giglet
noun
A merry, light-hearted, playful, romping girl; a giddy, silly, thoughtless girl; a wanton, a strumpet. From which comes, gigleting, or these days giggling – laughing in a foolish manner; trifling behaviour.
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ornature
noun
Decoration.
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thole
verb
To endure; to suffer.
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dysphoria
noun
An unwell feeling; a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction.
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bibliobibuli
noun
A person who reads too much, who is constantly drunk on books.
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acyrologia
noun
An incorrect use of words, particularly replacing one word with another word that sounds the same but has a different meaning.
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vulpinate
verb
To deceive with crafty wiles and deceits; to ‘play the fox’.
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antepenultimate
adjective
Pertaining to the last but two of something;
[from] Latin ante, before, pene, almost, and ultimus, last.
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isabelline
adjective
A pale brownish-yellow colour. From Isabelle, Queen of Spain. When the princess accompanied her husband, Archduke Albertus on his expedition to lay siege to Ostend, the princess vowed to not change her clothes until it was taken. It took three years, and in that time the princess’ linen had acquired the isabelline hue.