Sunday, 16 December 2012

These are from here.

12 Enjoyable Names for Relatively Common Things 


  1. box tent : the plastic table-like item found in pizza boxes
  2. jamais vu : that feeling of seeing something for the first time, even though there’s nothing new about it
  3. paresthesia : that tingling sensation when your foot falls asleep
  4. grawlix : the string of typographical symbols comic strips use to indicate profanity (“$%@!”)
  5. caruncula : the small, triangular pink bump on the inside corner of each eye
  6. badinage : another word for playful banter
  7. rhumba : a group of rattlesnakes
  8. dringle : to waste time by being lazy
  9. agraffe : the wire cage that keeps the cork in a bottle of champagne
  10. wings : those back flaps on a bra
  11. rasher : a single slice of bacon
  12. purlicue : the web between your thumb and forefinger

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

From Briar!

Barbe a papa means candy floss in French but literally translates as dad's beard.

Oh and I learnt the greatest word the other day in one of the classes, no idea how we got on to it but the word for bow tie is noeud papillon which literally translates as knotted butterfly.