The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt through the Lost Words of the English Language (24 page)

tears of the tankard, the
185

time machines
179

tipling house
177

under-skinker
181

vice admiral of the narrow seas
185

vinolent
184

vinomadefied
184

wankle
184
–
185

wheelbarrow, as drunk as a
191

wise or otherwise
191

wowser
176

Chapter 17: 10 p.m.

accismus
202
–
204

agastopia
197
–
198

amatorcultist
205

amatorial
199

anuptaphobia
200

arrision
199

Baker Street, changing at
213

baltering
208

balum-rancum
207

bathycolpian
198

bellibone
202

biscot
209

breems
201

buff-ball
207

callipygian
198

carnal confederacy
213

cataglottism
210
,
213

caterwauling
195
–
196

clickets
201

comfortable importance
212

cowfyne
202

croons
201

dangler
199

dioestrus
196

dragging time
193

eassins
201

equinecessary
214

fanfreluching
213

fangast
212
–
13

figurant
200

fillip, give nature a
194

flesh-company
213

fleshling
193

fleshment
211

flichter
200

flichter-fain
200

fondlesome
211
,
213

fribbler
213

gamomania
212
–
13

gazehound
199

green-gown
194

gymnopaedic
207

haker
199

hot cockles
213

imparlibidinous
214

interunion
213

jazz
213

jelly-roll
213

jig-a-jig
213

jockumcloying
213

‘Kill me’
201

last favour, the
213

lawful blanket
212

mamihlapinatapai
208
–
209

mariturient
212

meddling
213

melling
213

minauderie
199

Moll Peatley
213

mollocking
213

murder
201
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mutton-monger
193

natiform
198

need-sweat
200

‘Nolo Episcopari’
204

nympholepsy
215

ogler
199

Ogo-Pogoing
195
–
196

old hat
213

osculable
209
,
213

oscularity
210

osculary
210

osculatrix
210

parabore
204
–
205

passiuncle
214

pavonize
199

pickaroon, out on the
195

Pisgah sight
214
–
15

pom-pom
213

poop-noddy
213

proling
194
,
196

propassion
197

quaffing
213

rattles
201

rum-strum
199
–
200

shake a hough
206

shrikes
201

Sir Berkeley
213

smell-smock
205

smicker
197

smickering
197

snilcher
199

snoutfair
202

spanandry
196

sprunt, to
195

subagitation
213

subarrhations
213

supersaliency
214

‘Suppose we get together and split a herring’
201

swiving
213

tacturiency
211
–
12

terp, to
207

terpsichorical
207

thelyphthoric
205
–
206

tripudiate
206

twiddle-poop
205

velleity
199

Venus exercise, the
213

visuriency
211
–
12

wapping
213

whineth
201

wonder wench
202

‘Wouldst like to con a glimmer with me this early black?’
201

‘You’re a V-NOS, baby’
205

Chapter 18: 11 p.m.

agatewards
218
–
19

ale-knights
217

barguest
224

bug hunters
224

California blanket
224

circumforaneous
224
–
225

corpse-hooks
224

danna-drag
224

degringolade
223

devotional habits
222
–
223

diverticulums
220

dog-weary
221

dolmus
217

donestres
224

écorchés
224

eternity box
224

extravagant
220

final, to
217

gyrovague
220

hircocervus
224

humicubation
223

labascate
223

late bright
217

mascaron
225

montivagant
220

moon-curser
219

mort
224

multivagant
220

mundivagant
220

nemorivagant
220

night-foundered vicambulist
220

noctivagant
220

nubivagant
220

nullibiety
221

nullibiquitous
221

omnivagant
220

pixelated
221

pixilated
221

royal footpad
219

royal scamp
219

seel, to
223

sheep bed
224

skimbleskamble oberration
221

slidder
218

solivagant
220

sooterkins
224

spartle
224

trance
220

trilly, to
217

twitchels
220

uncuses
224

vagulate
220

vespilone
224

whangdoodle
224

wharve
220

wheady mile, upon the
221

white sergeant
218

xenodocheionology
224

xenodochial
224

Chapter 19: Midnight

apodysophilia
231

arseling pole
227

beauty-sleep
227

bed faggot
227

Bedfordshire, head up the weary wooden hill to
231

bedwards
229

beggar’s velvet
233

bene darkmans
236
,
238

blores
228

bull’s noon
228

candle-wasters
231

clinophobic
229

consopiation
236

couchée
236

counterpanes
236

creep-mouse
229

curtain lecture
234
–
235

discalcing
233

dowse the glims
236

dragonism
234

dream drumbles
236

dreamery
236

ecdysiasm
232

ecdysiast
231
–
232

epitrope
235

fugacious
235

gymnologising
234

hay, hit the
231

healing
236

hog’s head, couch a
231

levament
235

lucubatory
230
–
231

lucubrate
230

lychnobites
230

midnight follies
230

myoclonic jerk
236

nightingale floor
228
–
229

night-spell
236

panes
236

paralipsis
234
–
235

philogrobolized
230

phrontistery
231

Ponk, the
236

Scotch warming pan
236

screak
229

snudge
233

soss
229

subderiserous
235

surrepent
229