Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. a versipellous object or thing
Etymologies
- Apparently coined by Nabokov (see below) from versipellous. (Wiktionary)
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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Verbophile's Words
callidity, evirate, calcitrate, periplus, versipel, dout, putanism, subvene, repristinate, impleach, ferruginate, incrassate and 153 more...
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tensorpudding's list
Just words.
samizdat, poshlust, ecclesiastic, exegesis, quaternion, ansatz, interrobang, fermata, roman à clef, be, cenozoic, zorn's lemma and 16 more...
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pavonine This word was not coined by Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire, his book of 1962.
Versipel is listed in Webster's New International Dictionary,1932 edition. The definition is: A creature capable of changing from one form to another,as a werewolf. Jul 28, 2009
pavonine This word was not coined by Vladimir Nabokov in Pale Fire, his book of 1962.
Versipel is listed in Webster's New International Dictionary,1932 edition. The definition is: A creature capable of changing from one form to another,as a werewolf. Nov 4, 2007