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.
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- 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
20 comments:
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.
comici - a little-known Celtic tribe of stand-up comedians.
syngr: collective noun for Icelandic musicians.
ingstro: a unit of electrical resistance in stainless steel
bobiod: (Welsh, collective): a policemen's meeting
catsy (American, 1950s): untrustworthy and effeminate
bloide (disyllabic): any unsuccessful or unfortunate name form a brand of household product, e.g. the (genuine) Kenyan washing powder, 'Toss'.
Excellent.
I give you "coyentr" (Old Icelandic): the state of being ostracised from a group of Canidae
caltlant: Antarctica in Neo-Frankish
coratio: being heartened by the knowledge that not everything is dreamed of in your philosophy
cyclagy: an obscure sin involving bicycle clips and pieces of string.
unnesse - the state of not being.
unsibr - Old Icelandic for "not brotherly (or sisterly)"
pyrif - Arabic for a Pyrrhic victory
kiligg - the repetition of pointless phrases by authors, such as "cut from the living rock" or "drilling deep holes into the linguistic bedrock".
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."
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
ouredid - an obscure 18-stringed instrument made from the hump of a camel.
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
carigmid (Welsh): a syndrome involving the overuse of endearments... cariad, lovey, darling.
purimph (Yiddish) - Aunty Miriam's year-long snit because you didn't turn up for a major Jewish holiday.
sablat... a Russian Orthodox Wiccan festival of potatoes, mayonnaise and vodka.
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