Is your drone VOLITANT?

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VOLITANT (adj)

1. Flying, or capable of flying.
2. Moving about rapidly.

"When Mother gets violent, frying pans get volitant." (TWITO, page 157)

A variant is VOLITATION (TWITO, page 158) = the act of flying; flight. "Dreams of volitation led Professor Spillings to invent many crash-prone flying machines."

Is your Xmas tree CLINQUANT?

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CLINQUANT (adj)

Glittering, but usually in a false or cheap way, like tinsel

"No, there are too many of these fine sparks you talk of who perhaps may be very clinquant, slight, and bright and make a very pretty show at first, but the tinsel-gentlemen do so tarnish in the wearing, there's no enduring them."
--Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso (1676)

I once had a cat that liked to eat the tinsel (of the "icicle" type) off the Christmas tree. Maybe he had an iron deficiency. Anyway, he always threw it up later, in a sort of shiny hairball, which was both pretty from a distance and disgusting close up -- like many things, I guess. (TWITO, page 32)

Would you like a TANTARA when you enter the room?

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TANTARA (noun)

A trumpet or horn fanfare

“Augusta always made quite an impression. Whenever she entered a room, I could almost hear a tantara.” (TWITO, page 145)

Sleepy? Solve your problems the HYPNOETIC way

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HYPNOETIC (adjective)

Pertaining to logical but unconscious mental processes

"When Horace said he would 'sleep on it,' we knew the problem was about to be solved, thanks to his hypnoetic talents." (TWITO, page 68)

Are CARRIWITCHETS the lowest form of humor?

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Carriwitchet (noun)

An absurd question, a pun, a quibble, a conundrum; a jocular or facetious comment

So this hydrogen atom walks into a bar. He goes up to the bartender and orders a beer. He says to the bartender, "I think I've lost an electron." The bartender says, "Are you sure?" The electron says, "Yes, I’m positive." So this carton of yogurt walks into a bar. He goes up to the bartender and orders a beer. The bartender says, "Hey, buddy, we don’t serve yogurt in here." The yogurt says, "Why not? I’m a cultured individual." Etcetera, etcetera. Those are carriwitchets. (TWITO, page 29)