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Disgruntlement? Umbrage?
Everyone gets stuck for a word now and then.
Like this classic, from Poe :
There were the junior clerks of flash houses - young gentlemen with tight coats, bright boots, well-oiled hair, and supercilious lips. Setting aside a certain dapperness of carriage, which may be termed deskism for want of a better word, the manner of these persons seemed to be an exact facsimile of what had been the perfection of bon ton about twelve or eighteen months before.
-- The Man of the Crowd, 1840
Deskism?
[cough-terrible-cough]
The mot juste this is not.
(I wonder is there a word for this common experience of being bereft of words... for lexical amnesia... for not being quite able to pin it down in a word?)
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