Houses & Housing Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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panelizing n. Volunteers gave up an entire weekend last April for the “blitz build.” The frame of the house, which was built last winter inside a large warehouse, was moved to the site for this event. Volunteers then put the walls and roof on the frame over the course of the weekend, in a process called “panelizing.” [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Oct. 12, 2007)

pea-shake n. Four times a day, six days a week, dozens of cars converge on Gypsy’s, a pea-shake house on the Near Westside, to wait on “the shake,” the drawing of the winning numbers. [Indiana English Gambling Houses & Housing Colloquial] [full cite] (Feb. 27, 2007)

Peter Pan housing n. Sometimes referred to as “Peter Pan” housing, much of the housing in the county is built as though residents will never grow old or never need to house an aging relative. Features such as entry stairs, narrow doorways or lack of a first-floor bathroom can be major barriers for an older person or someone with a physical disability. [English Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2007)

Peter Pan housing n. Patrick Hare, a Washington, D.C., urban planner, calls that dream “Peter Pan housing,” designed for people who never grow old. Their Never-Never Land is the nation’s endless spread of suburbs and exurbs where real-life laws and codes only reinforce the illusion that America is eternally, expansively young. Suburbia was never conceived for an aging populace of fixed-income nondrivers. [English Houses & Housing Jargon] [full cite] (Jan. 24, 2007)

Peter Pan housing n. Philadelphia is full of Peter Pan Housing—housing for people that never grow old. You’ve got living area and kitchen on first floor, bed and bath on second floor, laundry in basement (if you’re lucky enough to have it in your house). As people age and grow more frail, they can’t stay in these houses. And if they do, the cost of upkeep on a typical Philly house is way outside their budget and the house falls into disrepair. [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Jan. 24, 2007)

plywood palazzo n. Wherever they are found, they share common features: large atrium-style hallways, showpiece kitchens, multiple bathrooms, walk-in wardrobes, built-in garage and garden statuary; a style familiar to viewers of the Sopranos. While McMansion is the most frequently used pejorative term, “plywood palazzo” is another. [English Houses & Housing Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 31, 2007)

pocket listing n. He also dismissed reports on the TMZ.com Web site that Candy Spelling let go her staff of 30 to enable real estate agents to tour the house in what is known as a “pocket listing,” a quiet shopping around of a property. [English Houses & Housing Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 10, 2006)

popcorn ceiling n. We’ve lived in our home for 30 years and have “popcorn” ceilings. I remember when we hung our swag lamp we could see fibers falling when we drilled holes. After all these years, is it too late to have the “popcorn” removed or are we already doomed?…Asbestos is a mineral fiber, commonly found in certain rock formations. It has been used in numerous manufactured materials for more than 100 years. Common asbestos-containing products include…acoustic ceiling texture (commonly known as “popcorn” ceilings). [English Construction & Buildings Houses & Housing] [full cite] (May. 22, 2007)

presidential apartment n. With land prices skyrocketing in the city’s central business district (CBD), builders are concentrating on building large projects in the suburban or peripheral areas and are seen increasingly going in for top-end “presidential” apartments in city centre.…According to sources familiar with the trend, “People going in for such high-end apartments are very senior company executives, investment bankers and a few techies who have made money abroad, are always on the move and looking for anything that will be in the central part of the town with facilities and amenities that are world class.” [English Houses & Housing] [full cite] (Oct. 23, 2006)

rambler n. Last night we spent our first night in the house we’ll occupy for at least the next 12 months. In local parlance it’s a “rambler”—one floor, no basement, supposedly a scaled-down postwar variant of the ranch-style house, though ours is laid out like the shotgun shacks I first saw described in a Eudora Welty story. [English Houses & Housing] [full cite] (May. 21, 2008)

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