my hucklebuck response
from Peter Bowler‘s The Superior Person’s Book of Words

  • defenestration n – the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
  • napiform (adj) – shaped like a turnip
  • quiddity n –
    1. the essence of something; literally, its whatness
    2. a quibble, or trifling nicety
  • subderisorious adj. – mocking, but gently and with affection – as between friends or lovers. [A needed word, describing as it does a particular quality for which there is no other satisfactory adjective.]
  • temulency n – inebriation, drunkenness