Example: I defenestrated my brother ereyesterday. I shall defenestrate my sister overmorrow! Because I hate my family and also windows.
english has some of the best examples of stupidly specific words, tbh
Rhotacism (n): excessive use of the letter “R”
Lingible (adj): meant to be licked
Whipjack (n): a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to have been shipwrecked
Yerd (v): to beat with an object with a stick
Roddikin (n): the fourth stomach of a cow or a deer
Balbriggan (n): a type of fine cotton, most often used in underwear
and my personal favorite
Cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish
This makes the English nerd in me extremely happy.
one day i shall write that someone’s neck is “lingible” and i shall watch for those few whose eyebrows shall rise in judgment while everyone else’s brow is wrinkled in confusion
i can think of at least one lingible neck off the top of my head…
“In this scene, Catwoman wants to whip off the heads of four mannequins. And Michelle’s three months of training really paid off. She performed this difficult and potentially dangerous scene perfectly on the very first take.”
“The trick about it is, it is traveling faster than the speed of sound. So, there’s a certain hazard to it because it can cut skin, it can break bones. She is doing things with the whip that will make Indiana Jones green… that 90 percent of the people who do this for a profession can’t do.”
