Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Particularly Fun Words

Schadenfreude- to gain pleasure from someone else's misfortune.
Defenestrate- to throw someone out a window.
Drub- to beat someone violently with a stick.
Garbology- the study of trash. (naturally)
Borborygm- when your stomach growls.
Sialoquent- to spit on someone while you speak to them.
Troglodyte- a person that lives in a cave.
Hemidemisemiquaver- a musical timing of 1/64. 
Widdershins- counterclockwise. 
Flink- a group of 12 or more cows. (and all my life I thought it was a herd)

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