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April 30, 2016
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Here's my word list with as many definitions as I could find from Nabokov's Ada:
Vocabulary from Nabokov’s Ada, Vintage edition, 1969.
tegular 16—re: a tile
fangle 21—foppish or silly fashion
bilboquet 82—ball in cup or pierced ball on a peg
osteal 82—re: bone or bones
anadem 89—wreath for the head
drupe 94—fleshy fruit with stone in the middle
ardilla 98—chipmunk (Spanish)
ensellure—spinal curve
splenius—vertical neck muscle
dalk 156
fremitic 182
ardis 185—fervent (Fem first name) Scot or Irish
dolent 193—sorrowful
privet 208—green-leaved bush used for a shrub
dackel 212—small German breed of dogs used for hunting badgers, similar to dachshund
cosset 213—to pamper, to pet
gemel 256—a ring of two separate hoops (compare Fr. twin)
lyrate 267—taking the form of or suggesting a lyre
sparver 312—canopy of a bed, or canopy & curtains of a bed
arbutus 351—small trees or shrubs with red flaking bark and edible red berries
mollitude 353, 473—softness, luxuriousness (rare)
empasm 354—a perfumed power sprinkled on to mask the odor of sweat
catamite 355—pederastic victim, passive boy partner
cowl 360—a monk’s hood
thalamic 361—re: the thalamus
prasine 367—pseudomalachite, (adj.) leek-green
menald 416—spotted, speckled, variegated
eburnean 416—ivory-like in color
raceme 417—a flower cluster with the separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distances along a central stem.
caparison 435—a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration
rutilant 441—glowing or glittering with red or golden light
phallephoric 472—carrying the phallus, carrying priapic images or symbols
gagality 472 ??
bracken 473—type of fern (from Old Norse=fern)
borborygmic 476—re: intestinal gurgling
struthious 486: re: ostrich
shebeen 501—informal bar/pub where untaxed, often home-made alcohol was sold, esp. among Irish.
paramnesic 510—selective forgetting
cline 536—a continuum with an infinite number of gradations from one extreme to the other
pilcrow 542—a symbol (¶) used to mark a new paragraph or section of text.
prepuce 545—foreskin, fold of skin surrounding the clitoris
quonk 546—noise (as from conversation) that disturbs or disrupts a television or radio program because of its proximity to the microphones or cameras; Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio; Audience chatter which disturbs the performer.
anthophobia 554—fear of flowers
lucubratiuncula 539—The act of working by night; lucubration, nocturnal study, night work
platch 561—splash, smear (Scot.)
gogophony 570 ??
sphygmomanometer 570—an instrument for measuring blood pressure, typically consisting of an inflatable rubber cuff
lammer 571—amber (Scot); slang: person ignorant of computers
pruritus 574—an itch
podagra 574—gout-induced pain in the big toe
erogenetics 351—study of inherited characteristics
oneirotic 354—dream gambit of the unconscious
April 30, 2016
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Here's my word list with as many definitions as I could find from Nabokov's Ada:
Vocabulary from Nabokov’s Ada, Vintage edition, 1969.
tegular 16—re: a tile
fangle 21—foppish or silly fashion
bilboquet 82—ball in cup or pierced ball on a peg
osteal 82—re: bone or bones
anadem 89—wreath for the head
drupe 94—fleshy fruit with stone in the middle
ardilla 98—chipmunk (Spanish)
ensellure—spinal curve
splenius—vertical neck muscle
dalk 156
fremitic 182
ardis 185—fervent (Fem first name) Scot or Irish
dolent 193—sorrowful
privet 208—green-leaved bush used for a shrub
dackel 212—small German breed of dogs used for hunting badgers, similar to dachshund
cosset 213—to pamper, to pet
gemel 256—a ring of two separate hoops (compare Fr. twin)
lyrate 267—taking the form of or suggesting a lyre
sparver 312—canopy of a bed, or canopy & curtains of a bed
arbutus 351—small trees or shrubs with red flaking bark and edible red berries
mollitude 353, 473—softness, luxuriousness (rare)
empasm 354—a perfumed power sprinkled on to mask the odor of sweat
catamite 355—pederastic victim, passive boy partner
cowl 360—a monk’s hood
thalamic 361—re: the thalamus
prasine 367—pseudomalachite, (adj.) leek-green
menald 416—spotted, speckled, variegated
eburnean 416—ivory-like in color
raceme 417—a flower cluster with the separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distances along a central stem.
caparison 435—a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration
rutilant 441—glowing or glittering with red or golden light
phallephoric 472—carrying the phallus, carrying priapic images or symbols
gagality 472 ??
bracken 473—type of fern (from Old Norse=fern)
borborygmic 476—re: intestinal gurgling
struthious 486: re: ostrich
shebeen 501—informal bar/pub where untaxed, often home-made alcohol was sold, esp. among Irish.
paramnesic 510—selective forgetting
cline 536—a continuum with an infinite number of gradations from one extreme to the other
pilcrow 542—a symbol (¶) used to mark a new paragraph or section of text.
prepuce 545—foreskin, fold of skin surrounding the clitoris
quonk 546—noise (as from conversation) that disturbs or disrupts a television or radio program because of its proximity to the microphones or cameras; Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio; Audience chatter which disturbs the performer.
anthophobia 554—fear of flowers
lucubratiuncula 539—The act of working by night; lucubration, nocturnal study, night work
platch 561—splash, smear (Scot.)
gogophony 570 ??
sphygmomanometer 570—an instrument for measuring blood pressure, typically consisting of an inflatable rubber cuff
lammer 571—amber (Scot); slang: person ignorant of computers
pruritus 574—an itch
podagra 574—gout-induced pain in the big toe
erogenetics 351—study of inherited characteristics
oneirotic 354—dream gambit of the unconscious
April 30, 2016