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