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Post by art on Nov 27, 2015 16:20:11 GMT
Nychthemeron: means both night and day, although most dictionaries define this day and night, during entire 24 hour period.
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Post by bean on Nov 27, 2015 20:09:56 GMT
Logodaedalus: manipulates words with great cunning and also this pseudonym used for any British setter; who writes fiendishly hard crossword puzzles.
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Post by rads on Nov 30, 2015 20:45:57 GMT
Onomatopoeia: used by linguists using echoism or imitation in forming word from sound: Childish imitations like boo-hoo, bow-wow and choo-choo. Exclamations like argh and ouch. Nouns and verbs, some created in another language like: bang, bash, bawl, beep, belch, blab, blare, bleat, blurt, bonk, bump, burble, buzz, cheep, clang, clank, clap, clatter and cuckoo.
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Post by whitewolf on Dec 11, 2015 14:43:34 GMT
Pantechnicon: British word used for any furniture removal van, originally invented in 1830.
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Post by pharlapjones on Dec 16, 2015 16:31:18 GMT
Pettifogging: term which became known for lawyer class, who earned their living making big fuss over minor legal cases. Around 1560 AD, in later middle ages, they were called Pettifoggers. These laywers often had limited concern for scruples or conscience, and this term became deeply contemptuous.
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Post by tinkerbell on Jan 16, 2016 15:56:23 GMT
Pastinaceous: (pæstiːneɪʃəs) very rare English word, derived from Latin Pastinaca, which could be Parsnip, but sometimes referred for carrot. Latin survives with own systematic name used in genus for parsnip: Pastinaca.
In archaic English Pastinate (digging or cultivating land). Parsnip itself came to us through French and first spelt Passenep. Although this were some kind used for Nep, Middle English since deployed Turnip.
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Post by blondie on Jan 25, 2016 17:31:56 GMT
Pecksniffian: Charles Dickens derived his character name from Martin Chuzzlewit in 1844, where Seth Pecksniff is this land surveyor and architect. Though author remarks that only surveying land he did, was countryside view seen from his windows, and "his architectural doings, nothing clearly known, except he never designed or built anything."
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Post by dieseldyke on Jan 26, 2016 16:41:42 GMT
Odd-shoe boy: work class for any boy who would either run errands or do odd jobs that required no training; or where nobody else wanted to do.
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Post by art on Apr 15, 2016 9:28:16 GMT
Peristeronic: means Pigeon-fancying, especially strong in England around Nineteenth Century. With great skill expended in breeding new varieties for show. Charles Darwin became this fancier in 1855. During his research study variation within such species, shortly wrote: 'On the Origin of Species'.
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Post by barbie on Apr 20, 2016 20:22:18 GMT
Pinguescence: process in becoming fat, turning up in any small book, you're reading.
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Post by sassy on Apr 20, 2016 20:57:36 GMT
Pogonotrophy: ends with Greek trophe: 'nourishment'. So, in literal sense about 'beard feeding', although may better be glossed for growing own beard or cultivating one.
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Post by aphrodite on Apr 21, 2016 8:22:28 GMT
Rambunctious: another irrepressibly energetic words, which originated from USA during first half in our Nineteenth Century.
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Post by qtee on Apr 21, 2016 16:10:11 GMT
Poodle-Faker: being this long-outmoded British army slang. Poodle-Faker was this young officer, who was disparagingly considered by their fellow officers in being over-attentive towards women.
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Post by blondie on May 16, 2016 15:31:51 GMT
Somniloquent: means we're among sleep-talkers, some less-often encountered term than sleep-walkers, even though from former known in common. Medical terminology has dignified words for them both: Somnambulants and Somniloquents. Some sufferers have been known doing both concurrently: you might call refer from Lady Macbeth syndrome.
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Post by barbie on May 18, 2016 21:42:47 GMT
Sphairistike was an ancient Greek term, meaning skill in playing ball, which Major Walter Wingfield borrowed for his recreation he patented in 1874.
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