Wattle- the skin flap beneath the beak of a rooster/turkey/thing (until today i had been calling it "chicken skin flap")
Caligynephobia: fear of attractive women My life makes so much sense now. (I would like to point out that this does not appear to be an officially recognized phobia.)
I discovered the word clanging yesterday. Interested to know if there's a similar terminology regarding the symptom when exhibited coherently.
Since I started reading in english again, after a loooong pause, I realised I needed to undust my vocabulary. Some of the words I found in a text that piqued my interest (you natives might know most of them): avaricious: greedy for wealth and material gain to eke out a living: to make ends meet dereliction: the state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated/ shameful neglect of one's duties to castigate: to reprimand severely to flank: to be on each or on one side of peal of thunder: roll of thunder to gripe: to whine, to complain And the winner issss: to flank Funny word. Very convenient for keeping a complicated scene less prolix.
(new word i learned today, courtesy of @Malisky ) Prolix: using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy
Oh, my pleasure dear. I've learned this from a forumite too I think, I just can't remember from whom.
blunderbuss: 1) a short large-bored gun firing balls or slugs, such as this: 2) an action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision.
fainéant: as an adjective, indolent; as a noun, something or something that meets that description. It's French obviously.
Claque It's like a clique but people are paid to be there or they are sycophants. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/claque?s=t
staircase wit: A perfect witty remark, retort, or rejoinder that occurs to one after the fact or too late to be used.
There's a great Tolkien short story called Farmer Giles of Ham that involves a blunderbuss being loaded with pretty much anything that came to hand.