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October 10th, 2008
02:24 pm - A few words
At last the BBC guides us on the 50 top words ever. I was pleased to see two of my personal faves: chthonic and palimpsest. Some of the others are a bit dull.
1. defenestrate
2. Poodle-faker
3. Omphaloskepsis
4. Mallemaroking - the carousing of seamen in icebound ships. (Interesting subject)
5. Spanghew - to cause (esp. a toad or frog) to fly into the air off the end of a stick
6. Scrimshanker
7. Zareba
8.Tmesis - To break one word with another
9. quidnunc (a gossip)
10. Ischial callosities - the leather-like pads on a monkey's bum.
11 cryptomnesia
12. an urt is a "leftover bit".
13. termagant
14. Oxter- space under the arm
15. Spelunking
16. Petrichor - the sweet smell of rain on dry earth (hey! never heard of this one but I know the smell)
17. Frippet
18. Panglossian
19. proprioception
20. turpitude
21. discombobulated
22. Floccinaucinihilipilification
23. Pusillanimous
24. Sepulchral
25. sphygmomanometer
26. Crepuscular
27. Sinecure
28. kakistocracy (useful term - rule by the worst)
29. Chthonic
30. Runcible
31. palimpsest ("A parchment or other writing surface on which the original text has been effaced or partially erased, and then overwritten by another.") can be used as a metaphor for everything
32. susurrus
33. tintinnabulation
34. Maieutic pertaining to intellectual midwifery
35. Crenellate
36. Borborygmus - the rumbling sound that comes from an empty stomach.
37. Fug
38. Metanoia - the act or process of changing one's mind or way of life
39. Estivate
40. Rodomontade(boastful)
41. Slubberdegullion
42. erythrismal, meaning "red by nature".
43. Chatoyant something that glows from deep within, like a cat's eye (chat), or star sapphires
44. enervating
45. Tatterdemalion
46. Mellifluous
47. ideation
48. syzygy (I use this to test the quality of a dictionary, because it's easy to look for)
49. sesquipedalian
50 I may stroke my natiform chin sceptically at Shea's cachinnations, but if such things truly make him tripudiate, then who am I to be the pejorist?
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Ischial callosities
That's two words. true, and I'm not sure what that final entry was all about either |
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