Haxtrial

adj. Referring to the class of all words deemed unrhymeable, such as orange and purple and, perhaps, bulb, and others still waiting to be uncovered.

“Haxtrial maneuvers are cut short in such languages as Chinese or Vietnamese since it is almost impossible to imagine a deadening of such musical connection.” Words without Sound, Haxtrial Maneuvers in the Mid-17th Century Inverted Ballads of Summerset and Their Influence on the Rise of Particulate Meaning and the Decay of Language Occasioned by the Poetry of the So-Called Enlightenment. Roger Dodger and Tour More de More. 1951.

Brakskreeb

n. The selling of part of one’s own body for profit.

“The brakskreeb was fierce, for the mortgage had to be paid, the children fed, and the medicine provided, though, fortunately, he had one more kidney to live on.” Cancelling the Body Out of Debt. Partsa Live. 1996.

Becreton

n. Geology. A “near granite” that rings with absolute overtone clarity at a frequency of 312 cycles per second under standard barometric conditions when struck by copper, iron, or “amalgamated” bronze “reflector winds” and whose type section (geologist’s term for an almost perfectly clear lithic classified type or example or “find-fitting”) has been located 3.06164 miles south southwest southeast of Best Maine Station, Arizona.

“The several micro near granites, or true becretons placed there by earth forces that had, in the undertones of their existences hundreds of millions of years ago a passionate purpose, it has been more than clearly and beyond any doubt established, have been, now, with intense purpose, played on, for the tunings and outward wave poolings of their structures (four foot diameter platforms resembling miraculously ‘risen plates’ or tonal toadstools) have hyper-musical possibilities, that is, pulsed potentials, which we have only recently begun to explore and, through exploration, inhabit.” Compositions Newly Inscribed on the Air of Those Regions by the Microbecretons of Copper Canyon, Utah, The ‘Flails’ of Prince Edward Island, and the ‘Passionate Pilgrims’ of Patagonia. Recorded by Rodolfo Honda and Rebecca Fleece Rollings [Expanding Soundspaces, Inc.]. 1997.

Obtudinarian

n. Someone of advanced age, who has grown old, moving against the grain — socially, psychologically, politically, etc.

“The obtudinarian of the year award was given to R. Fallweather Snooze, whose life has been spent as, well, a kind of Robin Hood confidence man, returning what he had so skillfully gotten from others and given back with such panache, flavor, and fullness that the law or, in most cases, the ‘injured’ party, had, on all occasions, been asked to ‘forgive the forgiver’ or ‘reclaim the reclaimer,’ in a word, to receive as a gift an often large part of the overflow of his illegal gaining (robbery, of course), which he had, in such stylistic bravado, so graciously returned, since, it is known to many, our obtudinarian of the year has, from the beginning of his so fanciful a career in florid and flavorful deception, it must be said, never taken a penny, a nickel, a dollar, a sawbuck, a greenback, a CD, and investment portfolio that he has not returned, and returned, in deed, with interest, as if he were the manager of a massive trust fund, and I mean ‘returned with interest,’ ladies and gentlemen, in both senses of the word.” Obtudinarians of Note, a Classified Clearbook of the Last One Hundred Years on Which Records Have Been Kept of These Celebrated Personages, Correlating, Clarifying, Criticizing, Commending, and Commenting on the Value and Variability of Such Cases. Dissy Grace Molar. 1938.

Goigrium

n. A plant of the halifax family, sub-branch Euthanasia fallitropus, found in the mythological flora of suicides (c. 1229), there symbolizing death by superconscious, though conspicuous, means, but containing a powerful, pulsing pustule, allowing the entire plant — roots, leaves, stem, and aura — when in its mature state, to become (but only in some universally detached disguise as it went wandering) a great variety (a whole flora) of other shrubs of wholly different genealogies, histories, and characteristics, allowing, therefore, a survival through disguise and therefore beyond disguise.

“The goigrium in her garden resembled poison ivy to the touch, rosebuds to the smell, passion fruit to the unwary, and mango nectar to the unconscious.” Fuguing and Exploration in the Dangerously Delightful World of the Almost Universal Plant and Its Perhaps Near Appendage, the Fungus: Theatrical Disguises, Pulses of Mithridates, Sweeteners from the Isles of the Blest, and Other Fanciful and Magical Devices. Roger Pleadie Kale and Bruce Crankshaft. 1701.

Creech

n. A fellowship of banter, criticism, and complaint.

“The creech you would join, if you could find one to your liking (and it is possible now that you could), would consist, in main, of hard-joking men and women (perhaps a dozen or so — no children, they seem to have their own groups), deep, angry complaints with a fist full of words pointed at the sky, a top-rippling and rip roaring, constant conversation that touched on and bounced off and merged with multiple angularities and ambiguous areas of truly tense, metaphoric mischief, and, as a kind of bound (not bounded) atmospheric glue to hold it all together (piecemeal, of course), a deep rustling of unaligned histories to act as a richly grounded bass for the clues to all these whizzing interactions.” The Creech in Humanity, a Study of Convergences and their Widely Purposeful Interpenetrations. Casey Restless, Root Rumor, and Marion Thrice. 1886.

Stice

n. A semi-sweet, slightly sour and peppery fruit, squarish and measuring on average twenty centimeters in length, green to orange to yellow (depending on the season) with a smell akin to “modified” tangerines, and having a stipply, rigorous skin interspersed with white stars (reverse pores), becoming ripe in mid-April to early May and grown commercially in and around Nagercoil in the Cape Comorin area on the extreme southern tip of the Indic Peninsula.

“The price for a slice of stice on ice is nice.” Folk saying, c. 1965, Southern India. Author unknown.