Weird and Wonderful: Obambulate over this way
More of Erin’s Weird and Wonderful Words:
obambulate
[ob-AM-byuh-late]a rare word meaning ‘to walk about, wander’. Obambulatory is the adjective, meaning ‘habitually walking around’. Most of the citations in the OED seem to refer to ghosts and spirits. From a Latin word meaning ‘to walk’.
icasm
[EYE-kaz-um]a figurative expression. From a Greek word meaning ‘to make like’.
concinnous
[kun-SIN-us]a neat and elegant adjective meaning ‘neat, elegant’
tyrotoxism
[tye-roh-TOCK-siz-um]cheese-poisoning. This particular ptomaine (diazobenzene hyrdroxide) can also be found in bad milk. From Greek words meaning ‘cheese’ and ‘poison’.
agalaxy
[ag-uh-LACK-see]lack of milk after childbirth. This is same galaxy as the starry one; both come from a Greek word meaning ‘milk’. Lack of milk for a child and lack of stars seem, in a mother’s mind, to be equal catastrophes.
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