Yearly evaluations have come and gone, and I totally didn't get shot--
again!As a show of gratitude to those who's comments
may have had a
wee hand in keeping my brain bullet free for another 12 months, and in the spirit of
friday slacking off public service, please accept this offering of "lost" words (actual words out of common usage) from
http://phrontistery.info
| alabandical | adj | 1656 -1775
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barbarous; stupefied from drink
| amarulence | n | 1731 -1755 |
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| bitterness; spite |
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| aretaloger | n | 1623 -1656 |
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braggart; one who boasts about his own accomplishments
| brabeum | n | 1675 -1675 |
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reward or prize | brephophagist | n | 1731 -1875 |
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| one who eats babies |
| celeberrimous | adj | 1768 -1768 |
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| very or most highly celebrated |
| defedate | v | 1669 -1669 |
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| to defile; to pollute |
| drollic | adj | 1743 -1743 |
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| of or pertaining to puppet shows |
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| gnathonize | v | 1619 -1727 |
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| to flatter |
| hemerine | adj | 1854 -1886 |
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daily; quotidian
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There! a nice little quiver full of verbal arrows to fire into your daily conversations with the folks you meet during your day--the Draughtsman, the Chirurgeon, the Town Crier, the Chandler and the Fletcher.......we take no responsibility if you get beaten up.
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7 comments:
I must buy tickets to the puppet show ASAP.
Not so fast ! the Masons still use the word Brephophagist on a daily basis.
Please include pronunciation next time. Nothing makes one look more ridiculous than misprounouncing a word no one has ever heard of.
Hey, we have the word celebérrimo in Portuguese! Célebre means famous, celebérrimo means very famous.
i am going to try to use those words in the next week - but i agree with needing a pronouciation guide...i want to appear snobbish..very, very snobbish and one MUST be able to say those impossible words correctly.
Now, i'd love to spend more time on this blog but i must go practice my snobbery, dahhlink.
I'm sure Taarzaan would be celeberrimous if he weren't so alabandical. I suggest a brabeum to the commenter who uses the vocabulary words most creatively. Not to be an aretaloger, but so far I'm winning.
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just stopped by to gnathonize you, because you have the bestest blog on the whole planet!
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