Category Archives: Lexicology

sapiosexual.

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Word of the Day:

sapiosexual

adjective
adjective: sapiosexual; adjective: sapio-sexual
  1. 1.
    (of a person) finding intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.
noun
noun: sapiosexual; plural noun: sapiosexuals; noun: sapio-sexual; plural noun: sapio-sexuals
  1. 1.
    a person who finds intelligence sexually attractive or arousing.
The ad was pretty straightforward, as far as these things went: “Attractive and sapiosexual editorial assistant needed immediately.  Must enjoy late-night hot-tubbing, imbibing powerful toxins in the name of passionate experimentation, and last-minute deadlines.  Loose morals and knowledge of hardcore porn a plus.”  
Licking her grinning lips, she began typing a letter of extreme interest.  
N.P: “Evil Ways” –  Blues Saraceno

botryoidal.

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Your Word of the Day is “botryoidal.”

adjective
  1. (chiefly of minerals) having a shape reminiscent of a cluster of grapes.
The urologist thought he’d seen it all until that fateful Thursday when he found himself unable to describe the shape of the set of odious and detestable testicles in his nitrile-gloved hands as botryoidal.  
“Never saw anything like this in med school,” muttered the doctor darkly to himself.
“You got all the way through med school without seeing a set of testicles?” said the patient, whose actual name the doctor knew, but who had become known in the doctor’s mind in the last 30 seconds as Grape Nuts.
“Shut up, Grape Nuts,” said the doctor, who, upon saying it, regretted having said it aloud, as that was not his intention.  
N.P.: “I’m Only Joking” – KONGOS

pestiferous.

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Word of the Day: pestiferous

adjective

literary

  1. harboring infection or disease.

  2. humorous – constituting a pest or nuisance; annoying.

The janitor had clearly grown tired of the conversation and had begun thinking more about his lunch than the outcome of this colloquy: “No…what you’re going to do is take your pestiferous ass back to that rotting hovel and leave us alone to make babies and drink deeply of the green chartreuse.”  It was, it occurred to him at that moment, one of the stranger Wednesdays he’d had in a while.

N.P.: “Dangerous (feat. Joywave)” – Big Data

paragon

noun
  1. a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
    “It would have taken a paragon of douchebaggery to push the elderly nun down that back stairway, which is, unfortunately for Sister Antoinette, exactly what Father Sullivan was.”
  2. a person or thing viewed as a model of excellence.
    “‘Your cook is a paragon,’ said the cartel leader of his friend’s newest batch of meth.”
  3. a perfect diamond of 100 carats or more.                                           “‘You can like and want to put a ring on it all you want, but I ain’t saying yes unless I get a paragon, you rich mothafucka,’ the chanteuse was heard to whisper.”

gaucherie

noun
  1. awkward, embarrassing, or unsophisticated ways.

“He had hoped that she had long since gotten over various gaucheries such as smelling her Q-tips after cleaning her ears and picking at her toenails during therapy.  He was, once again, disappointed.”

roister

verb
  1. enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy or boisterous way.
    “Having destroyed the the last of his enemies in the village, he and his men roistered in the town church though the night before burning it down at dawn.”

desultory

adjective
  1. lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm.
    “The ecstasy had worn off of most revelers by the time the sun rose over the desert; however, a few people hadn’t gotten the memo, and continued dancing in a rather desultory fashion.”
  2. (of conversation or speech) going constantly from one subject to another in a halfhearted way; unfocused.
    “Of all my patients, the schizophrenics are the most annoying: their attempts at conversation are desultory on the best of days, and their therapy goes nowhere.”
  3. occurring randomly or occasionally.
    “Desultory ne’er-do-wells began appearing claiming to be heirs to his artistic fortune.”

doxy

noun

archaic
  1. a lover or mistress.
    • a prostitute.
“He was pretty surprised when he thought her stage name was Doxy, but once he found out that that was her birth name, he knew her tornado-bait parents had doomed her to this life: she never had a chance.”

penury

noun
  1. extreme poverty; destitution.
“He had hoped that the judge or other litigants would have, if not compassion for his condition, at least an acknowledgment of the reality of his abject penury.  Alas, his hopes went unrealized.  ‘Fascists,’ he thought dismissively, but spent the rest of the afternoon imagining what all their heads would look like on sticks.”

adjure

verb

formal
  1. urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something.
    “It is with nothing but love and respect that I adjure you to please, for the love of God, shut your word hole for just 5 minutes so that I can listen to the rest of this sonata in peace.”