Scruddick, scuddick, scriddick and scrikkit
'... very soon all the trout was gone except a scruddick, or fragment, of the tail.'
Williamson uses 'scruddick' to...
Shoat or shote
A North American word for a young pig, especially one which is newly weaned.
Source: OED and Barry Lopez, Arctic...
Chryselephantine
'Chryselephantine' means made of, or adorned with, gold and ivory, as in this figurine. Only just came across this word...
Battle-tackle
Share this with you just for the sound and impact, like a machine gun rattle.
‘I never heard before of...
Scrolloping
A portmanteau word created by Virginia Woolf, apparently combining 'scroll' and 'lollop' to describe heavy, florid ornament, or a rambling...
The tum-ti-tums of poetry
The best and most memorable summary of the difference between an 'iambic', a 'spondee' and a 'trochee', by the author...
A wyrd fate
'Wyrd' originally referred to fate or personal destiny, and relates to the modern word ‘weird’. As a Middle English adjective it...
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