Penalize. Sounds incredibly painful and punitive.
Spermicide. Sounds like a criminal act, if a relatively minor one.
Penalize. Sounds incredibly painful and punitive.
Spermicide. Sounds like a criminal act, if a relatively minor one.
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Masticate - It’s the scientific word for chewing, as in:
I masticate several hundred times a week!.
Erection. The satellite was launched and had a good erection. (Target satellites were erected in space for ASAT tests in the 1980s.)
Titillate. Need I say more?
Turgid. Or maybe it’s just that I first saw that word in a romance novel and now I can only think of one thing in relation to it.
Mukluk
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Woodcock
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**Coctail.
Cockatiel.
Flagellate.
Chalupa.**
Vacillate.
Cocksure.
Horde
Punty
undulate.
Paternoster.
noshing.
prehensile.
niggardly
my favorite:
ballcock (part of a toilet)
Does “Holy Flurking Schmidt” count?
Formication - hallucinated sensation that insects (especially ants) are crawling over the skin
Bishopric - the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop
Hoary - gray or white with, or as if with, age
Bridled Titmouse
Nuthatch
Bahama Swallow (sounds like a technique)
Hairy Woodpecker
Bushtit
Sapsuckers
Bananaquit
Hoary Redpoll
Brambling (sounds like a verb)
Peewee
Brown Creeper
Brown Thrasher
Bulbul
Longspur
Dickcissel
Magnificent Frigatebird
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel
Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Masked Booby
Blue-footed Booby
Oldsquaw
Smew
Clapper Rail
American Woodcock
Chukar
Chachalaca
Anna’s Hummingbird (sounds like ‘anus’)
and
Turdus migratorius - Latin name for the American Robin
Acerbic
Pontificate
Colonize
Perturbation
Phrygian - A musical mode (1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7). I may be mispronouncing it, but I’ve always said frig-e-an which has earned me a few weird looks.
Arris the sharp corner formed by the meeting of two adjacent surfaces of a board. Hear about the <<abusee group of choice>> joiner? Didnt know his arris from his elbow. Boom Boom
While checking the spelling off Arris on a woodworking site I also found;
Baller A tool used to round over the end of a dowel.
Fore Plane A plane about 18 inches long used to surface or dress rough lumber.
Hot finish A finish that contains solvents that will attack other finishes.
I know this is a little OT but there is a persistant rumour that Glasgow Caledonian University was originally going to be called The Caledonian University of New Technology untill someone tried using the acronym…
milo
Annus Horribilus
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Fletching The craft of fixing flights to arrow, ahem, shafts.
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