scoff·law/ˈskôfˌlô/

twyndyllyng

1. (obsolete) A twinling; twin.

twinling

1. A small or young twin, especially a twin lamb

via twyndyllyng – Wiktionary.

Janus Words are words that have two different meanings that are opposite of each other.

From Grammar Girl:

Such words are named after the Roman god Janus who has two faces that look in opposite directions. Other Janus words are “cleave” (which can mean to cling to or to separate), “screen” (which can mean to review or display or to hide or shield from view), and “trim” (which can mean to remove things or add things).

–adjective, glib·ber, glib·best.

1. readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.

2. easy or unconstrained, as actions or manners.

From the words that you hear in conversation but rarely write department: Segue.

It means to transition from one topic to another, and is pronounced Seg-Way.

This was yet another reminder that the internets are great and all, but are useless as a reverse dictionary.  If you don’t have the vaguest idea how to spell something, it’s a little tough to get anywhere.

Main Entry: pse·phol·o·gy
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek psēphos pebble, ballot, vote; from the use of pebbles by the ancient Greeks in voting

The scientific study of elections

Hoary
Function: adjective

1: gray or white with or as if with age
2: extremely old

Example: American innocence is a hoary theme in the classic American literature. The late R.W.B. Lewis devoted an influential work of literary criticism to the theme in The American Adam.

noun - willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of the body.

Most likely what the “Yes We Can(nibal)” perpetrator will be charged with.

Source: m-w.com, via Hot Air

Onomatopoeia are “sound words.” I did know that much. A better description is that they are words that imitate or suggest the source of the sound they are describing.

Common examples are oink, meow, roar, crash, bang, and boom!

They are not universal across languages, but interestingly they do conform to border linguistics… which makes sense… it’s a spelling of the way something sounds. An example is tick tock in English is tik tak in Dutch and tic-tac in French.

Other common examples are in comics. Spiderman’s webs make a “thwip!” sound, Wolverine’s claws are “snikt!” (or the lesser known “schlikt!” during the period when his adamantium was removed) and Nightcrawler’s “bamf!” teleportation.

Or in 70’s TV; wham!, pow!, “biff!”, crunch and “zounds” from the Batman TV show.

Or in 90’s hilarious cartoons; nuh!, newt! and mint! in the “Radioactive Man” episode of The Simpsons.

There is also apparently an internet meme, “I can punch you so hard words will appear in thin air.”

Or my favorite:

In one Captain America comic, the accidental use of the word “wank” as an onomatopoeia was found hilarious by many teenagers, due to its slang usage for masturbation. (The enemy was saying “Captain America, I command you to-” but was interrupted by Captain America striking a robot with his thrown shield and the “wank!” showed up right after the enemies’ speech bubble; Thus looking as though it had said: “Captain America, I command you to- Wank!”.)

In closing, I did know a lot of this already, but it expanded on some previous reading and I thought I’d make for some good blaging.

Source: Wiki

Functionally equivalent to “Jump The Shark,” but for Movies instead of TV.

Comes from Indiana Jones and the Last Spaceship of Doom.

Source: Urban Dictionary