Definition: adj. having hairy buttocks
Quotation: “I hear Julie prefers that her male companions be dasypygal…a refreshing outlook I think.” - dude in a bar
Serious word, funny meaning.

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Definition: noun 1 a: confused or fidgety flurry or activity : commotion b: agitated talk or controversy usually over a trivial matter 2: a choking cloud of dust or smoke 3: mental turmoil
Quotation: “Let the great gods that keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads find out their enemies now” from Shakespeare’s “King [...]

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Definition: adj (of dusklight) shimmering on the horizon at sunset
Quotation: “The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sagethicket. Vamanos, amigos, he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintscraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.” from Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
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Is anyone else as excited as I am about a movie version of the hit television series circa 1965? What’s that, you didn’t watch “Get Smart” reruns on Nick at Nite? You never saw Max talk into his shoe or confer with the Chief under the Cone of Silence?

Silly Max.
I’m pretty sure they [...]

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Definition: adj. being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation (German word for substitute)
Quotation: “Margarine is ersatz butter, kind of like how UConn is ersatz UNC.” - Me
I can’t remember where I first saw this word, but I’m glad I wrote it down. It’s a good one to whip out for an especially [...]

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Definition: 1 : a female slave 2 : a concubine in a harem
Quotation: “Love? What was love?…She saw men saying the same words–the eligible men–the ethereal dons, the hardy cricketeers guzzling stout, the desperate widows with young children, the aging barristers with whom optimism outweighed realism. Then the ones in between, carrying guns [...]

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