Words by Michael Helsem
960 words contributed
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newborn child
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insistence that becomes repulsive
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something you like a lot now but didn't at first
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the "fascination of what's difficult'
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dissonance in dress
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as much as a fist will hold [obsolete word]
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yet another stranger being irate in public over having their
humanity denied, & you only want to get on with your own
concerns & they're in the way
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conversationworthy
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the fourth stomach of a cow [obsolete word]
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to blame the victime wrongly and scornfully
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reducing the amount of things you own & use
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the strong desire to record an experience or event
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a spasm of indiscriminate divestiture, soon to be followed by
a renewal of hoarding
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pretended ignorance of something; bland disregard
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(ACEYNORST)the process of legitimizing a particular mode of nonconformity
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a generational anthem
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the necessity to piss
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(AY'EYMNOWRST)the process of de-legitimizing a particular mode of nonconformity
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fiscal
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flat on one's face
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sleep preventer
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a promise that becomes a lie
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the allure of the extremely rare
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the pleasure of knowing everything that will happen (in a general
way, and for a short time) and being right when it does
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a store full of Calculating Warp Fruits
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forever being postponed
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to begin anew
Origin: [Enochian] -
sex; the Double Ulgry
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something that has been dead a long time
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(adverb) more than the threshhold needed to/for (+ a verb infinitive
or noun of state of being)
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concerning, relating to
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wasted irony
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the moment of maximum pleasure, after the first cup of coffee
is drained & a full second cup sits in front of you
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being in opposition to its environment
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the necessity of sorting some recurrent influx of trivia for the few
items of slight relevance
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a necessary luxuryOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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a number with personal sentiment attached, hence magical in its
reappearances
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a three legged cat
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through lack of foresight, having to do the same thing three times
in a row.
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the poem you ended up writing
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Agrippa's number-glyphs
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a line that goes out of sight
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a word I coined (from Latin) to mean "horseradishy"
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the desire to coin new words after reading a glossary
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ironylessness (involuntary)
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a busy backstreet
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improvised
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unwitting agents of destruction
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degree of ease of entrancement
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a palindroming letter sequence within a word
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an occasion of nonverbal ironyOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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(BXWLF)my Gcoarbish script
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the taste of tap waterOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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a flavor new to you
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someone you're fond of for impersonal reasons
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something you want to wash your hands after touching
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a choice between indistinguishables
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the institution of ownership and possessions
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a word that apparently no one has ever used, yet exists in the
dictionary
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something you go so long without doing, that you forget how and
have to learn it all over again every time.
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torn between staying and going
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a nonpracticing anarchist
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a subject one is the sole expert on, or best authority
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a poetry based game
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to fall into a daze while waiting on bureaucracy
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precariously happy
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a style philosophy
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something done for the pure beauty of the act, not for any inherent
meaningfulness or utility. Blixth is the beginning of ritual.
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unperceived boredom
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when two cars stop at a light , side by side, with their radios on &
windows down & you hear two musics at onceOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to forget that you have eaten & eat the same meal twice
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language-mixing
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a "tower' (as defined in the novel Ada
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language-making
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to become famous under a pseudonym
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the artificial language movement
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a long overdue realization or understanding
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a nationstate
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slightly unusual but not interestingly so
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innocuous deviance
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job supplies of no intrinsic interest
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amateur pornography
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the halo around the moonOrigin: [orig. Kentish]
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art produced in a visionary state
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fourth night of insomnia
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the blandifying effect on (mass-) art of having increasingly
stressed out & irritable audiences to contend with
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the habit of noting one's thoughts down
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choosing to live in a place because of its name
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an artificial language
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a game with an unlimited number of kinds of moves
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a taste, long in abeyance, but capable of being revived
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items, unique or rare, whose presence in a store is ephemeral
& irreversible hence posing a challenge to buy to the
voneller-at-large
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the body
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"cyberculture"
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(adverb) very effective for some but not always for everyone
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the sound of a lot of birds
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fearmongers & hatesowers
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cat contaminationOrigin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991
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reflecting light shiftingly, like silk or a cat's eye [obsolete word]
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egotism
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to overreach
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the custom of not taking timeout to be sick
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(COXQNIYEY)"genteel poverty'
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a psychedelic apprenticeship
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ostentatious & specious originality
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a zone with absolutely nothing at all for pedestrians
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schizophrenic "word salad"
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old but strong; wellmade and worn with use
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to suddenly alight
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a cypher you have memorized
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a pagan anthem
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the realm of skyscrapers
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a momentary lapse of attention which proves fatal
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asleep before a fire
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a song made from an old poem
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a point in the lifecycle of a civilization that is reached when people
can no longer recreate any part of it by themselves
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relating to Oppositional Culture
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silence (no music or TV)
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pop culture
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a good deed that's a pleasure to perform
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ugliness of character
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laughter of sexual delight
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the smell of cooking or cooking or justcooked potatoes
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the part that you never clean; the place where you can't vacuumOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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to believe one isn't human and wish to be.
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a star that has not yet been used in a science fiction novel
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a day's work
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something you don't care if they steal
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a portion
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to follow a mood for whatever it may bring
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the desire to build somethingOrigin: [Lojban]
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the resumption, after long desuetude, of a project
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to think of a witticism but refrain from using it
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the sound of the Graiae
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a meaningful chromatic exclusion
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to refuse to play arttack
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one who is alone aware of the true gravity or nature of the crisis
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uninterrupted self-control
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a convincing substitute, a skillful restoration, "good as new"
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the place where something should be but isn't
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a place like one's childhood landscape
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opposition to the norm, on principle
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to drop something where it can't be retrieved
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dou'hoith'kes'dyche4 value logic
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a gap between the teeth
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[Quarles] to make difficult
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twilight
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a broken traffic light (as fetish object)
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to ignore an official holiday by pretending to have forgotten
it
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to pluck apart
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a neohistorian, who searches the origins of culture-history
memes
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the whole process from the destruction of one ego to the
creation of a new one, considered as alchemy
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a rapid dwindling resonant superball-bouncing sound
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a poem written mainly to propagate an idiom
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a sad necessityOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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the spell cast by an entirely beautiful mysterious environment
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to stand in a quizzical posture without saying anything
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dispirited, weary, dejected [obsolete word]
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something expensive that's not any better than the cheap kind
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an allnight insomniac saudade
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a state of removed necessity
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the miry rim of a long fall
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to try one thing, then another, in an attempt to get at one's malaise
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the sticky feeling you get from spending hours in a humid
environment not hot enough to make you sweat in droplets but
uncomfortably warm without moving air on your skin
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a situation which forces two strangers to interact who don't
especially care to
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to make one's peace with plastic
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a song so beautiful it has its own unique emotion
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a fury of connectionmaking
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the first return of coolness
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pride in ignorance
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to drive straight into a low sun so that you can't tell a red light from
a green
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a magic alphabet or cipher; nonstandard letters
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pussybreath
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self-determinate order; oˆgeneticality
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a copy
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a natural assumption that happens not to be true
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longing for a certain land as zer homeland-to-be
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not working if you don't believe in it (but not necessarily working if
you do)
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a game whose rules keep changing
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the feeling of wearing too much clothingOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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a suborned plaguetester
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once upon a time
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an indescribable relation that is nonetheless comprehended
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a system of quasiunpredictable complexity
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a relationship of feigned friendliness on both sides.
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a vow of seven years' durationOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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opposed to television in any form
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restrictedOrigin: [obsolete word]
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TV addiction
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plenty of money but no time to spend it.
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the resumption of a cycle after its interruption.
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combining many components into one unified thing
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"bruised blue and contused"
Origin: [coined by Rabelais] -
the rainbow
Origin: [Aboriginee] -
an investigation cancelled by the higher ups
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to redeem from pawn
Origin: [Keats] -
second night of insomnia
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using the slightly wrong word on purposeOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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an expedient for psychic survival
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the sense of how to combine colors
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The art of facepaintingOrigin: [obsolete word]
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Something ruined by trying to fix it.
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The power of feeling in one's finger.Origin: [obsolete word]
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an artwork which conforms to the conventions of two different
genres at once
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someone who only pretends fashionably to be alienated
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A frivolous person.
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Unemployed.Origin: [obsolete word]
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The ice between the stars.
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Dangerous sport.Origin: [obsolete word]
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One who is abnormally sensitive to criticism but likes to
complain about others.
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TV hypnosis
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my Lojban alphabet
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An insult you can't prove wasn't intentional
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To overuse a particular word.
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oppressive repetitions
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To snoreOrigin: [obsolete word]
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A unicursal glyph.
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speck of dust; flake
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To encourage someone's unintentional absurdity for your
secret amusement.
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To revert to one's original accent under stress.
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To not recognize zer emotion
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To prejudge without evidence
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To go looking for gold on the ground.Origin: [obsolete word]
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an oil painting
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Indefinably repulsive to one.
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"either wat it's bad."
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"If you don't know you don't need to know."
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What peacocks do instead of sing.
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n.both-true-&-false (metaphor);adj. "irreal"
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innate mental inertia, akin to physical laziness
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Exempt from the rules.
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Nostalgia for a past that never existed.
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A corporate airlock.
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Contempt for difference.
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To pretend to look at something.
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almond flavored champagne
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A mixture of peanuts and sunflower kernels.
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The art of econimical packing.
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For it to look like rain for a long time without doing
so;(fig) to threaten ominously
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a state of society in which individual life is cheap
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to repress a memory
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the doctrine that poetry should never be translated
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driving in such a way as to prevent others from doing what
they want
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"I haven't experienced it, but I know that it exists."
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an idiosyncratic symbol complex
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a drug you breathe
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air pollution
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an environment of unconscious, unexpressed hostility.
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mutual non-existence
Origin: [Tibetan] -
the taste of wasabi
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a member of a cult
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the custom of saving alcohol containers (as distinct from,
collecting a certain kind)
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an inexplicably popular, undistinguished cult; a "safe" taste to have
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project orientation mode
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one who no longer cares to play the game
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a word with no English equivalent
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the Invisible
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the sense of a civilization coming to an end
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the act of discovering a paperclip in the clothesdryer lintcatcher
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to ache throbbingly
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a historical fantasy based on the lives of famous persons
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a hitherto-unarticulated nuance, distinction or connection
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talking about unnamed nuancesOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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a quantity of saved-up scrap paper
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an occult tradition now accepted by many as a fact (e.g. 'chakras')
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institutional stupidity
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unacceptably on the wrong side of a false dichotomy
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a TV set
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started without intention of finishing
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a burning coal
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intellectually hyperactive (opposite of Fumda)
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to disbelieve one's eyes
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a band that plays one kind of music's songs in the style of
another
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an authentic recreation of a dead style or subculture
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An internet meme, than which nothing outspeeds.
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to dissemble the truth so as not to hurt someone's feelings
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an artist's accumulated workpapers, notes and journals
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the combination of quantitative hazaj & galliambic meters, in
alternating linesOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a Beatles song turned into muzak, hear first thing in the morning
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joyful abandon tinged with fear of discovery
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shrewd, bright, smart
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something that keeps sliding down or falling off
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sullenness
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the feeling during a lucky streak that it can't lastOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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an ambiguously written letter or number
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a movie based on a comic book
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being friendless in a strange town
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pleasure in forgiving
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the void where coal has been removed from a mine
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downward mobility on the Food Chain
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when the desire for preciousness & the desire for humbleness
conflict
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to confuse someone as to your gender or sexual orientation
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gamliness / ludicityOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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unstoppable
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trail mixOrigin: [obsolete word]
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to wrongfully feel passiveaggressed on
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the equipment, caparison, or gear needed in any pursuit, vocation,
or play
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to prepare or get readyOrigin: [obsolete word]
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to use a phrase out of a pop song seriously & without realizing itOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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to walk on stilts
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the mysterious ailment which causes old cassettes to start
squeaking
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a proud and meaningless association of humans
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to doggedly attempt to climb a slope too steep
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a person who denies that any event is arbitrary or
meaningless, however trivial
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when your hollow rubber heel wears through in one place, so
that a flap remains which traps pebbles inside that rattle as
you walk & replace themselves as fast as you think to remove
them
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to mistake a spot for a bug
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pheromone porn
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the general longing for a feudal social order
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grim & necessary
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the intoxication of spending a lot of money in a short span
of time
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firmly fixed in the ground
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mushroom
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a shortlived habitOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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a plan that depends on unlikely circumstances for its success
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the taste of coffee & peanut butter
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inarticulateness
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a solar vampire
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an event of conscious finality
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a group, place, or language's name for itself not recognized by
others
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a note to yourself
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GVOWZOYGthe fear of being alone with zerselfOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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to begin an indefinitely long sequence
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the year cut-off of one's fadtaste-formation
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adj. neither-true-nor-false (nonsensical); n. "Frop"
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writing which does not reveal the principle of its making
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to balance one thing atop another for no apparent reason
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the experience of being the only member of a group with detached
awareness. Gwilwilb in childhood makes one an artist.
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the irritatingest habit of a loved one
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the historical-localizing of a major distinction
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the historical-localizing of a minor distinction
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to read what you want to read, in the Cards
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the feeling of not having had enough sleep (though having slept)
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cutting the mold off cheese
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torn between fight- and flight-response
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to take offense where none was meant
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rash; daring
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to put a lit match back in the packet
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the feeling of wearing dissimilar socks
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a store exclusively for yenen
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to deduce a word's meaning from its sound
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the place where a road separates into two ways so as to create
confusion in the mind regarding which is the right one to take
Origin: [Tibetan] -
a kenning
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to destroy the evidence of one's past
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adv. with curiosity unsatisfied
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instrumental music
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a word or distinction that has ceased to be useful
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a state of mental clutter; having too much to think about at once
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a mysterious slight aching in the teethOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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a whole phrase or idea expressed in one word
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to stand in the way on purpose
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a chance happening which becomes meaningful in retrospect
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horrible sounding
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twencen
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to dig or scrape up the earth like a dog
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HOKSQLWPa partial solution, which my nilpertain
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a library with closed stacks; or, an unattainable degree of access
which one lusts for
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a musical quotation
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a sequence of things easy to do together
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the feeling of considering yourself a member of a group that
doesn't consider you a member
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secrecy; in secret
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the cricket chirping of a high speed printer
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to shrug the shoulders
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a moment of choosing
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a "moment of weakness', an inadvertant shadow-transactionOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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to be deaf to the music of wordsOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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an almost inaccessible storageplace for something that you
use alot
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a natural match for something else, by virtue of its incidental
properties rather than by any intrinsic relatedness
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to do something so automatically you don't remember doing it, and
then be troubled needlessly over whether it was done.
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adverb - "accidentally on purpose"
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a longheld deep pot-inhale
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your favorite time of day
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incapable of being thoroughly investigatedOrigin: [obsolete word]
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(see laina; basuraphilia) a preference for preowned items
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mailart done on the other side of old postcards
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by inches at a time
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the quality of being incapable of being circumscribed or limited
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a car hypochondriac
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to oversleep by more than 4 hours
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to attempt to get from one side of a busy shopping center to
the other, using the fewest number of turns
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to do something else & eat your meal at the same time
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to telescope back into itself
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to look at pictures
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temporary cessation of desire
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to change the subject of a conversation unobtrusively but on
purpose
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a simple but tedious task
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laughter of sexual nervousness
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yet satisfying task
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the smell of rain in the wind
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the computer poetry movement
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for a door or window to rattle, creak, or grate with the wind's force
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a sudden burning sensation in the sinuses
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a risky shortcut
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the sensation of stoking one's own beardOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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the audible static-electric pop that walking on a carpet sometimes
causes
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to spill in moving a vessel of liquid
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a slip which reveals the truth about a person or the situation
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a day's nonstopped travel
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tired, but happyOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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smelling like horse piss
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in a relation of unequal necessity between two of the same
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the doctrine that perfection is attainable (in some thing)
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the smell of car tires
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KJOQmy neorunes
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one who will only drink expensive coffeeOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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the ego
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the kind of mistake that snowballs
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an avalanche of bouncing checks
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a poem that occurs to you at an inconvenient time to write it down
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the quality of being Scorpio or like Scorpio's tastes
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baby carrier; or, a handbag larger than a purse
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a person overly concerned with trivial details
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for now, but not for good
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wanting certainty where certainty is impossible
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a pilgrimage comprised solely of detours; a melody dissected into
variants
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KWOZUN"Way to go!"
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a clean bill from the plague testers
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clowning while at work
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a stone worth carrying home; (fig.) a lucky find
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a gift brought with a visit
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a place or a situation where everyone who comes along tends to
make the same mistake
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suicide debris, collectible
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the purplish gray of night skies in the city
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a preference for recycled materials
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the rhythmic interplay of two speakers in emotional sync
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to distract oneself with pseudoactivity
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reading with sunglasses on
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a rule that hardly or seldom applies to anyone
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a long coherent storydream
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
someone else's infandous non-Kword
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to grow sick of something you used to love (doing)
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pointless jazz noodling
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something memorized
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to spurn the fancy name, or euphemism, for
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the beauty of something broken & now useless
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The beautiful patina of pathos that everything acquires after you've
had a sleepless night.
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a machine that only works part of the time
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a shelter or sheltered place
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people who wear headphone radios wherever they go
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third night of insomnia
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junk food (also: sculsh)
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something gradually changing from pleasantly warm to
unpleasantly hot
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such long deprivation that the need is no longer acknowledged
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the use of neologisms in a journal
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prejudice against nonstandard genderness
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between jest & earnest
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continuing to spend money at your usual rate for awhile after
losing your job
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the substitution, in speech or writing, of one sound for
another that is taboo, consistently
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effortless assimilation
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of many different sorts
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withering on the tree (fruit)
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a prose paraphrase
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a hot windy day
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An omission which renders a list or compilation useless or
misleadingOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to shuck off one's outer clothes in order to dance
Origin: [orig. Swahili] -
someone rushing along a narrow corridor
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a long palindrome
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a moment when one would rather die than get out of bed
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a musically accompanied declamation
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to want to be in love with one's lover when one isn't
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the mania for collecting, especially, what noone else
collects
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a change of mind
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blotchy with lights (instead of darks)
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the feeling during an unlucky streak that it'll never end
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a place one always intends to return but never willOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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to efface one's traces from a place
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to give more than you takeOrigin: [ rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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to misinterpret
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is defined as; unpacks as; verbally equals; can be analyzed into
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to insult someone you are on a date with by asking too many
questions about the place they work for, as if going out with
them was only a pretext for industrial espionage
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a cenotaph to someone you wish was dead but isn't
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(MOWLAWG)a place quiet enough for an intimate conversation
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
the last task of a working day
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a Macintosh book
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
time poverty (also known as: Zeitnot)
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the lifeforce
-
unable to believe in something, though wishing to
-
the guiding principle in creating a new form
-
recollecting oneself with a start after a brief daydream at work
-
a cat attack on the foot
-
the truth everyone know but noone speaks
Origin: [orig. Swahili] -
aquarium sediment
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to pretend as if nothing has changed, is the matter, is going wrong
-
in cultural babyexile
-
borrowed
Origin: [obsolete word] -
not a real wash-shower but just a rinse to remove the
droozers
-
an esoteric text not intended to be read by just anyone
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(MAYHAAXOKO)an evenly spaced row of stones
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
something thrown away that shouldn't be
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
where the roadsurface changes its consistency
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the name of a street you choose to live on only because of
its evocativeness
-
(preposition) as close to as possible without touching
-
to cut a substance with itself, fingernail with fingernail or diamond
with diamond
-
defiantly unfashionable
-
heedless of consequences
-
hazily confused
Origin: [obsolete word] -
something thrown away that shouldn't beOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991[
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a frustrationhonk rather than a warning honk
-
the smell of a vet's waiting room
-
long shadows on a sunny winter morning
-
the cento poetry movement
-
tag team childabuse
-
a nondriver by choice
-
the pang of the hungry revenants
-
music from before your generation's greentime
-
map dreaming
-
a bad hug
-
tasting your coffee for the first time with the last swallow
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a proof that one's faculties are working well; a selfgiven test
-
the feeling that comes from having eaten something rich
-
100% predictable but not very effective
-
to be temporarily free of an obsession
-
browser's knowledge
-
the missing piece which explains the rest
-
consumption ritual
-
a never present resident
-
the "falling asleep" of a limb
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the feeling of mingled relief & dismay when a slight mishap
interrupts long monotony
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
earnestly, strenuously
Origin: [obsolete word] -
an identity-making experience
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your favorite of somebody else's record collection (Striding
Under Orpiment)
-
one who is not able to ignore pain
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a writer who is quoted but never read
-
an impossible comparison that still makes sense, e.g. "what kind of
animal would you be...?"
-
an apartment neighbor of the appropriate gender whose name &
availability status you'll never know
-
eating uncooked veggies
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the practice of not calling things by their usual names
-
sexual despair
-
the Age of Skyscrapers
-
the sound an off the hook, phone, makes
-
the sound a pencil sharpener makes
-
mysterious by virtue of what's omitted, rather than by what's given
-
unclaimed food in the collective fridge, which goes bad because
everyone thinks it's someone else's and leaves it alone
-
having an attenuated sense of reality, not necessarily from an
altered state of consciousness
-
a situation in which no one really knows what's going on
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"optimum destiny"= being paid to do something you'd do anyway
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
round and flat
Origin: [obsolete word] -
indecisive between 2 lovers
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when the desire for preciousness & the desire for humbleness
are in harmony
-
(Texas usage:) a burn from a hot car seat
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the teeth of a comb
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the fact of there being several places (in a house) where
something might be found
-
a bit of leftover food on the plate
Origin: [obsolete word] -
small debris left in the street from a cleared away car wreck
-
the study of things dug up
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to layer snugly
-
unrelentingly banal
-
a foreign word pronounced according to native orthography, rather
than its true sound (to the contrary of "hobson jobson". BBC does
this with almost every international name.)
-
just enough knowledge of a language to translate using a
dictionary
-
time spent waiting with nothing to do
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a mythic site of one's childhood
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
armpit
Origin: [obsolete word] -
someone who unintentionally interferes with or undoes your work
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
"The number of things that need changing is one less, now."
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to revert, out of necessity, to a less technological way of doing
something
-
a game that consists in seeing if you can find something neat
to buy in a very unlikely store
-
the medicine cabinet
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a book
-
sexcaused property damage
-
one's mentor in aesthetics
-
conversion to a new blik
-
the smell of bonedust
-
sly
-
defensive contempt
-
the combination of orange + greenOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
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the joy of precision
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to survery thoroughly
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the weird, postliterary existence of authors who are no
longer read except as assigned reading in schools
-
a preference for virgin materials
-
the war of the Inorganic against the Organic
-
fearers of wisdom
Origin: [T. Szasz] -
to be reborn
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a bagpipe player
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to eat without much appetite
Origin: [obsolete word] -
only moderately bozified
-
the primitive struggle for space
-
an almost indiscernible deviation from standard practice, for the
sake of hyperelegance. pobletry: a continual resorting to poblets
-
the use of several names for the same thing
Origin: [obsolete word] -
Scorpio chauvinism
-
"break music" = the music of smashing things
Origin: [Lojban] -
pertaining to a proposition that affirms the possibility of finding
conditions that will render a certain problem either indeterminate
or capable of innumerable solutions
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a pointy toed shoe
Origin: [obsolete word] -
delectation of an absent stimulus
-
the feeling that one is completely unprepared for a situation,
despite knowing the opposite to be true
-
a writer who has no time for writing
-
herbal tea
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the habit of spitting
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a special receptacle for Mail Art objects
-
a pattern containing both red & green
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
the joy of abandon
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
cuckoo! (a general interjection)
Origin: [Albanian] -
reddish brown
Origin: [obsolete word] -
funloving
Origin: [Albanian] -
difficult to digest
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to reach into someplace dark or without looking first
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a gray longhair
-
art that changes history
-
finding food by scratching the ground (like a chicken)
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to regret the need to make a certain decision
-
bent backwards
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a maker of palindromes
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
highly sought after for mostly the wrong reasons
-
car repair triage
-
half of one (sort), half the other
-
when a mechanical caller rings you at home
-
resentment towards literates & literacy
-
to recognize subculture boundaries. disroick: not to recognize
them
-
the force of linguistic change; the Zeitgeist's pressure upon usage
-
(in) a time of shattered consensus
-
a mixture of soft and hard, or easy and difficult
-
when you find yourself unexpectedly close to a lesser goal
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
a metafacility with languages
-
"Sorry if I've said it before, but...."
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
"That's worth saying again." (or: writing down)
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to mistakenly believe oneself the only one of something
-
created or discovered by a computer
-
to run a bath & forget to take it
-
a patchwork philosophy, quiltlike rather than syncretical
-
a caffeine headache
-
a folding cardboard windshield sunblocker
-
to arrive at the end of a long sequence (=weeks)
-
elbowroom
Origin: [obsolete word] -
cognitive dissonance
-
(sigh)armhole in a garment
Origin: [obsolete word] -
seldom known
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to drive at the road's main speed
-
almost, but not quite, time to change the candles
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
"It doesn't pay to think about it."
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
in painting, a neo-byzantine palette
-
secret latria
-
the feeling that persists after a dream has been forgotten
Origin: [Lojban] -
dream music
Origin: [Lojban] -
a painting done without brushes
-
to clean one's plate despite not being very hungry.
-
to cause a (need for) complete reevaluation/contextual shift
-
the doctrine that the boundary between languages is arbitrary
-
to hypocritically disparage the contents of someone else's icebox.
-
discernment in poetry
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
recreational leeches
-
when the store stops carrying your preferred brand of
something
-
a flash of humor in a humorless situation
-
green in the Craft
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a nearly unpronounceable word
-
to be hit by the rebound
-
a named number
Origin: [Lojban SELCMENAMCU][rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a named color
Origin: [Lojban SELCMESKA][rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a project designed to use up as much leftover scrap as possible
-
something you want to wash your hands before touching
-
the necessity to finish a task while the will exists
-
a postnasal slime avalanche
-
when two people run out of things to say to each other
-
the mania for cutting down trees
-
'night language' = poetry
Origin: [Lojban] -
your name garbled by a computer
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
kitschpathos
-
a painting made to be viewed under abnormal
illumination
-
an honorable enemy
-
a parking meter; a vacuum cleaner; publication of a
collection of poetry
-
the crust of minerals which forms on coffeemakers that are
used with hard water
-
the oldest living inhabitant
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the deception of the eyesOrigin: [Old Norse]
-
"this conversaton (or topic) has no conclusion or natural term.'
-
an irreversible act
-
a wellknown but beloved fraud (Santa Claus, elections)
-
Skeetth repeated for a second time, much later still
-
repeating an experience after long abeyance, which shows you
proof of much time having passed within you
-
rambling, confused
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the desire to use or see a certain color
Origin: [Lojban] -
the mental equivalent of Averted Vision: to think around the
borders of something in order to remember it
-
destroying the possibility of Skatth by trying it too soon or too often
-
a pathological condition in which the World of the Gods seems
more real than the World of Humans
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to enjoy correcting someone else. skrenker: a habitual corrector
-
a pocketcarried eyeglasses-cleaning rag
-
in chess, an "opening loyalist"
-
nine to five
-
anticipating the evening while still at work
-
to sleep heavily and soundly
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the smell of first turning on the heat for the season,
compounded of dust & gas, that smells almost like an
electrical fire smouldering, but has pleasant connotations
(to me, anyway) of rebirth & renewal of energy-focus
-
woodworking without power tools
Origin: [obsolete word] -
thick mire
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the Demented Redeemer
-
crossing what used to be a Great Divide but is no longer
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a table of magical correspondences
-
greedy for solitude
-
to recognize a face and forget the name
-
to deliberately make a sound to signal one's unobserved presence
-
an attempt to suppress one's laughter (and it comes out the nose)
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the desire to have written a poem, without any incitement or
inclination to begin one
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to drop something and catch it in midair; accidental jugglery
-
a health related diet abstention
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
wear caused by the friction of many handles
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
an actor who specializes in cinematic violence-puppets
-
postprandial sleepiness
-
to ruffle the surface of the waters with a wind [obsolete word]
-
a task just long enough to fill the remaining time
-
topsy-turvy
Origin: [orig. Italian] -
bright negative (pseudo-holy)
-
the poem you wanted to write
-
childishly heedless
Origin: [orig. Kentish] -
daybreak
Origin: [obsolete word] -
contemplation of one's own painting
-
a reading in which several different women read the poetry of
one man, or several men the poetry of one woman
-
walking in the sun with your eyes closed
-
not sick enough to go to the doctor for
-
something set aside for later completionOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991]
-
to listen to the last of a favorite song after he car's
already stopped & the motor turned off
-
inexhaustible variety; myriads of all kinds
-
a very slight post-nasal drip
-
to emit froth
Origin: [obsolete word] -
an original book more than 75 years old
-
to take advantage of a lull
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to wipe one's nose on one's shirtsleeve
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
za nonchemical addiction
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
an occasion of changing the candle
-
pleasure in not forgiving
-
'with one eye on the clock' (adverb)
-
to overstuff
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the Interstate
-
(sing.) temporary writing, good enough to serve its purpose.
stootsity: the degree of temporariness in a text
-
a system that operates at mamimum capacity all the time
-
wearing your uniform where you don't have to
-
(STRWD)to wait in the cold
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
something that break as soon as you touch it
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to break an appointment without warning, by way of sending a
message
-
one whose condition prevents seeing zerself
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
an interpersonal difference impossible to explain or reconcile &
therefore avoided for freindship's sake
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
comfort in being surrounded by empties
-
less than meaningful
-
complete and unrestricted access without ownership
-
in traditional occultism, to pretend that one's manuscript or ideas
are much older than they are, in order to make them more
authoritative
-
the very last possible moment of departure
-
throat, gullet, abyss, gulf
Origin: [Norwegian] -
a completely original symbol system or mythology
-
an idiolect, special vocabulary, or jargonized languaged usage
-
something you never use but keep because you just might need it
someday
-
to attempt turning an obsession into some acceptable project
-
to come one over the other like waves upon a shore
Origin: [obsolete word] -
an ambient commodity, such as water or music
-
when you substitute something you don't really want for what you
came to the store to get
-
nonproject orientation mode
-
Saturday
Origin: [Hungarian] -
an appealing, though unbelievable doctrine; faith by aesthetics
rather than conviction
-
too tall for its width
Origin: [Kentish dialect] -
an illusory display of weakness
-
a long period of gradual physical transformation
-
when a relationship shifts from one partner being the more
desired of the two, to the other
-
an artificial brunette
-
to hesitate, to view a person one knows as if not recognizing them
Origin: [obsolete word] -
higher grass over the place a cow has dunged [obsolete word]
-
to go on with your regular daily life as if nothing has
changed, while waiting for an answer from the plague testers
-
a nonmoving queue
-
a UFO abduction
-
a word of piquant meaning, though negligible usefulness
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a street you'll walk in the daytime but not at night
-
compulsive, meaningless change
-
glandular pandering
-
overdetermined, oversecure, symbolically-impregnable though not
actually threatened
-
the residue left by removed tape
-
before TV
-
the beauty of ignoring distinctions
-
declining literacy
-
to feel the lack of a particular item of furniture
-
the movement to abolish talk
-
the feeling from wearing or looking at one wearing a coat or
similar outer garment with many fastenings, all of them
undone
-
the last one left after everyone else has chosen
-
an ikon of a car
-
to find way's to aesthetisize one's paid labor
-
to peel from sunburn
-
the graygold of sodium lights on night streets
-
having an innate sense of order.
-
to revert to behavior appropriate to a classroom
-
"signal to noise ratio"
-
a third part of anything
Origin: [obsolete word] -
penetrable
Origin: [obsolete word] -
'a pretty good fit, considering'
-
innately devoid of compassion
-
the one good aspect of an otherwise mediocre artwork.
-
"how much longer can this go on?"
-
a stretch of time in which nothing bad, unexpected, or remarkable
happens
-
to dawdle at the takeoff
-
interest only in the exceptional; jadedness
-
dark positive (only apparent evil)
-
busy; thronged with many persons (e.g. a store)
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to pay a debt reluctantly
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a snap of the fingers
Origin: [obsolete word] -
an illusory display of strength
-
eating dry granola using your hands
-
a slight dead smell or smell of stale urine
-
the feeling that comes from banging your funnybone
-
(adverb) with nothing but loose change jingling in one's pockets
-
an incense burning device
Origin: [Greek] -
(skinscale, tire particle) dust accumulation on records ktp
-
to break partially asunder
Origin: [Maltese] -
lifeshortening but sublethal
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a timeless moment
-
a lying gauge
-
discrimination against an unpopular medium
-
to wander purposelessly
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the effect of looking through red & blue lensed glasses,
especially at non-3D images
-
a passerby who slows down to ogle (e.g. a car wreck)
-
thoughtwanderingness
-
God's voluntary withdrawal from the universe in order to make
room for creation
Origin: [Isaac Luria] -
the singing of ice as it melts
-
a frivolously bad design (based on laziness or haste)
-
not universally valued
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a solitary frisbee thrower
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a trashcan pretentiously in the shape of something else
-
a pond dry in summer
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a reissue of early work dosguised as their latest
-
to forget and act as if a change has not occurred
-
twenfircen
-
writing poetry in a language one does not know
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
the working of Mercy & Sternness
-
to get something lodged in your peripheral vision & then find
out it's not there anymore
-
a procedure with at least nine steps
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
still tender, but healed
-
one's response to a dream; a practice of taking dreams seriously
-
"That's for other types than mine."
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
morning twilight
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a universal riddle
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
undeclared love
-
the amount lacking to fullness
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to be in that state of expectation which produces multiple
coincidences.
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
presumptuous
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to besiege on every side
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to entrap
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to draw back the bolt of a door
Origin: [obsolete word] -
temporary beliefs, necessary for a particular goal & then
abandoned
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a neoPagan artist
-
a free economic system infested top to bottom with
slavedrivers finks weasels droids & greedheads
-
everything that used to exist
-
people so obsessed with their own sense of being wronged that
they cannot perceive the victimization of anyone else
-
fasting from radio
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
1. hopeless expectation 2. the smell inside an old shoe
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a typo that still makes sense (hence, undiscoverable)
-
three where two is standard
-
the "last straw" or controlsnapping jolt, in a series of frustrating
problems
-
an unacted wish
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a record that you only ever listen to parts of
-
when listening wins over noise
-
in growing your hair out, the threshold at which its length
becomes no longer an irritation but a pleasure
-
a sexual predilection unknown to oneself until a chance
encounter incites it
-
wearing polyester outside of a corporate setting
-
a rewarding sidetrip, a fascinating digression
-
to be in a state of nonexpectation with another person.
-
to be in a state of set expectation in regard to another person.
-
an arbitrary order imposed in lieu of finding the natural one.
-
(VLIY'UB)the occurrence of hiccups twice in a single day
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
the pull exerted by a good book; the desire to get back to it
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
vocal music
-
a list or series made by slow regular accumulation of units
-
to go out looking for useless things to collect
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to forget something so obvious that one momentarily doubts one's
sanity
-
a systematic correlation that is purely arbitrary
-
an erroneously bad design (based on faulty assumptions)
-
in smelting, the moment when the slag rises to be skimmed off
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a geode
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to startle
Origin: [Russian] -
a signal, a beckoning of the hand [obsolete word]
-
an acute observer who never speaks
-
useless anger at other drivers
-
to ski in a wavy path
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a state in which trance is almost impossible
-
a state in which entrancement is quite easy
-
insipid, unsavory, tasteless [obsolete word]
-
the dance of the intellect around an intractible question
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
a large cut or slice [obsolete word]
-
a member of the Retro avantgarde, wielders of apodeictic
anachronism
-
ornaments of dress; accessories
Origin: [obsolete word] -
traffic
-
to tip over clumsily, suddenly, and loudly
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to not realize ze is in a weakened state
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
fingernail dirt
-
(adverb) according to wrong criteria
-
a guess in the wrong direction [obsolete word]
-
A homemade musical instrument
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
rank incense
-
an unexpected profit, winning, or turn of luck
Origin: [obsolete word] -
renewed pleasure in an old interest (cf calawroutould)
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
the only speaker of a language
-
syrup for flavoring coffee drinks
-
a purposefully bad witticism
-
the taste of miso and honey
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
nonverbal attunement, between 2 persons or between an animal &
a human
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
freezedried gourmet ethnic food
-
the immediate object of someone else's delusions
-
true to one's word
Origin: [obsolete word] -
partially deranged
Origin: [obsolete word] -
the map of an imaginary place
-
a strategem
Origin: [obsolete word] -
to deny something happened because its memory's repressed
-
unjustified resentment
-
the distance of a stone's throw; a glance of the eye [obsolete word]
-
to see others in oneself (intellectually not emotionally)
-
the beauty of ambiguity
-
realizing too late that a limit has been reached.
-
to see oneself in others (intellectually not emotionally)
-
casual unquestioning acceptance
-
displaced aggression
-
an act, practice, or opinion which would render one socially
unacceptable if found out. wyberly: hiding unacceptable aspects
-
a number rhyme (e.g. "7 planets" and "7 colors" or 5116575 and
4396475)
-
adjustment gesture
-
the sound of velcro
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
to do manual labor
Origin: [Albanian] -
razor sharp [obsolete word]
-
malicious dishonesty
-
"I could say more but I won't"
-
the indefinable effect of a certain two color combination, wherever
it occurs
-
to bark like a small dog
Origin: [obsolete word] -
'just enough'
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
the difference between unique and nearly-unique
-
"take the phone off the hook."
-
a mental process which, once initiated, is hard to stop
Origin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991 -
consumer goods related to an addiction
-
a double handful
Origin: [obsolete word] -
a eulogy of smoke & dust
-
a catalyst for symbolic/mythic/meaning change
-
to hide one's true feelings behind a mask of nonreaction. yimnity:
feigned indifference
-
an isolated hubcap
-
a catalyst for any bodily reflex
-
protective dishonesty
-
the chasegame that squirrels play with each other
-
a pained smile
-
a poem written to pass the time
-
to bark like a large dog
Origin: [obsolete word] -
refusing to answer the phone
-
nasal congestion [obsolete word]
-
that quality of being undefinable except through metaphors
-
(preposition) surrounded by, but still discernible amidst
-
to play by more rules than the Game's
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a roofer's spiked hatchetOrigin: [obsolete word]
-
the feeling of just before orgasm
-
3rd person neuter pronoun
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
to cross a border others may not
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
having a strictly limited time in which something is possible for it;
e.g. shelf life, launch window, limited supply buy quick...
-
decision-ritual
Origin: [Lojban] -
to succumb after long resistance
-
one's morning routine/ritual
-
when the truth is too mundane to be believed
-
when the truth is too outrageous to be believed
-
to not find what you're looking for
-
to arrive at the end of a very long sequence (=years)
-
the characteristic atmosphere of a dark rainy day
-
a highly edged discourse
Origin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
breast flush after coming
-
compounded in more ways than one and for no discernible reason
Origin: [obsolete word] -
when you wait so long for something that when you get it you don't
want it anymoreOrigin: [rec'd Jan 25, 1991] -
a group of thirteen
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visibly sick
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the interval between drinking coffee and its taking effect
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a catalyst for seemingly-impossible change
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old-fashioned
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the first appearance of the sun above the horizon
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the migratory instinct
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the necessary aftermath of a dÈnouement
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a trivial purpose or interest made the center of one's life
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something important and hard to get at.
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for magical pilgrimage reasonsOrigin: rec'd Jan 25, 1991
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a state in which one's judgement should not be considered as
binding. bezwib, bezwibbed: in zwub
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a redefinition of a word along metaphoric lines
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an artwork used metaphorically, as in a cultural history