1. mim — [Scots & British] demure, primly reticent, pretentiously shy Alice sat there hands folded in her lap, mim as can be, though now I know that even then she was scheming to foil all our plans and triumph by our ruin. 2. compossible — not inconsistent with some other assertion As we …
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Friday Vocabulary
1. plonker — [UK slang] fool; penis; [outdated] item of unusually large size or girth “He’s nice enough to his friends, I suppose, but he’s a right plonker with the ladies.” 2. Dannert wire — concertina wire, coiled barbed or razor wire The village had shown their preparedness by removing all the street and …
Friday Vocabulary
1. sebaceous — fatty; fat-producing The wound revealed a sickly yellow sebaceous sac around some organ I could not identify. 2. chlamydeous — having floral parts, either calyx or corolla or both Ah what chlamydeous wonders! Would the rose smell as sweet shorn of petals? 3. histology — study of biological tissues “I …
Friday Vocabulary
1. pants — [UK slang] terrible, of bad quality “I don’t care if the whole village go there, it’s always been a pants pub with watery beer.” 2. dietrologia — [Italian] conspiracy theory, science of discerning hidden motives behind events Everyone knew he’d been fired for stealing from the till, but Ben’s commitment to …
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1. stridulate — to make a shrill grating, chirping, squeaking or similar sound by rubbing together body parts (e.g., as a cricket does) The latex body suits made the grotesque couple fairly stridulate as they writhed in the heat of, for want of a better or at least more acceptable term, what Will could only …
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1. chuck-farthing — [British] game similar to pitchpenny prevalent in 18th & 19th Centuries Lorson had the eye and arm to almost always succeed in the first round of chuck-farthing, but he flung his coins instead of bunching them in the second round, so was almost always a loser in the end. 2. incontinent …
Friday Vocabulary
1. mayhap — [archaic] perhaps, possibly Mayhap you’ll find your keys immediately after I hang up the phone, but mayhap you’ll not, so I might as well come over to give you a ride should you need one. 2. smarm — to smooth down with ointment or grease; to fawn over Babbidge’s hair was …
Friday Vocabulary
1. shandrydan — hooded chaise; old ramshackle two-wheeled horse carriage or cart Now I heard the creaking axel of the pastor’s shandrydan and knew we’d been betrayed, for there was no other reason Mr. Goodfellow would be riding down this lonely stretch of path at this ungodly hour of night. 2. polysomnogram — multi-valued …
Friday Vocabulary
1. dysphoria — state of feeling bad or unhappy, malaise The marketing team finished their presentation on moving the Overton Window of dysphoria so that people at least didn’t feel so bad about feeling bad, but nobody in the room felt any better about the plan. 2. punnet — small basket for selling strawberries …
Friday Vocabulary
1. foment — to incite, to encourage; to apply heat or ointment to (body part) After the splint has been removed, foment the limb at least twice daily. 2. mugfaker — [obsolete slang] street photographer We contacted all the mugfakers within three blocks of the boardwalk to see if they might have taken a …