’m just popping down to my little Buka in Harrods food halls.”
RA
(b) One of the terminal moraines near the coast in southern Norway and Sweden. They are in the form of long ridges of gravel and clay with a covering of large stones. 1957: “The ras, traceable as far as Stavanger, have been correlated with the double moraines observed in many fjords and fjord-valleys.”
ANOPISTHOGRAPH
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(c) Something that has writing on only one side (usually paper). Anopisthography is the practice of writing on only one side of something.
JACK-A-LENT
(a) A figure of a man, set up to be pelted. An ancient form of the sport of Aunt Sally, practised during Lent. Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, 1598: “See now how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent when ‘tis upon ill employment.”