A Gallimaufry For The Lackadaisical Logophile

[Ms_Ann]

No no no
Anyone who can rhyme biatch
With Kia makes for a great match
And deserves to be heards
More strange brew of words
From StrangeLife
Mo cheddar, hold the curds
It's all good in the hood
When you wake up with wood
Trapped, all the ladyfolk beware, prepare
To be rapped within an inch of your carefree
Lives about to be romance by middle aged
White guys
Throwing love your way
White guys
Won't go away-aye-aye

 

[Emerson40]

SOURCE

 

[Emerson40]

TRANSFORMISM

[noun]
1- the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
2- such transformation itself.
3- any doctrine or instance of evolution.



PRIMORDIAL

[adjective]
1- constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary.
2- Embryology: first formed.
3- pertaining to or existing at or from the very beginning.



VICISSITUDE

[noun]
1- a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2- interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3- vicissitudes; successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs.
4- regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5- change; mutation; mutability.



ÉLAN VITAL

[noun]
1- the vital force hypothesised by Henri Bergson as a source of efficient causation and evolution in nature. Also called life force.
2- life force; the vital force or impulse of life; one’s source of vitality, spirit, energy, and strength.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Figure Eights

On ice, skating
different paths intersecting
creating an endless series of figure eights

Once or twice in their gliding
coming close to colliding
on seemingly random calendar dates

Each taking time
perfecting their striding
what rhyme and reason is left to the Fates

Placed on gurneys after long journeys
resulting in the breaking of one another's legs
suddenly being faced with their potential soulmates
begs the question:

was it Accidental
or
was it Destiny

?

 

[Emerson40]

ROSENBLAU

[noun]
a blue rose.



REDOLENT

[adjective]
1- having or emitting fragrance; aromatic; having a pleasant smell.
2- having the odour or smell (of); scented (with).
3- suggestive; reminiscent.



COROLLA

[noun]
the petals of a flower considered as a group or unit and usually of a colour other than green; the petals of a flower collectively.



ROSACEOUS

[adjective]
1- of or belonging to the rose family.
2- resembling the flower of a rose.
3- of the colour rose; rose-coloured; rosy.

 

[Emerson40]

POCULATION

[noun]
the drinking of alcoholic beverages.



BIBACIOUS

[adjective]
1- overly fond of drinking.
2- addicted to drinking.



EBRIECTION

[noun]
a mental breakdown from drinking too much.



CRAPULOUS

[adjective]
1- given to or characterised by gross excess in drinking or eating.
2- suffering from or due to such excess.

 

[Emerson40]

EXCORIATE

[verb]
1- to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally.
2- to strip off or remove the skin from; to flay.



KALON

[noun]
1- beauty that is more than skin deep.
2- the ideal of physical and moral beauty especially as conceived by the philosophers of classical Greece.



SPLANCHNIC

[adjective]
of or relating to the viscera or internal organs, especially those of the abdomen.



FIBROBLAST

[noun]
a type of cell that synthesises the extracellular matrix and collagen, the structural framework (stroma) for animal tissues, and plays a critical role in wound healing. Fibroblasts are the most common cells of connective tissue in animals.

 

[Emerson40]

INVIGILATE

[verb]
1- to keep watch, especially in a controlling manner.
2- British: to keep watch over students at an examination.



HAWTHORNE EFFECT

[noun]
the alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed.



ESPIAL

[noun]
1- the act of spying.
2- the act of keeping watch; observation.



GYMNOGYNOMANIA

[noun]
obsession of the ‘peeping Tom’; male voyeurism;*the excessive urge to spy on people as they undress

 

[Emerson40]

ALEATOMANIA

[noun]
an obsession with gambling; an obsession with playing games dictated by luck.



ZUGZWANG

[noun]
1- (German for “compulsion to move”) a term usually used in chess which also applies to various other games. The term finds its formal definition in combinational game theory, and it describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move when he would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it was his opponent’s turn to move.
2- A position in which any decision or move will result in problems.



CASUS

[noun]
accident; chance; fortune; an event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God.



TESSERARIAN

[adjective]
of, like, or pertaining to dice games.

 

[Emerson40]

APRICATE

[adjective]
to bask in the sun; to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth generated by the sun.



HELIOSIS

[noun]
1- exposure to the sun.
2- sunburn.
3- sunstroke.



PARASOL

[noun]
a light, usually small umbrella carried as protection from the sun.



AESTIVATE

[verb]
1- to spend the summer, as at a specific place or in a certain activity.
2- Zoology: to spend a hot, dry season in an inactive, dormant state, as certain reptiles, snails, insects, and small mammals.

 

[Emerson40]

APHASIA

[noun]
the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain.



ALEXIA

[noun]
when damage to the brain causes a patient to lose the ability to read. It is also called word blindness, text blindness or visual aphasia. Those who suffer from “alexia” and “developmental dyslexia” can have similar difficulties, however, “alexia” refers to an acquired reading disability, where reading ability had previously been developed, usually occurring in adulthood conditions, while “developmental dyslexia” refers to developmental reading disability.



DYSLEXIA

[noun]
a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person’s fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming. Dyslexia is distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction. It is believed that dyslexia can affect between 5 and 10 percent of a given population although there have been no studies to indicate an accurate percentage.



TYPOGLYCEMIA

[noun]
Informal: a neologism given to a purported recent discovery about the cognitive processes behind reading written text. It is the ability to read scrambled words (particularly when only the first and last letter is in order) or misread words and sentence structures due to the mind’s habitual ability to re-categorize information in accordance to its previous experiences.

 

[Emerson40]

AU CŒUR BRISÉ

[adjective]
broken-hearted; overwhelmed by grief , despair or disappointment, especially due to lost love, death, etc.



CORDIFORM

[adjective]
heart-shaped.



LA DOULEUR EXQUISE

[noun]
French: literally “exquisite pain”; the heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can never have.



CARDIALGIA

[noun]
1- pain near or in the heart; suffering from or exhibiting overwhelming sorrow, grief, or disappointment, particularly due to romantic love.
2- heartburn.

 

[Emerson40]

 

[Emerson40]

FERNWEH

[noun]
wanderlust, a desire to travel, a longing for far-off places.



VIATOR

[noun]
a wayfarer; traveller; a person embarking on a journey.



ERRANT

[adjective]
1- travelling; roving, especially in search of adventure.
2- straying from the proper course or standards; moving about aimlessly.
3- a) wandering outside the established limits. b) aimless or irregular in motion.



MUNDIVAGANT

[adjective]
wandering all over the world.

 

[Emerson40]

BATHORY

[proper noun]
1- Elizabeth Báthory was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of Hungarian nobility. She was accused of murdering hundreds of girls in order to bathe in their blood to retain her youth.
2- a Swedish black metal band formed by Quorthon (Tomas Forsberg) who died of a heart attack.
[verb]
3- to bathe in blood.



HAEMATOLAGNIA

[noun]
1- also known as blood fetishism; the sexual interest or paraphilia for blood in clinical vampirism, or within the BDSM or vampire lifestyle.
2- belief within a society or culture that blood in itself (as a material substance) possesses powerful and magical properties.



HYPOVOLAEMIA

[noun]
Physiology and medicine: also known as hypovolemia; a state of decreased blood volume; more specifically, decrease in volume of blood plasma. It is the intravascular component of volume contraction (or loss of blood volume due to things such as haemorrhaging or dehydration), however as it also the most essential one, hypovolaemia and volume contraction are sometimes used synonymously.



PHLEBOTOMIZE

[verb]
to subject to phlebotomy; bleed.



ACELDAMA

[noun]
1- a site or scene of violence and bloodshed.
2- a place with dreadful associations.
3- New Testament: the place near Jerusalem that was bought with the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas for ‘betraying’ Jesus.

 

[adrina]

That's... disturbing.

 

[Endless_Night]

Magnificent! And apparently sold as a poster!

*wants*

SOURCE

 

[Emerson40]

That's... disturbing.

'Tis.

Ol' Lizzie Báthory - also known as The Blood Countess - was a spunky Hungarian noblewoman, and is said to be the most prolific and vicious female serial killer in history. She's also known for her fondness for S&M, often horrifically torturing her victims for extended periods, before creatively killing them in some grizzly manner or other.

She's often compared with Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for Stoker's Dracula.

 

[Emerson40]

LUSTIGAZE

[adjective/verb]
to openly stare at a woman with lust.



VISURIENCY

[noun]
hungry for visual stimuli; pertaining to the desire evoked from vision; the desire of seeing.



PHANOPOEIA

[noun]
1- Poundian term to describe a poem which relies upon ‘throwing a visual image on the mind’.
2- visual imagery in poetry.



SCOPOPHILIA

[noun]
from Greek “love of looking”, deriving pleasure from looking. As an expression of sexuality, it refers to sexual pleasure derived from looking at erotic objects: erotic photographs, pornography, naked bodies, etc. It can also be described as intermittent desire of gazing at.

 

[Emerson40]

AUTOPTIC

[adjective]
1- of an eyewitness.
2- seen with one’s own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.



OPHTHALMOPHOBIA

[noun]
the fear of being watched or stared at.



CONSPICIO

[verb]
1- I watch, look at, gaze, stare.
2- I notice, catch sight of.



ESPIAL

[noun]
1- the act of spying.
2- the act of keeping watch; observation.

 

[Emerson40]

MOUNTEBANK

[noun]
1- any charlatan or quack.
2- a person who sells quack medicines, as from a platform in public places, attracting and influencing an audience by tricks, storytelling, etc.



FINAGLE

[verb]
1- to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of).
2- to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation. 3. to practice deception or fraud; scheme.



FANFARON

[noun]
a bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.



GASCONADE

[noun]
1- extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
[verb]
2- to boast extravagantly; bluster.

 

[Emerson40]

VOLUCRINE

[adjective]
of or relating to birds.



RAMAGE

[noun]
1- boughs or branches.
2- warbling of birds in trees.



ROUCOULEMENT

[noun]
the gentle cooing of doves or other soft voices.



NIDIFICATE

[verb]
to make or build a nest.

 

[Emerson40]

wee ones

VUG

[noun]
a small cavity in rock, lined with mineral crystals.



DAG

[noun]
1- dirty, tatted tuft of sheep’s wool
2- an unfashionable or socially conservative person.



PAX

[noun]
(in the Christian Church) a tablet decorated with a sacred figure or Crucifixion and kissed by participants in mass.



ELL

[noun]
1- an old measure of length (equivalent to six hand breadths) used mainly for textiles, locally variable but typically about 45 inches.
2- something that is L-shaped or that creates an L shape.

 

[Emerson40]

PUERILE

[adjective]
1- of or pertaining to a child or to childhood.
2- childishly foolish; immature or trivial.



MNEMONIC

[noun]
1. a device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something.

[adjective]
1- aiding or designed to aid the memory.



NOSTALGIA

[noun]
1- a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time.
2- something that elicits or displays nostalgia.



CUENTO DE HADAS

[noun]
Spanish: fairy tale - a fanciful tale of legendary deeds and creatures, usually but not always intended for children.

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

Cool thread, Em!