nink
"A useless antique object preserved in worshiping the picturesque. An imitation of a bygone style. Ninkty, architecturally dishonest."
-Gelett Burgess's A Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed, 1914.
-Gelett Burgess's A Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed, 1914.
posted by Forgotten English at 6:28 AM
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Liff (lif) n.
A common object or experience for which no word yet exists.
You need to see Douglas Adams' inspired book The Meaning of Liff, full of words which should exist but don't. One of my favourites is Fareham (incidentally - and completely irrelevantly - a place in Hampshire, England, I think) which means (in his conception) "the state of reaching 4pm without having achieved anything you were meant to be doing all day, and not knowing whether it is now too late to start, or to simply resign yourself to a wasted day [and go to the pub - my addition]."
Liff (lif) n.
A common object or experience for which no word yet exists.
You need to see Douglas Adams' inspired book The Meaning of Liff, full of words which should exist but don't. One of my favourites is Fareham (incidentally - and completely irrelevantly - a place in Hampshire, England, I think) which means (in his conception) "the state of reaching 4pm without having achieved anything you were meant to be doing all day, and not knowing whether it is now too late to start, or to simply resign yourself to a wasted day [and go to the pub - my addition]."
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