Last week, Pensitivity101 gave us real words but wanted to know what our definitions were.
- Hircine
I’m not saying that my neighbours are semi-literate rednecks but….She talks about astrological symbols. She says that hircine is Virgo. It’s obviously a very old one.
2. Roorback
Bentley Roorback is the leader of the Thalian Party. He thinks that MAGA is a valid word, and that Donald Trump was God’s second son. I’ve heard that, during his interesting college days, he was caught having sex with a goat, and he now hands out Halloween candy to children, that is laced with LSD, and meth.
3. Antithalian♪
We should all be antithalian. Those people are seriously worrisome. Back before the advent of the internet, each village used to only have one idiot. Now they congregate in electronic villages, to shore up each others’ views, and try to convince saner people that The Earth is flat, senior politicians are actually alien lizards in human disguise, and that Hillary Clinton was operating a child-sex ring from the basement of a run-down pizza shop.
4. Novercal
Novercal is the pharmaceutical street-cousin to Novocaine – all of the up, without any of the down.
5. Accismus
It is quite valid, but this is a term that should never be publicly used, in reference to the butt of any of the Kardashians. (It’s okay to do it with Caitlyn Jenner – butt you’re a pervert!) They have more money than most small countries, and a flock of free-range lawyers, just scratchin’ to make a name for themselves, and a fat contingency fee.
6. Mundivagant
Like those who sought the Scarlet Pimpernel, I sought the meaning of this word. I sought it on Dictionary.com. I sought it on Merriam-Webster. Cannot locate mundivagant. Did you mean mendicant? I sought it here. I sought it there. I sought the blighter everywhere. I sought it in the forests of Canada, the mountains of Peru, the swamps of Borneo. I travelled the world, real and virtual – without leaving my computer chair. 😎
7. Prefestinate
Prefestinate is an adjective which describes the fuss, the planning, the hard work, leading up to a big celebration of some sort. The weeks preceding Kitchener’s Oktoberfest are an orgy of prefestinate organized confusion.
8. Apiculate
Something kept goading me – poking me with a sharp stick- to come up with a smart- ass answer for this word. But I decided to just leaf it alone. 😉
9. Sloomy
She was the downscale girlfriend in a 1965 song made famous by The McCoys – Hang on Sloomy. She wasn’t gloomy – she was Sloomy, it’s just that her busy social life kept her constantly short of sleep.
10 Ramulose
Like silver hairs among the gold, here’s a bit of truth among the lies. Once upon a time…. I had an uncle named Randolph. He was known to all and sundry, family and friends, for 55 years, as RAM. And he fit the name – short, muscular, he wouldn’t fit in an empty apple barrel, but with no fat.
When he was widowed, my Mother and sister embarked on a campaign to marry him off to a long-absent widow who had moved back to town to care for her aged mother.
When he died, and the two attended his funeral, I heard them complain, “I didn’t know who the preacher was talking about! It was, ‘Randy this’ and ‘Randy that.” I told them, ‘It was Ram-u-lose.’
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