


Intriguing Words – 17th April 2009
With the weekend approaching fast and many people getting in the partying mood here are a few of my favourite drink related words… great for trivia at the Friday night party… or for a hangover the next morning. So if you’re Poculent here are a few words especially for you!
On Drinking:
Balderdash: adulterated wine
Barleyhood: bad temper induced by drinking
Cagg: a solemn vow not to drink for a certain period of time
Compotation: a drinking bout
Cropsick: stomachache from too much drink
Doundrins: afternoon drinking
Drinkmoney: money used to buy liquor
Malmsey: A strong, sweet wine
Poculent: fit for drinking
Pot-valiant: courageous because of drink
Shandygaff: a mixture of beer and ginger-beer
Shotclog: a drinking companion tolerated because he/she pays for the drinks
Slipslop: bad liquor
Snowbroth: very cold liquor
Sorbition: the act of drinking or sipping
Supernaculum: drinking the last drop from a glass or bottle
Swilbowl: a heavy drinker
Usquebaugh: the water of life (whiskey)
Intriguing Words – 4th September 2008
Everyone is afraid of something… there is even a fear of phobias!
Fear of… phobia
Airplanes aeronausiphobia
Animals zoophobia
Blood hematophobia, hemophobia, hemaphobia
Books bibliophobia
Everything pantaphobia, panophobia, panphobia, pamphobia
Eyes ommatophobia, ommetaphobia
Flowers anthophobia
Ghosts phasmophobia
Insects entomophobia
Mice musophobia, muriphobia
Numbers arithmophobia
Paper papyrophobia
Pope (or the Papacy) papaphobia
Rain ombrophobia, pluviophobia
Sleep hypnophobia
Snow chionophobia
Teeth odontophobia
Vegetables lachanophobia
Water hydrophobia, aquaphobia
Words logophobia, verbophobia
Phobologophobia fear of phobia words.
Intriguing Words – 9th May 2008
We all have to eat!
Abligurition spending lavishly on food and drink
Accubation lying down at meals
Ambigu dinner in which the various courses are served together
Antepast anything taken before a meal in order to whet the
appetite
Aristology luncheon talk
Coenaculous one who enjoys a midnight snack
Comessation riotous feasting
Epulation a banquet, feast
Gaudy a feast, a day of plenty
Groaking staring at someone eating with the hope that he/
she’ll give you something
Jentacular relating to breakfast
Lickerish squeamish in the choice of food
Pingle to eat with little or no appetite
Puddingtime dinnertime (time when pudding – the first course –
was served)
Simpsonize to dilute milk with water
Smellfeast an uninvited dinner guest (one who smells a feast)
Trenchermate a table companion
Intriguing Words – 5th May 2008
For this ‘Intriguing words’ I would like to look at manias… in particular “word manias”:
Coprolalomania the use of foul language
Graphomania morbid desire for writing
Hellenomania using cumbersome Greek or Latin terms instead of
readily understandable English words
Klazomania compulsory shouting
Lalomania abnormal interest in speech
Logamania overtalkativeness
(or logomonomania)
Metromania mania for writing verses
Onomatomania mental derangement with regard to words
(inability to recall a certain word,
attaching special significance to a word,
and so forth)
Scribblemania mania for scribbling
(or scribbleomania)
Scribomania writing a long succession of unconnected words
Verbomania morbid talkativeness
Intriguing Words – 4th May 2008
Here are some intriguing words I felt I wanted to share! For the first post from “Intriguing Words” I have chosen to list the literary forms of fortune-telling:
Literary Divination
Name Divination By…
Bilbliomancy books, or by verses of the Bible
Graptomancy handwriting
(gapomancy)
Logomancy words
Onomomancy from names or the letters of a name
(nomancy (number of vowels, etc.)
onomancy)
Rhapsodomancy picking a passage of poetry at random
Stichomancy lines of verse in books chosen at random








