LICE IN WONDERLAND - improbable nits
wofahulicodoc
06/07/2026 2:09 PM
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
PRONUNCIATION: (AL-is in WUHN-duhr-land)
MEANING: noun: An absurd, illogical, or fantastical situation.
adjective: Absurd, dreamlike, fantastical, or illogical.
ETYMOLOGY: After Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), a children’s novel by Lewis Carroll. Earliest documented use: 1874.
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MALICE IN WONDERLAND - wondrous, but insensitive and cruel
ALICE IN "WON'T!"ERLAND - a fanciful name for child development's Terrible Twos
A LICK IN WONDERLAND - the most exquisite ice cream you've never tasted
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HAD l BRAS TIC - owned a shiny metal small insect
wofahulicodoc
06/07/2026 1:59 PM
HUDIBRASTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (hyoo-duh-BRAS-tik)
MEANING: adjective: Mock-heroic; playfully burlesque or satirical.
noun: A piece of verse or writing in this style.
ETYMOLOGY: After Hudibras (published in three parts in 1663, 1664, and 1678), a mock-heroic satirical poem by Samuel Butler. Earliest documented use: 1712.
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HUDIBRASTIC - Hard-drinking, arrogant, womanizing, living a self-centered, indolent life, like Hud Bannon as personified by Paul Newman in the 1963 movie Hud
MUDIBRASTIC - shiny metal, splattered with wet earth
HAD l BRA STIC - possessed only one stiffener for my brassiere
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LORD OF THE FOLLIES - Flo Ziegfield
wofahulicodoc
06/07/2026 1:21 AM
LORD OF THE FLIES
PRONUNCIATION: (lord uv thuh FLAIZ)
MEANING: adjective: Marked by a breakdown of order into cruelty, chaos, and savagery.
ETYMOLOGY: After Lord of the Flies (1954), a novel by William Golding. Earliest documented use: 1969.
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LORD OF THE FLIERS - Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, a.k.a the Red Baron
LORD OF THE FLIES - Carl Furillo, right fielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers
LORD OF THE LIES - (insert your favorite prevaricator HERE)
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DEI-PRO-SOPHIST - a wise man is beloved by God
wofahulicodoc
06/07/2026 1:00 AM
DEIPNOSOPHIST
PRONUNCIATION: (daip-NOS-uh-fist)
MEANING: noun: One skilled at dinner-table conversation.
ETYMOLOGY: After Deipnosophistae (The Deipnosophists), a work from around 200 CE by the Greek writer Athenaeus. From Greek deipnon (meal, dinner) + sophistes (wise man, sophist). Earliest documented use: 1581.
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DIP NO SOPHIST - Scholars shall not be subject to Trial by Drowning to test if they are witchs (or warlocks)
DE I.P. NO SOPH IS - you can't make a second-year student out of Intellectual Property
DEIGN, O SOPHIST - OK, wise guy, let's see how condescending you are now!
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BRAVE NEW WORLD - a stalwart neologism
wofahulicodoc
06/07/2026 12:44 AM
BRAVE NEW WORLD
PRONUNCIATION: (brayv noo/nyoo WUHRLD)
MEANING: noun: A radically transformed world, situation, or era, especially one with both promise and peril.
ETYMOLOGY: After Brave New World (1932), a novel by Aldous Huxley. Earliest documented use: 1933.
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BRAVE PEW WORLD - the Protestant Revolution
BRAVE NET WORLD - the Atlanta baseball organization is setting up a Tennis league
BREVE NEW WORLD - Dvořák's Ninth Symphony (in E minor) played in Cut Time (2/2)
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POREMONITORY - watching for the first signs of acne
wofahulicodoc
05/29/2026 2:16 AM
PREMONITORY
PRONUNCIATION: (pri-MAH-nuh-tor-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Serving as a warning or sign of something to come, especially something unpleasant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin praemonere, from prae (before) + monere (warn). Earliest documented use: 1647.
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PRO-MONITORY - in favor of having overseers e.g. at an election, or a nuclear power plant, etc
PREMONI-TRY - on a golf course, it's "FORE!"
PRIMO-NITORY - This is the best way looking for signs of infection with lice!
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CONFLECT - "The prisoner will kneel"
wofahulicodoc
05/27/2026 1:19 AM
CONFECT
PRONUNCIATION: (verb: kuhn-FEKT, noun: KON-fekt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To put together by combining ingredients or materials.
noun: A sweet preparation, such as a candy or a preserved fruit.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin confectus, from conficere (to produce), from com- (intensive prefix) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: 1540.
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CORFECT - "I thought I had made a mistake once, but I was wrong!"
COINFECT - Somebody put anthrax spores and Covid-19 virus on my pocket change
CON-FECIT - made in Alcatraz
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CAUSILLO - a commitment of very low intensity
wofahulicodoc
05/26/2026 12:52 AM
CAUDILLOPRONUNCIATION: (kaw-DEEL/DEE-yoh) MEANING: noun: A leader, especially a military dictator. ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish caudillo, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of Latin caput (head). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kaput- (head), which also gave us head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, mischief, biceps, occiput, capitation, capitulate, recapitulate, and precipitous. Earliest documented use: 1852. ___________________ BAUDILLO - a Bostonian House of Ill Repute CARDILLO - a venerable gourmet shop on Brattle Street in Cambridge (see here) CAUDAL, LO! - ahoy tailward !
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Did I ever show you this one?
wofahulicodoc
05/25/2026 1:05 PM
Limericku
There was an old man
From Peru, whose lim’ricks all
Looked like haiku. He
Said with a laugh, “I
Cut them in half; the pay is
Much better for two.”
Anonymous, via Paul B., on Facebook, 2020
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Empty words
A C Bowden
05/25/2026 12:43 AM
When a speech contains nothing but platitude,
It aggravates listeners' attitude.
The speaker gets teased,
And he isn't best pleased.
He cries "I deplore your ingratitude!"
DECISION – DECREASE
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ELFINISM - beguiling mischievousness
wofahulicodoc
05/25/2026 12:06 AM
ELGINISM
PRONUNCIATION: (EL-gin-iz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: Cultural vandalism: the removal or plunder of cultural treasures from their place of origin, especially for display in another country.
ETYMOLOGY: After Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, who took home Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other monuments on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Earliest documented use: 1850.
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BELGINISM - Flemishness
ENGINISM - initiative, power, and drive
ELEGINISM - a penchant for writing poetic laments in honor of one who has died
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PART HIS'N- some of it belongs to him
wofahulicodoc
05/24/2026 11:54 PM
PARTHIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (PAHR-thee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to Parthia.
2. Delivered while retreating or departing, especially as a final remark.
ETYMOLOGY: After the Parthians, people of Parthia, an ancient region corresponding roughly to modern northeastern Iran. Earliest documented use: c. 1400.
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PARTHINAN - Greek temple dedicated to the goddess Athena
MARTHIAN - of the fourth planet from Old Sol
PERTHIAN - from Boorloo
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SMITHFIELD MARCH - lseldom-played work by John Philip Sousa.
wofahulicodoc
05/22/2026 10:01 PM
SMITHFIELD MATCH
PRONUNCIATION: (SMITH-feeld match)
MEANING: nnoun: A marriage of convenience, especially one arranged for money.
ETYMOLOGY: After Smithfield, London, long associated with markets and fairs, including Bartholomew Fair (1133-1855). Earliest documented use: 1703.
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SMITHFIELD MATH - a bizarre arithmetic used to calculate the dowry in
a marriage of convenience, often yielding results dramatically different from
what the parties had expected
SITHFIELD MATCH - what takes place when a Jedi fights a practitioner of
the Dark Side of the Force in an outdoor venue
SMITHFIELD MACH - brother of Ernst Mach (researcher on aeroynamics
and high-velocity flight) who became an Anglophile and changed his name from Johann
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BACONISM: You know all of Shakespeare was written by Roger Bacon
wofahulicodoc
05/22/2026 7:37 PM
LACONISM
PRONUNCIATION: (LAK-uh-niz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: Brevity or terseness of expression, or an instance of this.
ETYMOLOGY: After Laconia, a region in southern Greece whose chief city was Sparta. From the reputation of the Laconians/Spartans for terseness. Earliest documented use: 1570.
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LADONISM - the philosophy, exemplified by Rigoletto in Mozart's opera, that "women are fickle" ('changeable," if you prefer)
TACONISM - a branch of the Pastafarianism, another segment of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
L.A. CON IS ME - Confessions of a Southern California Urban Grifter {It didn't sell very many copies...)
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No terrors
A C Bowden
05/22/2026 3:49 PM
If you see some ball lightning nearby,
Or an uncanny glow in the sky,
Don't run from the place
With a nervous grimace –
Keep going, and never say die.
PLATITUDE – PLEASED
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DELPHI BAN - no fortune-telling permitted
wofahulicodoc
05/21/2026 8:27 PM
DELPHIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (DEL-fee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Obscure or ambiguous.
ETYMOLOGY: After Delphi, a city in ancient Greece. Earliest documented use: 1625.
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DELPHIAN - a perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculacea ("small-frog"-like), toxic to humans
ADELPHIAN - someone with no oracular powers whatsoever
DOLPHIAN - like an intelligent fish with a very human-looking face
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