I can’t resist webpages such as this one.
Fascinating stuff.
Be sure to check out the ‘French Toast Casserole’ post under my ‘Top Dogs’ listing.
Hopefully, it’s still there.
Have a bitchin’ Monday!
~m
- AGLET
The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace. - ARMSAYE
The armhole in clothing. - CHANKING
Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits. - COLUMELLA NASI
The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils. - DRAGÉES
Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes. - FEAT
A dangling curl of hair. - FERRULE
The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place. - HARP
The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade. - HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.) - JARNS,
- NITTLES,
- GRAWLIX,
- and QUIMP
Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books. - KEEPER
The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle. - KICK or PUNT
The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity. - LIRIPIPE
The long tail on a graduate’s academic hood. - MINIMUS
The little finger or toe. - NEF
An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship. - OBDORMITION
The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep’. - OCTOTHORPE
The symbol `#’ on a telephone handset. Bell Labs’ engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe. - OPHRYON
The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets. - PEEN
The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face. - PHOSPHENES
The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball. - PURLICUE
The space between the thumb and extended forefinger. - RASCETA
Creases on the inside of the wrist. - ROWEL
The revolving star on the back of a cowboy’s spurs. - SADDLE
The rounded part on the top of a matchbook. - SCROOP
The rustle of silk. - SNORKEL BOX
A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars. - SPRAINTS
Otter dung. - TANG
The projecting prong on a tool or instrument. - WAMBLE
Stomach rumbling. - ZARF
A holder for a handleless coffee cup.
I HAD a bitchin monday! Just about time for me to have a snooze – that means sleep 🙂
Some weird and wonderful words there, dare you to use at least one of them in each of your next 33 posts!
Kelly
Oh, Gaad… (hanging my head) 😉
~m
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Chanking sounds nasty but I guess that it would be if one was talking of a spitter.
I love the sound of the word, don’t you?
~m
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I thought purlique was one of the three stooges
yukyukyuk…
~m
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I was just dusting my few bottles of wine last night and noticed one of them had a kick, or punt. That might be the only one I remember. I hope I don’t get the two names confused. Like one Christmas Eve when I was with my husband’s mother and family and we were talking about her next door neighbor, whose name was Kerm Spurlock. I called him Sperm and didn’t even realize it till everyone started laughing.
Ah, the wonders of the English language.
~m
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I knew aglet, peen, harp and punt. I love this kind of trivia. I can’t remember the names of people I met five minutes ago, but I remember this crap.
Knowing aglet, peen, harp and punt has me seriously wondering about you, Lass. 😉
~m
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I’ve always said I feel like I use the same words over and over again. I will have to incorporate these into my vocabulary!
Let me know how you make out with ‘chanking’…
~m
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what? no whachamacallit? lol
WC
You just channeled my grandfather. Congrats. 😉
~m
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I love this! I knew 1, 5, 7, 14 and 22,,,,,now I am pondering the question on how to incorporate said words into my daily conversation. That should be a lot of fun!
You knew 5 of them?
I should introduce you to Lass
~m
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knew some of them but the others are like arabic 😯
I’m soooo with you, Mum.
~m
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I like this sort of useless trivia. It’s so much fun. 😀
That it is.
Thanks for the visit, Moe.
~m
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What the hell happend to you? Someone force-feed you a dictionary? 8) I knew some of these, but not most. Now, can you tell me what you call the small bit of ground between a freshly dug grave and the resulting pile of dirt that sits next to it? Believe it or not there is a word for this, and I used to know it, but I can’t remember it. Damn it!
Skoropa knows what the word is.
~m
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