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 –
- the essence of something; literally, its whatness
- 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