Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Words, words, words

sillabub, n. A dessert made mostly out of cream. A pleasing,
eighteenth-centuryish term for the jar of creamed rice that you are
obliged to open for your unexpected dinner guest. Metaphorically, sillabub
is inane, inconsequential, or frothy speech

rounceval, n. Three quite different meanings for this one: a giant; a
marrowfat pea; and a virago

grobianism, n. Rudeness, boorishness.

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