Monthly Archives: March 2009
And the egoist cries cock-a-doodle-doo
Cockalorum: noun, meaning one who’s full of boastful talk or self-importance. Shockingly, the origin of this word is actually onomatopoetic, having nothing — though my inner feminist is smirking — to do with phallic references at all. In fact, it comes from an early-1700′s dutch word, kockeloeren, which means to crow. I suppose that’s an [...]
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Cacology: noun meaning speaking badly, as in bad choice of words. Arguably, it’s a mistake to highlight the “competition” on your blog about words, but this I cannot resist. Below is one of Marlina Orlova’s video posts about the word cacology on the net. Thank god someone’s tackling it. And for all those cacologists out [...]
Fun to say, fun to see.
Kerfuffle: noun meaning to become disheveled, a commotion, or a fuss.
Obsolete word? Bah!
Agroof, adverb meaning flat on one’s face.
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