A Gallimaufry For The Lackadaisical Logophile

[Emerson40]

Constant and unsurprising, as expected.

Thank you for the gift of including me, along with Rory, Richard, and all your Georges, living rent-free in your head.

We'll see you tomorrow!

 

[Wild_Honey_66]

Hi Em!

My stomach looks like the one in your av.



P.s. tbh, I enjoy a a good pee more than a big poo.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Pot plant?

 

[Emerson40]

Hi Em!

My stomach looks like the one in your av.



P.s. tbh, I enjoy a a good pee more than a big poo.

Hi Honey!

Oh, I don’t know about that.
I can recall a certain profile pic - I think posted on a dare, or perhaps there was some instruction given...doesn’t matter - of a mellaginous poster, in a red thongy number, that shared no similarities at all with the ol’ Pale Man.


A gladder bladder is a fine thing, but sometimes cutting a monkey tail can put a spring in one’s step.


Have a wonderful 2018 sweet Honey!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

pluviophile

Chionophile





Ceraunophile

Heliophile

Nyctophile


http://www.luzdelaluna.net/25-philes-and-their-love/

 

[Emerson40]

pluviophile

Chionophile





Ceraunophile

Heliophile

Nyctophile


http://www.luzdelaluna.net/25-philes-and-their-love/

Logophile tested, sophophile approved!

 

[Emerson40]

FOOTLE

[verb]
1- Informal: to act or talk in a foolish or silly way.
2- engage in fruitless activity; mess about.
[noun]
Informal: nonsense; foolishness; silliness.
Etymology: possibly from French foutre, “to copulate with”, from Latin futuere.



PLISKY

[noun]
a mischievous trick; practical joke; prank.
[adjective]
mischievous; playful.



FLEER

[verb]
1- to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly.
2- to mock or deride.
[noun ]
a fleering look; a jeer or gibe.



DESIPIENT

[adjective]
foolish; silly; trifling.

 

[Emerson40]

MACELLARIOUS

[adjective]
pertaining to butchers or meat markets.



NIDOR

[noun]
1- scent or savour of meat or food, cooked or cooking; a strong smell of meat being cooked.
2- the smell of burning animals, especially of burning animal fat.



CARNOPHILIA

[noun]
a sexual obsession with meat/flesh.



ABATTOIR

[noun]
a slaughterhouse; a building or place where animals are butchered for food.

 

[Emerson40]

IPSEITY

[noun]
selfhood; individual identity, individuality.



ASTASY

[noun]
internal turmoil; emotional or mental incompleteness, fragmentation and instability; identity crisis.



RECUSANT

[adjective/noun]
1- refusing to submit, comply, etc., particularly to “normative” standards.
2- obstinate in refusal.



SUI GENERIS

[phrase]
a Latin expression, literally meaning of its (his, her, or their) own kind/genus or unique in its characteristics; in a class by itself; unique. The expression is often used in analytic philosophy to indicate an idea, an entity, or a reality which cannot be included in a wider concept.

 

[Emerson40]

TOCCATA

[noun]
a musical composition for a keyboard instrument designed to exhibit the performer’s touch and technique; a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasising the dexterity of the performer’s fingers.



PIANISSIMO

[adjective]
1- very soft.
[adverb]
2- very softly.
[noun]
3- a passage or movement played in this way.



NOCTURNE

[noun]
1- Visual Arts: a piece appropriate to the night or evening; a picture of the night scene.
2- Music: an instrumental composition of a dreamy or pensive character.
3- Music: a short composition of a romantic nature, typically for piano.



MISODOCTAKLEIDIST

[noun]
a person who hates practicing the piano.

 

[Emerson40]

BIBERAGIUM

[noun]
beverage; any potable liquid, especially one other than water, as tea, coffee, beer, or milk.



DEMITASSE

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



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.



CANNIKIN

[noun]
1- a small can or drinking cup; any small drinking vessel.
2- a small wooden bucket.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"Each of them took a greasy metal tray from a pile at the edge of the counter."

"Onto each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch—a metal pannikin of pinkish-gray stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet."

(I have a cracked pannikin, hollowed, like that of a mannikin)

 

[Emerson40]

CYNANTHROPY

[noun]
1- Psychology: the pathological delusion that one is a dog.
2- Folklore: the magical practice of shape-shifting, alternately between canine and human form or the possession of combined canine and human anatomical features.



ABOIEMENT

[noun]
1- the involuntary emittal of animal noises.
2- the act of a human barking like a dog.



THOOID

[adjective]
of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including wolves and dogs; like a wolf.



FERINE

[adjective]
feral; wild and menacing; untamed.

 

[Emerson40]

GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILE

[noun]
one who nibbles on women’s earlobes.



PAIZOGONY

[noun]
love-play; foreplay; necking.



SARMASSATION

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



TYPHLOBASIA

[noun]
Informal: the act of kissing with closed eyes.

 

[Emerson40]

"Each of them took a greasy metal tray from a pile at the edge of the counter."

"Onto each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch—a metal pannikin of pinkish-gray stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet."

(I have a cracked pannikin, hollowed, like that of a mannikin)

Effectively, a ramekin.

 

[Emerson40]

ain't no cure for the summertime blues

DISQUIETUDE

[noun]
the state of disquiet; uneasiness; anxiety.



NEURASTHENIA

[noun]
a psycho-pathological term to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, neuralgia and depressed mood.



TORSCHLUSSPANIK

[noun]
1- the feeling that mediaeval peasants had when the castle gates were closing for an upcoming onslaught by enemies.
2- a sense of alarm or anxiety (said to be experienced during a midlife crisis) caused by the feeling that life’s opportunities are passing (or have passed) one by.



DAPOCAGINOUS

[adjective]
1- low-spirited; having feelings of little self-worth; depressed.
2- heartless; mean-spirited.

 

[ChaosRanger]

I have to admit, I'm pretty disapointed in myself, made it to page 6 and I was only familiar with a little over a half dozen of those words. To think I always believed I had a pretty magniloquent vocabulary considering how varatiously I read. My taste in reading is eclectic too, oh well. Guess I better start reading the dictionary, although I'm not sure I'll ever find a context to use many of these wonderful lexiphanic words. Guess that masters in military history doesn't really promise an exceptional command of the English language it just made me a bit turgid. Now I'm just feeling a bit DAPOCAGINOUS
Bravo
Chaos

 

[Emerson40]

postcard from the edge

MULLIGRUBS

[noun]
a state of depression or low spirits



FUNIPENDULOUS

[adjective]
hanging from a rope



FELO DE SE

[phrase & noun]
Latin for “felon of himself”, an archaic legal term meaning suicide; a deliberate act of self destruction



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.

 

[Emerson40]

I have to admit, I'm pretty disapointed in myself, made it to page 6 and I was only familiar with a little over a half dozen of those words. To think I always believed I had a pretty magniloquent vocabulary considering how varatiously I read. My taste in reading is eclectic too, oh well. Guess I better start reading the dictionary, although I'm not sure I'll ever find a context to use many of these wonderful lexiphanic words. Guess that masters in military history doesn't really promise an exceptional command of the English language it just made me a bit turgid. Now I'm just feeling a bit DAPOCAGINOUS
Bravo
Chaos

Don’t be too hard on yourself. As small as it may seem at times, the world is a pretty big place and there is a whole bunch of wonderful words for everything in it.

I make it point to learn and use - whether in conversation, an email, or writing - a new word everyday, a habit my wonderfully inquisitive daughter has taken up. Sometimes we discover them together, which is always great deal of fun and a treat for me, as I get to see how her bright, young mind comes up with ways to use them.

They can resonate and touch something inside us, be relevant to something going on in life, or just be fun and feel good rolling off of the tongue.

Glad you’re enjoying and thanks for sharing!

 

[Emerson40]

AGAPESIS

[noun]
Informal: interest in a former lover; a continuance of love for a previous partner.



CATHEXIS

[noun]
1- the investment of emotional significance in an activity, object, or idea.
2- the charge of psychic energy so invested.



PROPINQUITY

[noun]
the physical or psychological proximity between people. Propinquity can mean physical proximity, a kinship between people, or a similarity in nature between things (“like-attracts-like”).



ACUSHLA

[noun]
An Irish word meaning darling; beloved (literally, pulse of my heart).

 

[Emerson40]

POTVALIANCY

[noun]
courage or bravery due to alcoholic intoxication; bravery only due to being drunk.



ALCOLICATE

[verb]
to affect impermanently with diminished physical and mental control by means of an alcoholic beverage.



QUAFF

[verb]
1- to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
2- to drink copiously and heartily; to drink with relish.



NIMPTOPSICAL

[adjective]
drunk; being in a temporary state in which one’s physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated.

 

[Emerson40]

ABLIGURITION

[noun]
1- to spend in luxurious indulgence.
2- prodigal expense for food; excessive spending on food.



ORTANIQUE

[noun]
a citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a tangerine



DEIPNOSOPHIST

[noun]
a person skilled in dinner-table conversation and across-the-table small talk



SOCARRAT

[noun]
the crust of rice that forms at the bottom of the pan when cooking paella

 

[Emerson40]

EVANESCENCE

[noun]
the event of fading and gradually vanishing; fade away; to dissipate or disappear like vapour; the condition of being transitory.



PERELLICUS

[noun]
1- a portal into another dimension
2- a gateway to an alternate realty
3- a different place



EMANATE

[verb]
to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate.



APPARITION

[noun]
1- a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a spectre or phantom; wraith.
2- anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling.
3- an act of appearing; manifestation.
4- Astronomy: the appearance or time when a comet, especially a periodic one, is visible.

 

[Emerson40]

 

[TarnishedPenny]

A murder of crows.
A deafness of gunners.
A drone of preachers.
A fib of politicians.
A dissimulation of candidates.
A cruller of cops.
A flush of plumbers.
A jolt of electricians.
A splinter of carpenters.
A frown of auditors.