The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt through the Lost Words of the English Language (23 page)

gastolaters
98

gastrophilanthropist
92

goinfres
98

golofers
98

groke
93

guddle
96

gullet-fanciers
98

gundy-guts
96

gutguddler
96

guttle
95
–
96

horse’s meal
94

ingurgitating belly-gods
98

katapepaiderastekenai
103

kickshaw
98

mock turtle soup
99
–
100

pingle
97

pinguid
97

precibals
93

residentarian
100
,
103

rypophagy
100

scambler
93

Sir Timothy (Treat-All)
92

slap-bang shop
92

tooth music
96

turtle-eater
98
–
100

wamblecropt
101
–02

wambling
101
–02

Chapter 9: 2 p.m.

avuncular
111

causey-webs
106

‘Copy’
113

doundrins
106

ergophobia
105
,
107

facienda
110

gongoozle
106
–07,
110

maritorious
111

materteral
111

matriotic
111
,
114

nooningscaup
105

patrizate
111

philadelphian
111

philodelphian
111

philopater
111

philoprogenitive
111

‘Reading you five’
113

rizzle
107
–08

‘Roger’
113

‘Securité!’
114

sesquihoral
106

siesta
105

sloom
108
–09

snudge
107

streke
109

uxorious
110
–
11

‘Wait out’
113

‘Wilco’
113

Chapter 10: 3 p.m.

action-taking
123
–
124

batie-bum
123

blindcinques
117

blunkerkin
123

buzz-wig
115

celestial
115

chasmophiles
117
,
120

downsizing
125

drogulus
118
–
19
,
122

drumble-dore
123

eye-servants
120

finical
123
–
124

foozler
123

gabos (G.A.B.O.S.)
124
–
125

hedge creeper
116

‘Imshi!’
116

incloacate
116

juffler
123

keys to the indoor tank park, the
119

king-fish
115

latibulaters
116

lip-labourers
120

lollygagging
115

lolpoops
115

loobies
115

lurdans
118

maflard
123

meeting without coffee, a
120
–
22

mercaptans
116

michers
116

mob-master
115

narcotraficantes
124

oniomania
120

pigeon milk
119

ploitering
120

purple dromedary
122
–
123
,
125

puzzle-pate
123

rascal-jacks
117

rightsizing
125

sack, to
125

satrapon
115

scobberlotchers
117

shaffles
123

shite-rags
118

sleeveless errand
119

streamlining
125

super-serviceable
123
–
124

tall boy
115

tarrarags
117

theomeny
122

tintinnabulate
121

top-hatter
115

Chapter 11: 4 p.m.

Assam
130

bitch
131

blash
129

boul
131

cat-lap
129

cha
127
,
133

Chado
127
–
128

chanoyu
127

chatter broth
131

‘Congo’
132

Darjeeling
131

drowned the miller
129

gunfire
129

husband’s tea
129

Lapsang Souchong
130

maiden’s pee
129

moo juice
132

nostalgie de la boue
127

overdrawn
131

potty
131

scandal broth
131

seppuku
128

Sinhala (Ceylon)
130

skeuomorph
131
–
132

tasseography
133

theist
128

thermopotes
132

Chapter 12: 5 p.m.

betwattled
135

charette
138
–
40

cinqasept
135

crawly-mawly
141

dieta
135

eleutheromania
141
–
142

eschaton
136

estovers
142

expleted
141

festinating
141

fisk
140

fit of the clevers
136

frobly
141

frobly-mobly
141

grave digger, like a
140

immure
137

lestobiosis
142

niffle
142

panic party
139
–
40

perendinate
141

perfurnished
141

perimplenished
141

procrastinate
141

quality of doneness
141

seven beller
140
–
141

shemozzle
140

shturmovshchina
136
–
40

upwound
141

very throng
140

vomitorium
143

Chapter 13: 6 p.m.

advesperate
145

aglets
151

belamies
153

cockshut
145

commensal
149

commensation
149

compadres
153

compotation
149

consociators
153

constable
150
–
151

cut direct, the
151

cut indirect, the
151

cut infernal, the
151

cut sublime, the
151

decognise
152

devitation
152

didapper
152

dimpsy
149

exergastic
146

familiars
153

flânerie
146
–
149

flâneur
147

friars
153

gin pennant
153
–
154

heel
150
–
151

inwards
153

judasly
152

makes
153

marrows
153

meander
148

mense and their meat, have their
154

mogshade
148

murkens
149

obnubilates
145
,
149

pollicitations
153

sauntry
149

scamander
148

scoperloit
148

shoulderclapper
152

sociates
153

sociuses
153

tillicums
153

tread-wheeled
146

vesperal
145

vespers
145

vespertilionize
145

vespertine
145
,
148

vespery
145
–
146

Chapter 14: 7 p.m.

aisle-leapers
157

blister packs
158

bottle glorifiers
158

cannibalism
158

costards
155

danglers
157

exploding offer
158

facing
158

footfall
156

gondolas
157

Gruen transfer
155
–
156

islands
157

kick band
157

light thief
157

price channel
157

romancing the customer
158

shelf miser
157

traffic
156

wobblers
157

Chapter 15: 8 p.m.

anthypophora
168

bedinnered
173

begin the board
164

blind man’s dinner
173

bromide
166
–
167

bumpsy
162

buz
171

cenacle
163

cenatory
169

coenaculous
162
–
163

collocation
168

colloquialist
165

colloquist
165

deipno-diplomatic
165

deipnophobia
165

deipnosophist
165

dianoea
168

dinner
161

discumbed
164

‘Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?’
170

duologue
168

Dutch feast
162

gnomon
169

golopshusly
173

halalcor
162
–
163

hold the dais
164

interjaculate
168

interjaculatory
168

kittle pitchering
167

lollop
164

marshalled
163

quafftide
173

‘Remember Parson Malham’
170

rere supper
161

reward, at one’s
164

rhubarbing
165
–
166

supper
161

supperward
161

swank
171

tailor’s mense
171
–
173

tetralogue
168

tocsin
162

triclinum
164

‘Who has any lands in Appleby?’
170

‘Who is Peter Lug?’
170

‘Who skinks?’
169

withershins
170

yule hole
172
–
173

Chapter 16: 9 p.m.

admiral of the narrow seas
185

admiraless
186

alehouse
177

ale-washed
184

alms drinks
187

antithalians
176
–
177

ape drunk
189

apolaustics
176
–
177

bawdy house bottle
181

beer-goggles
192

beer-sodden
184

bibbery
178

bingo-mort
181

birler
181

blind pig
178

bombard man
181

canteen medals
185

Centzon Totochtin
190

compotation
176

David’s sow, as drunk as
192

drink-water
176

drunkery
177
–
178

dry-drinking
175

four hundred rabbits, as drunk as
191

fox drunk
189

fresh-boiled owl, as drunk as a
190

fud
178

fuddler
178

fuddling
178

fuddling-school
178

Ganymede
180

goat drunk
189

guggle
182

Hebe
180

heel-taps
187

hydropot
176

island, the
186

jambled
191

kalopsia
192

Knight of the Spigot
180

lanspresado
179

lickspiggot
181

lion drunk
189

lovethoughts
192

madefied
184

marine
188

marine officer
187
–
188

marine recruit
188

martin drunk
189

maudlin drunk
189

nappy ale
181

nepenthe
182

nephalist
176

nimtopsical
191

onion, smelt an
191

Ose system
188

owlers
177

pandoratrix
180

perpotation
176

pooning
183

potation-shop
177

quafftide
175

royal poverty
181

sheep drunk
189

Sir John Strawberry, made too free with
191

Sir Richard has taken off his considering cap
191

sluiceries
177

small go, a
176

snake-room
179

snecklifter
179
–
80

snuggery
182
–
183
,
185

soldier’s bottle
181

speakeasy blind tiger
177
–
178

spunkie
181

Squire of the Gimlet
180

stagger-juice
182

strip me naked
181

super nonsensical
191

supernaculum
186
–
187

swine drunk
189

tapster
181

taradiddles
176