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language
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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)
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