fyi... THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW HAD NAMES Petrichor: the way it smells outside after rain. Purlicue: the space between the thumb and forefingers. Wamble: stomach rumbling. Aglet: the plastic coating on a shoelace. Vagitus: the cry of a newborn baby. Glabella: the space between your eyebrows. Chanking: spat-out food. Lunule: the white, crescent shaped part of the nail. Peen: the side opposite the hammer’s striking side. Tines: the prongs on a fork. Souffle cup: a ketchup/condiment cup. Natiform: something that resembles a butt. Phosphenes: the lights you see when you close your eyes and press your hands to them. Nurdle: a tiny dab of toothpaste. Box tent: the table in the middle of a pizza box. Cornicione: the outer part of the crust on a pizza. Barm: the foam on a beer. Rasceta: the lines on the inside of your wrist. Overmorrow: the day after tomorrow. Ferrule: the metal part at the end of a pencil. Punt: the bottom of a wine bottle. Keeper: the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle. Minimus: your little toe or finger. Zarf: the cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup. Rectal Tenesmus: the feeling of incomplete defecation. Agraffe: the wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle of champagne. Columella nasi: the space between your nostrils. Lemniscate: the infinity symbol. Desire path: a path created by natural means, simply because it is the “shortest or most easily navigated” way. Armscye: the armhole in most clothing. Dysania: the state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning. Collywobbles: butterflies in your stomach. Nibling: the non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew — like sibling. Griffonage: unreadable handwriting. Paresthesia: that “pins and needles” feeling. Defenestrate: to throw out a window. Muntin: the strip separating window panes. Philtrum: the groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips. Snood: the fleshy thing around the neck of a turkey. Vocable: the na na nas and la la las in song lyrics that don’t have any meaning. Tittle: the dot over an “i” or a “j.” Morton’s toe: when your second toe is bigger than your big toe. Crepuscular rays: rays of sunlight coming from a certain point in the sky. AKA what your aunt might have called “God’s rays.” Snellen chart: the chart you look at when you take an eye exam. Crapulence: that sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much. Obelus: the division sign (÷). Ideolocator: a “you are here” sign. Brannock device: the thing they use to measure your feet at the shoe store. Interrobang: what it’s called when you combine a question mark with an exclamation point like this: ?! Mamihlapinatapai: the look shared by two people who both hope the other will offer to do something that they both want but aren’t willing to do. Phloem bundles: those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana. Octothorpe: the pound (#) button on a telephone. Mondegreen: misheard song lyrics. Scurryfunge: the time you run around cleaning frantically right before company comes over. Aphthongs: silent letters. Tmesis: when you separate a word into two for effect.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 01:18:19 +0000
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