Did you perchance mean macula?
Definitions
Etymologies
- From Irish mo ‘my’ + cuisle ‘pulse’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Elaine, macushla, a cinema is a PLACE, not an art form.”
“So come back to me macushla, when the heather is in bloom.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘macushla’.
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Knee Deep in Chic
Words, prose, bon mots, and literary styles that cause a contagious enthusiasm by its very existence. They can be muses to a story. rekindling the spark that went out. The cure-all elixir to a bla...
euphuism, quiddity, saudade, zugzwang, razbliuto, parti pris, oleaginous, crevasse, chantepleure, chiaroscuro, prestidigitation, dysphemism and 79 more...
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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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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Poetic Words
A list of flowery or eloquent words appropriate for poetry. Also some I think would sound amusing or funny in poetry.
lachrymose, marmoreal, droll, tortuous, sycophantic, sporadic, requiem, sensuous, myriad, melancholy, afterlithe, neif and 21 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear Now fairly well known from the movie "Million-Dollar Baby" (2004). Though I've seen it with several different spellings. Oct 18, 2007
sionnach a mawkish addition, to be sure, but included because one of my grandmothers used to say this when I was growing up. Derived from the Irish 'mo chuisle', it means (literally) my pulse. Feb 20, 2007