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."

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.

Snoutfair: a person with a handsome countenance.
Almost an oxymoron.

¿Qué?

...and until now I thought a "snoutfair" was the annual gathering where people showed off their prize pigs...

They are called that in certain parts of swine country
around here.

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!

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..)

Nowadays the Dutch word lont means fuse and the word for match is lucifer.

Happy Easter to all.

For some reason, lunting sounds like something appropriate to do on your way home from the pub!

heh. again, lunt is not to be confused with lant!

[snort]!

One of our former members, Geoff, asked me to mention that "snoutfair" could be a derivation of a Shakespeare play featuring the character, Snout?
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One could also have a Bottomfair, meaning callipygous.

And surely a spermologist is one who studies seeds?

spermologist

Oxymoron, oxymoron... that's someone who's suffered brain damage through hypoxia, right?

PS you wanted a sheep?