Glossary: Grand Panjandrum(translations of "The Grand Panjandrum" story)bellycheer
The gratification of a prodigious appetite.
blizzard head
Someone who has blond hair.
bloviation
A long-winded and verbose oration.
borborygmus (s), (bohr" boh RIG muhs)
Bowel sounds, the gurgling, rumbling, or growling noise from the abdomen caused by the muscular contractions of peristalsis, the process that moves the contents of the stomach and intestines downward.
Peristalsis is the rippling motion of muscles in the digestive tract. In the stomach, this motion mixes food with gastric juices, turning it into a thin liquid. Bowel sounds are normal. Their absence can indicate intestinal obstruction. The word borborygmus has been rumbling around the English language for some 200 years. Its earliest known use in English dates back to 1796. The word arrived from New Latin, but traces its etymology back to the Greek borboryzein, "to rumble". canoodle
To caress playfully.
dormition
A peaceful, painless death.
empleomaniac
A person with the compulsion to hold public office.
facticidal
Characterized by wanton disregard of facts.
felicific
Giving or getting intense pleasure.
gut-hammer
An iron triangle rung to call lumberjacks to meals.
inglenook
A chair by the fire.
minatory
1. Menacing, warning, or threatening.
2. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. morosoph
A learned fool.
overdog
A member of a dominating, privileged group.
panjandrum
A pompous, pretentious official with considerable power which is likely to be used unwisely.
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