Agastopia
Admiration of a particular part of a woman's body.
Anencephalous
Characterized by partial or
total absence of a brain
Batrachomyomachy
The battle between the frogs and mice; a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
Bibble
A pebble.
One of those little stones that gets trapped in
your shoe when you are walking.
Borborygm
A rumbling or gurgling noise
produced by wind in the bowels.
Catercornered
Diagonal.
In a diagonal position.
Crudivore
An eater of raw food
Depone
To give testimony by affidavit or deposition.
Swear: make a deposition; declare under oath.
Doodle sack
A bagpipe.
Erinaceous
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a hedgehog.
Fard
To paint the face with cosmetics.
To gloss over.
Finnimbrun
A trifle, trinket or knick-knack.
Gabelle
The gabelle was a very unpopular tax on salt in
France before 1790.
Gaberlunzie
A wandering beggar.
Gardyloo!
Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn
passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below.
Gastromancy
A form of divination involving
listening to stomach sounds.
A form of divination by gazing
into a crystal ball or a glass full of water.
Gobemouche
Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who
keeps his mouth open.
A boor; a silly and credulous person.
A highly gullible person.
Gongoozle
To leisurely watch the passage of boats, from
the bank of a canal, lock or bridge.
To observe things idly.
Halfpace
A raised floor or dais or a platform or footpace
at the top of steps, as for a throne or an altar.
A landing of a staircase like a broad step
between two half flights.
Impignorate
To impignorate or pignorate
means to put up as security or to pawn.
Inaniloquent
Given to talking inanely.
Loquacious.
Garrulous.
Jentacular
Of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in
the morning, or immediately on getting up.
Kakorrhaphiophobia
The fear of failure or defeat.
Lagopodous
In zoology, hare-footed
Having the feet densely furry or feathery, as a
lemming or a ptarmigan.
Lamprophony
Loudness and clarity of enunciation.
Limerance
An involuntary cognitive and emotional state of
being infatuated or obsessed with another person.
Macrosmatic
Having the sense or organs of smell highly
developed
Mesonoxian
Pertaining to the hour of midnight.
Of or related to midnight.
Nihilarian
One who subscribes to nihilism.
Of or pertaining to nihilism.
Nudiustertian
Of or pertaining to the day before yesterday.
Oocephalus
An individual characterized by an egg-shaped
head.
A skull shape disorder.
Pandiculation
Yawning and stretching, as when first waking up.
Pauciloquent
Using few words when speaking.
Brief in speech.
Phenakism
Deception.
Trickery.
Pulveratricious
Nesting on the ground.
Covered with dust.
Ranivorous
Pertaining to creatures that eat frogs.
(Ranivore) frog-eating.
Rastaquouere
A social upstart, especially from a Mediterranean
or Latin American country.
A smooth untrustworthy foreigner.
Selcouth
Strange, unusual, rare.
Marvellous, wondrous.
Sialoquent
Spitting while speaking.
Slangwhanger
One who verbally attacks others; normally a
politician or editor.
Smellfungus
An excessively fault-finding person.
A perpetual pessimist
Snickersnee
Knife fight: fighting with knives.
A knife resembling a sword.
Snollygoster
A shrewd person not guided by principles, especially
a politician.
Turdiform
Of, relating to or resembling a thrush, or any
other bird of the family Turdidae.
Tyrotoxism
Tyrotoxism is the poisoning of one with cheese
or any other milk product.
Ulotrichous
Having woolly,
curly or crispy hair.
Xertz
To gulp down quickly and greedily.
Zabernism
Abusive misuse of military authority.
Bullying.
Zoanthropy
The delusion that you have assumed the form of
an animal.
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