Kerslonchwise

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Kerslonchwise: Catawampus, sitting crookedly,
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Pithy quote:
"...we sang splendidly...but then he'd say or do something to knock the good out of it."-Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses.
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Shraums

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Shraums: Eye gunk. [Irish colloquial, see James Joyce: Ulysses]
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Quote of the day: "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -Bertrand Russell
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Frazil

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Frazil: floating ice plates: ice that forms as small plates drifting in rapidly flowing water where it is too turbulent for pack ice to form
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Quote of the day: "One cat just leads to another." Ernest Hemingway
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Sumer

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Sumer: Middle English = Spring. Best known from the song Sumer is icumen in. The word is often translated as Summer, but as far as I can tell, it is properly Spring. Spring makes a lot more sense to the rest of the song than Summer would. I translated the song into Esperanto.-

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Pithy quote: "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." -Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Tailor's Goose

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Tailor's Goose: A smoothing iron.
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Pithy quote: “Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours” Swedish Proverb
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Scurf

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Scurf: Dead skin
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Quote of the day: "If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive." Dorothee Solle
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Trews

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Trews: Leggings, plus-fours
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Quote of the Day: "If cats could talk, they wouldn't." Nan Porter
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Velocipede

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Velocipede: Wheeled vehicle powered by foot.
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Quote of the day: "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." John Benfield
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Caubeen

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Caubeen: An Irish hat similar to a Balmoral, beret or Tam O' Shanter.
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Quote of the day: "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.” Jonathan Swift
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Ha Ha

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Ha Ha: Hidden wall, drop-off.-
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Quote of the Day: "Cursing is the bowel movement of the soul." Josef Goebbels
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Sinciput

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Sinciput: Forehead;  Since he put his sinciput on my shoulder, I have grease on my coat.
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Quote of the day: "One kind word can warm three winter months." Japanese Proverb
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Lipogram

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Lipogram: Word, phrase, paragraph, article, book which does not contain the letter "E".
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Quote of the day: "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." Maurice Chevalier
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Rumen

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Rumen = personal car, paunch
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Quote of the day: "Hell is full of musical amateurs." George Bernard Shaw
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Tumid

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Tumid: Overinflated.
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Quote of the day: "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann
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Apse

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Apse: Church section, usually polygonal and containing the altar.
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Quote of the day: "If the shoe fits, get another one just like it." Bob the Butler
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Cymric

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Cymric: Welsh language, long-haired Manx-type cat.
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Quote of the day: "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pilose

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Pilous, pilose: Hairish
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Quote of the day: "What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it" Charles Dudley Warner
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Gabble

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Gabble: Jabber
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Quote of the day: "Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." Philip K. Dick
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Pung

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Pung: One-horse sleigh.
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Quote of the day: "Nietsche is Pietsche." Ogen Nash
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Costermonger

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Costermonger: Street seller of produce in London and other British towns.

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Quote of the day: "One cat just leads to another." Ernest Hemingway
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