Weird and Wonderful Words (Part 5: O,P Q)

Well, it’s time to add more weird and wonderful words to our vocabularies!  Look back at the previous installments of this series: Weird and Wonderful Words Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4….and enjoy Part 5!

Defenestrate is still one of my favorite words of all times, but I might find a new favorite here:

O Words:

Onychophagy – The habit of biting one’s fingernails

Obsolagnium – Waning sexual desire due to age

Ochlophobia – Fear of crowds

Odonterism – Chattering of teeth

Oikology – The science of housekeeping

Opsimath – One who learns late in life

Ozostomia – Bad breath

I guess I am just an opsimath! I never did learn oikology, and I still do a bit of onychopagy once in a while. But at least I don’t have obsolagnium or ozostoma!

 

P Words:

Pabouche – A slipper

Parorexia – A desire to eat strange foods

Peccable – Liable to sin

Perruquier – Wig maker

Peruke – A frilly wig

Phengophobia – Fear of daylight

Philopornist – Lover of prostitutes

Philosophunculist – One who pretends to know more than one knows to impress others

Pogonotomy – The act of cutting a beard

Pyknic – Short and fat (I guess if you have too many picnics!)

Pinguid – Fat

Plurilateral – Having more than three letters

Puericulture – Child-rearing

You know how there is no corrigible, but there is incorrigible? And there is indignant, but no dignant??? Well, there IS impeccable and peccable!

I am glad I don’t have phenogophobia! If I did, I would have to put on my peruke and go skulking about at night! Then I might be peccable. However, that is not the case, and my puericulture is fine, evidenced by the fact that my children are not pinguid or pkynic. Nor do they have podobromhidrosis!

Q Words:

Qualtagh – The first person you see after leaving your house

Quidnunc – Someone who always wants to know what is going on

Quagswag – To shake to and fro

Quiddle – A fastidious person

Quinquagenarian – A person between 50 and 59 years old

Quinquiplicate – To multiply by 5

Quat – A pimple or insignificant person

Quoz – An absurd person or thing

My friend is such a quiddle! When we go out dancing, she won’t even quagswag! Even though she is a quinquagenarian, she doesn’t have to be such a quoz!

Well, gotta go now..I feel a bit of parorexia coming on. . .

 

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