A selection of amusing words that have come up in the new Blogger word verification:
- Pologami - playing in multiple polo teams without the others knowlege
- 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.
- 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:
- an aunt who dresses eccentrically (as in When I am old I shall wear purple/ With a red hat that doesn't go...)
- a particularly florid tantrum
- past participle of the verb, to tantra.
- an aunt who dresses eccentrically (as in When I am old I shall wear purple/ With a red hat that doesn't go...)
- 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
