User:DrAckroyd/notepad

I am playing with this feature.

Spurious Terms

I had this idea that there are a few "spurious terms" that have no Earthly analog and that are not references, citations or phantoms. This means that there are essentially UNDEFINED terms in the encyclopedia.

As I find them I'll add them here for reference:

• couthblossom (Hatties Day) - A plant presumeably?
• emphyteusis (Doc Rockett) - as used it implies a disease but I found it defined in the real world as the act of emplanting or improving land.
• gargarational (Brothers of the Lantern) - Your guess is a good as mine
• glitterthought - (Battle of Barnum Stones) - some sort of narrative?
• glugfeffil (Looliers) - a tool or artifact?
• honng/hongg (Brothers of the Lantern) - Your guess is a good as mine
• obith (Awal shrinkage) - Some property of mass?
• trefk (in a scholarly comment in Aelfants) - Presumeably a rude word
• trunggalist (Doc Rockett) - An occupation
• verapsnik (Looliers) - Some sort of religious items?
• wizzlard - (Jemima and the Square Do-Gooders) - Profession? Title? Some sort of -mancer?

Some of the veil has been lifted:

• Barolo (Adlorst Vinifera) - Some kind of wine?
  • In real life, an Italian red wine from the Piedmont. --Jcowan 10:49, 14 Dec 2004 (EST)
• Rioja (Adlorst Vinifera) - A libation of some kind?
  • In real life, a Spanish red, white, or rose wine, presumably the red this time. --Jcowan 10:49, 14 Dec 2004 (EST)
• calvados (Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood) - Possibly a proper noun. Maybe a plant or animal of some sort.
  • In real life, French apple brandy. --Jcowan 10:49, 14 Dec 2004 (EST)
• tonsoral art (Brothers of the Lantern) - surely not art on one's tonsils. is it?
  • That's "tonsorial art", and it means the art of cutting people's hair. See [justfuckinggoogleit.com]! --Jcowan 10:49, 14 Dec 2004 (EST)
• Quezloos - (Bobby Shwarmph) - A unit of money or exchange
  • See Harrabloon Bank and Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge. Quezlarian Ooo, for which Quezloo is an abbreviation, is on the phantom list. --Jcowan 10:49, 14 Dec 2004 (EST)

Defined in context:

• from Captain Riquiras):
  • breakas - A rude exclaimation (from "By Riquiras").
• from Battle of Barnum Stones & Harv Gretborn:
  • canoralists - N. Traditional producer of ritual music.
  • canoral - N. A form of ritual music.
• from Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge:
  • dovination - N. The use of dove calling patterns to determine the future and lost memories of the past. (and a righteously bad pun)
• from Gyll Hill:
  • fecksadecimal - N. The numbering system for counting sexual intercourse frequency.
• from Battle of Barnum Stones, Awal shrinkage:
  • smilch - N. the light produced by Theoalchemy or Technomancy.
  • smilching - V. To produce light through Theoalchemy or Technomancy.
  • smilcher - N. A traditional producer of light via smilching.
• from Betrothal March
  • tri-menth - N. One-third of the betrothal march.