His flat velvet cap, plum-coloured, is plumed with a great cockfeather, more bailiff than butcher.

Stick candy is made by a stick puller or stickman, who pulls the hard candy after it has been boiled; […]

We've got Edie, I think she's gone slightly mad, may be off the boil a bit. Chances of that one... two percent. Dr. Ku, ill give that a zero percent chance. Then we've got Steve with his ejaculation megatron. Yeah, I'll give him forty percent chance.

Used as a contact and alarm call, the muffled raab is like a muttered, husky quack.