Did ya miss me?
You may have noticed that I haven’t updated all summer long. Well, I’m back. I felt guilty after having neglected updating in so long. I’m sure by now I have … Continue Reading ⇒
Cepivorous
adj. Onion-eater. The ogre was cepivorous. McNunter the Ogre Hunter, Nom D. Plume (2009) I couldn’t find a real citation. I didn’t look to hard either. If you use this … Continue Reading ⇒
Pinguiferous
adj. Fatty; causing fatness. The pinguiferous slice from the salted swine. Tait’s Magazine (1855) If you had told me before that McDonald’s food was pinguiferous, I totally would’ve avoided it. … Continue Reading ⇒
Thesmophilist
noun. One who loves law. His Bishop [Bp. Wren], that great Thesmophilist. A discourse of proper sacrifice, Sir Edward Dering (1644) Who among you loves law? Or any laws in particular? … Continue Reading ⇒
Circumfloribus
adj. Flowery and long-winded. Much circumfloribus stuff was talked of on the Court side. Autobiography, Mary Granville (1739) The OED lists this word in particular as a “humorous nonce-word.” The … Continue Reading ⇒
Arithmocracy
noun. A form of government in which the power is vested in the simply numerical majority. A ‘democracy’ of mere numbers is no democracy, but a mere brute ‘arithmocracy.’ Alton … Continue Reading ⇒
Ovoblastic
adj. Of or relating to an egg cell. Mr Dixon,..took on to ask of Mr Mulligan himself whether his incipient ventripotence,..betokened an ovoblastic gestation in the prostatic utricle. Ulysses, James … Continue Reading ⇒
Storyful
adj. Rich in story. This is..Some lone land of genii days, Storyful and golden! Poems, The Lovely Land, James Clarence Mangan (1846) I’m flabbergasted that this word hasn’t had more of … Continue Reading ⇒
Tutrix
noun. A Female tutor. A pratling Nurse is a better Tutrix to her foster-child. Didascalocophus, George Dalgarno (1680) I speculate that after the word dominatrix became popular in people’s vocabulary, the … Continue Reading ⇒
Thanatorium
noun. A place where people are held before being killed. The violent jerks from excess to excess of the patients at Dr Sacks’s pseudonymous New York hospital — ‘not a sanatorium but … Continue Reading ⇒