Synopsis
Quiet on the western front.
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Parsimony,
parsimonious: extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources
Peregrinations:
a journey, especially a long or meandering one.
Meritorious:
deserving reward or praise.
Cognoscenti:
people who are especially well informed about a particular subject.
Indigence:
a state of extreme poverty; destitution.
Axiomatic:
self-evident or unquestionable.
Miasmatic: The miasma
theory is an obsolete medical theory that held that diseases—such as cholera,
chlamydia, or the Black Death—were caused by a miasma, a noxious form of
"bad air", also known as night air.
Parlous:
full of danger or uncertainty; precarious.
Ribald:
referring to sexual matters in an amusingly coarse or irreverent way.
Rabelaisian: displaying
earthy humour; bawdy.
Ludic:
showing spontaneous and undirected playfulness
Scapegrace:
a mischievous or wayward person, especially a young person or child; a rascal.
Dissipated:
(of a person or way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures, "dissipated
behaviour"
Bibulous:
excessively fond of drinking alcohol.
Shandeism: Laurence
Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram
Shandy, Gentleman, vol. IV
popularised Sterne’s
philosophy on life: a belief in the physical benefits of fun and laughter that
he termed Shandeism. Shandeism, a mixture of
good humour, optimism and spontaneity, is always linked by Sterne to high
spirits and wellbeing. It relates to the influence of the mind on the body –
good spirits and good health go together.
Astaroth: (also Ashtaroth, Astarot and Asteroth), in demonology, is the Great Duke of Hell in the
first hierarchy with Beelzebub and Lucifer; he is part of the evil trinity.
Eleemosynary:
relating to or dependent on charity; charitable (SB: scrounging).
Cateran: a warrior or
raider from the Scottish Highlands.
contumely: insolent or
insulting language or treatment
profligacy: reckless
extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources; licentious or dissolute
behaviour
panegyric: a public
speech or published text in praise of someone or something (a panegyric on the
pleasures of malt whisky)
contumacious: (especially of
a defendant's behaviour) stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority.
"his refusal to make child support payments was
contumacious"
inveigle: persuade
(someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery. "we cannot inveigle him into putting pen to paper"; gain
entrance to (a place) by using deception or flattery. "Jones had inveigled
himself into her house"
dolorous: feeling or
expressing great sorrow or distress.
pawky: having a
mocking or cynical sense of humour.
savoir faire: the
ability to act or speak appropriately in social situations.
vicissitude: a change of
circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
soporific: tending to
induce drowsiness or sleep, "the motion of the train had a somewhat
soporific effect", a drug or other substance that induces drowsiness or
sleep.
propinquity: the state of
being close to someone or something; proximity, "he kept his distance as
though afraid propinquity might lead him into temptation", close kinship.
mendicity: the condition
or activities of a beggar
encomium: a speech or
piece of writing that praises someone or something highly
calumniator (plural
calumniators): A person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks
upon, others)
bon vivant: a person who devotes
themselves to a sociable and luxurious lifestyle
belli-hooin: rioutous [csd]
bee-baw-babbety: a kissing game or dance [csd]
ablach: an
insignificant or contemptible person [csd]
Adam-an-Eve’s
wine: water [csd]
addle: foul putrid
liquid, esp. from dung [csd]
Ailsa
cock: puffin [csd]