One of my students made a guess and shot straight from poetry to poetician, which makes a certain degree of sense, and even moreso when you think about the role that poets used to have in ancient Greek and Roman (and probably other) societies. Wrong, but a really cool word nonetheless. I may have misunderestimated that student's ability.
I've coined one myself. Scarecrowing: /ˈskerˌkrō iNG/ (noun) The act of fleeing from a walking trail and standing in the scrub of an empty field because you are so terrified of "da covid" that you fear you might catch it in the open air. And then you stare at the Outlander as they walk by. With dead, accusing eyes, you stare.
prink /priNGk/ verb spend time making minor adjustments to one's appearance; primp. "prinking themselves in front of the mirror" I'd never heard this word until Mrs. A accused me of doing it when I lamented that I'd made a snap decision to wear a different shirt to dinner, resulting in a failure of color coordination between my socks and my shirt. Spoiler
Apotheosis: 1. The highest point of development of something; a culmination or climax. 2. The elevation of someone to divine status.
anathema [əˈnaTHəmə] NOUN something or someone that one vehemently dislikes. "racial hatred was anathema to her" synonyms: abhorrent · hateful · odious · repugnant · repellent · offensive · abomination · curse · ban · excommunication · damnation · proscription · debarment · denunciation · malediction · execration · imprecation literary a strong curse. "the sergeant clutched the ruined communicator, muttering anathemas"
... And while we're in the A's: Abyss It's a firetruck word. 'What word starts with an A, ends with 2 S's, and is a giant hole?' You got it! Sorry, been drinking a bit while watching Jessica Jones.
Onus: (n) Something that is one's duty or responsibility. "The onus is on you to show you have suffered loss."
This is a word that I remember from I don't know when but if I ever knew the definition, I'd forgotten it so I looked it up again. u·su·fruct /ˈyo͞ozəˌfrəkt,ˈyo͞osəˌfrəkt/ noun LAW the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance.
NUDIUSTERTIAN Apparently this word is a Latin word that has fallen into disuse. It refers to two days ago (the day before yesterday, in fact). Spoiler from the phrase nunc dies tertius est (“now is the third day”). Coined by Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652).
No, that's squatting without the permission of the owner. An example would be that my family has a vacation cabin that I'm set to inherit when the day comes. Since I'm far away, I might have papers drawn up to formally allow my best friend to use the cabin whenever he wishes and even make positive alterations to the property. He wouldn't be allowed to tear down the building, but he could do upkeep and maintenance or even make additions to it. (Complicated, because the additions would be his property, not mine).
Bier noun 1. a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which it is carried to the grave.
Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level. Ontology is traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics. The compound word ontology ('study of being') combines onto- (Greek: ὄν, on; gen. ὄντος, ontos, 'being' or 'that which is') and -logia (-λογία, 'logical discourse'). Eschatology is a part of theology concerned with the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is commonly referred to as "the end of the world" or "end times". The word arises from the Greek ἔσχατος éschatos meaning "last" and -logy meaning "the study of", and first appeared in English around 1844. The Oxford English Dictionary defines eschatology as "the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind"
Tonsure noun a part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair. "his hair is thinning up there—soon he'll have a tonsure like a monk's"
Often connected to the "queue," the braid that runs down the monk's back. Or maybe it's an either/or... tonsure or queue.
I don't believe that Christian monks have ever worn queues. It's a Chinese hairstyle but as far as I know Buddhist monks never wore it either.
Frieze noun a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling. "the horsemen of the Parthenon frieze"
Knacker (knackerman) noun BRITISH a person whose business is the disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whose flesh is not fit for human consumption.
Wow! So I wonder how that mutated into "Getting knackered?" Maybe the knackermen tended to be drunk a lot? Oooooorrr.... maybe you get so drunk you resemble roadkill?
It means exhausted. I imagine that the knackermen had to travel a lot and it wasn't a good well-paid job, so they probably had to heft around the animals they retrieved. It sounds like an exhausting job and one that wasn't healthy either.