The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt through the Lost Words of the English Language

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by Forsyth, Mark


  ape drunk 189

  apolaustics 176–177

  bawdy house bottle 181

  beer-goggles 192

  beer-sodden 184

  bibbery 178

  bingo-mort 181

  birler 181

  blind pig 178

  bombard man 181

  canteen medals 185

  Centzon Totochtin 190

  compotation 176

  David’s sow, as drunk as 192

  drink-water 176

  drunkery 177–178

  dry-drinking 175

  four hundred rabbits, as drunk as 191

  fox drunk 189

  fresh-boiled owl, as drunk as a 190

  fud 178

  fuddler 178

  fuddling 178

  fuddling-school 178

  Ganymede 180

  goat drunk 189

  guggle 182

  Hebe 180

  heel-taps 187

  hydropot 176

  island, the 186

  jambled 191

  kalopsia 192

  Knight of the Spigot 180

  lanspresado 179

  lickspiggot 181

  lion drunk 189

  lovethoughts 192

  madefied 184

  marine 188

  marine officer 187–188

  marine recruit 188

  martin drunk 189

  maudlin drunk 189

  nappy ale 181

  nepenthe 182

  nephalist 176

  nimtopsical 191

  onion, smelt an 191

  Ose system 188

  owlers 177

  pandoratrix 180

  perpotation 176

  pooning 183

  potation-shop 177

  quafftide 175

  royal poverty 181

  sheep drunk 189

  Sir John Strawberry, made too free with 191

  Sir Richard has taken off his considering cap 191

  sluiceries 177

  small go, a 176

  snake-room 179

  snecklifter 179–80

  snuggery 182–183, 185

  soldier’s bottle 181

  speakeasy blind tiger 177–178

  spunkie 181

  Squire of the Gimlet 180

  stagger-juice 182

  strip me naked 181

  super nonsensical 191

  supernaculum 186–187

  swine drunk 189

  tapster 181

  taradiddles 176

  tears of the tankard, the 185

  time machines 179

  tipling house 177

  under-skinker 181

  vice admiral of the narrow seas 185

  vinolent 184

  vinomadefied 184

  wankle 184–185

  wheelbarrow, as drunk as a 191

  wise or otherwise 191

  wowser 176

  Chapter 17: 10 p.m.

  accismus 202–204

  agastopia 197–198

  amatorcultist 205

  amatorial 199

  anuptaphobia 200

  arrision 199

  Baker Street, changing at 213

  baltering 208

  balum-rancum 207

  bathycolpian 198

  bellibone 202

  biscot 209

  breems 201

  buff-ball 207

  callipygian 198

  carnal confederacy 213

  cataglottism 210, 213

  caterwauling 195–196

  clickets 201

  comfortable importance 212

  cowfyne 202

  croons 201

  dangler 199

  dioestrus 196

  dragging time 193

  eassins 201

  equinecessary 214

  fanfreluching 213

  fangast 212–13

  figurant 200

  fillip, give nature a 194

  flesh-company 213

  fleshling 193

  fleshment 211

  flichter 200

  flichter-fain 200

  fondlesome 211, 213

  fribbler 213

  gamomania 212–13

  gazehound 199

  green-gown 194

  gymnopaedic 207

  haker 199

  hot cockles 213

  imparlibidinous 214

  interunion 213

  jazz 213

  jelly-roll 213

  jig-a-jig 213

  jockumcloying 213

  ‘Kill me’ 201

  last favour, the 213

  lawful blanket 212

  mamihlapinatapai 208–209

  mariturient 212

  meddling 213

  melling 213

  minauderie 199

  Moll Peatley 213

  mollocking 213

  murder 201–02

  mutton-monger 193

  natiform 198

  need-sweat 200

  ‘Nolo Episcopari’ 204

  nympholepsy 215

  ogler 199

  Ogo-Pogoing 195–196

  old hat 213

  osculable 209, 213

  oscularity 210

  osculary 210

  osculatrix 210

  parabore 204–205

  passiuncle 214

  pavonize 199

  pickaroon, out on the 195

  Pisgah sight 214–15

  pom-pom 213

  poop-noddy 213

  proling 194, 196

  propassion 197

  quaffing 213

  rattles 201

  rum-strum 199–200

  shake a hough 206

  shrikes 201

  Sir Berkeley 213

  smell-smock 205

  smicker 197

  smickering 197

  snilcher 199

  snoutfair 202

  spanandry 196

  sprunt, to 195

  subagitation 213

  subarrhations 213

  supersaliency 214

  ‘Suppose we get together and split a herring’ 201

  swiving 213

  tacturiency 211–12

  terp, to 207

  terpsichorical 207

  thelyphthoric 205–206

  tripudiate 206

  twiddle-poop 205

  velleity 199

  Venus exercise, the 213

  visuriency 211–12

  wapping 213

  whineth 201

  wonder wench 202

  ‘Wouldst like to con a glimmer with me this early black?’ 201

  ‘You’re a V-NOS, baby’ 205

  Chapter 18: 11 p.m.

  agatewards 218–19

  ale-knights 217

  barguest 224

  bug hunters 224

  California blanket 224

  circumforaneous 224–225

  corpse-hooks 224

  danna-drag 224

  degringolade 223

  devotional habits 222–223

  diverticulums 220

  dog-weary 221

  dolmus 217

  donestres 224

  écorchés 224

  eternity box 224

  extravagant 220

  final, to 217 />
  gyrovague 220

  hircocervus 224

  humicubation 223

  labascate 223

  late bright 217

  mascaron 225

  montivagant 220

  moon-curser 219

  mort 224

  multivagant 220

  mundivagant 220

  nemorivagant 220

  night-foundered vicambulist 220

  noctivagant 220

  nubivagant 220

  nullibiety 221

  nullibiquitous 221

  omnivagant 220

  pixelated 221

  pixilated 221

  royal footpad 219

  royal scamp 219

  seel, to 223

  sheep bed 224

  skimbleskamble oberration 221

  slidder 218

  solivagant 220

  sooterkins 224

  spartle 224

  trance 220

  trilly, to 217

  twitchels 220

  uncuses 224

  vagulate 220

  vespilone 224

  whangdoodle 224

  wharve 220

  wheady mile, upon the 221

  white sergeant 218

  xenodocheionology 224

  xenodochial 224

  Chapter 19: Midnight

  apodysophilia 231

  arseling pole 227

  beauty-sleep 227

  bed faggot 227

  Bedfordshire, head up the weary wooden hill to 231

  bedwards 229

  beggar’s velvet 233

  bene darkmans 236, 238

  blores 228

  bull’s noon 228

  candle-wasters 231

  clinophobic 229

  consopiation 236

  couchée 236

  counterpanes 236

  creep-mouse 229

  curtain lecture 234–235

  discalcing 233

  dowse the glims 236

  dragonism 234

  dream drumbles 236

  dreamery 236

  ecdysiasm 232

  ecdysiast 231–232

  epitrope 235

  fugacious 235

  gymnologising 234

  hay, hit the 231

  healing 236

  hog’s head, couch a 231

  levament 235

  lucubatory 230–231

  lucubrate 230

  lychnobites 230

  midnight follies 230

  myoclonic jerk 236

  nightingale floor 228–229

  night-spell 236

  panes 236

  paralipsis 234–235

  philogrobolized 230

  phrontistery 231

  Ponk, the 236

  Scotch warming pan 236

  screak 229

  snudge 233

  soss 229

  subderiserous 235

  surrepent 229

 

 

 


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