Sunday, 4 May 2014

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW HAD NAMES


1. Petrichor: the way it smells outside after rain.

2. Purlicue: the space between the thumb and forefingers.

3. Wamble: stomach rumbling.

4. Aglet: the plastic coating on a shoelace.

5. Vagitus: the cry of a newborn baby.

6. Glabella: the space between your eyebrows.

7. Chanking: spat-out food.

8. Lunule: the white, crescent shaped part of the nail.

9. Peen: the side opposite the hammer's striking side.

10. Tines: the prongs on a fork.

11. Souffle cup: a ketchup/condiment cup.

12. Natiform: something that resembles a butt.

13. Phosphenes: the lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them.

14. Nurdle: a tiny dab of toothpaste.

15. Box tent: the table in the middle of a pizza box.

16. Cornicione: the outer part of the crust on a pizza.

17. Barm: the foam on a beer.

18. Rasceta: the lines on the inside of your wrist.

19. Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow.

20. Ferrule: the metal part at the end of a pencil.

21. Punt: the bottom of a wine bottle.

22. Keeper: the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.

23. Minimus: your little toe or finger.

24. Zarf: the cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup.

25. Rectal Tenesmus: the feeling of incomplete defecation.

26. Agraffe: the wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne.

27. Columella nasi: the space between your nostrils.

28. Lemniscate: the infinity symbol.

29. Desire path: a path created by natural means, simply because it is the "shortest or most easily navigated" way.

30. Armscye: the armhole in most clothing.

31. Dysania: the state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.

32. Collywobbles: butterflies in your stomach.

33. Nibling: the non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew — like sibling.

34. Griffonage: unreadable handwriting.

35. Paresthesia: that "pins and needles" feeling.

36. Defenestrate: to throw out a window.

37. Muntin: the strip separating window panes.

38. Philtrum: the groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.

39. Snood: the fleshy thing around the neck of a turkey.

40. Vocable: the na na nas and la la las in song lyrics that don't have any meaning.

41. Tittle: the dot over an "i" or a "j."

42. Morton's toe: when your second toe is bigger than your big toe.

43. Crepuscular rays: rays of sunlight coming from a certain point in the sky(aka
what your aunt might have called "God's rays.")

44. Snellen chart: the chart you look at when you take an eye exam.

45. Crapulence: that sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much.

46. Obelus: the division sign (÷).

47. Ideolocator: a "you are here" sign.

48. Brannock device: the thing they use to measure your feet at the shoe store.

49. Interrobang: what it's called when you combine a question mark with an
exclamation point like this: ?!

50. Mamihlapinatapai: the look shared by two people who both hope the other will offer to do something that they both want but aren't willing to do.

51. Phloem bundles: those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.

52. Semantic satiation: what happens when you say a word so long it loses meaning.

53. Octothorpe: the pound (#) button on a telephone.

54. Gynecomastia: man-bosoms.

55. Mondegreen: misheard song lyrics.

56. Scurryfunge: the time you run around cleaning frantically right before company comes over.

57. Aphthongs: silent letters.

58. Tmesis: when you separate a word into
two for effect. Example: "I AM GOING TO ASBO-FREAKIN'-LUTELY BE THE BEST SCRABBLE PLAYER ON THE PLANET NOW!"

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