ergophobic

ergophobic
Someone who fears work. Usually, this word is used jocularly.

Source: Weird And Wonderful Words
Published by: Oxford University Press

retcon

retcon

an often-condemned practice of writers for television and other serial stories, such as comic books, in which they were mentioned previously unknown events in order to justify current plot points. The word is a blend of the words retroactive and continuity.

Source: Weird And Wonderful Words.

Published by: Oxford University Press.

jumentous

jumentous
a very rare adjective meaning 'resembling horses urine.'
In the nineteenth century, the Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and Allied Sciences defined this word as 'a term applied to urine which is high colored, strong smelling, and turbid, like that of the horse.' It comes from jument, an obsolete word that means 'a beast of burden.'

Source: Weird And Wonderful Words
Publisher: Oxford University Press.

Plutoed

The link to the article is in the post title.

Plutoed is the word of the year chosen by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting on Friday.

"To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something" much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto did not meet its definition of a planet. "

I guess to say that Nortel stock got plutoed a few years back would be correct?

Book 'weesles' (oozes) with hundreds of weird words

This is a fitting posting for this site. What do these words have in common? eagre, heterography, oligosyllable, varve and wurp? They can all be found in Oxford University Press' book 'Totally Weird and Wonderful Words.




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