Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Apricity

Obsolete Words, Volume 14



- the sun’s warmth on a cold winter’s day

Monday, November 4, 2013

Slubberdegullion

Obsolete Words, Volume 13


- a slovenly, slobbering person

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Curmuring

Obsolete Words, Volume 12


- a low rumbling sound produced by the bowels

Monday, October 28, 2013

Lumming

Obsolete Words, Volume 11


- raining heavily

Friday, October 25, 2013

Quockerwodger

Obsolete Words, Volume 10


-a wooden toy which, a 19th century political insult

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Lethophobia

Obsolete Words, Volume 9


- the fear of oblivion

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Callipygian

Obsolete Words, Volume 8


- having beautifully shaped buttocks

Friday, October 11, 2013

Jollux

Obsolete Words, Volume 7


- in the 18th century, a fat person

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Cockalorum

Obsolete Words, Volume 6


-a little man with a high opinion of himself

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Curglaff

Obsolete Words, Volume 5


- the shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water

Friday, September 27, 2013

Resistentialism

Obsolete Words, Volume 4


- the seemingly spiteful and hostile behavior shown by inanimate objects toward us

Thursday, September 26, 2013

With Squirrel

Obsolete Words, Volume 3


- pregnant, with child, circa 1953

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Lunting

Obsolete Words, Volume 2


-walking while smoking a pipe

(I will become a lunter)

Monday, September 23, 2013

Snoutfair

Obsolete Words, Volume 1


- a person with a handsome countenance

(I think it's a compliment)