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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