Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Polycephaly

Polycephaly is a condition of having more than one head.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Picaresque

Of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero. See "Picaresque novel"

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Parapraxis

A minor error, such as a slip of the tongue, thought to reveal a repressed motive. Ex) a Freudian slip

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Wabi-sabi

Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".

Sunday, January 01, 2012

Mountebank

1. A person who deceives others, esp. in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
2. A person who sold patent medicines in public places.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Theriomorphic

Having an animal form

Friday, November 11, 2011

Uxoricide

1. The killing of a wife by her husband
2. A man who kills his wife

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Fungible

adj- Interchangeable

Saturday, August 06, 2011

Fubsy

adj.
- chubby and somewhat squat

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Hornswoggled

1. Bamboozled
2. Duped

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Tergiversate

–verb (used without object), -sat·ed, -sat·ing.

1.
to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
2.
to turn renegade.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Pedant

  1. One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules.
  2. One who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously.
  3. A person who relies too much on academic learning or who is concerned chiefly with insignificant detail.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

De Novo

Latin expression meaning "beginning anew", "afresh".

bildungsroman

A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.

Sisyphean

1. of or pertaining to Sisyphus.
2. endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.