Redefinition

Post by **ussusimiel** » Sat Jan 09, 2016 7:51 pm

Foudroyant: the word an ant name Roy puts on his lunchbox in the work refrigerator.

Sphagnum

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Jan 09, 2016 8:06 pm

Sphagnum

Medical term for that little tickle you feel in your sinuses when you need to sneeze but the sneeze won't come.

Macaronic

Post by **JIkj fjds j** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 10:06 am

Macaronic

A form of event horizon in time-travel when the multiverse is momentarily visible - like a dish of macaroni - each with its own unique colour.

Tolfraedic

Post by **ussusimiel** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:00 pm

Tolfraedic: term of abuse applied to people who run away from frightening things with long loopy strides.

Fardel

Post by **JIkj fjds j** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:17 pm

Fardel

An atoll in the South China Seas populated by an abused and frightened people.

Tropaean

Post by **wayfriend** » Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:20 pm

Tropaean A sea known for it's beautiful weather and mixed drinks.

Penselene ?

Post by **ussusimiel** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:17 pm

Penselene: a name appropriate for a woman prone to introspection.

Pituitary

Post by **Sorus** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:26 am

Pituitary

A complicated crime revolving around the theft of a parrot. Or theft by a parrot. It's complicated.

Hippocampus

Post by **ussusimiel** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:38 pm

Hippocampus: well, obviously, a place where river horses go to get a good education and improve their chances in life (and nowadays work up a tasty student-loan).

less obviously, it's a place where cool people go to look seriously into into video cameras so that their miens are captured for what will obviously be a grateful posterity. (What they don't know is that this is really a secret winnowing process a-la-the-Krypteia of Sparta, and that in the not too distant future they shall come to a very messy and quite uncool end.)

Gnosis

Post by **JIkj fjds j** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:56 pm

Gnosis

Seventh classroom in the West wing of Perdu College:

Anosis (Ms Aibell's halls of musical induction)
Bnosis (Belphoebe Lunutrix)
Cnosis (Cauldrone Candywax)
Dnosis (Headmistress' study)
Enosis (Hiedi Sikh)
Fnosis (Remedial Room)
Gnosis (Outer Space)

Howff

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:56 pm

Howff

Egyptian god of stubbed toes and other minor injuries.

Chiaroscuro

Post by **ussusimiel** » Thu Jan 14, 2016 10:35 pm

Chiaroscuro: the way your insides feel after a particularly bad bout of Montezuma's Revenge in Milan (I know, I know, I'm mixing my geographic metaphors, Garibaldi's Revenge, maybe).

Pentimenti

Post by **JIkj fjds j** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 6:51 pm

Pentimenti

A piano piece for five people sitting at the same piano.

Panjandrum

Post by **Sorus** » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:23 pm

Panjandrum

Panicked pandemonium provoked by posses of pajama-clad percussionists.

Leporello

Post by **ussusimiel** » Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:28 pm

Leporello: an Italian drink made from lemon-flavoured leopards (well-known for the speed of its bite).

Swabian

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:05 pm

Swabian

A type of miniature horse bred by enterprising 17th-century pirates who sought to take their raiding inland. The only record of their first (and only) attempted siege is a footnote describing the effort as 'adorable'.

Troglodyte

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:42 pm

Troglodyte

A performer of an obscure Serbo-Croatian danse which involves exquisitely intricate footwork while wearing heavy brogans.

Severance

Post by **JIkj fjds j** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:27 pm

Severance

Any subtraction or division performed on the number seven.

Rhombus

Post by **ussusimiel** » Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:01 pm

Rhombus: a Submohrian STI generally picked up in the seedier parts of the Delta Pavonis system.

Appellate

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:13 am

Apellate

Pertaining to skin at some ungodly hour....

Phlebotomy

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

Redefinition