gunpowder

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An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.

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An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.
They have been a bold, heroic, and purely self dependent nation, never having either courted,—or been subdued by—other Tribes or Europeans. But what early mind—a power—could face gunpowder and the ﬁrelocks? Hence their annihilation!
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Variante di gunpowder teaEllipsis of gunpowder tea.

Etimologia

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis Proto-Germanic *gunþiz Old Norse gunnr Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís Proto-Germanic *hildiz Old Norse hildr Old Norse Gunnhildrder. Middle English gunne English gun English powder English gunpowder From gun + powder.

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To destroy with gunpowder.
[…] he was […] never getting into quarrels with his neighbors and gunpowdering them out of house and home. His subjects loved him.

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informaleIdli podi/milagai podi; ground-up dry spices mixed with oil and ghee and served alongside idli or dosa.
Some restaurants try and give their dosas the "ethnic" touch by slipping along a small dish of mulaga podi-gunpowder mixed with oil as well, but that isn't always enough.
It was a hardcore Andhra lunch from a restaurant famous for its lunch meals. And that is where I had my first run-in with 'gunpowder'. And to be honest, I hated it.
In fact, I’ve long suspected that the popularity of gunpowder or molagapodi outside South India has little to do with the burst of flavours it serves.

Etimologia

Possibly due to its smell resembling gunpowder during the British Raj.

Forme

plurale: gunpowders
passato: gunpowdered
participio passato: gunpowdered
participio presente: gunpowdering
3ª persona singolare: gunpowders

Gunning · A surname.gunny · A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.gunpoint · A location in the front of the muzzle of a gun.

gunpowder · An explosive mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulfur; formerly used in gunnery but now mostly used in fireworks.

guns · Well-developed muscles of the upper arm, especially the…gunshot · The act of discharging a firearm.Gunther · A male given name from German.

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