TYPHOO TEA
Founder John Summer
dai fu, Chinese for doctor
Tea, as medicine
Category Archives: Philosophical view
Obscure words explained96. – panache
Obscure words explained 95. – taradiddle
Obscure words explained 94. – kitch
Obscure words explained 93. – chockablock
CHOCKABLOCK
A nautical term
when blocks drawn close together
permit no movement
Note: Originally chock and block, part of the tackle on rigged sailing ships
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Obscure words explained 91. – panacea
Obscure words explained 92. – breviloquent
A Sheep’s double entendre
Unusual USA place names 5. – Quamba
QUAMBA, Kanabec County Minnesota
formerly Mud Creek
changed to an Ojibway word
Quamba means mud hole
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Unusual USA place names 4. – Koo Chi Ching
KOO CHI CHING, Koo Chi Ching County, Minnesota
Sounds Chinese some say
but these are Ojibway words
The place of inlets
Note: The inlets being on Rainy lake and the Rainy River
Fa - the Green Dragon 
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