Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #106
November 29, 2009
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106.) Nupson
-noun singular
a.) A simpleton.
b.) A fool.*
[Origin: Unknown.]
*Attend well the fool, for as we have often seen the the case of the idiot savant, he or she may be the repository for the most wisdom.
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #105
November 22, 2009
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105.) Deferrise
a.) To remove iron from.*
[Origin: From the Latin ferrum meaning "iron."]
*An encouraging action for the wee folk. It is said that members of the tribe cannot abide the presence of iron. Placing an iron nail in the cradle of an infant insures that the he or she will not be switched with a changeling.
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #104
November 15, 2009
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104.) Nimbose
-adjective
a.) Stormy, tempestuous.*
b.) Cloudy.
[Origin: From the Latin nimbosus meaning "cloudy."]
*Many a good tale has begun on a nimbose night.
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #103
November 8, 2009
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
103.) Ilicic
-adjective
a.) Of or pertaining to holly.*
[Origin: From the Latin ilex meaning "holly."]
*Holly is an evergreen. In a Welsh version of the story of Tristan and Isolde, when a suitor attempts to win Isolde from Tristan, Arthur attempts to solve the conflict by granting her to “one of them while the leaves be on the trees and to the other while the leaves should not be on the trees” but Isolde wins her Tristan by reciting the following verse:
“There are three trees that are good,
holly and ivy and yew;
they put forth leaves wile they last,
and Trystan shall have me as long as he lives.“
Balderdash for the Medieval Gay #102
November 1, 2009
(a compendium of queer words for the modern fag with a passion for the Middle Ages added hebdomadally on the Sabbath day)
102.) Wamble
-intransitive verb
a.) To feel nauseated.
b.) To rumble (within the stomach).
c.) To move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion.*
[Origin: From the Latin vomre meaning to vomit and from the Middle English wamlen meaning "to become nauseated."]
*Members of the tribe will be among the first to notice beings with unsteady or weaving gait.
