An eccentric, concentric, collection of eclectic words and thier origins. Because the history of things is much like truth - stranger than fiction.
Monday, January 4, 2016
Giddy with Giggles
Nickelodeon - a nickel show of music or theatrics
Lunch - from luncheon - from nuncheon which means a midday meal or “noon drink”
Book - German for beech since Runes were carved into beechwood slabs
Museum - "a seat or shrine of the Muses"
Glamour - "magical enchantment" . . . and here we have old-school glamour:
Follies - a theatrical revue with lots of pretty girls
Recalcitrant - kicking back!
Reticulate - little net
This is NOT recalcitrant'ing the reticulate . . . but its close:
Axiom - that which is thought worthy
Trance - “fear of coming evil (or, numb with fear)”
Merkabah - wikipedia puts it best: '"chariot" in Hebrew - denotes a type of Jewish mysticism based on Ezekiel's vision of the chariot of fire, i.e., God's throne chariot, a four-wheeled vehicle pulled by four Cherubim, each with four wings and four faces. Note that the Israeli Defense Forces have a main battle tank called the Merkava.'
Access - an attack of fever
Pinocchio - from Italian author Carlo Collodi, probably from Italian pino 'pine' and occhio 'eye'.
Apocalypse: a cataclysmic event which causes “insight, vision; hallucination”
Reishi - from Vietnamese linh chi, literally "spirit mushroom”
Now, a fun string of words that could define a person who imitates a senile fool possessed by spirits.
Giggles - "imitative"
Gaga - "senile, foolish” (but also a Sumerian term for Pluto)
Giddy - old English: meaning “possessed by a spirit”
Cum - from “come” in a sexual way. First used by Bishop Percy in his “Walking in A Meadow Greene”.
Tortoise - Late Latin tartaruchus "of the underworld" or perhaps tortus "twisted," based on the shape of the feet.
Loofah - from Arabic lufah, the plant name from which the sponge grows
Persimmon - Powhatan for any fruit “dried artificially”. Still, i do relish a 3 month old Hoshigaki:
Benedict - newly married man (or, a “blessed bachelor” from Shakespeare’s character of the same name in Much Ado about Nothing; 1599)
SCUBA - acronym for “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus”
Newt - a misdivision of an ewte, from Middle English evete (or “eft”)
Aristotle, and especially Pliny, are responsible for the fiction of an animal that thrives in and extinguishes fires (a salamander). The eft lives in damp logs and secretes a milky substance when threatened, but there is no obvious natural explanation its connection with the myth.
Also used 18c. for "a woman who lives chastely in the midst of temptations" (after Addison), and "a soldier who exposes himself to fire in battle." To rub someone a salamander was a 19c. form of German student drinking toast (einem einen salamander reiben).
LASTLY, i present to the world. . . The New Word of the day:
Shitenfreude - "such extreme laughter from others pain, to point where it make you shit your pants."
Ciao for now, folks!
Keep riding the wave of the winds like little fun-guys. . . as the spirit of ghibli would itself!
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