Glossary: Elaine Marie Benes

NINA Engrossing conversationalist ex-girlfriend of Jerry, about whom he remarks to George: ''If we ever had a problem with Elaine, we could bring in Nina and not lose a step'' 156

NIP Teasing nickname coworkers bestow upon her after receiving the infamous, areola-baring Xmas card 51

NOSE RING She got one in India, only to have it ripped out by Sue Ellen Mischke 156

OSWALD, LEE HARVEY Her uncle worked with him in the Dallas schoolbook depository 111

OTB (OFF-TRACK BETTING) She regularly gives the number of her local horseplaying parlor to unwanted admirers 160

PEACH SCHNAPPS Sweet liqueur that works on her like a truth serum; can be used as a verb: ''He schnapped me'' 156

PRO-CHOICE One of two political stands she's taken, if only sporadically (she gives up on the other, antifur, in episode 160 when, in response to Puddy's Man-Fur, she says: ''Who has the energy anymore?'') 87

RUBY NAIL SALON Site of her bilingual Korean tormentors and workplace of Frank Costanza's lost love 104

'SACK LUNCH' The (fictitious) Dabney Coleman flick she'd rather see than The English Patient 143

'SHAFT' Jerry, perhaps facetiously, says this is her favorite movie 61

SHIKS-APPEAL Mysterious, overpowering attraction she arouses in men of the Hebrew persuasion. Says Elaine of these admirers: ''Every able-bodied Israelite in the country has been driving to the hoop pretty hard.'' 151

SPONGE-WORTHY The true test of potential lovers: Are they deserving of her limited supply of terminated Today sponges? 113

SUPREME FLOUNDER Chinese dish she hankers for so badly, she fakes an address in a janitor's closet to be within the restaurant's delivery zone 142

SVENJOLLY Malapropism of Svengali she uses to describe her spellbinding psychiatrist boyfriend; Jerry jokes, ''Maybe he's got...a cheerful mental hold on you'' 43

TIC TACS What she gives Lou Filerman so she'll know he's sidling up 154

URBAN SOMBRERO The misguided choice for her first Peterman catalog cover 127

UNVITATION Sue Ellen's backhanded, last-minute wedding invite interpreted to mean ''just send a gift'' 156

VEGETABLE LASAGNA Moniker she bestows upon a poor Norwegian passenger, stuck between her and a bickering Puddy on a flight from Europe 149

'WAR [WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?]' Jerry tells her the 1970 Edwin Starr song was also Tolstoy's original name for War and Peace, thus making her a fool in the eyes of novelist Yuri Testikov 75

ZAIUS, DR. She compares Puddy to the Planet of the Apes orangutan when he turns up clad in fur 160

'ZIGGY' Cartoon she subconsciously rips off for her New Yorker cartoon 161