Flavouriferous
adj. Bearing flavor, fragrant. With flavouriferous sweets shall chace away The pestilential fumes of vulgar cits. Canongate Playhouse, Robert Fergusson (1774) And if you’re of the American persuasion, you’d likely … Continue Reading ⇒
Nonce-Word
Nebulochaotic
adj. Hazily confused. The altogether nebulochaotic condition of her mind. Mary Marston, George Macdonald (1881) I don’t think the OED definition above does justice to the potential of this word. … Continue Reading ⇒
Emicatious
adj. Shiny or Glittery Wood..Smooth, emicatious, free from knot or joint. The Vestriad, Hans Busk (1819) Are you easily distracted by emicatious objects? I sure am. Why, there’s one right over … Continue Reading ⇒
Caligulism
noun. A mad extravagance such as Caligula comitted. Alas! it would be endless to tell you all his Caligulisms. Letters to Sir Horace Mann, Horace Walpole (1745) Caligula was a … Continue Reading ⇒
Burgullian
noun. A braggart, bully. …that rogue, that foist, that fencing Burgullian? – Every Man In His Humor, Ben Jonson (1598) This word has a great sound to it. If you … Continue Reading ⇒
Condunghill
verb. To make like a dunghill. These dreery, direfull dayes condunghill’d and uglified me into a darke dense lumpe. Discollimunium, B. (1650) When I first saw the definition I thought, … Continue Reading ⇒
Agathokakological
Adj. Comprised of both good and evil. There may be an opposite fault; for indeed upon the agathokakological globe there are opposite qualities always to be found in parallel degrees, … Continue Reading ⇒
Vesuviate
verb. To be extremely hot (weather) It vesuviates. This sudden heat in the atmosphere has something to do with the eruption of the mountain which killed Pliny the Elder. The … Continue Reading ⇒
Abricotine
adj. Apricot-colored. The abricotine building stood out like a tree among elephants. – This Blog, Me (2009) I’m allowed to make up citations, right? Okay fine. It’s a nonce-word so … Continue Reading ⇒
Bablatrice
noun. Female babbler. O you cockatrices and you bablatrices, that in the woods dwell: You briers and brambles, you cook’s shops and shambles, come howl and yell. – Locrine (1595) The … Continue Reading ⇒