Folkabulary

Illicitation

2011-01-05T16:56:00.000Z

n. Covert greeting; secret congratulations; forbidden good wishes.
'With a wink he sent her his illicitation, and hoped she would respond.'
'The disgraced head of department received many illiciations for his future.'

Victriol

2011-01-05T16:50:00.000Z

n. Nasty winning; success with an unpleasant attitude.
'Whilst many recognised the achievement, his victriol was not applauded.'

Victriolic adj. pertaining to victriol.
'Her victriolic performance overshadowed the prize giving.'

Guiropractor

2011-01-05T16:44:00.001Z

n. One who offers pain relief using latin percussion.

Molassitude

2011-01-05T16:42:00.000Z

n. A sticky/sweet resignation.
'She eyed the pile of pancakes with a certain molassitude.'

Nostalgum

2011-01-05T16:36:00.000Z

n. A fondly remembered thing.
'The sound of the last bell was the only nostalgum from her school days.'

Bodgelism

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n. A serious paralytic illness caused by poorly executed repairs.
'His only achievement with the shelves was a mild case of bodgelism.'

Posteritise

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vt. To mark or keep something for the long-term future.
'Her visionary essays were posteritised in a three volume, leather bound set.'

Epiffley

2010-11-02T12:00:00.000Z

n. The sudden realisation that something is nonsense.
'His face turned to one of dismay with an epiffley about the nature of the Daylight Saving Time debate.'

Epifflous adj. Pertaining to an epiffley.
'Her lecture on comestible-semiotica proved epifflous for most of the attendees.'

Minguistics

2010-10-28T18:52:00.000+01:00

n. (Scientific Discipline) The study of unpleasant smells.

Bonhemian

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1. n. A good natured artist.
'Despite a rude appearance, he was quite a bonhemian.'

2. adj. Pertaining to good natured artistry.
'Her bonhemian attitude won her many accolades.'

ant. Malhemian

Malhemian

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1. n. An artist of poor temperament.
'Despite her elegant appearance, she was quite the malhemian.'

2. adj. Pertaining to mean spirited or huffluent artistry.
'His malhemian attitude won him no praise.'

ant. Bonhemian

Burnt Umbrage

2010-04-02T11:11:00.000+01:00

n. (Colour) The warm hue of gloomy dissatisfaction.

Nostrill

2010-04-02T11:08:00.000+01:00

n. Decorative breathing apparatus.

Rumourtism

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n. A pain caused by gossip; An aching derived from talking about possibilities.

Boatorious

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adj. (of aquatic vessels) well known, famous.
'The boatorious QE2 set out of the harbour.'

Boatoriety n. A well known aquatic vessel; can have a negative connotation.
'Their trawler had gained a certain boatoriety around the dock.'

Synchronish

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vt. To cause to events to occur at roughly the same time
'She synchronished their arrival and the bosses departure sufficiently well.'

Nomble

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vt. & vi. To eat tidily.
'After he nombled his lunch, the crockery barely needing any cleaning.'
'Even though the biscuits were crumbly, they manged to nomble their way through them.'

Exism

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n. Prejudice against former relationships.
'His editting of the Christmas card list rudely highlighted his exism.'

Supriety

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n. Greatness in moderation.
'Her supriety was admired by many in the community.'

Soblimate

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vt. & vi. To express heartfelt emotion in a socially acceptable manner; to weep without causing offence.
'He hugged her as she soblimated the loss.'
'They soblimated whilst huddled together.'

Caansronspund

2010-02-25T00:10:00.000Z

vi. To make ones own echoes (with reference to http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1635)
'She caansronspunded just to annoy him.'

Soulution

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n. A holistically satisfying answer; a result which nourishes the inner self.
'She was the soulution to his vexation.'

Exploitician

2010-02-14T12:05:00.000Z

n. One skilled in taking advantage of a set of circumstances; a person or thing who manipulates situations to achieve a result, often in their own favour.
'Seeing her weakness encouraged the exploitician in him.'
'She was employed as an exploitician, her main function being to maximise damage to the government's reputation.'

Noonique

2010-02-14T11:58:00.002Z

n. Idiosyncratic behaviour at the middle of the day.
'Her lunchtimes were noonique.'

Yages

2010-02-14T11:57:00.000Z

n. A very long period of happiness.
'They had been together for yages.'

Shorkle

2010-01-14T16:32:00.000Z

vi. To laugh inwardly whilst submerged.
'She shorkled to herself on seeing the ironic name of the wreck'

Blyghte

2010-01-14T16:28:00.003Z

n. A archaic computer virus.

Heisenberg search

2010-01-06T00:58:00.002Z

n. A curious phenomenon whereby an object will only be found when it is not being looked for; a situation in which one commonly finds something without looking for it.
'The discovery of Penicillin was during a Heisenberg search by Alexander Fleming.'

'Heisen search' is an acceptable shortening.

Snunf

2010-01-05T21:09:00.000Z

n. (onomatopoeic) The sound of wet socks on dry or dusty floorboards.

Trunp

2010-01-05T19:52:00.000Z

vi. To tread boldy but carefully; to make confident, considered steps.
'They trunped through the snow to the pub.'

Stacism

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(stay-sism)
n. Discrimination against inanimate objects; prejudice towards stopping or standing.

Stacist n. One who discrimates against stopping or standing; one having prejudice towards inanimate objects.
'Her radical stacism kept the production line moving.'
'Whilst he appeared harmless, the stacist would savagely attack bollards and road signs.'

Fizogyny

2010-01-05T18:33:00.001Z

n. The study or appreciation of female faces
'He stared across the room, as if fizogyny were his only ambition.'

Fizogynist n. One who studies or admires female faces.

Fizogynistic adj. Pertaining to fizogeny.
'The fizogynistic sketches had a wide audience.'

Llama Pie

2010-01-04T17:50:00.000Z

n. (Cuisine) A dish prepared with a chilli base and mashed potato spread out on top, then baked (similar to Cottage Pie and Shepherd's Pie). Sometimes additional herbs are sprinkled on top of the mashed potato, sometimes grated cheese.

Nicissism

2010-01-04T09:07:00.001Z

n. A practice of being excessively agreeable or overbearingly obsessed with refined decency.
'The nicissism was evident in their social standing.'

Nicissist n. One who is intent on pleasantries; a person obsessed with agreeable daintiness.
'The presentation of the tea and scones suggested he was a nicissist.'

Nicissistic adj. Pertaining to nicissism.
'Some found her nicissistic tendencies a strain.'

Affrontalism

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n. (Of reliefs or paintings) When a character is portrayed insulted or slighted; a depiction of offence.
'The exhibition of affrontalism had been the gallery's least popular attraction.'

Fraidiator

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n. One who picks at the edges of cloth; a distributor of loose ends.

Amieliorate

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vt. To make something more friendly.
'His painting amieloriated her affronted expression.'
'The pamphlet did much to amieliorate the dull society.'

Benevolate

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vt. To give generously; to distribute without measure.
'From his wisdom, he would benevolate to all around.'

Hammoth

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n. A large prehistoric pig.

Nevuncular

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adj. Pertaining to a refusal to mentor, having an attitude of not wishing to benevolate; frequently ascribed to a male, although increasingly can be used of a female.
'The nevuncular tutor did his students no favours.'
'The children lost out to her nevuncluar disposition.'

Nonplicated

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adj. Having an opaque simplicity; a virtue of oblique purity.
'Although the procedure looked difficult, it was just a few nonplicated steps.'

Nonplicate vt. To make obliquely simple; to give something an opaque purity.
'The students were vexed until she nonplicated the algorithm.'
'A shorter application form nonplicates the whole process.'

Eyebrowse

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n. To glance in a searching manner; a casual visual examination or investigation.
'Their eyebrowsing suggested nothing as a present.'
'She eyebrowsed the evidence, but nothing looked out of place.'

can be used in poetic irony, e.g. 'The furrowed eyebrowsing of listless Christmas shoppers.'

Omniblush

2009-12-31T16:11:00.000Z

vi. To be embarassed in a moving, but overbearing, manner; to be self-consciously overcome by a situation.
'Everyone saw her omniblush at his very public and dramatic display of affection.'

Obstrepiphany

2009-12-31T15:52:00.000Z

n. A clamorous or boisterous realisation; a sudden defiant and unruly understanding.
'He read the paragraph and yelled in an obstrepiphany of despair; his subsequent behaviour had him escorted from the premises.'

Staidist

2009-12-31T15:32:00.000Z

n. One who takes pleasure from inflicting sedate propriety on others without their consent.
'The fierce staidist froitled them, forcing them to sit on the sofa, sip cold tea and nibble stale biscuits.'

Commiserati

2009-12-31T15:17:00.000Z

n. A sympathetic collective with whom to share sorrow.
See example usage under Schadenfreund.

Mathocism

2009-12-31T15:12:00.002Z

n. Self-inflicted algebra.
'In an evening of mathocism, she re-derived the Laplace Transform from first principles.'

Mathocist n. One who indulges in mathocism.

Mathocistic adj. Pertaining to, or having a leaning towards, mathocism.

Schadenfreund

2009-12-31T15:09:00.000Z

n. A colleague, or close associate, for whom things never go well.
'Alex, his schadenfreund, had tested the sympathies of the local commiserati.'

Infusiasm

2009-12-29T23:34:00.001Z

n. An acute or absorbing interest in pouring; to be excitedly single-minded about mixtures.
'Milk was splashed everywhere in his infusiasm.'

Trogulyke

2009-12-29T21:46:00.000Z

n. (Trademark) A commercial enterprise targetting cave dwellers.

Vanglican

2009-12-29T21:43:00.001Z

1. n. An English truck driver.
'The number plates revealed he was a vanglican.'
2. adj. Pertaining to lorry and truck pursuits in England.
'The presentation on tonnage and surface adhesion was the highlight of the annual vanglican conference.'

Ponium

2009-12-27T21:15:00.000Z

n. An equine pedestal

Mellocution

2009-12-26T23:25:00.000Z

n. The act of speaking and gesturing in a relaxed manner; to use gentle articulation and inflection.
'It was her mellocution that put them at ease.'

Note: not to be confused with Mallocution

Mallocution

2009-12-26T23:20:00.001Z

n. The act of accidentally disseminating misleading information.
'His mallocation did nothing but cause confusion and delay.'

Note: not to be confused with Mellocution

Retrobate

2009-12-26T23:12:00.002Z

n. A nuisance with an eye on the past

Bronometer

2009-12-24T13:58:00.001Z

n. A device for measuring the Welsh.

Forumulate

2009-12-24T13:57:00.001Z

vt. The contemplation or consideration of what to say in a busy marketplace or internet discussion environment.
'He asked around as he forumulated his response.'

Valedictionary

2009-12-24T13:54:00.006Z

n. A compendium of farewell.

Mecro

2009-12-24T13:54:00.005Z

pref. Denotes that an object is at normal resolution; having a one-on-one internal mapping
'Out of her window she watched the mecrocosm of daily life'

Calendometry

2009-12-19T14:28:00.001Z

1. n. (Scientific discipline) The measurement and ordering of macro units of time.
'The timetable for the Spring semester was accurately devised by the Calendometry Department.'
2. n. The knowledgeable and accurate recording of events that have happened or will happen.
'Her earlier calendometry meant she always knew where she was supposed to be.'
'The lack of detail in the report highlighted the group's poor calendometry.'

Probservation

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n. The voicing of a concern or issue; a sensing of inherent difficulty.
'The failure should have been expected, since no one had listened to his probservations.'

Verible

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adj. Dynamically exacting; a near constant. Having a fluid truth.
'His verible wisdom had been questioned before.'

Froitle

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vi. To be nervously, but politely, disorientated or upset.
'He was clearly froitled for some time afterwards.'
vt. To cause someone or something to be nervously, but politely, disorientated or upset.
'Their thorority froitled her.'
'I hope the punion did nothing to froitle you.'

Thorority

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n. An intense and undeviating certainty of what is right.
'Your thorority about the situation is comforting.'

Egocipe

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(ee-goss-i-pee)
1. n. Doing things the way one wants to; an overarching individualism.
'His egocipe hinted at OCD.'
2. n. An ordered or structured way to please oneself; an indulgent selfishness.
'She had guessed his egocipe, and planned around it.'

Fronology

2009-12-12T00:29:00.003Z

n. (Scientific discipline) The intense study of the top of fingers and fingernails.
'She may have been a beautician, but her thorority suggested she was well read in fronology.'

Receptitude

2009-12-12T00:21:00.000Z

n. The willingness to accept new things, to be open to original ideas.
'They were astonished by the old man's receptitude to the theory.'

Striggle

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vi. To wrestle energetically. 'His striggling made him hard to subdue.'
can be applied to abstract processes 'She striggled to understand the theory.'

Plessitude

2009-12-11T15:06:00.001Z

n. A abundance of weariness; being excessively listless; an ample lethargy.
'His plessitude was almost tangible; his work suffered for it.'

Bruty

2009-12-11T15:03:00.002Z

n. An aesthetic thug.

Remunication

2009-12-10T19:41:00.002Z

1. n. The art of offering ideas for financial reward. 'His sports car told of his renumication skills.'
2. n. A discussion about projected, or intended, financial provision. 'The remunication led to him being hired at a lesser rate than he'd hoped.'

Slumbark

2009-12-10T19:33:00.001Z

vi. To growl miserably. 'The pitiful sound of distant slumbarking worried the driddling visitors.'

Bellotron

2009-12-10T19:27:00.003Z

n. An early wind driven instrument used for simulating shouting.

Antegress

2009-12-10T19:26:00.001Z

n. The place before an exit.
'She waited in the antegress before he took her home.'

Froligarchy

2009-12-10T19:23:00.000Z

n. A ruling executive composed of a small number of jovialists.

Crumplete

2009-12-10T19:16:00.001Z

1. adj. Not fully represented; missing some items. 'The jigsaw looked good, but unfortunately crumplete.'
2. adj. Not in a presentable state; falling short of expectation. 'His jacket was crumplete, with holes in the elbows.'

Amoretum

2009-12-10T19:12:00.001Z

n. A love nest.

Driddle

2009-12-10T19:11:00.002Z

1. n. Slight, but exaggerated, fidgeting.
2. vi. To fidget in a slight, but exaggerated, manner.

Frism

2009-12-10T19:09:00.001Z

n. The refraction or softening of light through loose or unkempt hair; a diffusion caused by hair. 'As she stood before the sunset, a frism suggested her smile.'

Predundant

2009-12-10T19:02:00.000Z

adj. (of an object) Deemed unnecessary before the need fails to arise.

Punion

2009-12-10T18:58:00.002Z

(pew-nee-on)
n. An ineffective collective

Furbulance

2009-12-09T20:07:00.000Z

n. The effect of stroking an animal's hair contrary to its growth pattern.

Snarkolepsy

2009-12-09T14:51:00.002Z

n. A debilitating condition in which the sufferer helplessly makes unpleasant or malicious remarks.

Snarkoleptic adj. pertaining to, or having traits of Snarkolepsy

Proofidence

2009-12-09T14:50:00.001Z

n. Unequivocal serendipitous confirmation or verification of a happen-stance; indubitous substantiation of facts (whether dubious or unquestionable).

Nutant

2009-12-09T14:47:00.000Z

n. A novel innovation based on known prior art; a fresh variation.

also
Nutate vt. to make, create or manufacture a nutant.

Flamster

2009-12-09T13:45:00.001Z

n. A percussive rodent.

Horsome

2009-12-09T13:34:00.002Z

adj. Astonishing equine activity.

Cavement

2009-12-09T13:29:00.002Z

n. A pathway hewn in rock.

Sning

2009-12-09T13:26:00.000Z

1. vi. and vt. to chuckle melodically.
2. n. a melodic chuckle.

Huffluent

2009-12-09T13:24:00.000Z

adj. An excessive haughtiness.

Fremale

2009-12-09T13:23:00.000Z

adj. unrestricted gender classification.

Blasberry

2009-12-09T13:20:00.002Z

n. Small, explosive fruit

Refume

2009-12-09T13:20:00.000Z

vi. and vt. to be angrily or vehemently obstinate.

Snoregasbord

2009-12-09T13:16:00.003Z

n. Collective term for noisy sleepers.

Antivoke

2009-12-09T13:16:00.000Z

vt. to precipitate, or induce, no response.

Slimilar

2009-12-09T13:14:00.004Z

adj. having a small likeness, or bearing a passing resemblance, to another thing.

Thermicelli

2009-12-09T13:14:00.003Z

n. small heat streams

Slowcomotive

2009-12-09T10:35:00.000Z

n. An engine or device refined for tardy traversal.

Oughtumn

2009-12-08T12:49:00.000Z

n. The season for realising what one should be doing.

Starecase

2009-12-08T11:47:00.001Z

vt. To look someone up and down, as in 'she starecased him with distain.'