The Daily Buzz

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Welcome to the DAILY BUZZ!
Where all the magnificent, bizzare, grandiloquent words gather and join to please you!

Buzzword for:
#17
4/26/2008
Deanthropomorphisation
Definition:
A greek dean of a greek college.

#16
4/25/2008
Islet
Definiton:
A very small island.

#15
4/24/2008
Upheaval
Definition:
Small but extrememly deadly earthquake.

#14
4/23/2008
Psilosophy
Definition:
A very bad psychologist.

#13
4/22/2008
Garglesthesia
Definition:
The feeling of laughter when tickled.

#12
4/21/2008
Cromnyomancy
Definition:
A type of divination using onions.

#11
4/18/2008
Xylophagous
Definition:
One who eats wood.

#10
4/17/2008
Dextrosinistral
Definition:
A left-handed person trained to use his right hand.

#9
4/16/2008
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
Definition:
Pertaining to extremely long words.

#9
4/15/2008
Hecatompedon
Definition:
A building that is either 100 feet long or tall or wide.

#8
4/14/2008
Harpactophage
Definition:
A predator that feeds on insects.

#7
4/11/2008
Nelipot
Definition:
One that walks without shoes.

#6
4/10/2008
Chrysochlorous
Definition:
A color of greenish goldish.

#5
4/9/2008
Haptodysphoria
Definition:
The unpleasant feeling of touching something fuzzy. (I don’t get that often.)

#4
4/8/2008
Margaritomancy
Definition:
divination with pearls, usually by either casting pearls or studying pearls in oysters. The word is derived from the Latin margarita, meaning pearl.

One ancient use of margaritomancy involved throwing a pearl into a cast iron pot that was sitting in a fire and watching it to determine a person’s guilt or innocence in a crime. If the pearl started moving then the person was believed to be guilty. If it stayed in place they were not guilty.

#3
4/7/2008
Jaculiferous
Definition:
An animal which has a dart-like spine.

#2
4/4/2008
Agathocacological
Description:
One that is composed of good and evil.

#1
4/3/2008
Alectryomancy
Definition:
A form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds (or most preferably a white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain (such as wheat) that the diviner has scattered on the ground. The observer may place grain in the shape of letters and thus discern a divinatory revelation by noting which letters the birds peck at, or the diviner may just interpret the pattern left by the birds’ pecking in randomly scattered grain.

In another version, the observer tethers the bird in the center of a circle, around the perimeter of which is marked the alphabet, with a piece of grain at each letter. For each grain the bird pecks, the observer writes down the letter which that grain represents. The observer also replaces each grain as the bird eats it, so that letters may be repeated. The sequence of letters recorded will presumably contain a message.