Patrick James

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)

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.

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

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

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