A Gallimaufry For The Lackadaisical Logophile

[Emerson40]

SIFFILATE

[verb]
to whisper; to speak with soft, hushed sounds, using the breath, lips, etc., but with no vibration of the vocal cords.



APHONIC

[adjective]
1- mouthed but not spoken; noiseless; silent.
2- Phonetics: a) lacking phonation; unvoiced. b) without voice; voiceless.
3- Pathology: affected with aphonia.
[noun]
4- a person affected with aphonia.



SOLILOQUY

[noun]
1- an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character’s innermost thoughts).
2- the act of talking while or as if alone.



SOTTO VOCE

[adverb & adjective]
1- in soft tones, so as not to be overheard; in an undertone.
2- intentionally lowering the volume of one’s voice for emphasis.
3- Music: in very soft tones; a dramatic lowering of the vocal or instrumental volume — not necessarily pianissimo, but a definitely hushed quality. Used chiefly as a direction.

 

[Emerson40]

If only there was a word for that

 

[Emerson40]

LIMN

[verb]
1- to draw or paint on a surface.
2- to outline in clear sharp detail.



MUSCARIFORM

[adjective]
having the form of a brush.



CRAQUELURE

[noun]
a network of fine cracks or crackles on the surface of a painting, caused chiefly by shrinkage of paint film or varnish.



ATELIER

[noun]
a workshop or studio, especially of an artist, artisan, or designer.



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[Emerson40]

ACROTOMOPHILIA

[noun]
a paraphilia in which an individual expresses strong sexual interest in amputees.



OBTRUNCATE

[verb]
1- to cut or lop off the head of.
2- to deprive of a limb.



PSEUDAESTHESIA

[noun]
1- a subjective sensation not arising from an external stimulus; imaginary feeling.
2- phantom limb pain.



SOMATOPARAPHRENIA

[noun]
a type of monothematic delusion where one denies ownership of a limb or an entire side of one’s body. As an example, a patient would believe that her or his own arm would belong to the doctor, or that another patient left it behind. Suffers of this disorder tend to seek surgeons to perform amputations.

 

[Emerson40]

word on the street

BESTIARY

[noun]
a collection of moralised fables, especially as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.



JUMENTOUS

[adjective]
1- a beast of burden.
2- having a strong animal odour, especially that of a horse. The term is used to describe the odor of urine associated with certain disease conditions.



INQUILINE

[adjective]
1- living in another’s nest or dwelling.
[noun]
2- an animal that characteristically lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.



SQUAMATION

[noun]
1- the state or condition of being scaly or scaled
2- the arrangement of scales on an animal.

 

[Emerson40]

LUSCITION

[noun]
having poor eyesight.



ENTOPTIC

[adjective]
visual sensations resulting from structures within the eye itself.



AMAUROSIS

[noun]
partial or total loss of sight, especially in the absence of a gross lesion or injury.



VISURIENCY

[noun]
hungry for visual stimuli; pertaining to the desire evoked from vision; the desire of seeing.

 

[Emerson40]

HOLOBENTHIC

[adjective]
1- inhabiting the deep sea for the duration of one’s life.
2- Zoology: (of an animal) completing its life cycle in the ocean depths.



BATHYSMAL

[adjective]
of or relating to the bottom of the deeper parts of the sea, especially those parts between 100 and 1000 fathoms deep.



MARICOLOUS

[adjective]
living in the sea.



BENTHOS

[noun]
1- the collection of organisms living on or in sea or lake bottoms; flora and fauna living on the ocean floor.
2- the bottom of a sea or lake.

 

[Emerson40]

Quiet on the set

SCOPOPHILIA

[noun]
from Greek “love of looking”, deriving pleasure from looking. As an expression of sexuality, it refers to sexual pleasure derived from looking at erotic objects: erotic photographs, pornography, naked bodies, etc. It can also be described as intermittent desire of gazing at.



PARACOITA

[noun]
a female sexual partner.



PARACOITUS

[noun]
a male sexual partner.



LASCIVIOUS

[adjective]
1- inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd.
2- arousing sexual desire.
3- indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness.

 

[Emerson40]

ALGOPHILIA

[noun]
abnormal sexual pleasure in receiving or inflicting pain.



GENESIC

[adjective]
of, like or pertaining to procreation or the genitals; reproduction; genesis.



MEDOMALACUPHOBIA

[noun]
the fear of losing an erection.



PIZZLE

[noun]
an old English word for penis, derived from Low German pesel or Flemish Dutch pezel, diminutive of pees, meaning ‘sinew’. The word is used today to signify the penis of an animal, chiefly in Australia and New Zealand.

 

[jezzilee]

EMS!!! for some reason I thought you were bannned....so happy you are not!!! Love this thread

 

[Emerson40]

EMS!!! for some reason I thought you were bannned....so happy you are not!!! Love this thread

Me, banned?


For what, pray tell?

 

[Emerson40]

CHRONOPHRENIA

[noun]
a state of being extremely conscious of time; anxiety the concept of time.



LE RETARDATAIRE

[noun]
French: the latecomer; a person who arrives after the designated meeting time.



EPHEMERON

[noun]
1- anything short-lived or ephemeral; lasting a very short time; transitory; fleeting; evanescent.
2- items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, especially pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc.



COSTIVE

[adjective]
slow in action or in expressing ideas, opinions, etc.

 

[Emerson40]

RECTOPATHIC

[adjective]
Neologism: easily hurt emotionally; thin-skinned.



LEDERE

[verb]
1- to hurt; infringe.
2- to injure, damage.



DELETERIOUS

[adjective]
1- harmful to the body or mind; injurious.
2- harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way.



PROSOPALGIA

[noun]
also known as trigeminal neuralgia; a neuropathic disorder characterised by episodes of intense pain in the face, originating from the trigeminal nerve. It has been described as among the most painful conditions known to humankind.

 

[Emerson40]

ATTENTE

[noun]
1- waiting; wait; a period of waiting; pause, interval, or delay; to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens.
2- expectation; to look forward to; regard as likely to happen; anticipate the occurrence or the coming of.
3- suspense; biding; anticipation.
[verb]
4- make an attempt on.



WANHOPE

[noun]
want of hope; hopelessness; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion.



PANGLOSSIAN

[adjective]
1- characterised by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
2- blindly or naively optimistic; inappropriately optimistic.



ESPERANCE

[noun]
hope or expectation.

 

[Emerson40]

SNOLLYGOSTER

[noun]
1- a clever, unscrupulous person; one who is not to be trusted.
2- a person, especially a politician or villain, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles



KAKISTOCRACY

[noun]
rulership by the worst leader; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.



AGNOSY

[noun]
1- ignorance; especially that which is common to a group or category of people
2- ignorance shared by the whole human race.
3- a lack of spiritual understanding or insight; a lack of enlightenment.
4- a deficit in the ability to perceive.



EQUIVOCATOR

[noun]
a person who uses ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge.

 

[Emerson40]

FEAGUE

[verb]
1- to decorate or improve in appearance through artificial means.
2- to increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger or a live eel, in its fundament



SOCKDOLAGER

[noun]
1- something unusually large, heavy, etc.
2- a decisive reply, argument, etc.
3- a heavy, finishing blow.
4- an exceptional person or thing.



PANDICULATION

[noun]
1- the act of stretching and yawning, esp on waking
2- a yawn



GONGOZZLE

[verb]
1- to leisurely watch the passage of boats, from the bank of a canal, lock or bridge
2- to observe things idly

 

[Emerson40]

CARITATIVE

[adjective]
charitable in nature or tendency; generous.



PHALERATE

[adjective/verb]
adorned with trappings; decorated; ornamented.



DOROMANIA

[noun]
an unusual urge or preoccupation with giving gifts.



KRAMPUS

[noun]
a mythical creature recognized in Alpine countries. According to legend, Krampus accompanies Saint Nicholas during the Christmas season, warning and punishing bad children, in contrast to St. Nicholas, who gives gifts to good children. When the Krampus finds a particularly naughty child, it stuffs the child in its sack and carries the frightened child away to its lair, presumably to devour for its Christmas dinner. In the Alpine regions, Krampus is represented as a beast-like creature, generally demonic in appearance.

 

[Emerson40]

EXOPTABLE

[adjective]
highly desirable.



ECDYSIAST

[noun]
a striptease performer; striptease artist.



NYMPHOLEPSY

[noun]
1- passion aroused in men by beautiful young girls; an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
2- fantasy; erotic daydream.
3- frenzy caused by desire for an unattainable ideal.

 

[Saint_Ann]

 

[Emerson40]

RETICULATION

[noun]
a reticulated formation, arrangement, or appearance; network; netlike; having the veins or nerves disposed like the threads of a net; a web.



CARDIA

[noun]
1- the heart.
2- the section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach.



ERYTHROCYTES

[noun]
red blood cells and also the most common type of blood cell. They are the vertebrate organism’s principal means of delivering oxygen to the body issues via the blood flow through the circulatory system. They take up oxygen in the lung or gills and release it while squeezing through the body’s capillaries. These cells’ cytoplasm is rich in haemoglobin, an iron-containing biomolecule that can bind oxygen and is responsible for the blood’s red colour.



HAEMOLYMPH

[noun]
is a fluid in the circulatory system of some arthropods (including spiders, crustaceans such as crabs and shrimp, and even some insects such as stoneflies) and is analogous to the fluids and cells making up both blood and interstitial fluid (including water, proteins, fats, sugars, hormones, etc.) in vertebrates such as birds and mammals. In addition, some non-arthropods such as molluscs possess a haemolymphatic circulatory system.

 

[Saint_Ann]

 

[Emerson40]

MACROLOGY

[noun]
much talk with little to say; redundancy



DILOGY

[noun]
intentional ambiguousness; ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.



PALILLOGY

[noun]
repetition of a phrase or word



APOPHASIS

[noun]
saying something by stating that it will not be mentioned

 

[Emerson40]

wee ones

DAP

[verb]
to dip gently into water; to fish with a surface fly



YAG

[noun]
a synthetic crystal of yttrium aluminum garnet, used in certain lasers and as an imitation diamond in jewelry


BEL

[noun]
1- a unit used in the comparison of power levels in electrical communication or of intensities of sound, corresponding to an intensity ratio of 10 to 1.
2- unit of noise intensity equal to ten decibels






TAW

[verb]
1- to prepare skins by soaking, salting, stretching and paring
2- make hide into leather without the use of tannin, especially by soaking it in a solution of alum and salt



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[Emerson40]

COLPOSINQUANONIA

[noun]
estimating a woman’s beauty based on her chest.



MERKIN

[noun]
a pubic wig. Merkins were originally worn by prostitutes after shaving their genitalia, and are now used as decorative items, erotic devices, or in films, by both men and women.



EUROTOPHOBIA

[noun]
fear of female genitals.

 

[Saint_Ann]