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Long time passing. No-longer used words with varying degrees of merit: Back in the Fifties my mother defined "Resistentialism" as "The innate perversity of inanimate objects."
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Of these lists I think "resistentialism" is the cleverests of a mostly motley lot. Your dear mother must have been the most acutest if not the mostest sharp. 
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Snoutfair: a person with a handsome countenance.
Almost an oxymoron.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Snoutfair: a person with a handsome countenance.
Almost an oxymoron. ¿Qué?
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...and until now I thought a "snoutfair" was the annual gathering where people showed off their prize pigs...
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They are called that in certain parts of swine country
around here.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I do have a Scottich colleague and friend who indulges in "lunting" on his way home from the pub on a Friday night. I shall try him out with the word tomorrow to see whether it strikes achord with him!
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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great leaping coincidences, batman!
the worthless word for the day is: lunt
[fr. Dutch lont, a match]
chiefly Scot., archaic(?)
1) to smoke tobacco in (a pipe)
2) to set fire to : light up : kindle
hence, lunting
(not to be confused with lant)
"He sat ever by the chimney corner and
lunted away on his cutty pipe."
- S. R. Crockett, The Raiders (1894)
(I think the walking part is overly specific..)
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Nowadays the Dutch word lont means fuse and the word for match is lucifer.
Happy Easter to all.
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For some reason, lunting sounds like something appropriate to do on your way home from the pub!
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heh. again, lunt is not to be confused with lant!
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[snort]! 
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One of our former members, Geoff, asked me to mention that "snoutfair" could be a derivation of a Shakespeare play featuring the character, Snout?
link
One could also have a Bottomfair, meaning callipygous.
And surely a spermologist is one who studies seeds?
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Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Snoutfair: a person with a handsome countenance.
Almost an oxymoron. Oxymoron, oxymoron... that's someone who's suffered brain damage through hypoxia, right? PS you wanted a sheep?
Pendant, n. One who, by correcting others, gives himself (or herself) just enough rope by which to hang.
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