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BESAIEL
PRONUNCIATION: (bi-SAY-uhl)
MEANING: noun: A grandfather’s father: great-grandfather.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French besayel/besaiol, from Latin bis (twice) + avolus, diminutive of avus (grandfather). Earliest documented use: 1480.
NOTES: A grandfather is an aiel, a great-grandfather a besaiel, a great-great-grandfather a tresaiel. Now that you know the pattern, feel free to coin words beyond your grandfather’s grandfather. Also, now that you know what to call them, who’s your besaiel?
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BESOIEL - to bedeck with silk
BESAIL - a second attack, coming right after you ASSAIL
B.S. AIEL - You say "aiel" is "Grandfather"? That's bullsh*t.
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APOPHENIA
PRONUNCIATION: (a-puh-FEE-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The perception of connections or meaning in unrelated or random phenomena.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Apophänie, from Greek apo- (away, off, apart) + phainein (to show). Earliest documented use: around 1980. Apophenia is the general term -- pareidolia is an example of apophenia.
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APO-PHRENIA - the delusion of thinking one is a simian primate
APOPHONIA - the diagnosis for a ventriloquist whose "thrown" voice comes from a great distance
A "POP" HERNIA - what comes eventually from a weakness of the inguinal region
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ANACOLUTHON
PRONUNCIATION: (a-nuh-kuh-LOO-thahn/thuhn)
MEANING: noun: An abrupt change in the middle of a sentence making one part inconsistent with the other.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin anacoluthon, from Greek anakolouthos, from an- (not) + akolouthos (following), from a- (together) + keleuthos (path). Earliest documented use: 1706.
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AN ACOLYTHON - a long TV program to raise funds for priests' assistants
ANACOLUSHON - absence of a conspiracy
AN ACOLUTRON - a newly discovered kind of subatomic particle, with a strange but apparently charmed life
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DELPHINESTRIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (del-fi-NES-tree-uhn)
MEANING: noun: A dolphin rider.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin delphinus (dolphin), on the pattern of equestrian. Earliest documented use: 1820.
NOTES: If you ever get the urge to ride a dolphin, please leave them alone. Find yourself an inflatable one instead. In general, if you find yourself wanting to do things to any sentient being without their permission, find yourself an inflatable one. Also see, wooden horse.
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DOLPHINESTRIAN - someone raised in a dolphin home
DELPHIC-NESTRIAN - someone raised by an Oracle
DELPHIN-ESTRIAL - pertaining to hormones from a lowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae
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GUMMIDGE
PRONUNCIATION: (GUH-mij)
MEANING: noun: A peevish, pessimistic person.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs Gummidge, a grumpy old widow in Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield (1850). She likes to say, “I am a lone lorn creetur’ ... and everythink goes contrairy with me.” Earliest documented use: 1873.
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GLUMMIDGE - pessimist; one who is always down in the mouth (no, silly, not your dentist)
GUMMI-DOGE - a miniature jelly candy in the shape of a Venetian magistrate
GUNMIDGE - a tiny insect that fouls your rifle barrel and causes your shot to miss
GUMRIDGE - what your teeth plug into (see "alveolar ridge")
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TIGGER
PRONUNCIATION: (TIG-uhr)
MEANING: noun: Someone filled with energy, cheerfulness, and optimism.
ETYMOLOGY: After Tigger, a tiger in A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Earliest documented use: 1981.
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TRIGGER - a black-and-orange-striped horse
TIGGET - what you get frob a cop with a cold whed he pulls you over for speedig
TIOGER - a small town in New York State, 115 miles southwest of UTIGGER and about ten miles from the Pennsylvania border
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DEBBIE DOWNER
PRONUNCIATION: (DEB-ee DOU-nuhr)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is persistently negative and pessimist.
ETYMOLOGY: After Debbie Downer, a character in the television series Saturday Night Live, who frequently brings bad news in even the most cheerful situations. You can also call her a killjoy. Earliest documented use: 2004.
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DEBBIE DOWNER - That would be Eddie. (At least the first one was)
DOBBIE DOWNER - Bellatrix Lestrange. With a silver dagger. In the Malfoys' dining room.
DEBBIE DROWNER - unknown. (Wait - it was Natalie Wood who drowned. Oh well - the perp is still unknown)
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TAPLEYISM
PRONUNCIATION: (TAP-lee-i-zuhm)
MEANING: noun: Extreme optimism, even under most hopeless circumstances.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mark Tapley, a character in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44). Earliest documented use: 1857.
NOTES: The mission of Mark Tapley is to remain “jolly” under all circumstances. It is tested when he accompanies his boss Martin Chuzzlewit on a trip to America and comes down with malaria while living in a swamp. When asked how he’s doing, he responds: “Floored for the present, sir, but jolly!” Other examples of words coined after characters from the same book are pecksniffian and gamp.
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"TABLE Y"-ISM - belief that one is always placed at the end of the list
STAPLEY-ISM - belief that one is always left hanging by a thin wire
TALLEY-ISM - government by consensus ("Them's my views, and if you don't like 'em, I'll change them")
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EEYORE
PRONUNCIATION: (EE-ohr)
MEANING: noun: A gloomy, pessimistic person.
ETYMOLOGY: After Eeyore, a donkey in A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). Earliest documented use: 1932.
NOTES: Eeyore is named onomatopoeically, after the braying call of a donkey. He’s the most depressing character in the Pooh universe -- the antithesis of Tigger. He keeps losing his tail. His house keeps getting knocked down. How can you blame him for being gloomy and pessimistic? Still, he’s a hopelessly lovable character.
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EEE YORE - when we wore very wide shoes
EEK! ORE! - We struck it rich!
e. e. LORE - history of Mr cummings
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FRIDAY FACE
PRONUNCIATION: (FRY-day fays)
MEANING: noun: A glum expression or a person with such an expression.
ETYMOLOGY: From the time when Fridays were days of fasting. Earliest documented use: 1592.
NOTES: Today, most people look forward to Fridays (TGIF: Thank God It’s Friday), but it wasn’t always so. These days Friday means the weekend is near, but back when religion ran day-to-day life, in some religions a Friday was marked as a day of fasting or at least abstaining from meat. Hence, a Friday came to be associated with a gloomy face.
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FRIDAY FARCE - what occasionally results from the office "casual Friday" dress code
FRIDAY FACT - In France, Friday is the traditional market day, and is thus called Vendredi: the French word for "to sell" is "vendre," as in English "vend" and "vendor."
FRIDAY LACE - one of seven, if you have a different pair of shoelaces for each day of the week
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