Borbazz – An old fashioned type of trombone.
Wourne – A kind of glue used in bookbinding.
Sterr – A general term for all forms of infection of the digestive tract.
Volonalk – A species of giant seaweed, now thought to be extinct.
Outgan – The pledge of loyalty a medieval knight’s wife would make to her husband.
Jobels – The part of a brass hinge that attaches to the door frame, rather than the door itself.
Gafflers – The name for fragments of perished rubber that flake off when it is handled.
Belat – A salad found in Bulgaria, containing green vegetables mixed with raw eggs.
Fownsupp – An archaic slang word for umbrella.
Pereti – The technical term for the cords that hold together a Venetian blind.
Pitypefi – A derogatory name for quack medicines in fancy bottles.
Oscatord – A short flight of steps made of unseasoned wood.
Hasubber – The correct term for the excrement of maggots.
Forcurs – Cracks that appear in the glaze on old china.
There are two things to note here. One is that there are more than thirteen words. The other is that I said there was a definition to go with each one but I never said that those definitions were accurate. In fact, I made them all up. All those “words” are actually word verifications that I encountered when commenting at Blogger sites over the last couple of weeks.
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You're so funny! And creative!
Posted by: Forgetfulone | April 24, 2009 at 12:24 AM
I shall have my son test his band teacher with trombone trivia. Of course I shall show my son how smart I am first:)
Posted by: Lissa | April 24, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Thanks for the laugh!!! I will have to show this to my friends.
Posted by: auto glass arizona | April 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Elaborate, please. "The name for fragments of perished rubber that flake off when it is handled." Perished rubber what? I have too many pictures in my mind to accompany this and some are downright creepy!
Posted by: The Gal Herself | April 24, 2009 at 06:01 PM
I was about to tell you I had such a terrible Sterr that I was hanging on to the Jobels for grim life. The Pitypefi the doc gave me for my allergies is as likely to have caused it as the Belat I had in that fancy restaurant in the city yesterday.
But since you made it up....sniff...I guess the get well card isn't in the post then?
Posted by: bellamocha | April 24, 2009 at 07:21 PM
Clever!
Posted by: Heather | April 24, 2009 at 10:53 PM
You're so funny! Where do you come up with this stuff?
Posted by: Pamela Kramer | April 25, 2009 at 01:45 PM
I'm with Thorne - you would be very good at Balderdash. Although I did think that Hasubber was suspect - the "correct" definition? I couldn't fathom why there would really be that many options to define maggot excrement - glad to know that there aren't!!!
Posted by: Bumbles | April 26, 2009 at 03:04 PM
You have a nifty blog here. I'm just stopping by to look around. And I love it. I'd love to have you over to my site sometime. :)
Posted by: Jenny | April 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM
LOL great list....I've been taking a break from tt but still reading....instead I have tagged you over here if you are game :)
http://mareejaeger.blogspot.com/2009/04/tagged.html
Posted by: MJPhoto | April 29, 2009 at 08:36 PM
Nice to see someone enjoying what they do.
Posted by: IRS Compromise | November 14, 2010 at 09:55 AM