Okay, this is the intellectual equivalent of a forum game. Essentially someone posts an unusual, little-known or interesting word, the next poster has to find another unusual or interesting word starting with the last letter of the previous one.
Here goes:
Croodle - Verb
Meaning to cower, crouch, draw together for warmth or cling close to someone e.g. "We huddled under the bridge, croodling together helplessly as we struggled for warmth in the bitter weather."
Next person gets E. :)
Erg - Noun
An erg is the unit of energy and mechanical work in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units, symbol "erg". Its name is derived from the Greek ergon, meaning "work".[1]
An erg is the amount of work done by a force of one dyne exerted for a distance of one centimeter. In the CGS base units, it is equal to one gram centimeter-squared per second-squared (g·cm2/s2). It is thus equal to 10−7 joules or 100 nanojoules (nJ) in SI units.
1 erg = 10−7 J = 100 nJ
1 erg = 624.15 GeV = 6.2415 ×1011 eV
1 erg = 1 dyne cm = 1 g·cm2/s2
Also the textual expression of a grunting noise I make.
Gyromancy - Noun
A form of divination by the means of walking around in a circle continually until the walker falls from dizziness: the divination is read from the place in the circle and the manner in which the walker falls.
This sounds rather amusing to try. Particularly if the walker in question was inebriated beforehand... :P
Interesting thread!
Yapok - Noun
A nocturnal, semiaquatic South American marsupial (Chironectes minimus), more properly known as the water opossum. Unlike most opossums, whose hind feet have an opposable digit for climbing trees, the yapok has webbed hind feet instead, and is the marsupial most adapted for aquatic life. It is also the only extant marsupial in which both males and females of the species have a pouch. The female pouch is watertight and is used to protect her young while in the water. However, the male pouch seems not be for protecting young, but is somewhere to put his dingdong while swimming.
The name probably comes from the Oyapok River in French Guyana.
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kakorrhaphiophobia - Noun
The fear of failure or defeat.
In response to Jub's previous word; Mythbusters aired an episode where they found out humans will walk or swim in very tight circles without realising it when their vision is blocked.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Poor person when then get told what they are diagnosed with.
"Sorry sir, but you have Hippopotomonstros.... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
Since it's "start with the last letter of the previous word" I'll carry on from CG's.
Agathism - Noun
The doctrine or philosophical idea that all things tend, by nature, towards good.
Nobody? :(
I was waiting for someone else. :P
Maggotorium - noun
1. A place where maggots are stored.
Mezentian- Adjective
Comparable to the actions of Mezentius, a mythical Etruscan king who tied living men to corpses then left them to die of starvation.
I just hope he didn't put the corpses in the Maggotorium first. :P
Natricine - Of, like or pertaining to water-snakes.
Eisteddfod - Noun
A congress of (Welsh) bards.
dromestoners - people who remove stones from temporary airfields :P
Salleeman - Noun
A Moorish pirate ship
Nictate - verb
To wink, or blink.
effulgence - the state of being bright and radiant.
Ebullient - joyously unrestrained.
Tangalung - a Civet from the East Indies.
Picture:
Spoiler
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gainsay - contradict
Yab-yum (Noun)
A common symbol in southern Asian art (himalayas/indian subcontinent) that shows a male deity having sex with his female counterpart, the male usually being in the lotus position with the female in his lap.
Yay for looking up random crap in a dictionary. :P
Mammothrept
A child who is raised and spoiled by their grandmother
Tatterdemalion (Noun)
A person dressed in ragged clothes.
Nebuchadnezzar
A wine bottle size containing 15 litres (20 standard bottles). From the biblical King of Babylon.
Rhinotillexomania.
Compulsive nose picking.
Arcology (Noun)
The field of study pertaining to creating densely populated, low ecological impact human habitats, or an actual structure abiding by such principles.
I thought it was supposed to start with the last letter of the previous one. :)
Yes, I forgot the rule, fixed now (and sorry, next person gets "Y" again!) :P
Yaff.
To bark like a snarling dog.
Fescennine (adjective)
Obscene/defamatory/scurrilous. From the Etrurian town of Fescennia, which was apparently famous for the creation of songs/poems of such a nature.
Ephemeral
Lasting for a short time
Lobscouse
A stew of meat, onions, potatoes, ship's biscuits, etc, made by C19 sailors. Similarly named stews are known from Germany and Scandinavia, with the Latvian "Labs kauss" (Good Bowl) a possible ultimate origin of the term. Its popularity in the port of Liverpool is the likely origin of the term "Scouser" to refer to Liverpudlians.