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Polyskarthmos

‘Used to describe Myrine, a dancer, ‘much-skipping’ as the word means literally, even ‘very frisky’, as it is a phrase...

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Caracole

Literally, a half turn made by a horse to the left or the right, which can also be a verb,...

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Claggy

Sticky or otherwise inclined to form clots or clods, as in ‘claggy mud’. A suitably cloying, clotty, cloddy word. OED...

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Isumataq

Barry Lopez' masterful Arctic Dreams gave me an inkling of a richly philosophical seam in the Eskimo language. If you...

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Duffer

Still on the theme of daft or stupid, as in 'Don't be a duffer', though not current. It seems to...

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Purlieus

A rarely used word (at least in the circles in which I move) referring to the area near or surrounding...

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Slummock

Glorious word this, describing a dirty, untidy or slovenly person, or behaving in a lazy, indolent or clumsy way, as...

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A neologist challenge

Here’s my homework, and yours if you choose it, for the summer holidays. To ‘create a word, only one, for...

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Boursoufler

A word that rolls into its roundness the sound of blowing ('souffler'), conveying something of its meaning: to swell, puff...

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A prodigality of marvels

A perfect collective noun for a mass of marvels. There are good reasons the first of Patrick Leigh Fermor's duo...

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Mizzle

Light rain or drizzle. British informal: to go away suddenly, vanish: he mizzled into the crowd. The dictionary makes a...

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Carronade

A short, fat cannon, named after Carron, near Falkirk in Scotland where they were first made. I came across this...

Polyskarthmos

Caracole

Claggy

Isumataq

Duffer

Purlieus

Slummock

A neologist challenge

Boursoufler

A prodigality of marvels

Mizzle

Carronade

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