Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Loo’by, n. a lubber; a clumsy fellow.
Word in the Wild: I thought our dog would outgrow that awkward puppy stage, but he’s eight years old now and still a total looby.
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Jet’ter, n. a spruce fellow; one who struts.
Word in the Wild: “I saw your brother at the bar last night and, my goodness, doesn’t he think he’s quite the jetter!”
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Insci’ence, n. an ignorant state.
Word in the Wild: “Don’t keep me in inscience, Monty! I’m dying to know what’s behind curtain number three!”
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Heb’etate, v. to dull; to stupefy.
Word in the Wild: Heather always found that a giant portion of mac and cheese did more to hebetate than fortify her. Yet for some reason she always went back for seconds anyway.
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Glose, v. to flatter.
Word in the Wild: Ruby was always amazed at her son’s ability to suddenly glose and fawn whenever he found himself needing the car.
This Vest-Pocket word, also spelled gloze, has been around since the 13oos, but it’s only rarely used now. You’ll sometimes find it used in the phrase “glose it” as in, “if you need to get something from her try glosing it.”
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This Vest-Pocket word can be used literally to denote billowing ashes and smoke or figuratively to suggest something veiled by an obscuring and murky haze.
Match Smoke by Andrew Magill
Fuli’ginous, a. smoky; sooty.
Word in the Wild: The plume issuing from Gunung Pinatubo struck Saraswati as being rather ominous, so she decided to review her findings in the lab rather than carry on into the crater that day. She could only hope the data would be less fuliginous than the ashes billowing from the volcano.
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Vest-Pocket Vocabulary
Well, it’s been a diuturnity since I last posted, but the radio silence is finally over. I’ve finished my publishing program (woo hoo!), and I’m glad to be blogging again. So without further ado here’s this week’s Vest-Pocket Vocabulary, which is all about radio silence.
Elin′guid, adj. unable to speak.
Word in the Wild: By the end of Morag’s pitch detailing how the company could recoup costs by training the rats in the basement to run the photocopy machines, the CEO was positively elinguid.
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I’ve spent the long weekend living it up: I rode my bike up to Kleinburg, checked out the McMichael Collection, ate extremely well, and I’m taking today off work. This is certainly the perfect word to describe my decadent 5-day weekend.
Dap′atical, adj. sumptuous in living.
Word in the Wild: Edgar was trying to pinch his pennies and draw in the purse strings, but could he help it if he liked the finer things? Valet parking, dapatical cuisine, the best vintages…
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I’ve been flipping through a full-colour cookbook of vegetarian pasta dishes this afternoon, trying to think of what to make for dinner. I suspect that has biased my choice of Vest-Pocket Vocabulary this week.
Ciba′rious, adj. relating to food; eatable.
Word in the Wild: Most of the time my coworkers and I talk about cibarious topics on the subway. We should probably start packing bigger lunches.
Next time you’re out for dinner and your meal is lack lustre and your host asks you about your meal, but you don’t want to offend*, you can confidently say “It’s cibarious, thank you!”
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*This won’t work if your host also reads this blog. You’ve been warned.
