Word: tornescru
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...days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island) and in the sprinkling of Anglicisms (among them xumeca for shoemaker and tornescru for screwdriver) that add a quaint historical dimension to the Minorcan language...
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