Wednesday, February 11, 2009

weird words

A selection of amusing words that have come up in the new Blogger word verification:

Balador
  • Pologami - playing in multiple polo teams without the others knowlege 
Joe
  • gemastry - the ancient oriental martial art of combat using only precious stones
  • paphtess - descriptive of a small Greek village which has lost its only seller of Ouzo.

The Silver Eel
  • hasmshno - to refuse a third doobie.
Yvonne
  • genesco - a little-known painter of the Italian Renaissance?
  • thethlys - a flower that grows by the River Lethe, whose fumes induce forgetfulness
  • rerbach - a small boy who gathers up lost things at eisteddfods (from rerum, things, + bach, little). [Brithenig]
  • ty lazos - a house of lepers. [Brithenig]
  • Synyanit - small eastern European god of shopping ennui.
  • aftible - an ansible that sends messages back through time 
  • raptism - an initiation into rapper culture
  • wealorme - Anglo-Saxon for a serpent that brings blessing.
  • foddr - a photo-sharing website for cannon-fodder?
  • alpowar - a very large battleship (by extension from man o'war).
  • misher - Yiddish for someone who habitually causes confusion wherever they go.
  • hoaktax - a tax upon hokum, hocus-pocus and hoaxes (otherwise known as "There's one born every minute").
  • appirthy - pithy and apposite
  • anthst - fear of not finishing anthologies.
  • stompew - to misbehave in church.
  • tantred:
    1. an aunt who dresses eccentrically (as in When I am old I shall wear purple/ With a red hat that doesn't go...)
    2. a particularly florid tantrum
    3. past participle of the verb, to tantra.
  • imphros - a small lantern carried by an even smaller hobgoblin to guide faery ships safely into port (the opposite of a will o' the wisp).
  • pronapa - in favour of Californian wine

20 comments:

Yewtree said...

broco:
(1) A dentist's chair that bounces around when trying to extract impacted wisdom teeth;
(2) A laconic Southern type who has same-sex love affairs only on mountains.
(3) Spanish slang for what you'll be when you've paid the dentist's bill.

Yewtree said...

comici - a little-known Celtic tribe of stand-up comedians.

Bo said...

syngr: collective noun for Icelandic musicians.

Bo said...

ingstro: a unit of electrical resistance in stainless steel

Bo said...

bobiod: (Welsh, collective): a policemen's meeting

Bo said...

catsy (American, 1950s): untrustworthy and effeminate

Bo said...

bloide (disyllabic): any unsuccessful or unfortunate name form a brand of household product, e.g. the (genuine) Kenyan washing powder, 'Toss'.

Yewtree said...

Excellent.

I give you "coyentr" (Old Icelandic): the state of being ostracised from a group of Canidae

Yewtree said...

caltlant: Antarctica in Neo-Frankish

coratio: being heartened by the knowledge that not everything is dreamed of in your philosophy

Yewtree said...

cyclagy: an obscure sin involving bicycle clips and pieces of string.

Yewtree said...

unnesse - the state of not being.

Yewtree said...

unsibr - Old Icelandic for "not brotherly (or sisterly)"

pyrif - Arabic for a Pyrrhic victory

Yewtree said...

kiligg - the repetition of pointless phrases by authors, such as "cut from the living rock" or "drilling deep holes into the linguistic bedrock".

Yewtree said...

Yvonne Rathbone: swilucas. A dialectal variant of "will you look at that," e.g. "Swilucas! That man has had sex at least five times!"

Evn: "miscont," as in, "Did I say five? I misconted. I meant three and a half."

"gakag" - "The sound Evn makes when he thinks about certain people having sex."

Yewtree said...

monsfun: a polite circumlocution for lesbian love

undedbu:
(1) Romanian collective for the undead
(2) and by extension, the parlous state of Schrödinger's cat

Yewtree said...

ouredid - an obscure 18-stringed instrument made from the hump of a camel.

Yewtree said...

hiverche - (French) an unseasonal extension to winter, either in spring or autumn.

elingspe - (Swedish) the sense that a new lease of élan vital is about to arrive

Yewtree said...

carigmid (Welsh): a syndrome involving the overuse of endearments... cariad, lovey, darling.

Yewtree said...

purimph (Yiddish) - Aunty Miriam's year-long snit because you didn't turn up for a major Jewish holiday.

Yewtree said...

sablat... a Russian Orthodox Wiccan festival of potatoes, mayonnaise and vodka.