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BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Thu September 29, 2022 3:01 pm

invultuation - A form of witchcraft: piercing a wax or clay image of a person in order to harm them.

From Latin invultare (“to stab the face of”), from vultus (“face”).

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Thu September 29, 2022 3:10 pm

BurtReynolds wrote:

Carcinisation (or carcinization) is an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab".

Given enough time, everything becomes crab.

All will become crab. You must accept this truth.

Chris_H_2 · **Posted:** Thu September 29, 2022 3:43 pm

this is why eating crustaceans kind of freaks me out -- we're essentially eating sea insects.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Tue October 25, 2022 8:01 pm

if being a criminal is so bad, why do we invent so many cool words for them?

highwayman
road agent
bandit
brigand
outlaw
ruffian
desperado
marauder
raider
ravager
freebooter
gangster
bandolero
ladrone
dacoit
knight of the road
footpad
land pirate
tobyman
reaver
snaphance
thief errant

bart · **Joined:** Tue January 08, 2013 10:23 pm **Posts:** 3237

Chris_H_2 wrote:

this is why eating crustaceans kind of freaks me out -- we're essentially eating sea insects.

Delicious, delicious sea insects

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Fri October 28, 2022 11:29 pm

Tartuffery - behavior or character of a Tartuffe, esp. hypocritical piety

side note: this word is difficult to say without saying it in a scottish accent.

tree_ · **Posted:** Sat October 29, 2022 12:34 am

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun November 06, 2022 4:45 pm

jejune - naive, simple.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm **Posts:** 42244

BurtReynolds wrote:

jejune - naive, simple.

Thanks for sharing this new word to me.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun November 06, 2022 4:47 pm

Try to use it in conversation this week.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm **Posts:** 42244

BurtReynolds wrote:

Try to use it in conversation this week.

I will my jejune friend.

Whitey McTeeth · **Posted:** Sun November 06, 2022 11:53 pm

Long-dogging-
When a dog extends past normal body length.

Whitey McTeeth · **Posted:** Mon November 07, 2022 12:02 am

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Mon November 07, 2022 12:04 am

that dog has been longed.

Whitey McTeeth · **Posted:** Mon November 07, 2022 12:12 am

Long-dogged.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Wed January 04, 2023 10:05 pm

Chaoskampf - the battle between a storm god and a sea god, who represents primordial chaos; after the storm god’s victory he goes on to create the world. It is ubiquitous in myth and legend, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon. The same term has also been extended to parallel concepts in the religions of the Ancient Near East, such as the abstract conflict of ideas in the Egyptian duality of Maat and Isfet.

knee tunes · **Posted:** Mon January 09, 2023 5:06 am

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Fri January 13, 2023 11:53 pm

glossolalia - the phenomenon of (apparently) speaking in an unknown language, especially in religious worship. It is practiced especially by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sun January 22, 2023 3:34 pm

réchauffé

a dish of warmed-up food left over from a previous meal. Leftovers.

Jorge · **Posted:** Sun January 22, 2023 4:42 pm

Hah, there's a Spanish slang word that sounds similar and means the same thing. Didn't realize it was derived from the French

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