1. bodge — to patch poorly or clumsily
As long as he remained in his chair nobody could see how he had bodged the rip in the seat of his pants, leaving a pleat along the center seam.
2. malefic — producing evil, baleful
Being snubbed at the party had a malefic effect upon his judicial rulings.
3. bint — (British) derogatory term for girl or woman
“No, she won’t be helping with the food—I gave one hard look at the bint and she ran away!”
4. ecchymosis — discoloration from extravasated blood beneath the skin
The purplish ecchymosis of a deep bruise will fade to a yellowish green as the hemoglobin is broken down by the body into biliverdin and bilirubin.
5. gralloch — to remove the viscera from game, usu. a deer
By the time I returned with our camp buckets filled from the stream, Jerry had already gralloched the whitetail and was beginning to assemble the fire.
6. canting arms — (also allusive or punning arms) (heraldry) coat of arms in which charges make visual play on the bearer’s name or title
The arms of President Eisenhower stretched the idea of canting arms still further, with a blue anvil somehow supposed to evoke the German word ‘eisenhauer’, though this means ‘iron worker’ rather than ‘anvil’.
7. canting — affecting piety, often hypocritically
For all his strident, whining, canting devotion to Marx, the professor remains a true capitalist at heart.
8. canting — using thieves’ slang
I understood most of the carny’s canting words, but had to ask just what a ‘moll dip’ was.
9. sternutatory — causing sneezing
I have never found snuff to have as strong a sternutatory effect as ground black pepper, but his blend always made me sneeze violently, crying all the while.
10. fulvous — dull yellowish-brown, tawny
Viewing the cougar at this distance through the binoculars, I could appreciate her beauty, the strong feline muscles beneath her fulvous coat, her massive paws treading lightly across the rock-strewn hillside.