A Gallimaufry For The Lackadaisical Logophile

[Emerson40]

Cool thread, Em!

HONEY!

Thanks Mellifluous One.

So lovely to see you here, o'er the tracks.
Tell me, how is your wee charge? She must be doing much better, yes?

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

HONEY!

Thanks Mellifluous One.

So lovely to see you here, o'er the tracks.
Tell me, how is your wee charge? She must be doing much better, yes?

I am not entirely unfamiliar with this part of town, I'll have you know.

And yes, much, thank you for asking.

She was released over a year ago and promptly fractured her femur. Seven months in a hospital bed doesn't do your bone density any favors, but she was able to attend the tail end of school with only minimal accommodations. A summer full of running around with siblings whipped her into shape and this past school year she did pretty much everything she wanted to, within reason.

She's done so well that she requires no physical therapy, and her flexibility has increased so much that her doctors have postponed her first release surgery indefinitely. She's weaned off all of her meds and no longer wears her compression garments. After having her head shaved twice, her hair is now down to her shoulders and covers her small bald patches so that I forget that she has them. The ends are blonde - not really, but it sounds better than 'damaged by endless drugs to keep you alive.' We try to have a sense of humor about these things, our attitude is often the only thing we can control.

Truly, the time in the hospital was horrendous, but to see her running around and being a pain in the ass like the rest of my kids does my mama's heart infinite good.

 

[Emerson40]

I am not entirely unfamiliar with this part of town, I'll have you know.

And yes, much, thank you for asking.

She was released over a year ago and promptly fractured her femur. Seven months in a hospital bed doesn't do your bone density any favors, but she was able to attend the tail end of school with only minimal accommodations. A summer full of running around with siblings whipped her into shape and this past school year she did pretty much everything she wanted to, within reason.

She's done so well that she requires no physical therapy, and her flexibility has increased so much that her doctors have postponed her first release surgery indefinitely. She's weaned off all of her meds and no longer wears her compression garments. After having her head shaved twice, her hair is now down to her shoulders and covers her small bald patches so that I forget that she has them. The ends are blonde - not really, but it sounds better than 'damaged by endless drugs to keep you alive.' We try to have a sense of humor about these things, our attitude is often the only thing we can control.

Truly, the time in the hospital was horrendous, but to see her running around and being a pain in the ass like the rest of my kids does my mama's heart infinite good.

That is all such wonderful news! So glad to hear that everyone has come through the other side of things happy, healthy, and with sense of humour intact.

Take care sweet Honey, and thanks for stopping by and leavin' a lil' sweetness behind.

 

[Emerson40]

Metaphors Be With You

ANAGRAM

[noun]
a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another

Example:

ELECTION RESULTS -> LIES - LET’S RECOUNT
ASTRONOMER -> MOON STARER
DESPERATION -> A ROPE ENDS IT
HOLMES AND WATSON = WOMANLESS AND HOT
THE EYES -> THEY SEE
THE MORSE CODE -> HERE COME DOTS,
DORMITORY = DIRTY ROOM
SLOT MACHINES -> CASH LOST IN ME,
SNOOZE ALARMS -> ALAS! NO MORE Z’S
THE EARTHQUAKES -> THAT QUEER SHAKE
ELEVEN PLUS TWO -> TWELVE PLUS ONE
MOTHER-IN-LAW -> WOMAN HITLER
​

ONOMATOPOEIA

[noun]
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
the use of onomatopoeia for rhetorical effect.


Example:

MUMBLE, WHOOSH, CLICK, CUCKOO, SWISH, PLOP, TWEET, QUACK, BLOOP, CLINK, BUZZ, and MOO​

RHYMING REDUPLICATION

[noun]
a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

Example:

OKEY-DOKEY, HANKY-PANKY, RIFF-RAFF, ARGLE-BARGLE, HEEBIE-JEEBIES, and HELTER-SKELTER​

PARAPROSDOKIAN

[noun]
a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humourous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but they also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis.

Example:

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.” —Winston Churchill
“On his feet he wore…blisters.” —Aristotle
“I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” —Groucho Marx
“If I’m reading this graph correctly, I’d be surprised.” - Stephen Colbert
“I sleep eight hours a day and at least ten at night.” —Bill Hicks
“I can’t come to work today because I’m sick……of working.”—Australian Comedian​

 

[Emerson40]

INCULCATE

[verb]
1- to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly.
2- to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling.



SUSCEPTIBLE

[adjective]
1- open or prone to being attacked or altered.
2- admitting or capable of some specified treatment.
3- accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence, mood, agency, etc.
4- capable of being affected emotionally; impressionable.



BEGUILE

[verb]
1- to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
2- to take away from by cheating or deceiving.
3- to charm or divert.
3- to pass (time) pleasantly.
4- to mislead another by being what one is not.



MAUMET

[noun]
1- a) a doll, puppet, scarecrow, or other figure built to resemble a human being, b) an empty-headed or mindless person.
2- Obsolete: an idol; a false god.

 

[Emerson40]

PHILALETHE

[noun]
Informal: one who loves to forget; a person who has a strong desire to remove memories.



CRYPTOMNESIA

[noun]
when a forgotten memory returns without it being recognised as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original.



OBLIVESCENCE

[noun]
the process of forgetting; to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall.



DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE

[noun]
a rare psychiatric disorder characterised by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality. The state is usually short-lived (ranging from hours to days), but can last months or longer. Dissociative fugue usually involves unplanned travel or wandering, and is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity.

 

[Emerson40]

PARASUICIDE

[noun]
suicide attempts or gestures and self-harm where there is no result in death. It is a non-fatal act in which a person deliberately causes injury to himself or ingests any prescribed or generally recognised therapeutic dose in excess either as a genuine attempt to commit suicide or an attempt to attract attention. Parasuicide is the strongest known indicator for a future successful suicide attempt as approximately half of those who commit suicide have a history of parasuicide. The term was first coined in Edinburgh by Norman Krietman.



FUNIPENDULOUS

[adjective]
hanging from a rope.



PENDENT

[adjective]
1- hanging or suspended.
2- overhanging; jutting; projecting.
3- undecided; undetermined; pending.
4- impending.



FELO DE SE

[phrase & noun]
Latin for “felon of himself”, an archaic legal term meaning suicide. In early English common law, an adult who committed suicide was literally a felon, and the crime was punishable by forfeiture of property to the king and what was considered a shameful burial – typically with a stake through his heart and with a burial at a crossroad. Burials for felo de se typically took place at night, with no mourners or clergy present, and the location was often kept a secret by the authorities. A child or mentally incompetent person, however, who killed himself was not considered a felo de se and was not punished post-mortem for his actions. The term is not commonly used in modern legal practice.

 

[Emerson40]

 

[Emerson40]

I could just murder a cup

NINNY-BROTH

[noun]
Old Slang: coffee; a drink consisting of an infusion of the roasted and ground or crushed seeds of the coffee tree.



DEMITASSE

[noun]
1- a small cup of strong black coffee or espresso.
2- the small cup used to serve this drink.



SOMNIFUGOUS

[adjective]
driving away sleep.



BROMA

[noun]
1- aliment; food; any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc.
2- a light form of prepared cocoa (or cacao), or the drink made from it.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Ninny Broth!

 

[Emerson40]

TRAGEMATOPOLIST

[noun]
1- a seller of sweets, such as candy, lollies or dried fruit.
2- confectioner; someone who makes confections (sweet preparation of fruit, candy, cakes, cookies, etc.) to sell.



SUCETTE

[noun]
1- lollipop; a round hard piece of candy (or sweet) on the end of a stick.
2- sucker; dummy; comforter; pacifier.



CUPPEDIA

[noun]
1- fondness for dainties, daintiness, lickerishness.
2- Plural: dainty dishes, delicacies.



SACCHAROMANIAC

[noun]
one who is obsessed with sugar or food containing sugar (such as candies, lollies, sweets).

 

[trysail]

absquatulate

to leave somewhere abruptly


​

 

[Emerson40]

DISCONSOLATE

[adjective]
1- without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable.
2- characterized by or causing dejection; cheerless; gloomy; depression.



SATISPASSION

[noun]
1- satisfactory suffering.
2- atonement by suffering to an adequate degree.



DELETERIOUS

[adjective]
1- harmful to the body or mind; injurious.
2- harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way.



LUCTATION

[noun]
effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavour; to contend with an adversary or opposing force.

 

[Emerson40]

TACTION

[noun]
1- the act of touching; touch; contact.
2- the sense of touch.



HAPTICS

[noun]
1- the branch of psychology that investigates sensory data and sensation derived from the sense of touch and localised on the skin.
2- Digital Technology: the study or use of tactile sensations and the sense of touch as a method of interacting with computers and electronic devices.



TACTURIENCY

[noun]
the desire of touching.



SENSILLUM

[noun]
(plural: sensilla) a sense organ in insects, typically consisting of a receptor organ in the integument connected to sensory neurons. It assists in sensing touch, air motion, heat, vibration (sound), and especially olfaction (smell) or gustation (taste).

 

[Emerson40]

AUTASSASSINOPHILIA

[noun]
A paraphilia involving the risk of one's own death.



ITHYPHALLOPHOBIA

[noun]
Informal: fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis; fear of erect penises.



RIGORRICTUM

[noun/verb]
to lie still before death.



SURGATION

[noun]
1- erection of the penis: a) the firm and enlarged condition of a body organ or part when the erectile tissue surrounding it becomes filled with blood, especially such a condition of the penis or clitoris. b) the process of filling with blood.
2- the act of erecting.
3- something erected; a construction.

 

[Emerson40]

AMOREVOLOUS

[adjective]
loving; feeling or showing love or great care.



FIRKYTOODLE

[verb]
1- Archaic: to pet, caress; hug.
2- Archaic: to canoodle; to play wantonly with a woman.



SARMASSATION

[noun]
love play; amorous caressing, particularly of the female body (flesh) as a method of love-making.



PAIZOGONY

[noun]
love-play; foreplay; necking.

 

[Emerson40]

COAPTATION

[noun]
1- joining or fitting together.
2- the adaptation or adjustment of things, parts, or people to each other.
3- the joining or reuniting of two surfaces, especially the ends of a broken bone or the edges of a wound.



SYSTATIC

[adjective]
bringing together; to stand together; togetherness.



SYMBIOSIS

[noun]
1- Biology: the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism.
2- Psychiatry: a relationship between two people in which each person is dependent upon and receives reinforcement, whether beneficial or detrimental, from the other.
3- Psychoanalysis: the relationship between an infant and its mother in which the infant is dependent on the mother both physically and emotionally.
4- Any interdependent or mutually beneficial relationship between two persons, groups, etc.



AMALGAMATION

[noun]
1- the act or process of amalgamating; to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite; combine.
2- the state or result of being amalgamated.
3- Commerce: a consolidation of two or more corporations.
4- Metallurgy: the extraction of precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury.

 

[Emerson40]

 

[Emerson40]

MYCOID

[adjective]
resembling, or appearing like, a fungus; fungoid; shaped like a mushroom.



SHROOMERY

[noun]
Informal: a mushroom farm; a mushroom nursery.



FUNGIFEROUS

[adjective]
1- growing mushrooms; bearing mushrooms.
2- bearing or producing fungus.



MYCOPHRENIA

[noun]
Informal: a state of delirium (slang: ‘being high’) induced by the ingesting of fungi ('magic mushrooms’) with psychoactive properties.

 

[Emerson40]

EUPEPTIC

[adjective]
1- cheerful; happy; optimistic; disposed to take a favourable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favourable outcome.
2- Biology: a) relating to or having good digestion, b) conducive to digestion.



AGATHISM

[noun]
the doctrine that the ultimate end of all things is good, although the intermediate means may be evil.



LA VIE EN ROSE

[phrase]
French: literally “Life in Pink” - translated as “Life in Rosy Hues” or “Life Through Rose-Coloured Glasses”.



ROSEATE

[adjective]
1- cheerful or bright; optimistic.
2- excessively or idealistically optimistic; i.e. such as false hope.
3- rose-coloured; of the colour rose or pink.

 

[Emerson40]

never quit

NICOTIAN

[noun]
1- a tobacco user.
2- tobacco.
[adjective]
3- pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.



CAPNOMANIAC

[noun]
an individual who has an uncontrollable obsession with smoking tobacco products.



FUMIPHOBIA

[noun]
1- fear of smoking.
2- fear of smoke.



MISOCAPNIST

[noun]
a person who hates smoking or the smell of tobacco.

 

[Emerson40]

EOAN

[adjective]
of or relating to the dawn or the east.



DILUCULUM

[noun]
daybreak, dawn.



ROSICLER

[noun]
1- the glowing light of dawn.
2- Colours: dawn pink, rosy tint of dawn.



AUBADE

[noun]
a morning love song (as opposed to a serenade, which is in the evening), or a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. It has also been defined as “a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak”. In the strictest sense of the term, an aubade is a song from a door or window to a sleeping woman. Aubades are generally conflated with what are strictly called albas, which are exemplified by a dialogue between parting lovers, a refrain with the word alba, and a watchman warning the lovers of the approaching dawn.

 

[Emerson40]

INTERNIGHTMARE

[noun]
a nightmare within a nightmare; waking up in a nightmare to find oneself in another nightmare.



SOMNIPATHY

[noun]
a medical disorder of the sleeping patterns of a person or animal. Polysomnography is a test commonly ordered for some sleep disorders. Disruptions in sleep can be caused by a variety of issues, from teeth grinding (bruxism) to night terrors. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning.



ONEIRODYNIA

[noun]
intense mental disturbance or distress associated with dreaming; a nightmare.



PAVOR NOCTURNUS

[noun]
also known as a night terror, sleep terror or incubus attack - a parasomnia disorder causing feelings of terror or dread, and typically occurring in the first few hours of sleep during stage 3 or 4 non-rapid eye movement NREM sleep. However, they can occur during slow-wave sleep periods or even daytime naps. Night terrors should not be confused with nightmares, which are bad dreams that cause the feeling of horror or fear.
Individuals who have night terrors are usually described as ‘bolting upright’ with their eyes wide open and a look of fear and panic on their face, and they will often scream. Further, they will usually sweat, exhibit rapid respiration, and have a rapid heart rate (autonomic signs). In some cases, individuals are likely to have even more elaborate motor activity, such as a thrashing of limbs, which may include punching, swinging, or fleeing motions. There is a sense that the individual is trying to protect themselves and/or escape from a possible threat which can lead to physical injury of the individual. Although it seems like the sufferer is awake during a night terror, they will appear confused, be inconsolable and/or unresponsive toward attempts to communicate with them, and may not recognise others familiar to them.

 

[Emerson40]

GRIVOISERIE

[noun]
1- lewd, bold and lascivious behaviour; a lewd act.
2- impropriety; an act of impropriety.
3- suggestive remark; saucy expression; innuendo.



LICENTIOUS

[adjective]
1- sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
2- unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral.
3- going beyond customary or proper bounds or limits; disregarding rules.



SALACITY

[noun]
1- lewdness of speech.
2- lustful or lecherous behaviour; appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.



CYPRIAN

[adjective]
1- of or relating to Cyprus; Cypriot.
2- a) of or relating to the ancient worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus. b) licentious; wanton.
[noun]
3- a native or inhabitant of Cyprus.
4- a wanton person.
5- a prostitute.
6- a lewd woman.

 

[Emerson40]

STELLIFEROUS

[adjective]
full of stars; having many stars.



LUCIDA

[noun]
the brightest star in a constellation.



À LA BELLE ÉTOILE

[phrase]
French: under the beautiful star; in the open air at night



FIRMAMENT

[noun]
the vault of heaven; the sky.