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OP Here is URL to a site with a mniature dictionary of "fun words".
Most of them you may know, but there still should be a few
that you may enjoy.I ran into it trying to find something interesting
about tsuwm's wwftd, "oxter"
http://www.funwords.com/archive.htm
Thanks, Dr Bill. I found three neat ones in just one quick peek. The first one may be of special interest to Max and CK:
puckeroo
(puck-uh-ROO)
Useless, broken.
This useful bit of New Zealand slang derives directly from the Maori language, where pakaru means "broken."
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One I've never heard of:
psithurism
(SITH-err-iz-um)
A low whispering sound, such as the rustle of leaves.
A words that sounds like what it means, psithurism comes from the Greek psythurisma, which means "a whispering."
"One of the things I love about autumn is the psithurism that accompanies a walk in the woods."
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A word that I've always liked the sound of, and I especially love the snake's name in the quote!
galoot
(guh-LOOT)
A fellow, especially one who's awkward, uncouth, or foolish.
No one's certain how this word came to be. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its first recorded use was in 1812.
"He was a galoot, to be sure --but then, she told herself, she did like the way he doted on his mother, not to mention his twelve hamsters and the boa constrictor he'd affectionately named 'Julius Squeezer.'"
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