floccify
v. to consider worthless

infandous
adj. too horrible to mention

preantepenultimate
adj. fourth from last

breedbate
n. one who seeks an argument

boanthropy
n. the delusion that one is an ox

vivisepulture
n. burial alive

lethonomia
n. a propensity for forgetting names

groak
v. to stare at a person longingly while he is eating

“Did you ever hear of a dog before who did not persecute one with beseeching eyes at mealtimes?” wrote Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1846 of her celebrated dog Flush. “And remember, this is not the effect of discipline. Also if another than myself happens to take coffee or break bread in the room here, he teazes straightway with eyes & paws, … teazes like a common dog & is put out of the door before he can be quieted by scolding.”

acapnotic
n. a nonsmoker

immerd
v. to cover with excrement