Greetings and happy FEBRUARY. From the Latin root februa we get the "month of purification.” So cleanse, fast, abstain you way to a better 2017 and healthier life – just don’t go “purging” anybody.
Now onto the update of new, fun, and odd etymologies!
Cafuné (Portuguese) – to pass or run your fingers slowly through somebody’s hair.
Cocoon – a large flat bean from Africa
(something is not right here . . . )
Oology – the study of bird eggs
(The man know's his stuff, really, ask him a question. Anything!)
Quadroon – 1/4th African blood
Shinrin yoku – a Japanese verb meaning, “forest bathing”.
(i will let you discover the real meaning behind this fun word from 1986 is. . . .)
Quaff – “drink copiously”
(. . . an activity only for mad-men)
Tycoon – a great prince
(This online searhc-result is not what i had in mind)
Oneiromancy – using dreams to foretell the future
("i see dead people. . . . eventually")
Orchid - from the Greek word for “testicles”
(no pictures, please)
Oogonium - the female reproductive organ in algae or fungi
Peripatetic - a walking school, as taught by a meandering Aristotle in 335BCE
(Can you identify the two center peripatetic fella's here?)
Psycho-naut - a “soul sailor”
(A man drawn by the late, great, and uncanny Moebius; a gal' painted by the questionable Robby Donaghey)
Bona-roba - “a fine wench!” but generally used to mean “good-stuff” in Italian.
CALOYER - a Greek monk from kalós (beautiful) & geras (old age)
Quixotic - caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality.
Befuddle - to confuse with strong drink or opium
Epiphyte - parasitic vegetable
Genius - from geni or “spirit guardian”
Bidet - a small horse, or pony.
Pronoia - believe that there is a conspiracy to benefit the world - on your behalf
Now to end this section with two new invented words, from you’re truly, here you go:
1) if you ever reflect on childhood memories then sigh while smiling at the same time, it may be that you’ve experienced “MELLON-JOLLY”
2) when olfactory (smell) excites incredible memories and flashback to deep emotional events in you’re history, it’s “NOSE-STALGIA.”
That's it folks,
Ciao for now!
