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#Microblog Monday 345: Words

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Cutchicle: a small, rounded lump or crust; as in, “the roasted chicken was crusted with glistening cutchicles.”

Or not.

That word does not exist.

You can find your own non-exist word on the site. My favourites so far are thimblet—though I’m not loving the definition (“fish of a predatory family that includes the sea bass, tuna, and king trout”)—and quintuque (“the first paragraph or so of a book, chapter, or speech as a whole”).

Which words did you find?

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4 comments

1 Mali { 04.05.21 at 7:49 am }

Yay. Going out of daylight savings time means I can now link into microblog Mondays before midnight my time!

I found “analectopia”
a condition in which a half of the eye is injured especially so requiring specialist care

and

“treadful”
concerned or slightly concerned.

2 Virginia { 04.05.21 at 5:34 pm }

I found kitsubo: a person who rides in skis in an awkward position or out of the way of another vehicle- I like the sound of the word more than the definition.
And dobnitely: in a way that is typically oblique or less oblique
This reminds me of playback theatre meeting between Spaniards and Portuguese where we wanted to work on non verbal communication. Our director wanted to work with non existent words and we spent a big part of our travel making up words, just putting random letters together.
That was so much fun, and it was even more fun seeing how people interpreted those words through how they sounded.

3 Jess { 04.05.21 at 10:49 pm }

I got glastronik: 1) a glaciated region of New Zealand. Fun!

How fun! Um, the description of “cutchicle” made me want to yark. Reminded me too much of “corpuscle.” Love thimblet though!

4 Lori Shandle-Fox { 04.07.21 at 9:32 am }

okay, so this is cheating but I couldn’t resist. There is a word I made up years ago that I love. (Pardon my ego.) “Bladlock”: That sudden urge to go to the bathroom when you arrive home and your key goes into the lock of the front door.

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