Jake Mix · @jakemix
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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 , but it's so good I still wanted to share it.

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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sobriquet - a descriptive name or epithet; a nickname

from Joseph Goodman's Dungeon Crawl Classics system ruleset.

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T L Holaday · @tlholaday
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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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T L Holaday · @tlholaday
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newyorker.com/culture/cultural

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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