acnestis

 

acnestis

1. (zoology) The section of an animal's skin that it cannot reach in order to scratch itself, usually the space between the shoulder blades.

Hypergraphia

 Hypergraphia is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy and in Geschwind syndrome.

 

Young blood transfusion

 Young blood transfusion refers to transfusing blood specifically from a young person into an older one with the intention of creating a health benefit. The scientific community currently views the practice as essentially pseudoscientific, with comparisons to snake oil.

 There are also concerns of harm. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in 2019, cautioned "consumers against receiving young donor plasma infusions" stating that they are an "unproven treatment".

Experiments beginning in the 1950s in the Cornell University lab of Clive McCay on pairs of old and young rodents placed into parabiosis provided some evidence, albeit limited and "largely anecdotal", that the circulation of blood from young mice increased both the longevity and the tissue function of old mice.

adjectival

 

adjectival (comparative more adjectival, superlative most adjectival)

2. (grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.

Synonym: adjective

adjectival syntax

adjectival noun

scarper

 

scarper

(Britain, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.

perplexity

 

perplexity (countable and uncountable, plural perplexities)

1. The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
2. Something that perplexes.

Extra-pair copulation

 Extra-pair copulation (EPC) is a mating behaviour in monogamous species. Monogamy is the practice of having only one sexual partner at any one time, forming a long-term bond and combining efforts to raise offspring together; mating outside this pairing is extra-pair copulation.

 

Extra-pair copulation is common in birds. For example, zebra finches, although socially monogamous, are not sexually monogamous and hence do engage in extra-pair courtship and attempts at copulation.

kookum

 

kookum (plural kookums)

1. grandmother (among the Cree people)

heavenbanning

 heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be replaced by AI models that constantly agree and praise them, but only from their own perspective,

cwtch

 cwtch

a loving cuddle (= an act of holding someone in your arms), especially one that makes someone feel very happy and safe: 

Plankalkül

 Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl]) is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945. It was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer.

K–Pg boundary

 The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, formerly known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) boundary, is a geological signature, usually a thin band of rock containing much more iridium than other bands. The K–Pg boundary marks the end of the Cretaceous Period, the last period of the Mesozoic Era, and marks the beginning of the Paleogene Period, the first period of the Cenozoic Era. Its age is usually estimated at around 66 million years, with radiometric dating yielding a more precise age of 66.043 ± 0.011 Ma.

 

Jammie Dodgers

 Jammie Dodgers are a popular British biscuit, made from shortcake with a raspberry or strawberry flavoured jam filling. 

 

polygonalization

 In computational geometry, a polygonalization of a finite set of points in the Euclidean plane is a simple polygon with the given points as its vertices.

 

Bàofùxìng

 

Bàofùxìng áoyè

(Chinese) Revenge bedtime procrastination — when people without much control over their daily schedules refuse to go to sleep early in order to reclaim a sense of freedom during late-night hours.

naïf

 

naïf (feminine naïve, masculine plural naïfs, feminine plural naïves)

1. naive, dewy-eyed; gullible

Il est vraiment naïf, il a gobé tout ce qu'ils lui ont raconté.

He is really naive; he swallowed everything that they told him.

Duginist

Duginist

The viewpoint espoused by a Russian fascist

beteach

 

beteach (third-person singular simple present beteaches, present participle beteaching, simple past and past participle betaught)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To show; point out.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give; hand over; deliver up; yield.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To hand over as a trust; intrust; commend, commit (someone), usually as a wish expressed on departing; recommend to the care of; give charge to.
1. 
   
2. (transitive, obsolete) To commit or commend (one), by the expression of a wish, to (God, the devil, etc.).

   to beteach one good day

3. (transitive, obsolete) To allot; assign.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To teach; instruct.

Travellers

 

Irish Travellers (Irish: an lucht siúil, meaning "the walking people"), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland.^[6][7][8]

They are predominantly English-speaking, though many also speak Shelta, a language of mixed English and Irish origin. The majority of Irish Travellers are Roman Catholic, the predominant religion in the Republic of Ireland. They are one of several groups identified as "Travellers", related groups being the Scottish Travellers and English Travellers who lean more towards Evangelical Protestantism. 

They are often incorrectly referred to as "Gypsies", but Irish Travellers are not genetically related to the Romani, who are of Indo-Aryan origin. Genetic analysis has shown Travellers to be of Irish extraction, and that they likely diverged from the settled Irish population in the 1600s, likely during the time of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Centuries of cultural isolation have led Travellers to become genetically distinct from the settled Irish. Traveller rights groups long advocated for ethnic status from the Irish government, succeeding in 2017.
 

Kevinism

 In German, Kevinismus ("Kevinism") is the negative preconception German people have of Germans with trendy, exotic-sounding first names considered to be an indicator of a low social class. The protypical example is Kevin, which like most such names came to Germany from Anglo-American culture. Sometimes Chantalismus ("Chantalism") is used as a female equivalent, from the French name Chantal.

Guard hair

 Guard hair or overhair is the outer layer of hair of most mammals, which overlay the fur. Guard hairs are long and coarse and protect the rest of the pelage (fur) from abrasion and frequently from moisture. They are visible on the surface of the fur and usually lend a characteristic contour and colour pattern. Underneath the contour hair is the short, dense, fine down. There are three types of guard hair: awns, bristles, and spines.

 

Sonication

 Sonication is the act of applying sound energy to agitate particles in a sample, for various purposes such as the extraction of multiple compounds from plants, microalgae and seaweeds.

finial

 

A finial (from Latin: finis, end) or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.

In architecture, it is a small decorative device, employed to emphasize the apex of a dome, spire, tower, roof, or gable or any of various distinctive ornaments at the top, end, or corner of a building or structure. A finial is typically carved in stone. Where there are several such elements they may be called pinnacles. The very top of a finial can be a floral or foliated element called a bouquet.

 

Finial of the dome of the Taj Mahal

one-liner

 

A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line. A good one-liner is said to be pithy – concise and meaningful. Comedians and actors use this comedic method as part of their act, e.g. Jimmy Carr, Tommy Cooper, Rodney Dangerfield, Norm Macdonald, Ken Dodd, Stewart Francis, Zach Galifianakis, Mitch Hedberg, Anthony Jeselnik, Milton Jones, Shaparak Khorsandi, Jay London, Mark Linn-Baker, Demetri Martin, Groucho Marx, Gary Delaney, Emo Philips, Tim Vine, Steven Wright, Gilbert Gottfried, Mike Bocchetti, and Henny Youngman.

Many fictional characters are also known to deliver one-liners, including James Bond, who usually includes pithy and laconic quips after disposing of a villain.

 

• "Never read a pop-up book about giraffes." (Sean Lock)
• "Throwing acid is wrong. In some people's eyes." (Jimmy Carr)
• "My girlfriend makes me want to be a better person - so I can get a better girlfriend." (Anthony Jeselnik)
• "Cricket. No matter who wins, both teams, and all the fans, are losers." (Frankie Boyle)
• "If life were easy, it wouldn’t be difficult." (Kermit the Frog)
• "An escalator cannot break, it can only become stairs." (Mitch Hedberg)
• "My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave." (Burt Reynolds)
• "I'm on a whiskey diet… I've lost three days already." (Tommy Cooper)
• "What Iran needs now is a more modern leader—a mullah lite." (Shappi Khorsandi)
• "I have nothing to declare except my genius." (Oscar Wilde, upon arriving at US customs, 1882)^[3]
• "Take my wife ... please." (Henny Youngman)
• "They hired a 3-piece band that was so lousy, every time the waiter dropped a tray, we all got up and danced!" (Les Dawson)
• "What a magnificent show this is going to be when it starts!" (Ken Dodd)
• "I have a girlfriend! I've been going out with my girlfriend for… sex!" (Stewart Francis)
• "I have an L-shaped sofa… Lowercase." (Demetri Martin)
• "Crime in multi-story car parks is wrong on so many different levels." (Tim Vine^[4])
• "My wife – it's difficult to say what she does. She sells seashells on the seashore." (Milton Jones)
• "In Scotland the forbidden fruit is fruit." (Gary Delaney)
• "I collect books on minimalism." (Brian Lister)

 

eruct

 

eruct (third-person singular simple present eructs, present participle eructing, simple past and past participle eructed)

1. (formal) To burp or belch.

speech act

  In the philosophy of language and linguistics, speech act is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information but performs an action as well. For example, the phrase "I would like the kimchi; could you please pass it to me?" is considered a speech act as it expresses the speaker's desire to acquire the kimchi, as well as presenting a request that someone pass the kimchi to them. According to Kent Bach, "almost any speech act is really the performance of several acts at once, distinguished by different aspects of the speaker's intention: there is the act of saying something, what one does in saying it, such as requesting or promising, and how one is trying to affect one's audience".

jerk

 The jerk was a popular or fad dance in the 1960s.
The jerk is similar to the monkey. The arms move and hands move as if conducting. The wrists cross in front of the chest and then sweep out in time, or at half time, with the music. The hands are up at face level. On count 1, the outward sweep, the hands are quickly pushed out, giving the jerky motion. For a little more style, the fingers may be snapped on the two outward movements—the first and third counts of the hand motion.

lammergeier

 The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey and the only member of the genus Gypaetus. Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a separate minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), its closest living relative. It is not much more closely related to the Old World vultures proper than to, for example, hawks, and differs from the former by its feathered neck. Although dissimilar, the Egyptian and bearded vulture each have a lozenge-shaped tail—unusual among birds of prey. It is vernacularly known as Homa, a divine bird in Iranian mythology.

 

Hacking

 Hacking is a training method that helps young birds of prey reach their hunting potential by giving them exercise and experience. This technique is used to prepare the falcon to become an independent hunter. The sequence of the procedure includes captivity, releasing, flight, and either the falcon will be recaptured for falconry or released into the wild. This has also been adapted to other raptor species to preserve the population. Generally, falconers agree that hacked falcons are better and more preferred in the field. 

 

paean

 A paean (/ˈpiːən/) is a song or lyric poem expressing triumph or thanksgiving. In classical antiquity, it is usually performed by a chorus, but some examples seem intended for an individual voice (monody). It comes from the Greek παιάν (also παιήων or παιών), "song of triumph, any solemn song or chant". "Paeon" was also the name of a divine physician and an epithet ("byname") of Apollo.

Paean is now usually used to mean an expression of praise or exultation (such as its coining in the redundant expression "paeans of praise"). A song called "Paean" was used in a Chinese propaganda film called The East Is Red.