Mastiff-like tenacity
Such jaw-gripping tenacity is used to describe the force that the ending '-cious' adds to words, as in the word...
Yikker or yicker
'A score of hearts under browny-red coats beat faster at the otter's chiding yikker as she picked up her cub...
Sucking at stones
Swelter is one of the less attractive characters in Mervyn Peake's sprawling, crawling, mossy pile of forgotten granite, Gormenghast. He...
The astonishing sound of Magyar
Having just returned from Budapest, I was happy to rediscover this galloping description of the way it can sound to...
The rustling wind
A se is a 25 stringed instrument like a zither, so I like the doubling up of this character to...
Collective contentment
Among the most cherished beings in Mervyn Peake's sprawling, imaginative Gormenghast, are the teeming masses of white cats belonging to...
Whippering
'... the whippering cries of golden plover.'
This seems to be a Williamson coinage to describe the cry of a...
Chinese chirps
Very close to the sound of some birds, this Chinese cheep-cheep chirpy sound. Perhaps a turtledove?
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