A Gallimaufry For The Lackadaisical Logophile

[Emerson40]

Don't use a big word when a singularly unloquacious and diminutive linguistic expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contemporary necessity.

Your parsimonious recommendation, a quintessence of unencumbered circumlocution, free of unnecessary verbal accoutrements, will be appreciated by Lit’s perspicacious readership, including those in the sesquipedalian demographic.

 

[Emerson40]

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ALLURE

[verb]
1- to attract or tempt by something flattering or desirable.
2- to fascinate; charm.
3- to be attractive or tempting.

[noun]
1- fascination; charm; appeal.



AGACERIE

[noun]
allurement, enticement, enchantment, coquetry; flirtation.



INVEIGLE

[verb]
1- to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements.
2- to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods.
3- to induce; beguile; persuade; wheedle.



LIEF

[adverb]
1- gladly; willingly.

[adjective]
1- willing; desirous.
2- dear; beloved; treasured.

 

[Emerson40]

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THALPOSIS

[noun]
the sensation of warmth.



EUTHERMIC

[adjective]
1- producing or creating heat or warmth.
2- having, being, or maintaining an optimal temperature.



APRICATE

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



CANDESCENCE

[noun]
1- the state of glowing or starting to glow with heat.
2- the state of being white hot; incandescence.
3- characterised by or emitting light.

 

[Emerson40]

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SOAVEMENTE

[adverb]
1- delicately, gently.
2- sweetly.



CACHINNATE

[verb]
laugh very loudly




LUNULE

[noun]
1- a crescent-shaped or oval part or marking, in particular (such as the whitish mark at the base of a fingernail).
2- an oval depression in front of the beak on the outside of many clams.
3- a small area above the antennae on the front of some kinds of flies.



APOTROPAIC

[adjective]
preventing or intended to prevent evil.

 

[Emerson40]

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VESPERTINE

[adjective]
1- of, relating to, or occurring in the evening.
2- Botany: opening or blooming in the evening.
3- Zoology: becoming active in the evening, as bats and owls; crepuscular.



DARKLE

[intransitive verb]
1- to become cloudy, gloomy, or dark
2- to grow dark.
3- to become concealed in the dark.




MESONOXIAN

[adjective]
of or relating to midnight.



AMBULATE

[verb]
to walk about or move from place to place; stroll; wander.

 

[Emerson40]

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SQUELETTE

[noun]
skeleton; the bones of a vertebrate considered as a whole, together forming the internal framework of the body.



OSSUARY

[noun]
1- a container or receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
2- a place where the bones of the dead lay.



POROSIS

[noun]
1- the knitting together of broken bones.
2- the formation of the callus in repair of a fractured bone.
3- cavity formation.
4- a porous condition, as of the bones.



APOCARTERESIS

[noun]
suicide via starvation.

 

[Emerson40]

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SUCCIDUOUS

[adjective]
1- falling, in the process of falling.
2- ready to fall.
3- tottering.



BASOPHOBIA

[noun]
abnormal fear of walking or standing erect; fear of falling.



HYPNIC JERK (AKA: HYPNAGOGIC JERK)

[noun]
The common normal phenomenon of jerking awake, usually accompanied by a feeling of falling, just as one is drifting off to sleep



INNAMORAMENTO

[noun]
1- falling in love.
2- love.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Reading this thread reminds me of my Charles Addams and Edward Gorey books.They have remained packed in boxes since the late eighties.

 

[Emerson40]

Reading this thread reminds me of my Charles Addams and Edward Gorey books.They have remained packed in boxes since the late eighties.

Gorey's books were beautiful, horrifically fun, and macabre. Well before discovering and getting my early fright-fixes from Stephen King, James Herbert, and Peter Straub, I enjoyed reading Gorey under the covers, the well-thumbed pages illuminated by my Six Million Dollar Man flashlight.


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You can see Gorey's influence watching Tim Burton's early short films and Nightmare Before Christmas.

Thanks for exhuming some dear, wonderful childhood memories.

 

[Emerson40]

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SIAMESE

[adjective/noun]
1- of or pertaining to Siam, its people, or their language.
2- Thai.
3- twin; closely connected; similar.
4- dual; combined; twofold or two-way.



GEMELLIPAROUS

[adjective]
producing twins.



SYMBIOSIS

[noun]
1- Biology: the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism - a close and often long-term interaction between different biological species.
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.



ACROMEGALY

[noun]
a disorder caused by excessive production of growth hormone by the pituitary gland and marked especially by progressive enlargement of the hands, feet, and face.

 

[Emerson40]

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EBULLIENT

[adjective]
1- overflowing with fervour, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited.
2- bubbling up like a boiling liquid.



FEISTY

[adjective]
1- full of animation, energy, or courage; spirited; spunky; plucky.
2- ill-tempered; pugnacious.
3- troublesome; difficult.



PNEUMA

[noun]
the soul or vital spirit; a person’s creative energy.



QUIDDITY

[noun]
1- Philosophy: the essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
2- an eccentricity; an odd feature.
3- Law: a trifle; a nicety or quibble.

 

[Emerson40]

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TRIMETHYLAMINURIA

[noun]
(TMAU), also known as fish odour syndrome or fish malodour syndrome - a rare metabolic disorder that causes a defect in the normal production of the enzyme Flavin containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3). When FMO3 is not working correctly or if not enough enzymes are produced, the body loses the ability to properly break down trimethylamine (TMA) from precursor compounds in food digestion into trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) through a process called N-oxygenation. Trimethylamine then builds up and is released in the person’s sweat, urine, and breath, giving off a strong fishy odour or strong body odour.



PSEUDAESTHESIA

[noun]
1- a subjective sensation not arising from an external stimulus; imaginary feeling.
2- phantom limb pain.



ABOULIA

[noun]
1- the absence of will power or decisiveness.
2- Psychiatry: a symptom of mental disorder involving impairment or loss of volition.



LETHOLOGICA

[noun]
1- the inability to remember the correct word.
2- the inability to remember the meaning of a word.
3- a psychological disorder that inhibits an individual’s ability to articulate his or her thoughts by temporarily forgetting key words, phrases or names in conversation.

 

[Emerson40]

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GRAWLIX

[noun]
a series of typographical symbols, especially "@#$%&!", commonly used in comics or cartoons to represent curse words or an obscenity



PARAPRAXIS

[noun]
1- blunder; error; mistake.
2- Freudian: a minor error, such as a slip of the tongue, thought to reveal a repressed motive.



INTERROBANG

[noun]
a punctuation mark designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question; indicating a mixture of query and interjection, usually written as ‽ or ?!



CHIASMUS

[noun]
Rhetoric: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she”.

 

[Emerson40]

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The way some folks felt about 2016, "Got the morbs" could become a thing.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Zarf: a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle.

 

[Emerson40]

Zarf: a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle.

Thanks!

I discovered that the wee, corrugated, cardboard sleeve you slide onto your hot paper coffee cup is also called a zarf.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[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.



CYDRIFT

[noun/verb]
to float in space.



BAROPHOBIA

[noun]
the fear of gravity.



DYSANIA

[noun]
the state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning. Also known as clinomania.

 

[Emerson40]

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CITRIC

[adjective]
of or derived from citrus fruits or citric acid; sour or acidic.



EPICARP

[noun]
also known as an exocarp - the outermost layer of a pericarp (the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit) , as the rind or peel of certain fruits.



FLAVEDO

[noun]
1- yellowness, especially of plants.
2- yellowness or sallowness of the skin.
3- the outer coloured layer of the mesocarp of a citrus fruit.



ACERBITY

[noun]
1- sourness, with roughness or astringency of taste.
2- harshness or severity, as of temper or expression, e.g. vitriolic or embittered speech, temper.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

My local outlet for PBS programs has been recycling episodes of "Vicious."
It is a delight to watch Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi interact.
It was not possible, to have John Gielgud take Ian McKellen down, a notch or two.
He had left us, long before they started filming the series.

Arthur John Gielgud, actor, born 14 April 1904; died 21 May 2000


mellifluousness

John Gielgud

He became the Hamlet by which 20th-century performances were judged. John Gielgud played the role more than 500 times, in six productions: at 26 and at 44, in London, in Elsinore, and on Broadway, where he triumphed over a production starring Leslie Howard.

At the end of the second world war, he performed for troops in the Far East, although he had "rather wanted to do Charley's Aunt". A 1941 radio recording demonstrates his wonderful power, capturing not only the mellifluousness for which he was famous, but a choked-up ferocity. He could make paralysis sound like an assault on himself.

The 10 best Hamlets

21 August 2010


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/aug/22/10-best-hamlets-david-tennant

 

[Emerson40]

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CRUDELIS

[adjective]
1- unfeeling, rude.
2- ruthless, cruel, merciless.



LATIBULATE

[verb]
to hide oneself in a corner



OBUMBRATE

[verb]
to overshadow, to shade, to obscure



ABOULOMANIA

[noun]
1- pathological indecisiveness; paralysis of will
2- a mental disorder is which the patient suffers from mental derangement by weakened willpower or pathological indecisiveness.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Dr. Samuel Johnson: [places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one] Here it is, sir. The very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.

Blackadder: Every single one, sir?

Dr. Samuel Johnson: Every single word, sir!

Blackadder: Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.

Dr. Samuel Johnson: What?

Blackadder: "contrafribblarities", sir? It is a common word down our way.

Dr. Samuel Johnson: Damn!

[writes in the book]

Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.

 

[Emerson40]

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CUTIS ANSERINA

[noun]
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; also known as goose bumps, goose pimples or goose flesh.



SARMASSATION

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



IMPARLIBIDNOUS

[adjective]
pertaining to an unequal state of desire, or interest in sex, between two people



APODYOPSIS

[noun]
the act of imagining a person naked, undressing someone mentally

 

[Emerson40]

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CREOPHAGEOUS

[adjective]
flesh-eating or carnivorous; feeding on animals.



OMOPHAGIA

[noun]
also omophagy (from Greek ωμός “raw”) - the eating of raw flesh.



CARNOPHILIA

[noun]
a sexual obsession with meat/flesh.



ANTHROPOPHAGOUS

[adjective]
the consumption of human flesh.