A Brand new word a day 1

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Macrocephalic

Having an unusually large head.

He did manage to spell frottage wrongly though

Sod off and start an Gilbert thread.

palpebration winking

erontquay wrote:palpebration winking

Is that akin to 'heavy petting'.

Yes.

Flapdoodle...... Nonsense

gradgrind.

MEANING:
noun: Someone who is solely interested in cold, hard facts.

Ah, but what is the name for the phenomenon it exemplifies?

sim to Hoover

Gerrymander

Boycott

etc

ie to take a persons name, and apply it to the general phenomena with which they had been associated

After Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian mill-owner in Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times. Gradgrind runs a school with the idea that hard facts and rules are more important than love, emotions, and feelings. Earliest documented use: 1855.

But what do you call the phenomenon of doing that sort of thing, in general?

Stumped I'm afraid ragbru. You will have to tell me

I do not know: that is why I asked.

google says eponyms

I am still not knowing what the verb of 'eponimising' should be!

I like this one,

flummadiddle

USAGE:
"Gilly talks to hear his head rattle. He passes the time with flummadiddles. I learned right away that he says things without giving any thought to them."
Dorothy Garlock; Larkspur; Warner Books; 1997.

farraginous


Composed of a variety of substances.

Baleen


apparently, whalebone is NOT bone

Osculation

noun

1. the act of kissing.

2. a kiss.

3. close contact.

Assoil.... No Not what you think

To pardon.

To atone for.

Quondam.......Former, onetime.

Obsequious

adjective:-

1 characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning:
an obsequious bow.

2 servilely compliant or deferential:
obsequious servants.

3 obedient; dutiful.

Déshabillé


Seems to be one of them borrowed foreign words which roughly translates as nakky.

Bung it in Google images.


I did.

Freegan......an activist who scavenges for free food (as in waste receptacles at shops and restaurants) as a means of reducing consumption of resources

bardolatry

Humourous and excessive admiration of Shakespeare, 'The Bard of Avon'

A modern one :-

Cybersquatting
The practice of registering well-known names as Internet domain names, in the hope of reselling them at a profit.