A Gallimaufry For The Lackadaisical Logophile

[Emerson40]

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NUMBLES

[noun]
the entrails of an animal, especially a deer, used for food.



SLUMGULLION

[noun]
1-a watery meat stew; an inexpensive, cheap, or insubstantial stew.
2-a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
3-a beverage made weak or thin, as watery tea, coffee, or the like.
4-the refuse from processing whale carcasses.
5-a reddish, muddy deposit in mining sluices.

 

[Emerson40]

I am impressed with myself. I actually knew three of those words.

Awesome! A sharp, exercised brain is a happy brain.

 

[jezzilee]

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I love this picture, and this thread. Thanks Emerson for the enlightenment!! *subscribed*

 

[Ms_Ann]

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[domroger]

Numbles ,main ingredients of the Queen of puddings ,the haggis .

 

[Emerson40]

Numbles ,main ingredients of the Queen of puddings ,the haggis .

From antlers to hooves, use everything but the squeal.

 

[Emerson40]

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ESPIÉGLE

[noun]
1- prankster, imp, rascal.

[adjective]
2- playful, frolicsome.
3- impish, mischievous; roguish.
4- skittish.




LAMBENCY

[noun]
1- the quality of being lambent - running or moving lightly over a surface; dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful; softly bright or radiant.
2- something that is lambent.

 

[Emerson40]

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CUCURBITACEAE

[noun]
a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)




APOCOLOCYNTOSIS

[noun]
the act of turning into a pumpkin; becoming a gourd - extravagant or absurdly uncritical glorification.




AMPELIDIOUS

[adjective]
of, like or pertaining to vines.

 

[jezzilee]

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NUMBLES

[noun]
the entrails of an animal, especially a deer, used for food.



SLUMGULLION

[noun]
1-a watery meat stew; an inexpensive, cheap, or insubstantial stew.
2-a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
3-a beverage made weak or thin, as watery tea, coffee, or the like.
4-the refuse from processing whale carcasses.
5-a reddish, muddy deposit in mining sluices.

Driving down a country road, my daughter was 5...she looks out the window and sees some deer. And I quote, edited, venison"

 

[Emerson40]

Driving down a country road, my daughter was 5...she looks out the window and sees some deer. And I quote, "mmm2@oregonsd.net, venison"

Your post has me looking at my screen like a young calf, at a new gate.

 

[jezzilee]

Your post has me looking at my screen like a young calf, at a new gate.

Freakin auto correct. What she actually said was... mmmm venison

 

[LadyFunkenstein]

DEFENESTRATE

[verb]
throwing of someone or something out of a window

I immediately thought of this band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpr_vJ_RvY

 

[Emerson40]

I immediately thought of this band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpr_vJ_RvY

I know it was the band's name that came to your mind, but if someone should be flung from a window, it would be whoever mixed the vocal track on that.

Thanks for the trip back to late 90s / early 2000s music. Never heard of them, but their sound was not uncommon back then.

 

[Emerson40]

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CEREMENTS / CEREMENT

[noun]
1- waxed cloth for wrapping a corpse.
2- the cloth or clothing in which the dead are wrapped for burial or other form of funeral.
3- clothes placed on a deceased individual.



MOIROLOGIST

[noun]
a hired mourner; professional mourner



CHARNEL

[noun]
1- a repository for the bones or bodies of the dead; a charnel house.
2- designated room where corpses are placed.

[adjective]
3- ghastly; sepulchral; deathly.
4- resembling, suggesting, or suitable for receiving the dead.
5- associated with death

 

[Emerson40]

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MERETRICIOUS

[adjective]
1- to look like a whore; painted like a prostitute.
2- a) attracting attention in a vulgar manner; gaudy. b) plausible but false or insincere; specious.
3- of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.



COCOTTE

[noun]
1- a female prostitute.
2- a promiscuous woman.
3- a flirt or tease.



PORNOLAGNIA

[noun]
desire for prostitutes; sexual obsession with prostitutes; rarely used term for sexual attraction towards prostitutes

 

[IrezumiKiss]

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MERETRICIOUS

[adjective]
1- to look like a whore; painted like a prostitute.
2- a) attracting attention in a vulgar manner; gaudy. b) plausible but false or insincere; specious.
3- of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.



COCOTTE

[noun]
1- a female prostitute.
2- a promiscuous woman.
3- a flirt or tease.



PORNOLAGNIA

[noun]
desire for prostitutes; sexual obsession with prostitutes; rarely used term for sexual attraction towards prostitutes

This post with these words I like, including the illustration. Looks like it's a panel from a Euro or South American adult comic, it has that kinda style...thought it was an erotic Wonder Woman at first glance.

 

[Emerson40]

This post with these words I like, including the illustration. Looks like it's a panel from a Euro or South American adult comic, it has that kinda style...thought it was an erotic Wonder Woman at first glance.

The image is the work of Yannick Corboz, from France.

I think you will really enjoy his L'ASSASSIN QU'ELLE MÉRITE collections.

 

[Emerson40]

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HORRIPILATION

[noun]
1- the bristling of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear, or excitement; the erection of bodily hairs.
2- another word for goose bumps, also called goose flesh, goose pimples (medical term is cutis anserine) - the bumps on a person’s skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions such as fear, nostalgia, pleasure, euphoria, awe, admiration and sexual arousal.



KNISMESIS

[noun]
a light feather-like type of tickling. This type of tickling generally does not induce laughter and is often accompanied by an itching sensation.

 

[Emerson40]

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AGRAVIC

[adjective]
1- defying gravity; not subject to gravity.
2- of or relating to a theoretical condition of no gravitation.



COLLYWOBBLES

[noun]
1- intestinal cramps or other intestinal disturbances.
2- a feeling of fear, apprehension, or nervousness; anxiety.



ABDABS

[noun]
British slang: extreme nervousness or anxiety; terror; heebie-jeebies.; the frights, also known as screaming abdabs.

 

[Emerson40]

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OBESOPHOBIA

[noun]
also known as pocrescophobia - a persistent, abnormal fear of gaining weight, particularly in cultures that value thinness.



POLYSARCOUS

[adjective]
of or pertaining to polysarcia; corpulent; overweight; excessively fat.

 

[Emerson40]

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RORIFEROUS

[adjective]
producing or generating dew.



ROSÉE

[noun]
dew; moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.

 

[Emerson40]

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COLOPHON

[noun]
1- a publisher’s or printer’s distinctive emblem, used as an identifying device on its books and other works.
2- an inscription at the end of a book or manuscript, used especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, giving the title or subject of the work, its author, the name of the printer or publisher, and the date and place of publication.



ANALECTS

[noun]
selected passages from the writings of an author or of different authors.

 

[Emerson40]

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IGNIFY
[verb]
1- to form into fire.
2- to burn.



USTULATE
[adjective]
coloured or blackened as if scorched.

[verb]
Obsolete: to burn; sear; scorch.



SNASTE [pl. SNASTES]

[noun]
1- the burnt or burning part of the wick of a candle.
2- the wick of a snuffed candle.

[verb]
to snuff a candle.

 

[Emerson40]

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VECORDIOUS

[adjective]
senseless, insane, mad; mentally deranged.



DACNOMANIA

[noun]
an insane compulsion to kill by biting.



SCELERAT

[noun]
villain; criminal; evil doer.

 

[Disgustipated]

While we're on the art topic of this nature.

Chet Zar