adj. Of or relating to an egg cell.

Mr Dixon,..took on to ask of Mr Mulligan himself whether his incipient ventripotence,..betokened an ovoblastic gestation in the prostatic utricle.
Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)

All the big words in the above quotation are fun as well. Sprinkle “utricle” into conversation wherever possible.

I know you talk about egg cells on a regular basis, so this will be an especially useful word to you. For me however, I just like to say it because it has “blastic” in it. Sounds dangerous. Like it might blow up at any minute. Resulting, of course, in an egg-splosion.

adj. Rich in story.

This is..Some lone land of genii days, Storyful and golden!
Poems, The Lovely Land, James Clarence Mangan (1846)

I’m flabbergasted that this word hasn’t had more of a life to it. It turned up surprisingly few results on Google. Of all the words I’ve posted thus far, this might be the most usable. The meaning is undeniably apparent.

It’s not every that funny or silly of a word. Have I run out of them? Of course not. This word just appealed to me because it’s so user-friendly. The OED can say it’s a nonce word, I will tag it as such, but from now on it’s will be resurrected as a flavoriferous word to describe a really juicy tale.

Movies that have a great plot are storyful, your last family vacation is storyful, last night was probably storyful — I wish I could remember it.

Go out into the wild and tell your storyful stories! And if the squirrels aren’t interested go back to civilization and tell your storyful stories!

Oh boy have I got some storyful gossip for you. Did you hear about so-and-so doing such-and-such? Gross, right!?

noun. A Female tutor.

A pratling Nurse is a better Tutrix to her foster-child.
Didascalocophus, George Dalgarno (1680)

I speculate that after the word dominatrix became popular in people’s vocabulary, the “-trix” suffix became less popular. “-tress” and “-trice” have taken its place. It’s a shame really, now we don’t know many words to use that X with while playing Scrabble.

Maybe someone can pick this word up to describe their dominatrix-style tutoring program. College boys would surely study for all their tests.

Alternatively, if you are slightly better than a one-trick-pony, you’re a tutrix.

Now for a game of Scrabble. Oh please, oh please Scrabble Gods, let me get an X!

noun. A place where people are held before being killed.

The violent jerks from excess to excess of the patients at Dr Sacks’s pseudonymous New York hospital — ‘not a sanatorium but a thanatorium’, as one of the inmates remarked.
The Times (1976)

The first part of this word is actually from Thanatos — Greek for death. Despite being classified as a nonce-word in the OED, it does have more than one citation. It had a life, albeit short lived and in the same newspaper.

It does, however, seem like it could be useful in certain contexts: in describing the holding place of convicts on death row, an area with livestock ready to be slaughtered, the house of your in-laws, etc.

If you say Sanatorium with a lisp, beware. You might be sending someone to the wrong place.

adj. Mockingful, satiricalish.

I made a little quizzacious attack upon the bishop.
Works a 1832, Jeremy Bentham (1843)

I made the definition more betterful by adding coolish suffixesises. Doesn’t it make me sound much smarterer?

Anyway, quizzacious is a fun substitute for quizzical for you to use. But the sound of the word makes it… I don’t know… fuller? Quizzical sounds intellectualer and logicalish, but quizzacious sound like has more meat on its bones when I say it aloud.

Next time, stay tuned for a Quizzical Quiz for Quirky Quizzacious Quolls.

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

noun. Boxing or fighting. (OED says “Pugilistic Performances.” They they go trying to sound all smart-like.)

I soon found my sisters, who were taken into a house during my pugnastics.
His reminiscences, Henry Angelo (1830)

No, it’s not a pug doing gymnastics. As entertaining as that would be (alas, YouTube returned no good results) that’s not what this word is about.

I’ve always been a fan of the word pugnacious, and I enjoy this word by association. Pugnacious people do pugnastics. Just as gymnacious people do gymnastics. You know, gymnacious… flexible. Makes sense, yeah?

Have you noticed that  I like to make up words? And they will all catch on in popular culture some day. And if you say otherwise, I might have to go pugnastic on your ass.

noun. A quibbler, One who makes trivial criticisms.

He  is indeed..the prince of Pettifogulisers.
The Common Reader: 2nd Series, Virginia Woolf (1932)

I like the sound of this word. I don’t think I need any other reason to post it, right? It also falls into the category of words you can use for name-calling without getting into too much trouble because no one else will know what the word means. Unless of course they read this blog — which is  highly unlikely.

It’s probably safe to use, so I will. If you’re ever called a Pettifogulizer, it’s probably me. Introduce yourself. I’d be happy to meet one of my two readers.

noun. A small loaf.

Crisp home-made loaflets.
Beauchamp’s career, George Meredith (1876)

The best thing since sliced bread: smaller sliced bread!

It’s like regular bread, but cuter. Just saying a “loaf” is very unspecific. If there’s a standard loaf size, I’m not aware of it. Sure, there are averages for your everyday kinds of sliced wheat and white, but what about other kinds of bread?

There’s a loaf for every occasion and just as many sizes. Don’t look for a loaf for all seasons, throw some new ideas in the oven. Shop around. Broaden your hoRYEzons.

If your local grocery store is advertising a sale on small loaves of bread, you might get a loaflet leaflet.

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