Hibernophobe
noun. One who is afraid of the Irish. It was long enough to demonstrate even to Protestant Hibernophobes that his system was the right one. Temple Bar Magazine (1889) It … Continue Reading ⇒
Impossibilification
noun. Rendering impossible. Sovereigns and their courtiers were flattered by the degradation of nature and the impossibilification of a pretended virtue. Literary Remains, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1818) The addition of … Continue Reading ⇒
Offivorous
adj. Offal-eating. (One who eat the edible parts which are cut off in preparing the carcass of an animal for food) In a Dog, and other offivorous Quadrupeds, ’tis very … Continue Reading ⇒
Forficulate
verb. To have a sensation as if a creepy-crawly was crawly-creepy all over you. There is not a part of me that has not..crept, crawled, and forficulated ever since. The … Continue Reading ⇒
Hyperbyssal
adj. Of or belonging to surpassing depth or profundity. Sink down into the Hyperbyssal, Supersensual, Unsearchable, Eternal One. Behmen’s theosophick philosophy unfolded, Edward Taylor (1691) How the heck am I … Continue Reading ⇒
Exforcipate
verb. To extract with a forceps. Wrapped up in the womb of this or that text of Scripture to be exforcipated by the logico-obstetric skill of High Church doctors. Literary … Continue Reading ⇒
Rules Weren’t Made to be Broken
We’ve been learning rules all our lives. As children we are given rules of the classroom or rules at home of what not to do or what we should do. … Continue Reading ⇒
Quomodocunquizing
adj. That makes money in any possible way. Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets. The discovery of a most exquisite jewel, Sir Thomas Urquhart (1652) There’s a ten dollar word, if ever … Continue Reading ⇒
Panpygoptosis
noun. The condition of having short legs. … a distressing pathological condition in which the thighs are suppressed and the buttocks spring directly from behind the knees, aptly described in … Continue Reading ⇒
Ostrobogulatory
adj. Risqué, indecent; also bizarre, unusual. I can no longer endure this ostrobogulatory behaviour. Ostrobogulous Pigs, A. Graves (1952) Ostrobogulatory is derived from ostrobogulous, a word attributed to Victor Benjamin … Continue Reading ⇒