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Galoot

Another word for ‘idiot’ and related terms. It feels dated, though it has a nice ring to it; 'chump' is another...

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Upirnaagiit

An Eskimo term for early Western visitors. As ships came in the spring the better to explore and exploit to...

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Squab

Nice, squat, fat, short word. A short sofa, according to Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, though the dictionary says it...

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Glebe

A piece of land serving as part of clergyman’s benefice and providing income; (archaic) land, fields. Origin: Late Middle English...

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Fair moithered

Bothered or bewildered. 'Moither' can also mean to ramble or speak in a confused way.

'Mother's a good-tempered woman, but...

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Polynya

Polynya refers to a ‘stretch of open water surrounded by ice, especially in Arctic seas’ or ‘large areas of persistent...

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Savssats

Savssats ‘occur most often in fjords, where a band of sea ice too wide for marine mammals to swim under...

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Worm-channered posts

This suggests woodworm tunneled posts and I imagine that 'channered' refers to the tiny channels they carve on the surface...

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Mastiff-like tenacity

Such jaw-gripping tenacity is used to describe the force that the ending '-cious' adds to words, as in the word...

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Shoat or shote

A North American word for a young pig, especially one which is newly weaned.

Source: OED and Barry Lopez, Arctic...

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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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Babbing

Though this doesn't appear in my door-stopper OED, it seems to refer to eel-catching using a squirmy-wormy glob of...

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