Word Up! Fellow logophiles,get your forks and knives and grubby fingers ready for squishy fun!
Dinner's served!
Mammiformis- Shaped like a breast
This one's just begging to be exercised in your next bibulous chair-tipsy 4-martini tirade or I'll be a proto-human primates illegitimate uncle;
and actually, while we're on the subject of inebriants I've got a another fantastic articulation for you guaranteed to perplex, flummox, perturb
or just plain start some violent shit at the local gin mill.
Betterave- A drunkards nose, a nose with "grog blossoms" or a "copper nose,"
such is possessed by an "admiral of the red."
-Albert Barrere's Argot and Slang Dictionary, 1911
as in
"Hey you boozy scallywag! Your humongous betterave's clogging up the dance floor and poking me in the earlobe."
Unpicturesque- Without beauty or charm. Unattractive, beastly, mishappen or disfigured.
as in
"Your lady friend is unpicturesque, she looks like Michael Berryman
with a spray-on tan and pumps."
This next one's sure to make a guest appearance in my bawdy penny dreadful erotic novella "Henry Longfellow's Long Fellow's Sexy Sticky Sweater-Puppy Hunt."
Cadulix- Male genital organ
Pulvillus- A small cushion or pillow. In surgery, a small olive-shaped mass of lint used for plugging deep wounds; diminutive of pulvinus, or cushion.
-Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1897
as in
"Wolfgang Easy packed his yawping abysm with a dewy cerulean pulvillus and in doing so demonstrated the profound relationship shared between those who indulge a strict
vegan macrobiotic diet with those who engage in jocose hammer-murder type sociopathy."
Autochthon- An aboriginal inhabitant. One of the indigenous animals or plants in the region.
One of the earliest known inhabitants of a place.
-Origins: 1646, "one sprung from the soil he inhabits" (pl. autochthones),
from Gk. autokhthon, from auto- "self" + khthon "land" (see chthonic).
And last but certainly not least, a word introduced to me by my darling Nee.
Pif- A type of high grade marijuana that is identifiable by its distinct smell and excellent quality.
Pif can also be used as an ad lib, verb, sound effect, expletive etc.
Examples include "Dude, what the piff happened to my piffing ear-buds!? Stop touching my piff with your greasy goddamn vienna sausage fingers."
" That Inuit industrial lubricant salesman over there, piffed your ladyboy girlfriend in the ass!"
" Fo Sho! I piffed from dusk till dawn yo and it was piffing awesome!"