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Post by jet on Feb 26, 2020 14:04:59 GMT
Hornswoggle meant for more than half Century, and even then this had been around for some decades with this older sense: confusing, disconcert or embarrass. People had long since turned this into some exclamation for surprise or amazement: "Well, I'll be hornswoggled!"
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Post by tori on Feb 29, 2020 15:45:41 GMT
Autohagiography: writing about oneself in some adulatory way. Has same relationship with Autobiography; like publicist's Puffery for objective truth.
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Post by tinkerbell on Feb 29, 2020 18:20:32 GMT
Ishkabibble: is this dismissive slang expression, which came into existence in USA. Quite suddenly around 1913, with this isostensible meaning: "I should worry!" ("Don't worry!" or "Who cares?").
This had been vogue for one decade or two. Plus, was character name played by Merwyn Bogue on this 1930s radio show. Called Kay Kyser's college for Musical Knowledge (they don't make titles like that anymore).
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Post by avengel on Mar 7, 2020 7:18:16 GMT
Drunkard's Cloak: pillory type for inducing sobriety. Used in various jurisdictions for punishing drunken miscreants.
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Post by tori on Mar 7, 2020 11:19:15 GMT
Omphaloskepsis: for some practice figuratively contemplating own navel. For aid in meditation or introspection; hence introspection thyself.
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Post by tori on Jul 18, 2020 14:24:09 GMT
Tetraplyoctomy: means art or skill for splitting one hair four ways. Don't be some mere two-way hair-splitter; grasp your pedantry firmly in both hands and split your hair crosswise into four!
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Post by minx on Aug 7, 2020 19:33:48 GMT
Brobdingnagian: shown in second part inside Gulliver Travels book, where Lemuel Gulliver meets these huge inhabitants in Brobdingnag.
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Post by seven on Mar 23, 2021 19:05:08 GMT
Paroemiological: Latin word where this language first appeared in bygone Third Century; borrowing from Greek paroemia (proverb). Some expert or scholar in proverbs, proverb lore and paroemiology. This study for Paroemiographer: means collector or writer in proverbs and Paroemia itself; some adage or proverb.
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Post by bleu on Mar 30, 2021 8:35:00 GMT
Musterdevillers: mixed grey type in grey woollen cloth, this fabric were common in our 14th Century and next. Though from Richard III's visit, this cloth was being woven in English Towns. Said to have originated from Normandy, now called Montivilliers; this usual English name (in wildly varying spellings during this period) is some version about that Town's name was spelled in Medieval times.
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Post by cerridwen on Mar 30, 2021 9:25:36 GMT
Absquatulate: means making off, decamp or abscond and became thiis favourite Bête Noire from writers about style; during latter part within our Century.
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Post by aphrodite on Apr 1, 2021 8:20:14 GMT
Jactitation: this word can have two senses; either boastful, about some restless tossing from our body in illness or false statement.
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Post by whitewolf on Apr 2, 2021 10:57:26 GMT
Hyperborean: word came from ancient Greeks, whom believed some race lived n this northern boundary, within our world.
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Post by sonico on Apr 2, 2021 18:43:54 GMT
Tatterdemalion: describes this tattered or ragged person.
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Post by madmax on Apr 3, 2021 10:36:51 GMT
Impignorate: Scots chiefly term, shown within Oxford English Dictionary; quotes: 'meaning to place in pawn or to pledge or mortgage'.
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Post by tori on Apr 3, 2021 11:36:26 GMT
Metoposcopist: for someone who practices Metoposcopy for art in judging someone's character and fortune from their face; principally their forehead. Not much some strange idea, since this face part, likely prominent and expressive. People with high foreheads considered brainy; those with short ones, sometimes regarded being almost Neanderthal. Play from forehead muscles in concentration or contemplation, shows expressive reflection for our mind working beneath our skin.
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