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Omphaloskepsis
\om-fuh-loh-SKEP-sis\

noun
1. contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.

Quotes
There is a word for that, Greek, of course, which has come i... See full quote
-- Lynne Tillman, Cast in Doubt, 1992

Origin
Omphaloskepsis comes from the Greek roots omphalos which means "navel" and sképsis which means "act of looking."
 

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Pterygoid

pter·y·goid (tr-goid)

ADJECTIVE:

1. Of, relating to, or located in the region of the sphenoid bone: a pterygoid muscle.
2. Resembling a wing; winglike.

NOUN:

Either of two processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone.


I like this word because the first time I heard it, it sounded like "teragoid," and I went nuts trying to figure how a "tera-" word would fit in the context. I finally found it in a Gray's Anatomy (an analog reference that was popular pre-Internet).

Besides that, when someone says, "Was that a B or a P?" you can say, "P. As in pterygoid."
 

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Maybe this deserves its own thread, but I like it here:

The latest edition of Black's Law Dictionary has seven thousand five hundred (7,500) new terms. Among them:

intrapreneur
An employee for a large company whose job is to develop innovative ideas or ways of doing business for that company.

gazumping
The improper sale of a house, usu. by raising the price and selling to a different buyer after accepting an earlier offer.

affluenza defense
A newfangled legal defense, generally not recognized, that a youthful offender cannot be held responsible for criminal acts because the wealthy environment in which he or she has reared precluded any learning about right vs. wrong.

one-bite rule
1) The principle that a person or entity gets only one chance to assert the same rights or bring the same claims. — Also termed one-bite-at-the-apple rule. (See res judicata.)
2) A common-law rule or statutory provision holding a dog-owner responsible for any harm or injury caused by the dog only if the owner knows or has reason to know that the dog is dangerous.
 

Haunted

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Weltanschauung

VELT-ahn-shou-oong
noun
1. German. a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.


There's nothing in our Weltanschauung, carefully considered, that could object to a masculine eros.
-- Jonathan Littell, translated by Charlotte Mandell, The Kindly Ones, 2009
Origin

Weltanschauung
entered English in the 1860s from German meaning "world-view."
 

Haunted

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moosemilk

\MOOS-milk\ noun

1. Canadian. homemade or bootleg whiskey.
2. Canadian. a cocktail of whiskey or rum and milk.

Quotes

My first drink was dad's moose milk. That's what he called it. Moose milk on accounta he brewed it so it come out kinda foggy lookin' in the glass. White, kinda, a watery lookin' white.
-- Richard Wagamese, Ragged Company, 2008
 
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A figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax.

A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory. - Winston Churchill​
 
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