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33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
- AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
- ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
- CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
- COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
- DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
- FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.
- FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
- HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
- HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
- JARNS,
- NITTLES,
- GRAWLIX,
- and QUIMP - Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
- KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
- KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
- LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.
- MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.
- NEF - An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
- OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.
- OCTOTHORPE - The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
- OPHRYON - The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
- PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
- PHOSPHENES - The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
- PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
- RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.
- ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.
- SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
- SCROOP - The rustle of silk.
- SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
- SPRAINTS - Otter dung.
- TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
- WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.
- ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.
7 comments:
Just when I thought you could not be any stranger...you do!
However, your weirdness makes our life together more fun!
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Ah ya. I have a music degree and have never heard of a 64th note being called a hemidemisemiquaver! What? Is this for real? Only you bro, only you!
Ok, Holy Snoggies, what British person was smoking something when they named it that, hemidemisemiquaver? Help us someone!
Ok, sorry. But I typed another one into google and found this
BOANTHROPY
Definition: a type of insanity when a man thinks he is an ox!
LOFLMBO!
Ok schnee..so i copied yours over to spymac...luckily no one commented on mine. haha! Sorry about steeling your blog, it was just so...so..interesting. haha. So here is my comment. Glad you thought about it & not me.haha!
hey. just stumbled upon your blog! knew you were in CO but don't know where. can you send us your email address?
jason and sandy
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