Did you know there is a word for “excessive devotion to
one’s wife”? Not spouse but wife. It’s “uxorious”. Triple word score. I came
across it in a book like an explorer in the wild. “What is this strange,
heretofore unknown object?”
Likewise with the word “ewer”. It makes sense to have a term
for a “wide-mouthed pitcher for holding water”, and it is closely related to
the word “sewer”, but it’s not a word to which I was previously acquainted.
“Slipperlick”, “oubliette”, “rumbustious” these are words
which I have stumbled upon and over. And for the curious, they are essentially
a suck up in a secret dungeon with an opening in its ceiling who is feeling
rather boisterous and/or unruly.
And how can the word “lugubrious” be so fun to say and yet
mean “dismal or mournful”?
It is all so very LOL.
