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[Bagumbawalla]

Bollard
A bollard is a short(ish) sturdy post to prevent traffic access to an area, though people can walk through.
Bollards can be found on wharfs and ship tie their cables to them.
You may find bollards in the front of buildings to prevent cars from smashing through and stealing stuff.

Most bollards are not automatic like the ones in this video
Fabian
Fabian comes from a Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus who plotted his victory against Hannibal
in slow, methodical, steps rather than one large outright battle.
People or factions that want to change their government may use Fabian methods of making slow,
but steady progress. In the late 1800s, in England, there was a Fabian Society that attempted to
introduce socialist benefits into the government slowly, over a period of time.
Cromulent and embiggen
These two words are known to my spell-checker, even though they are fairly recently invented
by writers on The Simpsons cartoon show.
Cromulent means acceptable or satisfactory and was used to describe another Simpsons word,
"Embiggen" as "a perfectly cromulent word" that means "to enlarge" as in to embiggen your vocabulary.

 

[vokazu]

Definition of GAIRFOWL​

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• the great auk, also GAREFOWL [n -S]

And there he saw the last of the gairfowl

1 painting : charcoal, watercolor and oil.

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[vokazu]

Definition of VARMENT​

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• varmint (an animal considered to be a pest) [n VARMENTS]
• an animal considered to be a pest, also VARMINT [n -S]

 

[vokazu]

Definition of BENTHAL​

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• of or pertaining to a benthos
• of or pertaining to a benthon
• benthic (pertaining to oceanic depths) [adj]
• benthic (pertaining to the ocean depths) [adj]

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Anemoia

My spell checker does not like this word, possibly because it is a fairly recently coined word
from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
Basically, it is a feeling of nostalgia, a longing for a time and place you have never experienced.
In the movie, Midnight in Paris, for example, the main character longs for the world of the 1920s, of Picasso,
Fitzgerald, Man Ray, Hemmingway, stein... and at midnight would be chauffeured back in time.

 

[vokazu]

Definition of 'SNIRT'

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1. a sly or disrespectful laugh, esp one partly stifled. verb (intransitive)

2. to utter such a laugh.

 

[vokazu]

Definition of HUMECT​

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• HUMECT, to make moist (slightly wet) [v]

 

[vokazu]

Definition of PASTERN​

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• a part of a horse's hoof [n -S]
• a part of a horse's foot [n PASTERNS]
• either of the two bones of this part, the upper or first phalanx (great pastern bone) and the lower or second phalanx (small pastern bone), between which is a joint (pastern joint)
• the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof

 

[vokazu]

Definition of ZIBET​

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• an Asian civet, also ZIBETH [n -S]
• an Asian civet [n ZIBETS]
• civet, Viverra zibetha, of India, the Malay Peninsula, and other parts of Asia

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Lethologica (leh-thuh-laa-juh-kuh)
If you ever were trying to think of something, a person's name, or a specific word and it's
on the tip of your tongue, but just will not pop into your brain- you go through the alphabet
hoping it will jog a memory, and it doesn't. Well, that is an example of lethologica.
The word is derived from Greek roots- lethe, like the river of forgetfulness and logos (word).