Vocabulary, pop quiz!

Yay!

Because I get to clear off my desktop.

Words, phrases and names encountered online by some presumptuous little pee-hole trying to lord over us by their superior vocabulary.

But it won't work!

They're mostly sufficiently ridiculous to be relegated to "N" for "never use these words lest you inadvertently alienate yourself from polite society."

Except some you will find so common to make you wonder why they are even on here.

Please excuse the entry "gnomic" seen in the notes section of a book written by a British intellectual specializing in ancient languages discussing an archaic phrasing seen in Egyptian hieroglyphs with archaic phrasing of his own. It was difficult finding a definition and it does go on longer than it is worth.

There are just over 60 entries.

Here goes.

* aibohohibia: fear of palindromes. Get it? Ha ha ha, there is no such thing, nobody has fear of palindromes.

* Akin Rule: Good which cannot be classified in accordance with the above rules shall be classified under the heading appropriate to the goods to which they are most akin.

Todd Akin: Legitimate rape victims rarely get pregnant, they have ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

Or how about even in New York, where Kirsten Gillibrand practically sprained an ankle attempting to embrace Democratic Socialism after Ocasio-Cortez’ surprise win? Does the Akin Rule apply to anyone else other than Republicans?

* alcalde: or Alcalde ordinario, is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. A mayor having judicial powers.

In "muh edjumakashuns" tyrannical commie alcalde Bill DeBolshevik is under fire for scrapping the entrance exams to NYC's elite high schools because "disparate impact" ...

* amerce: To punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily at the discretion of the court

* analskepsis: A form of flashback in which earlier parts of a narrative are related to others that have already been narrated. Recovery of strength after sickness. A kind of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

1) 1 Eastern Church : the feast of Christ's ascension into heaven

2) A literary technique that involves interruption of the chronological sequence of events by interjection of events or scenes of earlier occurrence

a description of an event or scene from an earlier time that interrupts a chronological narrative : a literary flashback

* aperçu: A clever insight, A summary or outline; words that summarize.

While she's making a sage observation from which they could profit, they choose instead to fasten onto some aperçu that offends their tender sensibilities.

* arabber: A street vendor selling fruits and vegetables from a colorful, horse-drawn cart.

The black Baltimore arabber tradition is on its last leg. For the city's sake, it should continue.

* barmy: Full of barm; foamy. Eccentric; daft. Originally full of barm, hence frothing, excited, flighty, etc.

* blues harp: Harmonica.

* boîtes: nightclub

Those of us old enough to remember recall the subversive nature of American culture during Soviet times,  clandestine jazz concerts in Moscow boîtes, hidden screenings of certain movies, samizdat publication of forbidden novels, etc.




* budgerigar: also know as the common parakeet or shell parakeet and usually informally nicknamed the budgie, is a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot.

The British economy today resembles a clown on a unicycle, wobbling across Niagara Falls in a high wind on a tightrope, carrying a tottering burden of dead refrigerators, umbrellas, saucepans and budgerigar cages.

* Calvinball: a game invented by Calvin and Hobbes in which players make the rules up as they go along. Rules cannot be used twice (except for the rule that rules cannot be used twice), and any plays made in one game may not be made again in any future games. No Calvinball game is like another. The game may involve wickets, mallets, volleyballs, and additional sports-related equipment.

* chicane: A serpentine curve in a road, added by design rather than dictated by geography.

* cloture: A parliamentary procedure by which debate is ended and an immediate vote is taken on the matter under discussion. Also called closure. v.To apply cloture to (a parliamentary debate).

* coeval: originating or existing during the same period: lasting through the same era. One of the same era or period; a contemporary

* condign: well-deserved; fitting; adequate:

But since some of the squealers in the press have castigated Judge Kavanaugh for the condign anger he displayed in answering the scurrilous attacks on his character,

* confect: To make into a confection or preserve. To put together by combining materials: a group of writers who confected a television series. A sweet confection, such as candy.

The entire febrile effort to delegitimize President Donald Trump continues to be based on the ability of the Trump-hating media to confect or unveil a Trumpocidal deus ex machina every two weeks.

* croft: A small enclosed field or pasture near a house. 2. A small farm, especially a tenant farm.

* Doc Edgerton: a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1] He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used by Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness Monster.[2]

SOMEWHERE, DOC EDGERTON IS SMILING: World’s fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second.

* Dollar General: an American chain of variety stores headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As of July 2018, Dollar General operates 15,000 stores[4][1] in 45 of the 48 contiguous United States

Irish dry stouts are to stouts as Dollar Generals are to department stores.

* doula: Also known as a birth companion, birth coach or post-birth supporter, is a non-medical person who stays with and assists a woman before, during, or after childbirth, to provide emotional support and physical help if needed.

Drudge link: Death doulas take off...

* Dutches slant: sitting, knees together, ankles together, legs slanted. Legs crossed and slanted.

He’s got the knees-together technique down pat, now if he can just perfect the Duchess-Slant, girlie-man Justin will be a well-turned-out effeminate,

* echelon: A formation of troops in which each unit is positioned successively to the left or right of the rear unit to form an oblique or steplike line. A flight formation or arrangement of craft in this manner. A similar formation of groups, units, or individuals.

“It’s only the to echalones that are the deep swamp…the regular agents are all just great!”

* enclitic: (of a word) closely connected in pronunciation with the
preceding word and not having an independent accent or phonological
status.

Reduced or contracted forms of words. They are attached to the word that
precedes them by an apostrophe. and they are dependent on that word for
their meaning. They generally consist of just one consonant sound and
cannot stand on their own. In English, they are usually the unstressed forms of functional words such as auxiliary verbs, determiners, participles, and pronouns. As such, they have grammatical rather than lexical meaning (compared with suffixes, which create new words thruogh inflection).

Example; 'em in "Give 'em hell, Harry."

* fecolith: also called a fecaloma or faecaloma, is an extreme form of fecal impaction, often characterized by calcification. Obstruction of the appendix caused by lymphoid hyperplasia and fecaliths is considered to be the most common cause of acute appendicitis.

AND BY HER STUFF, WE MEAN THE MARXIST FECALITHS IN HER BRAIN:  A Democratic Contender Shows Her Stuff.

* fugazi: Urban Dictionary: 1. Artificial, fake. Something that has no substance. 2. A really bad knockoff, a copy. 3. Someone that copies or fronts.A hipster. Someone that bites.Someone that claims to be original when you know their whole style is a reenactment.

* gammon: the hind leg of pork after it has been cured by dry-salting or or brining. It may or may not be smoked. Like bacon, it needs to be cooked before it can be eaten. It may be sold on-the-bone or without the bone, or as steaks or slices.

It was a rotten gammon faced brexiter.

* gnomic: said or written using few words that are difficult to understand.

He made gnomic utterances concerning death.

Used to describe an aspect, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting the flow of time to any particular conception (for example, the conceptions of time as continuous, habitual, perfective, etc.). Used to describe a mood, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting the expression of words to the speaker's attitude toward them (e.g. as indicative, subjunctive, potential, etc.). Used to describe a tense, the gnomic is considered neutral by not limiting action, in particular, to the past, present, or future. Examples fo the gnomic include such generic statements as: "birds fly"; "sugar is sweet"; and "a mother can always tell. If, as an aspect, it does take temporality into consideration, it may be called the empiric perfect aspect. Generally, though, it is one example of imperfective aspect, which does not view an event as a single entity viewed only as a whole, but instead specifies something about its internal structure.

A grammatical gnomic aspect occurs in literary Swahili, where the -a- form of the verb is gnomic (sometimes called "indefinite tense") and the -na- form of the verb is episodic (sometimes called 'definite tense' or just 'present'). Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan do not have a gnomic inflection in their verbs like Swahili, but they do have lexical aspect in their be verbs ser (in Catalan, ser or ésser) (gnomic) and estar (episodic). For instance, estar enfermo (Spanish) estar doente (Portuguese) or estar malalt (Catalan) means to be sick (episodic), whereas ser enfermo (Spanish), ser doente (Portuguese) or ésser malat (Catalan means to be sickly (gnomic).

However, most languages use other forms of the verb to express general truths. For instance, English and french use the standard present tense, as in the examples given above. In Classical Greek, Tongan, and Dakota, the future tense is used. Biblical Hebrew uses the perfective aspect. In Japanese, an imperfective clause with the wa (topic) particle is used for generic statements such as taiyou-wa higashi-kara nobo-ru [sun-TOP east-from rise-IPFV] "the sun rises in the east", whereas the ga (subject) particle would force an episodic reading.

English has no means of morphologically distinguishing a gnomic aspect; however, a generic reference is generally understood to convey an equivalent meaning. Use of the definite article "the" or a demonstrative determiner usually implies specific individuals, as in "the car he owns is fast", "the cars he owns are fast", or "those rabbits are fast", whereas omitting the definite article or other determiner in the plural creates a generic reference: "rabbits are fast" describes rabbits in general. However, the definite article may also be used in the singular for classes of nouns, as in "The giraffe is the tallest land mammal living today", which does not refer to any specific giraffe, but to giraffes in general.

English generally uses the simple present tense as the equivalent of a gnomic aspect, as in "rabbits are fast" and "water boils at 212°F", though the past tense ("Curiosity killed the cat") is sometimes used. The auxiliary "will" can also be used to indicate gnomic aspect ("boys will be boys"). The simple present is used with specific references for the equivalent of a habitual aspect, as in "I run every day"; likewise, the auxiliary "will" is used with specific references for the habitual aspect, as in "he will make that mistake all the time, won't he?". Thus, in English the gnomic aspect takes the same form as the habitual aspect

* gunsel: 1) a criminal armed with a gun. 2) catamite

If you’re not able to get to the Big Apple this weekend, don’t get mad and rough up a gaudy gunsel.

* incel: involuntarily celibate, a person (usually male) who has a horrible personality and threats women like sexual objects and thinks his lack of a sex life comes from being ugly when its really just his blatant sexism and terrible attitude.

Jordon Peterson threatens to sue professor who called him an incel.

* kayfabe: The illusion that what happens in the wrestling universe is real.

*kiskes: the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it.Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut. 2 guts, the bowels or entrails. Informal.courage and fortitude; nerve; determination; stamina: Climbing that cliff takes a lot of guts. The inner working parts of a machine or device: The mechanic had the guts of the refrigerator laid out on the kitchen floor. The belly; stomach; abdomen.

I feel as if I've had my kishkes ripped out.

* kludgy: kludge: a system, especially a computer system, that is constituted of poorly matched elements or of element originally intended for other applications. Slang: a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem.

Murphy Brown, the show itself is kludgy, combining dated sitcom rhythms with sermonizing.

* Lebensraum: Territories considered appropriate for German annexation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race.

Gotta have some Lebensraum for all those native Germans displaced my all of the migrants, yah?

* Lido-Deck: 1. an open deck including a swimming pool

* Macron’s Law: Concerns the French minimum wage in the transport sector. The minimum wage applies to cabotage and all international transport operations. Provides new obligations on French inland transport movements and international transport to or from France. Under the new law, foreign-based drivers are subject to the French rules of social law as they enter French territory.

Because African birthrates haven’t slowed as fast as Western experts once expected, because European demographics are following Macron’s Law toward the grave, and because European leaders are no longer nearly so optimistic about assimilating immigrants as even a few short years ago.

* maenadism: In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones".

What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement?

* mephitic: Offensive to the smell. Noxious; pestilential; poisonous. A poisonous or foul-smelling gas emitted from the earth. Legal: deadly, harmful, insalubrious, malignant, pernicious, pestilent

He will be confirmed, but the mephitic stench of the attack against him and the rule of law will linger.

* minacious: of a menacing or threatening nature; minatory.

His face completely changed, almost as though he had ripped off a “Mission Impossible” mask. Suddenly, he stared coldly at Katie, every inch the minacious K.G.B. agent.

* nacelles: A a housing, separate from the fuselage, that holds engines, fuel, or equipment on an aircraft.

Bell is keen to show off the V-280’s fixed engine nacelles.

* naos: an ancient temple or shrine.

* nepot: Nepotism based on favor granted to relatives in various fields, including business, politics, entertainment, sports, religion and other activities.

* Odjebi: Bosnian, and in English translates directly to "fuck off" or "piss off".

* ombre: An example of ombre is the color of a dress that is light gray at the top, medium gray in the middle and dark gray at the bottom. Ombré (literally "shaded" in French) is the gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.[1] It has become a popular feature for hair coloring, nail art, and even baking, in addition to its uses in home decorating and graphic design

* omphaloskepskis: contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation; navel-gazing.

Justine will be out October 2019 so he/she can Odjebi!!

* pareve: Judaism Prepared without meat, milk, or their derivatives and therefore permissible to be eaten with both meat and dairy dishes according to dietary laws: pareve margarine.

The summary is toned down and acknowledges only the appearance of bias and of weak policies.  It’s “pareve” as we say in the mother language.  The really bad criticism stops with Comey and allows Yates and Lynch to emerge relatively unscathed for a lack of supervision.

* paskudnyaks: ugly, revolting, evil person; nasty person; scoundrel; lout.

* patzer: A poor or amateurish chess player

* pawl: A pawl is a mechanical component that engages with another component to prevent movement in one direction, or prevent movement altogether. A gear used in handcuffs.

(escaping from handcuffs) "Yeah," I answered. "Now, let's try shimming the pawl."

* pogue: American derogatory pejorative military slang for non-combat, staff, and other rear-echelon or support units. "Pogue" frequently applies to those who do not have to undergo the risk and stresses of combat as the infantry does.

Ten Rare Pogues That Only a 1990s Kid Will Recognize! (off the wall words and phrases are listed)

* Rachel Corrie: American activist and diarist.[1][2] She was a member of a pro-Palestinian group and killed by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in a combat zone in the Gaza Strip, under contested circumstances during the second Palestinian intifada.

Frankly, I favor a Rachel Corrie solution to this but that may be suboptimal... for now.

* rheme: (linguistics) the constituent of a sentence that adds most new information, in addition to what has already been said in the discourse. The rheme is usually, but not always associated with the subject. Compare theme

* sapid: Perceptible to the sense of taste; having flavor. Having a strong pleasant flavor; savory, pleasing to the mind; engaging.

* Sauve qui peut: a complete rout, literally, save who can, save yourself if you can, or may he save himself, whoever can.

* schvantz: Yiddish for penis.

 ... 18-month old and still going witch hunt by the Democrat-Left-Media complex, of which Rosenschvantz and Mueller are card-carrying members ...

* sequelae: A pathological condition resulting from a disease. A secondary consequence or result.

The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and their endless sequelae have ended up as an epitaph for a spent culture for which its remedies are felt to be worse than its diseases.

* shoulder rolls: Exercise of standing straight and rolling the shoulders. Good for removing accumulated stress and tension in the shoulders and improving circulation in those joints.

If “the medium is the message” then do shoulder rolls in their medium.

* spruik: to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate, especially to advertise a show. Promote or publicize.

Holmes launched Theranos in 2003, spruiking the company as a cheaper and more efficient way for patients to test for life-threatening conditions, like cancer and diabetes, with just a few drops of blood from their fingers.

* Surströmming:  Swedish for "sour herring" is a lightly-salted fermented Baltic Sea herring.

Good Mythical Morning with Rhett and Link, tested various bizarre pickles. Surstromming was one, an incredibly gross pickle that neither could actually eat.

* swales: low tract of land, especially one that is moist or marshy. The term can refer to a natural landscape feature or a human-created one. Artificial swales are often infiltration basins designed to manage water runoff, filter pollutants, and increase rainwater infiltration.

bulldozer guy cleaned up some old fence rows and turned bad ditches into swales

* tinidazole: a drug used against protozoan infections. It is widely known throughout Europe and the developing world as a treatment for a variety of amoebic and parasitic infections. It was developed in 1972 and is a prominent member of the nitroimidazole antibiotic class.