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[igormothra]

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

1. AGLET
The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
2. ARMSAYE
The armhole in clothing.
3. CHANKING
Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
4. COLUMELLA NASI
The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
5. DRAGÉES
Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
6. FEAT
A dangling curl of hair.
7. FERRULE
The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
8. HARP
The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
10-13. JARNS, NITTLES, GRAWLIX and QUIMP
Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
14. KEEPER
The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
15. KICK or PUNT
The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
16. LIRIPIPE
The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.
17. MINIMUS
The little finger or toe.
18. NEF
An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
19. OBDORMITION
The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.
20. OCTOTHORPE
The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
21. OPHRYON
The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
22. PEEN
The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
23. PHOSPHENES
The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
24. PURLICUE
The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
25. RASCETA
Creases on the inside of the wrist.
26. ROWEL
The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.
27. SADDLE
The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
28. SCROOP
The rustle of silk.
29. SNORKEL BOX
A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
30. SPRAINTS
Otter dung.
31. TANG
The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
32. WAMBLE
Stomach rumbling.
33. ZARF
A holder for a handleless coffee cup.
- S.B., D.W. & N.R.

[Steve]

Yeah..........
I use those words everyday....



I knew about 10 of 'em.

[Sam]

The only one I actually knew was #1. I think that was on a quiz show or some board game.

[DaveH]

some of them will be hard to work in to my normal conversations.:confused2:

[Erbby49]

I think somebody has to much free time

He should be putting toward fishin

[igormothra]

not at all this stuff gets emailed to me....I just filter through all of the inappropriate stuff to find things to post here...... ok maybe I do have too much free time

[Bohica]

Originally Posted by igormothra

not at all this stuff gets emailed to me....I just filter through all of the inappropriate stuff to find things to post here...... ok maybe I do have too much free time

Ya think?!?

[Bohica]

Here something similar:

Abdicate: To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Account: A countess' husband.
Accrue: The people who run a ship.
Acoustic: A stick used to play pool.
Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
Amnesia: The condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.
Antique: An item your grandparents bought, your parents got rid of, and you're buying again.
Arbitrator: A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's.
Asset: A little donkey.

Atheism: A non-prophet organization.

Avoidable: What a bullfighter tries to do.

Baloney: Where some skirt hemlines fall.

Barium: What we do to most people when they die.

Beauty parlor: A place where women curl up and dye.

Benign: What you be after you be eight.

Bernadette: The act of torching a mortgage.

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Burglarize: What a crook sees with.

Cannibal: Someone who is fed up with people.

Chickens: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

Classic: A book that people praise, but do not read.


Clothes dryer: An appliance designed to eat socks.

Coffee: A person who is coughed upon.
College: The four-year period when parents are permitted access to the telephone.
Committee: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Control: A short, ugly inmate.

Counterfeiters: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.

Courtesy: The art of yawning with your mouth closed.

Derange: Where de buffalo roam.
Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.

Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Divorce: The future tense of marriage.

Eclipse: What an Italian barber does for a living.

Egotist: Someone me-deep in conversation.

Eyedropper: A clumsy ophthalmologist.

Experience: The name people give to their mistakes.

Family planning: The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.

Fancy restaurant: One that serves cold soup on purpose.
Father: A banker provided by nature.

Feedback: The inevitable result when a baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.
Flabbergasted: Appalled over how much weight you have gained.
Flatulence: Emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

Gossip: A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.

Grandparents: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.

Grocery list: What you spend half-an-hour writing, then forget to take with you to the store.

Handkerchief: Cold storage.
Hangnail: What you hang your coat on.

Heroes: What a guy in a boat does.

Hors d'oeuvres: A sandwich cut into 20 pieces.

Impregnable: A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.

Independent: How we want our children to be, as long as they do everything we say.

Inflation: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

Kissing: A means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.

Left Bank: What the robber did when his bag was full of loot.

Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

Misty: How some golfers create divots.

Mosquito: An insect that makes you like flies more.

Myth: A female moth.
Negligent: Describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
Normalize: 20-20 vision.
Oily: The opposite of late.

Opportunist: A person who, when they fall into a river, starts taking a bath.

Paradox: Two physicians.

Parasites: What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Pharmacist: A helper on the farm.

Polarize: What penguins see with.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections, and your confidence after.

Polygon: A dead parrot.

Prenatal: When your life was still somewhat your own.

Primate: Removing your spouse from in front of the TV.

Professor: Someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Psychologist: A man who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.

Recliner: Mom's nickname for Dad.

Relief: What trees do in the spring.


Rubberneck: What you do to relax your wife.

Seamstress: Describes 250 pounds in a size six.
Secret: Something you tell to one person at a time.

Selfish: What the owner of a seafood store does.
Shortening: One of the important ingredients in a good sermon.
Show-off: A child who is more talented
than yours.
Skeleton: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
Stock: A magical piece of paper that is worth $33.75 until the moment you buy it. It will then be worth $8.50.

Subdued: Like, a guy, who like, works on one of those, like, submarines.

Sudafed: Bringing litigation against a government.

Tomorrow: One of the greatest labor-saving devices of today.

Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.

Vegetarian: Old Indian word for bad hunter.

Wrinkles: Something other people have. You have character lines.

Yawn: An honest opinion, openly expressed.function sendform(){document.form0.ref.value=document.locat ion;return true;}