[net.followup] more interesting words

everett (12/01/82)

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hp-pcd!everett    Nov 30 15:50:00 1982


from: Everett Kaser
      hplabs!hp-pcd

Another 'good' word that I discovered while tip-toe-ing through the
dictionary is:

     FUG     n [prob. alter. of fog]: an odorous emanation; esp:
     the stuffy atmosphere of a poorly ventilated space --- fuggy
     adj
     FUG     v fugged; fugging vi: to loll indoors in a stuffy
     atmosphere ~ vt: to make stuffy and odorous

Have you fugged today?

		Never afraid to be rude,

 			Everett


PS.

Look up    osculate     sometime.

port (12/04/82)

     Another interesting word along the same lines as "fug" is 
"eructate" as in "I walked into the room and attracted attention with 
my eructation".  It means "to burp".  

debray (12/17/82)

My favourite obscure word is "feague" - defined by a 1785 dictionary as
"to put ginger up a horse's fundament to make it step more lively"...

Imagine Lady Chatterley asking her gardener, "Have you feagued the horses?"

Obscurer is "metempsychosis"...it means 'reincarnation'. (The only place I've
encountered that in is Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus".