Sunday, August 30, 2020

It's not a good time to be HAPTIC with each other

What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's...

HAPTIC [HAP-tik] (adjective) 

1. Relating to or based on the sense of touch 
2. Characterized by or favoring the sense of touch 

"You will please keep your hands to yourself," Clara murmured to the haptic Mr. Weems. (TWITO, page 65)



Sunday, August 23, 2020

Doesn't the world seem in a state of HOOROOSH?

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HOOROOSH [who-ROOSH] (noun)

An uproar, a great fuss

"What a hooroosh aloft there! I would e’en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady."
--Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) (TWITO, page 68)

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Somehow it will all CONGLOBATE in the end

What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's....

CONGLOBATE [KONG-lo-bate] (verb) 

To form into a globe or ball 

"He decided to conglobate all of his string into a sort of weird planetesimal."
--Michael Gates, The Word I'm thinking Of (2013)


TWITO, page 33

Sunday, August 09, 2020

Doesn't it seem like there's more TOHUBOHU these days?

What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's....

TOHUBOHU [TOE-hoo-BO-hoo] (noun)

Chaos, confusion

"...it is now easy to see that this bird is the Creator walking in chaos, brooding over the primitive mish-mash or tohu-bohu, and finally hatching the egg of the world."
--Viktor Rydberg, Rasmus Björn Anderson, James William Buel, Teutonic Mythology (1907)

TWITO, page 147