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Bedizen

A bedazzling word meaning to dress up or decorate gaudily: bedizened with resplendent medals. Kenneth Grahame uses a noun: bedizenment.

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Quviannikumut

A glorious Eskimo word for feeling deeply happy - I wish you many moments of quviannikumut.

'Sitting high on a...

collective nouns

Apes

‘A shrewdness of apes’ probably predates the scientific study of primate intelligence but somebody noticed they are clever. I am...

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Windrows

‘A long line of raked hay, corn sheaves, or peats laid out to dry in the wind. In North American...

collective nouns

Boars

‘A singular of boars’ – a singular collective noun if ever I saw one.

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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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Kappia

Another word embodying a form of fear. Lopez observed that Eskimos have lived with more fear than we are used...

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Drugget

Nothing to do with trafficking, drugget is a floor covering of coarse woven fabric. Its origins lie in the 16...

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Couiner

In this double-whammy week of French gloire, Bastille Day plus World Cup victoire, a half dozen proudly round sounding ooohh French...

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Nesh

Came across this in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South which features a few northern words. This dialect word means ‘weak...

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Chuchoter

What a lovely sh-sh-sh quiet whispering sound, meaning, indeed, 'to whisper'. A whisper is 'un chuchotement', and a whispered conversation...

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When there is substance behind them, the most ordinary words acquire meaning, and so satisfy the senses as ripe nuts...

Bedizen

Quviannikumut

Apes

Windrows

Boars

Savssats

Kappia

Drugget

Couiner

Nesh

Chuchoter

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