Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In pathology, a delirious picking of the bedclothes by a patient; carphologia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.
Examples
“All of the ruddiness drained from his features, and he commenced to pull and pick at his shirtfront, as if involved in floccillation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘floccillation’.
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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kanenas's list
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adnate, aleatory, anastrophe, anosmia, antiscii, aphesis, apophasis, apocope, appellative, autologous, autotrophic, botryoid and 26 more...
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flamfoo, fangast, flattybouch, foison, flothery, flychter, fysigunkus, fruzz, fittie-lan, furr-ahin, faleste, flyndrig and 54 more...
Tweets
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reesetee This is actually a pretty sad (and sometimes frightening) thing to see. :-( Apr 29, 2008
dontcry would an inflocculation keep one from getting that? Apr 29, 2008
sionnach a sick person's delirious picking at the bedclothes. Apr 29, 2008