Today's #appendixnwordoftheday comes from Jack Vance's The Dying Earth, from the Mazirian the Magician short story.

eructate - to belch

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Today's #appendixnwordoftheday is from Ben Laurence's zine Through Ultan's Door No. 1. (Any relation, you think, to the Dying Earth character Ulan Dhor?)

atrament - blank ink; or, a preparation used to produce a shiny black coating

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An #appendixnwordoftheday from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan:

lacuna - an unfilled space, a gap; also, a missing portion of a book or manuscript

Not an original Appendix N work, but Gormenghast is a perfect fit and certainly on my personal list.

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An #appendixnwordoftheday from Chris Kutalik and Luka Rejec's What Ho, Frog Demons:

batrachian - relating to or denoting a frog or toad

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An #appendixnwordoftheday from Fritz Leiber's Ill Met in Lankhmar:

confab - an informal private conversation or discussion. Also, a meeting or conference between members of a particular group.

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Absorbing OSR modules and touring through the Appendix N, I started a notes doc to track the many words I had never encountered before. Going to start to share those here. First, from Harley Stroh's Sailors on the Starless Sea for DCC:

menhir - a tall upright stone of a kind erected in prehistoric times in western Europe; also known as a standing stone, orthostat, or lith

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