1. hinky — behaving in a nervous manner; suspicious Say what you want about interdepartmental lines of communication and all that, but the way the Secret Service acted makes the whole thing seem hinky to me. 2. gisant — [French] recumbent statue atop a grave representing the deceased For decades after his death in …
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Friday Vocabulary
1. withal — in addition, besides; nevertheless He exhibited an irascible mien, yet Nicholas withal was a gentle soul at heart, ever ready to help the weak and downtrodden. 2. stadial — of or related to geological ages; of or related to stages of society, civilization, etc. The 100-year anniversary of The Glorious Revolution …
Friday Vocabulary
1. taximeter — device for calculating cab fare by measuring distance traveled We were fortunate to find a taximeter cab in that area and so were able to speed to the station before Bertram’s Daimler arrived. 2. hogget — not yet shorn sheep under one year old Reilly was caught red-handed with two of …
Friday Vocabulary
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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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 plonker — [UK slang] fool; penis; [outdated] item of unusually large size or girth “He’s nice enough to his friends, I suppose, but he’s a right plonker with the ladies.” 2.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 …
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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 …
Friday Vocabulary
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 …
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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 …