Category: Word of the Week

I never saw how Catherine could love Edgar; he was such a namby-pamby he cried during Twilight.  namby-pamby (noun)  1. A weak, insipid or childish person.

“Take a dekko at these boxsets and see which one you want to watch next.”  dekko (verb)  1. To look, or take a look.  

Dr Rich’s prescriptions were always so messy. I could never make sense of his cacography.  cacography (noun)  1. Bad handwriting.

Chuck gave a very luculent speech on the merits of David Tennant over Matt Smith.  luculent (adj.)  1. Clear, lucid, easily understood.

Philomathy drove me to pursue a PHD in Ancient Enochian. philomathy (noun)  1. The love of learning.

Someone sent me a gif of a nest of daddy-long-legs, and I was immediately attacked by a horrible sense of formication. formication (noun)  1. The sense of ants or other small bugs swarming, over your...

I count everyone who knows the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody as my kith. kith (noun)  1. Friends and acquaintances.  

Tina was such a gobemouche, she truly believed that Han shot first. gobemouche (noun) [go-be-MUSH] 1. A very gullible person who believes everything he or she hears, no matter how absurd.

The walls were covered in quivers, arrows, and framed pictures of Legolas–all clues that their mysterious benefactor was a toxophilite. toxophilite (noun) [tok-SOH-fi-lait] 1. A devotee of archery, an archery enthusiast, an archery lover.

Bill’s bumptious date completely dominated the dinner conversation with unlikely anecdotes about his years as an MI5 agent. bumptious (adjective)  1. Offensively assertive, obnoxiously pushy, arrogantly forward.