Re: HUDIBRASTIC
A C Bowden
06/15/2026 11:58 PM
HUBRICLASTIC - hubris-shattering; nemetic
LUDIPLASTIC - children's model-making kit
HUGH DE BRASTIC - medieval baron
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Clerihews
A C Bowden
06/15/2026 11:44 PM
Gianni Infantino
Said "I doubt that San Marino
Will ever win the World Cup,
But you never know what might turn up".
Sir Keir Starmer,
When asked if some knight in shining armour
Might help the Labour Party's chances,
Said "Yes – bring me my spurs and lances!"
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DEIPNOSOPHIST
A C Bowden
06/12/2026 2:27 PM
DIAGNOSOPHIST - a physician who uses pseudoscience
DEHYPNOSOPHIST - someone who wakes up and cries "Eureka!"
DEEP NOVELIST - writer of multi-layered fiction
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PREMONITORY
A C Bowden
06/12/2026 2:18 PM
PRENOMINARY - the status of a new chemical element before it is officially named
PRONOMINARY - a list of staff members indicating whether they wish to be referred to as 'he', 'she', 'they' or 'it'
PRAEMUNIRETORY - accused of obeying the Pope rather than the King of England
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TREE SAYLE - Get your saplings here. Plant a tree,save the world
wofahulicodoc
06/09/2026 4:04 PM
TRESAYLE or TRESAIEL
PRONUNCIATION: (tre-SAY-uhl, TRES-ayl)
MEANING: noun: A grandfather's grandfather: great- great-grandfather.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French trisaïeul, from tri- (three) + aïeul (grandfather), from Latin avolus, diminutive of avus (grandfather). Earliest documented use: 1491.
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ARES AIEL - Martian garlic
FIRE SAYLE - Prices Slashed! Only Minor Smoke Damage! Everything Must Go!
TRES ALE - triple-brewed beer
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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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