vermifuge - a drug to cause expulsion or death of intestinal worms; an anthelmintic, a drug used in the treatment of worms

To be honest, I've lost where I ran across this #appendixnlocutionoftheday, but it's so good I still wanted to share it.

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vizard - a mask or disguise

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Leiber's Ill Met in Lankhmar.

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sobriquet - a descriptive name or epithet; a nickname

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Joseph Goodman's Dungeon Crawl Classics system ruleset.

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... “dreck,” “bugger off,” “fuck” (as in “fuck it”), “mustard” (the color), “pornosophical” (defined as “of or relating to the philosophy of the brothel”), “schlep,” “smackwarm” (as in “She let free sudden in rebound her nipped elastic garter smackwarm against her smackable woman’s warmhosed thigh”), and “yogibogeybox.”

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#buggerOff

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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-we-are-no-longer-shocked-by-ulysses

Excerpt from Louis Menand's 2016 essay titled 'why we are no longer shocked by "Ulysses"':

[A]ccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, three hundred and thirty-seven words and phrases made their first appearance in print in “Ulysses,” including ...

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