For all the obscure word merchants ... here is a list that will win the scrabble game everytime!! Tittle = It’s the dot over every lowercase “i” and “j”. Ferrule = The metal part on your pencil. Zarf =It’s the cardboard around your coffee cup. Niggly wiggly = The paper strip coming out of the top of every Hershey’s Kiss Tintinnabulation = If you have ever rung bells then you were engaging in tintinnabulation. Columella nasi = It’s the thing that splits your nostrils. Nurdle = A pea sized bit of toothpaste Frission = Whenever you do something crazy and feel a rush of excitement you are experiencing a “frisson”. Rasceta = the lines on the back of your wrist Aglet = the plastic thing at the end of your shoelace is an aglet. Peen = It’s the back end of the hammer, the round part you never use liripipe = Sometimes known as a tassle, liripipe just sounds a lot cooler Rowel = This is the name for the little spiky revolving things on the back of a cowboy’s spurs. Octothorpe = You probably always called it by its more popular name…the pound sign Armscye = The technical name for the armhole in clothing. Chanking = This is the correct term for any food you spit out of your mouth. Phosphenes = the lights you see when you close your eyes really hard Brannock Device = The thing you always use to measure your foot at the shoe store actually has a name. Mandegreen = Every time you mishear something like a song lyrics you are experiencing mandegreen Philtrum = the groove between your lip and nose Purlicue = the space between your thumb and pointing finger. Lemniscates = symbol with an unnecessarily confusing name that you always just knew as the “infinity sign”. Spraint = the poop of an otter
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:28:50 +0000
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