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I think that everyone's vocabulary could do with a bit of improving. So enter my young initiates and annoy as many as possible by sharing your newly gained knowledge.

Note: new words at the end of the list

is there a word for the slow stalking of people walking through car-parks in the hope of nabbing the spot they vacate? -- w.

floccinaucinihilipilification

(n) The action or habit of estimating something as worthless

(an old favourite to begin I thought grin)

almucantar

(n) Line of constant altitude above the horizon

ai

(n) Three-toed sloth of S. America, of genus Bradypus

(for all you wiggers out there ....)

pinxit (pinks-it)

The artist's signature on a piece of art

pickedevant (pick-edd-dee-vent)

A Van Dyke beard, a goatee

wallygowdy (wall-ee-gow-dee)

A precious jewel or gem

aduncity (a-dunn-sit-ee)

Shaped like a hook

lobbygow (lob-ee-gow)

An errand boy

abelmosk (abe-ell-mosk)

A bushy herb whose seeds are used in flavouring coffee

stridulate (stridd-you-layt)

To make a noise like a cricket

pysmatic (pizz-mat-ick)

Forever asking questions

novercaphobia (no-vurr-ka-fob-ee-ah)

Abnormal fear of one's stepmother

(for all of the Cthulu players)

gnomon (gno-mon)

(n) An object, such as the style of a sundial, that projects a shadow used as an indicator.
or The geometric figure that remains after a parallelogram has been removed from a similar but larger parallelogram with which it shares a corner.

horripilation (hor-rip-i-la-tion)

(n) The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold. Goose bumps

glork (glohrk)

Term of mild surprise, usually in outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
Used as a name for just about anything.
vt. Similar to glitch, but usually used reflexively. "My program just glorked itself."
Syn. for glark, which see.

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