syrtic
adj. pertaining to quicksand
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avetrol
n. a bastard
uzzard
n. a third-generation bastard
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youward
adv. toward you
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cark
v. to worry
kedogenous
adj. produced by worry
Some of your hurts you have cured
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!
— Emerson
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bubulcitate
v. to cry like a cowboy
(That’s from Henry Cockeram’s English Dictionary of 1623, so it doesn’t refer to a cowboy of the American West. What it does refer to is unclear. Cockeram said he included “even the mocke-words which are ridiculously used in our language,” but this word appears never to have been published outside of his dictionary, so we don’t know what a “cowboy” is or why he might cry. Make up your own meaning.)
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lachschlaganfall
n. a condition in which a person falls unconscious due to violent laughter
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tauromachy
n. the art of bullfighting
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nullibiety
n. the state of being nowhere
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philogyny
n. love of women
mulierose
adj. fond of women
threpterophilia
n. love of female nurses
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lingible
adj. meant to be licked