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kerf lacuna - also a medical word. E.g. a gap in memory, perhaps caused by small loss of cerebral cortical cells fissure breach aperture interstice weir isthmus contour culvert strand agglomerate terrace plateau skedaddle anacoluthon tattle - “Tattle-tale-tit, your tongue shall be split, and very little dog in town shall have a bit of it.” anthropophagus oculist dowse - I have never heard this used except to mean location of water by means of a forked stick. My favaorite exampe of the stupidity of it, is a column by Bill Cunni;ngham, in Boston “Herald” about fifty years ago, in which he told of a dowser who located water on Bermuda by pointing his dowsing stick at a map of Bermuda. perfidious menagerie sigillography palaver diabolical palliasse - N.B., dxb pestilential precocious condescend oblivious
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