Beer

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]