You know..that little space, that dot-shaped thing, or that stuff you find when you pop the other stuff!! Or the whatchamacallit. We’ve all had moments when we couldn’t name a certain thing and we knew there should be a word for it. Well, you’re right, there is. Here is a list of words people don’t know.
1. Glabella
The space between the eyebrows.
2. Petrichor
The way it smells after the rain.
3. Aglet
The plastic or metallic coating at the end of the shoelaces.
4. Wamble
The rumbling sound that the stomach makes.
5. Vagitus
The first cry of a newborn baby.
6. Tines
The prongs on a fork.
7. Phosphenes
The sheen or light that you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them.
8. Tent
The tiny plastic table placed in the middle of a pizza box.
9. Overmorrow
The day after tomorrow.
10. minimus
The smallest finger or toe.
11. Agraffe
The weird cage that holds the cork in bottle of champagne.
12. Vocables
The ‘na na na’ and ‘la la la’ which don’t really have any meaning in the lyrics of a song.
13. Interrobang
When combine an exclamation mark with a question mark (i.e. ?!).
14. Columella nasi
The space between the nostrils.
15. Armscye
The armhole in clothes where the sleeves are sewn.
16. Dysania
The condition of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning.
17. Griffonage
Illegible handwriting.
18. tittle
The dot over an “i” or a “j”.
19. Crapulence
The utterly sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much.
20. Bannock device
The metallic device used to measure your feet at the shoe store.
21. Steatopygic
Having a large bottom.
22. Purlicue:
The space between the thumb and forefingers.
23. Chanking
Spat-out food.
24. Lunule
The white, crescent-shaped part of the nail.
25. Peen
The side opposite the hammer’s striking side.
26. Souffle cup
A ketchup/condiment cup.
27. Natiform
Something that resembles a butt.
28. Nurdle.
Tiny dab of toothpaste.
29. Cornicione
The outer part of the crust on a pizza.
30. Barm
The foam on a beer.
31. Rasceta
The lines on the inside of your wrist.
32. Ferrule
The metal part at the end of a pencil.
33. Punt
The bottom of a wine bottle.
34. Keeper
The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
35. Zarf
The cardboard sleeve on a coffee cup.
36. Rectal Tenesmus
The feeling of incomplete defecation.
37. Lemniscate
The infinity symbol.
38. Desire path
A path created by natural means, simply because it is the “shortest or most easily navigated” way.
39. Collywobbles:
Butterflies in your stomach.
40. Nibling
The non-gender-specific term for a niece or nephew — like sibling.
41. Defenestrate
To throw out a window.
42. Muntin
The strip separating window panes.
43. Philtrum
The groove located just below the nose and above the middle of the lips.
44. Snood
The fleshy thing around the neck of a turkey.
45. Morton’s toe
When your second toe is bigger than your big toe.
46. Snellen chart
The chart you look at when you take an eye exam.
47. Obelus
The division sign (÷).
48. Phloem bundles
Those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.
49. Semantic satiation
What happens when you say a word so long it loses meaning.
50. Octothorpe
The pound (#) button on a telephone.
51. Gynecomastia
Man-boobs.
52. Mondegreen
Misheard song lyrics.
53. Scurryfunge
The time you run around cleaning frantically right before company comes over.
54. Aphthongs
Silent letters.
41. Defenestrate
To throw ‘someone or something’ out of a window.
41. Defenestrate
To throw ‘someone or something’ out of a window.
My Great-uncle used collywobbles a lot, but he had collywobbles on the glandiflorium!
The definition for peen is bad, because most hammers people interact with today actually have a claw opposite the hammer face. We typically work with wood not metal, so the hammers are different that a few hundred years ago. Also there are war hammers with beac de corbins on the opposite side.
Great
“Scurryfunge” is an old word for “toothbrush”, at least, IIRC, according to Ivor Brown in his “Chosen Words” [1955].
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